Former doomer, now a Techno'optimist' 🧙‍♂️🌍-do we have a choice?- Proudly creative at WePlanet. Opinions recycled and repurposed. ♻️
Gent
Joined October 2014
- Tweets4.7K
- Following1.6K
- Followers786
- Likes14.1K
Rob De Schutter retweeted
What’s more likely to reduce humanity’s reliance on animals: humane sentiment, or new innovations that simply render animal exploitation obsolete?
New peer-reviewed paper exploring the numerous times new tech has spared animals:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Rob De Schutter retweeted
How can so many of these mega successful guys be so spectacularly tone deaf
Mark Zuckerberg reveals he's feeding his cows beer and macadamia nuts
“On the ranch, one of my projects is I'm trying to create the highest quality beef in the world”
“It's very low stakes, I’m not selling it but I'm very into the genetics of the cattle. We're trying to figure out how do you make it so that you basically can deliver the highest density diet to them”
“We started growing macadamia trees because that kind of nut is extremely dense and they will eat a lot so they will put on weight and become fat quicker and become delicious”
“The macadamia nuts have a lot of oil so you need to actually roast that. So now we need to design this whole process to roast the nuts so that way you can give them to the cows”
“You want them to eat more. So then it's like how do you get them to eat more? Well it turns out alcohol is great for that because alcohol induces appetite”
“That's actually why very high-end beef, they're fed beer. But okay, what's the right balance of beer versus water? I don't know. Let's let them choose. They get either as much cold beer as they want or as much room temperature water”
“So now we're brewing all this beer and we're putting it out”
Rob De Schutter retweeted
"Wie vandaag nog vasthoudt aan de oude kernuitstap-logica, verdedigt in de praktijk een energiesysteem dat langer afhankelijk blijft van steeds duurder gas." @FChombar @Rob_DeSchutter knack.be/nieuws/belgie/maats…
Rob De Schutter retweeted
Dat is een typische eerste-orde redenering waarbij er niet wordt doorgedacht over wat volgt. Ja, dat risico op misbruik door rechts is er maar wat gebeurt er als onderzoekers de hete aardappel doorschuiven en dat onderzoek niet doen ? Stopt het dan en kunnen we vredig verder leven ? Juist niet: we krijgen een achterdochtige publieke opinie (die aan haar water voelt dat ze niet alle info krijgt) en erosie van het vertrouwen in wetenschap en universiteit. Vervolgens ziet het publiek die achterdocht bevestigd door zaken zoals de vrt-enquĂŞte Waarna het vertrouwen verder erodeert. En vroeg of laat komt er dan een moment waarop rechtse rakkers op dat wantrouwen kapitaliseren om universiteiten zware schade toe te brengen.
Rob De Schutter retweeted
Der Atomausstieg brachte bis heute 6x Tschernobyl – neuer Bericht enthüllt erschreckende Zahlen
Am kommenden Sonntag jährt sich zum 40. Mal Tschernobyl, die größte Katastrophe in der Geschichte der Kernenergie. Einmal mehr wird die Erinnerung allenthalben zum Anlass genommen, die Angsttrommel gegen die vermeintliche "Hochrisikotechnologie" zu rühren. Wir hingegen nehmen den Jahrestag zum Anlass, eine andere Rechnung aufzumachen. Unser neuer Bericht zeigt: Von 2011 bis heute starben fast 25.000 Menschen an den Folgen zusätzlicher Luftverschmutzung aus Kohlekraftwerken, die nur liefen, um den fehlenden Strom aus Kernkraft zu ersetzen. Laut den Schätzungen der WHO sind das sechsmal mehr Tote als durch Tschernobyl.
👉Die schlimmste Atomkatastrophe der Geschichte forderte weit weniger Todesopfer als Kohleverbrennung im normalen Betrieb!
Hinzu kommen weitere Schäden durch CO₂-Emissionen und Schwermetalle, sowie weitere Kosten von über 74 Milliarden Euro allein für Emissionszertifikate. Und: In den kommenden Jahren werden diese Zahlen weiter steigen. – Es sei denn, wir schaffen einen Kurswechsel in der Energiewende inklusive Kernenergie.
👉Wir setzen uns deshalb für den Neustart der stillgelegten deutschen Reaktoren ein! Nur so können wir auch den Kohleausstieg vorverlegen.
Link zu unserer neuen Webseite und zum Bericht im ersten Kommentar!
Rob De Schutter retweeted
Er ontbreekt een kritische noot bij dit artikel @vrtnws , namelijk dat biobrandstoffen niet in competitie zouden mogen gaan met landbouw/natuurgrond en deze zogenaamde 'biobrandstoffen van de eerste generatie' dan ook uitgefaseerd worden.
vrtnws.be/p.oLjWQp60x
Rob De Schutter retweeted
End corn ethanol.
