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OMG.

As if humans haven't screwed up this poor planet enough.

What a depressing picture - shelves packed full of ultra processed 'food'.

We are in full gear this year with our home produce.

More people should consider growing their own food, for better food security and health.

President Donald Trump's dismantling of domestic climate policies 

Should be sued for negligence and dereliction of duty to protect the well-being of the nation.

Crass ignorance at best.

More trees - the only truly effective way to cool urban area.

Need better food labelling for people to make more informed choices or at least to be aware of the true impact their consumption patters are having on the rest of the world.

Carbon, water footprints etc.

“It’s people like this, who think of things the rest of us don’t, that are saving the world.”

I hope this comment was intended to be sarcastic.

but if people do change, and if we do reduce or turn around our climate emissions

So, in other words, the situation is truly a bleak one for this magnificent species.

We have one regular toilet and one compost toilet in our house. The compost toilet needs very little water. Probably not a feasible option in cities though.

And still using PET bottles for their drinking water!

Leaders!!?

What a depressing place to work/live.

And how does making fossil fuel cheaper contribute to the already woeful efforts at lowering carbon emissions - as promised?

And still, such informative and important stories are not headline news.

I hope anyone reading this article, will read the whole thing and consider the magnitude of the situation before commenting.

offsetting water costs will encourage residents not to hold back on using their air conditioning to stay cool

I find it difficult to see the connection between the two. does anyone choose equate using less water with a decision to use AC or not?

This is good news but more efforts should be made to design new buildings and retrofit older ones to be more energy efficient, and to take advantage of passive/natural cooling and warming features.

We designed and built our own house and don't have any need for air conditioners.

Mindless consumption from mindless 'tourism'.

A picture illustrating the overcrowding would have been more informative.

while stating that installed wind and solar now exceed installed thermal power plants, the article also states that 60% of their energy currently comes from burning coal. Seems like the two statements are mutually exclusive. 

Headline: ... wind and solar energy capacity exceeds thermal ...

Key word is capacity.

Solar and wind capacity can now potentially produce more than coal, but rarely will the sun and wind offer 100% capacity at any one time.

Seems extremely unfair.

Particularly given that politicians and the rich 'elite' almost always get off with suspended sentences after embezzling etc. billions of yen.

The association hopes attendance will increase in the latter half of the expo period.

... when temperatures are at their highest?

That does not look like a fun day out.

There are so many stunning hikes in Japan.

Why choose this overcrowded, bland landscape as your hiking destination?

designing a sustainable future society, in what organizers hope will boost the domestic economy 

Current human eco footprint is around 1.8 earths. The word sustainable and growth are now mutually impossible.

Steady-state economics is the only rational way forward.

Opps - not 2018.... I somehow meant to write 1988!!

I haven't been to a McDonald's since 2018.

I was travelling on a budget in Australia and Fille'o'fish were around $1 (Au).

White House weighs executive order to fast-track deep-sea mining

Of course it does. What else could we expect from such an abhorrent group of individuals.

My 1995 Toyota Hilux Surf is a kind of hybrid. We run it using a two tank WVO system.

The main tank is for Waste Vegetable Oil and the smaller tank is for diesel, which is used for the first 3 minutes and last 3 minutes of a journey to ensure the engine only receives vegetable oil when it's warm.

13 years ago I took down a 4 bedroomed house - (an old country pension) by hand. Using a crowbar, sledge hammer, and rope. It took five solid weeks..

Upcycled all the wood and had only one skip's worth of non-recyclable material.

Was a tough, but rewarding experience.

We now grow most of the Japanese rice we consume.

There are many empty rice fields that could be producing, but seems the government is incapable of fostering policies that could invigorate the local agriculture sector.

Better eduction that valued agriculture as a key industry, and a less consumerist society would help.

And there are still some total idiots (well, one in particular) who plan to waste unmeasurable amounts of resources sending people to Mars.

This was a FASHION show?

How ironic.

There's a ton of rain coming Monday thru Wednesday, so that might help.

No rain up there until at least Wednesday according to the forecast and unfortunately, winds look to be getting stronger from Sunday night.