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Just another interesting (only to me perhaps) info about these magic giants:
HuffingtonPost: Coconut crabs considered to be invasive in Hawai
This article is most interesting, and I wish them success with their endeavours. I’m familiar with some of these old mines: in Britain we’ve mined for millennia. In fact, on a mountain ‘Mynydd Parys’ just across from my mountain-top farm in North Wales ~ there was a gold & silver mine that was already 1000 years old when the Romans invaded Britain. I used to take my dogs over there sometimes and the ‘tailings ponds’ were highly acidic; some plants still grew there though. I also conducted interviews with the caretaker staff at the mine, when I did an EIA for heavy metal pollutants going down the streams into the sea. Fascinating study.
So if this algal remediation works out well, this will be a neat solution to some pressing global problems. Well done 🙂
Good idea 🙂 Especially as the corporate world is utterly irresponsible with our global biodiversity. This will add nicely to the World seed bank at Svalbard 🙂
Another excellent milestone for Scotland. Well done … green all the way.
This article speaks for itself, but I’m very mindful that this never gets reported in western media? Most odd.
Now here’s a curious tale? On one hand you can see some evidence of a construction company making an effort to limit biodiversity loss; but on the other we notice that almost everything has gone wrong with their plans. The results were not those planned. The prosecutor is looking at ‘ethnocide’ and I agree with her. An entire way of life is at risk, and the present situation is similar to when the Yankees put the Native American tribes into reservations ~ awful. This still highlights the need for an IECC, and how the dispossesed have so little say against megacorporations. Thoughts?
Latest research shows things quickly getting worse for our oceans 🙁
Just so we understand what we are up against :::
The Guardian: Lima climate talks 2014 to prepare Paris COP
It’s very clear that politics-as-usual, and business-as-usual have not the slightest intention of doing anything meaningful about greenhouse gas emissions. They are still rattling on about money ~ the only thing that matters to them. Now the COP at Lima will be squabbling about who should pay for their planetary damage. Remember this is mostly caused by the rich countries, not the poor ones. The article above also explains that rich nations don’t want anything legally-binding (costs them money). So Lima, then Paris are likely to be whitewashes.
The Green Climate Fund has been promised just under $10 billion: less than City of London finance workers’ annual bonuses; and only about 3 days US military spending. Pig feed!
I’d not considered this before, but a political angle on climate change will be a useful adjunct to the scientific requirements. I notice that the 2 degree Celsius limit now seems to be rapidly disappearing as unachieveable … I expect 4C then 6C will come and go.
Interesting times, Mike 🙂
Hi Friends,
Today people of Switzerland had the opportunity to vote about three topics, one of them is called the ‘Ecopop initiative’.
The Ecopop group (www.ecopop.ch) objective was to limit the immigration influx to the country and to force the Swiss government to allocate and spend considerable amount of money to education so lowering the fertility rate in the developing countries.
Sky News: Switzerland vote on immigration cap
It seems they couldn’t win, still as far as I can see from the news they gathered above 30%. In my view, all of those in Switzerland who seconded the Ecopop initiative will be open to our messages as well.
