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eaglesnick · 3 months ago

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“The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself” – Franklin D Rooevelt

Last week I heard an inheritance tax bemoaning farmer claiming he was a “custodian" of the countryside as if that claim alone should exempt him from tax. But he is not the only one making this claim:

Sue Pritchard, Chief Executive of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission said she sees:

“... farmers both as custodians of the countryside as well as food producers, putting nature-based farming at the heart of our future agricultural policy..." (ffcc.co.uk: ‘Farmers are custodians of the countryside' 30/11/20)

The Farmers Union also claims British farmers are “custodians of the iconic British landscape." (NFU General Election Manifesto 2024) and accused the Labour government of “betrayal" with regard to the changes in inheritance tax.

The dictionary definition of “custodian" is:

"A person who has responsibility for protecting or taking care of something or keeping something in good condition".

Lets examine how well British farmers have protected and taken care of Britain’s iconic landscape and the wildlife that lives within it.

Since the 1970’s 41% of all UK wildlife species have declined – mammals, amphibians, birds, reptiles, and insects. One of the main reasons for this is the intensification of agricultural methods.

“More than 50 conservation groups say the "policy-driven" intensification of farming is a significant driver of nature loss in the UK. The State of Nature report assessed 8,000 UK species and found that one in 10 are threatened with extinction." (BBC News: 14/09/2016)

Needless to say farm leaders disputed the findings. Yet a team of ornithologists, zoologists, biologists and ecologists reported that the chief cause of declining bird populations in the UK was due to the use of pesticides and herbicides by farmers. Runoff from farms, including fertilizers and animal waste pollute waterways and soil, affecting the health of ecosystems and the wildlife that depend upon them. Grubbing up hedgerows and cutting down woodland has led y to a loss of habitat for many of our native mammals and other species.

Not content with killing off Britain’s wildlife, many farmers are also threatening the health of British consumers, in particular the long-term wellbeing of our children.

The use of pesticides which contain “forever chemicals” are a direst threat to public health. PFA chemicals, which take centuries to break down in the environment, were found in 3300 samples tested by the UK government in 2022.

Farmers do not have to use these chemicals. They choose to do so because it increases output and therefore their profits.

“Common UK fruits, vegetables and spices have been found to be contaminated with long-lasting toxins known as "forever chemicals", prompting alarm over potential impacts on public health ...” (itvX: 09/04/24)

“Profit before people” would seem to be the farmers' motto!

Rather than being “custodians” of the iconic British landscape farmers have traditionally been one of its worst enemies, bent on its destruction if it affords them a few more pennies in the bank.

In 1950, a Forestry Commission assessment concluded that we had 1 million km of hedgerow. By 2007, this reduced to 477,000km, a loss of approximately 52%. This loss of habitat for wildlife was the direct result of farmers deliberately removing hedgerows because by so doing they made more money.

Kemi Badenoch, objecting to rich farmers now having to pay inheritance tax (albeit only 50% of what everyone else has to pay) said:

“This policy is cruel, it is unfair and it is going to destroy farming as we know it”

I would suggest that “farming as we know it” isn’t fit for purpose.

“A study found that that UK is one of the world's most nature-depleted countries, with on average about half its biodiversity left - far below the global average of 75%. It means the UK is in the bottom 10% globally for biodiversity.” (CBBC: 11/10/21)

This isn’t custodianship, this is environmental vandalism on an industrial scale. The destruction of habitat, the use of pesticides and herbicides, the culling of foxes, rabbits and badgers, the eradication of meadows. wetlands and grassland, have all contributed to the catastrophic loss of biodiversity In Britain, and all in the pursuit of farmers making greater profits.

#uk politics #brexit #farming #inheritance tax #custodianship #countryside #environment biodiversity.

