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As data has become easily available as air, the problem has become more SOCIAL. When we face a SOCIAL problem, the solution cannot be solely TECHNICAL. Technology can act as a catalyst. We need to change people's HABITS (demand-side). While it is easier to regulate businesses by implementing policies, best data practices, and energy-efficient solutions for organizations (supply-side), changing cultural narratives will take time to shift people's habits of using freely available resources. I believe Loughborough University will play a significant role in this transformation towards a sustainable future. Thank you, all team members, for this initiative.
I'm missing a baseline definition from the expert on why animals are afforded any welfare consideration in the law and in philosophy at all, for the benefit of uninformed or ignorant listeners. Not everyone will agree that animals have the capacity to suffer, as only their suffering would require us to consider welfare measures. Most people on Earth, who are not vegans, routinely and happily pay for the exploitation and slaughter of billions of animals every day to produce pleasure foods, vanity products, and entertainment. These people are unlikely to understand why a cow in a war zone should get "humanitarian" aid, when they have no qualms about chewing on beef jerky while watching a game with their friends. And I was missing a short explanation what sentientism is and why pets and so-called farm animals should have the same rights and protections.
This is a really significant project, congratulations to the local community coming onside and the whole research team. Working out the provenance of some of the plastics is an excellent idea to generate some accountability, the Nova Scotia story was crazy! Thanks to Tom also for giving Big Blue Foundation a simple methodology for children in Folkestone to use this summer to identify marine plastics they will collect as part of our circular economy project. Best of luck with the follow up project this year guys!
Thank you for a great video. I really hope your data can influence change at all levels. 🙏🏻 We have the same problem on the Jurassic Coast, with much of the same type of litter. Fortunately we don't have the salmon farms adding to it, but the fishing industry as a whole needs to make huge changes, as does shipping in general. Also interesting to see that as soon as the public see some kind of bin, even if it's obviously washed up and is part of the litter, they will use it. It's a shame they don't think about who is going to empty it! Good luck with the rest of the project!
That looks interesting but wow that would take so much energy to deep till with a machine like that! That is a trenching machine that they use to bury wires and pipes. I imagine it does well as a tiller but would be very slow and on a Canadian scale, I don't think it would work. Perhaps on a small farm in Africa, it would work. The weather is much better for farming in Africa! Every acre is so much more productive with all that warmth and if trenching makes for better water retention, then yields would certainly go up!
Hi @tomkelly8827, you're right, it does take more energy than conventional tilling, which is generally only done to around 20 cm depth, and/or subsoiling, but it is a very efficient way to deep till down to 40 cm using light equipment. As you’ve observed, it would be very slow and labour-intensive compared to a European/Canadian system, but this device isn’t designed to replace expensive large-scale equipment, but instead to replace manual labour with affordably sized equipment that runs from renewable energies. In these areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, without this deep digging there is virtually no water retention in the compacted soils, so the potential productivity that you’ve highlighted cannot be taken advantage of. So, the technique may be energy inefficient per hectare compared to large Canadian equipment, but it is very energy efficient per hectare compared to mattocks and pickaxes, especially for digging at these deep depths.
Thank you for making this video. My son, Mayer, has Noonan syndrome. While most of the information is my family’s day-to-day, bringing awareness to this community is incredibly important. It’s a rare diagnosis. These kiddos are amazing and resilient, but they go through a lot.
I have this medical condition. It's a rare disease along with Turner syndrome its predecessor. Turner syndrome imo is what most people have probably heard of because it's an old condition associated with short stature in girls. Noonan syndrome is often referred to a male Turner syndrome. Noonan and Turner are like brothers because they share many of the same characteristics. I celebrated rare disease day which was last month in the US.
