Destroying Earth

The earth has enough for every man's need, but not for every mans greed. - Gandhi https://greta-thunberg-hero.blogspot.com Humans have behaved so arrogantly antagonistic to the rest of the entire biome, we deserve everything that we are gonna get. Hopefully there will be life forms that will eventually survive and proclaim in a loud voice that Man was NOT "the measure of all things". https://climate-crisis-data.blogspot.com Sea level rise might take a while, but we already feel the effect of changing weather patterns resulting in forest fires etc. The domino effect is in full motion.  https://arctic-climate-crisis.blogspot.com "When the forests are no more and the rivers, lakes and ocean are polluted, that's the time we will realize we cannot drink oil and eat money."  https://destroying-earth.blogspot.com Never confuse politicians with leaders. Politics is why we are where we're at. Keeping the corporate profit machine going is all that matters to polit...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is wonderful, beautiful – and alive. But for how long? Originally filmed in 1993, this documentary looks at one of the few remaining live coral reefs and why the coral reefs around the world are still dying 28 years later. The only thing more depressing than watching this video is watching this video 28 years later with the knowledge we have continued to put big business profit ahead of people and planet even though we knew better. Like all plague's the human race has peaked now it has used up all the resources and our inevitable decline is next.

Insecticides are sometimes necessary in farming. But some substances, like neonicotinoids, kill not only pests but bees as well. Now the Bayer Group, one of the main manufacturers of these pesticides, is coming under pressure. Scientists around the world have found that neonicotinoids are the main cause of mass bee deaths. Research has shown that a number of insecticides should have been banned long ago. For years, the Bayer Group has sought to silence the critics and pressure scientists into not publishing their findings. For more than two decades, experts have been warning of the negative effects of neonicotinoids, with a whole range of studies published on the subject. It would appear that the industry, aided by the authorities, managed to successfully delay any ban on these substances for years. Studies show that neonicotinoids not only kill pests, but also bees and other beneficial insects. Dutch toxicologist Henk Tennekes was among the first to recognize the problem. He believe...

Dairy cows are calculated to be profitable for only six years in industrial farming. After that, the long-suffering dairy cows get sent to the slaughterhouse. An association in Germany is working to save as many animals as possible from this fate. Matthias Obenhack runs a family farm in central Germany. But he is in serious financial trouble. His cows and pigs are no longer turning him a profit. An animal rights activist and an agricultural economist come to his aid. But, initially, he can barely get his head around what they are proposing. Julya Dünzl and Timo Geuß want to save Obenhack’s livestock from the slaughterhouse and help the young farmer transform his farm into a place where animals can live without serving a human need. He has long had ethical doubts about modern livestock farming methods. Nevertheless, he at first finds it difficult to wrap his head around the notion that a dairy cow shouldn’t have to produce milk, that pigs should be left to live their lives, and that la...

In West Texas, vast quantities of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, are leaking into the atmosphere. Specialized cameras that can detect the invisible pollutant are helping to expose the problem. Fossil fuel executive overheard: ""Methane? Yikes! Let's blame cows. No dent in our profits."" Methane gas also escapes around the outer diameter of the pipe that emerges from the ground. As someone that once worked for TCEQ, I can tell you it is a handful of agents/case workers who get about 4 new cases a week with each case having a work shelf life of 6 months. That means each worker has about 30-40 cases at any given point, with every single gas station and abandoned underground gas tank (farms, etc) in the roll. You have to go bigger, TCEQ won't have the manpower to help.

'Bad Goods' is a documentary series for Vice News looking at the worldwide illicit trade market, from wildlife trafficking, counterfeit item selling and sand mining. It will follow key people, from enforcement to traffickers, at the heart of the trade and explore what is behind the demand for illicit products. This episode explores the business of sand mining. My grandmother's town is devastated by illigal sand mining. Thanks vice for the mind-blowing journalism. Wrecking the environment like this is like selling your own children. Unfortunately living a hand to mouth existence makes one short-sighted. I really admire the strong spirit and bravery of this woman. She's confronting influential and powerful people behind this corruption and illegal activities and yet she is standing and fighting for the rights of minorities. I'm wishing you Maam good health and protection. If this has been done to the Philippines you'll never see the sun. Greed and corruption is on...

