#pollution tw

[newt-with-a-keyboard]

Planting a Plant

So. This is not finished. But it might not ever be finished. And it makes me happy anyway.

(a poem about the feeling. that nothing you do will help.)

One seed's

Small roots reach

Through toxic soils.

The soil is washed to

Choking rivers which flow

To dying oceans which won't

Make it much longer. And yet

The ocean breathes again,

And the river flows

The soil's held by

The roots from

One tree.

(it is also poem about trying to help anyway)

#hope #soil erosion is a big issue #pollution #pollution tw #me calming myself down

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Welcome to my Tuesday morning PSA about plastics!

So--I was walking along the Bolstadt beach approach sidewalk here in Long Beach, WA yesterday afternoon, and I started seeing these little orange pellets on the ground that looked a little bit like salmon roe (but probably weren't). So I picked one up, and it was most definitely rubber. I went around picking up every one I could find, and while I didn't keep exact count I probably amassed 50-60 of them. I took this picture before depositing them in the nearest trash can.

These are airsoft gun pellets, and you can buy them in big jars containing thousands of them. That means that someone who decided that the beach was a great place to shoot their airsoft guns could easily litter the place with countless little bits of plastic rubber in less than an hour. We already have a huge problem here with people leaving trash, including tiny bits of plastic, all over the beach (you should see the gigantic mess after 4th of July fireworks when thousands of people come in from out of town, blow things up, and then leave again without picking up after themselves.)

But these airsoft pellets have a particularly nasty side effect. You know how my first thought was "wow, those look kind of like salmon roe?" Well, we have a number of opportunistic omnivore birds like crows, ravens, and several species of gull that commonly scavenge on the beach, especially along the approaches because people often feed them there. If I can catch the resemblance of an orange airsoft pellet to a fish egg, then chances are there are wildlife that will assume they're edible.

Since birds don't chew their food, they probably won't notice that the taste or texture is wrong--it'll just go down the hatch. And since they can't digest the pellets, there's a good chance they might just build up in the bird's digestive system, especially if the bird eats a large number of them--say, fifty or sixty of them dropped on the ground along the same fifty foot stretch of sidewalk. The bird might die of starvation if there's not enough capacity for food in their stomach--or they might just die painfully of an impacted gut, and no way to get help for it. If the pellets end up washed into the ocean, you get the same issue with fish and other marine wildlife eating them, and then of course the pellets eventually breaking up into microplastic particles.

You can get biodegradable airsoft pellets; they appear to mainly be gray or white in color rather than bright screaming orange and green. But "biodegradable" doesn't mean "instantly dissolves the next time it rains." An Amazon listing for Aim Green biodegradable airsoft pellets advertise them as "Our biodegradable BBs are engineered to degrade only with long-term exposure to water and sun and will degrade 180 days after being used." That's half a year for them to be eaten by wildlife.

I don't know, y'all. That handful of carelessly dropped rubber pellets just encapsulates how much people don't factor in the rest of nature when making decisions, even on something that is purely for entertainment like an airsoft gun. We could have had a lot of the same technological advances we have today, but with much less environmental impact, if we had considered the long-term effects on both other people and other living beings, as well as our habitats. We could have found ways from the beginning to make these things in ways that benefited us but also mitigated any harm as much as possible. Instead we're now having to reverse-engineer things we've been using for decades, and sometimes--like the "biodegradable" airsoft pellets--they still have a significant negative impact.

But--at least there are people trying to do things better, thinking ahead instead of just on immediate profit. We're stuck in a heck of a mess here, figuratively and literally, and changing an entire system can't be done in a day. Maybe we can at least keep pushing for a cultural shift that emphasizes planning far into the future--if not the often-cited "seven generations ahead", then at least throughout the potential lifespan of a given product.

#plastics #microplastics #environment #environmentalism #conservation #nature #pollution #litter #birds #tw animal death #animal welfare #ecology #science #wildlife #animals #scicomm #pnw #airsoft #biodegradable #solarpunk

[specimentality]

Made these pieces exploring how birds and people interact last year!

