#pollute — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pollute, aggregated by home.social.
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There was a time when we considered improving the #EnergyEfficiency of #backend services by switching from interpreted to compiled languages, out of concerns about #ClimateChange. Then came the #CryptoMining farms, AI #hyperscalers and #neoclouds - monstrosities that #pollute grotesquely and guzzle as much power as some nations. And people quit talking about climate change. Everyone seems to have given up in despair and accepted their fate!
Damn those #profiteering #psychopaths!
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There was a time when we considered improving the #EnergyEfficiency of #backend services by switching from interpreted to compiled languages, out of concerns about #ClimateChange. Then came the #CryptoMining farms, AI #hyperscalers and #neoclouds - monstrosities that #pollute grotesquely and guzzle as much power as some nations. And people quit talking about climate change. Everyone seems to have given up in despair and accepted their fate!
Damn those #profiteering #psychopaths!
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There was a time when we considered improving the #EnergyEfficiency of #backend services by switching from interpreted to compiled languages, out of concerns about #ClimateChange. Then came the #CryptoMining farms, AI #hyperscalers and #neoclouds - monstrosities that #pollute grotesquely and guzzle as much power as some nations. And people quit talking about climate change. Everyone seems to have given up in despair and accepted their fate!
Damn those #profiteering #psychopaths!
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There was a time when we considered improving the #EnergyEfficiency of #backend services by switching from interpreted to compiled languages, out of concerns about #ClimateChange. Then came the #CryptoMining farms, AI #hyperscalers and #neoclouds - monstrosities that #pollute grotesquely and guzzle as much power as some nations. And people quit talking about climate change. Everyone seems to have given up in despair and accepted their fate!
Damn those #profiteering #psychopaths!
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There was a time when we considered improving the #EnergyEfficiency of #backend services by switching from interpreted to compiled languages, out of concerns about #ClimateChange. Then came the #CryptoMining farms, AI #hyperscalers and #neoclouds - monstrosities that #pollute grotesquely and guzzle as much power as some nations. And people quit talking about climate change. Everyone seems to have given up in despair and accepted their fate!
Damn those #profiteering #psychopaths!
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🚨Thames #Water💧want to #pollute #ILLEGALLY for the next 15 years! 🤬
Email @Ofwat now to say NO! 👇😤
#SaveOurWater #WeOwnIt #SaveOurPlanet #SaveOurFood #PublicServices #HumanRights #Democracy #Justice
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/ofwat-say-no-to-15-years-of-illegal-pollution-thames-water
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Time to put an end to the gas leaf blower terror https://www.allforgardening.com/1546373/time-to-put-an-end-to-the-gas-leaf-blower-terror/ #baltimore #ban #blower #County #garden #gardener #gardening #gas #leaf #LeafBlower #leaves #legislation #noise #pollute #polluting
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New Effort on the Runway to Raise #Climate Funds
A small group of countries is aiming to impose a fee on #privatejets and premium commercial fares.
“Those who #pollute more should contribute more, and a levy on premium fliers can generate billions for climate resilience, adaptation and sustainable development,” said Maria del Mar Fernández-Palacios at the #COP30 climate talks to draw other countries to join the Premium Flyers Solidarity Coalition
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/climate/private-jet-tax-climate.html
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#Thames Water wants to #pollute #illegally until 2040. #Ofwat must say NO
#Petition - We Own ItDear Chris Walters, interim CEO of Ofwat,
Thames Water wants to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say no.
Deadline: Tuesday 21st October
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/petition-ofwat-must-say-no-to-thames-water-creditors
#ThamesWater #greed #sewage #corruption #EcoCrime #water #feces #pollution
#WeOwnIt #RedReform #ToxicLabour #Starmer #Labour #WildSwiming #HealthRisks -
Dedi Supriadi swings his hoe into the soil at his aubergine and cucumber farm – land where he once dug for gold in the hamlet of #CitorekKidul in #Indonesia.
The mountainous region is scarred by illegal #GoldMining , where workers carve deep into hillsides and caves and risk their lives in the process.
Tempted by the traces of #gold left behind by a former state-run mine, Aneka Tambang #ANTAM , villagers have turned to small-scale #IllegalMining , driving #deforestation and using #toxic chemicals like #mercury and #cyanide that #pollute water and kill #wildlife.
Critics and $environmentalists have called for stricter measures to stop the practice and encourage a return to traditional and less destructive ways of life like #farming.
