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<p>🐧🌙 In <a href="/tags/iceland/" rel="tag">#Iceland</a>&#x27;s Westman Islands, entire families stay up all night during &quot;puffling season&quot; to rescue baby <a href="/tags/puffins/" rel="tag">#puffins</a> confused by town lights.</p><p>This century-old <a href="/tags/tradition/" rel="tag">#tradition</a> saves up to 7,000 pufflings each <a href="/tags/summer/" rel="tag">#summer</a>. Light <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#pollution</a> disrupts the natural navigation that guides these young <a href="/tags/birds/" rel="tag">#birds</a> to sea, so the community collects lost birds in cardboard boxes and releases them from clifftops.<br> <br>👉 Learn more: <a href="https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/puffling-patrol-wild-hope-vestmannaeyjar-iceland?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=new_content&amp;utm_content=puffling_patrol" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thekidshouldseethis.com/post/puffling-patrol-wild-hope-vestmannaeyjar-iceland?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=new_content&amp;utm_content=puffling_patrol"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thekidshouldseethis.com/post/p</span><span class="invisible">uffling-patrol-wild-hope-vestmannaeyjar-iceland?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=new_content&amp;utm_content=puffling_patrol</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/tksst/" rel="tag">#tksst</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/animals/" rel="tag">#animals</a> <a href="/tags/babies/" rel="tag">#babies</a> <a href="/tags/biology/" rel="tag">#biology</a> <a href="/tags/conservation/" rel="tag">#conservation</a> <a href="/tags/kids/" rel="tag">#kids</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/tire/" rel="tag">#Tire</a> Makers Say They’re Not Liable for Waterway <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> Because It Takes Years<br>Multiple states have asked the <a href="/tags/epa/" rel="tag">#EPA</a> to ban a <a href="/tags/chemical/" rel="tag">#chemical</a> in tires that has been found to kill wild salmon. <a href="https://www.thedrive.com/news/tire-makers-say-theyre-not-liable-for-waterway-pollution-because-it-takes-years" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.thedrive.com/news/tire-makers-say-theyre-not-liable-for-waterway-pollution-because-it-takes-years"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.thedrive.com/news/tire-mak</span><span class="invisible">ers-say-theyre-not-liable-for-waterway-pollution-because-it-takes-years</span></a></p>

<p>《An estimated 92% of the world’s population lives in areas where air pollution exceeds safety limits, according to the World Health Organization》</p><p><a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/airpollution/" rel="tag">#AirPollution</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/who/" rel="tag">#WHO</a> <a href="/tags/capitalism/" rel="tag">#Capitalism</a> <a href="/tags/hypocrisy/" rel="tag">#Hypocrisy</a> <a href="/tags/corruption/" rel="tag">#Corruption</a> <a href="/tags/corporategreed/" rel="tag">#CorporateGreed</a></p><p><a href="https://www.weforum.org/stories/2016/09/92-of-the-world-s-population-lives-in-areas-with-unsafe-air-pollution-levels-this-interactive-map-shows-just-how-bad-the-problem-is/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.weforum.org/stories/2016/09/92-of-the-world-s-population-lives-in-areas-with-unsafe-air-pollution-levels-this-interactive-map-shows-just-how-bad-the-problem-is/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.weforum.org/stories/2016/0</span><span class="invisible">9/92-of-the-world-s-population-lives-in-areas-with-unsafe-air-pollution-levels-this-interactive-map-shows-just-how-bad-the-problem-is/</span></a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/epa/" rel="tag">#EPA</a> tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say<br>
Staff from the EPA’s Office of <a href="/tags/water/" rel="tag">#Water</a> were summoned to a “town hall” meeting this week &amp; told to pause the publication of most <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#research</a>, pending a review.</p><p><a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#pollution</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/environmentallaw/" rel="tag">#EnvironmentalLaw</a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/09/20/epa-scientists-research-publications/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/09/20/epa-scientists-research-publications/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.washingtonpost.com/climate</span><span class="invisible">-environment/2025/09/20/epa-scientists-research-publications/</span></a></p>

