#environmental anxiety

[hope-for-the-planet]

It took 90 days for the fungi to degrade 27 per cent of the plastic tested, and about 140 days to completely break it down, after the samples were exposed to ultraviolet rays or heat.

Chemical engineering professor Ali Abbas, who supervised the research team, said the findings were significant.

"It's the highest degradation rate reported in the literature that we know in the world," the professor said. 

From ABC News Australia

#plastic #plastic pollution #plastic recycling #trash #environment #hope #good news #technology #science #ecoanxiety #environmental grief #environmental anxiety #ecogrief

[tepot]

#environmental anxiety #climate change #global warming

[solarpunkwitchcraft]

I feel like I make a lot (okay, maybe just a couple) of posts about how the best way to deal with environmental anxiety or to make environmental change is to join local group and do collective action, but I wonder how accessible that feels to people? would it be helpful to just make a post about how to get involved in local activism (based purely on my own experience, of course)?

#environmentalism #environmental activism #solarpunk #environmental anxiety #local activism

[rogueish]

Classic old-school jungle, by which I mean it sounds like "Mars Attack" by Girls Aloud.

Bit of a stealth late-90s/early-00s girl group revival: "Oops" by Oliver Heldens and Karen Harding is a straight-up Saturdays track. Griff and Sigrid's "Head on Fire" is very late-period All Saints, as is Raye's "Environmental Anxiety".

#Nia Archives #Baianá #Oliver Heldens #Karen Harding #Oops #Griff #Sigrid #Head on Fire #Raye #Environmental Anxiety #Girls Aloud #All Saints

[bnyrbt]

every so often i’ll just have a paranoid breakdown about plastic and there’s not a ton i can do about it

#sasha #environmental anxiety

[moocowmoocow]

You poison the waterfalls Set fire to our rivers of hope The end of us all, well, it was always bound to happen To happen

#tonight's song #raye #environmental anxiety #Youtube

[thelikesoffinn]

Life as a social worker can be extremely...interesting. And sometimes? Sometimes, we absolutely do not understand what your deal is. Like, at all.

Today, I met someone who has extreme environmental anxiety. Which, I'd hate to say, but that's a new one for me. And for the first time I just... didn't know what to say. I didn't know how to console them. I didn't really know how to help them. Honestly, I didn't even know how to be nice about it. Because that one? Yeah, that one I absolutely do not get. I don't understand how this anxiety works, why it is a thing and how someone even ends up with it.

So they were telling me all about their ailment and how they often just sit at home crying because our planet is dying, and the entire time I was just like:

But what to do? We live and we learn and that's exactly what I shall do until we meet again.

#back to the books folks #okay google #tell me all about environmental anxiety #and add some scientific books to the list please #you live and you learn #social work #social worker #environmental anxiety #anxiety #environment

[reasonsforhope]

Holy crap, I didn't think Biden would be able to get the Climate Corps established without Congress. This is SUCH fantastic news.

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"After being thwarted by Congress, President Joe Biden will use his executive authority to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps that will serve as a major green jobs training program.

In an announcement Wednesday, the White House said the program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels and do other work to boost conservation and help prevent catastrophic wildfires.

The climate corps had been proposed in early versions of the sweeping climate law approved last year but was jettisoned amid strong opposition from Republicans and concerns about cost.

Democrats and environmental advocacy groups never gave up on the plan and pushed Biden in recent weeks to issue an executive order authorizing what the White House now calls the American Climate Corps.

“After years of demonstrating and fighting for a Climate Corps, we turned a generational rallying cry into a real jobs program that will put a new generation to work stopping the climate crisis,” said Varshini Prakash, executive director of the Sunrise Movement, an environmental group that has led the push for a climate corps.

With the new corps “and the historic climate investments won by our broader movement, the path towards a Green New Deal is beginning to become visible,” Prakash said...

...Environmental activists hailed the new jobs program, which is modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps, created in the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, as part of the New Deal...

Lawmakers Weigh In

More than 50 Democratic lawmakers, including Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, had also encouraged Biden to create a climate corps, saying in a letter on Monday that “the climate crisis demands a whole-of-government response at an unprecedented scale.”

The lawmakers cited deadly heat waves in the Southwest and across the nation, as well as dangerous floods in New England and devastating wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, among recent examples of climate-related disasters.

Democrats called creation of the climate corps “historic” and the first step toward fulfilling the vision of the Green New Deal.

“Today President Biden listened to the (environmental) movement, and he delivered with an American Climate Corps,” a beaming Markey said at a celebratory news conference outside the Capitol.

“We are starting to turn the green dream into a green reality,” added Ocasio-Cortez, who co-sponsored the Green New Deal legislation with Markey four years ago.

“You all are changing the world,” she told young activists.

Program Details and Grant Deadlines

The initiative will provide job training and service opportunities to work on a wide range of projects, including restoring coastal wetlands to protect communities from storm surges and flooding; clean energy projects such as wind and solar power; managing forests to prevent catastrophic wildfires; and energy efficient solutions to cut energy bills for consumers, the White House said.

Creation of the climate corps comes as the Environmental Protection Agency launches a $4.6 billion grant competition for states, municipalities and tribes to cut climate pollution and advance environmental justice. The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants are funded by the 2022 climate law and are intended to drive community-driven solutions to slow climate change.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan said the grants will help “communities so they can chart their own paths toward the clean energy future.”

The deadline for states and municipalities to apply is April 1, with grants expected in late 2024. Tribes and territories must apply by May 1, with grants expected by early 2025."

