#mitigation

[thrivingisthegoal]

A challenge I want to issue to Solarpunk Storytelling! Ground it!

I'm reading a lot about the role of transformative adaptation in response to disaster, and indigenous communities. There is a link in restoring cultural connections based in land, adaptation to climate change, and improved health of indigenous communities. There was also an Australian study that found that caring for the land had a dual benefit in adaptation, not only in adapting the land to respond better to climate disaster, but also in the health of Aboriginal people who worked implementing the adaptation practices.

Part of what makes it so transformative is that adaptive responses to climate change are extremely place based. You don't establish a mangrove to reduce the shock of typhoons in the American Midwest, and you don't do controlled burns in coral reefs.

I see and read a lot of fruit trees and solar panels in Solarpunk concepts, which is great, they definitely have a place in our bright future! But not everywhere in the world is going to be a sunny food forest because not everywhere can support that.

I want to see more Solarpunk narratives integrate adaptive techniques, and maybe put mitigation on top of it! Does a town's seawall have solar panels on top? Do we root mangrove forests on offshore turbines? Adaptive strategies are a part of human response to climate change, and they're grounded in place, I'd love to see more of those ideas! What kind of biome is being restored in this narrative, and how does that look different?

[tenth-sentence]

In a general sense, such processes are referred to as carbon dioxide sequestration or mitigation (Fig. 8.17):

Geological sequestration – capture of carbon dioxide from the stack gases, and pumping it into 'safe' reservoirs on land or in the oceans

Biological sequestration – growing vegetation in quantities large enough to consume amounts of carbon dioxide equivalent to that released during energy consumption. The vegetation (biomass) that is produced can itself be used as a fuel, creating a closed production/consumption cycle.

"Environmental Chemistry: A Global Perspective", 4e - Gary W. VanLoon & Stephen J. Duffy

[galaxseacreature]

Please tell me about fish taxi and what's a culvert

Absolutely! Allow me to set the scene:

Two salmon are swimming upstream when they smack directly into a huge concrete wall. One turns to the other and says, "Dam."

...that one definitely works better out loud, with a nice flat delivery. But it's a good starting point. Unlucky salmon are doomed to deliver the punchline to this terrible dad joke. Really lucky salmon are blessed with wild rivers with no dams at all. Medium lucky salmon have to ride the salmon cannon, navigate a fish ladder, or catch the fish taxi to get upstream. These are all fish passage solutions put in place to make up for those most intimidating barriers to migration: dams.

A quick note: I'm going to continue to focus on salmon in the Pacific Northwest, because that's what I'm familiar with. Different locations with different species of fish may have other concerns or solutions related to fish passage. But it's a big deal here because salmon have to migrate upstream to lay their eggs and continue their life cycle and everyone wants there to keep being iconic and delicious salmon around.

With that out of the way, and seeing as this post is already getting long, buckle up for the fish taxi details with a side of culverts under the cut! I promise a video and a meme to liven things up before we wrap.

Fish ladders are old news. Boring. And, frankly, expensive and challenging to design well and impossible to implement at all above a certain size.

Enter the fish taxi. The idea is as simple as it is ridiculous. Just round up your fish on the downstream side, put them in a truck with a big water tank, and drive them upstream of the dam for release. Easy peasy!

In practice there's a little more to it. Puget Sound Energy operates two dams on the Baker River. Their fish trap below the lower dam is pretty fancy, and even includes an "aquatic elevator" to raise fish up into the sorting facility. There's a whole series of gates and chutes and moveable walls that direct fish into the right holding tanks before finally being loaded into the trucks.

Not to boost corporate talking points about their mitigation strategies, but it is objectively a pretty successful site and this video shows the process well:

An extra cool thing about the Baker River fish taxi is that it also runs juveniles downstream. That may sound obvious but it's a huge improvement over old strategies like "hopefully some of them survive tumbling down the spillway or through the turbines." Ok, most dams have some form of bypass around the turbines, and the spillway is often the safer-than-it-looks intended route, but it still seems rough being a small fry. Getting rounded up in the floating collector and taking a taxi ride downstream starts to sound pretty good, all things considered.

