Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"Last week 2,000 scientists recommended to governments that all deep sea exploration be paused whilst further research is carried out; just 0.001% of the seabed has been mapped."

, 2025

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq69e4

Meanwhile the NatACT government in Aotearoa is actively encouraging mining corporations to "invest" in large-scale destruction of the seabed around our islands.

Will no one rid us of these turbulent priests? Well, there is an election coming ...
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"At the conference ministers from 97 countries, including the UK, signed a joint political statement saying they wanted an ambitious treaty to be signed on [plastic production].

But this only included one of the top ten oil-producing nations - Canada. Plastic is made from oil, so any commitment to reduce production could harm their income, the countries claim."

#EsmeStallard, 2025

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq69e4j6jz8o

All the more reason to end fossil fuel industries ASAP.

#Oil #plastic#PlasticPollution
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp last month

"I couldn't even imagine health care without plastics, and I don't even think we should go there. I would argue that plastic has allowed very important innovation of medical devices and supplies, and is here to stay."

#DrJodiSherman, Founding Director, Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/the-165-year-reign-of-oil-is-coming-to-an-end-but-will-we-ever-be-able-to-live-without-it

Head in the sand, much? How will you get plastic, without the fossil fuel industry spitting it out as byproduct?

#healthcare #plastic#Yale #sustainability
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp last month

China's going to be fine.

"In China, people burned crude oil and gas for heat and light as early as 500 B.C. By the fourth century A.D., they were drilling for these natural resources and transporting it via bamboo pipes."

#HannahOsborne, 2024

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/the-165-year-reign-of-oil-is-coming-to-an-end-but-will-we-ever-be-able-to-live-without-it

#China #energy#FossilFuels#FossilOil#FossilGas #bamboo
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp last month

WTF?!

"The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates that under current policies, the global use of plastics could triple by 2060."

#HannahOsborne, 2024

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/the-165-year-reign-of-oil-is-coming-to-an-end-but-will-we-ever-be-able-to-live-without-it

#plastic#OECD