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BellingenNSW

Raison de vivre
Companion animals - a reason for living

For many dog owners the companionship of dogs is often
“literally the only reason to survive,
to get up, to still keep going.
It gives them a reason to get up,
a reason to get out,
a reason to move around and
be in contact a little bit with the world outside."
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Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research finds
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

"Approximately 69% of households in Australia own pets, with dogs being the most common."
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kb.rspca.org.au/knowledge-base
#dogs #pets #wildlife #birds #penguins #beach #DogOwners #ProstheticDevices #harm #pollution #GHG #meat #pesticides #faeces #climate #DogAttacks #Australia #community #ReasonForLiving #CompanionAnimals #zeitgeist

Wo/man's best friend in food section of supermarket
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NSW.Biodiversity

Pet dogs pose significant threat to wildlife and ecosystems

"Many owners simply don't realize the environmental damage dogs can cause, from disturbing wildlife to polluting ecosystems...Others may feel their individual actions won't make a difference, leading to a 'tragedy of the commons' where shared spaces like beaches and woodlands suffer cumulative degradation."
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phys.org/news/2025-04-pet-dogs
#dogs #pets #wildlife #birds #penguins #beach #DogOwners #DogAttacks #cars #harm #pollution #GHG #meat #pesticides #faeces #climate #degradation

Phys.org · Study finds pet dogs pose significant threat to wildlife and ecosystemsBy Curtin University
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BellingenNSW

The environmental impacts of man’s best friend
We give a free pass to dogs and their owners

Study "highlighted the impacts of the world’s “commonest large carnivore” in killing and disturbing native wildlife, particularly shore birds."

A "study of animals taken to the Australia Zoo wildlife hospital found that mortality was highest after dog attacks, which was the second most common reason for admission after car strikes."

"The researchers attributed the extent of the environmental impacts to the sheer number of dogs globally, as well as “the lax or uninformed behaviour of dog owners. A lot of what we’re talking about can be ameliorated by owners’ behaviour... pointing out that low compliance with leash laws was a problem."

“If nothing else, pick up your own dog shit."
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theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2
#dogs #pets #wildlife #birds #penguins #beach #DogOwners #DogAttacks #cars #harm #pollution #GHG #meat #pesticides #faeces #climate

The Guardian · Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research findsBy Donna Lu
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David J. Atkinson

@inthehands I had no idea that Tesla was selling carbon credits. Carbon credits are a scam for corporations to avoid reducing greenhouse gas #GHG emissions. That’s it. So yes, this idea should go away. However, if a company can demonstrate that they are in fact sequestering significant amounts of GHG, then this should be rewarded in some way, but not at the expense of greater emissions by some other company. The book, “Ministry of the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson has some good ideas along this line and lots of others too.

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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

"The American Beef Industry Understood Its Climate Impact Decades Ago"

insideclimatenews.org/news/140

People need to know about the anti-science and pseudoscience promoted by the meat industry, especially the cow meat industry, to hide the non-slaughter horrors of their bloody industry.

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Jacquet, a professor of environmental science and policy at the University of Miami, noted that the 2006 UN report represented an inflection point, not only making the public aware of livestock’s climate impact, but putting the industry on notice that it could potentially be targeted for regulation. The report said that livestock’s climate emissions—which come from converting forests to pasture, growing feed, methane-emitting cow burps and manure storage—were about 18 percent of the global total, more even than the transportation sector.
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In 1989—the year after NASA’s James Hansen famously told Congress that climate change posed a global threat—the Environmental Protection Agency held a workshop focusing on methane emissions from livestock and, soon after, published a report, “Reducing Methane Emissions from Livestock.” The report said that livestock were a major source of methane and estimated that a 50 percent decrease in global emissions from livestock would yield huge benefits for stabilizing this especially potent greenhouse gas. Tucked into an appendix was the following suggestion: “Reducing methane emissions from ruminants should be pursued as part of an overall investigation into alternatives for reducing future global warming and its impacts.”
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Jacquet and her co-authors note that representatives from the meat and dairy industry attended the 1989 EPA workshop, including a member of the National Cattlemen’s Association. Several months and a handful of planning meetings later, the association, which is the country’s biggest beef lobby and now known as the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, or NCBA, developed a “Strategic Plan on the Environment” to counter anticipated public relations problems or regulations related to climate change. The plan included suggestions to reach out to “key influencers” with research and positive messaging about the industry’s environmental benefits.
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In a separate study, published this week, Jacquet and another University of Miami researcher, Loredana Loy, trace the meat industry’s efforts to derail advocacy groups’ attempts to persuade the public to eat less meat as a climate strategy. These attempts include the Beyond Beef campaign and others, including Diet for a New America and Meatless Monday.
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The study says the livestock industry took a different approach than the oil and gas industry, which tried to convince the public it was only continuing to develop fossil fuels because consumers called for them. The livestock industry, on the other hand, tried to convince consumers that their dietary choices would make no difference.
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Inside Climate News · The American Beef Industry Understood Its Climate Impact Decades Ago - Inside Climate NewsNew research finds the industry’s campaigns to confuse the public about beef’s climate impact go back longer than previously recognized.
#meat#beef#bigMeat
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@fionaorkneynews

#ClimateChange #SpacePollution #Starlink #Musk #ClimateCrisis #GHG

It is very important to ask three questions:

1.) How do spaceship and satellite launches impact our environment, in particular the #thermosphere?

mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1132

2.) Who is the main culprit of this unsustainable development in orbit? (see below)

mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1111

(Translation: see #AltText)

3.) How do we combat it?

mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1128

Translation of linked screenshot from German: "In global communications, #ElonMusk has probably already become the most powerful man of all time via #X and Starlink in conjunction with #SpaceX Via #NewYorkTimes "Elon Musk's unrivaled power in the stars - with Starlink, Elon Musk's satellite dominance sounds global alarm" So far, #Musk has launched "only" 4,500 of his #Starlink satellites since 2019. He already has over 50% market share (global dominance). The target is 41,000... https://archive.ph/jIkem"
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Eric Maugendre

@energyecon

The top 20 highest greenhouse forcing entities collectively accounted for 17.5 GtCO2e in emissions in 2023. The list is dominated by state-owned entities, which make up 16 of the top 20, and includes a significant presence of Chinese entities, eight of which accounted for 17.3% of global fossil fuel and cement #CO2 emissions in 2023.
carbonmajors.org/briefing/The-

Commodity Percentage Share of Emissions (1950–2023) Coal, oil and gas account for about one third each. (Since about 1989.)
#coal#carbon#fossil
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Mongabay

Southeast Asia’s peatlands and mangroves store immense amounts of carbon, yet they’re rapidly disappearing. A new study finds that conserving and restoring these ecosystems could cut the region’s greenhouse gas emissions from land use in half — equivalent to 16% of the world’s total land-use emissions.

By Hans Nicholas Jong
news.mongabay.com/2025/02/prot

Mongabay Environmental News · Protecting peatlands and mangroves could halve Southeast Asia’s land-use emissionsJAKARTA —  Southeast Asia’s peatlands and mangroves store immense amounts of carbon, yet they’re rapidly disappearing. A new study finds that conserving and restoring these ecosystems could cut the region’s greenhouse gas emissions from land use in half — equivalent to 16% of the world’s total land-use emissions. An international team of scientists from the […]
#News#Conservation#Environment
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