This is a huge story not getting the attention it deserves.
Anyone surprised? These folks are black.
this is evil…. environmental racism as it is
Idk if this is related but the company dumping shit into the air should have to pay for these peoples treatments….
This is a map of superfund sites in Harris County (taken from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality). Superfund sites are areas that have been contaminated with hazardous substances, usually chemical spills that are very, very bad for people. The whole point of superfund sites is that they get quarantined to be decontanimated.
But, as usual, the EPA and these companies fucking suck, and they just let them sit there. I visited one in second ward and the fence around it is falling apart. No warning signs, no nothing. Homes, with young kids around it.
Houston floods. A lot. The water from these floods carries the contaminated soil everywhere. Anyone who lives anywhere near these things are in danger, and the people who do live around them are poor minorities. (Also, Houston doesn’t have any zoning, which means refineries can set up camp wherever they want, so they’ve been encroaching on historically poor and brown neighborhoods.)
None of these sites have popped up yesterday. These illnesses that people are getting haven’t happened overnight. This is systemic murder of the lower class. These people have been poisoned for YEARS while the city, these companies, and the EPA do NOTHING.
If y'all want to learn more, or if you’re in the Houston area and you’d like to go on a toxic tour, check out Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services.
Scientists invented fabric that makes
electricity from motion and sunlight.
To create the fabric, researchers at
Georgia Tech wove together solar
cell fibers with materials that generate
power from movement. It could be
used in “tents, curtains, or wearable
garments,” meaning we’d virtually
never be without power. Source
Y'all are fucking idiots. Clean energy will NEVER be enough to replace the energy we have now. We’d have to tear down DOZENS of forests just to fit enough windmills and solar panels to get even a QUARTER (probably less, tbh) of the energy we can produce now.
Yeah, sure, when they’ve already calculated that a few square miles of panels in the empty ass Arizona desert could power the whole nation. But ok, fracking and the diminishing petroleum supply is worlds better.
Nevermind that windmills are often most efficient off the coast. There they take up no land, impact no trees, don’t pollute the water, and are conveniently located where winds are often strongest anyway.
And solar panels can literally be built into roofs of buildings and in empty areas like deserts. The sun strikes the Earth with the same amount of energy in an hour that our civilization uses in a year.
But yeah, it would be impossible for us to ever have enough energy from clean sources.
Durr hurr technology is bad and I would rather light shit on fire than have clean energy
I can also testify to the Arizona desert being empty ass. And the California desert. And the Nevada desert.
The fact that anyone can believe a limited amount of dinosaur oil is more plentiful and efficient than moving air or fucking sunlight is proof that entire populations can be completely brainwashed.
And don’t forget wave and geothermal power.
The best place to install solar? Parking lots! Here’s the Community Mercantile in LFK:
Not only can it supply almost all the power needed for stores that build these, it also reduces ambient heating from the roasting pavement and keeps cars covered from the elements.
Everyone wins!
The ways we can produce sustainable, renewable energy grow by the year. There is zero reason to keep maintaining oil and natural gas industries!
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