Every aspect of our daily lives, from the food we consume to the vehicles we use, influences the health of our world.
The harsh chemicals in many cleaning products come with an invisible price tag—polluting our water, air, soil, and climate long after we rinse them away.
A splash of bathroom cleaner here, a squirt of kitchen spray there.
It’s such a routine part of life that we rarely pause to think about what happens after we’ve scrubbed, rinsed, and moved on with our day.
Every day we flush MILLIONS OF LITRES of contaminated water down our sinks, toilets,, we put washing tablets in our washing machines, dish washer, wipe our kitchen tops, floors, windows, wash our cars with products that all contain some chemical.
Many of the most popular and well-known cleaning products, toiletries and cosmetics contain ingredients that are / can be harmful to the environment.
This industry is supported by an advertising industry that promotes these products with little attention to what they do to the environment.
The introduction of these chemicals into waterways can lead to:
Eutrophication: Excess nutrients, such as phosphates, can cause algal blooms that deplete oxygen levels, leading to dead zones where aquatic life cannot survive.
Pre- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large, complex group of synthetic chemicals that have been used in consumer products around the world since about the 1950s.
There are thousands of variations in PFAS chemicals.
For example, PFAS are used to keep food from sticking to packaging or cookware, make clothes and carpets resistant to stains, and create firefighting foam that is more effective.
PFAS molecules have a chain of linked carbon and fluorine atoms.
Because the carbon-fluorine bond is one of the strongest, these chemicals do not degrade easily in the environment.
All of these products should be (under law ) summited to be tested to certify they are environmental friendly.
This could be done by the United Nations, costing nothing as a fee could be charged to qualify for the certification.
Once certified they would carry an environmental stamp.
It’s time to clean responsibly. It’s time to clean smarter.
All human comments appreciated. All like clicks and abuse chucked in the bin.
Well if so, we should all be showering large doses of it on the recent UN Climate Change Summit in New York the first such meeting on climate in five years.
The World leaders held back on making new commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions or to give significant climate finance to developing countries, leaving it to business, cities and campaign groups to produce the real action on climate.
Why?
Because our world leaders who were present at the Summit once again showed their in dept knowledge of the Defining problem facing the world. Climate Change.
Those who were not present obviously had more pressing engagements.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi India and Chinese President Xi Jinping, the heads of the world’s two most populous nations. In empirical terms, it’s hard to think of two more important leaders in the world right now: Together they lead more than 2.5 billion people, more than a third of the world’s population. They also were the first- and third-biggest producers of carbon dioxide emissions (the United States holds the No. 2 spot).
Both Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, two leaders known for their relative skepticism about climate change not in attendance.
Wanted Poster.
So what happened in response to thousands of world citizens marching. Not much according to reports I have read.
The oceans which cover 73% of the planet’s surface, was not on the agenda.
China, which has surpassed the US as the world’s biggest emitter, said it would also do its bit, by curbing emissions “as soon as possible”
The UK prime minister, David Cameron, also touted his government’s environmental policies. “As prime minister I pledged to lead the greenest government ever and I believe we have kept that promise.”
The president of France François Hollande, who obviously need to go to speck savers told an investors’ event on the sidelines of the summit.
“We can’t just limit ourselves to words, expressions of regret and exercises in stock-taking,” “What will come out of Paris is a new economy,”
France went on to commit to providing $1bn to a climate change fund for poor countries – the first significant contribution since Germany threw in $1bn last July.
Sweden has also contributed.
South Korea and Switzerland went on to pledge $100m each.
Denmark pledged $70m.
Norway pledged $33m.
Mexico said it would give $10m.
But the total of $2.3bn pledged for the Green Climate Fund so far fell short of the $10bn to $15bn that UN officials and developing country said was needed to show rich countries were committed to acting on climate change.
It also was unclear whether Tuesday’s pledges represented new money. A lot of “climate financing” is just existing aid repackaged under a new name.
More than 400 companies from 60 countries all signed on to support putting a price on carbon.Some of the world’s biggest palm oil and paper producers committed to stop destructive logging by 2030, and restore an area of forest equivalent to the size of India.
But Brazil, despite its critical role protecting the Amazon rain forest, said it had been left out of the negotiations. It refused to sign an anti-deforestation pledge, dealing a blow to the Climate Change summit in New York.
