Tag Archives: contamination

1918: Peace not War

Posted on August 2, 2024 by borderslynn

After the horrors of WW1 many countries tried to come together to forge peace. But, somehow, along the way, those who saw the possibility of weapons manufacturing as a means to create jobs and bring wealth, won the arguments. Now, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged arms trade, banks, carnage, contamination, death, destruction, genocide, harm, human rights, international, investors, jobs, land grab, law, murder, occupation, returns, uninhabitable, wealth | Leave a comment

Double use oil trucks: food contamination

Posted on July 21, 2024 by borderslynn

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cml2kr9wkdzo Transporting cooking oil in contaminated fuel trucks was said to have been so widespread it was considered an “open secret” in the industry, according to one driver quoted by the newspaper. We require strict regulation throughout the world for … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged China, consumer harm, contamination, corporate fraud, food chain, food industry, food oil, food safety, food scandals, food security, fuel oil, human health | Leave a comment

Deforestation and Mining, last gasp of the planet

Posted on December 17, 2023 by borderslynn

Countries that benefit from profits from mining and agricultural produce grown in the deforested Amazon should be prosecuted for Ecocide. But the momentum of destruction goes on to provide a short lived benefit of maintaining quality living standards for those … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Amazon, banking, contamination, corporates, destruction, gold, greed, intimidation, land defenders, legality, minining, murder, rainforest, rivers, short term profit | Leave a comment

Climate Change and the right to sanitation

Posted on August 18, 2023 by borderslynn

Watching the evacuation of people around the world suffering climate change impacts such as flooding, landslides, wildfires – it occurred to me, how do these thousands of people arrive at a safe place and have access to sanitation? Today, the … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged cholera, clean water, climate change, contamination, disaster management, emergency services, favelas, FEMA, flooding, hospitals, migration centres, pollution, poor housing, prisons, sanitation, schools, sewage, toilets, water stress, water treatment plants, wildfires | Leave a comment

Aquifers: drilling for uranium, burying nuclear waste

Posted on August 14, 2023 by borderslynn

Uranium is obtained by in-situ drilling, usually into aquifers where uranium is found. The type of mine in question uses in situ leach technology (ISL), also known as in situ reach (ISR), the most common form of uranium extraction. It involves drilling … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged aquifers, contamination, Drilling, leaching, on-situ mining, radioactive waste disposal, uranium capture, water safety | Leave a comment

Nuclear Energy: history of uranium

Posted on August 12, 2023 by borderslynn

As long as nuclear reactors are being built to provide clean energy, those who supply the skills to build them will always be in demand. Uranium must always be sourced. Here is the history of uranium and of its applications … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged accidents, applications, contamination, dangers, dependence, health, mining, reactor maintenance, risks, safety, supply and demand, threats, uranium, weapons | Leave a comment

Start-up to Scale-up: Do No Harm

Posted on March 17, 2023 by borderslynn

Farmers might consider adding seaweed to the diet of their cattle because it will reduce the methane output by the animals by 80%! The research has been revealed in this article: https://theconversation.com/can-seaweed-save-the-world-well-it-can-certainly-help-in-many-ways-201459 But before we get too excited we must … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged batteries, carbon, climate, CO2, contamination, cutting emissions, emissions, energy, finite resources, funding, green steel, h2, industry, iron ore, mining, packaging, plastic curse, sand, scale-up, sea salt, sea salt battery, seaweed, start-up | Leave a comment

The Sand is Running Out

Posted on July 5, 2022 by borderslynn

This metaphor is so appropriate as we miss deadlines for reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, as we plunder finite resources to intensely build renewables and electricity storage technology, thus expanding the greenwashing message. We cannot unlearn the centuries of … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged contamination, ecological harm, fracking, lithium, renewables, river destruction, sand battery, sand depletion, toxins | 1 Comment

Conscious Disregard

Posted on June 21, 2021 by borderslynn

If we are allergic to nuts we try to follow a diet which has no nuts in it, which is not easy, but anaphylactic shock can kill. When we see people bathing in one of the most polluted rivers in … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged carcinogens, clean water, conscious disregard, contamination, disease, eco, exposure, malice, protection, robert bilott, safe environment, toxins | 3 Comments

Disposing of Medical PPEs Safely, or NOT

Posted on May 16, 2021 by borderslynn

Plastic Protective Equipment (PPE) has been manufactured during this Covid pandemic to meet demand at a rate of multiple millions of items needed every day, and will no doubt increase over the next few years. This seemed to be the … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged aquamarine killing, bio-persistence, chemical industry, contamination, oceans, petroleum, PFOS, PPE disposal, safe disposal of plastics, single use plastics | Leave a comment

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