#environment protection

[ecoamerica]

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Avatar: The Way Of Water (2022) 9/10

Now with their own family, Jake and Ney'tiri are at ease living in the forest. But the past has a way of catching up, leaving the family no other choice but to head to Pandora, where the Metkayina Na'vi reside.

WATCH THIS MOVIE IN IMAX WHILE YOU STILL CAN. All I'm saying. You won't regret it.

The imagery is beautiful, with vibrant colors. The bird-like creatures and Avatars are striking, and the plot may hit close to home for some people. There's new faces, old faces, and everything in between.

This franchise just goes to show how horrible humans are, as a species. The first film is reminiscent of what happened with the First Nations peoples, the Aztec, etc etc. This one is reminiscent of how damaging humans can be to the water, a vital thing needed to live. It brought me to tears a few times, honestly.

The cast is interesting too, with Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington and Stephen Lang reprising their roles as Ney'tiri , Jake, and Colonel Quartich. There's also Sigourney Weaver as Kiri Sully, Kare Winslet as Ronal, Jack Champion as Spider, Brian Dalton as Lo'ak, Cliff Curtis as Tonowari, and Jamie Flatters as Neteyam. All are different and interesting in their own way, and have complex personalities.

There's also the Na'vi language, as well as the Avatar sign language, which looks notably different from American Sign Language. That's also a cool aspect in this film, how they portray the diversity and differences in culture of the Na'vi people.

The action scenes are great to watch, being that there's more traditional weapons involved such as spears, and bows and arrows. There's also guns, but there's something about watching a bow and arrow being used in combat that's aesthetically pleasing to see.

This movie is just as good as it's predecessor, if anything. It's emotional, there's action, a bit of romance, and it raises awareness about very real issues that happened and are still happening. They did a stellar job of getting the message across.

[news4nose]

Climate Change Effects in Germany are Ringing: Time to Wake Up!

Taking a lead role among all continents, Europe is on a sizzling journey with the swiftest rise in temperatures causing climate change effects.

Europe is currently experiencing the most rapid temperature rise among all continents due to climate change. This has led to severe impacts including deadly heatwaves, devastating floods, and prolonged droughts.

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To address these consequences, Europe must take immediate action to adapt to rising temperatures.

[raffaellopalandri]

EU Parliament backs landmark law to restore Europe’s nature

Great news! The European Parliament has approved legally enforceable goals to rejuvenate deteriorated natural regions within the European Union. This landmark legislation, known as the EU Nature Restoration Law, marks the first significant step taken in the past three decades to safeguard biodiversity in the EU. Despite facing fierce resistance from conservative and right-wing parliamentarians…

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How Education Effect Poverty\

 Introduction:

It has long been acknowledged that education is a potent tool in the fight against poverty. It plays a crucial role in assisting individuals and communities to break the poverty cycle and achieve long-term economic growth. Education has the power to improve social mobility, reduce inequality, and transform lives. We will investigate the ways in which education influences poverty and the role it plays in shaping the future in this article.

Poverty and Education:

One of the most effective ways to fight poverty is through education. It gives people the knowledge and skills they need to get better-paying jobs, which leads to higher incomes and better living conditions. People who are educated also acquire a sense of self-reliance and empowerment, which can assist them in overcoming the difficulties that come with living in poverty.

The ability of education to break the poverty cycle across generations is one of its most significant effects on poverty. When it comes to getting an education of a high quality, children who are raised in poverty frequently face disadvantages. As they struggle to find well-paying jobs, this can perpetuate the cycle of poverty, resulting in a lifetime of financial uncertainty. We can break this cycle and ensure that future generations do not remain in poverty by ensuring that all children, regardless of their socioeconomic status, have access to high-quality educational opportunities.

In addition, education plays a crucial role in reducing inequality and promoting gender equality. Women and girls face significant obstacles to gaining access to education and are frequently marginalized in poverty-stricken societies. We can promote gender equality and empower women to contribute to the economic and social development of their communities by providing girls and boys with equal access to education.

The Impact of Education on the Future

To shape the future, education is essential. It serves as the foundation for technological advancement, social progress, and economic expansion. Innovation and advancement in all facets of society—from healthcare to agriculture and beyond—require a workforce with a high level of education.

