As the Great Salt Lake in Utah shrinks, locals are working to preserve its critical brine shrimp fishery—along with the other entities that flourish in the lake’s strange, saline beauty.
‘These birds are telling us something serious is happening’: the songbirds disappearing from Britain’s woods. More than 70 million birds have disappeared from the UK’s skies since 1970.” The canaries in our mine. #environment
@vaskaraeca Ecocide penalties are a joke to these corporations. They consider these penalties just a cost of being able to keep doing their mass crimes against humanity & environment. Until some of these criminals actually do serve prison time - I don't expect this to change much.
In Canada, ecocidal corps often declare bankruptcy to avoid paying for cleanup & legal costs. Then pop back up, under new corp names & govt continues to take their lobbyist bribes & giving them new permits. CORRUPT.
"Livestock farming ranks with the fossil fuel industry as one of the two most destructive industries on Earth. But because of those farmyard tales, reinforced by stories we’re told as adults in endless books & films celebrating the pastoral, we apply entirely different standards to it. Parts of this film could be clipped & used as advertisements for the most damaging of all livestock products: beef."
@junesim63
I’ve boosted this despite farming cows and pigs myself. We’re not going to make lasting environmental progress or improve land management if we can’t have a serious and truthful discussion about farming and its place in wider ecological and social issues.
George always comes off as grumpy, but usually with good reason.
Water at the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge, one of the few coastal salt marshes on the island of Maui, has been bright pink since at least October 30.
"Concrete is the second-most-used product on Earth, aside from water. Cement makes up 10-15% of concrete by volume, but accounts for 88% of concrete’s considerable emissions. Manufacturing one ton of cement emits nearly one ton of carbon dioxide."
"Fortera intercepts carbon dioxide exhaust from the kilns where cement is made and routes it back in to make additional cement. In its first effort at commercial scale, the technology is being added to a CalPortland facility in Redding, California, one of the largest cement plants in the western U.S."
"More than 200 chemical plants across the country will be required to curb the toxic pollutants they release into the air under a regulation announced by the Biden administration on Tuesday.
The regulation is aimed at reducing the risk of cancer for people living near industrial sites. This is the first time in nearly two decades that the government has tightened limits on pollution from chemical plants."
I really like this perspective by @pvonhellermannn. You have a deeper connection with the natural #environment near to you then you will ever have to a billionaire.
I would like to add:
Vote accordingly.
[This goes along the same line as you are close to the gutter than becoming a millionaire]
