Have heard similar things. And it’s also true that timber farming is a (very marginal) form of carbon drawdown, assuming the wood products are not burned. But then in theory recycling could allow some of that land to return to nature, which better in all ways. It’s a systems problem.

The chemical issue is presumably bleaching for white paper. But thick brown cardboard is basically just degraded wood fiber so that at least must be pretty efficient to downcycle into toilet paper.

Update: there’s also another chemical issue in de-inking, maybe that’s what you were referring to. Personally I don’t bother recycling my tiny amounts of paper waste, for these reasons. Thick cardboard must be a win though.

This is the sort of specialized question that should be asked in a specialized community, rather than here. It even concerns a country, and communities always exist for countries.

Convincing detail here.

The priority is to keep used plastic out of the environment, which generally means out of waterways.

Correct. Paper (PS: or at least brown cardboard), glass and alu will always be great candidates for recycling.

Le souci c’est que “la gauche” 'n’existe pas. Il y en a au moins deux, avec des priorités et des valeurs plus irréconciliables qu’à jamais. Donc cette hypothétique unité ne pourra jamais être que de façade, avec un destin tout aussi prévisible que celui du NFP actuel.

That’s fair. But history is an uninterrupted succession of empires. Good ones, bad ones, middling ones. It’s the human condition. The USA was an empire founded by enlightenment libertarians, so I’d say there’s a fair chance we’re going to look back on it fondly. Similarly, the EU, if ever it could pull itself together, has the potential to be as good an empire as we’ll ever get. IMO.

TIL.

PSA: there is already a FOSS OSM maps client that predates Organic Maps by a decade and is much more powerful. It’s called OsmAnd.

Personally I wish all you guys would get with the FOSS spirit and pool your efforts a bit more instead of forking things every two years and reinventing the wheel. A good maps app is a hard challenge, there’s not room for 10 of them.

Besides evidence (what you see in front of you), there’s also reason (what you can deduce from first principles).

I’d say the key concept of science is that knowledge can be built upon. That there is not yet an answer to every question. That you can say “We don’t know but we’re working on it”. This was absolutely revolutionary in human affairs.

STEINER’S [something] WAS A [negative abstract noun]!!!

This is my A2 German. I have to work on the vocab. The negative abstract noun feels like “treachery” or something but possibly I’m completely off.

Who is this “we” you talk of?

Oddly hair-splitting objection.

And that’s on TV. Watching it as a spectator: wait, wait, wait, wait, wait (wait… wait…], WHOOSH

Cricket. Not even close.

Disappointing. These maps usually show Canada eating into the northern USA states, especially in the west.

On the contrary, periods of imperial hegemony have been some of the more stable and peaceful episodes of human history. One of them is ending right now.

So, a bookmarks list basically.

Fair enough.

Prediction: you’ll never actually read most of what ends up on this to-read list.

Anger at journalists is misdirection. There have never been fewer journalists, they have never been worse paid, and the line is going in one direction only. A world without journalists will be a thousand times worse than it is already. It’s a world “shithead” himself dreams of. The anger is misdirected.