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Peel those apples: washing produce doesn’t remove pesticides, study finds.
A new scientific report lends weight to consumer concerns about pesticide residues on food, presenting fresh evidence that washing fruit before eating does not remove various toxic chemicals commonly used in agriculture. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/08/clean-fruit-vegetables-pesticides
Peel those apples: washing produce doesn’t remove pesticides, study finds
Another report found pesticide levels posing ‘significant risks’ in 20% of tested fruits and vegetablesCarey Gillam (The Guardian)
Need a brief and accessible explainer about the actual harms of AI?
Show folks this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVJ4JDM7eM
@thejuicemedia hitting it out of the park, yet again.
#ai #corporations #corporatocracy #billionaires #climateCrisis #BigTech #SiliconValley
Honest Government Ad | AI
The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative👉 Help us keep Government...YouTube
The Oligarchy has made a joke of the legal system when protesting #MassDeath from #ClimateBreakdown is treated more harshly than crimes like intentionally lying about #ClimateCrisis or hiding evidence of toxic chemical harm.
They are killing people and locking up protestors does not mean they can lock up the truth.
We will continue to be on the streets demanding justice and demanding oil companies stop spiraling us toward death.
Solidarity!
If your Cyberpunk world does not have an energy crisis, it's not punk, it's just sparkling neonliberalism.
Here is a thing I wrote in 2018:
https://www.artstation.com/efflam/blog/8eLL/your-2050-dystopia-is-weirdly-optimistic
#cyberpunk #ClimateCrisis #energyTransition #solarpunk #futurism #hopium
Revealed: Saudi Arabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil
Climate scientists say fossil fuel use needs to fall rapidly – but oil-rich kingdom is working to drive up demandDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
Do the right thing.
It may not always be clear at first what the right thing is. For example, recycling is fairly easy but accomplishes much less than something more difficult such as changing your diet or giving up your car.
Learn the differences, and do the right thing. 🤗
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #WarOnCars #BanCars
Today a record-breaking 85,000+ people joined the #klimaatmars in Amsterdam! Among them were 200+ scientists who also refuse to remain silent.
The science is clear, and so are the demands of those who showed up today: we need immediate climate action!
Apparently «global #solar panel prices have collapsed due to a wave of new Asian production capacity in recent months» and we're supposed to believe this is a bad thing.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-solar-panel-manufacturing-boom-threatened-by-cheap-imports-2023-11-03/
#renewables #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #IRA
Insight: US solar panel manufacturing boom threatened by cheap imports
U.S. companies have announced plans to build dozens of solar panel factories across the country since last year when President Joe Biden’s signature climate law unleashed billions of dollars of subsidies, raising hopes a clean energy boom can provide…Nichola Groom (Reuters)
This is a tough story and what it doesn't point out (again, normalizing this) is our #CarCulture.
How much of her monthly bills go towards a car (which is the unexpected expense causing her financial difficulty at the moment).
Corrupt politicians of former eras locked us into a built form that enslaves us to the car, ensuring roughly 1/3 of our incomes go towards car makers and oil and gas companies.
Current politicians are in no hurry to break us free from this enslavement to car maker profits. Articles like this don't point out how messed up this is. It simply normalizes a single industry taking a huge chunk of our money as the way of life.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/she-worked-full-time-and-after-monthly-bills-there-was-9-left-for-food-1.7007539
#MediaBias
#MediaIsFailingUs
#ClimateChange
#ClimateCrisis
Greta Thunberg detained at Fossil Free London protest
The Swedish climate campaigner was with other activists at a protest outside a central London hotel.By Yasmin Rufo (BBC News)
“Net Zero by 2050" Get the Joke? - Lannie Rose - Medium
We insiders—by which I mean anyone paying attention — know that the plan to mitigate the climate catastrophe with Net Zero by 2050 is complete bullshit. But maybe you’ve absorbed the knowledge…Lannie Rose (Medium)
Scientists who participated in the March to #EndFossilFuels were arrested today while shutting down the Federal Reserve, demanding they stop funding fossil fuel! 120 were arrested in total
#DefundClimateChaos
Hear from the scientists arrested:
"Police should arrest the leadership of the Federal Reserve: They are the real criminals! By funding the expansion of fossil fuel extraction, the scientific evidence predicts millions will die in catastrophic climate disasters." -Glenn Wilkie, Green Power Systems Engineer
"We are in a climate emergency. And we should act like it. By putting our bodies on the line today, we hope to disrupt business as usual and compel our politicians to stop their greenwashing and start acting with urgency now to save the home we all share." -Ali Hadjarian, PhD
#scientistrebellion #SR
#climatecrisis #actnow #endfossilfuels
Scientist Rebellion on LinkedIn: Climate activists protesting the Federal Reserve's fossil fuel investments
BREAKING: Scientists who participated in the March to #EndFossilFuels were arrested today while shutting down the Federal Reserve, demanding they stop funding…Scientist Rebellion (www.linkedin.com)
This is not planet Earth as we found it. The world we’ve known all our lives is vanishing in front of our eyes.