<p>Are you old enough, like me, to remember the Exxon Valdez catastrophe, a disastrous oil spill off the coast of Alaska in 1989?</p><p>Here&#x27;s some important info about that event from Greg Palast...<br>________________________</p><p>&quot;Don’t Buy Exxon’s Fable of the Drunken Captain&quot;</p><p>The true cause of the Exxon Valdez catastrophe was the oil giant breaking their promises, cynically and disastrously, in the 15 years leading up to the spill.</p><p>As for Captain Joe Hazelwood, he was below decks, sleeping off his bender. At the helm, the third mate would never have collided with Bligh Reef had he looked at his Raycas radar. </p><p>But the radar was not turned on. In fact, the tanker’s radar was left broken and disabled for more than a year before the disaster, and Exxon management knew it. It was just too expensive to fix and operate.</p><p>Today, three decades after the oil washed over the Alaskan beaches, you can kick over a rock and it will smell like an old gas station.</p><p>The Fable of the Drunken Captain serves the oil industry well. It falsely presents America’s greatest environmental disaster as a tale of human frailty, a one-time accident. But broken radar, missing equipment, phantom spill teams, faked tests — the profit-driven disregard of the law — made the spill an inevitability, not an accident.<br>________________________</p><p>FULL ARTICLE -- <a href="https://www.gregpalast.com/dont-buy-exxons-fable-of-the-drunken-captain-2/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gregpalast.com/dont-buy-exxons-fable-of-the-drunken-captain-2/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gregpalast.com/dont-buy-ex</span><span class="invisible">xons-fable-of-the-drunken-captain-2/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/capitalism/" rel="tag">#Capitalism</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a></p>

<p>Latest comic on microplastics and PFAS getting into food. Yum!</p><p><a href="/tags/food/" rel="tag">#food</a> <a href="/tags/cartoon/" rel="tag">#cartoon</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#pollution</a> <a href="/tags/pfas/" rel="tag">#pfas</a> <a href="/tags/farming/" rel="tag">#farming</a> <a href="/tags/gardening/" rel="tag">#gardening</a></p>

<p>The <a href="/tags/epa/" rel="tag">#EPA</a> Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked.<br>==</p><p>Despite years of air monitoring, inspections and millions in penalties for petrochemical plants, the air in Calvert City, <a href="/tags/kentucky/" rel="tag">#Kentucky</a>, remains polluted. </p><p>The EPA’s inability to fix it is an indictment of the laws governing clean air, experts say.</p><p><a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> <a href="/tags/cleanair/" rel="tag">#CleanAir</a> <a href="/tags/cleanwater/" rel="tag">#CleanWater</a> <a href="/tags/cancer/" rel="tag">#Cancer</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/calvert-city-kentucky-epa-pollution-westlake-sacrifice-zones?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/calvert-city-kentucky-epa-pollution-westlake-sacrifice-zones?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/cal</span><span class="invisible">vert-city-kentucky-epa-pollution-westlake-sacrifice-zones?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p>

<p>Question for the geezers here:</p><p>What materials do you remember seeing food, drink, and other things packaged in before mylar and other plastics took over?</p><p>Would you start buy things packaged in more sustainable old methods if it were more widely available, even if it cost a few cents more? <a href="/tags/sustainability/" rel="tag">#Sustainability</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a></p>

<p>‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue <a href="/tags/coal/" rel="tag">#Coal</a></p><p>The Trump admin on Monday outlined a coordinated plan to revive the mining &amp; burning of coal, the largest contributor to <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> worldwide.</p><p>The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of <a href="/tags/federal/" rel="tag">#federal</a> <a href="/tags/land/" rel="tag">#land</a> for <a href="/tags/mining/" rel="tag">#mining</a> &amp; eliminating <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#pollution</a> limits, aims to save an industry that has been declining for decades.</p><p><a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/climate/trump-coal-revival.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/climate/trump-coal-revival.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/cli</span><span class="invisible">mate/trump-coal-revival.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>

