Category Archives: anthropocene

The human interaction evidential impact on Planet Earth

By 2100: Global warming is projected to lower per capita GDP by 50 percent minimum

Posted on February 20, 2023 by borderslynn

We know the ongoing Ukraine war has forced a postponement of plans to make us less reliant on fossil fuels. The weaponising of energy has stopped us in our tracks. https://www.desmog.com/2023/02/24/european-gas-lobby-tweets-ukraine-war/ A precursor to Ukraine was Tigray, fighting for independence … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged climate, conflict, dams, economic decline, energy infrastructure, food insecurity, fossil fuels, global warming, hydroelectric, mid latitude farming catastrophe., renewables, war | Leave a comment

Honorary Consuls and Criminal Acts

Posted on February 11, 2023 by borderslynn

How US lawyers and bankers aided powerful Haitian tycoons now sanctioned over corruption by Canada Two wealthy Haitians recently sanctioned by Canada owned or had other links to almost 20 companies and trusts created in some of the world’s most … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged ambassadors, bankers, banking integrity, bribery, crime against humanity, dishonesty, enablers, exploitation, freedom for eurasia, honorary consuls, icij, immorality, lawyers, offshore companies, poverty, tax havens, theft | Leave a comment

Pyridine and North East England contamination

Posted on January 21, 2023 by borderslynn

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/22858596.pyridine-caused-mass-north-east-sea-life-deaths The information on Pyridine states: “Pyridine appears as a clear colorless to light yellow liquid with a penetrating nauseating odor. Density 0.978 g / cm3. Flash point 68 °F. Vapors are heavier than air. Toxic by ingestion and inhalation. … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged aqua marine poisoning, bio security, Britain, centuries of toxins, dredging, dredging rivers, health hazard, heavy industry, industrial waste, new pathogen in North Sea, north sea, protecting marine life, Pyridine contamination, sea pollution, toxic chemical | 1 Comment

Desalination, long term solution to Drought

Posted on December 26, 2022 by borderslynn

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-who-rely-on-desalination.html From the above map we learn Saudi Arabia has the most desalination plants in the world: “eight plants using the reverse osmosis technology and 12 using the multi-stage distillation process. The country has the largest floating desalination plant in … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged climate change, conflict, desalination, desertification, drought, famine, food security, multi-stage flash, reverse osmosis, solutions | 2 Comments

Wobbly polar vortex threat

Posted on December 25, 2022 by borderslynn

How a wobbly polar vortex brings cold weather “Judah Cohen, a climatologist at MIT and the director of seasonal forecasting at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, told Newsweek that, as average global temperatures rise, winter temperatures are increasing at a slower rate than … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged arctic warming, climate change, energy outages, extreme weather, flooding, food insecurity, hypothermia, polar vortex, road accidents, sudden freezing, threat to life, uninhabitable earth, wildlife deaths, winter storm | Leave a comment

Servers that gobble electricity

Posted on December 19, 2022 by borderslynn

Many billions of us now depend on internet servers to carry out the most vital to the most trivial day to day human involvement. Like the air we breathe, we expect it to be there. But there are many threats … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged crypto mining, environmental health, excessive energy requirements, fossil fuels, global networks, internet servers, noise pollution, power plants, security, uninterrupted power requirement, water cooling requirements | Leave a comment

Air Quality: particulate pollution

Posted on December 11, 2022 by borderslynn

Check out how safe your air is today in your part of the world by consulting this constantly updating map: https://aqicn.org/map/world Then consider, on top of many pollutants you know about, the one called ‘particulate pollutants. Definition below from: https://www.toppr.com/guides/chemistry/environmental-chemistry/particulate-pollutants … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged aerosol clouds, air quality index, heart and lung impact from pollution, human activity causing harm, nitrates, PM2.5, pollution in one country carried to another, precipitation, respiratory illness, ultrafine particles, wind direction | 1 Comment

Wines and Spirits Industries: the realities of climate change

Posted on December 6, 2022 by borderslynn

Around the world people are taking on the challenges of climate change. If they are to continue in their historic industries they must experiment but time is not on their side. Cooperation and sharing knowledge globally is a necessity to … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged biodegradable, bottles, climate change, Colorado River, levees, oceans, plastics, proactive solutions, sea levels rising, shrinking freshwater supplies, spirits, water use, Wine | Leave a comment

Concept of borders

Posted on November 10, 2022 by borderslynn

Each human may have an idea of their own space, and a sense of where they draw their border concept lines. A person may stand too close to us and we will say ‘”don’t crowd me” or “get out of … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged agriculture, Concept of borders, conflict, Farming, food production, human behaviour, land use, migration, nomadic life, self identity, sustainability, territory | Leave a comment

Fight the cause of the refugee crisis

Posted on November 5, 2022 by borderslynn

Use satellite imagery and track the problems and build solutions: https://www.planet.com/

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged asylum, authoritarian regime, child abuse, climate change, conflict, cruelty, discrimination, drought, drugs, environment, exploitation, famine, human rights, inhuman living conditions, low paid work, male domination, misogyny, no freshwater, persecution, poverty, rape, rebuilding, rehoming, replanting, rescue, satellite imagery, sustainable living, terror, torture, tracking, trafficking, unsanitary conditions, value every human, violence | Leave a comment

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