Human civilization was built upon the certainty of a stable, predictable climate allowing consistently reliable agriculture producing decade after decade of steady economic growth and allowing huge, thriving coastal cities.
But now we're seeing what happens when human industry pumps a *trillion* tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in only a few decades, when we warm the oceans to levels never seen before, and when we threaten the survival of everything that makes our lives possible.
The past is gone. Continue to hope and work for the best, but *prepare* for the worst.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #CO2 #Emissions
That a Western democracy uses mass repression against climate activists is not the an aberration of the democratic principle but the fullest conclusion of it. Democracy emerged at a specific historical context contingent on the development of the capitalist mode of production and of the exploitation of fossil fuels to fuel the valorization process. Within this specific historical context, we cannot expect democracy to do any different. #ClimateCrisis #Democracy
Dutch police use water cannon, detain 2,400 climate activists
More than 10,000 people marched along the A12 highway into The Hague, ignoring warnings from authorities not to do so.Al Jazeera
🔥 🌍 The climate crisis is not a technical problem to be fixed by engineers, but a predicament we all have to face. This interactive flowchart by Andrew Boyd and Jona Pomerance is an invitation to hear the impossible news and navigate the implications:
👉 https://flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com
Please, give it a go, share your feedback and pass it on! It is an experimental prototype: We are curious to hear what you think.
#BetterCatastrophe #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #DataVis #Storytelling #InterfaceDesign
I Want a Better Catastrophe · Flowchart
A flowchart for navigating our climate predicamentflowchart.bettercatastrophe.com
Cyclists! Pesky buggers - using no fuel, needing no WOF's, getting fitter, not going excessively fast on motorways, not ploughing into front rooms or bedrooms whilst people sleep... sheesh! How dare they?!
#ClimateCrisis #NewZealand #Aotearoa #EditorialCartoon #PoliticalCartoon #Cyclist #Pollution
TROM
This project argues that trade is the origin of most problems: from climate change to slavery, waste and pollution, corruption, crime, you name it. And if we understand the cause, we have a chance to come up with realistic solutions.videos.trom.tf
In what is already one of the most expensive states in the US, the #climate emergency is driving up the cost of living. Extreme #weather, #drought and drastic swings in temperature, all fueled by global heating, are affecting utility costs and #insurance premiums, exacerbating housing shortages and causing food prices to go up.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/21/climate-crisis-cost-of-living-energy-water-california #climatechange
‘We can’t escape’: climate crisis is driving up cost of living in the US west
Extreme weather, fueled by global heating, is affecting energy, water, insurance premiums and food and housing costsMaanvi Singh (The Guardian)
When the seas are boiling and the sky is on fire, don't come crawling to science looking for help.
#Science has tried to help us for decades. Science saw this coming, crafted solutions, and shouted them from the rooftops. Those in power did not listen.
So, go pick a god and pray to it.
Appeal to the Kardashians.
Maybe Lebron James or Elon Musk will help.
Perhaps a podcast will intervene and save us,
#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #HeatWave
Global warming? We have solar, wind, and battery technology that could replace everything. We just refuse to because of vested societal interests. Covid and its long-term threats? We could end it with masking and a determined effort to change interior ventilation in public spaces. We don't because of, again, vested interests of the wealthy. It's tempting to refer to this as capitalism but the same is true of every major society on Earth, no matter what its ideology is.
No past society has this excuse. When they were destroyed by plague or natural disaster, they really didn't know how to solve the problem. We do.