Whew! That's the story of the fish taxi!

I'm going to try to keep culverts short (for now) because they're much less sexy. Normal people almost never think about culverts, but they cross them every day. Culverts are the pipes that carry water under roads. Although they aren't just pipes, they can be box or arch shaped structures and made of a variety of materials...but I digress! Basically any time a road crosses water that doesn't rate a bridge, there's a culvert. Some are just to drain runoff. Many driveways have a small culvert for the roadside ditch. But some are larger and allow entire streams to pass under the road. If they're sized appropriately, set at the right height to prevent a water surface drop, and not sloped too steeply, culverts can be completely passable and fish friendly! Alas, they often are not. Dams may be the largest structures that act as fish passage barriers, but culverts are by far the most numerous.

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife inventories fish passage barriers to salmon and steelhead and estimates some 18,000-20,000 statewide. This is almost certainly on the low end. I mean, just imagine how MANY roads there are, and how MUCH water there is in Washington, a famously wet place. They intersect a lot. If you want to get a sense of the scale, there's a public facing, interactive map of WDFW-identified barriers here. Most of the points are culverts. Only the green points are fully fish passable. There are probably lots more points that haven't been surveyed at all yet. So yeah

[ID: "X, X Everywhere" Meme of Woody and Buzz from Toy Story reading "Culverts. Culverts everywhere." End ID]

Anyone who made it to the end has my gratitude and is welcome to use the very unofficial title of "Junior Fish Passage Nerd" any time they want. And if you made it here and are still interested in hearing about culverts or fish passage more generally...well, you know where to find me!

[spacenutspod]

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[j-august]

The man in the ancient story trembled and paused over the scattered limbs of his child, and failed in the pursuit, -- the true penitent rushes over the mangled members of nature and passion, collects them with a hand in which there is no pulse, and a heart in which there is no feeling, and holds them up in the face of the Divinity as a peace offering. Mine is the best theology, -- the theology of utter hostility to all beings whose sufferings may mitigate mine.

Charles Robert Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer

[pandemic-info]

Never believe minimizers who lie and say there’s nothing more we can do to mitigate the spread of COVID. Scientists are working on better vaccines, masks, clean air tools, treatments, and tests that could all be game-changers. What we lack is the political will.

(1) Dr. Lucky Tran on Twitter

[tapuwadangarembizi]

Tapuwa Dangarembizi: An Inspiring Journey of a Sustainable Energy Advocate

Individuals like Tapuwa Dangarembizi are shining examples of hope and inspiration in a world that needs sustainable energy solutions immediately. Dangarembizi has dedicated his life to advocating for renewable resources, addressing climate change, and ensuring a brighter future for generations to come as a passionate advocate for sustainable energy. His journey illustrates the topic, Tapuwa Dangarembizi What is the importance of sustainable energy that everyone needs to understand?

Dangarembizi's Mission to Educate About Sustainable Energy

Dangarembizi devoted himself to a variety of sustainability initiatives after finishing his education. He passionately formed alliances with communities, championing the development of renewable energy modalities such as solar panels, reducing reliance on decreasing fossil fuel sources while increasing energy accessibility. Using a variety of methods, he spread knowledge about the numerous benefits of sustainable energy systems, organizing social gatherings and enlightening educational initiatives, which emphasizes its beneficial effects on the environment and the human experience.

The Importance of Renewable Energy: Reasons to Learn About and Support Sustainable Energy

The journey of Tapuwa Dangarembizi sheds light on the significance of renewable energy sources in the context of addressing the most urgent problems facing the world today. A few of the most important reasons why everyone should learn about and support sustainable energy are as follows:

Climate Change Mitigation: Electricity generation facilities that burn fossil fuels to create electricity are an important factor contributing to global warming because of the greenhouse gases they release. On the other hand, renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and hydropower give us lesser carbon footprints and have the upside of helping to make serious progress toward achieving the reduction of global emissions.