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intothewildsstuff · 2 years ago

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America’s first high-volume ‘PFAS Annihilator’ is up and running in West Michigan | WOODTV.com

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parkinson-verkeersdeelnemer · 4 months ago

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Extra editie Glyfosaat/PFAS 62 – ‘Through these fields of destruction. Baptisms of fire, I've witnessed your suffering’ – Parkinson, verkeer en meer

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refrigerantgases · 4 months ago

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Choosing Eco-Friendly Refrigerants for Appliances

A few refrigerants are preferable for the climate over others, yet pursuing the ideal decision is far from simple or easy for the typical shopper. We investigated the accessible choices to attempt to improve on things a piece.

The issue with engineered refrigerants

Engineered refrigerants were carefully targeted of earthy people currently during the 1980s, as a result of their damaging consequences for the ozone layer. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are currently prohibited therefore. They were supplanted by other fluorinated gases, what capability well as refrigerants yet have a high an Earth-wide temperature boost potential.

What is a refrigerant?

Refrigerants are substances utilized in cooling frameworks and intensity siphons. So, they move heat around. We should take a gander at how precisely that occurs by taking a cooler for instance.

A refrigerant works by coursing through loops inside your cooler, and engrossing intensity from the encompassing region simultaneously. As it retains heat, it changes from fluid to gas.

The gas then gets sucked into a blower. The blower expands the tension of the gas, which additionally builds its temperature. Then, this high-pressure, hot gas moves through one more arrangement of loops or cylinders, this time outside the cooler, and deliveries its intensity. As it loses heat, it turns around into a fluid. The refrigerant is then gotten back to within the cooler by the tension distinction, and the cycle begins once more.

The refrigerant known as R-410A, for instance, found in many intensity siphons utilized for family warming in Norway, has an Earth-wide temperature boost capability of around 2000. Researcher, a specialist in refrigerants, makes sense of what this signifies: "R-410A having an unnatural weather change capability of 2000 intends that in the event that a kilo of that gas spills into the air, it will add to warming multiple times in excess of a kilo of CO₂, over a time of 100 years."

The narrative of CO2 as a refrigerant

Refrigerants are actually not intended to be delivered into the environment, yet practically speaking, this frequently winds up occurring. Coolers and intensity siphons age and glitch, spills happen, and the gases escape into the climate.

One more issue with fluorinated gases spilling into the climate is that a large portion of them have a place with the purported PFAS (Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances), and in the long run separate into tireless parts like TFA (trifluoroacetic corrosive). These substances persevere in the climate and have been displayed to gather in people, leading to different issues like malignant growth, thyroid sickness, and low sperm count.

Normal refrigerants

Normal refrigerants, similar to their name proposes, are not engineered, yet happen normally in the biosphere. They incorporate alkali, CO₂, hydrocarbons (like propane or isobutane), and, surprisingly, such everyday substances as water and air. Smelling salts, propane and isobutane have unimportant an Earth-wide temperature boost potential, while CO₂ has an unnatural weather change capability of 1.

They affect the ozone layer, and they don't separate into relentless synthetic compounds in the climate.

That being said, regular refrigerants have their downsides also. Smelling salts is harmful, destructive, and combustible when concentrated. Isobutane and propane are likewise combustible. These hindrances are managed through cautious designing. Frameworks utilizing alkali, for instance, are planned with materials that can endure its destructive impacts. Family frameworks utilizing isobutane and propane regularly utilize a restricted sum. "The most extreme measure of isobutane or propane permitted as a refrigerant in domestic devices is only 150 grams, says Researcher. Regardless of whether a hole happens, with such a modest quantity, the refrigerant will probably be available at such a low focus in the air that burning won't be imaginable."

What to get: cooler

The uplifting news assuming you're an earth cognizant shopper keeping watch for another fridge is that finding one that utilizes normal refrigerants is very simple. The most broadly accessible option on account of family fridges and coolers is isobutane.

The justification behind this is that starting around 2015, refrigerants with an unnatural weather change capability of at least 150 have been taboo in new homegrown coolers and coolers in Europe. The standard will probably be fixed in 2026 to prohibit all fluorinated gases - with exemptions made for situations when they are expected to meet wellbeing necessities.

Really, this implies that the overwhelming majority of family fridges and coolers sold from 2026 onwards will utilize regular refrigerants.

