The Environment

FFS Plymouth

https://twitter.com/LukePollard/status/1635902400169926656

E-fuels?

I'm going to assume it is more bollox (welcome to be shown otherwise), up there with 'clean' coal.

That's my current level of understanding.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/30/government-gambles-on-carbon-capture-and-storage-tech-despite-scientists-doubts

Thought a drought would significantly reduce sewage overflows into rivers?

Bees are sentient
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/02/bees-intelligence-minds-pollination

Earth day, week?, coming up. A whole series of programs on al jazeera looking at the environment coming up.

Courtesy of Qatari natural gas sales 😈

The bonus Saving the Wild Isles episode funded by the WWF, RSPB and National Trust is good, iplayer only as too political for TV
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0fd45w7/wild-isles-saving-our-wild-isles

Grim
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/21/sewage-soaked-field-stops-creation-of-new-woodland-in-greater-manchester

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/all-hail/

Lots going on round Westminster -
https://extinctionrebellion.uk/the-big-one/programme/

how are they going to 'save nature'? i read that as preventing the environmental degradation that is already happening but I fear they have things like more bird boxes and hedgehog crossing in mind. yes a hedgehog is nature and represents nature in a certain sense, and in and of itself we should do everything we can from preventing their extinction but this isn't the same as halting overfishing, meeting emission targets or preventing the mass-scale pollution that is really fucking nature at a structural level.

Quite an astonishing case--cutting down 131 trees three days after a TPO had been slapped on all of them. I'm guessing it must be this land:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Cator+Park/@51.414501,-0.0385368,192m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x4876019939d19cbf:0x4ca7e65ef3ab1415!8m2!3d51.41396!4d-0.040062!16s%2Fg%2F11cn8x36fd?entry=ttu

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/bromley-tree-massacre-cator-park-felled-trees-landowner-council-b1103020.html

I wonder if there may be a developing story to make it more usual to force vandals to reinstate what they've destroyed--from the Carlton Tavern (a story that may have considerable significance in this) to the farmer who destroyed a stretch of natural riverbank to the Crooked House. I mean, I don't hold out much hope, and these living trees are gone, but if it goes some way towards preventing this sort of occurrence, it must be all for the good.

It is worth pointing out, though, that while cowboy actions like this do occur, it is far more frequent that things worth preserving are destroyed by perfect legal process, depending on the depth of the pockets involved.

we are fucked with leadership this poor

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66857551

Yeh hopeless, won't win him an election but will sow division

Sign deals to build electric cars and EV car batteries in the UK (bankrolled with tax payer money), then push back laws on phasing out ICE cars.

Fucking lunacy.

Yesterday was the busiest day ever at airports in the US, with the TSA reporting 2,884,783 people screened on 51,332 scheduled flights.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/11/eu-to-drop-ban-of-hazardous-chemicals-after-industry-pressure

Never buying your cassettes again, BASF

https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/the-future-of-waterproof-clothing-one-year-closer-to-the-pfas-ban/

"So famous was the poisoning of water with PFOA by the DuPont Chemical Corporation that there's now a hollywood film, Dark Waters, starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway detailing the legal saga that followed."

or your paint.

Weekend essay, Where have all the insects gone?
https://www.ft.com/content/e7403c08-b50e-4b16-861f-fe27d7b16060

^ https://archive.ph/FwSNp

Thanks.
Feels like almost identical articles every year in the mainstream media. Windscreens, dinner, "we realised they weren't there"...
(I'll still read it)