Energy Access and Equity: Energy access for underprivileged communities around the world can be significantly enhanced by adopting sustainable energy solutions. By bridging the energy gap, it provides people everywhere with access to affordable, reliable electricity and gives them authority over their own energy futures. Creating a sustainable and fair energy future for the world requires prioritizing renewable resources.

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Environmental Preservation: The future of our planet's environment is at stake. The air we breathe and the water we drink are tainted by conventional energy sources. Once lush forests are collapsing before our very eyes. Sustainable energy, on the other hand, shines like a light by protecting ecosystems, contributing to biodiversity, and keeping our planet habitable for future generations to inherit.

Wrapping up!

In pursuit of sustainable energy solutions, Tapuwa Dangarembizi's journey illustrate the ability of individuals to effect change. By understanding and supporting sustainable energy, we can all work toward a greener, more sustainable future. It is a moral responsibility to support renewable energy sources, encourage energy conservation, and lobby for policies and following Leading the Way to a Green Horizon - Tapuwa Dangarembizi's Sustainable Energy Breakthroughs that will accelerate the transition of economies around the world to ones that are powered by clean energy.

[railsafetygirl]

What is the significance of this lock?

You could say it is a “key” part of railway road safety. When a train requires maintenance and is coming in to the depot, the road it is travelling on is required to be secured shortly after arrival in addition to shutting down the engine and chocking .

On each road is a lock box where maintenance personnel working on the particular road put their lock on and have a photo identifying the lock owner and remove the key so no one can remove the lock and unlock the road. By putting locks on and taking the keys with each person with the lock , it is a fail safe system to ensure the road cannot be unlocked and put personnel working on the train in danger .

There are different coloured locks representing different maintenance personnel working on the train

Red -Employee locks (like in the above photo)

Orange -Contractors

Black-Master lock that can unlock the other locks

Green- Shift supervisor’s lock that goes in the inside of the lockbox and can’t be taken out until each individual lock is taken off on the outside

Purple- Represents a shift change over

[orbitbrain]

US Government Agencies Issue Guidance on Threats to 5G Network Slicing

US Government Agencies Issue Guidance on Threats to 5G Network Slicing

Home › Mobile Security US Government Agencies Issue Guidance on Threats to 5G Network Slicing By Ionut Arghire on December 15, 2022 Tweet The National Security Agency (NSA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) have released guidance on the security risks associated with 5G network slicing and mitigation…

[openclimate]

This is s very good article on sustainability, relation to energy, and buy in.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

"It's gonna have to be a societal project, one that will probably outlast all of us. Sorry."

So. Even if it's not a problem that can be solved in our lifetimes, we still have to start doing something now, so it can be nudged for the better in future generations.

Any suggestions?

If your vision for the deradicalization of right-wing men begins and ends with "other men telling them that that's gross and to stop it" then I'm sorry, you do not understand how masculinity works.

"Men who hold patriarchal status" and "men who are feminists" are two groups who overlap less than you want them to. I'm sorry. That's not solely because men are so happy with patriarchal status that they don't want to risk it by policing misogyny/queerphobia/racism, It's because being misogynistic, queerphobic, and racist, end expressing other forms of toxic masculinity(and often abusively so) are part of how people establish and maintain patriarchal status. The men who have the ability to stop this via nothing but peer pressure are the very people who are doing it. That's by design. And engaging in feminist intervention is, in and of itself, usually the abrupt end of that status and its associated power to persuade misogynistic men.

