#fuck fossil fuels

[mywingsareonwheels]

Environmental action (UK)

Hey fellow UK people: this is both easy and pretty good. Sends messages to all party leaders (including in the devolved nations I'm glad to say; pro-fossil fuel lobbyists have been putting a lot of pressure on the SNP lately and that needs nipping in the bud). Please consider doing the thing!

[hiccup-queen]

It gets even more fucky than that.

Chevron did not provide samples to the EPA for testing. This risk report is based on best-case and worst-case chemical analogs, which may or may not be the compound in question. The EPA report is based on best guesses.

And the best guess says:

That's from the (heavily redacted) EPA report. The 'case' column on the left is the compounds similar to the ones that make up the fuel. Notice how almost all of them pose health risks to anyone who eats a contaminated fish. See how most of them will be present in drinking water. The reason infants have a higher expectation of being affected is because the compounds cause neurodevelopmental effects and because their organs aren't developed enough to protect themselves the way adult organs are.

The fuel compounds are carcinogenic (cancer-causing) and teratogenic (birth-defect-causing, high rate of stillbirth and miscarriage). In the rest of the report, its made clear that these fuels can affect you if you inhale them - which means that anybody who lives, works, or regularly spends time in areas where this fuel is used will be affected.

This is terrifying.

If you have a basic grasp on chemistry, please read the report. Understand why this fuel is terrible so you can spread the word.

Horrible fact of the day: Chevron just released a new boat fuel that WILL give you cancer.

Not "might", not "could", WILL. It has a cancer ratio of 1:1, as in, in a group of 10 people, ALL 10 would contract CANCER.

The EPA's safety limit is 1:1,000,000 as in 1 in a million people get cancer.

The EPA approved it anyways. I am not joking. The EPA approved a boat fuel that has a near 100% chance of giving someone cancer. It has such a good chance of giving someone cancer that if you DIDN'T get cancer YOU WOULD BE AN OUTLIER.

Fuck the oil industries.

[cas-iopeia-blog]

my sign for an nyc march against fossil fuels

inspired heavily and solely by "fossil fuel" - sei shimura

[nando161mando]

[popsicle-stick]

stupidest people on gods green earth

[thelawsofdaylight]

I have a lot of respect for the Just Stop Oil protestors who interrupted Les Mis last night. I've done disruptive actions before and it's fucking hard. Any kind of direct action is hard, and anyone who participates in civil disobedience (or uncivil disobedience!) will know that.

But still. It's incredibly disheartening to see the negative responses from people who (presumably, seeing as they either follow the account and/or bought tickets to the show) are fans of Les Mis.

And like, I don't know, it's just making me reflect a lot on how popularised versions of Les Mis (mainly the musical) still fail to get through to people. It doesn't hammer home the message in the book's prologue, it's too easy for people to see it as that was then and this is now, that was over there and this is here, etc, etc. Like... I can't stop thinking about how quickly the protestors were thrown under the bus by both the audience and the theatre. How it's easy for people to exercise hypothetical solidarity towards a bunch of fictional characters yet not extend that to real life contexts. How everyone will unanimously agree that the National Guard are the bad guys and then turn around and cheer on the IRL cops for removing protestors. I don't know.

And I've been to productions of Les Mis before where people will cry during the barricade sequence or comment on how upsetting Fantine's story is and then come out of the theatre and walk straight past the unhoused people on the streets. It's not new. But it is particularly jarring when as soon as the lights come up people seem to forget how fervently they hoped that things would be different, and not realise they have to play a part in that change in order for that to happen. Like, the message of Les Mis is supposed to be if you do nothing, nothing will change.

The amount of people who don't seem to grasp that Les Mis condemns people exactly like them, who stood by, who turned away from the people trying to change things, it's just... It's so fucking frustrating.

[poisonwaterlily3]

Really gross that republicans are supporting oil drilling and fossil fuels and then saying they had it coming for voting blue and god is punishing them and shit.

Not that it's unexpected, just gross.

[spaceandbones]

Not to arctic research au post on main but mance as a wildlife photographer for polar bears and qhorin as the guy who follows him with a gun so he doesnt get eaten is so funny to me. them doing these 6 months stints in the arctic with 0 women and qhorin has himself convinced that THIS TIME mance is going to realize hes gay and they can make out and then mance gets his helicopter shipment of titty mags in and beats off every morning before breakfast to playboy models and qhorin punches holes in their canvas yurt

[petrichor-enthusiast]

Crying alone in my silent room at night bc of old politicians that are fucking up the world with their greed just cause they won't be here to see the consequences of their actions and are dooming the next generation is such an autistic sense of justice slay for me.

[crazysnakey]

Don't forget the reason the U.S. is supporting Israel's genocide of Palestine - hell, 90% of the reason they ever get involved into something in the Middle East is for ulterior purposes regarding oil.

That and the Ben Gurion Canal project, which you can learn more about:

Also this short video explaining the canal's significance and full history in summary:

Simply put,

[ms-boogie-man]

Dodge commercial (America Fuck Yeah!)

No Tumblr blog is proper without this epic little ditty yo!  *nods

Angie/Maddie🦇❥✝︎🇺🇸

[justmaghookit]

Its 40 fucking degrees celsius rn, shoot me.

[vyvansecrashing]

can russia and north korea just nuke us already this is hopeless

[nando161mando]