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Urgent: Fossil Free Finance Act

jeudi 30 septembre 2021 à 02:00

US citizens: support the Fossil Free Finance act.

Cocaine in the river

jeudi 30 septembre 2021 à 02:00

People urinating in a river after the Glastonbury music festival put so much cocaine into the water that it endangers the eels that live there.

Subcontracted workers

jeudi 30 septembre 2021 à 02:00

Meat processing in Europe uses subcontracted workers so as to pay them scraps and subject them to offal working conditions.

Since meat production harms the Earth's climate, and eating a lot of meat endangers a person's health, it would be good for meat to get more expensive.

*Unions are calling for a Europe-wide ban on the use of subcontracted workers.*

Hooray! This should not be limited to meat packing. Consider Amazon warehouses, cleaning of businesses, delivery work, and many other fields.

Subcontracting's reason for existence is to permit mistreating workers, so let's limit it to small amounts of work, for which full time workers are not feasible.

No need to collect metals from ocean bottom

jeudi 30 septembre 2021 à 02:00

Arguments that humanity does not need to collect metals from the ocean bottom and could do ok banning that process.

The hard part is how to get Nauru to cancel its demand to permit this.

Drought and hydroelectric power

jeudi 30 septembre 2021 à 02:00

Drought could shut down hydroelectric power from Lake Powell and Lake Mead. This would be a big loss in US non-fossil-fuel generating capacity.

As the years go by, this will become more and more likely.

This is an example of the sort of positive feedbacks that can lead to global heating worse than models have predicted.