-via Boston.com, September 21, 2023

#climate change #climate crisis #climate anxiety #climate news #climate corps #biden #biden administration #democrats #voting matters #congress #environmental activism #environmental protection agency #environmental justice #climate activism #united states #us politics #good news #hope #hope posting #green jobs #hope punk #seriously this is SUCH a huge deal #climate hope #green energy #disaster preparedness #natural disasters #ecosystem restoration

[t0rschlusspan1k]

I just found out about B*lsonaro. I'm honestly so tired and I feel so hopeless that I want to hurt myself. There's no reason to go on. I don't want to see the worst happen.

#environmental anxiety #environmental depression

[queerbrownvegan]

Teach kids about climate change. Encourage friends and family to talk about it. Get involved with them. From now for the rest of our lives, we need to nurture deep ecological connections and ecological wealth.

-qbv

#queerbrownvegan #sustainability #climate change #mental health #eco anxiety #climate justice #environmentalism #climate crisis #activism #climate activism #intersectional environmentalism

[magnetothemagnificent]

Some Jewish environmentalist questions I've been thinking of lately....

How can we commemorate the Festival of Spring (Pesach) in its proper time if climate change is changing the onset of the seasons?

How can we ask Hashem for rain when the rainy season is now the devastating floods and hurricanes season?

How can we determine the end of Shabbat without a clock, if light pollution means we can't see even three stars?

How can we bless the new moon through smog?

How can we bless the budding of new fruit in its proper time, if fruit trees aren't budding in their time?

How can we thank Hashem for rain when the rain that falls is toxic?

[goyim can reblog but don't add]

#jews feel free to add on to this #jumblr #judaism #jewish environmentalist #environmentalism #climate anxiety #if jew know jew know #climate change

[hope-for-the-planet]

From the article:

“Leading barristers have defied bar rules by signing a declaration saying they will not prosecute peaceful climate protesters or act for companies pursuing fossil fuel projects.

They are among more than 120 mostly English lawyers who have signed a declaration vowing to “withhold [their] services in respect of supporting new fossil fuel projects and action against climate protesters exercising their right of peaceful protest”.

Noting that climate breakdown represents ‘a serious risk to the rule of law’, the so-called ‘declaration of conscience’ calls on legal professionals ‘to act urgently to do whatever they can to address the causes and consequences of the climate and ecological crises and to advance a just transition’.”

#environmental activism #climate crisis #law #environment #protest #lawyer #global warming #hope #inspiration #fossil fuels #climate change #good news #climate anxiety #ecoanxiety #environmental anxiety #environmental grief

[marthaskane]

Forest burning, oil spills Melting ice and methane gas Toxic waste and plastic fish We're digging holes to hide our trash Unity reeks in all our songs But we drew borders across our lands A thousand years we been at war When the planet is dead, we will all hold hands

RAYE at the Royal Albert Hall

#rayeedit #raye #raye at the royal albert hall #dailymusicqueens #dailymusicians #dailywomen #flawlessbeautyqueens #usermusicdaily #blogmusicdaily #wonderfulwomendaily #popularcultures #mine #mine: gifs #mine: misc #environmental anxiety on a LOOP

[wachinyeya]

#good news #nature #science #environmentalism #environment #animals #climate change #conservation #climate legislation #climate law #climate #climateaction #climate activism #global climate change #climate crisis #portuguese #portugal #europe #eco anxiety

[justbreakonme]

Most people find listening to the sound of falling rain relaxing.

Most people.

Not him.

He had spent too many nights huddled under awnings and tucked under bridges, unable to avoid the water that soaked him and what little he had to the skin.

Wet shoes and socks meant being barefoot, too numb with cold to notice he was stepping on broken beer bottles along the road. Wet clothes meant that he had only hours to find somewhere, anywhere to get warm or dry before he would get sick, really sick.

He wasn’t there, anymore.

He was safe.

He was home.

But that didn’t mean the sound of falling rain didn’t fill him with a bone deep sense of dread.

She didn’t understand exactly; she knew she’d been lucky enough to never associate the sound of rain with anything other than staying indoors. But she understood enough.

Warm blankets and dry socks found their way into his lap while the whistle of the kettle drowned out at least a little of the noise.

She’d close the curtains and put a movie on, loud enough that he could almost forget until the next crack of thunder would make him jump.

He didn’t hide under storefront umbrellas or overpasses anymore, but he did tuck himself further under her arm, as if out of habit, even now.

They both silently hoped that one day, the rain would be just rain. But until then, they’d wait out the storm together, in dry socks.

#it’s been raining a lot today #and though I’ve never been through anything nearly this bad #I was reminded that up until the last few months #the sound of rain would make me so anxious #because I had been living in a trailer that leaked #and when it rained that meant everything I had would get damp #my bed and my clothes and anything not tucked up in a sealed cabinet #I’m safer now and slowly the anxiety went away #but I figured I’d write this out so it could escape my brain #it’s fine to reblog without the tags and for whump reasons #whump #whumpee #caretaker #whump prompts #whump prompt #whump scenario #rescue #pet whump #environmental whump #pet whumpee #tw homelessness #just in case

[defleftist]

Anybody else completely unable to enjoy warm fall weather because it’s just a reminder of the progress of climate change? Because yeah, when I was little, our autumn weather was much cooler.

#climate change #climate crisis #climate emergency #global climate change #warm weather #fall #autumn #climate anxiety #global warming #weather #temperature #environmentalism #environmental activism #save the earth #protect the earth #leftblr #leftist #communist #socialist #communism #socialism #anti capitalist #anti capitalism #leftist politics #human rights