Humanity – The Dumbest Creature on Earth?

First posted in June 2018. We’re still messing up the habitability of the planet big time.

In just over 200 years of our supposedly greatest revolution, the industrial revolution, this is an example of what that wonderful convenient lifestyle that we all live has delivered to the multitude of other lifeforms that share this planet with us. The lifeforms that we are driving to extinction because we as a species are basically dumb.

Take a look at your lifestyle and its convenience because if you and I don’t change we will enjoy the benefits of how we live, a very dead world in terms of diversity.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44579422#

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Our Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

Advertisement

Plastics use – it really is up to us as individuals

First posted in December 2020. Has anything changed? Not a lot, if anything. Time for us all to act.

The link at the foot of this post will take you to a very interesting article on plastic. Just as with normal fossil fuel derived plastics and our confusion over what is actually recyclable the same appears to be true for bioplastics. We are probably all a little confused by the term and what it means in terms of the environment that we live in. Just because it says bio doesn’t mean that it might be any better for a sustainable future. The article notes that reduction of use is the only way forward not that the companies making plastics from any source are going to agree with that because they profit from our single use convenient lifestyles. How can we change things? But first why should we change things? Well presumably, let’s say you are a woman of a certain age thinking of having children, you would want to have born healthy children. Very recent research carried out in Italy has discovered microplastics in the placenta of a group of woman. The health consequences are unknown along with of course whether microplastics made their way into the babies. What is known is that these microplastics can link up with other toxic chemicals and pathogens and be the cause in some cases of endocrine disruption in humans. So let’s return to how we change things. Boycott products is a good start. Don’t buy drinks in plastics containers, I’m sure that you know the brands and as for bottled water just don’t. Avoid fresh produce plastic wrapped and when it’s the only choice ask your vendor why it is wrapped this way. Contact your local political representative. Social media is a great way of embarrassing corporate brands so when you see a discarded drinks bottle or other packaging just blast it out on all your channels. The large companies making this poison won’t stop on their own, only we can do that. Here’s the link, https://ensia.com/features/bioplastics-bio-based-biodegradable-environment/.

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Our Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

Recycling, what will happen to this glass jar?

An item I posted in May 2020 and we’re still smashing glass for recycling rather than reversing the process of delivery from factory to household. How hard can it be?

So here is a container that billions of us have access to. In this case it had palm oil free peanut butter in it. They are very useful containers and good at preserving perishable content but not everyone has access to them. This one was placed in the recycling bag today and collected by the council but what will happen to it?

In all probability it will end up being made into a new glass container of some kind having been taken to a glass recycling centre and broken up and remelted. That however is still not very good for the environment as a lot of energy has been used in the production of the jar. As the lorry that delivered the jar to the supermarket will drive back to a distribution point there is a case for me to return my jar to the supermarket so the lorry can return the empty containers to the distribution point and from there the containers can be sent back to the manufacturer for cleaning and reuse.

This process must be part of any sustainable doughnut economic model. It is also part of a wider discussion on how we grow and package and supply enough peanut butter to all those people who would like to eat peanut butter and not only those that can, but that would have to be a much longer blog.

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton T-shirts and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Our Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JunagarhMedia.

Think, shirts for sale, Asuncion, Paraguay

A seller of sports shirts in central Asuncion, in Plaza de la Libertad I think. What can we ask ourselves about this photo from over seven years ago? Is the seller still making his or her living from selling these shirts? Are they legal shirts or are they copies? How much were the workers who made these shirts paid? What sort of lifestyle did they or do they have? What sort of lifestyle does the seller currently have? What were the shirts made out of? Have the shirts broken down and if they were made with plastics have they become plastic pollution in the form of microplastic and nanoplastic particles now in the rivers and oceans or even residing in animals and people? One photograph can generate so many questions if we look a it closely enough. 17th February 2014.

Our links

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton T-shirts and bags, https://junagarh-media.teemill.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

Plastics use – it really is up to us as individuals

The link at the foot of this post will take you to a very interesting article on plastic. Just as with normal fossil fuel derived plastics and our confusion over what is actually recyclable the same appears to be true for bioplastics. We are probably all a little confused by the term and what it means in terms of the environment that we live in. Just because it says bio doesn’t mean that it might be any better for a sustainable future. The article notes that reduction of use is the only way forward not that the companies making plastics from any source are going to agree with that because they profit from our single use convenient lifestyles. How can we change things? But first why should we change things? Well presumably, let’s say you are a woman of a certain age thinking of having children, you would want to have born healthy children. Very recent research carried out in Italy has discovered microplastics in the placenta of a group of woman. The health consequences are unknown along with of course whether microplastics made their way into the babies. What is known is that these microplastics can link up with other toxic chemicals and pathogens and be the cause in some cases of endocrine disruption in humans. So let’s return to how we change things. Boycott products is a good start. Don’t buy drinks in plastics containers, I’m sure that you know the brands and as for bottled water just don’t. Avoid fresh produce plastic wrapped and when it’s the only choice ask your vendor why it is wrapped this way. Contact your local political representative. Social media is a great way of embarrassing corporate brands so when you see a discarded drinks bottle or other packaging just blast it out on all your channels. The large companies making this poison won’t stop on their own, only we can do that. Here’s the link, https://ensia.com/features/bioplastics-bio-based-biodegradable-environment/.

Recycling, what will happen to this glass jar?

So here is a container that billions of us have access to. In this case it had palm oil free peanut butter in it. They are very useful containers and good at preserving perishable content but not everyone has access to them. This one was placed in the recycling bag today and collected by the council but what will happen to it?

In all probability it will end up being made into a new glass container of some kind having been taken to a glass recycling centre and broken up and remelted. That however is still not very good for the environment as a lot of energy has been used in the production of the jar. As the lorry that delivered the jar to the supermarket will drive back to a distribution point there is a case for me to return my jar to the supermarket so the lorry can return the empty containers to the distribution point and from there the containers can be sent back to the manufacturer for cleaning and reuse.

This process must be part of any sustainable doughnut economic model. It is also part of a wider discussion on how we grow and package and supply enough peanut butter to all those people who would like to eat peanut butter and not only those that can, but that would have to be a much longer blog.

A Sad Reflection On Our Convenient Lifestyles

New research shows just how dangerous the plastic waste is to turtles.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45509822#

Wet Wipes – What Did You Do Before? – Time To Stop Using Them

Wet wipes, another part of some people’s convenient lives and now part of the micro plastic particle problem and turning up in something that you are eating right now. So don’t buy them and don’t use them unless you like eating plastic of course.

The scourge of wet wipes

Humanity – The Dumbest Creature on Earth?

In just over 200 years of our supposedly greatest revolution, the industrial revolution, this is an example of what that wonderful convenient lifestyle that we all live has delivered to the multitude of other lifeforms that share this planet with us. The lifeforms that we are driving to extinction because we as a species are basically dumb.

Take a look at your lifestyle and its convenience because if you and I don’t change we will enjoy the benefits of how we live, a very dead world in terms of diversity.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44579422#