<p>The <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> Is <a href="/tags/shutdown/" rel="tag">#ShutDown</a>. But Not for <a href="/tags/fossilfuels/" rel="tag">#FossilFuels</a>.</p><p>Federal workers who issue permits for oil, <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#gas</a> &amp; <a href="/tags/mining/" rel="tag">#mining</a> operations are on the job, along with those working to repeal <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#pollution</a> limits.</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/environmentallaw/" rel="tag">#EnvironmentalLaw</a> <a href="/tags/regulations/" rel="tag">#regulations</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/climate/trump-government-shutdown-energy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/climate/trump-government-shutdown-energy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/cli</span><span class="invisible">mate/trump-government-shutdown-energy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>

<p>Reading this🧵? Your blood probably contains some amount of toxic <a href="/tags/foreverchemicals/" rel="tag">#foreverchemicals</a> made by <a href="/tags/3m/" rel="tag">#3m</a> </p><p>Enough to spike your risk of cancers &amp; illnesses? </p><p>Without a blood test, you have no idea.</p><p>Why is their toxin running in your veins?</p><p>Well, 3M &amp; <a href="/tags/dupont/" rel="tag">#dupont</a> kept the harms secret even as their toxins were incorporated into...everything.</p><p>From french fry bags to chairs.</p><p>They gaslit their own scientists.</p><p>&amp; regularly dumped, creating toxic zones. 1/</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/3m-</span><span class="invisible">forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#pollution</a></p>

<p>THE BEAUTIFUL RIVER: A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE OHIO RIVER</p><p>This new book from one of our editors documents the history, industry and pollution of the Ohio River. </p><p><a href="/tags/ohio/" rel="tag">#Ohio</a> <a href="/tags/pittsburgh/" rel="tag">#Pittsburgh</a> <a href="/tags/cincinnati/" rel="tag">#Cincinnati</a> <a href="/tags/ohioriver/" rel="tag">#OhioRiver</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#Author</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/illinois/" rel="tag">#Illinois</a> <a href="/tags/conservation/" rel="tag">#Conservation</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-River-Complete-History-Ohio/dp/B0D6N46CG2/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.amazon.com/Beautiful-River-Complete-History-Ohio/dp/B0D6N46CG2/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.amazon.com/Beautiful-River</span><span class="invisible">-Complete-History-Ohio/dp/B0D6N46CG2/</span></a></p>

<p>Parkinson&#x27;s disease: +90% in 5 years, globally. Main suspect: pesticides like paraquat (prohibited since 2007 in the Netherlands, but not in the US) and its successor glyphosate, not adequately screened for the risk upon approval.<br><a href="https://nos.nl/l/2525128" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>nos.nl/l/2525128</a><br><a href="/tags/parkinsonsdisease/" rel="tag">#parkinsonsdisease</a> <a href="/tags/parkinson/" rel="tag">#parkinson</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#pollution</a> <a href="/tags/pesticides/" rel="tag">#pesticides</a></p>

<p>Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.</p><p>Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/okl</span><span class="invisible">ahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/oklahoma/" rel="tag">#Oklahoma</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#Gas</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/regulation/" rel="tag">#Regulation</a></p>

<p>How America’s “Most Powerful Lobby” Is Stifling Efforts to Reform <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#Oil</a> Well Cleanup in State After State<br>--</p><p>In <a href="/tags/newmexico/" rel="tag">#NewMexico</a>, oil companies agreed to work with regulators to find a solution to the state’s more than 70,000 unplugged wells. After months of negotiations, the industry turned against the bill it helped shape.</p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/petroleum/" rel="tag">#Petroleum</a> <a href="/tags/southwest/" rel="tag">#Southwest</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a></p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/oil-industry-lobbying-unplugged-wells" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/oil-industry-lobbying-unplugged-wells"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/oil</span><span class="invisible">-industry-lobbying-unplugged-wells</span></a></p>