Like, I have worked in blue collar jobs as a notably queer person. It was pretty much a constant deluge of verbal abuse. In my experience, most blue collar work environments are exploitative, abusive, and bigoted, and very gleefully so. On the occasions I have spoken up about someone saying something that was super fucking out of line (asking me which of the girls walking by was hottest. We were installing a portable classroom at a middle school), believe it or not, they completely failed to be shamed! Because nobody else on the crew gave a fuck. *I* was the weird one. They ghosted me. A full blown company ghosted me. I suddenly didn't have a job anymore because they just straightforwardly stopped telling me where the next job site was.

Like, this doesn't mean that it's your job to do it, but this vision you have of these big groups of men where everyone is on the fence and there is precisely one shit stirrer who can be shut down by a brave feminist man who can single handedly set the example for all these other guys...you are high. You are describing an "everybody clapped" level absurd scenario. Most of these truly virulent misogynistic guys either have zero friends, because, you know, our society is atomized to fuck, or they are in a group where the feminist guy is actually the weirdo who can be shut down and ostracized much, much easier than the misogynists, because there is no such thing as a man misogynists respect who stands up for women.

You might be saying "well, we're talking about longstanding personal relationships, actually. Like, they need to have to want to spend time with you and then, as a side effect, you can mind control them out of being a threat to us."

Problem with that being:

1: Many feminist men also have no friends, see the atomized society above.

2: Feminist men already stopped hanging out with men who make rape jokes because why the fuck would we want to spend time with them.

3: That isn't just because we respect women so hard. We are in many cases talking about men who are also deeply queerphobic, heirarchical, violent and abusive to other men. What initially drew me to feminism and women was a lack of heirarchical squabbling and constant bullying, and the ability to be openly queer. A lot of men who came to feminism did so because they knew that the patriarchy was not a place they would find success or acceptance. These are not the men who are gonna be able to change right wing minds.

4. Men do not view themselves as a monolith. There is no universal brotherhood of men. The actual meaning of the term "Fragile masculinity" is that men are constantly expected to prove that they are deserving of the status of being a member of their own gender. There are large swathes of men--including most of the men who you'd look to as examples of good, feminist men who you want to undertake this project--who are considered failed men, sissies, f****ts, soyboys, ect. They are. Not. Going. To. Convince. These. Men. Of. Jack. Shit. Much less successfully *shame* them. Jesus.

I know all of this sucks. I know it would be cool to be able to just point at a group and have them be responsible for the work. But nah. It's gonna have to be a societal project, one that will probably outlast all of us. Sorry. The thing you want these men to do is, absolutely, the morally correct thing to do. But presuming that it would be effective is, and once again I am so sorry about this, just ignorance of how these social groups function.

[trendynewsnow]

Concerns Over Climate Finance Negotiations at COP29 in Baku

Concerns Arise Over COP29 Negotiating Text in Baku The latest draft of the negotiating text, released on Thursday by the COP Presidency, has sparked considerable debate among delegates and observers here in Baku. This new document underscores several unresolved issues, including the criteria for what qualifies as part of the annual climate finance figure, the identity of contributing nations, and…

[pandemic-info]

Eradication isn't the only goal - step out of the black and white world. Less sickness is achievable with any mitigation at all. Every little bit helps. Maybe you got sick with a cold. Wear a mask when you go out so that someone else doesn't get what was actually flu from you. You don't directly benefit, but if more people are like you, there might be less of a wait if you or you loved ones do need a doctor. Or maybe avoid crowds indoors to avoid also getting & spreading RSV or COVID. You don't have to get infected with every airborne illness every time it comes around. Or wear a mask all the time indoors and avoid getting & spreading even when asymptomatic. You will be making the world a better place. Ask your employer for better ventilation, and turn on filters that you control. Etc. It all adds up even if you don't see the effect. Even if you get sick, maybe you don't spread it. Maybe you do spread it, but only to 1 person instead of 10. Also little known fact: often the less virus you inhale, the less sick you get when you do get sick.

University of Toronto epidemiologist talks COVID "immunity theft" as being what's behind the raise in respiratory illnesses this year. : Coronavirus

This. Don’t let the perfect become the enemy of the good.

Last sentence is important: viral load matters.