#Environmental

Arun Agrawal

gotonura

There is no conservation without addressing poverty, injustice, marginality, and oppression. Conservation "successes" that ignore social processes and outcomes, that ignore people, that are built on repression are NOT WORTH

Tim Concannon

TimCWrites

John Major reacts to news of the killing of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9. 25 years ago today.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrtgV9RlIrc Why was Saro-Wiwa killed? He'd protested oil companies pollution of his

Nicky P

cravecreative

WE Charity was the UN's army recruitment of foot soldiers peddling the UN Compact Agenda & funding the UN Machine. If you can't see that you'll never understand why WE

Gretchen Goldman, PhD

GretchenTG

The administration's rule to restrict EPA science--which was unilaterally opposed by the scientific community in nearly a million comments--will be finalized. Some thoughts in a THREAD...https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environmen

Lindsay Brown

Lidsville

BREAKING. What this means is that the extremely expensive conveyor belt built for #SiteC is non-functional. We had hints something was up before Christmas when it simply wasn't in use

Penny Daflos

PennyDaflos

COVID variants are a major concern for health officials right now -- not to mention the rest of us.I'm seeing a lot of ?s about how BC is testing for

Bob Mendes

mendesbob

A national media outlet just asked me whether the suicide bombing was domestic terrorism. I said yes. We don't know the details yet, but with the complexity of this bombing,

Stephen Diehl

smdiehl

Let's discuss the environmental cost of bitcoin. Because despite all the push for sustainable and green investment in the tech sector, there's a giant smoldering Chernobyl sitting at the heart

M.Yuvan

Yuvan_aves

What is wrong with #DraftEIA2020 ? (A point-wise thread). This March the Government proposed a new EIA notification, which would supersede the EIA notification of 2006.An EIA process firstly exists

The Urbanist

UrbanistOrg

5 Myths of Road Widening1. Car idling is bad for the environment so wider roads with free-flowing traffic is eco-friendly.Fact: Idling causes only 2% of car emissions; wider roads tend

Azmeen Rasheed

AxmeenR

Little over 50 years ago, homosexual tendencies were considered mental illnesses and it was treated via psychological conditioning.Today, those who are against it are considered having a psychosocial disorder and

Jake Higdon

Jake_Higdon

Some thoughts on this thread from @drvolts. It is absolutely the case that the coal worker (typically the traditional idea of a white male miner) occupies an outsized, even mythical

Beyond Covid

beyondcovid_

This week's Beyond Covid Digest explored the government's approach to post-Brexit deregulation. THREAD:https://www.beyond-covid.org/the-digest/britannia-unchained-deregulation-after-brexit We examined the prospect of labour market d

sasha

sashaplot_

Just like the plastics industry, which spun decades-long myths about plastic waste being recycled (it isn't, for the most part), the real estate industry is banking on us blaming climate

Elin Videvall

ElinVidevall

The word #Microbiome is derived from the word "biome", i.e. a distinct environmental habitat, in which microbes occupy and are part of. A Microbiome is therefore a spatially distinct environment

IIED

IIED

THREAD: In December, @LCotula travelled to Colombia with law expert @nicolasmperrone & IIED's Brendan Schwartz. They met with activists, miners, lawyers, mayors & government officials to explore investment disputes &

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