<p>About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says. </p><p>New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%. </p><p>But Trump has halted those efforts.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-air-pollution-pittsburgh-clairton-coke-works?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/epa-air-pollution-pittsburgh-clairton-coke-works?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/epa</span><span class="invisible">-air-pollution-pittsburgh-clairton-coke-works?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/epa/" rel="tag">#EPA</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/industry/" rel="tag">#Industry</a> <a href="/tags/pittsburgh/" rel="tag">#Pittsburgh</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> Officials Accused of Mob Tactics to Kill a <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#Climate</a> Measure</p><p>Nations were poised to approve the first fee on <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#pollution</a> from <a href="/tags/ships/" rel="tag">#ships</a>. That’s when the Trump admin began the <a href="/tags/threats/" rel="tag">#threats</a>.</p><p>Among other threats from US officials, Secretary of <a href="/tags/state/" rel="tag">#State</a> <a href="/tags/marcorubio/" rel="tag">#MarcoRubio</a> personally called officials in several countries to threaten financial penalties &amp; other punishments if they continued to support the ship pollution agreement.</p><p><a href="/tags/mafiastate/" rel="tag">#MafiaState</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/climatecrisis/" rel="tag">#ClimateCrisis</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/climate/trump-climate-international-bullying.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/climate/trump-climate-international-bullying.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/cli</span><span class="invisible">mate/trump-climate-international-bullying.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>

<p>The <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> admin proposed Monday to significantly limit the EPA’s authority to limit <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#pollution</a> in <a href="/tags/wetlands/" rel="tag">#wetlands</a>, <a href="/tags/rivers/" rel="tag">#rivers</a> &amp; other bodies of <a href="/tags/water/" rel="tag">#water</a> across the country.</p><p>The proposed rule could strip federal <a href="/tags/protections/" rel="tag">#protections</a> from millions of acres of wetlands &amp; <a href="/tags/streams/" rel="tag">#streams</a>, potentially threatening sources of clean <a href="/tags/drinkingwater/" rel="tag">#DrinkingWater</a> for millions of Americans.</p><p><a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> <a href="/tags/wildlife/" rel="tag">#wildlife</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/environmentallaw/" rel="tag">#EnvironmentalLaw</a> <a href="/tags/cleanwateract/" rel="tag">#CleanWaterAct</a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/climate/epa-curbs-protections-for-wetlands.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/climate/epa-curbs-protections-for-wetlands.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/cli</span><span class="invisible">mate/epa-curbs-protections-for-wetlands.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share</span></a></p>

<p>Not Pollution. Not Global Warming. Not Corruption. Not Corporations that won&#x27;t pay taxes.<br>It&#x27;s migrants who are at fault for all the troubles in your life. Since you&#x27;re not man enough to shoulder life&#x27;s responsibilities, your start picking on a vulnerable group, like migrants, and you start bullying them, like a coward. Try helping people for a change!</p><p><a href="/tags/migrantsrights/" rel="tag">#MigrantsRights</a> <a href="/tags/humanrights/" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/corporategreed/" rel="tag">#CorporateGreed</a> <a href="/tags/dirtypoliticians/" rel="tag">#DirtyPoliticians</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/globalwarming/" rel="tag">#GlobalWarming</a></p>

<p>Before the automobile industry invented the catalytic converter, the costs of reducing air pollution seemed astronomical, enough to bankrupt the entire industry. After they invented the catalytical converter, the costs were manageable. And they only invented it because they were faced with the threat of being shut down.<br></p>Industries creating harms often claim that controls and regulations are impossible, would bankrupt them, etc., trying to make their existence into a zero-sum game (for some people to have the benefit of our industry, other people must suffer). AI companies claim they must steal copyrighted works because they could not exist otherwise; or be allowed to use as much electricity as they demand in spite of the costs. But it&#x27;s B.S., and we should stop accepting this rhetoric. Forced to innovate to reduce harms, these industries have innovated, and made themselves even more profitable than they were when they were dragging their feet about it like children who don&#x27;t want to clean their rooms.<br><br>From <a href="https://lpeproject.org/blog/is-climate-change-an-externality/" rel="nofollow">Is Climate Change An Externality</a><br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/copyright/" rel="tag">#copyright</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#pollution</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a> <a href="/tags/innovation/" rel="tag">#innovation</a><br>

