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allochthonous

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Earth scientist, interested in our amazing planet and how humans can live sustainably on it.

UK-born, US resident: would like both of them to stop punching themselves in the face quite so much.

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Serendipity! How a 2.4 billion year-old rock “picked up by chance” turned out to contain surprisingly complex microfossils: "the first direct fossil evidence linking the changing environment during the Great Oxidation Event with an increase in the complexity of life."

https://news.unsw.edu.au/en/erica-picked-up-a-rock-10-years-ago-it-might-hold-the-oldest-form-of-complex-life-on-earth

HT @Andbaker

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My BS detector pings like mad every time I see ads touting the billions the plastics industry is putting into amazing new recycling technology that will totally work this time, and now ProPublica has worked through stonewalling, obfuscatory terminology and mathyness to report the gory details.

https://www.propublica.org/article/delusion-advanced-chemical-plastic-recycling-pyrolysis

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Fascinating: as explained at the end, Biden’s canny use of the strategic petroleum reserve to stabilise oil prices is also good for the green transition (by not letting it get too low).

How Joe Biden 'broke OPEC' and rewrote the rules for oil trading

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/how-joe-biden-broke-opec-and-rewrote-the-rules-for-oil-trading-212500037935

allochthonous , to random
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Ugh. The fossils fuels industry, seeing a threat to their plan to drown us in single-use plastic, are retooling the carbon footprint treatment and going into schools to preach about personal responsibility! Not theirs, of course. They only make the stuff, and work hard to build a system that system to forces us to use it…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/13/plastics-schools-plastivan-recycling/

Text Shot: that’s not really the plastic’s fault,” said Vitale, chief executive of the Society of Plastics Engineers Foundation, a group of industry professionals. “That’s the fault of humanity.” After warning what a “mess” it would be in supermarkets and hospitals without plastics, Vitale instructed that the plastic pollution crisis could be addressed through stepped up personal responsibility, product innovation and improvements in recycling.
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