Really taking a look at the refrigerant prior to purchasing

Not all sales reps know about refrigerants, so it's best not to depend on them altogether to get the data. A fast mind the sites of some huge gadgets retailers in Norway shows that the refrigerant utilized is many times recorded under the item specs (spesifikasjoner, in Norwegian). It is normal to need to tap on "specs" and afterward again on "show more specs" to get to the section about the refrigerant.

Refrigerants are typically recorded with a code beginning with "R". We recorded a few normal ones in the table underneath. "R-600a", for instance, compares to isobutane, a characteristic refrigerant. As far as we can tell, the specs distributed on the web notice the refrigerant sort in about portion of the cases. In the event that the data isn't recorded under "specs", really look at the item's guidance manual: the refrigerant is some of the time determined there.

On the off chance that you can't find the data on the web, you want to truly inspect the unit to find out (makers are committed by regulation to determine the refrigerant on the actual item).

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whattheabcxyz · 4 months ago

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2024-10-31

Singapore

$4.75m compensation awarded to victim of road accident in Malaysia - multiple parties to share liability; the victim was 38 at the time of the accident & has since required full-time care due to severe brain damage

3 international students caught smuggling duty-unpaid cigarettes in soft toys - they're from China 😡😡😡

Man charged for biting 2 LTA enforcement officers in Woodlands - this feral beast needs a cage

DHL, Salesforce & Trust Bank named among best workplaces here

Anti-death penalty activist faces probe for defying POFMA correction order

Food

High levels of hazardous chemical residue detected on Shine Muscat grapes - 9 samples were from China

Environment

New study finds alarming rise in persistent "forever chemicals" in pesticides - PFAS from pesticide products were detected in rivers & streams throughout the US

Science

Anyone can learn echolocation in just 10 weeks — & it remodels your brain - previously, scientists thought only blind people could do this

Nature

^ 1 of Singapore’s 3 remaining giant clam species has not been seen since 2003 - already, 2 of Singapore’s 5 native species of giant clams have been declared extinct here ...with all the f***ing habitat destruction taking place here, added to the fact that we now have millions more humans crammed on our tiny isle (no thanks to our useless govt) generating a $hit ton more pollution, this is an inevitable outcome! I cry for the clams & that our waters are now worse off without them!!! 😞

Fashion

Free makeover by Singapore fashion labels turns migrant workers into models

Travel

SIA & Scoot flights between Singapore & Taipei affected by typhoon in Taiwan

#travel #fashion #nature #science #environment #food #singapore

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tsmom1219 · 6 months ago

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Webinar: Developing and Demonstrating Technologies for the Destruction of PFAS in Concentrated Liquid Waste Streams

Sep 12, 2024, 11 amRegister here. Abstracts “Validation of a UV/TiO2 Activated Alkaline Media for Destruction of PFAS in Concentrated Liquid Waste Streams” by Dr. Megan Hart (ER19-1403) PFAS are ubiquitous and pose a potential threat to human health and the natural environment. First developed as a water and stain repellent, these products were utilized extensively to control high intensity,…

