🔟 reasons to #BoycottAmazon courtesy of @ethicalconsumer

1. Its flagrant #TaxAvoidance

2. It has got a horrific reputation for #WorkersRights.

3. It threatens small #independent businesses.

4. It profits from #OilandGas.

5. It has failed to address its #Environmentalimpacts.

6. It is repeatedly accused of #racism.

7. It creates a hostile environment for #unions.

8. It has faced questions over #spying on politicians, trade unions, and consumers.

9. Stand in #solidarity with other campaigners all over the world.

10. Amazon workers say abuse comes at a high price for workers in the #CostOfLivingCrisis.

Read more about each on the Ethical Consumer website 👇

https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/retailers/ten-reasons-avoid-amazon

#AmazonFreeAugust

https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/native-americans-and-manhattan-project/

Separation from family and tradition would be a recurring theme for Native Americans during the #war. For many #NativeAmericans living near the #lands taken over for the Manhattan Project, World War II was especially disruptive, with long-term #cultural, #economic and #environmentalimpacts.

I was discussing #food related #environmentalImpacts with other people this afternoon and the question of the role of #transport came up, to which I replied with utter confidence that it was a very small fraction of the total #GHG #emissions.

Then I got home and thought that it had been a while and I did not remember how small it was (5%, 10% ?). So I looked it up.
Well it turns out people [1] say it's 20% now, what happened O_o?

[1]: 10.1038/s43016-022-00531-w

#agriculture #environment

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🌞
replacing extraction for #FossilFuels with #minerals for #renewables will
📚 help address climate change: https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/4719e321-6d3d-41a2-bd6b-461ad2f850a8/NetZeroby2050-ARoadmapfortheGlobalEnergySector.pdf
📚 support #health, e.g., reducing asthma: https://publichealth.gwu.edu/content/nearly-2-million-children-worldwide-develop-asthma-result-breathing-traffic-related
📚 reduce overall #EnvironmentalImpacts, e.g., from #mining: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102311

📢Article Alert from Marine Biodiversity Center, NHMLAC
"A manager’s guide to using #eDNA #metabarcoding in marine ecosystems" https://peerj.com/articles/14071 #ConservationBiology #EcosystemScience #MarineBiology #SciencePolicy #EnvironmentalImpacts

With the rise of #Mastodon I've had this though in the back of my head for a week now.

Will there be a point in the future where the #EnvironmentalImpacts of multiple servers (#Instances) all duplicating data from each other, becomes an a consideration?

How large would it have to get that even at a small percentage of daily/monthly users, when compared to a centralised service (ie Twitter), we are matching the power consumption of a #centralised #datacenter ?

I'm not knocking what we have, I just want to know that smarter ppl than me are not creating new problems while solving existing problems.

@jerry, @stux

Michael Saylor slams "misinformation" about Bitcoin's energy use

https://cointelegraph.com/news/michael-saylor-slams-misinformation-about-bitcoin-s-energy-use

#environmentalimpacts #MicroStrategy #MichaelSaylor #Bitcoinmining #proofofstake #cryptoassets