Great of you to notice this, and that you went to the vet - you already know you saved Wirt’s life.

My understanding is that dry food is not really ideal for cats. In the wild, these small carnivores, eat small prey and get the liquids they need from their food. This is why where I live, people say that cats don’t drink water. The simple urinary dry food, makes them drink more, so by peeing more the crystals don’t get formed. The medicinal food for struvite, on top of that it has also has something that dilutes the crystals.

The water fountain you got sounds like a great idea. Since you have more than one cats and if you don’t live in a tiny studio apartment, please conciser having - if you have for example 2 cats:

• 2 sources for drinking water in different places. One can easily be a bowl with fresh water in the sense to change it daily.
• 2 litter boxes, with plenty of sand in them, cleaned on daily basis
• the litter box and water not be close to each other

Currently I have only one cat and he had the same issue twice during the summertime. Both times he had to do a procedure with full anesthesia. Since he can go out almost whenever he wants and during summer whenever he wants, and because we live in a neighborhood that we feed the strays, during summer he was also eating low quality dry food. This is -most probably- why he had the second, perhaps even the first incidents. Something that worked in our case was the following: during winter he eats the simple urinary and during summer the medicinal for struvite. Several years have passed since the last incident, but it’s true that during summer I am super alert.

Of course double-check what I say with your vet, and if you are told something different, please let me know!

According to a research from last year

Sixty-six percent of the entire planet is deep ocean (≥200 m), and our data show that we have visually observed less than 0.001%, a total area approximately a tenth of the size of Belgium.

If we have seen so little of the deep sea, let alone study it, I am pretty sure scientists cannot really make assessments of the impact of deep-sea mining.

the body cameras are definitely a good thing

I am not so sure about that tbh. Where I live (another continent) they are used by some sort of officers to patrol boarders. Whenever these officers do push-backs/kill immigrants/etc their cameras are never on.

Th following article is more relevant to the US

The history of police body cameras is more complex and troubling than we’ve been told

With body cameras, law enforcement agencies could expand their surveillance capacity, mitigate police brutality lawsuits, create “highly controllable evidence” against the largely poor, largely Black citizens of whom police often seek to capture footage, and quell social unrest by creating “comprehensive digital archives” of attendees at protests for social change.

Yes, and there’s guerrilla gardening too!

Class is just one of the hierarchical structures in societies. Dismantling all of them is the point. Well, imo.

Thank you for this much more accurate representation of philanthropy laundering

“Studying the tens of thousands of chemicals on the market today one at a time is just not feasible, but evaluating six groups of chemicals of concern is much more manageable,” Arlene Blum, a chemist and GSPI executive director, told Mongabay.

The logic for grouping thousands of chemicals into classes, advocates say, is straightforward: Manufacturers switch within the same chemical class because similar structures often serve the same industrial functions, and often cause the same harm.

This sounds like a great idea to close the legal loopholes that allow the chemical industrial production to keep creating harmful synthetic compounds. Sure, this is hard to implement because of the tones of money that this industry spends in lobbying politicians, but still this is seems to be like a solution if regulated and implemented.

I suppse this is a fair point, but I do have a slight objection to your statement. It’s not possible that they have always been this way. They are creatures that evolve, just like all living beings.

(Now that I think about it, even non-living stuff change through time)

I like what she said:

She told the crowd: "I would never condemn the resistance of Palestinians because their resistance is due to the occupation.

"So, if you want to talk about violence, if you want to talk about atrocities, then point the finger to the state of Israel.

“I am sick of being told to condemn Hamas, when Hamas are fighting for freedom, Hamas are fighting for the people.”

She denied supporting Hamas and said she had been referring to them as “the most well-known representation of Palestinian resistance”.

“I don’t support Hamas, I support the liberation of the Palestinian people,” she told the jury.

Let’s also keep in mind what the IPCC warns us about, in relation to Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR):

CDR deployed at scale is unproven, and reliance on such technology is a major risk in the ability to limit warming to 1.5°C

It looks like the Cypriot government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said:

“Regarding statements and reports referring to the launching of missiles towards Cyprus, it is clarified that this is not true and there is no indication whatsoever that there was a threat to the country.”

An unsafe abortion is less safe than no abortion at all.

How can you know that? Giving birth can also be deadly.

Maybe so, maybe no. It depends on what we do. If we do nothing, sure. If we act towards solution, no.

Doomerism does not leave room for action, like if things are predetermined. So I cannot agree with your point of view.

I found this video very confusing. At the last section, she concludes that we (non-rich people) are sold by capitalists the facade of luxury products with lesser quality. So I really don’t understand why she claims in the title that it’s not related to capitalism?

Tbh I find the “net zero” approach problematic on so many levels that I hesitated posting this article. But due to the fact that this is an analysis of the press that had a span of almost 15 years of this topic, it seemed like worth posting.

Apart from that, personally I agree with you (if I got you right) that privatisation of the energy sector in the UK , or any sector I can think of actually, is to the detriment of all living beings and the environment as a whole. Still I don’t mind researches that talk about other relevant things, even if I consider them less important, for example. Meaning, looking at one thing, doesn’t mean not looking to another.

I suppose, this is quite debatable, because the current money system does waste a whole lot of energy, It’s just not calculated how much. Honestly, if you have have links showing how much energy the banking system consumes globally, please share.

On the other hand, bitcoin’s blockchain is a decentralised and transparent system. This is not something that the banking system can claim.

Archived link of the article

Take a look at the links I shared above. You might find them interesting.

Edit: @dumnezero to answer your question, the key words would be phasing out fossil fuels, and this could not take place in a week. So the answer is no.

Third, we need new ways to remove (…) carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year, and store it safely in the ground.

No, we don’t. Fossil fuel companies do.

• Reactionary Decarbonization | On Carbon Capture and Techno-Utopianism
• How the role of carbon storage has been hugely overestimated | Carbon Brief

Industrial manufacturing is declining in Europe for sure, but not because of complying to climate policies, as you claimed. Industrial production is falling in most European Union countries, largely due to a lack of competitiveness with China and the US.

Also, the article you linked about the EU loosing manufacturing jobs does not back your claim. On the contrary it says: The move to a sustainable economy is an opportunity to turn the situation around. Towards the end, it also mentions that the EU should make sure that industry jobs are not lost and that Europe’s industrial sectors and their workers are fundamental to delivering the climate solutions Europe needs, which are very different things to what you said.