Tag Archives: pollution

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 | 1 Comment

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

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

Will we be Fishless?: Part IX

Posted on March 12, 2021 by borderslynn

The problem of responsibly disposing of PCBs has been with us for over a century, since Monsanto first developed them. PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, are industrial products or chemicals. learn that definition and don’t forget what is poisoning this Planet and … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged anthropogenic harm, environmental harm, extinction, food chain, health, historic contaminants, marine life, ocean health, oceans, PCBs, pollution, polychlorinated biphenyls, recycling, sharks, whales | 1 Comment

Will we be Fishless?: Part III

Posted on March 3, 2021 by borderslynn

Discovered in the 1920s, antibiotics have saved tens of millions of lives from pneumonia, tuberculosis, meningitis and a host of deadly bacteria. But, as with all things we do as humans, we get in the habit of overdoing everything. Overuse … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Bangladesh, Big Pharma, drug production, endocrine disruptors, global pollution, India, pollution, taking and excreting drugs, toxicology | Leave a comment

Will we be Fishless soon?: Part II

Posted on February 28, 2021 by borderslynn

I often see livestock standing happily in rivers and streams. They are innocent, the farmers are not. We learned centuries ago that livestock, particulary dead livestock, in water courses leads to contamination of all water which was once running pure … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged clean water, climate change, fish health, flooding, human health, land management, livestock management, oceans, pollution, responsible farming, rivers, seas, sewage, shanty towns, streams, water courses, water treatment | Leave a comment

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