"Experts say Indians need tougher lifestyle changes than Western norms recommend. While 150 minutes of weekly exercise may suffice for their European men, their South Asians counterparts need around 250–300 minutes to offset slower metabolism and less efficient fat storage, studies show."

But now that food, in particular junk food, is more readily available- this adaptation is now a negative causing an increase in heart disease and diabetes (Approximately 40.3% of adults in India are clinically obese)

So, what needs to be done?

One theory offers an evolutionary root where India, for centuries, racked by famines and chronic food shortages led the body to adapt for survival in extreme scarcity.
The body needed a depot for this energy and the abdomen, being the most expandable area, became the prime storage site.

These include economic strain, funding quality and revenue momentum. Interestingly, only one of the indicators show a red gauge while two are in amber- so we might not quite be there yet but there are reasons to be cautious.

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While we've reached a peak, or near peak, emissions must not simply plateau but start to decline- and fast!

I think when we talk about carbon credits we should specify avoided emissions compared to geological carbon removals which are stored and can't be claimed back. Although they have other issues such as costs etc

Great, but once again, I dont think this changes what the chart is saying by showing nuclear being much lower than fossil fuels.

Right, so if all types of energy requires mining then I don't this would change the figures much, if anything it might make it more favourable given it's high energy density.

That’s when knowledge began to compound. Once criticism became normal, and provided space for new ideas, progress became something that can effectively continue without end- a vision of infinity so to speak.

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The Enlightenment that started in the 17th century flipped that and we stopped asking “Who said this?” and started asking “Does it actually work?”

The Greeks, the Islamic scholars, and the Renaissance thinkers all had periods of brilliance but they still thought knowledge came from wise people or God and not from trial, error, and open disagreement.

David Deutsch, a theoretical physicist, has a great explanation for this. He says progress only started once humans created a culture that allowed criticism where ideas weren’t just accepted because they were old, sacred, or came from authority, but because they could survive being tested.

What’s crazy is that for tens of thousands of years, we had clever people, tools, art, language but no real progress. People in ancient times were doing rain dances, making sacrifices to gods, and repeating rituals that never worked, without ever checking why they didn’t.

Thanks for posting! I would have expected that the deaths include those from production. Even if not, mining is involved in most of the other technologies as well so I would expect them to relatively be the same

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This might just be one part of the problem, along with weak forest governance and valuing cleared land over standing forests, but it's a small change that can have large consequences.