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World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-02-25 at 8:24 PM UTCRevealed: the US is averaging one chemical accident every two days
Mike DeWine, the Ohio governor, recently lamented the toll taken on the residents of East Palestine after the toxic train derailment there, saying “no other community should have to go through this”.
But such accidents are happening with striking regularity. A Guardian analysis of data collected by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and by non-profit groups that track chemical accidents in the US shows that accidental releases – be they through train derailments, truck crashes, pipeline ruptures or industrial plant leaks and spills – are happening consistently across the country.
In the first seven weeks of 2023 alone, there were more than 30 incidents recorded by the Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters, roughly one every day and a half. Last year the coalition recorded 188, up from 177 in 2021. The group has tallied more than 470 incidents since it started counting in April 2020.
The incidents logged by the coalition range widely in severity but each involves the accidental release of chemicals deemed to pose potential threats to human and environmental health. -
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2023-02-25 at 9:13 PM UTCU.N. talks to safeguard the world's marine biodiversity will pick back up this week: The ocean is the life support system of our planet now affected by deep sea fishing, mining, plastic pollution, climate change and other human disturbances
While today we debate and discuss AI technology, tech hopium of new age energy solutions, and nuclear combat tests and readiness, our natural world is under siege by the homo sapien specifically regarding Earth's oceans where vast swaythe falls under no national jurisdiction. Currently, UN negotiators (having failed to agree on a treaty last fall) have reconvened for the Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction with the intended goal to produce a unified agreement for the conservation and sustainable use of those vast marine ecosystems.
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2023-02-25 at 10:47 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2023-02-26 at 12:25 AM UTCThe American climate migration has already begun
Last year, over 3 million Americans lost their homes due to climate disasters, and many will not be able to return to their original properties. This number is expected to increase over the coming decades, forcing vulnerable Americans to leave the places they know and love. The displacement will not be a linear movement, but rather a chaotic churn of instability as people leave, move around within their towns and cities, and others arrive only to leave again.
The cause of the displacement is not only due to the warming of the planet, but also because the US has built millions of homes in the most vulnerable places over the past century, including fire-prone mountain ranges and flood-prone riverbanks. This has made safe shelter scarcer and more expensive, putting people's stability at risk. -
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2023-02-26 at 1:49 AM UTCThe Trees are Dropping Like Flies - One-third of the southern Sierra Nevada Forest is already dead
The trees are dying. A recent University of California study found that the combination of wildfires, drought, and drought-associated beetle epidemics, resulted in the loss of 30% of the region’s conifer forest, while 50% of mature forest habitat and 85% of high-density mature forests either transitioned to lower density forest or non-forest vegetation types.
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Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Along with Human rights, free speech and freedom doesn't exist either.
The idea that humans have no rights only exists in the minds of those brainwashed enough to believe they have no rights. For everyone else, the idea that all people are entitled to certain rights and freedoms is simply a logical conclusion of their moral system. -
2023-02-26 at 2:47 AM UTCHe is technically right these are all abstract concepts for the most part, unless of course you believe it's God-given in which your existence is the merit and proof basis.
But our western white DAO can do such things as have agreed upon rights. Jickerboomer is a foreigner from a different DAO and has clear stark loyalties and beliefs as our DAO which unlike his DAO punishes with a swift chop, we allow to freely speak
Because the only way to grow or prove an idea is challenging it constantly, we are so confident of the structure of our DAO that I have no provlem with islamic former ISIS bride live next door to me, don't kill her! that's a family woman. I don't care how many grenades she threw at the soldiers
I want her to speak freely and hear her side of it. And to anyone that loudly wails and whines to my every opinion, I empower them.
