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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/33169139

He said exports went from about 3,500 tonnes to nearly 10,000 tonnes.

Welp, thats the most enviomentlaly destructive and repugnat thing I've read today. Flying 10,000 tonnes of grapes to Japan alone

On the upside the day is early and I'm sure I'll be appalled further yet.

Mr Scott said he was pleased

On the otjer hand I think it's a pracrive that should be banned (and airports closed)

Sitting here atop my high horse eating an apricot and some strawberries from my garden.

He said exports went from about 3,500 tonnes to nearly 10,000 tonnes.

Welp, thats the most enviomentlaly destructive and repugnat thing I've read today. Flying 10,000 tonnes of grapes to Japan alone

On the upside the day is early and I'm sure I'll be appalled further yet.

Mr Scott said he was pleased

On the otjer hand I think it's a pracrive that should be banned (and airports closed)

Sitting here atop my high horse eating an apricot and some strawberries from my garden.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/33166281

Last week, Tunbridge Wells went without running water for days on end, for the second time this winter. Over the course of this decade, the town has suffered a run of outages and on-off supply, or what South East Water is pleased to call “resilience issues”.

One of the richest towns in one of the richest societies in human history shows the rest of us that even lavish private affluence cannot make up for the really important forms of public scarcity.

Last week, Tunbridge Wells went without running water for days on end, for the second time this winter. Over the course of this decade, the town has suffered a run of outages and on-off supply, or what South East Water is pleased to call “resilience issues”.

One of the richest towns in one of the richest societies in human history shows the rest of us that even lavish private affluence cannot make up for the really important forms of public scarcity.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/33037002

Scientists have warned of a potential “regime shift” in the oceans, as the rapid growth of huge mats of seaweed appears to be driven by global heating and excessive enrichment of waters from farming runoff and other pollutants.

Over the past two decades, seaweed blooms have expanded by a staggering 13.4% a year in the tropical Atlantic and western Pacific, with the most dramatic increases occurring after 2008, according to researchers at the University of South Florida.

Scientists have warned of a potential “regime shift” in the oceans, as the rapid growth of huge mats of seaweed appears to be driven by global heating and excessive enrichment of waters from farming runoff and other pollutants.

Over the past two decades, seaweed blooms have expanded by a staggering 13.4% a year in the tropical Atlantic and western Pacific, with the most dramatic increases occurring after 2008, according to researchers at the University of South Florida.

It is rare a player ranked 49th in the world would attract a crowd that virtually brought a grand slam tournament to a standstill.

But such is the pulling power of Alexandra Eala, Melbourne Park was overcome with a feverish atmosphere on Monday as the rising star from the Philippines played her first-round match at the Australian Open.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/32989400

The global cost of greenhouse gas emissions are nearly double what scientists previously thought, according to a study published Thursday by researchers at the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

The global cost of greenhouse gas emissions are nearly double what scientists previously thought, according to a study published Thursday by researchers at the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/32779709

But locals and the country's prime minister said the flow of waste into waterways exacerbated the problem, clogging already swollen rivers.'

"This year it was a real disaster. The riverbed was completely choked with plastic waste, swept away by the overflowing waters," Ramazan Malushi, a resident of Shkozet, near the Adriatic coast, told AFP.

But locals and the country's prime minister said the flow of waste into waterways exacerbated the problem, clogging already swollen rivers.'

"This year it was a real disaster. The riverbed was completely choked with plastic waste, swept away by the overflowing waters," Ramazan Malushi, a resident of Shkozet, near the Adriatic coast, told AFP.

Former Greens leader Adam Bandt, the ACF’s new chief executive, described the year-on-year doubling as “really distressing”.

“A lot of people don’t know that Australia is a global deforestation hotspot … every year, we lose more forest than the loss from the entire palm oil industry in Indonesia,” he said. “The nature that we love is under threat like never before.”

The ACF report also noted that 42 new plants and animals were added to Australia’s list of species facing extinction.

WTF is wrong with voters that they rhink this endless stream of environmental destruction leaving a dead planet is ok ?