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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/19792844

The risk of a CWD spillover event is growing, the panel of experts say, and the risk is higher in states where big game hunting for the table remains a tradition. In a survey of US residents by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 20% said they had hunted deer or elk, and more than 60% said they had eaten venison or elk mea

The movement of meat around the country also raises concerns of environmental contamination. CWD is not caused by bacteria or a virus, but by “prions”: abnormal, transmissible pathogenic agents that are difficult to destroy.

Today, as CWD spreads inexorably to more deer and elk, more people – probably tens of thousands each year – are consuming infected venison,

Well, that was a torrid read

Better surveillance to identify disease in people and game animals is more urgent than ever, experts say. Osterholm says the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to public health funding and research, and the US’s withdrawal from international institutions, such as the World Health Organization, could not be happening at a worse time.

I don't know, religious revelations nutters might be happy /s

The risk of a CWD spillover event is growing, the panel of experts say, and the risk is higher in states where big game hunting for the table remains a tradition. In a survey of US residents by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 20% said they had hunted deer or elk, and more than 60% said they had eaten venison or elk mea

The movement of meat around the country also raises concerns of environmental contamination. CWD is not caused by bacteria or a virus, but by “prions”: abnormal, transmissible pathogenic agents that are difficult to destroy.

Today, as CWD spreads inexorably to more deer and elk, more people – probably tens of thousands each year – are consuming infected venison,

Well, that was a torrid read

Better surveillance to identify disease in people and game animals is more urgent than ever, experts say. Osterholm says the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to public health funding and research, and the US’s withdrawal from international institutions, such as the World Health Organization, could not be happening at a worse time.

I don't know, religious revelations nutters might be happy /s

a few salient points from the article

To play our part in limiting global warming, Australia needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Progress is stalling: last year, national emissions fell slightly (0.6%) below 2023 levels but were still higher than in 2022. Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions per person remain among the highest in the world.

We fly & drive big cars to travel, we're wealthy and consume. We build no intercity passenger rails instead ,making it easier to fly (new rail one to Melb Airport, expanding Brisbane Airport etc) when we should be shit canning flying, at least domestically.

Even the new inland rail ends which are supposed to help with road safety, road maintenance cost and reduce road emissions, end in the outer suburbs before it even gets to the port of Brisbane and has no spur to Gladstone.

Everything we do is ass backwards so its not surprising

Then we have

Biodiversity loss remains an urgent issue. The national threatened species list grew by 41 species in 2024. While this figure is much lower than the record of 130 species added in 2023, it remains well above the long-term average of 25 species added per year.

More than half of the newly listed or uplisted species were directly affected by the Black Summer fires. Meanwhile, habitat destruction and invasive species continue to put pressure on native ecosystems and species.

Faster then expected ?

I doubt those of us in the rich workd really care about that based on how we live now

The shipping industry has now joined the auto and aviation industries in viewing this “cleaner” alternative to fossil fuels as a means of reducing its emissions, without meaningfully changing its activities

Stupidity cubed ?

Faster then expected :)

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/19443079

Beware of hyperbolic headlines. But in this case, I’m afraid, as Ulrike Herrmann’s very readable book The End of Capitalism makes clear, the choice between capitalism and civilisation really does seem to be either/or – and the end will probably come a lot sooner that we thought.

Beware of hyperbolic headlines. But in this case, I’m afraid, as Ulrike Herrmann’s very readable book The End of Capitalism makes clear, the choice between capitalism and civilisation really does seem to be either/or – and the end will probably come a lot sooner that we thought.

Waste defined: devoting 30 million acres of prime farmland to growing fuel for cars

Similary with biodiesel, lay waste to rainforests to grow palm oil for biodiesel

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/end-cheap-palm-oil-output-stalls-biodiesel-demand-surges-2025-03-09/

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/19368886

Most of the world has dirty air, with just 17% of cities globally meeting air pollution guidelines, a report Tuesday found.

Colour me surprised :(

It reminds me of this from last year

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-24/air-pollution-modelling-university-of-melbourne-traffic/102015778

Traffic pollution likely causes more than 11,000 premature deaths in Australia a year, new modelling by climate researchers has revealed.

Most of the world has dirty air, with just 17% of cities globally meeting air pollution guidelines, a report Tuesday found.

Colour me surprised :(

It reminds me of this from last year

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-24/air-pollution-modelling-university-of-melbourne-traffic/102015778

Traffic pollution likely causes more than 11,000 premature deaths in Australia a year, new modelling by climate researchers has revealed.

Paladin Hydrogen, owned by Queensland businessman Dave Hodgson, who credits his success with "doing God's will, God's way", had planned to mine 1 million tonnes of coal per year near Fingal to fuel a proposed hydrogen plant at Bell Bay.

Mr Hodgson described his company's takeover of the Valley Road mine as "a transformation of wealth from the wicked to the righteous"

Wtf ????

Tasmanian Greens mining spokesperson Tabatha Badger said it was "absolutely fantastic" that the coal mine was no longer going ahead.

We are in a climate crisis and coal mines have no place in Tasmania, indeed Australia.