Assorted content for your weekend reading.
- Beth Mole reports on research showing that U.S. children suffered a spike in brain abscesses after COVID protections were removed - and that the levels continue to be elevated long after everybody has been told not to bother doing anything to avoid the spread of COVID-19. And Nicole Ireland reports on a new study finding that brain inflammation in long COVID patients (accompanied by debilitating symptoms) can linger for months after an initial infection.
- Seth Borensen writes about the Earth Commission's recognition that our planet is operating at dangerous extremes on nearly every measurable front. And IANS reports on the danger extreme heat and drought pose to the global wheat supply.
- Damian Carrington reports on belated efforts to stem Turkmenistan's methane "super-emitter" releases - though it's well worth noting how much more other countries need to do in reining in methane emissions as well. And Sarah Miller weighs in on the absurdity of treating carbon capture and storage as the primary option to address carbon pollution, rather than actually reducing the use of fossil fuels in favour of zero-emission alternatives.
- Meanwhile, Matthew Rosza writes about the harm plastic pollution is doing to our living environment - and the reality that recycling programs billed as a solution are of minimal help at best.
- Finally, Armine Yalnizyan discusses how the escalation of Toronto's housing crisis can be traced directly to the diversion of tens of thousands of homes to AirBNB and other temporary purposes.
Carbon capture is a s big a scam as is Dainel Smiths R Star suggestion which is likely to bear frutition!
ReplyDeleteWe have reached the point in which we, the electorate, will support anyone that will put jobs/ work before an obviously fast degrading environment.
We now pay the polluters to fuck up our planet!!
What does this say about us??
Will we reach the point where society sips it's Pimms , says fuck off to the disadvantaged whilst the effluent rises above their ankles?
Knowing self destruction is insane and criminal.
TB