“The lungs of the planet”
A number of campaign groups did not sign the agreement, saying it did not go far enough to protect the rights of indigenous people who rely on the forest, or to hold the big forestry companies to account.
So where are we?
This Summit was not a formal negotiation on climate change but an “extraordinary meeting to try to jump-start the whole thing and get it back on the rails.” to lay the groundwork ahead of a UN climate conference in Lima, Peru, this December.
Does that sound drearily familiar? It should. The world’s leaders have been hammering out various climate agreements for decades now.
There was the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
The 2009 Copenhagen Accord.
But despite all these talks, global greenhouse-gas emissions have kept rising, putting the world on track for more warming in the years ahead.
So why should this newest round of climate diplomacy be any different?
UNDER THE 1992 CLIMATE TREATY, COUNTRIES AGREED TO TAKE ACTION — BUT NEVER SPECIFIED WHAT, EXACTLY.
They certainly haven’t achieved the goal of stabilizing greenhouse-gas emissions in the atmosphere. The world is burning more fossil fuels than ever, and carbon-dioxide emissions keep rising each year: THE CURRENT PLEDGES ARE INADEQUATE TO PREVENT 2°C OF WARMING.
THE US AND EUROPE HAVE HAD THEIR FOSSIL FUEL PARTY, NOW INDIA AND CHINA WANT THEIRS EMISSIONS.
Why are emissions FROM WEALTHY NATIONS DECLINING.
Because rich nations are “outsourcing” their carbon
By the end of 2015, they hope to hammer out an agreement with “legal force”
Believe that, you believe anything.
Here are two suggestions that would make a difference. One world wide the other Country wide.
1. If the earth is going to fry why not convert the sun-rich deserts of the world into energy producing and storage Units. 90 percent of the world’s population lives within 3,000 km of deserts.
Think of the employment it would create, not to mention the Energy and the resulting reduction in Co2.
In the middle of the 20th century, we saw our planet from space for the first time.
From space, we see a small and fragile ball.
Over the course of this century, the relationship between the human world and the planet that sustains it has undergone a profound change.
The traditional forms of national sovereignty raise particular problems in managing the ‘global commons’ and their shared ecosystems – the oceans, outer space, and Antarctica. Many such changes are accompanied by life-threatening hazards.
Our Common Future, does not have to be a prediction of ever-increasing environmental decay, poverty, and hardship in an ever more polluted world among ever decreasing resources but the time has come to take the decisions needed to secure the resources to sustain this and coming generations.
This new reality, from which there is no escape, must be recognized – and managed.
There are more hungry people in the world than ever before, and their numbers are increasing. So are the numbers who cannot read or write, the numbers without safe water or safe and sound homes, and the numbers short of wood fuel with which to cook and warm themselves. It is impossible to separate economic development issues from environment issues; many forms of development erode the environmental resources upon which they must be based, and environmental degradation can undermine economic development.
Poverty is a major cause and effect of global environmental problems.
The gap between rich and poor nations is widening – not shrinking – and there is little prospect, given present trends and institutional arrangements, that this process will be reversed.
Humanity’s inability to fit its activities.
There is a growing scientific consensus that species are disappearing at rates never before witnessed on the planet, although there is also controversy over those rates and the risks they entail. Yet there is still time to halt this process
The changes in human attitudes that we call for depend on a vast campaign of education, debate, and public participation. A new international programme for cooperation among largely non-governmental organizations, scientific bodies, and industry groups should therefore be established for this purpose.
By the turn of the century, almost half of humanity will live in cities; the world of the 21st century will be a largely urban world. A safe and sustainable energy pathway is crucial to sustainable development; we have not yet found it
The world manufactures seven times more goods today than it did as recently as 1950. There is only one solution. CAP GREED AT SOURCE.( See previous blogs)
The richer we are and the more we consume, the more self-centred and careless of the lives of others we appear to become.
Even if you somehow put aside the direct, physical impacts of rising consumption, it’s hard to understand how anyone could imagine that economic growth is a formula for protecting the planet. So what we seem to see here is the turning of a vicious circle. The more harm we do, the less concerned about it we become. And the more hyper consumerism destroys relationships, communities and the physical fabric of the Earth, the more we try to fill the void in our lives by buying more stuff.
