I don't know if this is interesting or just plain dumb. With all the biblical plagues, droughts, floods and conflict in the world, someone actually asked if climate change is causing all this severe weather. In fact, the history of this planet showed multiple climate events where ice sheets advanced and retreated, so climate change is really inevitable, but the pace of climate change has been accelerated by man.
What to do about it? For the last few years there has been record droughts and massive flooding around the world. The last three years, world food harvests have declined. This year, because of many factors related to climate and other things, world production of food declined globally. For the first time, we may actually be facing a world food crisis, where before there was surplus food for those who could afford it. Now, food is less affordable and some things will be in short supply at any price.
Agriculture emits a lot of carbon especially, raising livestock, not just for their methane emissions, but also for all the feed that is grown to support that industry.
The Netherlands in an effort to slow climate change is shutting down 3000 farms when world harvests declined.
China, in an effort to ditch its dependence on coal, forces people to burn corn cobs and clothing for heat.
Between the droughts that dried up rivers and reduced power generation and the lack of available power, literally leaving people in the dark as the country faced planned blackouts, yet a year ago China built the world's largest coal power plant. And their timeline to reduce emissions to slow climate change is 10 years too late.
While the U.S. has made strides to reduce carbon emissions it also comes as a cost. All those dead batteries have forever chemicals, what to do with that? Limits on the grid because the grid cannot actually handle every house having solar. My utility, now credits back half of what home systems generate, and charge them more for off hour use. Our state closed down its one and only coal generating plant at the end of the year. We still use primarily diesel to fuel the other power plants. They shut the coal plant down when it ran out of its last order of coal, but the solar farm that was supposed to replace it was not up and running because of supply chain issues, they did not have the parts. The result is that instead of paying and additional $20 a month, on average it is more like $40 a month. Something that just makes everything a little less affordable when the price of everything is going up while wages remain stagnant.
Farmers and ranchers alike have had to reduce their fields and herds because of drought, high fertilizer and feed costs. This does reduce carbon emissions, but it is at the cost of the consumer who has to pay more for less food. Add to that the birds and crops destroyed by extreme weather and disease. You can't really curb demand for staples like food. People have to choose whether to eat, buy medicine, or pay the rent. Higher crime is a consequence of that as well. On the plus side, I was eating more meat than I needed and having to reduce protein is probably not that bad a thing for me. Unfortunately, I have increased carbs to replace it, and it is not always good carbs.
I am so glad, I can get some fresh food from my garden almost everyday and have a little left to trade or share. But, even my small garden has leaves a carbon footprint. I do use synthetic fertilizers and normally, I don't use a lot since I fertilize based on soil tests. But my containers do use fertilizer. I don't have room for a compost pile, but I do have worms and they get most of the leftovers, the majority of the rest goes into the green can. My spent potting soil, usually ends up somewhere in the yard. I recycle pots and repurpose other things like tofu containers, gallon containers, and jars.
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Steve
. The result is that I may know a word but not know how to pronounce it. It's not all that uncommon for most anyone. My problem may be that I have never really heard the word. 
. But casting in forms could sure work for a square base and hearth.