Fair enough. The way people are treating me for advocating against the destruction of nature is fucking disgusting. People are taking your point to mean that it’s totally fine to trample meadows because worms will fix it and I’m an asshole for saying anything negative about this person fucking up a meadow for a photo.
Ugh. Sometimes Lemmy is exactly like reddit.
You are a piece of shit.
The level of cope people will produce in order to refute my request to not destroy fragile meadows is nuts. I thought I was being polite. And I’m right.
Once the meadow is trampled and the soil is compacted, and all the native flowers are gone, go ahead and plant some plantains there up on that mountain in the compacted soil. Problem solved?
No, earthworms cannot undo the damage from soil compression caused by humans. There are ancient trails that have been found by archaeologists that haven’t been used in thousands of years and yet are still compressed. Human foot traffic is incredibly destructive.
The rule for hiking is that you hike and camp on durable surfaces only. Meadows are extremely fragile. There are visible rocks in this photo right behind this person, which they could be walking on. This is a selfish thing to do.
If you come to the Cascades in Washington, please don’t stand in our meadows like this. These plants do NOT survive being stepped on and you’re compressing the soil, preventing regrowth. If everyone walks in the meadows they will vanish forever. There is no natural mechanism to uncompress soil.
I never understood why people are annoyed by tourists until I moved to the mountains…
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Whatever his reasons may be, it’s absolutely guaranteed that they’re self serving. One of the reasons that Mamdani freaks out the establishment to such a degree is that there is just an immediately noticeable difference between himself and the politician status quo.
Every move they make against him just makes him look better and more human. It’s refreshing to watch.
Jeffries endorsed him last week. Jeffries is still a worthless corporate shill, but he did finally endorse Mamdani.
…all trees are solar powered…
I’m seeing a lot of articles putting the rate at 5%. Google is just so much worse than it used to be…
That 5% figure is 3 years old, and one report from 2018 had the figure at 8.7% so it appears to be dropping. Based on the political climate in the US that number is unlikely to my rise anytime soon.
That 5% figure comes from The Guardian, a British newspaper, which I would actually trust more than a domestic source at this point. Based on what I’ve read about what the Trump administration has done to the EPA, I would imagine any new pollution reports won’t be a possibility for a while.
Yes, based on what I’ve read. Less than 5% of the plastic that consumers place in recycling bins actually gets recycled. The rest is shipped to other countries, who then dump it in the ocean. When you throw plastic in the garbage it ends up in a domestic landfill. Landfills certainly aren’t ideal, but at least we know where it is, and it’s better than the ocean.
Plastic recycling is one of the primary sources of microplastics. They use jets of air to remove labels, which creates an enormous cloud of microplastic. People who live near plastic “recycling” plants have more plastic in their bodies than people who don’t.
There are articles about this out there.
The last bottle should be Netanyahu. He’s arguably one of the most awful people on earth for the perpetuation of the Palestinian genocide.
There are water filters that remove microplastics and PFAs called Zero filters. They’re kind of pricey and create plastic waste, but they help. The only real downside I see is all the damn plastic I’m throwing away, but at least they last 6 months.
How’s the road noise from highway 101? It’s very close to the highway, looking at the map.