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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 12, 2020, 1:10 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi_2JhaMhGU
No other civilization could ever pollute water as badly as
Western civilization has!
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Re: Coronavirus
DIR By: acc9
Date: November 23, 2020, 1:15 am
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Latest story from Hong Kong, where the virus has been considered
relatively well controlled compared to many other countries
except for their counterpart Macau and mainland China:
After having maintained daily single-digit cases for several
months with even some days of zero-case in between, the fourth
wave with rising double-digit cases has now set in. It's been
confirmed that this new spate all started in a dance hall where
the spreader is an elderly woman who pays to learn ballroom
dancing by young male instructors, and the first infected group,
all from the same dance hall, consists mainly of women aged 60+
and men aged 29-35. During the incubation period, they have
visited other dance halls bringing the virus along with them.
And incidentally, some of the dance instructors from this group
are known to be young white males from Russia!
It is also known that the several women first infected in the
group are from the local high society, so maybe that has a lot
more to tell.
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 23, 2020, 3:19 am
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@acc9
"ballroom dancing"
This is a good point. Eurocentrism is (as usual) behind the
worldwide popularity of ballroom dancing, and indeed of the
entire mode of social interaction (especially among the wealthy)
based around ballroom dancing. It goes without saying that
ballroom dancing is definitively Western, originating in the
Renaissance:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballroom_dance
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> The first authoritative knowledge of the earliest ballroom
dances was recorded toward the end of the 16th century, when
Jehan Tabourot, under the pen name "Thoinot-Arbeau", published
in 1588 his Orchésographie, a study of late 16th-century French
renaissance social dance.
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and certainly introduced to non-Western countries via
colonialism. Therefore until people from non-Western countries
stop practicing it, they are still colonized.
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/social-decolonization/
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: December 5, 2020, 12:16 am
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Despite pioneering ban, Kenya is drowning in single-use plastic
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> Kenya outlawed single-use plastic bags in 2017, but there are
still no laws requiring corporations that profit from single-use
plastic bottles to clean up what they produce.
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/12/4/despite-pioneering-ban-kenya-is-drowning-in-single-use-plastic
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: guest5
Date: December 6, 2020, 12:35 pm
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Why Cruise Ships Are Terrible For The Environment | NowThis
Earth
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> Sewage runoff, dirty fuels, and gray water — here's why cruise
ships are terrible for the environment.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDi2il90PWU&feature=youtu.be
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
DIR By: guest5
Date: December 6, 2020, 1:26 pm
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Are space launches bad for the environment?
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> Space rockets may not be very environmentally friendly.
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> Space launches can have a hefty carbon footprint due to the
burning of solid rocket fuels. Many rockets are, however,
propelled by liquid hydrogen fuel, which produces ‘clean’ water
vapour exhaust, although the production of hydrogen itself can
cause significant carbon emissions. Rocket engines release trace
gases into the upper atmosphere that contribute to ozone
depletion, as well as particles of soot.
>
> Rocket launches are nonetheless relatively infrequent, meaning
that their overall impact on our climate remains much smaller
than aviation’s. But it’s not just our immediate environment:
‘space junk’ is a growing concern as disused satellites and
other objects accumulate in our planet’s orbit.
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HTML https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/are-space-launches-bad-for-the-environment/
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'Havana syndrome' likely due to 'directed' radio frequency
DIR By: guest5
Date: December 6, 2020, 4:45 pm
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'Havana syndrome' likely due to 'directed' radio frequency
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> A U.S. government report said the most plausible explanation
for the mysterious symptoms experienced by American diplomats in
U.S. embassies in Havana and other cities were ‘consistent with
a directed radio frequency energy attack’
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: December 10, 2020, 10:30 pm
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HTML https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/07/racism-ages-black-americans-faster
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> We utilized a technique that examines how old a person is at a
cellular level compared with their chronological age. We found
that some young people were older at a cellular level than would
have been expected based on their chronological age. Racial
discrimination accounted for much of this variation, suggesting
that such experiences were accelerating ageing.
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If it were not obvious before that racism demands retaliatory
violence, does this make it obvious yet?
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: guest5
Date: December 17, 2020, 7:54 pm
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Plastic Wars (full film) | FRONTLINE
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> Have efforts to solve the plastic pollution problem made it
worse? Go inside the battle over plastics, recycling and what’s
at stake.
>
> Despite efforts spreading across America to reduce the use of
plastic and the crisis of ocean pollution growing, the plastics
industry is rapidly scaling up new production and promoting a
familiar solution: recycling. But it’s estimated that no more
than 10% of plastic produced has ever been recycled. The
documentary “Plastic Wars,” from FRONTLINE and NPR, reveals how
plastic makers for decades have publicly promoted recycling,
despite privately expressing doubts that widespread plastic
recycling would ever be economically viable.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dk3NOEgX7o
Plastic Ocean
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> United Nations - Plastic - both a wonderful invention and a
scourge on our planet. Over 300 million tons will be produced
this year.
> Most is never recycled and remains on our land and in our seas
for ever. Our story shows the damage to all creatures who
depend on the ocean for their food – from birds… to us.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju_2NuK5O-E
Plastic Pollution: How Humans are Turning the World into Plastic
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> Modern life would be impossible without plastic – but we have
long since lost control over our invention. Why has plastic
turned into a problem and what do we know about its dangers?
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 5, 2021, 10:46 pm
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HTML https://finance.yahoo.com/news/islands-floating-waste-clog-rivers-181004854.html
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> Huge islands of garbage floating on some rivers in the Balkans
are causing an environmental emergency and threatening a
regional hydropower plant.
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> Plastic bottles, rusty barrels and other waste could be seen
clogging the Drina River near the eastern Bosnian town of
Visegrad on Tuesday. Upstream, the Drina's tributaries in
Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia carried even more debris after
swollen waterways spilled over into landfills.
>
> The Balkan nations have poor waste management programs, and
tons of garbage routinely end up in rivers, including the
occasional washing machine or computer screen. A broken barrier
this week caused a massive buildup of garbage on the Drina that
has threatened Bosnia's Visegrad dam.
>
> Officials say that between 6,000 and 8,000 cubic meters of
waste are pulled out of the river each year near Visegrad.
Although the problem is not new, Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro
have done little to address the problem even as they seek to
join the European Union.
>
> An environmental activist from the Eco Center group, Dejan
Furtula, said the garbage in the Drina also is a hazard for the
the local community because waste removed from the river is
dumped on a local landfill, which is often on fire and produces
toxic liquid that flows back into the Drina.
>
> “We are all in danger here, the entire ecosystem,” he said.
> ...
> At the Visegrad dam, efforts began Tuesday to clear away the
clogging garbage and to avoid potential damage to the power
system. In southwest Serbia, the Lim River has created a similar
problem at the Potpecko accumulation lake.
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