#savingearth

[pauwieee07]

"Planting trees isn't just about growing forests; it's about cultivating hope for a greener future. Each sapling we nurture is a pledge against climate change, a promise to sustain life on our planet for generations to come."

[aeriseta]

I wrote this years ago but recently a friend told me I should put some of my poetry on TikTok so I've been slowly getting some of my poetry uploaded there and posting it here as well. Gotta get my name out there! 😁😆 This one is about us all working to save the environment! 🌍♻️🌎♻️🌏♻️🌍 #poem #savingearth #poetry #poetry🥀 #reducereuserecycle #reducewaste♻️ #recycling #sustainability #revival #environment #cleansing #cleanuptheearth #healingvibes #reducepollution #breathe #breathepinkfloyd #pinkfloyd https://www.instagram.com/p/CoLtKg0I4_L/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[beyond-the-red-list]

Consumption of threatened animals in alternative medicine and or/ traditional Chinese medicine

When talking about traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), I will not discuss whether or not it works; I will only discuss the ethical implications. Many of the animals used in TCM are endangered or threatened to some extent. For example, products may include parts of rhinos and tigers, which are illegal to trade and sell, and anything involving those animals. The animal/human dualism of humans constantly seeing animals as products makes it difficult to tell people that they shouldn’t be consuming products from these endangered animals; they believe people deserve to because animals are just viewed as what they are helpful to humans. Humans think they have the right to use animals as they see fit, but this ties to how humans can’t view themselves as something to be used by animals similarly. 

 Another vital thing to note is that just like the close relationship between humans and animals increases the chances of diseases mutating from being only in animals to being able to transmitted to humans, the consumption of animal products also increases the likelihood of zoonosis/zoonotic disease. For some users of TCM, the only way to make them start using only herbal medicines is by talking about how it impacts humans since some people don’t care about animal welfare. If your goal is to decrease the trade and sale of animal products, then sometimes you need to take what you can. Effective altruism is the concept of doing the most good and taking action, doing so impartially. That can involve actions that “barely” have an impact rather than inaction. Humans care about themselves, and the fear of getting a sickness that only animals typically have is terrifying, so educating TCM users to stay away from animal-based products is a method that can work. 

For people who do care about the animals, a better method is bringing up how endangered animals like tigers and rhinos are typically killed in ruthless ways to make a small amount of product. Also, the populations left in the wild are so small and haven’t been helped by the poaching that has occurred for years in the black market of endangered animal parts. Individuals who learn about the methods of how their medicine is acquired and made are no longer distanced from the brutality and are forced to either be complacent or realize they need to stop their consumption. It’s a similar concept to educating the public on factory farming. Once people are aware, they have to deal with the information in a way that they confront it because of cognitive dissonance. Furthermore, even farmed tigers in China that are bred to be used in TCM are eventually unethical since the likelihood of poaching in other countries that have wild tigers will increase. When legality is no longer a question, the only choice is to bring up personal morals because there’s less to lose legally.

Sources:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0965229903000554?via%3Dihub

https://explore.britannica.com/explore/savingearth/traditional-chinese-medicine-and-endangered-animals

[kale-sprouts]

just keep swimming, there won't be an ocean there forever. Unless, we do something about it!

Just keep recycling and putting your rubbish in the bin, and in the correct bins. That’s such a great way to help the earth’s oceans without putting in your whole life's worth. Not everyone has to be an environmentalist to change the earth. Anyone can, and you can. Keep doing you, and keep making the earth and greener, cleaner, and better place.

[ramsally]

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[nicksocial]

Just another Art Posts

[hell-on-earth2020]

First post

Hi this is my first post On my climate change blog. There are changes coming towards our earth, it is not the good kind of change, no It’s the bad kind. And it will destroy us, now I’m tired of sitting and watching waiting for someone to do something and I’m tired of people telling me to shut up.

So I’m going to give updates about what’s going on, on our earth so follow and listen.

[tinacarlyle]

“Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” . . #TinaCarlyle #CameronDiaz #TheMask #Movies #Actress #beauty #gardenlife #plantlove #savingearth #planetearth #vibes #positivevibes #positivethinking #eyes #eyesoflove #plants #gardenoflove #plantlife #lifebalance #smile #oxygen #treeoflife #nevergiveup #happy #happyforever https://www.instagram.com/p/B0JNK4WHQuY/?igshid=1atzdp5ngn2in

[iinvadcr-blog]

Invaders Don’t Get Sick

“Ughhhh….”

That was the sound of a very exhausted and physically ill irken as he drug his form over to the couch.

“Gir. Move. My couch now.” Was all that was said to his little robot companion before the tiny thing hopped off the couch and Zim promptly fell onto it with a pained cough.

“Aww.. Is you not feeling good Master??” Gir asked as he walked back over to the other and gave him a small pat on the head.

Zim didn’t answer him. Just buried his face into the cushion with another cough.

“Gir, could you-”

The sound of the doorbell, followed by a few hard knocks at the door, stopped Zim in whatever he was saying, and with an annoyed groan, he went to grab a blanket from off the side of the sofa and simply hide himself under it.

“Gir… Go answer the door.”

“YES MY LORD!”

Gir ran over to the door, stopping briefly to put his disguise on, before he finally opened the door and peeked out.

“Helloooooo?”

The tiny thing now looked up, and upon seeing Dib there, he gave a tiny gasp.

“Hi Mary!!”

@savingearth

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[postcards-from-the-future]

The Ecological Impacts of Poor Urban Planning and Urban Sprawl

Blog Post #1

The need for sustainable infrastructure in our growing societies is an important issue of our time. In North America a pressing matter in regards to building and planning urban living spaces is poor urban planning and rampant urban sprawl.