Effectively all growth in corn production over the last 20 years is for ethanol.
~20 million acres of conservation land, grassland, and soybean rotation was turned into corn monoculture that effectively strip mines the topsoil.
Meanwhile it’s the most fertilizer dependent crop with only a 40% uptake rate. So ~1.7 million tons of nitrogen runoff flows into the Mississippi basin annually while also polluting their own water supplies. This runoff ends up expanding the Gulf deadzone, which is also where 40% of domestic seafood comes from.
It’s hard to find a worse way to create fuel, with a wicked level of waste and downstream consequences.
Rob De Schutter retweeted
Als ik de wanhoop nabij ben over de milieubeweging, dan denk ik: er is altijd nog @WePlanetBE! Kom naar Gent binnenkort om te zien hoe een Vlaanderen vol overvloed, welvaart, groei én een prachtige natuur er in 2050 kan uitzien. En klimaatneutraal. eventbrite.be/e/vlaanderen-2…
Rob De Schutter retweeted
Zes experten. Zes interessante inzichten. EĂ©n mooie toekomst voor Vlaanderen.
Kom het zelf beleven op 26 maart bij Liberas in Gent.
Schrijf je in op eventbrite.be/e/vlaanderen-2…
Rob De Schutter retweeted
Klimaatneutraal wonen, slimmer werken en steden die ons gelukkiger maken. 🏙️⚡
​Op 26/03 gaan we in debat met o.a. @FChombar en Tessa Avermaete over de toekomst van Vlaanderen.
​Geen verhaal van verlies, maar van kansen. 🚀
Registreer via link in de comments 👇
Rob De Schutter retweeted
Zeer boeiende avond in het verschiet op 26 maart in #Gent. Allen daarheen !
Ook onze @VISTA_be Magazine ziet er steeds boeiender uit, bijna interessanter dan de meeste kranten :-)
magazine.vista.be/
Rob De Schutter retweeted
The world is still largely sleeping on the new generation of geothermal technologies, from companies like @fervoenergy @Eavor and @QuaiseEnergy . Honestly, I was too slow here as well. I still have questions, but the potential is quite exciting.
NEW | New technologies are unlocking the EU’s geothermal potential 🇪🇺
Across the EU, new geothermal tech could access 43GW of deployable geothermal capacity - replacing 42% of ALL coal and gas electricity generation.
ember-energy.org/latest-insi…
Rob De Schutter retweeted
Two weeks until Feed the People! is published.
The book took us across the USA to study policy, technology, and labor organizing, but also to eat food, some good and some outright hostile.
20% off at basicbooks.com with code FEED20 until Feb. 17.
Rob De Schutter retweeted
The full Introduction of Feed the People! is now available for free on @gnrosenberg's Substack. Have a read. I hope it whets your appetite for the rest of the book.
bearistotle.substack.com/p/t…
Rob De Schutter retweeted
Have thoughts on nuclear energy? The EU Commission is asking for YOUR input! 🫵
They're currently running a 'Call for Evidence' until December 4th. So, if you could spare some time, your arguments can help forward the development of clean energy in Europe 🇪🇺
A short thread 🧵
Rob De Schutter retweeted
⚠️Ya es oficial⚠️
Las propietarias acaban de solicitar oficialmente la extensiĂłn para operar la central nuclear de Almaraz hasta 2030.
"Hasta que no lo pidan las eléctricas, no podemos hacer nada" ha sido la excusa del Gobierno hasta ahora.
Ya no les sirve.
Rob De Schutter retweeted
Tihange 1 nuclear power plant will shutdown for the last time at midnight tonight after 50 years of service.
The Belgian government, despite reversing their disastrous nuclear phase-out law, is still allowing @ENGIEgroup to shutdown this vital piece of clean energy infrastructure!
WePlanet and @StandUp4Nuclear last night sent a clear message, to Engie and the Belgian government, don't let this be the end of Tihange 1.
It's not too late to reverse this climate disaster!
Rob De Schutter retweeted
Aujourd’hui, à nouveau… @TinneVdS se frotte les mains… en sachant qu’un peu plus loin à l’Est, elle a un allier !
Rob De Schutter retweeted
The Agricultural Revolution worked out great for us, but it sucked for people at the time, who had to work much harder than their nomadic ancestors, with more diseases.
The Industrial Revolution worked out great for us, but it sucked for people at the time, who worked grueling factory jobs and slept in filthy tenements, a downgrade from their ancestors’ lives on the farm.
It makes you think…
With all our anxiety and loneliness and polarization and institutional decay, are we the people living during the Digital Revolution, who it sucks for, before it eventually becomes a net positive for people of the future?
Should we be worried that we’re also the people who will live through an AI Revolution that’s just getting started?