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Category Archives: anthropocene
Wool
Killing a sheep and cutting off its skin to provide clothing is obviously a skill humans have been honing for thousands of years, since we skinned many animals to clothe us, and ate the meat, used the bones to create … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, China, climate change, goats, sheep, wool, wool yarn
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Egyptian Cotton, Linen and Bleach
5000 years ago the Egyptians mastered the art of bleaching. White fabric was a premium choice and one might say they had a compulsive obsession to wash for personal hygiene and wear clean clothes, and that is no bad thing. … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient Egypt, bleach, climate, corporates, Cotton, egypt, Flax, history of bleach, Linen, national industry, Nile, Pharoahs, sustainability, textiles, water shortages
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The Battle Against Nature for Cotton
Using modern techniques, it has been possible to identify the earliest cotton in a copper bead within a grave in Mehrgarh. It is thought the first cotton was grown and utilised by early farmers in this region of what is … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient civilisations, arial sea, big money, boll weevil, climate change, cotton crop, genetics, indus valley, Mehrgarh, molecular biology, neolithic era, Pakistan, parasitic wasp, pesticides, pests, phorid fly, profit before people, red ant, sustainability, toxic poisoning, water shortages
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Clothing our nakedness.
Any other form of life is perfectly fitted to its environment. We were probably at our best when our bodies were covered in fur and we lived in jungle terrain. Since we lost our fur, we have had to clothe … Continue reading
C02 and Agricultural Practices
Since Neolithic times, when humans became farmers, we have sought ways to change land use to fit our needs. We have terraced hillsides to grow food, we have developed irrigation and switched routes of rivers to benefit land where water … Continue reading
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Tagged ammonia plants, carbon capture, CF Industries, climate change, climate warming, CO2 in short supply, CO2 production, coal gasification, cop26, energy crisis worldwide, fuel shortage, green renewables to co2, national infrastructure protection, steam reforming
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Living Things and the Carbon Dilemma
Since Joseph Black discovered carbon dioxide and chemists began to understand its importance, we have harnessed it for many advantageous applications which assist humans in their endeavours. The medical world has grown thanks to our understanding of how living things … Continue reading
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Tagged breathing, carbon dioxide, climate change, climate warming, CO2, greenhouse gases, industrialization, respiration
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CO2, the Gas of Life
A Scot, Joseph Black discovered Carbon Dioxide in 1755 The Discovery of Carbon Dioxide In Black’s early years at Glasgow, he probably started his work on the chemistry of “magnesia alba“. He submitted his work later for his MD thesis in Edinburgh including the discovery of what … Continue reading
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Tagged Atmosphere, carbon cycle, chemistry, CO2, fertilizer, gas of life, Joseph Black, life on earth, oxygen cycle, photosynthesis, pollution
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Another Endocrine Disruptor: Perchlorate
Continuing with my previous theme of fire and toxins, and also looking at another endocrine disrupter, we find this one was invented by chemists during World War Two, as part of rocket propulsion experiments by military weapons makers. Indeed, the … Continue reading
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Tagged endocrine disruptor, explosives, fireworks, matches, perchlorate, rocket fuel toxins
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Plastic Factory Fires: Killer Phthalates
And one YouTube dramatic coverage of a 2013 fire at a Recycling Centre in Sheffield. It is helpful to read this article, written over twenty years ago, which describes how different plastics burn. The Firefighters who attend a plastics factory … Continue reading
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