Cut out the Fireworks
Popular fireworks should be replaced with cleaner drone and laser light shows to avoid the highly damaging impact on wildlife, domestic pets, and the broader environment.
"this is sixth form poetry, not Keats or Yeats"
Popular fireworks should be replaced with cleaner drone and laser light shows to avoid the highly damaging impact on wildlife, domestic pets, and the broader environment.
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Up to one a half million tonnes of carbon, soot, and other particles from combustion end up in deep-sea trenches every year.
In Auckland, 74 metric tonnes of microplastics are dropping out of the atmosphere onto the city every year, the equivalent of more than 3 million plastic bottles falling from the sky.
Eighty years after it sank, a World War 2 warship is still polluting the local ecosystem.
The Salton Sea, California’s most polluted inland lake, is turning into toxic dust caused by a decline in Colorado River flow.
Five years after the onset of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, there is a prevalence of depression and post traumatic stress disorder amongst its residents.
Around 30 million people in Europe live in mountain valleys. A large part of this population is more affected by air pollution than previously assumed.
Global Warming is likely to lead to a huge increase in heat-induced labour loss, which will mainly impact those who work outdoors and for low wages. A tragic example of environmental injustice.