This is a very shocking video of the effect of tyre and other pollutants from roads on our rivers. #polution
from @Stormwater-jo.bsky.social
youtu.be/oqfDuRD3ChU?...
Managing Highway Runoff Pollut...
This is a very shocking video of the effect of tyre and other pollutants from roads on our rivers. #polution
from @Stormwater-jo.bsky.social
youtu.be/oqfDuRD3ChU?...
Managing Highway Runoff Pollut...
A French region has banned tap water. It’s a warning for the rest of Europe
Pfas pollutes the water supply of 60,000 people, threatening human health, wildlife and the wider ecosystem. Tap water is prohibited for children under two years old, pregnant or breastfeeding women and people with weak immune systems.
Pfas pollution is everywhere, bans in other areas are to be expected.
Cruise ship pollution. Swansea
"Men emit 26% more planet-heating pollution than women from transport and food"
The richest 10% of the global population has caused 2/3 of #GlobalWarming since 1990, according to a new study. The authors of the study suggest progressive taxes on wealth and carbon-intensive investments could provide a solution.
"Climate action that doesn't address the outsized responsibilities of the wealthiest members of society risk missing one of the most powerful levers we have to reduce future harm,"
"A charity has called for the government to commit to a date when plastic will be banned in wet wipes, to help prevent the effect they are having on the River Thames."
@thames21.bsky.social
#polution #nature
Plastic wet wipe ban by govern...
Do not travel to the USA.
Reason number 22.
Why you should not travel to the USA.
While I don't think it's any sort of secret that Trump and the larger Pork Reich are no friends to our environment or the struggle against climate crisis, a little over a week ago Downmarket Mussolini signed an almost certainly illegal executive order that speaks to the scope of his plans to burn the planet to ash for profit as quickly as possible.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-and-the-environment
'This Executive Order is Illegal': Trump Attacks Half-Century of Environmental Protections in One Fell Swoop
"Brett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity, said it was "beyond delusional" for Trump to attempt to repeal "every environmental safeguard enacted over the past 50 years with an executive order."
"Trump's farcical directive aims to kill measures that protect endangered whales, prevent oil spills, and reduce the risk of a nuclear accident," said Hartl. "This chaotic administration is obviously desperate to smash through every environmental guardrail that protects people or preserves wildlife, but steps like this will be laughed out of court."
You absolutely just read that quote correctly; with the stroke of a pen Trump literally tried to wipe out five decades worth of laws like the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, the National Appliance Energy Conservation Act of 1987, and the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, by essentially demanding various departments of the government "sunset" environmental protection regulations and cease enforcing them by September 30th, 2025. Furthermore while absolutely none of this is legal, the government is once again asserting a rarely used procedural authority to try and expand its power to act unilaterally and in direct violation of the law.
"In a memo, the White House wrote that "in effectuating repeals of facially unlawful regulations, agency heads shall finalize rules without notice and comment, where doing so is consistent with the 'good cause' exception in the Administrative Procedure Act."
"That exception allows agencies to dispense with notice-and-comment rulemaking when that process would be 'impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest,'" said the White House."
As the article notes, it is shockingly disingenuous and absurd for the Trump regime to argue that regulations on air quality, fossil fuel production, environmental pollution control, and nuclear fucking waste are "contrary to the public interest." Unfortunately that really doesn't matter because once again it's clear that the public interest was never the point. The crass level of corruption and self-serving exercise of power the Klepto Kaiser regularly partakes in makes it obvious that this is all just a way to reward his capitalist donors without having to tolerate pushback from a public that cares very much about clean air to breath, clean water to drink, and a world on fire. Fascist is as fascist does I guess.
Will he get away with it? Well let's hope not; but at the intersection of Trump's emergency powers granted by invoking made up crises and the unorthodox weaponization of procedural rules towards purposes they were never intended for that we've seen the regime already employ, Der Leader has gotten away with an awful lot of fascist bullshit I for one thought was strictly illegal. Given that, I can't say I'm sleeping confidently at night over this.
-> Bloem sees a growing failure to confront their long term impact on the human brain. Evidence from the field is becoming harder to ignore. “It’s not that we don’t know enough. It’s that the system is not built to listen when the answers are inconvenient.”
Sometimes i believe that people prefer to live in ”don’t look up” mode & talk about climate change & genders, instead of managing real threats to humanity like these ones.
@politico
Vous pouvez apprendre ça par coeur :
L'indispensable David Graeber sur la façon dont le capitalisme est intrinsèquement, ontologiquement nocif et ne peut être réformé.
#Politique
#Capitalisme
#LeCapitalismeTue
#DavidGraeber
#Energie
#Environement
#Polution
#Ecologie
#LEcologieSansLutteDesClassesCestDuJardinage
The #UN shipping agency is on the cusp of introducing binding regulations to phase out fossil fuel use in global #shipping — with the world’s first-ever global #emissions levy on the table.
"It would be an absolute game-changer."
This would be absolutely incredible... but my first though with anything good these days is: "Now watch the #US and #Russia stand against it and kill this great thing for humanity"
The EPA needs to change its name to Extending Pollution Administration.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193631/trump-epa-cuts-lead-pipes-water
"By 2030, Coca-Cola products will account for an estimated 1.33 billion pounds (602,000 metric tonnes) of plastic waste entering the world's oceans and waterways each year, according to a stark new analysis published Wednesday by the nonprofit Oceana.
That's enough plastic to fill the stomachs of 18 million whales."
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-billion-pounds-coke-plastic-waterways.html
"Seven housing developments including two in the #London Borough of #Ealing have been identified as flushing foul water into West London's rivers including the River Brent." #polution #ThamesWater
ealing.news/environment/...
Two Ealing housing development...
Watch "'This story's hideous': Flats pushing raw #sewage directly into #Thames | LBC" on YouTube also mentioned the Brent and Crane #ealing #Twickenham #London #polution
youtu.be/r_qEjAdWpfg?...
'This story's hideous': Flats ...
Pollution volontaire aux métaux lourds à Manosque : Quelle Sécu rattrapera ça ?
https://www.initiative-communiste.fr/articles/luttes/pollution-volontaire-aux-metaux-lourds-a-manosque-quelle-secu-rattrapera-ca/
Alors que tout le monde s’inquiète de ne pas trouver un médecin ou un service d’urgence, que le mot d’ordre “vaut mieux ne pas tomber malade” devient un proverbe, surtout dans ce bassin Manosquin où le service d’urgences de l’hôpital local ferme régulièrement la nuit et le weekend par manque d’effectifs malgré la dure lutte […]
#Politique #2LutteDesClassesEtRenaissanceCommuniste #Articles #Eau #Écologie #Environnement #Manosque #Polution #Prcf04 #Privatisation #Santé #ServicesPublics
Did you know? Tasmanian salmon farms generate 6 times more pollution annually than the entire sewage output of Tasmania!
This shocking comparison highlights just how impactful salmon farming can be on our environment. Let's rethink sustainable practices for a healthier planet!
#Sustainability #Tasmania #SalmonFarming #EcoAwareness #MaugeanSkate #Exinct #Polution #JBSFoods