The Environment

In summary, No

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/17/are-we-eating-ourselves-to-extinction

For better or worse, these mineral spheres are going to play a critical role in determining our future – either by extricating us from our current ecological woes or by triggering even more calamitous outcomes.

We're fucked.

Use less water please

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Great piece of journalism

A short bureaucratic note from a brutally degraded microstate in the South Pacific to a little-known institution in the Caribbean is about to change the world. Few people are aware of its potential consequences, but the impacts are certain to be far-reaching. The only question is whether that change will be to the detriment of the global environment or the benefit of international governance.....

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/27/race-to-the-bottom-the-disastrous-blindfolded-rush-to-mine-the-deep-sea

We're fucked.

Not as much as anything living in the eternal dark of the abyss

They're full now.

(Great British Weather thread)

People are dicks
https://twitter.com/ChrisGPackham/status/1446917799964811264

https://twitter.com/ChrisGPackham/status/1446932226839564374

The hunts once again showing their true nature.

Weird that partaking in bloodsports correlates with violence and intimidation

Should I be voting for or against?

Is it a members resolution to keep or ban?

It's For

uk - fucking up nature since the industrial revolution

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/10/nearly-half-of-britains-biodiversity-has-gone-since-industrial-revolution

Devil's Piss / Forever chemicals on Jon Oliver's show...

https://www.avclub.com/john-oliver-enlists-danny-devito-to-explain-why-duponts-1847791709

This story is really quite incredible--how could they even remotely risk the worst happening here?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/11/rotting-red-sea-oil-tanker-could-leave-8m-people-without-water

Why has it been left there so long? Why is the UN cleaning up rather than they company that left it? That's mental.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSO_Safer

Owned by the Yemeni Government, taken by the Houthi's, both too busy fighting each other to resolve the issue

Gotcha.

I despair at the people on this planet sometimes. FFS.

Yes, it's crazy--with the potential for environmental damage on this scale, this should be taken into international hands, whether the deliver the cargo to Yemen or not.

The fact that the cargo is estimated at $50m you think would make a resolution more likely, even if it just covers the reclamation costs

If I was in control of the ground I'd have got the oil off already. Why didn't the guys claiming ownership of it not just muscle in, grab the oil and sell it off?

This net zero thing that's in the news at the moment, is it net zero just in the UK part?

E.g. this shift to electric cars is ignoring emissions in making them, etc and just counting the fuel use?

They also plant some trees or some shit. Offsetting init

Net zero, not actual zero