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Microplastics in Human Blood 🧵
In a new research study commissioned by @CommonSeas, scientists have found traces of plastic particles in human blood. This is a pathbreaking study highlighting the toxic impact of #plastics on human health.
PC: Common Seas
#PlasticIsInOurBlood
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"This research is crucial for businesses and nonprofits to understand the challenges society is facing and the motivations of employees and consumers looking to enact change"
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Check out this powerful informational video of the United Nations Development Programme about Plastic Waste ♻️
instagram.com/tv/CbQOW1cDx-c…
Today we want to share with you this great 2021 article form wired.co.uk about the economic, business, and societal process of exponential change.
wired.co.uk/article/exponent…
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Groundwater crosses borders, just like climate change. We must work together to improve the way we share transboundary groundwater resources, balancing the needs in a changing world.#WorldWaterDay worldwaterday.org worldwaterday.org/share-2021…
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Please support courageous Ukraine however you are able…and let’s try not to miss ever again any strategy about big global challenges that might need rethinking. -The Global Partnership for Civic Engagement & Rethinking Civilization Awards (theglobalpartnership.org)
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Should we prioritize protecting where humans aren’t… or where they are and are doing the most damage?
nationalgeographic.com/scien…?
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“Agriculture and civilization may have been invented not because they were an improvement over our ancestral lifestyle, but because we were left no choice… because of an ecological catastrophe we created thousands of years ago.”
singularityhub.com/2021/12/2…
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"As a rule of thumb, for every centimeter rise in global sea level, another 6 million people are exposed to coastal flooding… On current trends, Greenland ice melting will cause… 400 million in total due to sea-level rise [by 2100]."
livescience.com/greenland-ic…
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A global civilization in which this journey occurs in order to eat these pears in New York City is a civilization that must rethink itself.
Do you agree with Neal Stephenson that many people’s focus on self-interest (and that they come to see evidenced-based science as the best way to achieve it) might be the thing that saves civilization?
nytimes.com/interactive/2022…?
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Do you agree with the detailed, updated findings in the famous “Limits to Growth” report of the 1970s?
livescience.com/collapse-hum…
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If the world were made up of only 100 people, here’s what they’d be like…
vimeo.com/191982925
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“…young people… are on average almost twice as likely as older people (22 per cent) to identify most with being part of the world, versus their own nation or locale.”
unicef.org/philippines/press…
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