A police crackdown and signs of change, such as several #miners recently switching to farming, have raised hopes of a possible turning point in the effort.
https://www.eco-business.com/news/from-indonesias-poisoned-gold-tunnels-miners-look-to-farming
#AsianMastodon #TootSEA #SouthEastAsia #EcoNews #ecological #environmental
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#Plastics now #pollute every #ecosystem on Earth, and the #chemicals they carry are making their way into #human #bodies worldwide. These substances can #interfere with #hormones, #harm #reproductive systems, and #trigger #disease. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16082025/toxic-plastic-chemicals-poison-landfill-workers/
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#TaxTheRich, it’s a decent start
Posted by Bluebird | Mar 12, 2025
"As incredible as it may seem, just a handful of #billionaire #Mainers could fund the state for years out of their own pockets and still live out their lives as multimillionaires. So when socialists say tax the rich, we mean more than raising what billionaires pay by 1% or 2%, we mean raising their taxes by 25% or 50% or more to start with. We mean we should take back the wealth they have collected by exploiting all the people who have worked for them, all the land they have stolen, and all the resources they have grabbed all around the world. In the meantime, socialists often support smaller measures whenever we feel like they are a way to raise funds to help our class, raise consciousness, and build organization.
However, increasing taxes on the wealthy isn’t a permanent solution to the persisting problems of #capitalist society. It’s a good start, but it’s not enough.
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"By all means tax [the wealthy] at a rate of 95%, 99%, 100%, 200%! Take back everything they have stolen from us. Truly solving the causes of social inequality cannot happen until the property of the capitalist class has been expropriated, but for the reasons explained above, simply taxing them at any rate will prove ineffective given enough time.
"Moreover, tax increases tend to antagonize capitalists. Sooner or later, as we are seeing very clearly now in Washington, they will transform their economic might into raw political power to claw back even the small social costs that generations of #SocialMovements and trade unions have imposed on them. During such times, as grim as our prospects may seem, it becomes clearer than ever that so long as the capitalists have all the power, even the most progressive public policy can only be temporary.
"How much longer will capitalist industry be allowed to #pollute the planet? How many more times does the economy have to crash? How many more wars will we be forced to fight on the behalf of these #RobberBarons? How many more lives will be ruined by #debts, mass #layoffs, denied insurance claims, and more? Why should we tolerate a system that exploits those whose labor keeps society functioning?"
Read more:
https://pineandroses.org/opinion/www-pineandroses-org/
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#CensoredNews: United Nations #COP16 #Biodiversity Conference in Colombia
October 22, 2024
"#CaseyCampHorinek, #Ponca, is at COP16 in Cali, Colombia today. "The Ponca Nation is on the ground here at COP16 in Colombia, trying to raise up the issue of #FalseSolutions to the climate conference, like #CarbonCredits and #BiodiversityCredits that are killing #nature.' She said #FossilFuels must be phased out.
"The #PoncaNation is among the nations of the world that have followed #Ecuador's lead and recognized the #RightsOfNature by law.
Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, spoke today on false solutions, including carbon credits which allow #corporations to continue and #pollute. 'Don't give them permission to murder.'"Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/live-from-united-nations-cop16.html#RightsofNature #Biodiversity #PeaceWithNature #IndigenousRights #ClimateAction #COP16 #WECAN #ProtectOurPlanet #GBF #KMGBF #BiodiversityProtection #UNBiodiversity
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To those who remain on #X ...
You are aiding and abetting a dangerous #ManBaby in his efforts to:
1. Promote #WhiteSupremacy
2. Promote #mysogeny
3. Undermine #legal institutions,
4. Breach the #OuterSpace #treaty
5. Increase #ClassInequality
6. Waste and #pollute scarce #NaturalResources, thereby further exacerbating the #ClimateCrisis,
7. Destroy #Democratic institutions, and
8. #Elect a #fascist #narcissist suffering from #dementia -
In #NYC and elsewhere, #ClimateProtesters say pace of change isn’t fast enough
By SETH BORENSTEIN
September 20, 2024NEW YORK (AP) — "Six years after a teenage #GretaThunberg walked out of school in a solitary #Climate{rotest outside of the Swedish parliament, people around a warming globe marched in youth-led protest, saying their voices are being heard but not sufficiently acted upon.
"Emissions of heat-trapping gases and temperatures have been rising and #OilAndGas drilling has continued even as the protests that kicked off major weeklong climate events in New York City have become annual events. This year, they come days before the #UnitedNations convenes two special summits, one concentrating on #SeaLevelRise and the other on the future.
"The young people who organized these marches with #FridaysForFuture said there is frustration with inaction but also hope. People marched in #Berlin, #RioDeJaneiro, #NewDelhi and elsewhere, but the focus often is in New York City because of #ClimateWeekNYC. Diplomats, business leaders and activists are concentrating their discussions on the money end of fighting #ClimateChange — something not lost on protesters.
