Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #harm, aggregated by home.social.
Who needs parks when you can have internal combustion roaring?
Loading 400 large trees, including 42 significant trees into mulchers to make way for fossil fuel events in parklands. The sound of chainsaws and mulching is part of the daily occurrence in this culture. >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-11-13/first-trees-felled-in-adelaide-parklands-for-motogp-circuit/107381082
#trees #parks #wildlife #FossilFuel #cars #harm #spectacle #culture #climate #pollution #PetrolHeads
Doing an Injury puts you below your Enemy; Revenging one makes you but even with him; Forgiving it sets you above him.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard Improved (1749 ed.)
More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/87…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #enemy #evildoing #forgiveness #harm #injury #revenge #wrongdoing
The environmental disaster of oil and war
"The effects of large-scale oil pollution remain detectable for decades."
"Since the US war on Iran began in February, there have been hundreds of oil spills, posing a ‘generational’ threat to wildlife."
"The vast, dark slicks in the strait of Hormuz are visible from space. Throughout October, oil tankers were struck by missiles or sea mines in the waterway and spilled crude into the sea. The pollution has spread across the Gulf, contaminating coastlines and threatening to cause lasting damage to marine ecosystems that are home to dolphins, sea turtles and countless species of fish."
"Eight months into the war between the US and Iran, one of the world’s busiest oil shipping routes has become a battlefield and the centre of a growing environmental disaster. Since the war began on 28 February, Greenpeace has identified more than 500 instances of oil spills through satellite monitoring across the Gulf, the strait of Hormuz and the Arabian Sea" >>.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/12/oil-slicks-seen-from-space-the-devastating-impact-of-boat-strikes-on-fragile-gulf-ecosystems
#FossilFuels #war #disaster #environment #wildlife #Biodiversity #petrol #CombustionEngines #cars #pollution #contamination #spills #MarineLife #corals #mangroves #Birds #harm #HabitatDestruction #devastation #IntergenerationalJustice
Meat - Hot cattle and the codes of conduct that govern slaughter
Overheating cattle
* "Building more shade structures could protect cattle from much of the extra heat." >>
https://theconversation.com/overheating-cattle-more-and-more-dangerous-heat-is-coming-for-northern-australias-herds-295978
"Farmed animal welfare regulation in Australia is deeply inadequate."
"Footage of animal slaughter might turn customers away..."
* " The slaughterhouse called control of the footage “the prize” and the courts largely framed publication’s harm in commercial terms: footage of animal slaughter might turn customers away. That framing is revealing. If truthful information harms a business only because people choose differently once informed, that is not harm, but democracy working."
" Industry bodies dominate the creation of codes of conduct that govern slaughter. Export abattoirs are overseen by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, which is also responsible for the industry’s productivity — a potential conflict of interest the Productivity Commission flagged in 2016 when it recommended an independent animal welfare body” >>
“Who controls trespass footage? Here's what the High Court's answer means for animals – and press freedom”
https://theconversation.com/who-controls-trespass-footage-heres-what-the-high-courts-answer-means-for-animals-and-press-freedom-296149
#meat #AnimalCruelty #ExtremeHeat #FossilFuels #coal #livestock #cattle #AnimalWelfare #IntroducedAnimals #shade #NSW #BBQ #food #ethics #slaughterhouse #sousveillance #transparency #harm #PublicInterest #MeatIndustry #DAFF #regulation
Global warming is accelerating and costing the Earth
"A global fossil fuel price crisis is “spreading inflation like a cancer” around the planet, the UN’s climate chief, Simon Stiell, told the opening plenary of critical UN climate talks in Turkey...Stiell told delegates this “fossil fuel cost chaos” had “delivered a global shock wave, hitting households hard and spreading inflation like a cancer”.
"US president Donald Trump’s war with Iran and the disruption of the key strait of Hormuz supply route for oil pushed up petrol prices around the world by 50%, raising inflation and slowing economic growth." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/nov/09/high-fossil-fuel-prices-spread-inflation-like-cancer-cop31egotiator-tells-cop31
#FossilFuels #PetrolPrices #petrol #dependency #CarDependency #affordability #climate #ParisAgreement #failure #war #harm #ExtremeHeat #climate #transition #electrification