Paul Thorogood

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Why running a country isn’t like running a household

Why running a country isn’t like running a household youtu.be/sAKr55O7qaU?... Politicians love to say the government must “live within its means” – just like a household. But this analogy is completely wrong. In this video, I explain why.

Essex County Council has
signed up to send all the county’s 335,000 tonnes of residual black bin waste per year to the brand new Rivenhall Airfield waste to energy incinerator near Braintree and Witham in Essex. It’s a lazy policy to avoid landfill and is still contributing to the climate crisis

Hysteresis in ocean export production owing to CO2 forcing - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Hysteresis in ocean export production owing to CO2 forcing

🌊 Even if we remove excess CO₂, the ocean doesn’t bounce back quickly. Export production shifts persist for centuries, especially in the Southern Ocean, which could take 1,300 years to recover.

Cutting emissions early matters more than we think

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I think 1.5C is already here, if not it’s unstoppable. Greener technologies and policies should be employed to prevent 2C and 2.5C and 3C etc, but once over 1.5C we’re in uncharted territories as far as functioning civilisation is concerned

Is this residual waste that is broken down?

What happens to the processed stuff?

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Don’t let your subjectivity become your objectivity

“Connect to the world, transform your future”

From 2020 to 2023, smoke PM2.5 concentrations were 2.6–6.7 times higher than the 2006–2019 average, with exposure periods twice as long.

Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
Don’t burn it
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World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns — The Guardian Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

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One person can read War And Peace and come away with nothing, another can read the back of a cereal packet and discover the meaning of life

One person’s dream is just that, a dream. Two people’s dream is a reality.

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Motherfucking wind farms…

The life of microplastic: how fragments move through plants, insects, animals – and you Microplastics have been found in the placentas of unborn babies, the depths of the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest and the organs of Antarctic penguins. But how do they travel through the world, and what do they do to the creatures that carry them? Here is the story of how plastic contaminates entire ecosystems – and even the food we eat. Illustrations by Claire Harrup

The life of microplastic: how fragments move through plants, insects, animals – and you

Unless we change tack and drastically cut CO2 emissions, there’ll only be small groups of hunter gatherers by 2050

Rivenhall incinerator to be investigated after complaint A waste firm is accused of breaking planning rules by not building recycling facilities at the site.

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‘No shops, no schools’: homes in England built without basic amenities Thousands of properties going up without access to playgrounds, community infrastructure and even doctors

The Paddocks, Cressing nr Braintree www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Writer Peter Moore takes a 28,000km overland trip Writer Peter Moore takes a 28,000km overland trip

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The waste hierarchy. Landfill and incineration without energy recovery are at the bottom; incineration with energy recovery is just above but is worse than gas and about on a par with coal-produced electricity assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a795a...

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About zero waste Waste is just a symptom of a much deeper malaise that affects us humans.  Zero waste is a philosophy aiming to unroot the causes of wastage altogether.Our planet has always followed zero waste princip...

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I believe the Rivenhall stack is the shortest in the country for a facility of its size; it has permission to incinerate up to 595,000 tonnes of domestic and commercial waste

Thank you for this; I will check it out

The Rivenhall stack is 55m high from the bottom of the quarry and only 35m higher than the surrounding ground level

I’d like to know more about what influences plume touchdowns. Do you have a link you can share?

I note Faulkbourne would get higher emissions than Silver End; is this where the plume hits the ground based on today’s wind conditions?