Environment Pollution

Climate Denial Arguments Explained

Woke up this morning to this, which is hardly news, but it gave me the kick I needed to follow through with a piece of my own about Climate change denial. https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/climate-deniers/koch-industries/ Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine   It also coincided with a First dog on The Moon piece published in the Guardian this week regarding a group of Australian youngsters and a Nun in Holy Orders
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A short conversation about why we should be scared

1: Ringing the alarm The environment. Hm. Let’s not get alarmist.   2: Soil So… humanity’s likely to run out of soil within 40 to 60 years1. Well, that could get pretty grim, I imagine. Starving children. Desperate families. Mass migrations. Not a pretty picture. Have you seen the film The Road2?   3: Water Water is also an issue. Changing weather patterns – driven by global warming – will
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Featured Health Pollution

We are what we eat

Recent reports show 85% of Food grown in the US contains some form of Pesticide or Herbicide A spokesperson for the US Department of Agriculture stated, “Good news, we planned to have 90% spray coverage this year (100% by 2020) and a  85% is a really good figure. The incredible diversity of pesticides, fungicides and herbicides found now in our food is proof positive that the system is working". "For
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Environment Pollution

Bottled Water Battle With Billionaire Polluter

Let us put a face to a name here, it’s yet another “unacceptable face of capitalism” ….and yet another bloody billionaire….80 years old too. Meet Pierre Papillaud. He is listed as a Businessman and his speciality is buying up water supplies. He really makes his money out of selling plastic bottles, which incidentally happen to be filled with water, but as soon as they are empty they get to be