All this is accompanied in the rich anglophone nations with the extreme neoliberalism promoted by both press and politicians, and a great concentration of power in the hands of the financial and fossil fuel sectors, which lobby hard, in the public sphere and in private, to prevent change.
How we break the circle and wake people out of this dream world is the question that all those who love the living planet should address.
There will be no easy answers. To succeed is to destroy ourselves. To fail is to destroy ourselves. That is the bind we have created.
Ignore if you must climate change, biodiversity collapse, the depletion of water, soil, minerals, oil; even if all these issues were miraculously to vanish, the mathematics of compound growth make continuity impossible.
Iron ore production has risen 180% in ten years. The trade body Forest Industries tell us that “global paper consumption is at a record high level and it will continue to grow.” If, in the digital age, we won’t reduce even our consumption of paper, what hope is there for other commodities?
Any market-based system to save the planet generates a clash between profit and protecting nature and it is usually resolved in favour of business. Just look at the price of carbon credits £2.80 below junk bonds.
All systems of Governments are flawed, but those that are controlled by private money are reduced to a subsidiary of the human economy. Nature is worthy of protection when it is profitable to business.
NOW I AM NOT THE ONLY PERSON ADVOCATING CHANGE.
THE PROBLEM IS COMBINING ALL THE VOICES INTO ONE THAT WILL HAVE AN EFFECT.
It is time that people matter more than profit.
The Foreign Exchange Market which is largely unregulated is $5.3 trillion a day. Just think what we could be achieved by a World Aid Commission of 0.05% . See previous Posts.
If you have any suggestions as to how we can achieve a United World Voice I am all ears.
For as long as I can remember I have being hearing FOUR words——
POVERTY
CONSERVATION
EXTINCTION
CORRUPTION
THEY HAVE NOT GONE AWAY, BUT ALL HAVE TAKEN ON EXTRA BAGGAGE AND BECOME ATTACHED TO EACH OTHER.
It is said that poverty is improving with a massive reduction mainly due to economic growth in China and India. $5 to $7 a day. It now being replaced in the middle classes by inequality.
We are told by Climate Change experts that Extinction is getting closer and closer.
Corruption in all its disguises is here to stay.
Conservation: plagued by the above is fighting a losing battle.
But the good news is that there are two new words on the block.
Data.
Privatisation.
The amount of data stored is doubling every eighteen months.
Privatisation. Has little interest in Poverty or Conservation, but has a self-interest in Corruption and Extinction.
So where do we stand?
The title to this blog states the position.
If we who are now connected by all don’t Pay for what we value we have a world not worthy of our technology advances.
We must make a Tree, a Tiger, Air, Water to valuable to be exploited for Profit.
By placing a Tax or World Aid Commission on all Stock Exchange transactions world-wide we can fund the changes needed to pass on a Globe of Beauty.
IF YOU WERE ASKED TO LIST THE WORLDS BIGGEST PROBLEMS LEAVING OUT ALL THE CURRENT CONFLICTS I AM SURE ONE OF THE BELOW WOULD FEATURE.
CLIMATE CHANGE
SPECIES EXTINCTION
GLOBAL WATER
OIL
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
IT IS OBVIOUS TO ANYONE THAT HAS A OUNCE OF INTELLIGENCE THAT WE HUMANS IF NOT WIPED OUT BY AN ASTRO OR SOMEHOW MANAGE TO BLOW OURSELVES INTO KINGDOM COME HAVE TO COME TOGETHER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR ALL OF US NOW AND IN THE FUTURE.
LET’S TAKE CLIMATE CHANGE.
NO MATTER WHAT YOUR VIEWS ARE ON CLIMATE CHANGE THE BASIC EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING IS UNDENIABLE. DRIVEN BY HUMAN CAUSES IT IS FUNDAMENTALLY CONNECTED WITH THE OTHER PROBLEMS REFERED TO ABOVE. IT IS THE MOST URGENT THREAT TO THE MODERN WORLD AND WILL BE CATACLYSMIC WITHOUT ACTION.
SPECIES EXTINCTION
THIS VERY MINUTE ONE IN EIGHT SPECIES OF BIRDS, ONE IN THREE OF AMPHIBIANS AND ONE IN FOUR OF MAMMALS ARE ON THE VERG OF EXTINCTION.
WE ALL RELY ON ECOSYSTEMS TO LIVE.
