Richard Waite

Bus on campus

Explanation of the stripes inside the bus.

This bus is electric!

Stripes made in Reading.

The new Reading 'warming stripes' double-decker electric bus came to campus today.

The bus is painted in the local warming stripes to start climate conversations throughout the town.

More on a recent paper about this. Worth noting that crop and livestock yields continue to rise globally, although without climate change they would have risen by more.

Not trying to say “there’s no problem,” but I wouldn’t use the word “collapse” to describe the issue.
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In case it helps with the doomy feeling on here, IPCC projects reductions in crop yields due to climate change in the future, yes, but that’s different than “collapse” and adaptation (of agriculture itself) and mitigation (of emissions across all sectors including food/ag) can both help.

Ugh not shock and awe please

They could put me in charge of things besides obviousposting

Oh! I can answer that one. Fewer bad things

We could even try doing no things instead of only bad things. For a start anyway

Like it couldn’t be worse than 100% policies that do bad things, right?

Idea: policies that do good things instead of bad things

ok Richard Scarry

I don't think this is an absolute maxim that should govern everything we do but I do think that what we pay attention to grows (in our hearts and minds) and paying attention to different things has made my life immensely better.

Maybe discourse was a bad idea.

Dutch skeets from the 1630s:

Agree. Cosmic Crisp is my go-to apple.

When in season and I can pick them, a Stayman is hard to beat.

Haaaaaaa

Eating the entire apple including the core and seeds and stem is, uh, hardcore. I used to do that when camping, but as a general rule at home I throw the middle stuff away or compost it

YouTube video by SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma Red delicious apples are actually disgusting!! Ft. Sterling K. Brown

Relevant to our interests: youtube.com/shorts/37uHh...

Never tried

it's terrible at keeping out the rain

what am I supposed to do with my colander though

*climbs up onto my "because many foods are global commodities, consumption decisions in one country can have effects on land use and environmental impacts in another" soapbox*

A lot of the "so whats" are pretty similar to what's in the thread below that focuses on agricultural production in areas where non-forest ecosystems like grasslands, savannas, and wetlands were recently cleared: bsky.app/profile/wait...

Graph with heading that says: Beef caused at least 4 times more deforestation than any other food in the last two decades The top 15 most forest-destructive foods, ranked by the scale of deforestation they caused 2001-2022, in millions of acres. Beef ~120 M acres Oil palm 20-30 M Soybeans 15 M Corn 15 M Rice 10 M Cassava 10 M Cocoa, sugarcane, beans, sorghum, coffee, plantains, peanuts, wheat, bananas, all 0-10 M.

The study found that beef has driven about 120M acres of forest destruction globally between 2001 and 2022, mostly in the tropics. This is an area larger than California.

Oil palm was in a distant second place between 20-30M acres, followed by soybeans, corn, rice, cassava...and others.

The 15 foods destroying rainforests, in one simple chart New research reveals which food crops are razing the rainforest. One comes out way ahead — and it’s an American favorite.

The same week our study about non-forest ecosystem loss came out, here's another new study looking at what foods are being grown or produced in areas deforested between 2001-2022 with a good article by @benjij.bsky.social:

70s later this week tho

Tulip mania - Wikipedia

“At the peak of tulip mania, in February 1637, certain tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled artisan”

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Dutch skeets from the 1630s:

I’m ok with it but who am I to yum your yuck. Glad you got it off your chest.

This is such a specific and minor grievance. I can appreciate that.

Unpopular opinion, the sauce variety is too long and overwhelming for the quality of the product adorned by said sauces

NB by “experience” I mean the food not the atmosphere, it was carry out