It is. They vote as well, so hopefully politicians will do the right thing and start building affordable below market housing.

That’s excellent! Let’s hope it keeps going!

I agree with your sentiment. That’s why I listed climate change before mentioning forestry practices.

We aren’t in an either/or scenario. Nova Scotia needs to do more to limit GHG emissions. On top of improving public transit, using more efficient heating/cooling solutions, reducing GHG intensity of power generation, etc; Nova Scotia needs to reform forestry practices.

Typed! Back in my day we just got a wire that you had to lick in binary to tell the computer what to do.

I’m glad Nova Scotia is taking the fire risk seriously.

In addition to climate change, the risk is exacerbated by the shitty forestry practices allowed by the NS government. I hope they revisit those regulations soon - there are going to be lots more summers like this ahead.

It would be fantastic if our other GHG-producing activities were held to the same level of criticism as AI.

You’re gonna get downvotes defending AI on Lemmy - our Overton window is ^*tiny*.

A ChatGPT prompt uses 3 Wh. This is enough energy to:

Leave a single incandescent light bulb on for 3 minutes.

Leave a wireless router on for 30 minutes.

Play a gaming console for 1 minute.

Run a vacuum cleaner for 10 seconds.

Run a microwave for 10 seconds

Run a toaster for 8 seconds

Brew coffee for 10 seconds

Use a laptop for 3 minutes. ChatGPT could write this post using less energy than your laptop uses over the time you read it.

Power Generation, C02e and plant information are all provided for informational purposes only. Gridwatch is 2018, Energy Insight. All rights reserved. Version is 2.3.0 released November 2018

That’s a fine looking 7-year-old app.

Meanwhile, our home starts are lower than they need to be, so we’ll need to find other ways of lowering costs. Unless we want to follow the “let’s wait for wages to catch up to prices” strategy.

Historically, Nova Scotia’s forests were a fire-resistant mix of large deciduous and coniferous trees of different ages, known as a Wabanaki-Acadian forest.

Industrial forestry practices over the past seven decades — cycles of clearcutting, establishing softwood plantations, herbicide spraying — have transformed that ecosystem into one of predominantly even-aged, coniferous plantations that contain fewer species all living and dying around the same time, more crop than forest.

Industrial logging is “one of the main accelerants of the problem,” said Mike Lancaster, executive director of the St. Margaret’s Bay Stewardship Association.

It has left more fire-prone trees and deadwood than would have once existed, transforming the landscape into a tinderbox.

“The pre-European forests that typically covered Nova Scotia, PEI and New Brunswick were these dark, closed canopy, very old forests for the most part,” said Donna Crossland, a forest ecologist and vice-president of Nature Nova Scotia.

Because of the trees’ size, shrubbery or small limbs couldn’t grow and the ground was a lot more moist, making it nearly impossible for a fire to spread. Major wildfires only started after Europeans arrived, and they were almost exclusively triggered by human- or machine-caused fires getting out of hand, she explained.

The late 1700s and 1800s saw “wave after wave of fire” as settlers logged, cleared the land and covered the Maritimes with railways and sparking trains

Doesn’t Codeberg have private repos? I could’ve sworn I’ve created one.

Agreed. I’m trying to improve Lemmy by adding interesting posts, and some users respond with this kind of drive-by crap. I get that downvotes are a Redditism that users like, but they make it easy to crap on a Lemmite’s effort without conversation, which is the entire point of the platform.

I think some users see a headline they don’t like (the foreign buyer’s ban may be lifted) and downvote based on the subject, rather than the content.

I’d really like to see platform-level fixes for this. Like, users only get x downvotes a day, or they need to provide a downvote reason, etc.

no no cornwall is as far east as it gets

A few decades ago, it was common to see large families with six to eight children, living under the same roof. But years of migration to cities have shrunk families and turned places like Seoul into sprawling metropolises.

Unaffordable housing, rising costs and gruelling working hours have led more and more young people to reject marriage or parenthood, or both. On the other end is an ageing population that feels neglected by children who are racing to keep up.

No. That’s a false dichotomy.

We need to upgrade our energy grid to be more resilient and have more east/west links. That’s a great time to add more renewables, and fix aging dams.

We need to reduce reliance on the US economy. That’s a great opportunity to improve our fuel efficiency requirements on vehicles, and start importing from elsewhere. Even better, we can start improving transit, so we don’t need those vehicles.

We need to resolve the housing crisis. As we’re building more social housing, we can add requirements for improved energy efficiency and transit accessibility.

If we want to be independent from the US, we need to act in our own interest. Mitigating climate change is definitely in our own interest.

Agreed. At this point, I’m not against nuclear, but I don’t think reactors can be brought online quickly enough.

This is another one of those posts that’s getting downvotes without an explanation.

Did I hit a nerve bashing Carney’s housing strategy? Does Gregor Robertson browse c/canada and not appreciate my trolling? Do Lemmites dislike the content of the article?

I’ll never know.

Climate change, and how we’re doing fuck all about it.

There are news stories about wildfires, droughts, water shortages, hurricanes, changing weather patterns, etc. But the climate change part is usually mentioned as an “oh by the way” and it’s rarely tied to stuff we need to do.

Depending how far we push it, climate change is either “just” going to cause mass starvation and novel weather patterns; or it’s going to make the Earth uninhabitable for humans.

Either way is fucking bad.

There’s virtually no mainstream news coverage of what we need to do. People say to buy EVs, but that’s not enough. We need to either radically limit the amount of energy we consume, or dramatically change how we generate energy. Probably both.

But there’s no coverage. Just tRuMp HaTeS wInDmIlLs.

There is no guarantee that any of this is affordable or geared-to-income housing.

That is a huge part of the problem. The housing affordability crisis is one of the causes of the homelessness and addiction.

Nice!

I enjoyed reading your blog. It’s been a while since I looked at an honest to goodness enthusiast blog. Thanks for writing it!