Education not only has a positive impact on the economy but also plays a crucial role in fostering democracy and good governance. A population with a high level of education is more likely to demand transparency and accountability, engage in civic life, and hold their leaders accountable. A more just and equitable society and governments that are more responsive and effective may result from this.

Conclusion:

In the fight against poverty, education is an essential tool. It can change people's lives, end poverty, advance gender equality, and shape the future. We can build a society that is better for everyone by investing in education. We must make education a top priority as a human right and ensure that every child, regardless of their socioeconomic status, has access to high-quality education. Really at that time might we at any point genuinely open the maximum capacity of schooling and understand its extraordinary power.

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Mike Thompson, USA Today

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

May 25, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

MAY 26, 2023

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta today sentenced the leader of the right-wing Oath Keepers organization, Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, to 18 years in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. In November a jury found Rhodes guilty of seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and tampering with documents and proceedings, for his role in organizing people to go to Washington in January 2021 and try to stop the counting of the electoral votes that would make Joe Biden president. Rhodes told the court that his only crime was standing against those who are “destroying our country.” He says he believes he is a “political prisoner” and that he hopes Trump will win the presidency in 2024. “You are not a political prisoner, Mr. Rhodes,” Judge Mehta said. “You, sir, present an ongoing threat and a peril to this country and to the republic and to the very fabric of this democracy.” And yet, former president Trump has said he would not only pardon the January 6 offenders, but would apologize to them for their treatment by the government. Today, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who yesterday announced he is running for president, said he, too, would consider pardoning them, promising to be “aggressive in issuing pardons.” Rhodes struck at our elections. Today in the Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency decision, the Supreme Court struck at the government regulations that underpin modern America. Michael and Chantell Sackett bought land near Priest Lake, Idaho, and backfilled the wetlands on the property to build a home. The EPA found they had violated the Clean Water Act, which prohibits putting pollutants into “the waters of the United States.” Officials told them to restore the site or face penalties of more than $40,000 a day. By a vote of 5–4, the Supreme Court found that “waters” refers only to “‘streams, oceans, rivers, and lakes’ and to adjacent wetlands that are ‘indistinguishable’ from those bodies of water due to a continuous surface connection.” This decision will remove federal protection from half of the currently protected wetlands in the U.S, an area larger than California. Homeowners, farmers, and developers will have far greater latitude to intrude on wetlands than they did previously, and that intrusion has already wrought damage as wetlands act like a sponge to absorb huge amounts of water during hurricanes. From 1992 to 2010, Houston, for example, lost more than 70% of its wetlands to development, leaving it especially vulnerable to Hurricane Harvey, a category 4 hurricane that in 2017 left 107 people dead and caused $125 billion in damage. The decision said that the EPA had overreached in its protection of wetlands as part of the Clean Water Act, and that Congress must “enact exceedingly clear language” on any rules that affect private property. This court seems eager to gut federal regulation, suggesting that Congress cannot delegate regulatory rulemaking to the executive branch. As investigative journalist Dave Troy put it, “If [the] EPA can’t enforce its rules, what federal agency can?” Justice Elena Kagan warned that by destroying the authority of the EPA, both now and in the West Virginia v. EPA decision last June that restricted the agency's ability to regulate emissions from power plants, the court had appointed itself “as the national decision maker on environmental policy.” The Clean Water Act passed by an overwhelming bipartisan vote in 1972, during the administration of Republican president Richard M. Nixon. Nixon backed the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 after a massive oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, over ten days in January–February 1969 poured between 80,000 and 100,000 barrels of oil into the Pacific, fouling 35 miles of California beaches and killing seabirds, dolphins, sea lions, and elephant seals, and then, four months later, in June 1969, the chemical contaminants that had been dumped into Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River caught fire. In February 1970, Nixon told Congress “[W]e…have too casually and too long abused our natural environment. The time has come when we can wait no longer to repair the damage already done, and to establish new criteria to guide us in the future.” Nixon called for a 37-point program with 23 legislative proposals and 14 new administrative measures to control water and air pollution, manage solid waste, protect parklands and public recreation, and organize for action. At Nixon’s urging, Congress created the EPA in 1970, and two years later, Congress passed the Clean Water Act, establishing protections for water quality and regulating pollutant discharges into waters of the United States. House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) tweeted that “[t]oday’s Supreme Court ruling is a win for farmers, businesses, and Americans across the nation by rejecting, yet again, the Biden administration’s costly and burdensome regulatory overreach.” But it sure looks like the story is not about Biden, but rather is about an extremist SCOTUS overturning 50 years of law that gave us clean water because it is determined to slash federal authority to regulate business. McCarthy is trying to manage his conference while members of the far-right Freedom Caucus strike at our economy. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reiterated today that defaulting on the national debt is not an option. “The President has said that, the Speaker has said that, and we want the American people to understand that as well…. What is up for debate, though, is the budget,” she said. “And that’s what these discussions are about: two very different fiscal visions for our country and our economy.” Biden’s proposed budget invests in ordinary Americans and over 10 years is projected to reduce the deficit by nearly $3 trillion by “asking the wealthy and corporations to pay their fair share and by slashing wasteful spending on special interests.” In contrast, “House Republicans…want to slash programs millions of hardworking Americans count on, while also protecting tax breaks skewed to the wealthy and corporations that will add $3.5 trillion to the debt. That’s where these negotiations began,” she said. Finally, there is news today about the man that Rhodes is going to prison for, concerning his strike at our national security. Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey, Spencer S. Hsu, and Perry Stein of the Washington Post reported that on June 2, 2022, the day one of Trump’s lawyers contacted the Justice Department to say that officials were welcome to come to Mar-a-Lago to retrieve the classified documents the department had subpoenaed, two of Trump’s employees moved boxes of papers. The next day, when FBI agents arrived, Trump’s lawyers gave them 38 documents, said they had conducted a “diligent search,” and claimed that all the relevant documents had been turned over. Yet, when FBI agents conducted a search two months later, they found more than 100 additional classified documents. The timing of the moved boxes suggests that Trump was deliberately hiding certain documents. The Washington Post article also says that more than one witness has told prosecutors that Trump sometimes kept classified documents out in the open and showed them to people. Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement: “This is nothing more than a targeted, politically motivated witch hunt against President Trump that is concocted to meddle in an election and prevent the American people from returning him to the White House.”

