#environmental petition

[terrible-eel]

Stop deep sea mining before it starts

The deep sea is a treasure trove of biodiversity and home to untold wonders and possibilities. It is also one of our best allies against climate change. But a threat is coming: deep sea mining. The good news is we can stop this industry before it’s too late, but we don’t have much time.

Deep sea mining companies are pressuring governments to let them go down there, several thousand meters below the surface of the ocean, and plunder the seabed to extract metals. If this industry is allowed to start, gigantic machines weighing more than a blue whale will be lowered onto the ocean floor to plunder these pristine ocean ecosystems.

Imagine if we could go back in time and stop offshore drilling at the dawn of the oil age and prevent environmental and climate catastrophes. This is where we are at with deep sea mining. This is a once in a generation opportunity: to stop another extractive industry from damaging the global oceans the way the fossil fuel companies have done to the climate.

Governments need to take a strong stand against deep sea mining. They have to publicly call for this industry not to start and take action to protect the deep ocean. Join us by signing the petition.

The problem

Deep sea mining companies are seeking to start mining the seabed, carving up the global commons for corporate profit. Scientists warn that deep sea mining risks causing severe and potentially irreversible damage to the deep ocean and to the marine life that calls it home. Additionally, mining could adversely affect coastal communities and disrupt the natural processes that store carbon, making the climate emergency even worse.

The solution

The deep ocean is one of the world’s largest, most fragile, and most important ecosystems. Some governments have already voiced their concerns about deep sea mining. Others already called for a moratorium or a ban. We need to turn these words into action. We need governments to stop the launch of this destructive new extractive industry and put the deep sea off-limits to mining for good

To sign the petition, Go Here

Please check out this video. He really does sum things up.

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Hi folks! UPM, a Finnish forest industry company, is planning on cutting down forest in Rokansaari — an island that spans five square kilometers in Lake Saimaa. Rokansaari has often been described to be a hidden gem and a paradise island, known for its natural sandy beaches, eskers, and lush beautiful pine forests. It’s very popular among travellers, boaters, tourists, all kinds of people really. Some of the forests on the island are even 130 years old.

The areas that UPM is planning on cutting down are labelled as a protected area, but that really only means that you can’t build things there. “Careful cutting” of these forests is fine. Do you know what UPM’s definition of “careful cutting” is, according to their previous work in other parts of Rokansaari?

…Yeah. And now they’re back to cut down the rest of the area they have.

Anyway, Greenpeace has made a petition to urge UPM to not cut down Rokansaari’s forests! They’ve succeeded in telling UPM off before in 2016, when they managed to keep another similar island safe. I hope they’ll be able to do it again, so I’m sharing the petition! I’m not sure if non-Finns can sign it, but if not, sharing it would be enough. We need more people on this case!

[bitchfitch]

Idk. my hottest take in relation to stained glass has to do with resin. So Many YouTubers do "stained glass resin" vids and i know why they do it, because total boat pays them to, but it's gotten your average joe thinking its the better and easier craft.

its literally not, like, in anyway. Like ignoring that resin is just plastic and these people are using gallons of it to convince folk to give their sponsors, who are one of the larger plastic waste creators, a lot of money. Resin is more expensive to do in terms of raw material and is only getting more expensive as plastic regulations tighten up and require the company's to offset the massive amount of waste they're generating. It's way less easy, once that resin starts curing your on a clock vs being able to just fuck off whenever you like, and if you fuck up an SG piece, Big woop just melt off the solder or retry the cut, it's not going to ruin your entire project, while resin isn't even the type of plastic you can melt and reshape.

and the most like Irritating one, Resin isn't safer to do than SG! it just isn't!

like, here's the thing, you can absolutely cut yourself on broken glass or bump the soldering iron, but that's 2 seconds of pain and a bandaid vs resin, which is a known carcinogen and Ridiculously toxic to the point of the fumes alone making people sick and killing pets. Literally all the safety kit for SG is is a pair of glasses and some gardening gloves (which you resuse infinitely instead of often replacing multiple times a project), resin needs eye protection, full skin protection, a proper n95 or other equivalent filter rated for the hazardous chemicals in resin, and Real good ventilation.

And when you're done you have to clean all that plastic crap up instead of just sweeping a bit.

but if you mention any of that during your video, no one will give more money to the people sponsoring you!

[down-therabbithole]

If you live in the UK, take a second to sign this petition as if you've seen the news this week our Water supplies are contaminated due to sewage dumping (who could of seen that coming 🙄).

[toadschooled]

If the Sag Harbor School District fails to receive approval from voters on May 16th to acquire 4 acres of wooded lots on Marsden Street, the community urges the Village and/or Town officials to acquire the wooded lots for preservation, as they are some of the last wooded lots in the Historic District of the Village of Sag Harbor.

The Marsden site is a kettle hole, which is a natural basin created by glacial movements from approx. 20,000 years ago. This topographic depression currently absorbs great amounts of stormwater diverted from higher elevated areas around the village. If we lose this precious stormwater basin, we will experience newfound flood zones in neighboring properties.

There are many animal species we are concerned about that live within these wooded lots:

-North American Box Turtle -Eastern Spade Foot Toad -Northern Long Eared Bat -White Tailed Deer -Screech Owl -Great Horned Owl -Raccoon -Opossum

-Dragonflies (which are signs of a healthy ecosystem, especially water bodies)

and more!

