World not ready yet to 'switch off' fossil fuels, COP28 host UAE says https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/world-not-ready-yet-switch-off-fossil-fuels-cop28-host-uae-says-2023-05-09/
This is Delusional, and what is really saying, “We don't care if we destroy the planet, so long as we are the wealthiest people on it when it happens!”
This makes me inexplicably sad. There's precious little you can pick up on long wave in the UK now, but I do like hearing TMS that way. https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/articles/2023/bbc-radio-4-long-wave-transition
Palm oil is in nigh on all of those products now, and frankly I'd rather have the waste animal fat. But now we're looking at an alternative market for those waste fats growing, dragging MORE of it out of the food chain and replacing it with MORE palm oil. No part of this makes any ecological sense.
It's a laudable goal making lots of processed foods vegetarian. Remember the 80s when sometimes biscuits, crackers, all sorts of pastries and the like contained animal fat? That used to drive veggetarians spare. But I've long said that replacing waste animal fat with palm oil is a TERRIBLE idea. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65727664
Sound on. Pleurotus cornucopieae, and bird song. #mushrooms #fungus #foraging #mushtodon #BirdSong https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsyXJ-1A9Ig/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
That cup of coffee after fixing a bike, before going back to it to convince yourself it's actually fixed before riding it. That.
The old, old BSA Sport racer (as you'd have called it when this bike was young ) is ready to go. #SteelIsReal
Yes, it's got 28mm tyres on it because that's what it had when I bought it, I rarely take the road bike off road so I've never particularly considered wider. Think it'll be a bit comfier if just slightly wider though.
Why wouldn't the EU say "bugger off, we'll happily take their manufacturing jobs"? I mean, seriously, why wouldn't they? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/17/vauxhall-maker-says-brexit-deal-must-be-renegotiated-or-it-could-shut-uk-plant?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Why springtails are the best https://www.chaosofdelight.org/blog/why-springtails-are-the-best/13/8/2020
"Springtails, officially known as Collembola, are a small and incredibly common invertebrate and a big part of the soil mesofauna, worldwide. They’re objectively and categorically way better than horses, tigers, dogs, bush babies, koalas and hedgehogs. In fact, they are better than any other animal I can think of. They are hands down the best animal in the world. Fact"
A potential antidote to death cap mushroom toxin found. But it looks like you've got to be very quick getting it to someone so it's not THAT likely to save lives. But a big finding. #mushrooms #fungi #mushtodon #foraging https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/17/potential-antidote-found-for-toxin-in-worlds-most-poisonous-mushroom
"...our traditional idea of what constitutes that – chips, crisps, fizzy drinks – needs adjusting. It should include all supermarket bread; likewise breakfast cereal; packaged snacks, reconstituted meat products and frozen meals."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/15/the-big-idea-why-we-need-a-new-definition-of-junk-food
A brilliant cartoon from Anne Derenne https://annederenneillustration.com/project-type/ecologie-ecology/
Moldova are being robbed again. #Eurovision
Mad inventor. Maker and breaker of things. Spends much time on two wheels. Forager and cook.
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