Notices by scientist (scientist@eu.mastodon.green)

#ClimateChange

Some people & people in industry & governments are promoting nuclear fission as a solution to rising atmospheric #CO2 levels.

However, they always, and I mean always, forget to mention that #nuclear fission has already caused a severe nuclear waste problem. A problem that's not going away any time in the foreseeable future.

Nuclear Waste: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) https://youtu.be/ZwY2E0hjGuU?si=C9fIsBs9nYB6AHMm

Sellafield: ‘bottomless pit of hell' https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/04/sellafield-money-europe-toxic-nuclear-site-cumbria-safety

#health

@phiofx

"thick skull of Homo Sapiens"

Generally, if we were all "thick", we'd all have no idea how human infrastructure & activities are degrading life on Earth (I'm aware of the knowing, in part, but not caring much)

people do have the potential to understand the problems & what we can do to mitigate those problems

So, do your best to educate, to inform, people that "have no idea how varying forms of pollution are degrading life on Planet Earth"

It's a numbers "game".

Overall, most people have no idea how varying forms of pollution are degrading life on Planet Earth

Part of the reason is that many people don't consider that modern cities, motorways, etc, have not been designed to mitigate their impacts on wildlife. Therefore, as more anthropogenic infrastructure spreads around the 'globe', more wildlife is threatened with extinction

Why #LightPollution threatens life – with Johan Eklöf https://youtu.be/-JfrziRR21A?si=ezbVX68C53kSyCc-

#science #ecology #ConservationBiology #climate

#UK spends more financing inequality in favour of rich than rest of #Europe, report finds

"There is a direct financial cost to inequality: the consequences of structuring society to allow for massive profiteering for the richest at the expense of the rest of us have been enormous.” https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2023/nov/27/uk-spends-more-financing-inequality-in-favour-of-rich-than-rest-of-europe-report-finds

#economy #politics #greed #inequality #injustice #plutocracy #money

@Bentley

The president of #COP28, Sultan al-Jaber, has been using his seat at the 'table' to lobby for more oil and gas extraction

Someone must have forgotten to inform al-Jaber that at a COP you are meant to want to reduce oil and gas extraction

Maybe he got confused and thought he was doing his day job, as a CEO of an oil company

A real-life parody of corruption. We are hoping that a bunch of people that regularly lie, will somehow stop lying and do the right thing for the climate

@ddmgmgh @Bentley

They sell the opposite image

That's a typical sales technique or corporate strategy. Do some "good" (e.g., 1% of the right action) that the business promotes as a cover story for the 99% of doing the wrong thing

Why does the general public often fall for this simple con? Because it's simpler to have faith in the sales pitch. In other words, they want to believe that the people on "TV" in posh suits are as honest as they seem

In capitalism, the dodgy salespeople are rich

@aral

Let me get this clear, is this your way of telling Elon that he's been taken off of your Christmas card list?