What about our environment?

A lot of starters are teenagers, and they have puberty charging through their veins. They think it is cool to smoke, and rebellious, and of course, their peer group is right up for it too, for the same reasons. Of course they will just stop when they want.

Then they find out it is not that easy, and addiction is a lot more of a bitch than they thought.

But, we don't always have to agree.

That's good. Thinking of things statistically, I wonder how many million years would elapse before there are no remaining traces of plastic in the oceans? Looking at things from another view - If there once was intelligent life on Mars then in the trace areas of oceans underground it must be likely that we would find some evidence of plastic residue?

A good start

In a few places along the Florida coast it went over 100 degrees. 

There was a fire on a Norwegian car transporter ship near the island of Ameland yesterday. One crew man is dead 22 are injured.

Salvage crews are trying to stop any leak of oil or other chemicals getting into the Waddenzee a UNESCO world heritage site.

The cause was spontaneous combustion of an electric car. The fire was impossible to contain.
This is a problem with electric vehicles from cars to bicycles the lithium battery burns hotter and more intensely than traditional fires and fire fighters cant put them out.

The fire service have a water filled container that they use to submerge electric vehicles for hours to ensure they are safe after a fire.

The other problem we are seeing is this spontaneous combustion of electric vehicles.Its causing major damage.
The desire to solve one problem seems to be creating another.

No, I actually shut it down for the summer months. 

To hot here in summer, to cold there in winter. 

This is good news. When it comes to the environment, we are more likely to do something like this, than to cut back on carbon emissions.

Ok pet rant incoming... All year long we have been told the planet is dying the ice caps are melting , use less plastic, recyle everything, turn down your heating, turn off that light , take shorter /fewer showers, give up anything with micro plastics and then....
Its Christmas so all that flies out the window people who can afford the electric have brighter Christmas lights than my local
operating theatre, paper plasic and foil are used like confetti and food waste spirals out of control.

Then its New year and my biggest bug bear of the year ...Fireworks, people will be chucking strontium carbonate (red fireworks), calcium chloride (orange fireworks), sodium nitrate (yellow fireworks), barium chloride (green fireworks) and copper chloride (blue fireworks)into the air, some of these metals never fully decompose and they pollute rivers and streams they poison all that comes into contact with them, the fumes and smoke they give off cause breathing difficulties for asthma and heart patients. This is before we even count the cost of the stress for animals and people such as veterans who suffer PTSD, then theres the damage to property and the extra burden on hospitals caused by firework injuries. So while some of us are thinking of how to help save or at least give our planet a chance the environment vandals are busy ruining our efforts and all for a cheap thrill..


rant over...

I was just curious

Trees and rainforests produce approximately 28% of the oxygen on Earth, so what about the other 72%? Well, that comes from the plant life in the ocean. A minuscule marine plant called phytoplankton alone is responsible for 50% of Earth's oxygen.

I agree, jen.