“In a drastic attempt to protect their beachfront homes, residents in Salisbury, Massachusetts, invested $500,000 in a sand dune to defend against encroaching tides. After being completed last week, the barrier made from 14,000 tons of sand lasted just 72 hours before it was completely washed away”
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In case anyone’s not too sure.. this is what a 'spring lawn' is supposed to look like.
Breakdown:
• No irritating lawn-mower lines.
• A multitude of flowers.
• Lawn-mower rests, unperturbed in garden shed.
• No Louis X1V - 'rules over nature'.
• No walking up and down for hours, making a really annoying, loud noise and irritating the neighbours.
• Just peace, quiet and LOTS of bees.
#Nature #NoMowMarch #NoMowApril #ClimateDiary #Climat #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #WildLife #Insects #Bees
I visited a regenerative farm this week. Seeing a field of cowslips again took me back in time. They were once common place, now seeing them feels extraordinary.
A mix of 17 green manures in a mob grazed herbal ley is the way to boost soil biodiversity and provide nutrition for the cash crops to follow. They have dung beetles back again on their land. #RegenerativeAgriculture #ClimateDiary #RegenAg #SoilBiology #Biodiversity
'“It’s fucking awful,” the softly spoken scientist says, emerging from the ocean. “They said the bleaching was extensive and uniform. They didn’t say it was extensive, uniform and fucking awful.
“It’s a graveyard out there.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/01/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-crisis
Great, another source of emissions that has been underestimated.
The US obviously tops the charts, but other notable mentions are China, Australia and Norway.
Direct link to study: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad3a7d
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #climate #aviation #USA #China #Australia #Norway
#ClimateDiary A short 🧵 on why #Gaza is, and should be, a concern for the climate movement. I know the vast majority of you lovely people on here do see the connection, but just in case some of you don't, I wanted to briefly outline this. For me, there are four separate, key reasons why Gaza is not a "distraction"; why all climate activists should speak out on it. #ClimateAction 1/5
“Stop the boats” they say.
“Stop the people coming in” says Police and Crime Commissioner Donna Jones.
“Something something borders” says centre-right OpEd.
But NEVER…
“Stop extracting trillions of dollars every year from people whose lands we are turning into dust and broadcasting to them exactly how we are using the wealth we stole from them to turn our own prospects into dust just a bit slower”