In order of appearance:

Pelican Pollution, Window Strike, Pigeon History, Myths and Culture, Tale of the Honeyguide

#my art #illustration #animal #birds #animal death #plastic pollution #it’s mild but #tw gore #hopefully those tags are sufficient for window strike and pelican polution

[aphidclan-clangen]

#clangen #wc clangen #warriors #warrior cats #wc #wc art #aphidmoons #art #my art #tw pollution #aphidlore

[pollution-wizard]

guys don't panic but there's sentient pollution running (slimeing?) around.

it just managed to escape my lab, it's not hostile or anything but if you see it and you don't want to be poisoned by the noxious air pollution fumes it gives off (it's an active biological hazard in all aspects so don't let it touch you either) please just go in the other direction and then call me on my orb so i can collect it

#wizardposting #wizard #evil wizard #wizardblr #sorcerer #evil wizard posting #wizardcore #wizard posting #wizardblogging #pollution posting #biological hazard posting #biological hazard #unreality #tw unreality

[todaysbird]

(article here but it has a paywall)

#pollution #environment #environmental news #tw illness #tw news #ask to tag

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Montreal has announced a smog warning on the morning of Friday June 16th, today, in effect until tomorrow morning June 17th at 11AM.

The air quality is dangerous for sensitive and healthy people alike, please wear an N95 mask if you can, or wear surgical masks to reduce exposure to the dangerous particles in question. Do not take your pets outside either, especially not if they have a history of chest infections.

If you live in the rest of Québec, check your city for the Air Quality Index, if it's similarly high, this post applies to you too.

#cdnpoli #Québec #Montréal #natural disasters #pollution #fire tw

[thicc-mint-cookie]

Pollutions radio voice is so gender actually

#radio omens #Woah tumblr butchered the resolution huh #good omens #pollution good omens #book omens #cw body horror #tw body horror #my art <3

[uncanny-tranny]

At the end of the day, I've learned that it doesn't matter whether or not being trans is the ~newest social contagion~, people would either want all ten of us dead or all fifteen billion of us. The "social contagion" theory is a stepping stone to how we, apparently, deserve the genocide people advocate for, and the ideas of what constitutes a "social contagion" are the justification.

When you realize that, you realize that what people aren't arguing is that Big Trans is doing Bad Thing and only that must be stopped, but that your kind shouldn't exist.

You don't reason with contagions, and you certainly don't argue facts and logic with it. You eradicate it. And that is the end goal.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #the bigger picture is that being trans Is Bad and You Shouldn't Be Trans #if being trans were a neutral thing then it wouldn't fucking matter who is trans and who is not #remember that words like virus and illness and pollution are also synonyms with contagion #they aren't viewing transness as a thing that some people are but as a *literal* virus of the mind body and soul #and do you treat a virus by sitting down with it at a debate poduim with notecards in hand? #NO. you fucking eradicate it. you destroy the virus however you can. #THAT is the appeal of the social contagion theory... #...it takes the human impulse of wanting to destroy harmful things (e.g. viruses) and applies it to actual human people... #...they did it with gay people. they're *still* doing it with gay people... #...and they always fucking will until you stop viewing it as a fucking Sin Of Mind Body And Soul... #...what queer transphobes seem to forget is that they are just as contaminated as we are in the minds of cishet patriarchy... #...we are all talking manifestations of actual viruses in their mind.

[yanfeisty]

tw : talk about toxic behavior.

Hi guys, I just wanted to talk a bit about Tighnari ENG VA's situation, I only like to post about cute or positive things and I don't like going into bad events but I felt the need to adress it. Quick summary about what happened, Elliot (Tighnari ENG VA) has been accused of horrible things.

This post is not here to explain everything that happened, if you wish to know more you can go search about it, just be cautious because it can be triggering, warnings are SA and gr*oming, he didn't admit every accusations so until proven guilty we can't really be sure of anything, but he still did admit some which are still horrible.

