Weatherwatch: how #SolarFarms benefit #bees and #butterflies | #Biodiversity | The Guardian

An unexpected benefit.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/mar/01/weatherwatch-how-solar-farms-benefit-bees-and-butterflies

#Biology #Ecology #Pollinators

Weatherwatch: how solar farms benefit bees and butterflies

Research shows pollinating insects thrive in solar parks, particularly where a variety of plants are flourishing

^{Paul Brown (The Guardian)}

Expedia CEO Peter Kern has led the online travel agency for three years, from its pandemic nadir to the post-COVID surge in travel. With that experience, one trend he says he doesn’t see changing anytime soon is people traveling like there’s no tomorrow. What’s more, he says, people talk a good talk about climate change angst but are not modifying their behavior much

https://fortune.com/2023/10/06/expedia-ceo-travel-climate-change-rewards/

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Expedia CEO says customers claim to be worried about climate change. But he isn’t seeing changes in their travel behavior

Expedia's CEO says people will always choose the cheaper travel option over the "greener" one.

^{Phil Wahba (Fortune)}

The priority should therefore not be to replace every car with its electric equivalent but rather to rethink mobility in general

It’s true that fully electric vehicles do not emit waste products but the batteries that supply energy to the vehicle are made of minerals like lithium and cobalt which have an impact on climate change.

And those mines have incredible environmental and health impacts in the places that they exist

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/09/17/why-tech-companies-are-wrong-to-think-electric-cars-are-a-solution-to-climate-change

#pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Why tech companies are wrong to think electric cars are a solution to climate change

To fight climate change, carmakers want to sell us ever more technological and ecological vehicles. For Paris Marx, this approach is wrong.

^{Thomas Duthois (Euronews.com)}

"Urban forest restoration by trial and error is costly, and resulting failures are both discouraging to practitioners and condemning of future funding approval. Instead, we propose an evidence-based approach developed with partners and practitioners, informed by, ecologists and applied through practice oriented principles."

#KiriWallace, #BruceDClarkson

https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2019.1637352

#Aotearoa #NZ #research #ecology #NativeReplanting #UrbanForest

Quoting because I don't think I can get to them and the rest of the conversation is important. Saying "WE are consuming the oil" is technically correct as no other species on Earth has figured out how to do it, but this observation and four quarters gives you a full dollar.

Ultimately people use what is affordable for them, including availability and cost. Using alternatives to fossil fuels is currently more expensive, whether in research, time or straight up money. There are several reasons for this, subsidies and marketing playing no small part, but boiling this question down to personal responsibility is either ignorant of the larger picture or incredibly privileged as in "if I could do it, anybody else can easily do it".

#Environment #Ecology #ClimateChange #FossilFuels

Greenpete (No Flag)

2023-06-08 17:40:51

Sure, I am aware of the greenwashing and B.S.
But as I say WE are consuming the oil.
@doctormo