#Ecological Disaster

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Hey guys, I know there are a lot of really severe tragedies in the world right now and I in no way desire to push those aside, nor do I really want to load another thing onto people's plates, but anyone here in the US needs to be aware that on March 11, 2024, an agricultural company known as NEW Cooperative spilled 265,000 gallons (1500 tons) of liquid nitrogen fertilizer into the East Nishnabotna River. This is the ecological equivalent of dropping a nuclear weapon into the river. Over a 60 mile stretch downstream of the spill its been a near total ecological wipeout for the river. So far, an estimate of 850,000 fish have been killed from this spill, and that's to say nothing for the insects, amphibians, reptiles and birds that relied on or lived in this river. It is literally filled with animal corpses. This river flows into the Missouri River and the impacts will likely continue to spread far past this 60 mile stretch. And this disaster has barely made local tv in Iowa, let alone national tv, despite the fact that 60 miles of river ecosystem were just wiped out in a way that may be impossible to recover from. And what's the punishment for this heinous act of destruction through negligence, you might ask? As it stands, its looking like a 6k fine from the DNR to the company. Not 600k. Not 60k. 6000 dollars. The maximum fine that the DNR can charge in Iowa is 10k unless they decide to take it further in court. That's why these spills are so frequent in Iowa: it's literally cheaper to eat the fines than it is to bother properly storing fertilizer. I don't know exactly what the proper course of action is here, or who needs to be contacted to enact change--I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable than me will chime in with that information--but at the very least, every one of us should know. Every one of us should make sure we don't forget this. And every one of us should blacklist NEW Cooperative fertilizer unilaterally.

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[whydidisavethistomyphone]

Every time I see a meme about a stupid UFO I’m going to post about the ecological disaster happening in the US right now because of a corrupt capitalist government

[snovyda]

So where are organizations like Greenpeace rn? The biggest ecological catastrophe in Europe since Chornobyl happened yesterday. Where are all those eco-activists? Why are they completely silent?

So far I have only seen this one (1) tweet retweeted by Greta Thunberg:

Nothing else from any prominent activists or organizations.

This only shows one side of them: hypocrisy. They don't really care about the environment, about nature, about plants or animals or entire ecosystems that have been destroyed or are being destroyed in front of our very eyes in one of the largest single acts of ecocide. They only pretend to care to make themselves look good and when it's comfortable to them.

Here's a thread about all the world's biggest environment protection organizations' reactions:

(Spoiler: there is zero reaction. Except for the German branch Greenpeace, who did make a post about it)

[viagginterstellari]

The lake Aral is disappearing - Aral, 2022

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Please consider donating if you care 🙏🏻❤️‍🩹

[fishstickmonkey]

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of the Aral Sea while in orbit over Kazakhstan. This “sea” is actually an endorheic lake, located along the Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan border and fed by the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers. For the past 60 years, the lake has experienced a rapid decline in surface area due to the diversion of its two inflowing rivers to irrigate crops. At its greatest extent, the Aral Sea would have spanned almost the entirety of this photo.

[oops-all-failure]

[aworldofpattern]

The Oil Spill by Robert Wun

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'A corseted mini bodice dress with an extended back panel, expanded further with asymmetrical pheasant feathers painted in black. Styled with a silk sheer skirt with a three metres long train.

Embodied by the incredible Zinnia Kumar who was a biologist working with marine life preservation and rescue from ocean’s oil spilling.' X

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home,

Owens Lake, California.

[thebusylilbee]

"This is the most massive episode of species extinction since the disappearance of the dinosaurs. More than half of all insects are disappearing worldwide at an accelerated rate; the hecatomb is reaching the staggering figure of 80 % for Europe. When insects disappear, the entire living chain is affected. More food for birds dying en masse, fewer pollinators for key food crops. A frightening assessment in a synthesis of 73 studies pointing to the responsibility of intensive agriculture in this collapse of life."

[tweetingukpolitics]

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Dead Russian orcs float up on right bank of Kherson region, Ukraine, June, 2023. Source:  Мисягiн

P.S. The commanders of the Russian army did not warn their own soldiers that the Kakhovka HPP dam would be blown up. The floods washed away the entire Russian first line of defense and hundreds of Russians drowned. Apparently, Russian army generals find their own soldiers as cheap consumables as orcs

[millionmovieproject]

[viagginterstellari]

Lake Aral, boats - Moynaq, 2022

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June 6, 2023. waking up to horrific news