Off Topic Climate Change & Nature thread
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I think it's the 3rd year. One of them had a calf last year. 4 or 5 of them.
Glyphosate
www.bbc.co.uk
Heard of it?
Well you've likely been eating it for years.
50% of British people and 80% of Americans have traces of it in their urine.
Safe, they say.
Just like they said DDT was safe. And all the other chemicals now banned.
Not only used as a weed killer.
Sprayed on wheat & other crops just before they are harvested, because it displaces water so helping to dry the crops out.
The only way to avoid most of it is to buy organic food.
Unaffordable to about four fifths of the population.
And it would run out pretty quick too if everyone suddenly wanted to buy it.
Campaigners call for ban on use of glyphosate at harvest time
Campaigners are calling for a ban on the use of the weedkiller over health concerns.
www.bbc.co.uk
Heard of it?
Well you've likely been eating it for years.
50% of British people and 80% of Americans have traces of it in their urine.
Safe, they say.
Just like they said DDT was safe. And all the other chemicals now banned.
Not only used as a weed killer.
Sprayed on wheat & other crops just before they are harvested, because it displaces water so helping to dry the crops out.
The only way to avoid most of it is to buy organic food.
Unaffordable to about four fifths of the population.
And it would run out pretty quick too if everyone suddenly wanted to buy it.
And ‘organic food’ isn’t necessarily organic. Artificial pesticides are still allowed (if the farmer deems them necessaryGlyphosate
Campaigners call for ban on use of glyphosate at harvest time
Campaigners are calling for a ban on the use of the weedkiller over health concerns.
Heard of it?
Well you've likely been eating it for years.
50% of British people and 80% of Americans have traces of it in their urine.
Safe, they say.
Just like they said DDT was safe. And all the other chemicals now banned.
Not only used as a weed killer.
Sprayed on wheat & other crops just before they are harvested, because it displaces water so helping to dry the crops out.
The only way to avoid most of it is to buy organic food.
Unaffordable to about four fifths of the population.
And it would run out pretty quick too if everyone suddenly wanted to buy it.
).Not worth worrying about. If you didn’t eat anything that had an element of risk to your health you’d soon be dead from starvation.
If farmers didn't use artificial pesticides they'd have to find another way to earn a living. Carrot root fly, allium miner, onion mite, black fly, cabbage white butterfly and their caterpillars, molluscs, mice,and other beasties are all problems which can severely damage crop yield. Ask any allotment holder. And now they can't get their nitrogen fertiliser. Farmers used to feed the soil which would feed the crops, now the fertilisers feed the crops directly. I expect that this dry weather will also impact the germination of crops, so there will be price rises on the way.
Is it my imagination or is the heat making some people angry about trivialities?Blimey35 degrees in May
I can't take it anymore....
Great news for the polar bears though.Blimey
Role on tomorrow for some more sensible weather. Getting sleep in this heat is a bitch
Even I've been forced to switch from bitter to lager.Beer and a coastal breeze helps…….. apart from the 3am peeee
Arm twisted up your back?
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
This could easily go in any of about 5 different threads, but I’ll give it a go here….
Water shortages in Kent
www.bbc.co.uk
Chalk figure fading due to too much rainfall
www.bbc.co.uk
Those stories might seem at odds with each other until you realise that the water issues in Kent are nothing to do with lack of rainfall or hot weather, THEY ARE CAUSED BY TOO MANY PEOPLE AND TOO MANY FIELDS BEING CONVERTED INTO CRAP HOUSING ESTATES WITH THOUSANDS OF NEW HOMES, BECAUSE OF POPULATION INCREASE DUE TO NET MIGRATION.
FFS
Water shortages in Kent
Frustration in Kent over water supply disruption
South East Water blames demand for water during the hot weather for the multiple supply problems.
www.bbc.co.uk
Chalk figure fading due to too much rainfall
Britain's rudest chalk figure gets a glow-up to stop it fading in the rain
National Trust staff and volunteers will apply 17 tonnes of fresh chalk to the outline of the famous figure.
www.bbc.co.uk
Those stories might seem at odds with each other until you realise that the water issues in Kent are nothing to do with lack of rainfall or hot weather, THEY ARE CAUSED BY TOO MANY PEOPLE AND TOO MANY FIELDS BEING CONVERTED INTO CRAP HOUSING ESTATES WITH THOUSANDS OF NEW HOMES, BECAUSE OF POPULATION INCREASE DUE TO NET MIGRATION.
FFS
"Demand for water during the hot weather"
Who would have guessed.
Who would have guessed.