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hennethgalad · 2 days
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"“We’re not thinking about any of this,” says Ikiz. “We’re not getting our healthcare systems ready. We’re not doing anything in terms of prevention or protections.”"
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politijohn · 8 months
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Nothing matters
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reasonsforhope · 22 days
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An illegal toxic dump site in Croatia, the theft of water from a major aquifer in southern Spain, illegal trading of ozone-depleting refrigerants in France: This is just a sampling of the environmental crimes that European countries are struggling to stop. The lack of accountability for these acts stems in part from the European Union’s legal code, which experts say is riddled with vague definitions and gaps in enforcement. That’s about to change. 
Last week, EU lawmakers voted in a new directive that criminalizes cases of environmental damage “comparable to ecocide,” a term broadly defined as the severe, widespread, and long-term destruction of the natural world. Advocates called the move “revolutionary,” both because it sets strict penalties for violators, including up to a decade in jail, and because it marks the first time that an international body has created a legal pathway for the prosecution of ecocide.
“This decision marks the end of impunity for environmental criminals and could usher in a new age of environmental litigation in Europe,” wrote Marie Toussaint, a French lawyer and EU parliamentarian for the Greens/European Free Alliance group, on X...
The new directive uses the term “ecocide” in its preamble, but does not criminalize the act by laying out a legal definition (the most widely accepted definition of ecocide was developed by an international panel of experts in 2021). Instead, it works by providing a list of “qualified offenses,” or crimes that fall within its purview. These include pollution from ships, the introduction of invasive species, and ozone depletion...
The new law holds people liable for environmental destruction if they acted with knowledge of the damage their actions would cause. This aspect of the law is important, experts said, because it means that a permit is no longer enough for a company to avoid culpability.  
“If new information shows that behavior is causing irreversible damage to health and nature – you will have to stop,” a member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands, Antonius Manders, told Euronews. 
Advocates like Mehta hope that the EU’s move will have influence beyond Europe’s borders. The principal goal of the Stop Ecocide campaign is for the International Criminal Court to designate ecocide as the fifth international crime that it prosecutes, after crimes against humanity, war crimes, crimes of aggression, and genocide. At the moment, environmental destruction can only be prosecuted as a war crime at the ICC, and limitations in the law make this extremely difficult to do...
Kate Mackintosh, the executive director of the Netherlands-based UCLA Law Promise Institute Europe, told Grist that the ICC is unlikely to adopt an ecocide law if other countries do not do so first. 
“It’s not something you can just pull out of thin air,” she said, adding that any international legal doctrine has to have a precedent on the national level. “That’s the way states are going to accept it.”
The EU’s 27 member states will have two years to adapt the new legislation into their penal codes. Afterwards, their implementation must be reviewed and updated at least once every five years using a “risk-analysis based approach,” to account for advancements in experts’ understanding of what might constitute an environmental crime. Mehta said that despite its omission of some important offenses, the law sets an important example for other countries. Several days before the EU vote, Belgium adapted its criminal code to include the directive, making it the first country in Europe to recognize ecocide as a crime.
The ruling “shows leadership and compassion,” Mehta said. “It will establish a clear moral as well as legal ‘red line’, creating an essential steer for European industry leaders and policy-makers going forward.”
-via Grist, March 6, 2024
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secretkindoflove · 2 months
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Raging Wildfires in Chile - Please Reblog!
Over a hundred people found death and counting, as neighbors and volunteers gather to remove debris by their own means. This wildfire has spread along three different cities, urban and rural spaces included. Arson is claimed.
Many people and pets are still missing, their whole lives destroyed by these aggresive fires as they reached urban villages, thousands evacuated from their home. Please help us create some awareness with a little reblog and maybe some help, as firefighters and other official charities [TECHO chile, Desafío Levantemos Chile, Hogar de Cristo] are accepting donations.
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odinsblog · 10 months
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Whether you call it climate change or pollution, it’s still a series of policy decisions (deregulation). Deregulation that is disproportionately upheld by greedy corporations, red state Democrats, and is enforced overwhelmingly by Republican and Libertarian controlled legislatures.