Mercury is crucial to small-scale gold mining in South America but increasing scrutiny of its health and environmental impact in the Amazon is leading to its prohibition throughout the continent. This investigation delves into the underworld of mercury, following its path from Guyana to neighboring Suriname, exploring the health and environmental consequences, and what the prohibition of mercury would mean for the livelihoods of miners and communities across the Amazon. ‘MERCURY’ is a film by Tom Laffay, produced by InfoAmazonia, a data journalism initiative which reports on the Amazon. It forms part of a wider investigation called ‘Mercury - Chasing the Quicksilver’ led by journalist Bram Ebus. Read more here: https://mercurio.infoamazonia.org/en/ Banning materials without providing a replacement, has and will never work. As the man said, only large scale mining companies will be able to do it. But that’s the whole point today. Transfer the wealth to large corporations, as the US d...

The avocado is a new superfood and its cultivation has been increasing worldwide, including in southern Portugal. But avocado plantations suck up the water in the already drought-stricken country. Local residents and small farmers are fighting back. Matthew Ambrose had imagined his ninth summer running a vacation quinta in Portugal quite differently. For decades, Matthew ran bars and discos in the UK. Now he wants to live a quieter life in a small guesthouse surrounded by a green garden, with his donkey, a pony and two dogs. But he fears that his only well will run dry and his land will become barren. Noisy excavators surround his property. A large Portuguese fruit-growing company is tearing up cork oak and prickly pear trees and laying water pipes to create a 50-hectare avocado plantation. Three deep wells have already been sunk - even though, as Matthew points out, locals are strictly forbidden from drilling new wells after many years of low rainfall and forest fires. But the compan...

It’s the lowest place on earth. A sea in the middle of a desert. Fed by the waters of the Jordan River, nestled on the borders of Israel, Jordan and the West Bank, the Dead Sea has supported life and provided spiritual healing for millennia. But today the Dead Sea is disappearing, its waterline receding year by year. And the fight over this diminishing resource is fueling tensions between Palestinians and Israelis. In a visually stunning story, correspondent Eric Tlozek travels through this ancient land to unravel the mysteries of this vanishing sea. Upstream in the Jordan Valley, the waters which feed into the Dead Sea have been diverted for agriculture and now there’s not enough to go around. Zeyad, whose family lives in the Jordan Valley, says Palestinian farmers aren’t getting their fair share of water. “They have a very big shortage of water. The water allocated for this village actually is less than 50% of the needed water.” David, an Israeli farmer, says the Jewish settle...

We’re emptying the oceans at an alarming rate, and not only that - the fisheries industry endangers other marine animals and entire ecosystems. Is there a way to eat fish sustainably? Or is the only answer to stop eating fish? My new strategy is to look up what invasive species they want removed. They're usually fair game with no size requirement It's wild to me that the European eel is classified as critically endangered, but you can buy it at almost any fish shop or market here in the Netherlands. 10 years ago I remember seeing them by the bucket on markets, but I haven't seen that in a long time. Something tells me that is not out of kindness but rather that there just aren't that many left.

We're constantly told by experts to eat more fish - its fats and nutrients are good for our health. As of 2016, the most popular fish in Australia was salmon. We consumed almost 40,000 tonnes of it a year. But what do we know about how salmon is farmed, what the fish are fed and what the environmental impacts are? These issues have brought the industry to a flashpoint in Tasmania which has the biggest salmon farming area in Australia. Thousands of jobs in that state depend on salmon farming and its future relies on a 'clean green' image. But in this investigation, industry insiders and a trail of documents challenge that, questioning the use of chemicals, intensive farming and reveal a corporate culture far removed from the marketing image of a wild salmon leaping from a pristine river. No one from the Tasmanian Government or the state regulator would be interviewed for this program.

New Zealand’s clean, green image hides a dirty truth. Polluted by intensive dairy farming, its waterways are some of the most degraded in the world. Will the Ardern government clean it up or will the Maori step in? It’s a toxic brew of dirty water and big business. And it’s jeopardising New Zealand’s ‘100% pure’ clean, green image. New Zealand’s pristine landscapes and stunning vistas have made it a magnet for tourists and film directors. Its dairy exports have taken the world by storm. But behind this success story lies a shocking reality. New Zealand has some of the most polluted rivers in the developed world. Scientists blame the ‘white gold rush’ – the rapid expansion of the country’s hugely successful dairy industry, worth around $15 billion a year. Correspondent Yaara Bou Melhem travels to the South Island of New Zealand to investigate an issue which is dividing communities. She finds rivers contaminated with high levels of nitrogen nitrates, run-off from intensive farm...

