Tagged “pollution”

maybe another thing that gets worse as cars get heavier.

oh no

Much of this seemed less serious than the wild food waste stats, but these are very concerning:

Every year in Australia approximately 130,000 tonnes of plastic leaks into the marine environment.
Our use of plastic is increasing and across the world will double by 2040.
By 2050, it is estimated that plastic in the oceans will outweigh fish.

Invention is overrated, implementation underrated. Both in difficulty, and importance.

The hydrogen is currently being made with coal but Energy Minister @AngusTaylorMP says the trade will be crucial in bringing down global emissions.

I'm sure it will, Angus

Either infuriating or upsetting how long we have known about this and done nothing.

HN discussion, including some good comments like this:

The time for decisive action was at least a decade ago, but there's no harm in starting now — it just means that the transition to alternative energy sources must be more abrupt and more investment must be allocated to remedial technologies that can work towards undoing at least some portion of the damage we have done to our biosphere.

Let historians and the next generations worry about whose fault it was. It is more important to secure for the next generation a sustainable and habitable future, than it is to look back at past hubris and wonder where it went wrong.

Day-to-day negative effects of pollution on indiviudals