Yes, pollution is caused primarily by companies, national coal, the pentagon, ect. but small scale community clean up efforts are still good! cleaning your local park wont save the ozone but it will make life better for the neighborhood kids and wildlife! world problems arent a zero sum game. Small improvements are still improvements that make things better and I dont see how deriding them is positive in any context. You can agree there needs to be more large scale efforts without saying small scale efforts are useless and dont matter.
“The business of importing foods across great distances is…very good business for oil companies. Transporting a single calorie of a perishable fresh fruit from California to New York takes about 87 calories worth of fuel. That’s as efficient as driving from Philadelphia to Annapolis, and back, in order to walk three miles on a treadmill in a Maryland gym.”
— from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Conservatives have so much fucking nerve talking about how “ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS ARE OUT OF CONTROL” when absolutely no-one feels inconvenienced by them or has ever even encountered them in their personal lives unless they’re the CEO’s of a megaconglomerate bitter that they couldn’t rip up a national park and buy like their fifth house boat
Yeah, it’s literally the Kochs saying “It’s so UNFAIR that when the oil pipelines we own but don’t maintain bust and flood a town with toxic sludge, that WE have to pay to fix it.” and “An employee we forced to clean chemical storage tanks without the proper gear for 15 years developed cancer, and they’re allowed to sue us over it? TYRANNY!!”
How is it never occurred to me to put it like this before?
its because republicans/ceos have convinced a large majority of americans that corporations are not only living entities that need to be protected but also that they’re even more important than people
Thanks to Greenpeace’s Tuna Shopping Guide, you can make an informed decision when shopping for tuna and support brands that use sustainable fishing methods.
Consumers can make a big impact! Recently, Chicken of the Sea (the world’s biggest tuna company!) has vowed to clean up its act after a huge consumer backlash over their unsustainable fishing practices.
Here are some brands rated from best to worst:
The Best:
1. Wild Planet
All Wild Planet products are pole and line or troll caught—two fishing methods with minimal impacts on other marine life. They have also vowed not to source tuna from proposed ocean sanctuaries.
2. American Tuna
All tuna is caught by pole and line—a turtle, shark, and seabird friendly fishing method. American Tuna supports ocean conservation through the creation of marine reserves.
3. Whole Foods
Whole Foods is the first and only U.S. retailer with a commitment to sell only pole and line, handline, or trollcaught canned tuna. By early 2018, any canned tuna sold in Whole Foods will be responsibly-caught.
4. Ocean Naturals
Tri Marine has a public commitment against destructive practices like shark finning and reflects this commitment by offering pole and troll caught albacore tuna.
The Worst:
20. Starkist
Starkist sources from destructive fisheries that kill tons of marine life as bycatch. StarKist is not transparent about the origins of its tuna and refused, yet again, to provide Greenpeace with meaningful information about its operations.
19. H-E-B
H‑E‑B, Hill Country Fare, and Central Market brand canned tuna are sourced from destructive fishing methods that result in bycatch of marine life.
18. Walmart
Walmart’s Great Value canned tuna is sourced from destructive fishing methods like purse seines employing FADs and conventional longlines that kill tons of marine life as bycatch.
17. Bumble Bee
While Bumble Bee offers some pole and line caught Marine Stewardship Council certified skipjack tuna under a separate brand, Wild Selections, it
does not offer any responsibly-caught options under its flagship brand. Bumble Bee has not made a commitment to introduce responsibly-caught products under its flagship brand.
Hansjörg Wyss, a billionaire and conservationist, wrote Wednesday in a New York Times op-ed that he will donate the money over the next 10 years through his Wyss Foundation. Lands and waters are best conserved when they become public national parks, wildlife refuges, or marine reserves, Wyss wrote. He aims to help conserve 30% of the Earth in a natural state by 2030.”
Wyss previously helped protect wild species on roughly 40 million acres of land and ocean after donating more than $450 million across Africa, South America, North America, and Europe. Wyss is also one of several billionaires to sign the Giving Pledge, a commitment to give away at least half of one’s wealth to charity.
idk guys maybe we should try calling the amazon rain forest “sovereign indigenous lands” more often because i’m still seeing people talk about it like some sort of vast terra nullis where there are only animals–you know, like a colonialist
There are lots of indigenous people and tribes here, and their culture is shared a lot in my hometown — I’m from Manaus which is a city literally in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. So, yeah, people need to stop talking like that.
Thanks I had no idea how misinformed I am, this is really important to know
As the world’s average
temperatures creep higher, marine animals are far more vulnerable to
extinctions than their earthbound counterparts, according to a new
analysis of more than 400 cold-blooded species.
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