Offshore wind parks are no fishing zones and the foundations are artificial reefs. So a lot of prey hence sharks. Also the electricity does not seem to be a problem for sharks, besides them being able to sense it.

Western governments rallying around anything is a stretch these days. Also it is hardly only the West. Chinas GDP growth targets are just madness for example.

As soon as you have flowing water, the salt should mix with the fresh water and then just flow hopefully into an ocean. The pond leveler work using gravity. The problem with that is that a pond, lake or aquifer is the local deepest part of the terrain. So you need a long pipe or in many cases us a pump to pump out the salt water. Beavers probably do not work here.

It is mostly about Exxon. They are so good at being evil, that they changed the laws to legalize their crimes(Season 9), but it includes the usual murders and so forth.

That is why we need to set up systems, to allow workers to buy out companies. They can cause a lot of troubles for owners as well.

You probably want to take some ferry trips. Certainly Helsinki-Talinn maybe also Stockholm-Helsinki. Train tickets in the Baltics and Poland are also rather cheap. So you might want to look into doing Denmark and Sweden with Interrail or buy all tickets separatly. That also would allow you to buy sleepers, which makes the long trips much nicer and saves you a hotel.

The current capitalist system moves wealth from the poor to the rich. That sort of works, if the total wealth is growing at such a rate that the poor keep their quality of life. However when you have stagnation and even worse a decline in GDP you end up in a situation, where the poor get actually poorer and the rich either keep their wealth or become richer.

So with a stagnating economy, you have to change the system to stop the flow of wealth to the rich. When you want to actively shrink the economy, you need to take from the rich.

In this case these numpties work for Murdoch.

Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz increases the price of oil and gas. That was also the case, when the West sanctioned Russian energy after Russia invaded Ukraine. At the same time green technologies, like solar, wind turbines, heat pumps, evs and so on are getting cheaper. So when you get a price shock, you end up with reduced emissions.

If Iran would have a regime change favorable to the US, then the Strait of Hormuz would be opened and oil and Iranian oil and gas would no longer be under sanctions. That would reduce the price of that. At the same time Western technology would end up in Iran increasing production.

And the worsed growth at that, as it makes oil and gas cheaper. The Iran war and also Ukraine war were really good pushed for going green and hit the sectors of the economy relying on fossil fuel the most, the hardest. It is said, that this needs wars though.

The Line is actually a massive success. Saudi Arabia has a massive problem, in that it is dependend on oil and gas, while radical Islam causes a lot of problems for switching to a more sustainable future. Especialls womens rights have improved a lot(still bad, but better). If you ban married women from talking with unmarried men, travel without guardian, drive a car and so forth, you are not using half your potential work force. These sort of strict laws also make the country less attractive to outside visitors. That however is required, when you have business travel and tourism.

If you want to avoid a big backlash, you need to bring the Saudi public on your site and crack down on the most radical faction. A utopian project like the Line is perfect for that. It can inspire the public, while distracting from the crackdowns. It also works as great advertising for tourism. If you are able to deliver something similar, then you have a pretty good product. That is not as true for the Line itself, but for other parts of Neom. A big port in the area makes sense and tourism on the Red Sea is big business in Egypt.

Economic activity requires energy and therefore economic growth requires are growth in energy supply. It is really hard to reduce fossil fuel consumption, when you also have to meet energy demand from economic growth. If you are at all serious about stopping climate change, the only viable strategy forward is to reduce energy consumption and that basically requires shrinking the economy.

Thermal mass so stuff like stone, brick, earth or similar stores the average temperature. The more you have the longer the time period they average out over. So for in Panelleria the mean temperature in August is 26C and that is what those buildings keep over the entire day, even though it can get as hot as 34C during the day. If you have more thermal mass, for example in caves or underground structures, you can have the mean temperature of an entire year.

This sort of change is done on a city level and quite a few American cities have improved over the last couple years. But you need to keep in mind that Paris is starting on a very different level. Most of these streets would be on the better site of things by US standards before the conversion.

The fact the all the none government workers stay in Tehran, so they can not storm the government.

As for the collecting data. It can be done, if the right sensors are used. For example a movement or magnet sensor to trigger a traffic light or weight sensors to measure how full train cars are. If a city has fare gates, those might be used to count usage as well.

Also open source code for public infrastructure would go a long way to help with that.

It is relativly common to fly 7 hours non stop. You need good enough thermals for that, but those are relativly common. Usually you have to stop at night though, but not always.

This just shows how important moving away from fossil fuels is in fighting the far right.

One of the items will also include the abolishment of the so-called “blanket wage system,” where an employer preemptively includes extra work hours in the annual salary so that any actual overtime hours are not counted toward monthly salaries. The system is supposed to be used for positions whose working hours are flexible and hard to pin down, but it has often been abused by companies to force overtime without paying.

Seems like South Korea has some bad laws in that respect, but they are working on fixing it.

It is also going to be a huge problem for petrostates. Oil and gas require a relativly small workforce and make a lot of money. So it is easy to set up a dictatorship financed with that rather then taxes, which means the government does not depend on the people. If you take that away revolutions become much more likely. No money to pay for welfare or military, police, secret service to oppress the people.

You can buy tickets from the bus driver, but they do not have discounts.