Along with negative effects on the psyche, health, and mental well-being of the people who inhabit these poorly designed spaces there is also ecological and environment devastation as a direct result of such practices. 

Urban planning is the act of planning the structure of a city which includes its policies, infrastructure, neighbourhoods, building codes, and regulations.

Urban sprawl is the uncontrolled expansion of urban areas.  The Oxford Dictionary gives the detailed definition of urban sprawl as “the disorganized and unattractive expansion of an urban or industrial area into the adjoining countryside.”

It can be logically assumed given these definitions that urban sprawl is a direct result of poor or failed urban planning seeing as good city planning makes for intelligently designed and cohesive living spaces that do not unnecessarily encroach upon the surrounding landscapes. 

To begin, urban sprawl affects the areas it directly encroaches upon. It overtakes forests, wooded meadows, farmland, and prairies that surround an existing city. Old growth forests, fields, and meadows are habitats with thriving ecosystems. These areas are disrupted for development, and as a result the habitants such as insects, birds, and animals are forced to relocated and plants and trees are cleared. Nearby water sources are polluted by runoff from construction sites and expanded human presence. 

 Statistically Speaking 

According to the Sierra Club more than one million acres of parks, farms, and open spaces are lost to urban sprawl in the United States each year. 

In Canada according to a Statistics Canada study urban uses and needs have eaten away more than 7,400 square kilometers of dependable farmland in the past few decades. This is particularly troubling considering that Canada has a very small amount of land that is suitable for food production. Every year there appear to be new development projects that are questionably approved that continue the assault on wildlife habitats for short-term profits. 

A recent and local example of this lack of consideration towards habitat preservation is the South Cameron woodlot in Windsor, Ontario that was stripped of its “significant wetland” designation opening it up to urban development by the city’s mayor, Drew Dilkens. 

Dilkens personally lobbied Ontario’s premier, Doug Ford, to fast-track the destruction of a pristine wildlife habitat and greenspace for luxury residential units that will only consume resources and release carbon emissions. 

Windsor is a municipality that only has 8 percent tree cover and a municipal city plan that prioritizes the need for more green space. There is no logic in opening up a green space that has been untouched by urbanization in an urban zone and losing the precious and inimitable benefits that space provides. 

Unfortunately this is a scenario that plays out numerous times all over the North American continent year after year, unnecessarily eating away at wildlife habitats and greenspaces.

Who is Affected and Effects Over Time

The main ecological effects of urban sprawl are air pollution, water pollution, unsustainable water consumption, and loss of greenspace and wildlife habitats. The ecological impact of sprawl is devastating and impacts humans as well as the animals that dwell in the once pristine areas. 

Sprawl is directly responsible for increased uses of personal vehicles and makes it difficult to get around a city efficiently. This created dependence on vehicles, directly contributes to air pollution, traffic fatalities of both people and animals, as well as poorer human health due to lack of physical mobility. Sprawl shapes life as moving from box to box to box. One’s home is in a box, one’s method of transportation is a box, and one’s destinations are boxes. This removed manner of living allows for citizens to turn a blind eye when city planners and developers begin destruction of yet another plot of land to expand the ever growing and cheap builds.

Over time what was once a city may become a conglomerate of suburbs with no natural reprieve or cohesive and pleasurable way of living, much like the Greater Toronto Area. With more humans there is more waste, and a greater need for landfills. Instead of containing the waste in a dense city and controlling the distribution of waste-producing products and materials sprawl allows for more space to consume and produce waste. 

Since everything is connected it is only a matter of time before urban sprawl consumes a natural area once thought to be safe. With the passing years as more and more unchecked and poorly regulated development is approved more and more animals lose their habitats, more bodies of water are polluted and/or depleted faster than they can replenish, and the more the air quality decreases due to massive car use. 

  Sources:

https://vault.sierraclub.org/sprawl/factsheet.asp

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jul/12/urban-sprawl-how-cities-grow-change-sustainability-urban-age

https://www.britannica.com/explore/savingearth/urban-sprawl

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2013/02/21/urban_sprawl_is_destroying_ontarios_farmland.html#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20study%20by,what%20once%20was%20mostly%20farmland.&text=At%20the%20same%20time%2C%20urban,size%20of%20Prince%20Edward%20Island.

(https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-biodiversity-doesnt-stop-at-the-city-limits-and-conservation-needs/)

https://www.everythingconnects.org/urban-sprawl.html

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Diego Ocean Five and @sunglasscat currently in the white space world, together thinking about the future and how to change the world! White Space is a dimension where no stories are yet created and imagination is the world🙀 ... We think stories told and created can change the world, somehow even save us from us! Use #fiveoceanluv and tell a story that can change the world! Our story is never giving up and help creating changes! And we start we our oceans ! All five! By making you think about the future on earth ! Using products that slowly come back to harm us or those we love! And so much more... @diegooceanfive Changes can be thought, if you want to learn!🙀 Let’s save the world with our actions ✌🏼... . . . @meowed @cats_of_instagram @people @mrbigglesworthrabbit @instagram @theellenshow @natgeo @ourplanet @earth @bark @barked @dogsofinstagram ... #ourplanet #planetearth #savingearth #savingtheoceans #oceans #plasticwaste #zerowaste #recycledmaterials #recycled #environmentalhealth #futurediary #cats_of_instagram #meowed #barked #bark #people #abc7eyewitness #seoghør #changetheworld #animalplanet #oceania #tibetanspaniel #woofwoof #creatorsforchange #creatorclass #makeachange #vg #nrk https://www.instagram.com/p/B21njb1gz5W/?igshid=s87074047nkk

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