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This title is metaphorical but incident is fairly recent. As an example of restoring and maintaining a better environment, this seems hopeful.

Not Zen: Not Even Not Zen 370: Biomythography - Note 108: Werewolves of Bethesdahttps://www.notzen.net/2024/10/not-even-not-zen-370-biomythography.html
#environment #wolf #coywolf #coyote #notzen #mywork

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This Lake Looked Perfect... Then I Went Underwater... https://videos.trom.tf/w/jwxtZ1TefizwzotvJ2cJ2q

@Dima continues to be brave to act. Maybe he will inspire some of you! Great job Dima! And yes, shocking to see how much garbage is hidden beneath the water...

#environment #pollution #diving #plastic #waste



TROM II: Politicians vs Reality - https://videos.trom.tf/w/2nrAPGm3kRQbTSszdHtjcH

Let's put their promises face to face with reality.

#politics #climatechange #climate #capitalism #trade #money #environment


Help defend the Sea Shepherd, as he defends our seas.

https://www.paulwatsonfoundation.org/freepaulwatson/

#whales #environment


Just a few evolved apes that have learned to go to the toilet but don't even manage to maintain their own habitat.


#ape #earth #quote #future #environment #nature #pollution #apocalypse #humanity #Problem #capitalism #fail #Intelligence #climate


#Desert city of #Dubai #floods as heaviest #rainfall in 75 years hits #UAE


source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/dubai-floods-uae-rainfall-weather-forecast

#Rain is unusual in the UAE but occurs periodically during the cooler winter months.


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#weather #climate #environment #earth #news #disaster



I don't like to say it but in Malaysia I felt like I was breathing again. I felt like things were made for Human life.
Here in the States it feels like our environment is never about making our lives easier (and certainly not better).
It's aggressive. It's hostile.

I didn't leave the States for 10 years and now I almost wish I hadn't because I had forgotten what it was like not just being able to walk everywhere in a city but actually enjoying walking in a city.

I don't regret moving to the States.
As a trans non-binary person this is still the best place to be even with all the hatred we face.
But it's also one of the most dehumanizing living environment I've ever seen.

#WalkableCities #environment #Urbanism #Green #city #lifestyle #cars #PublicTransport #USA


Title: Unequal Outcomes 
Description: Nations with large gaps between rich and poor tend to have worse health statistics, more violence, and worse pollution than do more equal countries.

Plot graph comparing differences between 22 different countries. Y-axis is an index of health, social, and environmental problems. X-axis is income inequality. The United States is the greatest outlier, performing badly in both measures. At the opposite end are mostly Scandinavian countries.


MAN 2020


An update to my original film 'Man': https://youtu.be/WfGMYdalClU

Music: In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg.

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Global #warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year for the first time.


source: https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/worlds-first-year-long-breach-limit/

This year-long breach does not mean that the world has broken the #Paris #Climate #Agreement #limit, but it does bring it closer to doing so in the longer term. The 1.5C limit is a legally binding 2015 treaty with 195 signatories to set out a path for dealing with climate change.


#environment #news #fail #temperature #future #co2 #emissions #greenhouseEffect #earth


Now TROMnews has categories for the news to make it a lot easier to sort through them.

The homepage also got a bit of a rework for the News section:

TROMnews is now far better than it was before. If you'd like to support this work please consider helping us here https://www.tromsite.com/donate/

#tromlive #news #science #environment #climatechange #tech #foss


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

Graphic is titled: "Carbon Footprint Misconceptions." It lists eight actions that we as consumers might take in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint, and shows that some of those actions that we might think will make a high impact actually will not, such as recycling, whereas other actions, such as not having a car, will save greatly on emissions.


Our capitalist rulers, and the politicians they own, are playing the long game. Since the 1950s they have been working steadily to shift the Overton window, to reduce the influence of labor unions, to boost consumerism, and to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few.

A large part of that strategy involves privatizing services that used to be (and should be) public.

They're playing the long game, and they are winning — much to the detriment of you and me and the environment we live in.