I hope the best for the victims and wish they can recover from it, I know it must be difficult so let's support them. The others VAs have spoken about it and I find it good they did, they must be extremely disappointed by their coworker and to have worked with him. The chance of getting a new VA isn't low since hoyoverse had already fired another VA for other accusations.

I will accept and still write about Tighnari, the character has nothing to do with his ENG VA and behavior, but I think it's understandable if you don't want to read about him because you have his voice in mind or it just makes you recall the situation. I'm saying this because no Tighnari artist or fan should be attacked, do keep in mind that doing content about Tighnari ≠ supporting his ENG VA, if you do in fact, defend Elliot and/or try to romanticize this type of behavior no matter if you condemn it in real life or not, don't interact with me, there are real victims out there they don't need people who glorify/normalize this issue by using fiction or other.

Finally quick psa, I saw many people saying they were surprised about it because he seemed like a good and funny person. Just know that bad persons hide their horrible action, they don't want people to know what they're doing because they don't want their life to be ruin, and they especially do this behind a screen. Please, be careful when you message anyone, strangers or celebrities, no matter how much informations you have, you don't know any of them personally and for the case of celebrities you only know their public persona, and when it comes to VA, remember they aren't the cute character you like, just the voice.

#sorry for the tighnari tag being polluted by this situation #tw elliot gindi #tw grooming #genshin #genshin impact #genshin x reader #tighnari #tighnari va #tighnari x reader

[unsanctitude]

various women designed for funsies who knows what ill do with them :)

#porcupine may be in same universe as alpaca hands the other two each have their own scenarios in my head atm #the deer was a human cab driver and she hit a deer and ummm woke up like that #mermaid is a pollution enthusiast who is also secretly a prototype design for a char in a dream game i wanna make lol #gotta start somewhere #anyway look at the funny animals i hope you enjoy them #feels nice to design things that are completely mine #my art #ocs #character design #seal #deer #porcupine #furry #anthro #monster #mermaid #TW: #blood #wounds

[intolunarorbit]

#196 #tw violence #but it's directed towards the 1 percent so it's fine #and just because the rich do most of the polluting doesn't mean you're excused from recycling and shit

[john-gosh-darnielle]

more vivid than sunsets

brighter than stars

#we will recognise each other #the way we really are #against pollution #we shall all be healed #the mountain goats #tmg posting #tmg lyrics #tmg fan art #a personal favorite #this was one i was reluctant to draw because its serious and my style isn't #thankyou John #i hope i did a respectful rendering #may we all be healed #the instrumentals on this tho gets me every time #Spotify #tw: gun #tw: guns #cw: gun #cw: guns

[chaos-in-bright-pink-hair-dye]

Listen well children of the sand and neon, our mother space has party ready for us tonight so turn off your discoballs, gaze towards the sky and marvel upon her godly fireworks because Perseus is throwing us his shinning diamonds and it is time to feel their warm glimmer in your heart

#admittedly I saw more Perseids yesterday but doesn't matter #(it is little more cloudy today and the air pollution is worse as well so makes sense) #tbh maybe I'll try waking up soon enough to give it a try before dawn #horrible how many satellites are up there tho #unreality tw #well only kinda but to make sure #ttlotfk #my posts

[pollution-wizard]

the thing about THE ANCIENT POLLUTION GOD, is that, like, he actually only originated in the 1800's, but we, as his patrons, say he's ancient to make him feel better about himself, yknow?

#job security and all that #wizard #wizardposting #wizardblogging #wizardcore #wizardblr #evil wizard #wizard posting #biological hazard posting #unreality #tw unreality #THE ANCIENT POLLUTION GOD

[film-slut]

I think the most fucked up thing about wall•e is that there's no way everyone on earth is on that axiom. Perhaps a few million, it is a big ship, but what I interpreted is that after B&L fucked the earth, the axiom was created to save only the most important people, and the majority of people on earth were left to slowly suffocate and starve because all the resources had run out.

#dystopia #wall e #tw death #politics #pollution #capitalism #pixar #disney