<p>Factory farming is wrong on every possible level; cruel, inhumane, pollution, and health. DAERA in NI are contradicting themselves here - belatedly expressing concerns about pollution, having enabled so many of these factory farms in the last ten years or so; currently putting a plan in place to try and save Lough Neagh and restore it. <br>At the same time, DAERA have announced an appeal against the court ruling that stops polluting gas caverns being excavated in a Marine protected area at Islandmagee. The company concerned has just bailed out of Harland &amp; Wolff Shipyard in Belfast, as they have no money and lots of bills. <br>Why is DAERA talking out of both sides of its mouth? Why are they appealing a court ruling against a company with no money? Why pretend they are concerned with pollution in Lough Neagh, while hoping to overturn a ruling against pollution of a protected marine area?<br>Some years ago, Nichola Mallon of SDLP, reinstated sand dredging in Lough Neagh, despite a court ruling against it. <br>Lord/Earl of Shaftsbury gets a royalty for every tonne of sand dredged there. His family were gifted the lake bed several generations ago. <br><a href="/tags/nipolitics/" rel="tag">#NIPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/daera/" rel="tag">#DAERA</a> <a href="/tags/loughneagh/" rel="tag">#LoughNeagh</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/factoryfarming/" rel="tag">#FactoryFarming</a> <a href="/tags/gascaverns/" rel="tag">#GasCaverns</a> <a href="/tags/marineprotection/" rel="tag">#MarineProtection</a> <a href="/tags/freshwater/" rel="tag">#FreshWater</a> <a href="/tags/think32/" rel="tag">#Think32</a> <a href="/tags/shaftsbury/" rel="tag">#Shaftsbury</a> <br><a href="https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/new-muck-map-reveals-toxic-waste-levels-from-ni-factory-farms/a461482462.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/new-muck-map-reveals-toxic-waste-levels-from-ni-factory-farms/a461482462.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/new</span><span class="invisible">s/northern-ireland/new-muck-map-reveals-toxic-waste-levels-from-ni-factory-farms/a461482462.html</span></a></p>

