Patricia 💛💙🇨🇵🇪🇺🌍/🖕🇷🇺
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Anti-Poutine, 🤢 Trump. jamais trop écolo 🌻🦩 NI RN/NI LFI. DMS ⛔
This image isn't just a landfill. It is a visual indictment of a collapsing human ecosystem.Look at the Marabou Storks perched a top this mountain of filth. These scavenger birds,once roaming pristine savannahs, are now forced to adapt their entire existence around our toxic leftovers. This is what "biodiversity crisis" looks like in our daily lives. Nature and Biodiversity:The Final Frontier is a Dump Each of these birds is ingesting microplastics,chemical leachates and heavy metals tied up in the garbage we discard. As they forage for food amongst the plastic bags,shampoo bottles and styrofoam packaging, their digestive tracts fill up with indigestible synthetic debris.We are mass poisoning their populations.We are melting their habitats and replacing them with a non-biodegradable crust,which prohibits soil fertility and destroys entire insect/plant populations at the bottom of the food chain. The Hidden Climate Bomb: Plastic & Methane We usually equate plastic pollution with ocean gyres, but what we see in this photo is the massive, overlooked climate crisis: Methane emissions from landfills. Most people don't realize this, but plastic acts as a massive "cap" in our landfills.When we pile layers of non-biodegradable plastic over organic waste, we prevent natural air circulation.This creates anoxic (oxygen-free) environments where organic matter decomposes anaerobically, producing copious amounts of methane a greenhouse gas over 80 times more potent at trapping heat than CO2 over a 20 year period. By prioritizing plastic packaging,we are literally smothering organic waste and directly accelerating global warming. Industry's Betrayal:The Hollow Promise of Circular Economy Where are the producers of these plastics? Where is the circular economy they love to tout in their sustainability reports?The truth is,the “circular economy” is largely corporate greenwashing. We have failed to implement genuine Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). EPR was designed to make plastic producers financially and physically responsible for the end-of-life management of their products.Instead, manufacturers continue to pump out cheap, non-recyclable single-use plastics (often dyed black or complex layered multi materials which are inherently unrecyclable). They pay a pittance into collective recycling funds, while the full weight of collection,sorting and disposal falls on cash strapped municipalities and marginalized communities living near these landfill mountains. We have the solutions.We don't have the political will. If we truly wanted a circular economy,we would reduce plastic production by at least 75% overnight. We would ban problematic packaging (PVC, black plastic). We would implement strict Deposit Return Systems (DRS) that make virgin plastic more expensive than recycled plastic. Until industries are forced to internalize the true cost of their waste including the climate cost of methane and the biodiversity collapse caused by microplastics this landscape is our future. We are not recycling our way out of this crisis. We must stop the flow of plastic at the source. @PlasticPollutes @BreakFreeFromPlastic @Greenpeace @EcoWatch @EarthOrg @DiannaCohen @Megan_Wolfe @PlasticFreeFuture @TheCirculate #PlasticPollution #ClimateAction #Methane #GlobalWarming #BiodiversityCrisis #CircularEconomy #EPR #ExtendedProducerResponsibility #ZeroWaste #PlasticFree #Environment #Nature #WasteManagement #SaveOurPlanet #SayNoToPlastic #PlasticWaste #RecyclingMyth #FossilFuel #EnvironmentalJustice @19jokersmoker96 @ACCESS_UG @akintomiwa18833 @AllisonJEdwards @AmbassadorEve @AndrewEmor_ @Dr_JibCares @EarthKeeper22 @GeoffreyLean @LavaErupted @LindaEvelyn_N @LuvSustainables @lizwathuti @annette_kezaabu @andrew_mug69931 @BwambaleRene @nemaug @NemaKenya @min_waterUg @ABarirega @ECOWARRIORSS
This morning, major flooding this morning in San Pedro Sula, Cortés Department, Honduras 🇭🇳 📹lauraamayahn_23
1/8 ⚡ War losses in Ukraine's energy and extractives sector reached $88.2B (World Bank RDNA5). In Jan–Feb 2026, capacity fell below 10 GW vs 18 GW demand. Reform now shapes whether Ukraine gets through next winter. @KSE_Institute launches the Ukraine Reform Series. 👉 e.surl.li/shnaxx
