#making polluters pay

[somerandomg33k]

"Let's go Captain Planet on these Polluters."

I think the Democrats policies for polluters is giving them a "stern talking too," and some "unkind words and harsh words." But if the Democrats will do anything actionable against polluters, I will believe it when I see it.

[liberaljane]

Big Oil KNEW they lied. Their greed is driving the climate crisis, yet taxpayers are the ones paying for the damages caused by extreme weather. Enough is ENOUGH.

We all deserve to live and raise our families in safe & healthy communities.

Take Action

@MakePolluterPay #MPPpartner

[3rdbogwitch2theleft]

Summer here or nearly here in the Northern Hemisphere.

If you live in the US you should reach out to your governor and ask them to address extreme heat by building lifesaving cooling centers, stopping utility shutoffs, implementing renewable energy to break the cycle of fossil-fueled disasters.

Every year, in the United States, extreme heat kills more people than hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods combined, claiming around 154 lives each day during heatwaves and hot spells. 

Now you might be thinking "that kind of infrastructure investment sounds great but... how do we pay for it? It's not like the federal government is handing out grants right now." Well that's where Major Polluter Superfund bills come in!

New York and Vermont have already passed them. Several other states including Maryland, California, and Connecticut are currently considering them. Basically they would tax biggest polluters and use that money to pay for the damage done by climate change like rebuilding LA after the wildfires.

If your state is considering a superfund bill, contact your state reps and ask them to support it!

(if it says "sent to executive" on the link it's actually on the governor's desk now, so contact the governor rather than the state rep)

And even if it isn't contact your governor and urge them to address extreme heat like the public health emergency that it is.

You can use this tool but you can also go directly to your state governor's website and submit the contact form or call their office. Or write a postcard if you prefer.

I believe direct submissions are more effective when contacting your government officials so that's what I did, but I used the template for talking point reference.

[nando161mando]

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe

[her-canine-teeth]

anyways fav yellowjackets headcanon: there was a town near the cabin like. 10 kilometers farther but they just never saw it bc

1. all of them r nearsighted. or smth

2. they got enough other shit going on (being teenage girls)

3. thry just arent that attentive (tied to 2.)

4. they jsut never looked in that direction (yass)

[larimar]

[sleepynegress]

Are Yall this Gulliable??? This Leathbriar person... WHO KEEPS making these TROLL-ASS ANTI-BLACK posts about Uhura...

....That seem complimentary, but keep using words like "arrogant" and "annoying", and somehow yall are giving this person all the likes??? This is yet ANOTHER sockpoppet of this weird little troll playing "fan" of Uhura using all the racist fucking tropes. WTF??! Yall?? Just post after post and yall just liking them... without any sense of the tropes that go against black women. This is the same weirdo who called Celia Rose too masculine to play Uhura!!

Trekkies what is wrong with yall??? This is so frustrating as a black fan of Uhura, in all iterations to constantly see this troll using racist tropes and GETTING LIKES!!! by making mutiple "love" posts about Uhura but sneaking in all the racist tropes! Sneaking words like "arrogant" and "annoying" and pushy bs.... YALL NOT SEEING THIS SHIT??? YALL JUST CO-SIGNING??? .....Ninety something likes from yall???

PLEASE.

DO.

BETTER. P.S. STOP ANSWERING anon asks about how "ugly" Celia Rose is. It's the same racist weirdo troll.

[uslostinthememories]

Oh yeah she's def miss pollution when she's not even in the top 10 in 2023 nor in the top 30 on the 2024 list.. so why are y'all a bunch of losers wasting energy on hating her when there are people waaaaaaay worse than her when it comes to flying (and also the pathetic people who love to use AI for dumb things)????

Maybe use another excuse for hating her, this one is getting bored (especially when it's not even true).

[catsatopmydesk]

Now do my CEO next <3333

[saltinesinsoup]

ughhhhhhh gonna have to talk to my roommate about like. turning off their pc if they know they’ll be gone when it’s dark out/just leaving the room for a long time bc why is on when it’s been like five hours since you’ve been in the room??

[theotheristhedoctor]

This is the highest compliment I can bestow, but Dungeon Meshi reads like it was written for, if not by, Terry Pratchett.

Oh, you have a dungeon with monsters and adventurers? How does it work? Who pays? How do you get enough supplies? People will eat anything when hungry; do they eat the monsters? People will cook feasts from rotten meat and weeds; what feasts can you make with monsters?

By the way, here is a terrible pun about soup.

You want heroes to have peril, but also to live? Easy! Just have a ressurection spell. Well how does it work? What's the point? What would people give to live forever? What would people give to die?

Here's a dwarf whose magical shield is a wok.

And if they come back, it still hurts right? Do people remember? What happens if they forget that, outside of the dungeon, they can't come back? What if the thing that brings them back also ties them to the dungeon more and more, changes them, makes them different without knowing why.

Whilst you were thinking about that, the halfling founded an adventurers guild. It's an actual union with dues etc. btw he's a deadbeat dad apart from this.

The dwarf from earlier carries familial trauma that will haunt you for the next decade. The protagonist holds his sister's skull as the first proof that there is anything left of her. The two female leads share a love so deep that giving it a name would pollute it. The protagonist's sword is a mollusc.

[nando161mando]

Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/climate-website-shut-down-noaa

[hotvampireadjacent]

My people in the homeland are dying and suffering from the heat. Mexico has always been hot but climate change is making it unbearable. The people of the global south are not the cause of climate change [not that we don’t have pollution or local pollution issues, but not to the degree of rich nations. I am specifically speaking of Mexico here] but they are made to pay the costs, the ultimate toll.

61 lives this month alone. This is not natural. What’s scary is today I saw an article questioning what are the limits of heat a human body can sustain. This is not normal!

What did these 61 humans do? What crime did they commit to be punished for the sin of global pollution. I promise you they must have been the most poor. Who couldn’t afford ac and maybe not even afford an electric fan.

The rich countries pollute and pollute while the global south suffers

The animals are dying, and it’s not good, but it just feels like insult to injury to see a bunch of results over the animals before as many about my dead countrymen.

Brown bodies died. The rich European countries do not care. India, too, is suffering from climate change.

You don’t even hear about the people dead in India unless you go out of your way to seek news about climate change.

The global south burns to death, the poor are the most affected for a crime and sin they had no part in. My heart aches for my Mexico, and all other global south nations disproportionally effected by climate change