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Founding environmental journalist of nonprofit @WATERSHED_i http://watershedinvestigations.com Documentary filmmaker: ‘Thirst For Justice’, https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thirstforjustice Formerly BBC (18 yrs) & Knight Wallace Fellow (2016).
As we witness the horror of attacks on desalination plants, we need to be aware, on a warming planet, conflict over water, using water as a weapon of war, & targeting people seeking water is on the rise
- in the past 4 years, it's nearly doubled:
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Water Security Atlas - showing incidents of water related conflict in Jordan, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Oman
We loaded Pacific Institute data on water conflict onto our Water Security map, so you can explore incidents of water-related violence around the world:
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-Iran's Red Crescent warns rain tainted with combusted oil could cause 'chemical burns & lung' damage
-Urges people to shelter indoors during rain
-cover doors & windows with damp cloth
-remove contaminated clothes & seal in bag
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Tehran was already on the brink of running out of water.
Now, even the rain is contaminated.
Is the FBI Investigating Environmental Activists?
A recent visit by an FBI agent to a climate activist hints at a broadening Trump administration effort to target political opponents. insideclimatenews.org/news/0803202...
As @barnabascalder.bsky.social has shown, people have always tried to go a little overboard when building, when the energy was available / cheap. That's no different today, which is why we need strict limits, despite or perhaps because of the potential high availability of renewable energy.
See one of the problems here, that will be still there with a switch to renewable energy: bsky.app/profile/mich...
These wars are, in part, climate wars, even if we're not calling them that yet
Exclusive data analysis from Inside Climate News: EPA Hits 40-Year Lows in Staffing After Trump Targets Its Public Health Experts insideclimatenews.org/news/0603202...
I have no words. I feel sick.
My god.
#waterwars
Even more reason to renationalise the UKs water as privatised water could be used against us by a hostile agency…
Tim Marshall highlighted this in Prisoners of Geography
After a Decade of Missteps, a Texas City Careens Toward a Water-Shortage Catastrophe. Officials in Corpus Christi expect a “water emergency” within months and fully run out of water next year. insideclimatenews.org/news/0803202...
In the Unired States, there is a power struggle in the Colorado River Basin.
The old way of senior water rights is causing domestic problems.
In order to endure domestic tranquility under the US Constitution we must rewrite the water laws in order that all humans in the Colorado River Basin/
have equal right to life. The old power struggles do not serve us.
The old ways must end.
War is not the answer.
Power is not the answer.
Control is not the answer.
Freedom and equal rights for all peopleis the answer.
Water is life. It is a human right.
And Tehran, with a population of ~10 million, suffers acute water shortages: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Great piece from AP - appreciate that it brings in the compounding climate risk in the region.
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Gardiner details the impacts of fracking, endocrine disruptors and microplastics -the chemical cocktail which poses clear physical risks to humans, marine life and many other life forms. Fossil fuel companies have unleashed a ‘plastic chemical virus’ then blamed us for its impact.
Did you know sea otters saved the kelp forest ecosystems? 🦦 🧪
As @thenatureeducator.bsky.social, also known as Rachael, explains, the maritime fur trade hunted sea otters nearly to extinction in the 1700s and 1800s.
🌎More than 1 billion people globally are affected by neglected tropical diseases. #NCDs
Climate-driven flooding in Kenya shows how environmental change is expanding habitats for parasite-carrying snails & increasing exposure risks.🐌
@wellcometrust.bsky.social @kemriwellcome.bsky.social @isntd.org
If you were investing in the future would you like to spend a billion or more dollars a day on a war for oil or would you like to spend that money to rapidly reduce your dependence on oil?
Now we get to see both of those approaches in real time.
business as usual mineral based construction, lime brick, reinforced concrete, fired brick, mineral wool with large raw material input, total material removal from nature and high primary energy input -> fossil fuel emission output.
If you want to combat species extinction, then make a change in construction, in the way we build.
The loss of biodiversity IS linked to the extraction of raw materials from nature.
Hanging up bird boxes, efficiency and using renewable energy is great, but it doesn't solve this problem. #RMI #TMR
More than 600k tonnes of sewage sludge spread on Scotland’s fields
Some 643,000 tonnes of sewage sludge have been spread on Scotland’s fields amid mounting evidence that it contains a cocktail of toxic chemicals
And this is as those tracking these things have declared we are now in a global water shortage thanks to data centers
This war is awful for a lot of reasons, but we can't overlook just how much of an environmental catastrophe this will be if energy infrastructure continues to get targeted.
Yeah this is gonna get real bad bsky.app/profile/aunt...
Now think about an EV instead. The sun produces energy by fusing hydrogen atoms into helium. It travels 93 million miles in about eight minutes and 20 seconds (seven seconds more when our orbit takes us furthest away). Those photons then strike the silicon atoms in a photovoltaic panel, knocking loose electrons that produce a stream of direct current electricity; an inverter, now usually contained in the panel, converts that to AC power, which can be pumped directly into the battery of an EV where the motor uses electromagnetism to create a rotating magnetic field in a stator, which spins the inner rotor to propel the car. There are about 20 moving parts in the engine, and it is 80 to 90 percent efficient. There is no exhaust and almost no noise. That’s it. And if you poured those electrons into an e-bike instead of an EV, it’s even better: a penny’s worth of power is good for three miles or so. The same principles apply to electric buses, electric ferries, and so on.
"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz"
Top @billmckibben.bsky.social post here
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Insects living in the lowland tropics have evolved to deal with brutal heat. But many of them are close to their limit, according to a massive study that assessed the heat tolerance of hundreds of species. https://scim.ag/406Y5yh