#eco-disaster — Public Fediverse posts
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@guardianfeeds this is horrible. #Minns turned off the water without any warning to protect some land owner which no one wants to name. #ecodisaster #conservation #wetlands #turtles
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@mickaellaunay
Circular fields irrigated by 'fossil' water drawn from very deep underground.
IIRC the same method has been transplanted to some parts of the USA with dubious results.
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Kids have the answers. We should listen to them and young people too. This is their planet that we adults are destroying after all. #climate #ecodisaster #kids #bikes
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xzpakn72oj534soz7izgddve/post/3m65sz4uars2c -
“The relationship between capitalism and eco-disaster is neither coincidental nor accidental: capital’s ‘need of a constantly expanding market’, its ‘growth fetish’, mean that capitalism is by its very nature opposed to any notion of sustainability.”
#accidental #anyNotion #book #byItsVeryNature #capital #capitalism #coincidental #constantlyExpanding #ecoDisaster #growthFetish #MarkFisher #market #need #opposed #Political #PoliticalPhilosophy #politicsSocialSciences #quote #relationship #Sustainability
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https://phys.org/news/2025-03-war-term-environmental-consequences-destruction.html
This giant sponge has accumulated pollutants from industrial and agricultural areas in the Dnipro catchment.
…the exposed sediments are contaminated with approximately 83.3 thousand tons of highly toxic heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and nickel. The researchers also draw parallels with the potential dangers posed by aging dams.
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JPMorgan, Citi named among top financiers of Amazon oil and gas projects
Decades of oil spills have polluted rivers and streams throughout the Amazon Rainforest, affecting wildlife and destroying the homes of Indigenous peoples. But the oil and gas industry doesn’t act alone — it gets financing from big banks to maintain its pipelines and expand operations.
New research has found that eight major banks are responsible:
JPMorgan Chase
Itaú Unibanco
Citibank
HSBC
Banco Santander
Bank of America
Banco Bradesco
Goldman Sachsyou know what to do.
#amazon #oil #gas #ecodisaster #pollution #poison #indigenous #wildlife #destruction #capitalism #planetkillers #BDS
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We’re in a propaganda war, but only one side is on the battlefield #WreckingLife #PlanetaryDestruction #BioCollapse #EcoDisaster
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/14/big-oil-climate-crisis-fossil-fuel-public -
Update to this thread: new Norlisk-related industrial contaminations in the #arctic
sea (expand thread to read full discussion):Melting permafrost behind the worst spill in Arctic history[2]:
"A vast Arctic state, Russia is warming 2.5 times faster than the world average.
Sixty-five percent of the country is covered by permafrost and the environment ministry warned in 2018 that the melt threatens pipes and structures, as well as buried toxic waste, which can seep into waterways.
Northern regions have also rung the alarm, with the eastern Arctic Yakutia area for years lobbying Moscow to pass legislation protecting permafrost.
Environmentalists said the spill was the worst such accident ever in the Arctic region and the second worst in modern Russian history.
The Ambarnaya River, which is affected by the spill, feeds into Lake Pyasino, a major body of water and the source of the Pyasina River that is vitally important to the entire Taimyr peninsula.
Satellite images released by the European Space Agency and Russia's Roscosmos show a large spot of reddish fuel had traveled over 20 kilometers toward the lake from the spill site.
Russia's fisheries agency and some environmentalists have said that the floating barriers erected on the river by responders are unable to stop the majority of the pollution, which can quickly dissolve or sink.
The spill also polluted 180,000 square meters of land before reaching the river, regional prosecutors said.
The area has been pummeled by decades of pollution from metals production and other industrial activity in Norilsk, Russia's most polluted city.
World Wildlife Fund expert Alexei Knizhnikov said local residents have long since stopped fishing in the river.
He added that despite damage to permafrost, the disaster could have been avoided if the company followed the rules, such as erecting a barrier around its fuel reservoir to contain spillage."
#Permafrost #Russia #EcoDisaster