<p>Nov 8</p><p>4 min</p><p>Life Finds A Way.. the gigatons of plastic waste are a food and co2 emission source in waiting.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn7dDYNasjc" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn7dDYNasjc"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn7dDY</span><span class="invisible">Nasjc</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#climatechange</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#pollution</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/bitcoin/" rel="tag">#BITCOIN</a> 💩 <a href="/tags/shitcoin/" rel="tag">#SHITCOIN</a> <a href="/tags/money_laundering/" rel="tag">#MONEY_LAUNDERING</a> GONE WILD! 🚔 by the <a href="/tags/hertitage_foundation/" rel="tag">#HERTITAGE_FOUNDATION</a>, <a href="/tags/aipac/" rel="tag">#AIPAC</a> and dirt bag <a href="/tags/jew/" rel="tag">#JEW</a> <a href="/tags/fink/" rel="tag">#FINK</a>!</p><p><a href="/tags/boycott/" rel="tag">#BOYCOTT</a> <a href="/tags/wef/" rel="tag">#WEF</a> AND <a href="/tags/nazi/" rel="tag">#NAZI</a>&#x27;S SAME SAME!</p><p>* Money Laundering by the Jews Zionists<br>* Ring road Afghanistan heroin drug money<br>* Child sex trafficking<br>* Hedge fund bail outs<br>* Providing more war weapons murdering<br>innocent women and children in Gaza</p><p>💣 💥 How the <a href="/tags/military_industrial_complex/" rel="tag">#Military_Industrial_Complex</a> Affects OUR <a href="/tags/pollution_crisis/" rel="tag">#POLLUTION_CRISIS</a> | <a href="/tags/root_cause/" rel="tag">#ROOT_CAUSE</a> OF MAJOR <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#POLLUTION</a> IS <a href="/tags/military_emissions/" rel="tag">#MILITARY_EMISSIONS</a> [aka <a href="/tags/man_made/" rel="tag">#MAN_MADE</a> POLLUTION ??]</p><p>THE WEF (NAZI) FEAR MONGERS CONVENIENTLY LEFT OUT THE ROOT CAUSE 99.99% OF CLIMATE CHANGE = <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#USA</a> AND <a href="/tags/proxy_war/" rel="tag">#PROXY_WAR</a> = <a href="/tags/military_emissions/" rel="tag">#MILITARY_EMISSIONS</a>!!</p><p>1. VIDEO: <a href="https://youtu.be/9id-a1Zm_0I" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>youtu.be/9id-a1Zm_0I</a></p><p>One of the Largest <a href="/tags/emitters/" rel="tag">#EMITTERS</a> of <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#POLLUTION</a> (aka Climate Change) is the <a href="/tags/military/" rel="tag">#Military</a> and therefore the NEXT STEP is that we NEED TRANSPARENCY of Military Emissions AND THOSE EMISSIONS (POLLUTION) NEED TO BE <a href="/tags/reduced/" rel="tag">#REDUCED</a> ...2 decades ago!</p><p>What is a real threat is climate change’ — This U.S. Army vet is calling out the military for being one of the ‘largest emitters’ of carbon emissions.</p><p>The potential climate impact of the War on Terror is staggering, according to U.S. Army veteran Erik Edstrom. Edstrom is a West Point graduate, author, and former U.S. Army infantry officer who got out of the military after serving Afghanistan to study climate change and finance at Oxford University. Edstrom says the 20-year-long Afghanistan War contributed enough carbon emissions to kill multitudes of people. His assessment is based on studies such as one published in Nature Communications, which estimated that approx 4,400 metric tons of CO2 emissions is enough to kill one person. </p><p>The U.S. Department of Defense is required to report its energy use to the Department of Energy’s Federal Energy Management Program. In FY2020, total estimated DoD greenhouse gas emissions based solely on fuel usage data were more than 51 million metric tons of CO2. That figure includes emissions from standard day-to-day operations as well as emissions from non-standard operations such as combat support, law enforcement, emergency response, and spaceflight. Edstrom says there’s more to be concerned with than just operating emissions.</p><p>Edstrom says the U.S. Department of Defense budget, which in fiscal year 2021 was more than $703 billion, is bolstered by fear. 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<p>When big business decides to “solve” a problem they caused…</p><p><a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/capitalism/" rel="tag">#Capitalism</a> <a href="/tags/businessasusual/" rel="tag">#BusinessAsUsual</a></p>

<p>Green Islam reframes climate responsibility as a sacred act of community care in Indonesia</p><p>As rising seas and vanishing forests remake Indonesia’s landscape, a growing movement rooted in Islam is reshaping climate action as a shared religious and civic duty</p><p><a href="https://www.ehn.org/green-islam-reframes-climate-responsibility-as-a-sacred-act-of-community-care-in-indonesia" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.ehn.org/green-islam-reframes-climate-responsibility-as-a-sacred-act-of-community-care-in-indonesia"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.ehn.org/green-islam-refram</span><span class="invisible">es-climate-responsibility-as-a-sacred-act-of-community-care-in-indonesia</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/religion/" rel="tag">#religion</a> <a href="/tags/indonesia/" rel="tag">#Indonesia</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="/tags/globalwarming/" rel="tag">#GlobalWarming</a> <a href="/tags/irreversibleoverheating/" rel="tag">#IrreversibleOverheating</a> <a href="/tags/upheavalclimate/" rel="tag">#UpheavalClimate</a> <a href="/tags/globalburning/" rel="tag">#GlobalBurning</a> <a href="/tags/climatedestruction/" rel="tag">#ClimateDestruction</a> <a href="/tags/climatesuicide/" rel="tag">#ClimateSuicide</a> <a href="/tags/massextinction/" rel="tag">#MassExtinction</a> <a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#pollution</a> <a href="/tags/ecology/" rel="tag">#ecology</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/climate/" rel="tag">#climate</a></p>