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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)

"What I didnโ€™t expect, and donโ€™t think I could have foreseen, is how incredibly cringe it would all be. I have been prepared for evil, for greed, for cruelty, for injustice โ€“ but I did not anticipate that the people in power would also be such huge losers."
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)

"Ohhh we're losing all of our land to solar panel farms... "
No. We're not. This is a lie. And it's meant to deceive us into sticking with fossil fuels for longer.
Excellent data-driven, graphics-based story from the Australian ABC at..
abc.net.au/news/2024-12-18/sur

Map of Australia, showing a 19,000 square kilometre patch of the island State of Tasmania, that could contain all of the world's current solar infrastructure.
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Christian Kent

@mackayim2022 @europlus If you want a world with 100x or 1000x todayโ€™s energy, only one source will get you there

No, not nuclear ๐Ÿ˜‚

levampyre

@mackayim2022 Interestingly, farming and having solar panels on the land is not mutually exclusive. You can do both on the same land. The solar panels can help to provide shade and cool to vulnerable plants. You can have live stock grazing in between the panels. Many options there.

Franco Lombardo ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

@mackayim2022
The problem is not that we are consuming generic land, but that we are consuming land suitable for agriculture. In fact, the panels are put in populated areas that are easily accessible by roads, not in remote areas that cannot be farmed. It is more serious to lose 100 square meters in a fertile area in Tasmania than 100 square kilometers in central Australia

Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)

"Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory."
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"Unfortunately, time is up."
academic.oup.com/bioscience/ad

Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)

RT @DrEricDing
Insulin was invented ~100 years ago, and its patent sold for $1.

โ€œDo you know the reason why [insulin is] $1,000 with insurance?โ€ ~@AoC

There is no reason for insulin to cost $21 in Canada for a 10 ml bottle, while it costs a mortgage payment in the US.

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George Papadakis

@mackayim2022 @AoC things are presented too complicated but things usually happen around us are simple. That simplicity is called fucking capitalism

Lee ๐ŸŒ

@mackayim2022 @AoC
You can see why Conservatives hate AOC. She is so smart, eloquent, compassionate and standing up for Social Justice.

Maggieci

@mackayim2022 @AoC
Eloquent and incisive speaking from the representative for New York's CD14. Brava!

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