The really fun thing is that, nearly every week, there’s news about IBAMA (the govt agency that does the whole environment protection thing) and the army blowing up illegal mining operations. The night news TV almost looks like an action movie with all the explosions!
Bozo did everything he could to keep IBAMA away from the illegal miners and deforesters, this happening is one of the best middle fingers to him and his cronies
Thanks, Ibama.
And Bolsanaro is banned from running for president for the next 8 years. Things are definitely looking up in Brazil.
Fuck Bolsonaro. Brazil elected a corrupt disease to humanity and earth is breathing again
Now it just needs to drop another 90% or so 😅 😅
Deforestation dropping to -56% would certainly be ideal
I like this Lula guy
It’s almost like most socialists are actually good people who just want to make the world a better place and don’t put profits above humanity. I hope Lula keeps up with his promises and continues to bring Brazil forward. The people there definitely deserve it.
I’m starting to think he’s friends with John Mastodon.
For a moment I read that as “Defederation”, and was thinking by myself - ‘Is Amazon next in line after Meta to get defederated…’
I am dumb.
Nice. Lula is Brazil’s greatest leader.
Pretty sure they couldn’t do worse than Bolsonaro.
yeah that would be almost impossible
Awesome news! This was really the last little spark to get me in a really positive mindset tonight!
Élections matter!
Economically, it hasn’t been that different from the 2 previous presidents: the one who did a coup and the one who tried it
Hard to build up back after that. Just not going down is a win at that point
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Lol I couldn’t comment, wefwef said something about my language and I couldn’t figure it out. Re-logged and it worked, thanks for the invisible Internet points :D
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Fuck.
Ok
That’s not nearly enough or fast enough though, the planet is dying now
I hear you but we can still celebrate progress. It’s really disheartening if you shit on every time somebody does something in the positive direction
Seriously, a big thing I’ve noticed here is that the general vibe of Lemmy seems morose and pessimistic as fuck.
Not even remotely as bad as the pessimism on Reddit
Have a look at r/collapse to see how pessimist reddit csn be
Yup, when I’ve been in real depressive moods I’ve read stuff on that site, and man it’s as depressing and pessimistic as you can imagine. The worst are those who almost cheer for the world to collapse.
Because most lemmy users used to be redditors, and redditors are morose and pessimistic as fuck.
Very much this. The atmosphere here doesn’t feel any different than it did back on reddit, for better or worse. I feel like there was a time when reddit was less pessimistic, but there’s been at least a little of that vibe for a long time.
Agreed. What I’m really curious about, though, is how the atmosphere here is gonna change as thrediverse culture starts diverging from reddit. Are we going to stay depressed, are we going to gradually trend more optimistic, or will something completely different and unpredictable happen?
Hey I was morose and pessimistic long before reddit and will be so long after thank you very much!!!
It’s not just here, it’s people in general. I find that most people are pretty pessimistic about the future or they don’t care at all. That second group is generally the group that’s not (or barely) on the internet
And then they wonder why progress isn’t being made when they just don’t give a shit or do anything to enact change if it isn’t “good enough”. Real progress historically has been something humanity has to work for even if it involves clawing our way to a better world one painful inch at a time. This kind of pessimism is basically an excuse to pretend to care but not actually have to do anything to fix stuff because “what’s the point?” 🙄
I renovated a house from the ‘70s last year. We now have triple glazing instead of single panes, the roof and side of the house are inslutated, we got solar panels, water-saving showers, a greener water heater (would’ve loved to move away from gas, but my budget only stretches so far and the asbestos roof will have to be replaced in a couple of years), and soon the driveway will have its’ non-porous gravel replaced with pavers designed to let water through.
Global warming won’t be fixed by that, but if we all start making greener choices when we can I have hopes we can avert the worst.
The difference should be that here, we should be more of a “things do suck, but we should still do all we can to make it not suck as much.” instead of reddit’s “there is nothing we can do” attitude.
Indeed. Defeatism serves the fossil industry and is probably funded by it.
It’s still better than nothing.
Yeah but seems that no one gives a fuck. US and China are still the greatest polluters and don’t seem to care, Europe besides still seeming to want to do something, is not ready to press this both especially now with the Ukraine war so, yeah, we are pretty fucked up.
Europe is building coal plants rn
I just forgot this, this is just the top of the cake
Forget it again, because it’s utter BS. Germany hasn’t built a new coal plant since 2007. Datteln 4 was also planned to have a CCS (Carbon Capture System) - there where however massive protests against CCS in 2009 and in 2011 there was a new law…but it was too late and the CCS technology was bought by Canada. Austria outlawed CO2 Storage completely.
Germany is building coal plants, pretty much the rest of Europe is transitioning away from fossil fuels at a breakneck pace.
(And to be fair, Germany’s also investing heavily in clean energy and has made huge progress on that front. They just made the incredibly stupid decision to shut down their remaining nuclear plants before they had enough clean energy sources to make up for the power difference, which is why they’re temporarily using coal as a stopgap.)
Germany is not building new coal plants, ffs. Stop this bullshit and inform yourself before that.
Just checked: Apparently the last one got finished 2020, an 1GW block in Datteln.
The newest list I could find is from the BUND, 2016, the Datteln one is the only one that got built. If there were more projects the BUND would definitely have kept updating that list, they’re tree-huggers, of course they would.
And frankly speaking a certain number of new plants were sensible even with the end of the technology already being a decided thing: Old ones are way less efficient than new ones so it’s better to have the last ones to shut down be highly efficient ones, producing more energy for the CO2 they emit.
Exactly - and Datteln 4 was started in 2007. It was even projected to have the first commercial Carbon Capture System…selling it to Canada though, seemed the wiser idea to some. The canadians sold the license to use the technology to Australia and made a fortune.
My bad, I mixed it up with them increasing coal consumption / expanding existing coal mines. The overall point stands though that even as stupid as shutting down all the nuclear plants was, Germany’s still on a good path long-term when it comes to fighting climate change-- and the rest of Europe is making impressive progress, too.
Germany “making progress in investing in clean energy” is the understatement of the milennium. Without the cash injection brought about by the German feed-in tariffs wind and solar still would be completely uncompetitive instead of (in many circumstances) cheaper than fossil and nuclear.
And, then, well, we had 16 years of a conservative government trying their darnest to fuck up the transition.
that doesn’t seem right at all? I mean progress is slow because things in Europe and the US are much less centralized. But just gaving a look and compare between Europe and the US, and other countries should make you understand that things are just better. Granted not good enough but nothing is gonna happen instantly. China is another thing.
Government data shows marked reduction against same period last year, reversing trend of destruction during Bolsonaro reign
Be aware though, Lula da Silva is a convict corrupt and he’s being doing a lot of shady stuff. Also, he’s stance regarding Ukraine-Russia war is pretty much pro-russia disguised as a “pacifist”.
This data may very well be fake in order to make him look good.
It’s widely know that Lula’s prison sentence was unlawful? If that’s what you’re referring to. If there’s other shady shit he’s putting Brazil through than I am unaware and I’d like you to enlighten me.
Also… his stance on Ukraine-Russia is the correct stance?
The data also comes from Brazil’s national space research agency - which has been collecting data for 50 years? I wouldn’t call all of this fake? I know the US inflates some numbers and don’t see why any other country wouldn’t but claiming 34% when in reality its 15 would discredit any research agency.
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Could be worse, have you seen comments like “communist love”.
