Tag Archives: environment

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

Latest from Global Witness

Posted on September 16, 2024 by borderslynn

Global Witness Press release | Sept. 10, 2024 More than 2,100 land and environmental defenders killed globally between 2012 and 2023 Share thisTweetShare FacebookShare LinkedIn Read this content in:FrançaisPortuguêsEspañol Land and environmental defenders Tuesday 10 September 2024, London – At least … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged big business, climate crisis, criminals, deforestation, dictators, environment, greed, human rights, immoral corporates, killing of activists, mining, planet destruction, river pollution, violence | Leave a comment

Disastrous oil spills that wreck our marine life

Posted on March 30, 2023 by borderslynn

Currently we have an oil spill in the UK. It was 200 barrels which leaked into a beautiful marina which is in Poole, Dorset. https://youtu.be/JHVi96DrJwY Then watch the nightmare which is unfolding in the Red Sea. https://youtu.be/pRp2M47LcuE We are irresponsible … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Black Death, environment, harm, irresponsible, marine protection, oil spills, protection of oceans, rivers, sea | Leave a comment

Environmental auditing is not what it seems

Posted on March 3, 2023 by borderslynn

You and I might care about sustainable forestry and check that any product made from the trees of this world are carefully sourced to protect ancient and rare trees. Auditors who assist in green labelling are part of a multi … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged ancient forests, auditors, cardboard, conflict, criminals, destruction, ecology, enforcement, environment, forestry, furniture, international crime, lax laws, military junta, rare trees, regulation, smugglers, sustainable timber, war chest, wooden products | 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

When we rebuild

Posted on June 1, 2022 by borderslynn

Bertrand Piccard says we must develop wisdom and respect. He is collecting 1000 solutions which exist already, but then will promote them to attract greater investments. We can rebuild whilst not recreating the harmful environments of the past centuries. https://bertrandpiccard.com/articles/the-1000-solutions-call … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged clean drinking water, devastation, disruption, ecology, environment, futures, infrastructure, respect, wisdom | Leave a comment

Fast Fashion Fuelling Extinction

Posted on January 9, 2022 by borderslynn

A few years back I wrote about climate and how the lives of the Inuit had to change as a result. They have been major users of animal skins since they first arrived after generations of travel from Africa, as … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged animal exploitation, animal extinction, caged animals, environment, exotic animals, factory farming, Fast fashion, fur trade, harm, landfill, overconsumption, pollution, sustainability, toxins, vegan | Leave a comment

Will we be Fishless?: VI

Posted on March 7, 2021 by borderslynn

How Fish are Exposed to Pesticides Fish and aquatic animals are exposed to pesticides in three primary ways (1) dermally, direct absorption through the skin by swimming in pesticide-contaminated waters, (2) breathing, by direct uptake of pesticides through the gills … Continue reading →

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The Jaguar of the Americas and implications for its origins: part two

Posted on March 9, 2019 by borderslynn

Nature dominates and rules our lives. No matter how much material wealth we may have, we cannot buy Nature and all its myriad of miracles. We do try to emulate Nature and today we call this study Biomimetics. Wikipedia re: … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged biomimetics, chavin, deity, environment, jaguar, mayan, olmec, protection, reverence, shamanism, South America, wildlife, worship | 2 Comments

Habitat, genetics and us

Posted on June 19, 2018 by borderslynn

As the last Ice Age melts at a fast pace, the upside of that news is that researchers are finding more and more ancient bones, skeletons and artefacts which were previously locked under permafrost. The knowledge accumulating about the kind … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged adaptation, archaic humans, caves, environment, fire uses, food diversity, ice age, mammoth, Siberia, skill development, survival | Leave a comment

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