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Originally Posted by Cazador
Stefan,
All joking aside, as a student of sustainable development, I bet there's a lot you could teach us about "saving the planet" and/or minimizing our impact. Hmmm, how to properly fit that into a garter snake forum? Sorry, a bit off topic about your new enclosure.
I am curious, though, how that "glued laminated timber" looks.
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Well, it's just strips of wood glued together to form solid wood boards.
The thickness off the material is 18mm. Very easy to work with and doesn't warp like plywood does.
Initially, I'm just going to build one terrarium, even though I ordered parts for two. It's going to have sliding glass doors, but I'm thinking about using swinging doors on the second one, just in case I need that feature.
Off topic, will not continue discussing it here:
I've only studied sustainable development for one year and I'm not entirely convinced anymore that we can "save the planet". When it comes to global warming, it seems that we don't really know what's causing it.
The school's policy is to teach what the IPCC report says, but then again, it has been severely criticized for a lot of reasons. One side says that some statements have been omitted due to pressure from certain governments and the corporate world, and the other side of the debate says that scientific findings directly contradicting the theory of anthropogenic global warming have been omitted. Best I can tell, both sides are correct, but the latter is in my opinion a much bigger problem. In the end, if there is anything we can do, depends on whether or not CO2 really acts the way we assume and whether or not our CO2 emissions really are signficant.
Just to be clear, the education doesn't revolve around that issue. Most of it has been ecology, evolutionary biology and species identification. Had a presentation on wednesday, the theme was "Any animal species or group of species". I chose a genus, guess which one.
