Excerpt from this Climate Reality Project piece published by EcoWatch:
Put simply, the term “petrochemical” encompasses several different chemical compounds derived from fossil fuels, most commonly oil and natural gas. These chemicals are produced by applying extreme temperatures and pressures to the fossil fuel used in order to extract them. How extreme? We’re talking temperatures of over 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit and pressures of over 1,000 pounds per square inch (PSI).
And what is all this heat and pressure for? In essence, petrochemicals are used to create plastics, dyes, fertilizers and other synthetic compounds for various industries.
You may be asking yourself, “So what? What’s the big deal here? Why do I need to worry about all this stuff?”
The answer is simple: If you’re concerned about climate change and human health, you need to worry about petrochemicals.
The truth is, there’s no way to produce these compounds without burning an incredible amount of fossil fuels. More investment in petrochemical facilities means more climate change from multiple sources, and critically, more plastics.
Today, a lot of petrochemical investment is going into to building multiple ethane cracker plants. These plants separate ethane from natural gas through the heat and pressure process described above. Plants then use it to create ethylene, one of the major building blocks used in making plastics. Not only does this process involve burning fossil fuels, but the end result is another kind of pollution.
Increasing investment in these facilities will not only deepen our reliance on fossil fuels; it’ll also increase the amount of plastics that end up in our oceans—at a time when we should instead be concentrating on alternatives like clean energy.
Yet, the petrochemical and fossil fuel industries keep finding ways to lock us into their products and business. And the story only gets more frustrating from there. Because beyond even the threat they pose to our climate and the future health of the planet, petrochemical facilities are a significant danger to human health.
the real “problem with political correctness” is not that it’s considered offensive to use slurs, but that there are now many “progressive” environments where saying the right things is more important than doing the right thing. it’s why it’s so easy for abusers to gain traction in leftist circles (they learn the right words quickly and employ them to frame their own behavior as progressive); it’s why so much potential activist energy gets poured into fighting about language; it’s why moderate liberals didn’t believe fer/guson had a problem until the police emails with actual racist language were leaked. (you can do racist things, you just can’t SAY racist things.) i don’t have a neat conclusion here but a related point is that i’m so much happier since i started focusing on like, being a good kind caring person instead of trying to remove the word “crazy” from the vocabulary of everyone in my family
Just saying this is truly one of the best “discourse” posts on this site like……this hits the nail directly on the head re: what is going on with language right now and everyone pushing back in the notes only serves to further prove the point it’s making
Yeah - these were the same Fairy Terns that chose an empty block next to a building site last yeah - I’d wandered over to see why there were so many plant pots and buckets half buried in the sand, and discovered that while there were warning signs put up around the block, they were only put up on three sides of the block :( Was very sad to hear about the massacre - loosing that many adults and chicks is a serious blow to the species
jesus
please keep your cats indoors.
One cat. One fucking cat. One cat was all it took to disrupt a breeding population of birds. One domestic animal that had no business being there in the first place. This was on Australia, and fortunately not New Zealand- there’s only 43 individuals left of the NZ subspecies, which is two fewer than what this cat killed.
Just keep them inside. Yes, this was a feral cat and not somebody’s pet- but how do you think ferals got there in the first place? Not by magic. Keep your cats inside.
“In addition [to high risk of negative impact on some rivers, wildlife, and wetlands], operation of the pipeline will result in between 0.3 million tonnes and 3.5 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions measured in carbon dioxide equivalents. That’s roughly the same as emissions from between 71,700 and 760,900 cars over the course of year.
Ultimately, the Environmental Assessment Office concluded that the various measures included in the environmental approval mean the project would not pose “significant” risk to the environment. [I mean, wtf? what is considered significant risk??]
Will the pipeline create jobs?
Construction of the pipeline is expected to create between 2,000 and 2,500 [temporary] jobs. There are expected to be 16 to 35 permanent jobs during operation.”
(emphasis mine)
In what world are 35 jobs worth destroying entire populations of wildlife, not to even mention the displacement of people who are already seriously disenfranchised?
“Recreation under the tropical sun is as much a part of the cure as the medical treatment. Oliva says: “We have a microclimate here that is highly beneficial.” Che Guevara, during his asthma attacks, was taken to Tarara for recovery. Some of the children are orphans, or come from poor families who cannot afford medical treatment at home. “Ukraine now has a capitalist economy and for most of the families these kinds of treatments are very costly. Here, thanks to the revolution, we can provide everything for free,” says Oliva.”
“She makes you believe that magic exists on planet Earth because she is magical, from her voice to her presence to the way she moves,” says actress Blake Lively, Welch’s close friend. “The way she tells a story with every part of herself – really, she is unlike anyone I have ever seen. Onstage, there is such a ferocity that comes out in the way she communicates, and in person, there is such delicacy. It’s amazing how she can be both these things simultaneously.” - Florence Welch photographed by Nicole Nodland for Billboard (October 2018) [ x ]
mother-daughter relationships are fraught not because women are bitchy or hysterical but because a mother can be her daughter’s primary source of emotional support at the same time that she is enforcing against her daughter the very patriarchal dictates that hurt and constrain her.
Hozier and Florence Welch are just pseudonyms Hades and Persephone have taken on after haven taken music lessons from Orpheus for a couple thousand years and deciding going into the music industry and gaining “fans” would be a modern equivalent form of the worship that previously sustained them thanks for coming to my ted talk
Of all the homophobic gotchas used by straight dudes, the one I would least have expected to see rehabilitated by other LGBT people (sometimes other women!) is “But if lesbians use strap ons why wouldn’t they all be cool with PIV?” and yet. Here we are in 2018. Look. Please….everyone…we are so tired…if your issue with lesbians is almost verbatim something you have heard from straight dudes trying to convince women to sleep with them then the least you can do is not go putting that shit where lesbians might see it.
So we’re just reblogging extremely obvious terf rhetoric from people who have frequently been identified as terfs by trans women now, huh? Is that’s what’s happening now with absolutely no critical thinking whatsoever
There are no reasons to object to comparisons between penises and dildos where the implication is clearly that enjoying one means you SHOULD enjoy the other, other than being a terf now? Heard.
I feels like there is this assumption that having issues with human penises or some other almost universally perceived Male physical trait is automatically Terfy when most of the time it isnt being harnessed(pun INTENDED) for hate. so maybe dont yell at people who have this aversion because it’s obviously homophobic and obviously not anyone’s fault?
