Indeed. The CO₂ isn’t digested by humans, so it fizzes right back out of the drink or gurgles out from the drinker.

Then again, the headline is somewhat misleading as the product the article covers isn’t for carbon sequestration. Instead, it’s to provide consumers of CO₂ like breweries with a reliable and supposedly low carbon alternative for their CO₂ gas needs. Normally this CO₂ would be a waste product from refineries, but these incur more inefficiencies due to transportation. Also, recently the refineries have been opting to sequester their CO₂ instead of selling it (which is a good thing IMO).

I’m reporting all of this from the contents of the article; I haven’t verified any of the claims.

He may just talk like that, but I think Doctorow is going through, as comprehensively as his allotted time slot will allow, the talking points he and the host have prepared beforehand. Keeping this in mind and taking into account the audience likely doesn’t know what a “protocol” is, I think it’s fine that he doesn’t mention ActivityPub. Perhaps he mentions it in his book. I’ll check it out if it lands in my local library’s bookshelves.

Before we can (and want to) get tech workers to unionize, there needs to be a shift in culture in the tech industry. Right-wing libertarian ideals are very prevalent in tech, especially in Silicon Valley. This has been the case for years and has already greatly influenced tech legislation in the United States and the world. Class solidarity is almost non-existent at a lot of big tech firms.

That being said, there are of course many tech workers who understand the importance of the class struggle and who are ready to organize. I’ll add some links to the tech workers coalition and to a podcast which unveils a lot of the hidden politics of the tech industry, tech won’t save us.

On another note, interoperability naturally arises from well designed and largely adopted open standards.

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The research article cited by Ajit Niranjan is worth consulting directly, because a concept brought up by Berland and Leroutier, the researchers, that hasn’t been worked into the Guardian article is intersectionality.

Indeed climate change is a systemic issue which requires systemic solutions therefore focusing on what we as individuals can do is shortsighted. However, it’s also important not to discount the part individuals play, collectively, in the systems that power the climate crisis. I believe observing the disparity whereby men consume more due to their consumption habits is fascinating! Why do men consume in ways that are more damaging to the environment? Perhaps the corporations producing the vast majority of carbon emissions are actually capitalizing off of the gender dynamics in our society by marketing meat and cars as manly. In doing so, they increase profits, and we all suffer the environmental and social consequences.

To paint an accurate picture of the mechanisms leading to humanities carbon emissions, it’s important not to discount the role of power structures that are seemingly unrelated at first glance. More often than not, those power structures are used by the instigators of the climate crisis.

I’ll take [action for slim chance of success] over [inaction for guaranteed failure] every time.

I don’t get all these “geo-engineering” magic bullets. Capitalists are taking carbon out of the ground and putting it into the air and oceans. The carbon in the air leads to warming, and the carbon in the ocean leads to acidification. Both of these things are disastrous. We need to stop the capitalists. Leave the carbon in the ground, where it belongs. Simple as

I love this guide! It’s full of details I never would have thought of if asked to prepare a food-sharing before reading it. It’s also a quick read. Concise and informative.

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