Tag Archives: pollution

Drill, baby, drill…..

Posted on September 20, 2025 by borderslynn

The United States, Saudi Arabia, and Russia are the leading producers of oil in the world. There are two major oil contracts that are closely watched by oil market participants. In North America, the benchmark for oil futures is West Texas … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Caribbean, conflict, crude, drilling for oil, emissions, end game, finite resource, fossil fuels, marine life, oceans, pollution, South America, war | Leave a comment

At a tap near you

Posted on July 14, 2025 by borderslynn

I am reproducing this article which offers a solution for drinking water: to use charcoal filters which are changed regularly. From The Conversation, Daniel Drage, University of Birmingham Most UK rivers are contaminated by a chemical called trifluoroacetic acid (TFA). This is … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged CFCs, CO2, drinking water, f gas, filters, fluoroform, pollution, rivers, TFAs, warming planet | Leave a comment

Al Gore, his speech at Climate Week

Posted on April 29, 2025 by borderslynn

April 2025, Climate Week, 77 year old Al Gore gave this speech which you can also see and hear on YouTube. Thanks to Robert Reich for reproducing this speech on Substack. It is abundantly clear, after only three months and … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Africa, Africa fossil fuel mapping, climate change, CO2, con tricks, earth warming, emissions, extinction, falsehoods, fossil fuels, lies, politics of fear, pollution, poverty, propaganda, toxicity, warming oceans, wealth | 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

A for Acrylonitrile and a move to Circular Fashion

Posted on January 12, 2022 by borderslynn

Due to raised awareness of brutality to animals in order to provide us with clothing, we have sought alternatives. Vegans demand no animals be used to make Fashion Industry products, but non-vegans, whilst enjoying eating meat, have also become aware … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged acrylonitrile, circular fashion, dupont, exploiting labour, fashion, Fast fashion, fire hazard, goodonyou, harm to others, harmful chemicals, illness, ineos, pollution, poor working conditions | 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

CO2, the Gas of Life

Posted on September 24, 2021 by borderslynn

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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Atmosphere, carbon cycle, chemistry, CO2, fertilizer, gas of life, Joseph Black, life on earth, oxygen cycle, photosynthesis, pollution | Leave a comment

Hydrogen Sulphide and Landfill

Posted on August 19, 2021 by borderslynn

Most of us will live within a 25 mile radius of a landfill for household waste. It is often visible from roads nearby as waste trucks drive up and dump the waste and gulls fly over attracted by the chance … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged bio-persistent plastics, cancer, energy production, extracting gas, landfill management, landfill sites, pollution, respiratory illness, toxic environments | 1 Comment

Rare Earth Elements and Balance of Power

Posted on May 3, 2021 by borderslynn

I write these blogs for me. I ask questions and search for answers in books and, mostly, exploring the Internet. Without Rare Earth Elements I would not be doing this. When I was born just after World War II, if … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged arms industry, commerce, earth contamination, economies, ecosystem destruction, geopolitical, greenwashing, investment, military complex, military power, mining, oppression, pollution, rare earth tec, recycling, REMs, sludge, superpowers, trade, wastewater | 2 Comments

Smelting non-ferrous metals: soil and air pollution

Posted on April 29, 2021 by borderslynn

Non-ferrous metals are pure metals, mostly without traces of iron. They are more costly than ferrous metals. They are light in weight, not magnetic, possess high conductivity. The important ones today are aluminium, copper, lead, nickel, tin, titanium, zinc. Mined … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged abuse of powerr, acid rain, climate change, coal-fired energy, coercive strategies, corporate power, electronics, greed, health and safety, hydro power, killing trees, mined ores, non-ferrous metals, poisoned environment, pollution, renewable energy, smelting, toxic soil | 2 Comments

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