#polution

[you-need-not-apply]

How much does tumblr cost the planet?

according to website CO2 calculator here

[c0ry-c0nvoluted]

Cool story, bro! From @ocean.destinations on insta 🦀

[alteredstatesstuff]

old steam engine not good for global warming

[scotianostra]

March 12th 1852, saw the last salmon caught in the River Kelvin.

Numbers dwindled due to the impact of Glasgow’s booming manufacturing industries, pollution from the city’s sprawling factories decimated traditional spawning areas with obstructions in the river also disrupting salmon runs. By the late 18th century the runs of salmon in much of Central Scotland were in decline. The situation in the 19th century became increasingly bad and salmon completely disappeared from many of the rivers.

In the 19th century, the River Kelvin was used for power, water supply, and waste disposal. It was also a scenic area that hosted exhibitions and was used for shipbuilding, it depended on the area as to how aesthetic it looked.

Nowadays however, again, parts of Glasgow's Rivers are seriously polluted with litter. Kelvin for the first time in over 100 years. pollution at the North Calder Water, and a number of small burns enter the Lower Clyde - Light, Tollcross, Camlachie, Molendinar, West, Garscadden and Malls Mire Burns.

This too is an important recreational river for Glasgow, having the Kelvin Walkway in its lower reaches, and being a feature of Kelvingrove Park. The main water quality problems are sewage pollution and general street run-off, but the river still manages to be in good condition Promote awareness of rivers and streams at wildlife at Balmuildy Bridge, and fair condition at Kelvingrove. In 1995, salmon were reported in the in the Kelvin for the first time in over 100 years.

[losing-direction]

Mining Debris.

Photo: Gustav Vivas.

[workersolidarity]

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SIX DRUMS FILLED WITH TOXIC CHEMICALS DEPOSITED BY NORTHROP GRUMMAN FOUND BURIED IN CANCER-PLAGUED LONG ISLAND TOWN

📹 Six 55-gallon drums filled with toxic chemicals, and encased in concrete coffins, some broken, were found buried under Bethpage Community Park in cancer-plagued Bethpage, a town on Long Island in New York State, which was deposited by U.S. military contractor Northrop Grumman.

Previously, the town of Bethpage had to contend with a 6-square mile toxic plume of hazardous waste resulting from Northrop Grumman's dumping of chemicals underground in the area.

At least one of the 55-gallon drums was found punctured, and some contained flammable chemicals.

The drums were found buried just 4-feet underground, underneath the Park's baseball field which was previously abandoned more than 20 years ago due to concerns over soil contamination.

According to a report in New York Post, a layer of clay was found under the drums, where authorities believe chemicals could have seeped into the ground.

Oyster Bay Supervisor, Joseph Saladino, called on authorities with New York's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to clean up the park by collecting all the contaminated soil and removing it from Long Island. The community's tax payers previously paid $20 million to clean up the site to allow local residents to use the Park's skating rink.

Saladino also filed a lawsuit against Northrup Grumman 10 years ago to reimburse the community's costs for the cleanup, while a new lawsuit was filed in December to order the further cleanup and removal of the toxic soil.

Local residents have been complaining of higher cancer rates in their community for years, arguing that surrounding communities have far lower rates to their own, while the DEC claimed the discovery posed "no immediate threat to public health."

Still, local residents say they're fed-up, continueing to call for the immediate removal of toxic substances, along with demands for a full soil excavation in the park.

“I’ve had it. I’ve had it. I’ve been working on this for over 20 years as a New York state Assembly member and now as the supervisor of the fourth-largest town in America and I’m not going to sit by idly,” Saladino is quoted as saying.

Northrop Grumman, for its part, said it continues to work with the DEC to address the situation.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[rednblacksalamander]

Just a little tribute to my old hometown in Upstate NY, currently getting absolutely screwed by wildfire smoke.

[victoriaorolfoart]

Color script and background paintings from WBB episode "Bermuda Baby Bears" 🐻‍❄️🐼🐻📦🌟 One of my favorite color schemes to work with from this arc~

[balluprojects]

Bald Hills, 2024

Mixed media: nib pen, coffee, wax crayons and ecoline pens on 200g paper

have a reflective and meaningful thursday*

[alyfoxxxen]

Amsterdam bans demos after 'antisemitic squads' attack Israeli soccer fans | Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/world/israels-pm-aware-very-violent-incident-against-israelis-amsterdam-his-office-2024-11-08/

[tilbageidanmark]

What coal mining was like

[you-need-not-apply]

“Every clothing brand uses slave labour so it’s not that bigger deal if I buy from shien!”