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trendstorm · 6 months ago

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Forever Chemicals No More | The Future of PFAS Treatment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtjAagisMtg Discover the groundbreaking room-temperature defluorination technique that's revolutionizing how we handle perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), also known as 'forever chemicals.' Developed by researchers at Ritsumeikan University, this innovative method uses visible light to break down PFAS at room temperature, offering a sustainable solution to a growing environmental crisis. Learn how this new approach could drastically change the way we manage these harmful chemicals, potentially paving the way for a more sustainable future. Source: Ritsumeikan University. #chemicalengineering #healthandsafety #foreverchemicals Perfluoroalkyl substances PFAS treatment future Forever chemicals breakdown PFAS defluorination method Sustainable PFAS solutions Room-temperature PFAS treatment Breaking down forever chemicals Photocatalytic PFAS treatment Innovative PFAS destruction Future of PFAS management Forever chemicals removal technology Room-temperature PFAS solution PFAS room-temperature defluorination PFAS and environmental health New PFAS treatment method Defluorination of PFAS at room temperature Forever chemicals removal research PFAS photocatalytic breakdown Future of PFAS disposal PFAS environmental impact PFAS and public health risk PFAS contamination solutions Room-temperature PFAS destruction PFAS and fluorinated polymers PFAS treatment technology Forever chemicals and water contamination PFAS cleanup technology Fluorinated polymer breakdown PFAS and environmental sustainability Innovative PFAS defluorination Photocatalytic defluorination technology PFAS future innovations PFAS defluorination research Room-temperature PFAS decomposition Forever chemicals elimination PFAS light-based treatment PFAS decomposition at low temperature PFAS photocatalysis breakthrough Future PFAS disposal methods PFAS and fluorine recycling Advanced PFAS treatment methods Room-temperature PFAS solutions PFAS cleanup innovation PFAS and fluorine recovery PFAS environmental solutions PFAS removal technologies PFAS and global contamination New method for PFAS treatment PFAS light-activated treatment Fluorine recovery from PFAS PFAS breakdown with light Room-temperature PFAS management PFAS and fluorinated polymer treatment PFAS contamination and cleanup PFAS future environmental solutions Room-temperature PFAS defluorination method Fluorine recycling from PFAS PFAS treatment innovations Forever chemicals management PFAS environmental cleanup PFAS photodecomposition technology PFAS and sustainable recycling Room-temperature PFAS technology PFAS light treatment New PFAS breakdown methods PFAS defluorination and recycling PFAS contamination future solutions Room-temperature PFAS technology innovation PFAS and environmental protection PFAS future of treatment Forever chemicals defluorination Goodbye Forever Chemicals! Room-Temp Solution to PFAS! 100% PFAS Breakdown Light-Powered Chemical Revolution Safe & Efficient PFAS Removal! Revolutionizing PFAS Removal: Breakthrough Room-Temperature Defluorination! Forever Chemicals No More: The Future of PFAS Treatment Unveiled New Tech Destroys PFAS at Room Temperature – A Game Changer! Room-Temperature Solution to 'Forever Chemicals' – Groundbreaking Research! Eliminating PFAS with Light: The Room-Temperature Defluorination Miracle Defluorination at Room Temperature: A New Hope Against PFAS Pollution Say Goodbye to PFAS: Revolutionary Room-Temperature Defluorination Method Breaking Down PFAS at Room Temperature – A Major Scientific Milestone! Room-Temperature PFAS Destruction: The Science That Could Save the Planet PFAS Treatment Revolution: Defluorination at Room Temperature Explained via Trend Storm https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF1F2JAMftAe2z2hl32FXmQ August 26, 2024 at 05:30PM

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202170044dci2022 · 7 months ago

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‘The Land is polluted’ How environmental literature sets out the problems and solutions for societal change.

Land pollution has become a major concern for communities across the globe. Urbanisation, agricultural practices, and industrialisation have left several adverse impacts on the environment. Key issues include soil degradation, water contamination, and waste disposal are emphasising the serious impacts industrial practices have on our ecosystems. Fast fashion and food waste are two major contributors to land pollution and speaks to a wider issue of overconsumption and disregard for the natural world as explored in Greta Thunberg's No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Both texts explore the problems of natural resource destruction, whilst calling for urgent action and solutions to rally people towards the cause.

Fast fashion has emerged as a major contributor to land pollution, with companies such as SHEIN and H&M facing criticism for their harmful production methods. ‘A Marketplace investigation found that out of 38 samples of children's, adult's and maternity clothes and accessories, one in five items had elevated levels of chemicals — including lead, PFAS and phthalates.’ To maintain their high production rates, fast fashion businesses prioritise low costs, which has led to the use of non-biodegradable materials that release harmful chemicals during procedures such as dyeing and flame-proofing. Consequently, clothing now has a short lifespan and is often discarded after just a few uses, resulting in a rise in landfill waste, thus furthering the land pollution issue. As Thunberg quotes,

‘We are about to sacrifice our civilization for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue to make enormous amounts of money. We are about to sacrifice the biosphere so that rich people in countries like mine can live in luxury. But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.’ (13)

While individual consumer behaviours contribute to land pollution, major industrial corporations have the most impact. These corporations prioritise their own interests over our ecosystem’s health, furthering environmental degradation. Thunberg’s emphasises every effort is crucial, stating, ‘Nobody is too small to make a difference.’ Focus must remain on major corporations who intentionally exploit and damage the environment for profit. As we work to make positive changes in our daily lives, it is essential that we hold these major companies responsible for their significant involvement in the land pollution crisis.