In this video I show you a few really interesting maps that I've come across! Presenting us with interesting information and statistics through their depictions. When we talk of great empires, we talk of the Roman and Mongol empires. . Great Britain: Hold my tea please. When we talk about history’s empires mainly two come up. The Romans and the Mongols.’ Sad Persian, Assyrian, Chinese, Russian, Colonial, etc. noises

Insects are dying out and scientists and environmentalists are sounding the alarm. Our film team meets entomologists, farmers, scientists, chemical companies and politicians in a bid to lay bare the causes of insect mortality. Insects aren’t really likeable. They sting, bite, transmit diseases and frighten children. But, on the other hand, they are also fascinating: 480 million years ago, insects were the first animals to learn to fly, and they took over the Earth. Even now, they are fundamental to life on Earth, and are at the beginning of the food chain on which all human beings are ultimately dependent. But insect numbers worldwide are dropping, creating a rupture of the food chain. Environmentalists and scientists are now extremely worried. Landscape ecology professor Alexandra-Maria Klein from Freiburg, for example, has been researching the effects of human interventions in natural environments for decades and has launched an experiment in a fruit plantation on Lake Constance: W...

Huge areas of tropical rainforest are being destroyed to make charcoal for barbecues. The global deforestation is leading to growing problems. Nigeria and the DRC Congo - two of Europe’s main charcoal suppliers - are also affected. Every year, Europeans use approximately 800,000 tons of charcoal for barbecuing. Seventy percent of the charcoal comes from outside the EU, and the bags often contain remnants of tropical woods. Officially, tropical woods are subject to strict import conditions. But when it comes to wood charcoal, these do not apply. Worldwide, 2.7 billion people cook and heat with wood or charcoal. The related emission of greenhouse gases is enormous. 55 percent of global wood is used as fuel per year, and much of it is cut illegally in Africa’s bush and tropical forests. Nigeria produces most of its charcoal for export. Especially during dry periods, local Nigerian farmers use coal production as a lifeline to make money and feed their families. At the same time, charcoal...

Living Soil: A Documentary. Now available with subtitles in more than 20 languages. Enable closed captions by clicking the 'CC' icon, then click the gear icon to select the subtitle language you want. Our soils support 95 percent of all food production, and by 2060, our soils will be asked to give us as much food as we have consumed in the last 500 years. They filter our water. They are one of our most cost-effective reservoirs for sequestering carbon. They are our foundation for biodiversity. And they are vibrantly alive, teeming with 10,000 pounds of biological life in every acre. Yet in the last 150 years, we’ve lost half of the basic building block that makes soil productive. The societal and environmental costs of soil loss and degradation in the United States alone are now estimated to be as high as $85 billion every single year. Like any relationship, our living soil needs our tenderness. It’s time we changed everything we thought we knew about soil. Let’s make this th...

Four Corners investigates the secret tactics used by global chemical giant Monsanto to protect its billion-dollar business and its star product — the weed killer, Roundup We work with the government..." This exactly the reason we have to doubt Monsanto's "scientific studies." For years the tobacco industry told us that smoking didn’t cause cancer and now they have health warnings on every packet of cigarettes. The problem Bayer Monsanto has is the lie they have been telling has become so big that they can’t stop telling it.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's greatest natural wonders - and it's under threat. In addition to climate change, the fragile ecosystem is now also facing pollution from the coal industry. Is there still time to save the Great Barrier Reef ? See fabulous documentary "Our Generation". Hear The Yolnu people, guardians of areas where rich mineral deposits lie! See how OZGOV treated them. WHY? To GET STUFF. Greed grinding and grabbing life as lived in respect for Natura. Sacred land 'leased' from local people FOR MINING. Shameful corruption and Plots. DON'T SLEEP THROUGH THIS ATROCITY. Big business doesn't care about nature, it's just something that gets in the way, and politicians have their hand in big businesses pocket.