Environmental Impact
36 Threads
Aircraft are thirsty and burn lots of fuel, right? Wrong. The average fuel efficiency of air travel today is about 67 mpg per passenger. That makes it more fuel efficient than yo...
1/9❯ The Grauniad's Ian Sample called Nobel Laurate Svante Arrhenius "The father of climate change." Arrhenius said CO2 emissions and rising CO2 levels would be highly beneficial....
I’m from Botswana, so let me explain 🧵 https://t.co/awW98tdhpT
"The former communities secretary, Greg Clark, called for an inquiry into the development in 2022 despite the planning committee of the London borough of Lambeth giving the devel...
Here's a startling fact: the first "global stocktake" on climate change just happened, and its conclusions are chilling. Our planet? Off track. We're headed for a temperature rise...
Facing pressure from regulators over its damaging environmental impacts, the Burning Man Project has paid $360,000 since 2019 for federal lobbying to a firm that works for oil comp...
People think electric vehicles will cut emissions, but they won’t. EVs are getting bigger. Big EVs end up polluting *more* than smaller gas-burning cars. Here’s why:🧵 https://t....
Breaking: An investigation has revealed that the Netherlands and Belgium are exporting bad fuel which contains high sulphur to Nigeria, and the pollution from it causes the averag...
The flood in western Beijing seen on the high-speed train. There are many mountainous areas in Mentougou District in the west of Beijing, and heavy rains have brought huge floods....
https://t.co/VRXzxKb2Az "The aerosols would produce acid rain, and would deteriorate the ozone layer, which according to the UN is helping to prevent more warming. It would also...
How nickel mining kills your river. Location: Wawonii Island, Southeast Sulawesi. 📹 via LaodeMSyarif https://t.co/wGQYxaNEy8 https://t.co/HzXCFlJskZ
The clothes you’re wearing are making both YOU and the environment infertile. Polyester accounts for 54% of clothing products—it’s popularity stems from how easy and cheap manufac...
The electric car - the biggest scam the world has ever seen? Has anyone thought about it? “If all cars were electric... and if we were stuck in a motorcade for hours in the fre...
Solar panels: Turning metallurgical grade silicon into polysilicon creates the very toxic compound silicon tetrachloride. Hydrochloric acid+metallurgical grade silicon= trichlorosi...
In 2015 a pair of orcas - Port & Starboard - arrived in Cape Town and began hunting local sharks, surgically targeting the liver. The great whites fled, causing a collapse in marin...
Horrifying scene of the mining accident in Inner Mongolia https://t.co/Ge3Tbux5Xj
🧵How Worried Should you be about the New Palestine Train Derailment?🧵 1/ We've seen a lot of shady stuff out of the Norfolk southern and the government following the recent crash...
#DidYouKnow that #LithiumInIndia was DISCOVERED back in 1999. GSI published “Final report on Base Metals and Lithium in Salal Area... Field Session 1995-96 and 1996-97”. INSTEAD @P...
As a miner for 40 years I have worked in various mines around the world. Gold, platinum, copper, coal, lead, zinc, oil and salt. I'm going to tell you something, and here it is. We...
"Bicycle is the slow death of the planet." A banker made the economists think this when they said: 1/5 https://t.co/7jJaDTMKTn
1/ Thread🧵: 'Green Renewable Energy' It is neither "green" nor "renewable"
I have decided to publicly share my own analysis on this discussion below, regarding the costs, environmental impact and fossil fuel consumption involved in producing solar panels....
How a small nuclear war would transform the entire planet: 1/6 Smoke from the incinerated cities rises high into the atmosphere, wrapping the planet in a blanket of soot that bl...
COPPER. I live near one of the largest copper mines on earth. I helped manage a smaller copper mine for 8 years. Observation: VRE-battery supporters are completely out of touch wit...
