Tag Archives: corporates

Compensation designed to be insufficient, too late for many victims

Posted on July 10, 2025 by borderslynn

1979 A Workers Compensation Act was created by the UK Parliament. It was a recognition of all the illnesses caused since the various environmental hazards through employment were understood and classified. Silicosis: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/silicosis/ Pneumoconiosis Home History of UK Coal Mining, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged bureaucracy, compensation, contamination. industrial diseases, corporates, drinking water, environment, governments, health, health and safety, health costs, human costs, regulations, UK | Leave a comment

Globalization Casualties

Posted on August 3, 2024 by borderslynn

I’m reading ‘Paper Soldiers: How weaponization of the dollar changed the world’ by Saleha Mohsin. I am most grateful to the author, for it has taken me until now to learn the history behind what led to Globalization being caused … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 2008 financial crisis, authoritarian control, banks, capitalism, China, corporates, developing nations, dollar, economy, england, free trade, globalization, high risk, industrialization, manufacturing, mining, open borders, poverty, Scottish Borders, strong dollar, toxic loans, Treasury, UK, USA, wealth | 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

Egyptian Cotton, Linen and Bleach

Posted on November 24, 2021 by borderslynn

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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged ancient Egypt, bleach, climate, corporates, Cotton, egypt, Flax, history of bleach, Linen, national industry, Nile, Pharoahs, sustainability, textiles, water shortages | Leave a comment

Chromium. Industrial Contamination

Posted on April 23, 2021 by borderslynn

To make a wind turbine, which is 78% steel, the Earth must yield up coal for coking plants to provide coke for furnaces to burn red hot to smelt iron ore. When the Earth yielded up iron ore, sulphuric acid … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged chromium, contamination, corporates, dust pollution, ecocide, ecotoxicology, industrialisation, mining, pollution, steel industry, wind turbines | 1 Comment