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- yuekit0
Daryl Hall files restraining order against John Oates in legal feud
- _niko1
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So we’ve been hearing the alarm bells for years and now finally we’re starting to see concrete evidence for ourselves, it’s all around us and all over the news, we’re living it.The big question and one that nobody’s talking about is what do we do?
Stop driving gas cars?
Live in 15 minute cities?
Buy local only?
Stop buying cheap shit from China?
Switch to renewable energy?Instead of listening to doom and gloom, what are concrete steps that we can take to actually address this?
And it’s not fucking paper straws lol
- neverscared0
Antarctica’s heatwaves are a warning to humanity – and we have only a narrow window to save the planet
Antarctica’s sea ice levels are plummeting as extreme weather events happen faster than scientists predicted
Antarctica is currently experiencing dramatic changes at unprecedented rates, marked by repeated extreme events. These include circum-Antarctic summer heatwaves and an autumn heatwave last year, with temperatures soaring up to 40C above the average. Moreover, both last summer and this winter, sea ice extent has reached record lows. These changes have happened even faster than scientists predicted.
These changes coincide with a broader global pattern of extreme air and sea surface temperatures, wildfires, floods, disease and other events deeply impacting ecosystems and society. Scientists have warned society about global climate change and its impacts since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s first report in the early 1990s. The Antarctic community has done so repeatedly too. These warnings are now being realised.
- sted0
- neverscared-1
- A view of an apartment complex under construction in Guangdong. The complex will accommodate 2,004 householdsneverscared
- pigs? in there?hans_glib
- https://i.imgur.com/…uan
- shapesalad0
- Ben Bernanke gets a noble prize...lolshapesalad
- yeah everybody was rather surprised LOL
creating a problem then fixing it shouldn't get you a nobel but heygrafician
- shapesalad0
- Do you think they pay well for motion design?shapesalad
- Srsly, fuck them allOBBTKN
- If you can't beat them, join them, as a motion designer with a nice fat salary...shapesalad
- shapesalad1
https://www.theguardian.com/soci…
A new peer-reviewed Danish study finds that a mother’s exposure to toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” during early pregnancy can lead to lower sperm count and quality later in her child’s life.
PFAS – per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – are known to disrupt hormones and fetal development, and future “reproductive capacity” is largely defined as testicles develop in utero during the first trimester of a pregnancy, said study co-author Sandra Søgaard Tøttenborg of the Copenhagen University Hospital.
PFAS are a class of about 12,000 chemicals typically used to make thousands of products resistant to water, stains and heat. They are called “forever chemicals” because they accumulate in humans and the environment and do not naturally break down. A growing body of evidence links them to serious health problems such as cancer, birth defects, liver disease, kidney disease and decreased immunity.
- So how many generations of accumulated PFAS does it take for humans to be extinct. Then nuclear waste facilities to decay, and then only roaches left.shapesalad
- neverscared1
Escape plans of the rich and famous
Douglas Rushkoff argues that Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech moguls intend to separate themselves from the rest of humanity.
In the new book “Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires,” Douglas Rushkoff contends that many of the richest and most powerful people are not immune from this anxiety. They are also scared and feel vulnerable, because they see the same problems that we do. The difference, Rushkoff argues, is that they have fueled these problems and intend to deal with them by leaving the rest of us behind.
- grafician-1
"Human population set to cross 8,000,000,000 ‘any day now’
The earth is getting as crowded as it’s ever been as the world’s population is due to cross the 8 billion mark this year."
- SMH that’s enough to give every American one million dollarsnb
- The places having the babies are the places worse positioned to provide for them. Reverse is also true.shapesalad
- 8b fleshy boned feeding tubes. Gobbling up this and that, pumping out shit. 8 billion shit tubes.shapesalad
- ^ thisnbq