#ClimateCrisis #Covid
James Hansen, who testified to #Congress on #globalwarmng in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new #climate frontier’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/19/climate-crisis-james-hansen-scientist-warning #climatechange #climatecrisis
Things we talked about in 1999 as being detectable by 2100, are easily found now in 2023 and have been for years!
‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come
James Hansen, who testified to Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a ‘new climate frontier’Oliver Milman (The Guardian)
In pictures: South America's 'lithium fields' reveal the dark side of our electric future
Demand for lithium-ion batteries is unprecedented - but is mining the chemical harmful to the environment?Maeve Campbell (Euronews.com)
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice
…of billionaires to wreck a planet.
They don’t need to have a majority, or anything even close to a plurality. All it takes is a few thousand sociopathic billionaires — the population of a village — to take full control of everything and then completely ruin our livable biosphere while further enriching themselves.
The scale on the image below is NOT exaggerated. In less than two centuries, and especially just within the last 30 years, capitalist oligarchs have burned so much coal, oil, and gas that our climate system simply can’t handle it.
It’s almost out of control now. But the people who are to blame have names and addresses.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism #CO2 #Emissions #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice
Image source — http://climateemergencydeclaration.org/climatemessaging/
Making the case for emergency climate action - Climate Emergency Declaration
By Jane Morton As climate catastrophe looms ever closer, some opinion leaders still hold fast to the view that we must not mention the seriousness of our plight for fear of demoralising people.Mik Aidt (Climate Emergency Declaration)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/03/a-perfect-storm-scientists-ponder-if-climate-has-entered-a-new-erratic-era
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
Will El Niño on top of global heating create the perfect climate storm?
Rising temperatures in north Atlantic and drop in Antarctic sea ice prompt fears of widespread damage from extreme weatherJonathan Watts (The Guardian)
Global warming surged in past decade, research says
Human-induced warming was rising at an "unprecedented" rate, new research has again shown. Meanwhile, a look at various countries' commitment to their net-zero plans showed most polluters were lagging behind.Deutsche Welle
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/what-are-effects-climate-change
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
What Are the Effects of Climate Change?
A rapidly warming planet poses an existential threat to all life on earth. Just how bad it gets depends on how quickly we act.www.nrdc.org
Please boost to increase sample size.
#ClimateChange
#ClimateCrisis
#climate
- 47 to 50C (23%, 293 votes)
- 45 to 46C (17%, 215 votes)
- 40 to 44C (45%, 570 votes)
- 35 to 39C (14%, 179 votes)
Fossil fuels are impoverishing us
IPCC released another climate report. How dire a warning must there be for us to do something about global climate change?cayala (The Hill)
World needs to offer trillions, not billions in overseas support
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/18/countries-are-drowning-climate-expert-calls-for-urgent-rethink-on-scale-of-aid-for-developing-world
#ClimateChange #deforestation #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #wildlife #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #pollution #mangrove #news #biodiversity #earth
‘Countries are drowning’: climate expert calls for urgent rethink on scale of aid for developing world
World needs to offer trillions, not billions in overseas support, says leading climate economist Avinash PersaudFiona Harvey (The Guardian)
Why only Degrowth Will Save The World - The New Climate. - Medium
Scientists reckon that the earth can handle a total material footprint of around 50 billion tonnes per year, and today we have exceeded this twice over. At a 1-degree rise in global temperatures, we…Notes from the Understory (The New Climate.)
Prioritize Earth.
Take climate action now.
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to our beautiful 🌎
#earthdayeveryday #planetearth #climateaction #climatechange #climatecrisis #sustainability #marssucks #savetheplanet #socialimpact #esg #brandpurpose
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‘It’s like a death pit’
How Ghana became fast fashion’s dumping ground
https://archive.is/lC6Na#selection-913.0-913.71
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Pollution
I was planning to suggest that you reserve your space early for this event, but it's already sold out, almost instantly. Well, maybe they could arrange to stream the proceedings so that others can virtually attend?
Sunday, 13 August
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Greta Thunberg -- Special Event
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GretaThunberg
https://www.eif.co.uk/events/edinburgh-international-book-festival-greta-thunberg
Edinburgh International Festival
Edinburgh International Festival. Discover the best artists from opera, music, theatre & dance on the world’s greatest stage. 4-27 August 2023.Edinburgh International Festival