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It happened in Maine. And Alaska. And is on track in Nevada.

Modern industrial farming is not sustainable for the next hundred years, no, but there are a lot of levers to work to transform it into something that will reliably feed future generations.

One lever is amount and kind of meat in the average diet. It takes something like seven pounds of grain to make one pound of beef. Modern chicken breeds are amazingly efficient at converting feed grain to chicken meat, but even they are something like two pounds in to one pound out. Reducing the percent of meat in our diets would make our food go significantly further.

The plants use energy from the sun to turn carbon dioxide from the air into edible calories. When our animal bodies "burn" the food we eat, that turns it back to carbon dioxide, which we exhale.

The energy input is the sun, and most of the calories come from the air (carbon dioxide). Given so much external input, harvesting from a plot without reducing soil fertility is totally possible. With nitrogen-fixing crops (soybeans being the poster child), even the nitrogen fertilizer comes from the air.

Technically correct is the best kind of correct

The ozone hole size is influenced by the strength of the polar vortex, the Antarctic temperature, and other things in addition to the concentration of CFC molecules. It's barely shrunk, but CFCs are so long-lived that was expected - the critical point is it stopped growing over 20 years ago. I believe they expect to start seeing shrinking within the next decade.

https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/topics/in-depth/climate-change-mitigation-reducing-emissions/current-state-of-the-ozone-layer

Two together, double cuteness! I catch one on my security camera sometimes, but have never seen two. Curious where this was taken.

This is more like you measure the fragment speeds with both a laser and with radar, and get different readings off the same fragment.

It reduces bone density. Not to unhealthy levels in teens, but there are concerns the lower baseline will increase osteoporosis risk when the patients get to old age.

They can also only be used for a couple of years. Some non-binary people want to be on them permanently, but doctors won't prescribe that. Some kids want more time to decide, and unfortunately there isn't anything safe to use through the full teenage years.

Local chapters are going broke because deep-pocketed conservative donors don't trust the people elected as officials to be good stewards of their money. So the donors give directly to candidates or to PACs. I am not yet convinced there is less overall money being injected on the Republican side, though that would be a hopeful development.

It used to be more true, when straight chlorine was what was used. Now most municipalities use chloramine, which is more stable. Most plants don't care, but it's an issue for fish, so there are "water conditioner" products for aquariums that remove both chlorine and chloramine.