Just as fast fashion relies on chemicals that have negative environmental consequences, pesticide use in agriculture has aroused similar concerns. Rachel Carson's, Silent Spring, explores this topic by investigating the detrimental effects of DDT, a pesticide that was first employed by World War II soldiers to prevent typhus and malaria among troops. Following the war, DDT's use in agricultural increased dramatically. Carson's research illustrates the long-term damage caused by these chemicals, drawing parallels with the environmental repercussions of chemical use in industries such as fast fashion. Carson states ‘In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little recognised partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world- the very nature of its life.’ (23). Although we have recently become aware of the environmental impacts of our consumer behaviour, these environmental issues have been present for much longer than us. With Carson’s work highlighting how toxic chemicals has long been a major contributor to environmental degradation.

Agricultural practices are a key contributor to land pollution, with pesticides playing a significant part. Many Western countries expect fresh produce year-round, regardless of seasonal considerations. To meet demand, farmers frequently resort to pesticides to extend crop shelf life, resulting in significant environmental and health implications. Without pesticides, food waste could increase, as crops degrade faster, limiting shelf life and increasing decay rates. ‘Pesticides enable farmers to avoid up to 78%, 54%, and 32% losses of fruits, vegetables, and cereals, respectively’. However, without pesticides, water contamination, soil degradation, and air pollution would be significantly reduced. These contradicting pesticide issues arise from governments and major corporations controlling what we, as consumers, are exposed to, pushing their interests ahead of environmental and public health concerns. Carson states in Silver Spring ‘So thoroughly has the age of poisons become established that anyone may walk into a store and, without questions being asked, buy substances of far greater death-dealing power than the medicinal drug for which he may be required to sign a ‘poison book’ in the pharmacy next door’ (158). Even in 1962, our food and products were contaminated with toxic chemicals, a problem persisting today. Pesticide use continues to contribute to land pollution while also posing major health risks to consumers. Pesticide use needs to be regulated to reduce environmental damage while safeguarding public health from the harmful impacts of these toxic chemicals, an issue that Carson highlighted, yet which remains unresolved more than six decades later.

Fast fashion and food waste are major contributors to land pollution, and resolving these issues requires focusing on large corporations who have a significant impact on our ecosystems. Consumers can also assist in combatting land pollution by making sustainable choices and reducing their environmental footprint. Wendell Berry argues ‘we have, in fact, been turning our country into an economy as fast as possible, and we have been doing so by an unaccounted squandering of its actual, its natural and its cultural, wealth’. This observation stresses how consumers as well as suppliers have contributed to environmental degradation. Nonetheless, consumers must educate themselves to make sustainable choices so that they can make changes both personally and societally.

Fears around the impacts of climate change have been longstanding, which the earliest discoveries dating back to 1896 when ‘Svante Arrhenius first predicted that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could substantially alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect’ . Despite the increased discoveries since 1896, society has been reluctant to acknowledge the impact of continued natural resource destruction and overuse. Social psychologist Brian Lickel believes this unwillingness is due to human not being designed to live in heightened fear states, instead he believes ‘our emotion system is designed to be labile, to go up or have certain responses, but then to not stick there.’ Carson and Thunberg has both identified these patterns in human behaviours, and as such have learned to mould their approach to environmentalism with the right tone, emotion and language to engage their audience’s effectively.

