#environmental injustice

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Alberta's energy regulator ruled Thursday that it won't reconsider approvals for Suncor to expand an oilsands mine into a wetland once considered for environmental protection. The decision opens the door for expansion of the company's Fort Hills mine that has been before the regulators for more than two decades. It unlocks an estimated billion barrels of bitumen. "This is part of Fort Hills moving forward," said Suncor spokesman Leithan Slade. But scientists say it's also likely to doom a unique patterned fen — a peat-producing wetland featuring long strings of trees and shrubs separated by narrow pools that is host to 20 rare or endangered plant species and more than 200 species of migratory birds, including endangered whooping cranes.

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[atompowers]

“Some of this language around energy infrastructure was really more focused on supporting dirty energy instead of clean energy infrastructure. So how are you going to advance energy justice if you are also supporting the energy injustice by supporting liquefied natural gas facilities to go into communities that have been already used as sacrifice zones. That makes no sense. That’s actually a form of insanity In my opinion.”

—Sacoby Wilson, director of the University of Maryland’s Center for Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health (CEEJH)

[makingcontact]

Toxic Tracks (encore)

The text “Toxic Tracks” on a background of railroad tracks.Background image by Hands off my tags! Michael Gaida from Pixabay   On today’s show, we’ll hear an encore of a show from our archives that first aired in April. We’ll be looking at the environmental impact of the rail industry and hear from people in two communities currently impacted by rail-related contamination. In February, a Suffolk…

[alwaysbewoke]

[progressivemillennial]

[anistarrose]

trying not to start an online fight in a comically inappropriate venue, but people also have some genuinely concerning misconceptions about this, so: if someone tells you that they can't go vegan because of dietary restrictions, you do not know more than they do about those restrictions in question. and they are under no obligation to share personal medical details in order to prove that you are wrong.

moreover, a world in which anyone has to "prove" their need for dietary accommodations to any authority — to say nothing of being denied them a priori because of a refusal to engage with even small scale, ethical animal husbandry — is enacting ableist violence on our bodies. personally, I want nothing more than for for-profit animal agriculture to burn with the rest of capitalism — but you have to understand that telling people like me to "just stop being selfish and stop eating animals" can only be translated as either "only eat things that make you violently ill," or "stop eating even the minimum amount of protein that a human can survive off of."

if you have an impulse to accuse me of overreacting, consider that the refusal of actual medical institutions to take legume and grain allergies seriously has caused me bodily harm throughout my life and to this day — with consequences for my overall lifespan that have yet to be revealed. I am not overreacting.

[hellisanhonourstudent]

Me whenever I remember the hardcore environmental subject,taught by one of the toughest professors at uni,then remember how RT made Logan an "environmentalist"

How the fuck one (1) guy riding a bicycle is going to do anything against air pollution? And considering how intelligent and well-educated Logan has always been(yes,always. He had plenty of problems at school,but none of them were with grades,AFAIK),he'd have realized it was merely an empty virtue signaling gesture. One would think Logan could help clean beaches and other places in Neptune(small scale,but still something with real results - making the city prettier and healthier),petition for proper disposal and treatment of residues(in all scales,not only in the industrial one),be invested in basic sanitation and water supply(those affect the poor disproportionally - see,Noir-relevant),engage in environmental education(bonus points if he gets to mentor troubled youth and take them under his wing - just like the professor did with him). Young!Logan might have plenty of flaws,but he got shit done.

Logan Echolls became what he hated the most - a virtue-signalling shithead who half-asses good deeds to stroke his own ego. Also,a State-Sanctioned Mercenary. Not very different from the vapid Hollywood he hated so much. I know the Doylist explanation was simply incompetence from RT,but can anyone think of an Watsonian one?

[aronarchy]

https://web.archive.org/web/20210628191016/twitter.com/butchanarchy/status/1409589813632593922

The climate crisis began in the so-called Americas in 1492.

Environment destruction was and remains a key tool in the belt of settler colonialism, not a side-effect or afterthought.

Settlement requires undermining Indigenous relationships to the land itself, which in turn means brutally disrupting the ecology of that land to the point that no relationships can be maintained with it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/as-salmon-vanish-in-the-dry-pacific-northwest-so-does-native-heritage/2015/07/30/2ae9f7a6-2f14-11e5-8f36-18d1d501920d_story.html

“More than half of the species in local ‘assemblages’—sets of co-existing species—of medium and large mammals living in the Neotropics of Meso and South America have died out since the region was first colonised by Europeans in the 1500s.”

“Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: A Synthesis of Current Impacts and Experiences” read here:

https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr944.pdf

“The impact of climate change on tribal communities in the US: displacement, relocation, and human rights” read here:

http://wordpress.ei.columbia.edu/climate-adaptation/files/2017/10/Maldonado-et-al-2011-Tribal-resettlement-US_ClimaticChange.pdf

“The Dakota Access Pipeline, Environmental Injustice and US Settler Colonialism” read here:

https://kylewhyte.cal.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2020/07/2020-Update-Dakota-Access-Pipeline-US-Colonialism.pdf

This is not unique to the US or the other settler colonies in the so-called Americas. The settler colony of Israel is employing the exact same tactics because it is an inherent feature of settler colonialism:

It is also not a feature of the past, but, like settler colonialism itself, is a structure that continues to wreak devastation on Indigenous lands:

[virgo-moonlight]

Hello hello! Please help a journalism graduate student out!

I’m currently writing an article for class regarding environmental racism, waste colonialism, and the impact of polluting facilities/waste being intentionally positioned closer to minority and low-income communities.

I would love to hear from anyone currently in or who has spent time in affected communities about their experience, any concerns that have been raised, if those concerns have been ignored or listened to, and anything else that you find important to speak about.

Please DM me if you can offer any comment on the issue, I would greatly appreciate your time!

Just a heads up as well that I would need your name, age, pronouns, profession, and contact info (at least an email) to list as a source. If you are not comfortable with giving your real name, you can give a pseudonym to be quoted with. Your personal information will NOT be published anywhere, that is purely for my source list which will only be seen by my professor.

Thank you in advance to anyone who can help! :)

[dendrochronologies]

everything is too expensive & urgent & i would love love LOVE to have a few days of things going WELL.

[ushypocrisy]

Texas Governor moves ahead with plan for border wall

Originally posted on LiberationNews.org Texas’ racist border wall continues; resistance still growing April 2, 2023 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Picture form ABCNews Nearly a year and a half after Texas governor Greg Abbott announced his plans to continue Donald Trump’s border wall, the project is ongoing at great expense to the public. After years of crowdfunding by the Republican governor and a…

[poniadeaur]

Someone upstairs has been wasting water for two days, they kept their tap open all-night, and as a result, the whole building isn't able to get water in their taps during the daytime.

This is also how many other things in the world work, you didn't do anything wrong, but we all suffer collectively. When the system is weak, we all choose to suffer the injustice bestowed upon us.

[knowledge-based-wumpus-agent]

I don't think this line was even supposed to be funny but its the hardest I laughed in the entire game

[lilies-of-the-fields]

[ID: a color-enhanced photo of a bluejay perched on stone. "Copyright Glynn Wilson, LocustFork.Net, 2010" written in small text at bottom left]

look at me. listen to me. this is directed at americans for the record. the reason you think North American animals are boring is because you live here. there are so many cool and beautiful animals here. we have beavers. we have wolves. we have moose. we have sea lions. we have armadillos. we have mountain lions. we have alligators. we have foxes. we have bighorn sheep. we have manatees. we have bears. we have ocelots. we have BISON. and that’s not even touching on the birds! or the turtles! or the snakes! we have amazing beautiful and diverse wildlife right here and it deserves to be appreciated and protected

[thewordharbor]

What exactly is environmental justice?

Environmental justice fights for fair treatment in policies and protections, especially for communities most affected by environmental harm.

Environmental justice is the movement that seeks to ensure fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, in the development and enforcement of environmental policies. It recognizes that certain communities, particularly marginalized ones, bear the brunt of environmental harm while often having the least say in decisions that affect…

[t00thpasteface]

first semester studying marine biology: wow i'm really learning a lot about the ocean ^_^ i can't wait to get out in the field in a couple years and do my part to make the world a better place ^_^

third semester studying marine biology: the intersection of capitalism, imperialism, socioeconomic injustice, and environmental destruction has turned me into david lynch's cartoon of the dog that is so angry it cannot move. anti littering campaigns aren't enough i need to guillotine every petrochemical executive and stick their heads on pikes on the white house lawn