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ecologist; environmental journalist, words @thenation, @theintercept, @wired;🦋: unpopularscience; 📸: fish_defender; music: innerspace/UPLYNC; Ⓥ
occupied Turtle Island
Joined February 2019
Seen these videos going around of “shark rescues”?. They’re all staged for clicks — and sharks are being killed to make them. In this video, I review evidence of hundreds of instances of illegal shark poaching on social media. Sign our petition:.
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RT @jasonhickel: We have this new piece in The Conversation describing recent scholarship on the question of extreme poverty, with Dylan Su….
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RT @Protect_Wldlife: Mexico’s first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, just banned ALL marine mammals in captivity for entertainment. #E….
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We have to dispel this notion that a boycott only works if the corporation collapses or changes policy. Money is power. When thousands of people stop patronizing a company, it gains less money. Its power and influence decrease. It is that simple.
boycotting megacorpos never works cos they’re too big to fail.
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RT @borkedsys: Capitalism has no pause button. Every forest is timber, every fish is stock, every breath of air a dumping ground. Infinite….
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RT @timalthoff: I’m excited to share our new @Nature paper 📝, which provides strong evidence that the walkability of our built environment….
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Opposition to lab meat is simple: cognitive dissonance. To acknowledge cellular ag. is more efficient & less cruel than animal ag., one must acknowledge that animal farming is wasteful & cruel. All of the tech fearmongering is contrived to avoid this.
I do not get the insane pushback against lab grown meat. This is such a win if it produces low cost high-quality protein. The technology is impressive and I’m guessing the pushback is from people who watched too many sci-fi movies & believe it’s going to cause them to grow a 3rd.
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RT @NoahCarl90: Life expectancy over time in Gaza, along with four other countries that experienced wars in recent decades. .
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The entire Florida Wildlife Commission just voted to establish an annual black bear trophy hunt. Polls showed 78% of Florida opposed. So did the vast majority of public comments. Every single commissioner has conflicts of interest in either real estate or hunting industries.
The developer-controlled FL Fish + Wildlife “Conservation” Commission is moving forward with their Black Bear trophy hunt slaughter OPPOSED by a majority of Floridians. Serious FWC reform is long overdue and needed in order to re-prioritize conservation vs political expediency.
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RT @mbolotnikova: One way you could read this chart: Animal ag is so inefficient—and it comes at an unthinkable moral cost, AND it might st….
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I deserve smarter haters.
@Unpop_Science You're both lazy and wrong. Why? Only ~6 of the ~3500 mosquito species bite humans. We can eradicate those 6 without significant impact to the ecosystem as the other species will easily fill in the gaps. You would know this if you bothered doing 5 minutes of research on the.
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RT @jasonhickel: New research shows that Israel's airdrops of aid in Gaza cover only 0.4% of what the population requires to survive. It i….
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Why Israel's airdrops on Gaza are just an illusion of aid
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This idiocy about engineering mosquito extinction is a great example of how people aren’t unwitting victims of misinformation. They seek out bullshit to support their preconceptions. This is a literal Bill Gates conspiracy. Yet “I won’t eat the bugs” bros think it’s awesome.
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RT @RewildScotland: The inglorious 12th tomorrow. Left is a driven grouse moor. A completely devastated landscape. On the right an alternat….
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Commercial longlining in Johnston Atoll, one month before and after:. For over a decade, it was virtually untouched. All of this was illegal.
A federal judge has struck down the proclamation from Trump’s NOAA Fisheries opening Pacific Heritage National Monument to commercial fishing.
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A federal judge has struck down the proclamation from Trump’s NOAA Fisheries opening Pacific Heritage National Monument to commercial fishing.
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RT @GazaMartyrs: This is my will and my final message. If my words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing m….
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Mosquito larvae are the most abundant aquatic insect in freshwater ecosystems around the world. They are the primary source of food for many species of freshwater fish, bats, dragonfly nymphs, and more. Mosquitos literally uphold the basis of aquatic foodwebs.
Fun fact: mosquitos aren't the primary food source of any species. If we eradicated mosquitos, it would have basically no appreciable lasting impact on the Earth's ecology, and we would only benefit from it.
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While we’re commemorating brave acts of righteous animal retribution, I’d like to share my favorite of all time:
Millionaire Texas rancher fatally gored by buffalo during South Africa hunting trip
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