Silent Spring was released in 1962, following a near three-decade career where Carson had studied and written about the natural world. Her career was a blend of the scientific and the creative, the logical against the illogical to an extent and it was relationship that is most evident in how she approached and what most influenced her readers. She opens Silent Spring with the ‘A fable for tomorrow’ where she describes an American town with:

‘prosperous farms, […] where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed […]. Along the roads, laurel, viburnum and alder, great ferns and wildflowers delighted the traveler’s eye through much of the year.’ (21)

The image is striking and poetic, almost utopian in nature and an unusual approach to a book about science. This is not to say that the text strays away from conveying the scientific underpinning of her research, but rather she utilises the beauty of language to draw in the reader. This is shown in how the fable quickly change in tone as she discusses ‘a strange blight crept over the area […]. Some evil spell had settled on the community: […] Everywhere was a shadow of death.’ (22). The attempt of such a change, has begun to show how quickly the environment can change when its natural resources are abused over time. Carson emphasis the change in the land, where once was colour and beauty are now replaced by darkness and shadow. Despite referring to pesticide pollution, it speaks to a larger issue that modern society faces land pollution caused by fast fashion and food waste, which damages land and ruins natural beauty. Carson identified a problem, but she also identified a solution in how we convey the way forward in society, a utopia of natural beauty to maintain and strive for. Cate Lineberry noted similar of Carson’s work, ‘Though the scientific community already knew of the dangers, Carson was the first to make the information accessible and palatable to a mass audience in her groundbreaking book.’ Carson’s approach was successful, with Silent Spring being considered one of the most influential scientific texts of all time. It highlighted the problem of land pollution and brought to light those responsible, big business, whilst engaging readers who armed with their new knowledge could work towards making a changes personally and societally. This impact did lead to an increased fear amongst those who were destroying land and making money in the process, as evidenced in a letter criticising the text;‘we can live without birds and animals, but as the current market slump shows, we cannot live without business’ (Loc:1461). Emma Smith discusses how this backlash aided its success, stating that the book became so popular that ‘Paperback versions of Silent Spring continued to be printed as the ecological crisis depicted in it showed no immediate signs of losing its relevance.’ (Loc:1564) The phenomenon spoke to the wider impacts of controversy surrounding figures who dare to speak about the environmental crisis, who must inform and make change. As Robin McKie writes ‘More than any other individual, [Carson] helped raise awareness about humanity's potential to wreak havoc on nature and we should be grateful. But it is equally clear that the planet is in a far worse state today than it was in 1962.’

McKie’s recognition of the planet’s worsening state speaks to the increased urgency around environmentalism. Although Carson had more room to approach the text with a more prosaic approach, activists like Thunberg have identified that in the modern landscape, language of urgency and intensity are more effective ways of rallying a new generation. In No One she states, ‘I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.’ and ‘If the walls of our house truly came tumbling town, surely you would set your differences aside and start cooperating. Well, our house is falling apart.’ (20). It is a powerful image drawing the reader towards the personal through the use of ‘house’, yet which refers to the earth more generally. She tries to give individuals a sense of belonging to the earth by focusing on their own personal place within the world, along with a greater awareness of the wider threats that come from big business and industry. When examining the causes of land pollution and how Thunberg and Carson engaged with this, what crops up is this lack of responsibility and transparency. Whether it is clothes we wear, the food we eat or the carbon footprint we make, Thunberg makes sure the individual is aware that it is their home they are destroying by ignoring these practises. Her approach has had significant impact, similar to that of Carson, and has been ‘able to mobilize a global movement and have considerable impact on policymaking, people’s behaviors, and public discourse about climate change – which is typically termed the ‘Greta effect’ . Thunberg is part of a new generation who are more conscious around the impact that we have when it comes to fashion and food we consume. Moreover, the rise of social media is becoming increasingly engaged, and where Carson has the platform of her book to bring awareness of the issue of land pollution, Thunberg has the power to been seen across the world in mere moments. Therefore, short and powerful statements like the one above have an increasing impact on people. Whilst the issues Carson speaks of in Silent Spring are still ongoing, the work she did do gave power to issues of land pollution and gave others a voice to provide solutions and give people the information they need to combat climate change.