Many healthy trees and plantlife currently reside on Marsden, pulling carbon from our air, and absorbing water from our ground:

-Black Oak -Black Cherry -Black Locust -Black Walnut -White Oak -White Poplar -One double trunk tree with a circumferance of 10 feet -Red Maple -Red Cedar -Scarlett Oak -Norway Maple -Script Lichen -Beard Lichen and many more.

Imagine revitalizing a former kettle hole into a pond (to complete the Long Pond Greenbelt), creating a serene pathway for the community and students of the neighboring school to use as a close-proximity connection to nature. The school could even use this preserved site for their science classes!

The Marsden Street Lots do not need to be developed. Sign this petition to show your support for preservation of the last wooded lots in Sag Harbor's Historic District.

[oediex]

World Bank: Stop Funding Factory Farming

International development banks are funding disastrous factory farming -- poisoning our planet and leaving corporations in charge of our food. Nitrogen pollution from U.S. mega-farms has already created gigantic 'dead zones' in the Gulf of Mexico, and it's happening in Europe too. Now development banks are investing hundreds of millions into the industry to build more factory farms around the world.  But a new global campaign to end funding of industrial animal agriculture is ramping up, and helped persuade the Inter-American Development Bank to drop a $200 million beef industry loan. Now it's time to target the World Bank -- the biggest and most influential development bank of them all. Bankers and finance ministers are meeting April 17-19, and can set the bank onto the right path if we make them: Tell the World Bank: stop funding industrial animal agriculture Once we gather 100,000 signatures with our partners, we'll present them to the World Bank President at the annual spring meeting in Washington DC. It's a rare opportunity for us all to be heard.While many of us try to reduce our meat consumption for climate reasons and animal welfare, our governments indirectly fund the global expansion of monstrous factory farms. According to research by World Animal Protection, leading development banks, including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Investment Bank, IDB Invest, and the International Finance Corporation (IFC, World Bank Group), invested $4.6B in the sector between 2010 and 2021. But we're not starting from zero: World Bank shareholders voted in October 2023 to update the Bank's mission statement to explicitly include a commitment to addressing climate change, stating it will work “to create a world free of poverty on a liveable planet.”  Now it's time to push the Bank further -- to make the World Bank's actions match its words.

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[thatwitchybitchandco]

Please sign to tell Biden to declare a climate emergency and block all new fossil fuel projects!

[paeinovis]

Hi, our observatory is currently under threat of a sand mine being built 500 ft away from it. I'm going to a city council meeting tomorrow and it'd be very cool to have a petition with Numbers associated to point at saying "don't fucking do this", so if you wouldn't mind signing/sharing, I'd appreciate it!

There are a couple of glaring problems with the proposal that I'll list under the read more if you're interested:

Telescopes have mirrors. Sand + mirrors = Bad, since it will cover them and possibly cause scratches (on the mirrors that we've just replaced which cost millions of dollars and years to do)

Sand in the air will scatter light, which makes images blurry when taken by the telescope

It might also get in gears and such, ruining hardware

This observatory has been around for 60 years and is used for citizen/student outreach, including K-12

The mine would be threatening gopher tortoise environment when they are already endangered

The water coalition is also against this due to the possibility of pollution of the Suwannee river

Air quality will drop, making it dangerous for telescope faculty (including myself because I have asthma) and residents

The sand mine is trying to get an exception to be built in a residential zone. You know, where people live?

Noise pollution will bother residents and vibrations could affect instrumentation

Light pollution in one of the few remaining dark skies of Florida will negatively affect observing and residents

[caribbeanart]

The Mermaid Wakes: Paintings of a Caribbean Isle by Canute Caliste

One of my favorite artists from the island of Carriacou in Grenada. In late June, residents of Carriacou and Petite Martinique were badly hit by a category 5 hurricane. You can help by donating any amount to one of these funds here and/or by sharing this post.

[eternalistic]

Russian troops have killed thousands and displaced millions. They are also destroying Ukraine's environment, toxifying its soil, and burning its forests and fields. 600 species of animals and 880 species of plants are now under threat. Altogether, the damage to the environment amounts to over 50 billion dollars. But ecocide, the act of severely destroying the environment, is not considered an international crime. But there is hope: the European Union is about to decide on making the mass destruction of its nature illegal. If they act, it could set an example for the world to follow -- and a campaign supported by 1 million of us would show that people everywhere are against the destruction of Mother Earth. Sign now demanding the criminalization of ecocide and we'll deliver our voices straight to key decision-makers. (444,496 have signed.)

[thoughtportal]

Thank you for proposing to protect old-growth national forests from commercial logging. Our old-growth trees are critical for wildlife, people and public health, and this is a big step toward preserving them for future generations. Please ensure that the final plan does not include exceptions that allow continued logging of old-growth for commercial gain and please consider including protections for mature trees in the final policy. Old-growth should be protected from logging in all ecosystems, including in southeast Alaska. The only exceptions should be for protecting public health and safety, including protecting communities and infrastructure from wildfire, to comply with statutes or regulations and for culturally significant uses. If old-growth trees must be logged for these reasons, they should not be sold to timber companies. Instead, they should be left in the forest to continue as part of the ecosystem just as if they had fallen due to natural disturbances.

[froggos-are-superior]

The Willow Project was approved last year, an oil drilling operation by a corporation called ConocoPhillips. The operation would take place in the Alaskan wilderness, spanning thousands of acres, and disrupting one of the largest pieces of untouched land in the country. Environmentalists have been protesting it, stating that it will decimate the local wildlife and have drastic consequences on the Arctic. Estimates say the the project would release over 260 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which would have such a catastrophic impact on the Earth that we may never recover from it.

Please help by signing the petition to stop this.

As the Lorax stated, unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.