Showing posts with label waste. Show all posts
Showing posts with label waste. Show all posts

Monday, July 24, 2023

Ongoing ocean observations II...




Source: Ocean Clean-up Paper: Science (Advances) Hat-tip: bad cat 
"and this is why i find the issues raised by so many of the self-described “greens” today who have been so subsumed and outright eaten by the “anthropogenic global warming” story so problematic:

 because they have become the enemies of actual environmentalism and ecology by setting their goals and demands in opposition to that which actually supports the environment. 

and this has become absurd and malformed to the point of being truly dangerous and counterproductive."

Ongoing ocean observations II...


Source: Ocean Clean-up Paper: Science (Advances) Hat-tip: bad cat 
"and this is why i find the issues raised by so many of the self-described “greens” today who have been so subsumed and outright eaten by the “anthropogenic global warming” story so problematic:

 because they have become the enemies of actual environmentalism and ecology by setting their goals and demands in opposition to that which actually supports the environment. 

and this has become absurd and malformed to the point of being truly dangerous and counterproductive."

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Oriental's ocean obligation...


Visualized: Ocean Plastic Waste Pollution By Country [LINK: Visual Capitalist

"Millions of metric tons of plastic are produced worldwide every year. While half of this plastic waste is recycled, incinerated, or discarded into landfills, a significant portion of what remains eventually ends up in our oceans.

Where does all of this plastic come from? 

In this graphic, Louis Lugas Wicaksono used data from a research paper by Lourens J.J. Meijer and team to highlight the top 10 countries emitting plastic pollutants in the waters surrounding them." [Link to research

Spoiler: Brazil is the only country not in Asia to make it to this top 10 list.

Oriental's ocean obligation...


Visualized: Ocean Plastic Waste Pollution By Country [LINK: Visual Capitalist

"Millions of metric tons of plastic are produced worldwide every year. While half of this plastic waste is recycled, incinerated, or discarded into landfills, a significant portion of what remains eventually ends up in our oceans. Where does all of this plastic come from? 

In this graphic, Louis Lugas Wicaksono used data from a research paper by Lourens J.J. Meijer and team to highlight the top 10 countries emitting plastic pollutants in the waters surrounding them." [Link to research

Spoiler: Brazil is the only country not in Asia to make it to this top 10 list.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Obganiation overcomes obscurantism...







No memory whatsoever...

Still paying and for how long? The arch vampire has really never left the scene (look at the peace in the ME for instance...hah!) but sometimes his episodes do chime with what is right, which is also to say that they chime with what I think :-)

Notasheep directs us to this piece by Michael Savage in The Times (£) about TB (no, the one without the cull going on): "Labour should have made cuts to public spending before the financial crisis hit Britain" Tony Blair has admitted; he said that he regretted not following through on a plan [known as the Fundamental Savings Review] to weed out billions in unnecessary and wasteful spending in 2005." A planned killed off by Crash Gordon, Ed Milliband and Ed Balls (names you may recognise).



More to agree with: Blair added "I advise any young person who wants to go into politics today: go and spend some time out of politics. Go and work for a community organisation, a business, start your own business — do anything that isn't politics for at least several years"; [edit 6pm] as I wrote four years ago - considering the proliferation of a certain type of Old Oxfordian - I'd go further: this should even be a specific, obligatory requirement: "...it seems to me to be more urgent now - rather than just important - that any new MPs should have actually "lived" before joining the ruling elite."



obganiate v. - to irritate with reiteration

obscurantism n. - prevention of enlightenment [Luciferous Logolepsy]

Obganiation overcomes obscurantism...


No memory whatsoever...
Still paying and for how long? The arch vampire has really never left the scene (look at the peace in the ME for instance...hah!) but sometimes his episodes do chime with what is right, which is also to say that they chime with what I think :-) Notasheep directs us to this piece by Michael Savage in The Times (£) about TB (no, the one without the cull going on): "Labour should have made cuts to public spending before the financial crisis hit Britain" Tony Blair has admitted; he said that he regretted not following through on a plan [known as the Fundamental Savings Review] to weed out billions in unnecessary and wasteful spending in 2005." A planned killed off by Crash Gordon, Ed Milliband and Ed Balls (names you may recognise).

More to agree with: Blair added "I advise any young person who wants to go into politics today: go and spend some time out of politics. Go and work for a community organisation, a business, start your own business — do anything that isn't politics for at least several years"; [edit 6pm] as I wrote four years ago - considering the proliferation of a certain type of Old Oxfordian - I'd go further: this should even be a specific, obligatory requirement: "...it seems to me to be more urgent now - rather than just important - that any new MPs should have actually "lived" before joining the ruling elite."

obganiate v. - to irritate with reiteration
obscurantism n. - prevention of enlightenment [Luciferous Logolepsy]

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Official overspend...






No, not the news Ed Balls has been yearning for*, but that the European Commission has spent 315,000 quid on a redesign of its logo that "was so similar to the old design that it went virtually unnoticed when it was changed six weeks ago" says Bruno Waterfield in the DT. The cost for the graphic designer and artwork was £110,000 but "the bill for replacing the various logos used by the Commission added another £215,000 to the cost of a redesign". EU officials insist that it is a saving because the confusion with of hundreds of departmental logos had been £3.7 million over recent years...oh, OK. NOT!



* although it was to some** extent a surprise and is already being doubted.

** but the UK economy has been 'bumping along the bottom' for a while.



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Official overspend...


No, not the news Ed Balls has been yearning for*, but that the European Commission has spent 315,000 quid on a redesign of its logo that "was so similar to the old design that it went virtually unnoticed when it was changed six weeks ago" says Bruno Waterfield in the DT. The cost for the graphic designer and artwork was £110,000 but "the bill for replacing the various logos used by the Commission added another £215,000 to the cost of a redesign". EU officials insist that it is a saving because the confusion with of hundreds of departmental logos had been £3.7 million over recent years...oh, OK. NOT!

* although it was to some** extent a surprise and is already being doubted.
** but the UK economy has been 'bumping along the bottom' for a while.

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