(sources and other relevant links beneath the cut)
👉🏿 https://heatmap.news/climate/wildfire-smoke-east-air-quality
👉🏿 https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-david-wallace-wells
👉🏿 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1666541345069219840.html
👉🏿 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1648986424098652160.html
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anarchywoofwoof · 8 days
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imagine the Earth has been keeping a temperature diary since 1850, jotting down how warm or cold it feels each day.
now, fast forward to March 19th this year.
if you average out all the temperature notes from the last 365 days and compare it to what was considered "normal" between 1850 and 1900 (the pre-industrial baseline), we find that the Earth felt 1.57 degrees Celsius (about 2.8 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than it used to back then.
the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) has set a "safe" warming threshold at 1.5 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels to significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change. this threshold was established to avoid some of the most severe effects on ecosystems, human health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, and economic growth. the goal is to keep global temperature rise in this century well below 2 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels while pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees celsius.
the recent measurement of the 365-day running mean global surface temperature reaching 1.57°c above the pre-industrial baseline indicates that we have surpassed this 1.5°c threshold, albeit in the context of a running mean and not yet as a long-term average. this means we are already in the zone where the risks of more significant impacts from climate change become higher, according to IPCC guidelines.
in New Zealand, over 3,500 eels were found dead in a stream.
the gray whale dieoff on the west coast of america has been declared "over," but has been attributed to malnutrition
sea lions and dolphins have also been washing up on the west coast with increasing regularity
over 150 amazon river dolphins died in october during a drought and heatwave in south america
salmon farm dieoffs are increasing exponentially across the globe
sawfish are spinning in circles, acting bizarre and in some cases, dying, in the waters off the florida keys
scientists have declared the world is on the verge of "historic levels of coral bleaching"
climate change is causing the world's trees to struggle to breathe
but oil executives continue their hubris:
how much more do we need to see??? our natural world is not dying. it is being killed. and we know who is responsible for the murder.
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nando161mando · 4 months
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These fuckers are content to watch us die.
This bullshit is going to condemn our species to extinction unless we find a way to depose these sociopaths.
#cop28 #copOut #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
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you-need-not-apply · 4 months
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Hello everyone, this sounds bad right? Its about to sound worse.
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The hottest ever recorded temperature on earth was 56.7 degrees Celsius or 134 degrees Fahrenheit
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This beats it by 1.8 degrees Celsius
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BRAZIL IS CONFIRMED TO HAVE HIT 44.8 CELSIUS OR 122.6 FAHRENHEIT LAST SUNDAY
THIS IS NOT NORMAL. THIS IS CLIMATE CHANGE!
This will keep occurring in higher and higher numbers for longer periods of time until we do something about it.
Climate change will cause more and more extreme weather events to occur at a higher frequency. This is not normal, this is not natural. This is human caused.
Please, for the love of what-ever-you-want, please educate yourself, spread awareness, do what you can to help and stay safe.
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dragonsarecool123 · 2 months
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The idea that some people have never and will never see the stars is so incredibly terrifying and dystopian to me
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Women in the “Global South” are at the forefront of experiencing the worst of climate change and they are facing the gravest of consequences due to global inaction on this catastrophe.
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hennethgalad · 2 months
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"officials are warning of an “unfolding famine” that could equal or eclipse the 1984-85 disaster, which inspired Live Aid. They have reported hundreds of deaths."
everyone agrees on the need for land reform
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politijohn · 1 year
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billyengland · 8 months
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ahb-writes · 21 days
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Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions (Ecological Challenges and Environmental Disasters)
Ecological Challenges and Environmental Disasters Worldbuilding Questions:
What are the unique or different ecosystems in this world (e.g., terrestrial or aquatic systems). Which are stable, and which (if any) are under pressure and why?
What was the last major environmental catastrophe (e.g., a major fire, tremors, flood)? What happened?
Who is concerned about the environment’s well-being, and why?
Who is skeptical about environmental threats or dangers, and why?
Where is the environment most robust, and where are the greatest threats to stability, life, the land’s well-being?
Where would people seek refuge in the event of a disaster and why?
When do seasonal or periodic climate or other ecological changes occur, and why?
When major events affecting the environment occurred, and what are dominant attitudes towards it? Do they differ between inhabitants?
Why are certain environmental challenges predominant?
Why do inhabitants of this world value or exploit the natural world, and how?
❯ ❯ ❯ Read other writing masterposts in this series: Worldbuilding Questions for Deeper Settings
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emperornorton47 · 4 months
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edwordsmyth · 7 months
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"The only thing that scares me more than the relentless floods and fires we see through our phones that eventually will come to all of us, is the total lack of response from everyone else as the world collapses in front of their eyes." -Claire Saxon Ghauri
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