"On Monday, residents of Montevideo protested in front of the President’s residence against the raising of the limits for chlorine and sodium in drinking water. The state water company has begun mixing brackish water from the Rio de la Plata..."🧐 globeecho.com/news/europe/ge…
I was in MVD a couple days ago. I tried the water at the hotel and it was awful. Not drinkable. Maybe because of chlorine and sodium?
Because my water is not heated at home, I thought about taking a shower at the hotel in MVD, but, I did not. So glad I did not now knowing the drought is so severe & the water not being 'regular'... @LuisLacallePou Aviso gente y industria del turismo que no use tanto el agua.
* UN is compromised by internal policies/practices & externally by profiteers & media.
* UN framework is outdated & vastly irrelevant to current conditions.
* UN has no teeth. 2/
* Complex relationships among UN Members creates an impossible situation for decision-making on most, if not all humanitarian concerns.
* Any member country that actively commits crimes recognized by international law must be removed in full & put on a path correction course. 3/
"European Parliament resolution on the climate, energy & environmental State aid guidelines" europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document… "currently impossible for civil society to challenge State aid decisions taken by the Commission under Article 108(2) TFEU, which may contravene EU #law" #Loaded
* "having regard to the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (the Aarhus Convention),"
* "having regard to Rule 132(2) and (4) of its Rules of Procedure"
* "whereas the list of energy-intensive sectors eligible for State aid has been reduced in the Commission’s draft CEEAG;"
* Calls on the Commission to align the different aid categories with the European Climate Law, thereby supporting a cost-effective and just transition to..."
"Sumiko Hatakeyama begins the roundtable with a useful summary of some of the main themes in Political Fallout, situating the book in relation to other key works as well as to recent events like the 2011 debacle" at Fukushima networks.h-net.org/system/files/c…#genpatsu@BeyondNuclear@napf
"Once these investigations revealed the dispersal of radioactive fallout around the planet, scientists and government officials were forced to confront how dangerous these exposures might be." #nuclear#atomic#bombs#weapons#radiation#radioactive
"evidence of genetic damage at even minute levels of radiation exposure compounded the difficulty in assessing the health & environmental risks of nuclear tests. Eventually known as the “linear non-threshold” hypothesis, this research suggested that there could never be a truly"
bad stuff happens to our marine environment causing more cancers in fish, more loss of plankton & krill, more irredeemable toxic impacts affecting humans & wildlife, etc. etc. etc. - There Is No Turning Back, there is No Fix - We will all be up sh*t creek without paddles. 2/
We have already caused great harm to our oceans with nuclear weapons testing, dumping of nuclear assets by governments into oceans, allowing the nuclear industry to dump nuclear waste into our waters, and ongoing radioactive waste leaking from & intentionally dumped by TEPCO 3/