Firstly, read that again.

Second of all; no. Not all brands at all. Maybe all the brand you’ve been exposed too, but by far not all brands.

Third, just say you don’t care about child/slave labour. You clearly don’t if you couldn’t even be bothered to look for alternatives and make dumb excuses like this.

The purchases we make reflect the morals we agree with / allow. By shopping at shien and saying “oh everything uses slave labour might as well get it cheap” you are quiet literally saying “I’m okay with slave labour”

And for the record before the “oh but you probably brought stuff from there-!” Crowd comes in, the only thing I have ever ordered online and not through a physical store (such as a book from a local bookshop that I ordered in store) are records straight from the artists stores that are ethically produced (and yes I checked and tripled checked and offset the carbon footprint of delivery) I’ve never brought anything from Amazon let alone at shien or temu

[emirphotoblog]

At the end of a phenomenal day on Rogozna mountain, the Forest owl, Nightingale and Robin can be heard in the background. The opening of a mine on Rogozna mountain is well underway, a mine from which the city of Novi Pazar will not benefit at all, while the damage that will befall us will be immeasurable. I invite all residents of Novi Pazar and Serbia to visit this beauty and talk about it because Rogozna is a hidden gem of nature that will disappear in front of out eyes.. We will get dust from the mines in the city, even more polluted air, cancer and other various diseases.

[dk-thrive]

I get a base, primal satisfaction from actually just doing something, no matter how insignificant.

From spring until late fall, when winter weather drives me indoors to the treadmill, I spend 20 minutes each morning after my run around the Back Cove in Portland, Maine, walking the shoreline, picking up garbage. Every day is Groundhog Day — I gather plastic cups, syringes, food containers and cigarette butts the same as the morning before, and the same as the morning before that.I should almost certainly feel despair battling the daily fallout as late capitalism enters hospice care. But instead I get a base, primal satisfaction from actually just doing something, no matter how insignificant. We’ve forgotten, maybe, as the virtual world has slowly co-opted our lives, that we are meant by nature to move through and manipulate, to lift and carry and sort and transfer. Simple acts, I’ve found, have an outsized effect on the worrying over abstractions that otherwise takes up so much of my time. [...]

The satisfaction I get from this habit is not uncomplicated. Sometimes I take paradoxical pleasure in getting dirty with other people’s trash, and other times the surprise dollop of last night’s honey mustard sauce on my shoe is enough to send me directly over the edge.

But the daily practice has taught me to be on guard against my own vanity — to notice and discard the smug feeling that sometimes arises when I see others enjoying the cove but doing nothing about how blighted it is. Instead I am confronted each day with my own fallibility, tininess and hypocrisy (as just one more trash ape among billions, I contribute to the problem simply by existing). And instead of puffing myself up, I check myself and reach for more garbage. [...]

I go and gather garbage by myself most days. And occasionally something will occur that happily disproves my dim view of humanity. People will notice me, and wonder what I’m doing all sweaty and breathless down there among the marsh grass and the rocks. I present an intriguing enough figure for them to stop, in the midst of their preoccupations with the day, and take the time to discern what I’m up to. And when they figure out that I am, in fact, picking up garbage, sometimes — not often, but occasionally — they’ll come and join me. We’ll chat or, more likely, we won’t do much other than exchange hellos, or simply nod. Just a couple of strangers doing something small and futile together, for no other reason than that it’s right. The kind of modest, workaday miracle that feels like it could, with any luck, lead to something bigger.It seems near all but certain that we are, as a species, too shortsighted and distractible, too enamored of dividend checks and retail therapy, to really turn this ship around. But, then, despair and idealism are two sides of the same cop-out, and I’ve indulged in both more than enough in my time. So I’ll keep splitting the difference, keep picking up trash — and keep hoping that simply setting an example can be meaningful.

— Ron Currie, Jr., excerpts from "This is What Keep My Eco-Anxiety in Check" (NY Times, October 23, 2023). Ron Currie Jr. is the author of the novel “The One-Eyed Man” and a writer for film and television, most recently for the series “Extrapolations.

[lindenwalker-studios]

Just Keep Swimming

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[A digital painting of a dark, underwater, glacial scene. To the right side of the canvas, you can see a right whale swimming towards the viewer. In the foreground is a mess of tangled fishing net.]

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[overdoso]

O impacto da indústria pesqueira vai além da devastação dos oceanos. O resgate de uma tartaruga emaranhada em um pedaço de rede de pesca perdida.