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Cyanide & Happiness

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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!

Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness

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@MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works started this community and wrote:

About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.

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All comics posted are freely available online. In no way is the poster claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

people wouldn’t HAVE to be vegan or carefree if it weren’t for the billionaires

Yes we would. We need net zero.

And when I say net zero, I don't mean "cut emissions by half and then buy carbon offsets", I mean we have to cease all fossil fuel usage, all animal agriculture, and then re-wild the land well enough to sequester the absolutely necessary emissions produced by our most crucial industrial processes.

No more gas cars. No more gas stoves. No more burping cows. Camping under the stars with a wood fire is cutting it fucking close.

The billionaires have already polluted enough that we may have passed the point of no return. I fucking hope we haven't, and I'm not going over the line because Joe Smith can't give up his fucking big macs. There are very few sacrifices, in terms of personal inconvenience or even loss of life, which are worth even a 1% chance of stopping climate collapse. If the Socialist Canadian Republic has given up our meat and the United States of Commiestan are still eating hamburgers, I would support an invasion to take away their meat. We can't afford any sacrifices.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It sounds like you're describing gross zero, not net zero.

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Nonsense, we'll still emit carbon dioxide through unavoidable processes like breathing, which we'll need to offset through rewilding. What I'm describing is what "net zero" was coined to refer to.

I want to go negative and suck carbon out of the air to fix the damage we've done.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So you're describing net negative, not net zero?

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I guess I am. I didn't bother drawing a distinction between the two because the difference is one atom.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sorry if this is explaining something you've already heard, but net zero is a distinct concept that a significant percentage of humans agree with. Describing it as huddling around campfires might be counterproductive towards wider public support.

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

You've misunderstood. Huddling around campfires is wasteful and we shouldn't do it. We need solar panels, trains, and vegan food instead.

Emissions can refer to all greenhouse gases or only to carbon dioxide (CO2).[1] Reaching net zero is necessary to stop further global warming.[2] It requires deep cuts in emissions, for example by shifting from fossil fuels to sustainable energy, improving energy efficiency and halting deforestation. A small remaining fraction of emissions can then be offset using carbon dioxide removal.

For example, some standards for carbon neutral certification allow a lot of carbon offsetting. But net zero standards require reducing emissions to more than 90% and then only offsetting the remaining 10% or less to fall in line with 1.5 °C targets.

We can cut 25% of emissions with renewable electricity to replace fossil fuels. 28% by banning gas cars and airplanes except in emergencies. Maybe around 5-8% by banning animal agriculture. A few percentage points out of residential and industrial by banning onsite emission sources such as gas stoves. And maybe after all that effort we can get emissions down to 10% of what they presently are, but we might still need to radically rethink our industrial processes.