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uBlock Origin has the potential to save the average global Internet user more than 100 h annually. The energy conserved if everyone in the United States used the open source ad blocker would save over 36 Americans lives per year if it were to offset coal-fired electricity generated-based pollution.
"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture" (Aldo Leopold, writing in 1948).
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Industry-Backed Legislation Would Bar the Use of Science Behind Hundreds of Environmental Protections
https://www.propublica.org/article/legislation-targets-epa-science-toxic-chemicals
Two bills in Congress would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using hundreds of chemical assessments completed by its IRIS program in environmental regulations or enforcement.
Humanity is causing \ heading straight into an ecological catastrophe. Sure & generally, there are small efforts being made to prevent that. But that's 'a drop in the ocean' compared to the huge efforts the #meat industry, & fossil fuel industry, go to, to spread propaganda
That's the general problem. Corruption from the people that financially benefit from "eco" destruction
Planet: Critical: Animal Agriculture Exceptionalism
Media file: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/157928125/ac12af09de0ea6cddd4f163a81620b7c.mp3
Over 360,000km on one battery — South Africa’s highest mileage electric car
https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-1d5a94e8-39cb7545152492d7
Australian Musicians Unite and Call on Fans to ‘Vote Climate’ Ahead of Federal Election
Established and burgeoning Australian artists have united to call on fans to “vote climate” ahead of the impending 2025 federal election
Edgar Triffid finally arrives for an Earth holiday, finding the note Dutton & Gina left after they melted the ice caps. #environment #cartoons #AIart #auspol
this is why knowledge of basic maths is essential
"The cutting of funds makes no sense. The national parks budget is $3.5 billion. It generates $55 billion in revenue."
What fast fashion leads to
The spanish paper and online portal EL PAÍS just published a revealing investigation. They endowed used but still good clothes with hidden geolocation tags and deposited the clothes in 15 used clothes bins across Spain. Then they tracked the journeys of the different pieces. It's a long and abysmal story.
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZqClqaqJwUo?si=H5VYIhRuVVVGJuzk
La plastica è onnipresente nelle nostre vite.
É certamente utilissima per moltissimi usi ma purtroppo questo uso è diventato eccessivo e si è trasformato in un abuso verso il pianeta e le forme di vita che lo popolano, noi compresi!
Industry-Backed Legislation Would Bar the Use of Science Behind Hundreds of Environmental Protections
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Two bills in Congress would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using hundreds of chemical assessments completed by its IRIS program in environmental regulations or enforcement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/legislation-targets-epa-science-toxic-chemicals?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Update. "EDGI Relaunches Federal Environmental Web Tracker"
https://envirodatagov.org/press-release-edgi-relaunches-federal-environmental-web-tracker/
"In response to the #Trump administration’s rapid dismantling of federal websites, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (#EDGI) has relaunched its Federal Environmental Web Tracker…The… Tracker makes records of significant changes to federal environmental websites publicly available in a searchable database…Since the first Trump administration, EDGI has monitored thousands of federal environmental webpages. Partners at the #InternetArchive download these webpages every day, and EDGI’s #OpenSource software compares versions of these webpages to identify differences."
Amazingly, in recent years, a few brave experimentalists have started to demonstrate the diffuse #skyglow really does affect the #environment. Here are a few of them.