The Caldeirão Verde waterfall during a really heavy downpour, which was probably one of the most tropically impressive views in Madeira, Portugal. 🇵🇹 This waterfall is 100 meters high, and the water flows into a huge basin. My entire photo equipment was totally soaked, miraculously nothing was damaged!
Just in case you weren't sure quite how far climate change has already gone, the EU climate monitoring service notes that for the 11th month running last month (April) was the hottest on record.
As Hayley Fowler, (NewcastleU), asks:
'At what point do we declare we've lost the battle to keep temperatures below 1.5? ... [I think] we've already lost that battle & we really need to think very seriously about keeping below 2C & reducing our emissions as fast as we can'!
@bobjmsn I remember my grandfather telling me that his father never went more than five miles away from his home in his entire life, because that was a day's walk and back. And my grandfather said that with a bike he could get a whole ten miles and back in a single day.
Then he bought a car in his 40s. And then he could go 40/50 miles. And I own a car, and can go a hundred miles, or even jump a plane and go thousands if I want.
I'm not going back to bike or foot travel. Not voting #Green.
To actually accomplish a green transition we (the world) needs to spend around $9 trillion a year.... well that's just not affordable, say climate sceptics.
You might say that, but lets have a look at the money we were prepared to pony up to deal with the pandemic.
While a more focused threat & certainly causing some fiscal issues, when required the money can be found.
(Don't get me started on fossil fuels subsidies!)
So its not the money stopping the green transition!
Nothing special, but I like the neon highlights of the refracted light and the noise, which looks like high iso but it's just water mist from the waterfall - The Lagoa do Vento Waterfall (Levada das 25 Fontes) Madeira, Portugal 🇵🇹
There are few things in the world as green as newly unfurled beech leaves in Spring. This was the scene I found myself immersed in at Dawsholm Park in the West of Glasgow during yesterday's morning dog walk.
Between 2015-21, Alberta (Canada), to 'encourage' Shell's investment in the province, allowed the Oil company to register (and sell!) double the amount of carbon credits related to avoided emissions at it's facility in the province;
Dignified as a 'subsidy', but effectively allowing 'phantom' carbon credits to be used to off-set real emissions through the market for carbon credits.
Thus more emissions legitimated & a juicy profit for Shell. Another scam!
As with so many things in Britain, the green transition in housing is hampered by infrastructure under-investment - we (the country) have been living in a short-term present driven by the electoral cycle & a lack of vision in our political class.... and its now come round to bite us in the bum.
Only when we start to think strategically (not tactically) about our political economic problems will we be able to engineer better solutions!
Abalone shells are really something special. Each piece is one of a kind and I did the beading work to fit their blue green, golden and purple stunning nature. Find yours on the little shop etsy shop: https://genderlessbyskaly.etsy.com
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Green is fresh and lively. It's scientifically proven we're naturally programmed to be happier in green environments. In urban areas green pops so much, like we just crave the sight of it. And in nature, it harmonically fits the environment.
Find your carefully crafted and composed green handmade works here, all 50 percent off my shop for a limited time: https://genderlessbyskaly.etsy.com