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I am a student of the University of Hull blogging as part of my assessment for the module Writing the Environment. All views expressed here are my own and do not represent the university.

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dd-phd · 8 months ago

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On X, the Israeli Foreign Minister openly threatened Jibril Rajoub, the head of the PFA and Palestine Olympic Committee, with imprisonment if he did not drop the request to expel Israel from FIFA.

By turning a blind eye, FIFA is complicit in ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the destruction of Palestine’s sports infrastructure.

No one is asking FIFA to mix politics with sports but rather to simply apply its own rules and be fair.

#sports #gaza #israel

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occupyhades · 1 year ago

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Operation Deimos: The Abyss of Behemoth

Operation Deimos keeps track of the Agents of Behemoth: The Backstabbing Parasites of Corporate Personhood.

A wicked person listens to deceitful lips; a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue. Proverbs 17:4 (NIV)

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? Matthew 23:33 (NIV)

There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide. Job 34:22 (BSB)

The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves. Psalm 93:3 (BSB)

Because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction, in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you, when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you. Proverbs 1:26 (BSB)

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And there were open books, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books. Apocalypse 20:12 (BSB)

And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. Apocalypse 20:15 (BSB)

#apocalypse #god #holy spirit #judgement #damnation

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pinkiepieaddict · 1 year ago

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rightserve · 2 years ago

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Reinforced Concrete VS Plain Un-Reinforced Concrete

Reinforced concrete is a flexible composite and quite possibly of the most generally involved material in present day development. Concrete is a generally fragile material that is solid under pressure yet less so in strain. Plain, un-built up concrete is inadmissible for some designs as it is generally poor at enduring anxieties incited by vibrations, wind stacking, and so on.

To expand its solidarity, steel bars, wires, lattice or links can be implanted in concrete before it sets. This support, frequently known as rebar, opposes tractable powers. By shaping areas of strength for a together, materials can oppose applied powers, really going about as a solitary primary component.

Since Roman times concrete has been utilized as a development material, yet the utilization of support, as iron, was just presented during the 1850s by French industrialist François Coignet, and it was only after the 1880s that German structural specialist G. A. Wayss involved steel as support.

Reinforced cement can be prefab or cast set up (in site) concrete, and is utilized in applications like chunk, wall, shaft, segment, foundation, and edge development. Support is for the most part positioned in region of the substantial that are probably going to be dependent upon strain, for example, the lower piece of pillars. It is normal for there to be at least 50 mm cover, both above and underneath the steel support, to oppose spalling and consumption which can prompt primary shakiness.

There are likewise a few sorts of non-steel support that can be utilized, predominately for the purpose of controlling breaking. Fiber-reinforced concrete is a substantial blend that contains short discrete filaments that are dispersed uniformly all through the material. Filaments can be made of glass, polypropylene, manufactured and regular materials, as well as steel.

Pre-focused concrete considers foreordained, designing anxieties to be put in substantial individuals to counteract the burdens that happen when they are liable to stacking.

The steel support conveys the anxieties in customary reinforced concrete, though pre-focused substantial backings the heap by actuated burdens all through the whole primary component.

This makes pre-focused substantial more impervious to stun and vibration than customary cement, and ready to frame long, dainty designs with a lot more modest sectional regions to help comparable burdens. Pre-focusing might be accomplished by pre-tensioning or post-tensioning.

Reinforced concrete advantages

Reinforced concrete is incredibly strong and requires little support. It has great warm mass and is innately heat proof. Rebar is by and large produced using 100 percent reused piece, and at the destruction stage, the substantial and rebar are equipped for being isolated with the goal that the steel can be reused. Nonetheless, concrete has a moderately high exemplified energy, coming about because of its extraction, production, and transportation. Squander materials can be incorporated inside the substantial blend like RCA (Reused Squashed Total), GGBS (Ground Granulated Impact Heater Slag) and PFA (Pounded Fuel Debris), in any case, issues, for example, dampness content and material fluctuation might make its reusing unviable.

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