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

TROM II: Politicians vs Reality

Watch the entire documentary here - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/

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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 vegetables

^{Carey Gillam (The Guardian)}

Yeah, no....this is too fucking hot. You can feel a hot breeze of air outside as if the earth turned on the oven.

This is how streets look like in a small town while cloudy:

Imagine that most big cities are way worse and way hotter. Also imagine that instead of cars we had trees. It would make a massive difference. But our society is not built for humans, it is built for cars, stuff to consume, etc..

We know how to deal with the climate change, we know how to design better cities and create a paradise on earth for everyone. But there is no incentive to do so in a society where trade is the main driving force.

#TradeRuinsEverything #climatechange #weather #summer

TROM II: Mountains of Waste https://videos.trom.tf/w/2tA9iTuPGmDdTRZSNF4GoZ

#waste #pollution #climatechange #ewaste #capitalism #trade #TradeRuinsEverything

Tio

2024-04-17 18:36:06

TROM II: Mountains of Waste

Watch the entire documentary here - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/

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TROM II: A Message to the Aliens Year: 2023   /   Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.

^TROM

One is a billionaire who is selling all of his books, the other one is a quite-broke human who has the courage and decency to provide her book online for free. Trade-Free. No ads, no data collection, no subscribe-here-to-read bullshit.

That's the world in which we live. The ones who make a fortune are trained and incentivized to not even share their "must read" books for free, despite having so much wealth.

Oh look, Bill Gates released a book about "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster"! It must be important.... so it is worth 18$ to read.

Grab @Sasha 's book from here https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/book/ - she also talks a lot about Climate Change, solutions, and a new kind of worldview.

#gates #climatechange #capitalism #TradeRuinsEverything #climate #billionaires

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

2023 was the hottest year on record

#ClimateChange #FossilFuels #capitalism

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/09/2023-record-world-hottest-climate-fossil-fuel

2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin

Rapid reduction in fossil fuel burning urgently needed to preserve liveable conditions, say scientists, as climate damage deepens

^{Damian Carrington (The Guardian)}

‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show

Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak

#science #climatechange #ecocide #pollution #Guardian #journalism #fossilfuel

‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show

^{Oliver Milman (The Guardian)}

remember...

#electriccars #publictransport #climatecrisis #climatechange #cycling #bicycles

♲ Climate News Now - 2023-01-21 22:46:51 GMT

The True Extent of Global Warming Has Been Hidden, Scientists Warn.#climate #climatechange
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-true-extent-of-global-warming-has-been-hidden-scientists-warn

The True Extent of Global Warming Has Been Hidden, Scientists Warn.

#climate #climatechange
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-true-extent-of-global-warming-has-been-hidden-scientists-warn

The True Extent of Global Warming Has Been Hidden, Scientists Warn : ScienceAlert

Increasingly tempestuous winds have been sweeping dust from Earth's deserts into our air at an increasing rate since the mid-1800s.

^{Tessa Koumoundouros (ScienceAlert)}

One of the reasons I know individual action cannot tackle climate change is by comparing with littering. Littering could be solved by individual action, and yet it still requires collective action to keep any space clean.

#ClimateChange

Almost every day I've to drive past a high school or rather the parking lot of a high school. It's a wealthy area so most of the kids there get their own car at 16.
1 kid = 1 car.
Next block is a primary school with the same principle 1 kid = 1 pick-up car.
If I'm unlucky enough to be there around 3pm I've to witness one of the worst display of Human stupidity and selfishness where hundreds of kids and parents drive empty cars in the same directions.
How can I have any hope for the future when I see wealthy and I assume, educated people rejecting car pooling probably on the ground that it's child abuse to force kids to share a car or worst, use public transportation (the horror! /s).
Car culture is destroying not just the planet, it's destroying social solidarity.

#car #publictransport #school #america #ClimateChange

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

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

If I were king… I would make him king!

#Degrowth #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

Physicist John Tyndall is often credited w discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But Eunice Foote published a paper - 3yrs earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work. http://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-birthday-eunice-foote-hidden-climate-science-pioneer #history #science #ClimateChange

#Earth temperature timeline

https://xkcd.com/1732/
#ClimateChange #Klima #Klimawandel #xkcd

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

More than 90% of emperor penguin colonies are predicted to be all but extinct by the end of the century, as the continent's seasonal sea-ice withers in an ever-warming world.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophy #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66492767

Climate change: Thousands of penguins die in Antarctic ice breakup

Vast numbers of emperor penguin chicks drown as sea-ice melts and collapses underneath them.

^{By Jonathan Amos (BBC News)}