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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[humanrightsconnected]

In light of the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), check out our blog post where you will read about COP26 and helpful tips on how you can continue the fight against climate change ✊! 

[fancysongbird]

𝙳𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚙𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝙽𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎!!!

In earlier times ,when technology was primitive,constuction was done keeping the environmental aspect in mind .Construction took longer time, yet they built marvels like Taj Mahal. The Construction was done in sync with nature and there was minimum wastage .Moreover there was no pollution.

Today ,when technology development is at its peaks,construction takes place day and night. Unfortunately, it creates all kind of pollution : air ,water ,land and noise. Nature is totally ignored and the waste adds to landfills or ends up in water bodies .Earlier ,construction would take place on unfertile for the purpose .TODAY DEVELOPMENT HAS MADE LIFE EASY,yet earlier people has HEALTHY AND PEACEFUL LIVES.hence,development and construction should be not done at expense of environment.

[ecoamerica]

Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://youtu.be/bWiW4Rp8vF0?feature=shared

The American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 broadcast recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by active climate leaders. Watch to find out which finalist received the $50,000 grand prize! Hosted by Vanessa Hauc and featuring Bill McKibben and Katharine Hayhoe!

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Bertocchini and her fellow researchers began collecting the liquid excreted from the waxworms' mouths. They found this "saliva" contained two critical enzymes, Ceres and Demeter – named after the Roman and Greek goddesses of agriculture, respectively – which were able to oxidise the polyethylene in the plastic, essentially breaking down that material on contact.

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Happy Earth Day: Be One with the Sea

Happy Earth Day with Be One with the Sea!

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Earth Day 2024

For this Earth Day 2024, EARTHDAY.ORG is unwavering in our commitment to end plastics for the sake of human and planetary health, demanding a 60% reduction in the production of ALL plastics by 2040. Earth Day 2024  A Call to Action Against Plastic and Unsustainable Practices Every year on April 22nd, the world unites to celebrate Earth Day. This day, born out of a growing environmental…