#Politics #Capitalism #Environment

Cartoon image of a man pushing over the first in a series of human-size dominoes. The dominoes are arranged in a circle and gradually grow in the size, until at the end the final domino is about three times as tall as the man and will fall to crush him. TITLE: How to destroy public services, a step-by-step guide. The steps are: 1) Reduce the budget of public services; 2) Elimination of positions in public services, because the budget has been reduced; 3) Complain about the decline in quality and efficiency of public services; 4) Claim that the degradation of public services is proof of government inefficiency, and so privatization is needed; 5) Privatize.


Expedia CEO Peter Kern has led the online travel agency for three years, from its pandemic nadir to the post-COVID surge in travel. With that experience, one trend he says he doesn’t see changing anytime soon is people traveling like there’s no tomorrow. What’s more, he says, people talk a good talk about climate change angst but are not modifying their behavior much

https://fortune.com/2023/10/06/expedia-ceo-travel-climate-change-rewards/

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate


Message posted by Corporate Accountability and the Institute for Policy Studies. 

Message says: "Net Zero is Fake Zero. We need real emissions reductions, not gimmicks and false promises."


The priority should therefore not be to replace every car with its electric equivalent but rather to rethink mobility in general

It’s true that fully electric vehicles do not emit waste products but the batteries that supply energy to the vehicle are made of minerals like lithium and cobalt which have an impact on climate change.

And those mines have incredible environmental and health impacts in the places that they exist

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/09/17/why-tech-companies-are-wrong-to-think-electric-cars-are-a-solution-to-climate-change

#pollution #ecology #environment #climate


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

Line graph shows levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide over the past 800,000 years. After a steady and predictable range of ups and downs, suddenly in the past century the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere shot off the charts.



Flames engulf a house as a wildfire burns in Saronida, near Athens, Greece, on Monday.


Quoting because I don't think I can get to them and the rest of the conversation is important. Saying "WE are consuming the oil" is technically correct as no other species on Earth has figured out how to do it, but this observation and four quarters gives you a full dollar.

Ultimately people use what is affordable for them, including availability and cost. Using alternatives to fossil fuels is currently more expensive, whether in research, time or straight up money. There are several reasons for this, subsidies and marketing playing no small part, but boiling this question down to personal responsibility is either ignorant of the larger picture or incredibly privileged as in "if I could do it, anybody else can easily do it".

#Environment #Ecology #ClimateChange #FossilFuels


Sure, I am aware of the greenwashing and B.S.
But as I say WE are consuming the oil.
@doctormo



"#Portugal has signed an agreement to swap #CapeVerde's debt for investments in an environmental and climate fund that is being established by the archipelago nation off West #Africa's coast... Such "debt-for-nature" swap deals are emerging in other countries and are part of attempts to resolve a dilemma faced by world leaders on how and who will foot the bill for actions taken to reduce the impact of #ClimateChange

#Portugal #CapeVerde #environment #debt #ClimateAction

https://youtu.be/bTkMMbz_n8Y


It takes a village…

…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/
Graphic shows average global temperature from 20,000 BC until the present, then extended until 2100. Also indicated are the safe climate temperature zone, the rise of human civilization, the start of the industrial revolution, and the extreme temperature danger zones that we will reach before 2050 and before 2100 if current policies are not changed.


Line graph shows average world temperatures from 1979 until today, with 2023 trending far above the average, now into record territory.
Graph shows "monthly global sea surface temperature departure from 20th century average." The trend is steadily upward from 1900 until 2023, with a new record in June of this year


“If a few decades ago, some people might have thought climate change was a relatively slow-moving phenomenon, we are now witnessing our climate changing at a terrifying rate,” says Professor Peter Stott, who leads the UK Met Office’s climate monitoring team. “As the El Niño builds through the rest of this year, adding an extra oomph to the damaging effects of human-induced global heating, many millions of people across the planet and many diverse ecosystems are going to face extraordinary challenges and unfortunately suffer great damage.”

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


Chart showing "Monthly averages of atmospheric CO2 as recorded at Mauna Loa in Hawaii."

Amounts of CO2 rapidly climb from ~325 ppm in 1960 to ~418 ppm in 2020. 

Graphic also notes when various meetings were held and agreements were made to limit or reduce carbon emissions. None of this has had any effect.