PLANKTON – DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IS DISAPPEARING. BEES ARE BEING DESTROYED BY POISONOUS PESTICIDES. TOP SOIL IS BEING WASHED AWAY. THE LOSS OF ALL THREE IS HAPPENING SO RAPIDLY THAT IT IS VITAL TO US ALL IF LIFE IS TO CONTINUE THAT WE DO SOMETHING TO REVERSE THEIR LOSS.
TURNING TO WATER
A QUANTIFIABLE GIFT BROUGHT TO US FROM OUTER SPACE THAT GOVERNS OUR VERY EXISTENCE ON THE PLANET EARTH. WE TAKE IT FOR GRANTED.
YOU MIGHT THINK THAT MOST OF THE WATER IS ON THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH. YOU BE WRONG.
IT’S A NON RENEWABLE FROM SUBTERRANEAN WATER REVERSERS WHICH IS BEING CONSUMED AT A UNSUSTAINABLE RATE. YOU ONLY HAVE TO LOOK AT THE WORLD TO KNOW THAT IT IS NOT DISTRIBUTED EVENLY ( nor is it available at all times throughout the year)
THERE ARE NUMEROUS REASONS WHY THERE IS LESS AND LESS WATER.
IT’S POLLUTION IS AT EPIC PROPORTIONS. IF WATER CONSUMPTION AND POLLUTION TRENDS CONTINUE AT THE CURRENT RATE FOOD/ AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION WILL BE SERIOUSLY AFFECTED CAUSING MORE AND MORE CONFLICTS WORLD WIDE.
OIL
THE WORLD’S ENERGY CONSUMPTION IS INCREASING BY 2% PER YEAR, WITH OIL PROVIDING ABOUT 40% OF THAT NEED. 80% OF ALL WORLD’S ENERGY IS GENERATED BY THREE FOSSIL FUELS, COAL,OIL,NATURAL GAS WE BECOMING ALMOST COMPLETELY DEPENDANT UPON THEM, ALL NON RENEWABLE.
WE MUST DEVELOP WAYS OF GIVING TO PEOPLE OPPORTUNITY TO GENERATE ELECTRICITY IN THEIR HOMES.
NUCLEAR POWER IS BEYOND MOST NATIONS. EVEN WHERE IT IS POSSIBLE THERE IS SUBSTANTIAL PUBLIC OPPOSITION TO SITE LOCATION FOR RADIO-ACTIVE WASTE. NOT TO MENTION URANIUM ANOTHER NON-RENEWABLE MINERAL REQUIREMENT TO PRODUCE NUCLEAR POWER.
THEN WE HAVE WIND POWER ALSO BEYOND MOST COUNTRIES AND THE WINDS DON’T BLOW ALL OF THE TIME.
BIO FUELS A MASSIVE USE OF LAND RESULTING IN DESTROYING ECOSYSTEMS .
THERE ARE MANY OTHER PROMISING TECHNOLIGES IN THE PIPE LINE WHICH OF COURSE WILL BE SURPRESSED BY THE WORLD OIL ORGANISATIONS FOR THE OBVIOUS REASONS.
SO IF WE ARE HONEST WITH OURSELVES MOST OF US COULD NOT GIVE A SHIT ADOPTING ” I AM ALL RIGHT JACK” ATTUTIDUE WHEN IT COMES TO TRYING TO EFFECT CHANGE.
WHY? BECAUSE MOST OF US THINK IT IS A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME . NO ONE LISTENS SO WHY TRY. EVEN IF THEY DO YOU WILL NEVER BE HEARD BY ANY ONE WHO IS INTERESTED IN TAKING THE CAUSE UP.
THE POWER OF THE MOBIL PHONE CAN CHANGE THIS BY BRINING A COLLECTIVE WORLD VOICE TOGETHER THAT WILL HAVE TO BE LISTENED TO.
WITH THE APPLICATION OF 0.00001% ( see previous post) WE COULD TURN ALL THE WORLDS POOP 200 MILLION TONS OF IT PER YEAR OF WHICH 90% IS DISCHARGED DIRECTLY INTO OUR LAKES,RIVERS,OCEANS ——– INTO FUEL.
President Vladimir Putin the veto man. Russia is the 
Both Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, two leaders known for their relative skepticism about climate change not in attendance.
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