"'We hope that the government and the financial sector make polluters pay for the damage that they have imposed on our environment,' said #Uganda Fridays for Future founder #HildaFlaviaNakabuye, who was among a few hundred marching in New York Friday, a far cry from the tens of thousands that protested in a multi-group mega-rally in 2023.
"The New York protest wants to take aim at 'the pillars of #FossilFuels” — companies that #pollute, banks that fund them, and leaders who are failing on climate, said Helen Mancini, an organizer and a senior at the city’s Stuyvesant High School."
#ClimateWeek #ClimateProtests #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #FridaysForFuture #BigOilAndGas #Greenwashing
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Activists ask for help combatting violence against #Nicaragua’s #Indigenous communities
Maxwell Radwin
29 Jul 2024"Increasing violence in northern Nicaragua this year has displaced rural families and led to calls for more drastic action from the international community, which activists say hasn’t done enough to hold the #Ortega government accountable for human rights abuses.
"For years, Indigenous communities on Nicaragua’s northern #Caribbean coast have suffered threats, kidnappings, torture and unlawful arrests while defending communal territory from #IllegalSettlements and #mining. This year appears to be as bad as ever, and residents say they are desperate for help.
"'Urgent measures must be taken to protect these communities,' said Gloria Monique de Mees, the OAS rapporteur on the rights of Afro-descendants and against racial discrimination. 'Failure to address the crisis will only embolden the Nicaraguan government to continue its repressive campaign.'
"Much of the violence is concentrated within the North Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region (#RACCN), a jurisdiction communally governed and titled by Indigenous communities since the late 1980s. It’s home to #Miskitus, #Mayangnas, #Ulwa, #Ramas, #Creole and #Garífunas peoples, and contains mountain, #rainforest and coastal #ecosystems.
"The area has attracted non-Indigenous Nicaraguans, known locally as #colonos, looking to set up #farms, #logging operations and artisanal #mines. Massive #gold and #copper deposits have also created opportunities for multinational mining #corporations, with backing from the government.
"Indigenous communities say they’re worried about losing #AncestralLand as well as traditional farming, hunting and fishing practices as the forest is cleared and mines #pollute local streams and rivers."
#WaterIsLife #NoMiningWithoutConsent #GoldMining #CopperMining #IndigenousPeople #IndigenousPeoplesDay #LandBack
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From @DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss
January, 2024 - Diné Activist & Musician #KleeBenally Dies at 48; Wrote Book on #IndigenousAnarchy
"The Diné (Navajo) activist and musician Klee Benally has died at the age of 48 in Arizona. Benally, who was from Black Mesa, spent years organizing against uranium mining on Native land and to protect the sacred San Francisco Peaks in Flagstaff, Arizona. He was also the former lead singer of the Indigenous punk band Blackfire. Benally had just published a new book titled '#NoSpiritualSurrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred.' In the book, he writes, 'If history is written by the conquerors, it will be unwritten by those who refuse to be conquered.' Klee Benally spoke to Democracy Now! in 2014 when we did the show from Flagstaff, Arizona.
Klee Benally: “But many of our people don’t have running water; they don’t have electricity. Yet our lands have been exploited. We have coal-fired — three coal-fired power plants that #pollute our air. We have these abandoned #uranium mines and new mines that are threatening the region. We have #fracking, hydraulic fracking, that’s threatening our land, as well. But this isn’t just an issue for here. Wherever there’s an #EnvironmentalCrisis, there’s a #CulturalCrisis, because we are people of the Earth.'"
Full interview:
https://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/14/a_slow_genocide_of_the_people -
“They ( #Canada & #CGL ) don’t care about the land. All they care about is the #money ” says #ChiefGisdaywa. “We don’t want the money. We want our land. Once we #pollute this #river that’ll be it. Everything down the line… our fish will be gone, once our fish are gone our wildlife will be gone. And once they’re gone, we’ll be right behind them.”
#Wetsuweten #Gidimten #WaterProtectors #Indigenous #FirstNations #DefundRCMP #unceded #NativeLand #BritishColumbia #BCNDP
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How much do #rockets #pollute ? By #EverydayAstronaut, also see the table in section "How much do different rockets #emit?" https://everydayastronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Rocket-Emission-Totals-1536x864.jpg
Hint: #Hydrogen mainly produces #water https://everydayastronaut.com/rocket-pollution#carbon #footprint #SpaceFlight #RocketScience #RocketEngine