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How a Changing Climate Is Reshaping the Spread of Infectious Diseases

"...Then you have this convergence of crises—the #ClimateCrisis overlapping with the #PollutionCrisis. So you get this intersection between air pollution and respiratory #diseases, and then infectious diseases more broadly, all layered on top of a changing #climate.

When it comes to waterborne and foodborne diseases, the link to #ClimateChange is even more direct. As temperatures rise, you create more favorable conditions for #bacteria and other #pathogens to multiply. They thrive in warm environments—soil, water, contaminated areas—so warming can increase their abundance.

#ExtremeWeather events are also a big factor here. Aedes #mosquitoes need water to complete their life cycle—from egg to larva to pupa, it all happens in #water. When #floods occur, all the discarded #plastic and #trash lying around fill with water and becomes the ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes.

What’s interesting is that these diseases aren’t just associated with floods—they’re also linked to #droughts. That might seem counterintuitive at first, but in many parts of the world, people don’t have safe, reliable access to clean water, especially during drought conditions. So they store water in containers that aren’t properly sealed or protected, which too can become the perfect breeding sites for mosquitoes.

Infections—particularly vector-borne diseases—are increasingly reemerging and emerging in new areas around the world for a lot of different reasons. Climate change is definitely part of that, with rising temperatures and more extreme weather events like floods and droughts. But the way we live our lives and interact with the environment also plays a huge role. I mean, first and foremost, most of us now live in urban areas rather than rural ones..."

insideclimatenews.org/news/260

#Health
#ClimateChange

Swarms of mosquitoes near Wainwright, Alaska in 2011. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Mosquitoes, for example, rely heavily on ambient temperature. They’re ectotherms, meaning they depend on room temperature to function. Every vector species has multiple traits that are influenced by temperature. If you map all those temperature-dependent traits, you can build a curve that shows the optimal temperature range for that vector. Depending on where you fall on that curve, if you’re already past the peak and temperatures keep rising, there’s actually the potential for a decrease in transmission risk. But these systems are highly nuanced. It’s not just about temperature—it’s also about human behavior and how we alter natural habitats. And vectors can evolve, too. So it’s almost like we’re in a race with other organisms to adapt more quickly.
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Snowshadow 🇨🇦

#Poilivre wants to reverse our attempts to help the #environment and creatures that inhabit it.

"The Problem
Single-use plastics, such as drinking straws, are polluting the world’s oceans at an alarming rate and endangering #marine #wildlife.
The United States alone contributes 500 million straws daily to this #plastic wasteland. That’s enough straws to wrap around the #earth 2.5 times each day."

#Canpoli #Cdnpoli #Canada #USA

pacificwhale.org/what-we-do/co

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organictraveller

The first post of the #organictraveller's #travelguide to #Bayreuth is about #shops helping you to decrease the amount of #waste, especially #plastic-waste you produce. Needless to say that these small #neighbourhood #groceries and #owner-run speciality shops focus on #organic, #fair and #environment-friendly products. In addition they are great places to get in contact with locals: organictraveller.de/organictra

www.organictraveller.deThe Organic Traveller: Bayreuth: Zero Waste
#zerowaste#Bavaria
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Chuck Darwin

The Slate Truck is the first product from Michigan-based Slate Auto.
It’s a machine designed to be extremely basic, extremely customizable, and extremely affordable.
Those are not your typical design goals, but then the Slate Truck isn’t the fruit of your typical design process.
Instead of steel or aluminum, the Slate Truck’s body panels are molded of #plastic.
The theory is that this makes them more durable and scratch-resistant, if only because the lack of paint means they’re #one #color all the way through.
Slate continues the theme through to the upholstery, a heathered textile that was designed to get better looking as it wears. The idea is to lean into the #aged #aesthetic.
But not everybody will dig the shark theme, and so the Slate Truck is designed to be #customizable to a degree never seen before on a production vehicle. Johnson says this is in contrast to the overly curated experience offered by many brands.

theverge.com/electric-cars/655

Blank Slate - Front 3_4_web
The Verge · The $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreenBy Tim Stevens
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SydneyJim

#PlasticPollution has ballooned into a crisis of planetary proportions. We now churn out well over 450 million tons of #plastic each year – up from just two million in 1950. Even high-end estimates suggest one to two million tons of this waste enter the oceans annually. The sheer magnitude is overwhelming: drink bottles, packaging & synthetic fibres float in every ocean & pile up on coasts worldwide. (1/5)

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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Cleaning up behind the big barn.

There's a lean-to to rebuild and a crumbling straw insulated animal shack to remove.

But first, picked up some stupid disintegrating plastic. At least 80% of it, the rest was just crumbling away.

Got a few loads of sauna fuel and a little firewood from this.

More to clean yet. I want to make a crap, err, treasure store back there where I can keep some of the salvaged stuff until needed.

Behind a large log barn, a lean-to that has already been emergency patched a few times. The ground is partially covered in nettles and old logs, a steel door and other treasures are laying around. A few bushes grow into part of the scene. Another corner of a roof is on the right, close to the camera.
The ground, a disintegrating clear plastic sheet mixed with leaves and old branches cut to firewood lengths that have turned green with some lifeform. A white plastic sack stands ready to receive the mess of plastic as far as possible. A foot clad in a standard edition plastic clog is visible on the right.
An aluminium wheelbarrow loaded high with the help of support sticks. The load is old poles cut to length to fit a sauna burner. The poles are partially rotten, cracked and have some hay hanging off one. On the left part of the animal shack that is double walled with straw between, but the outer wall is falling apart. A sprouting meadow completes the background.
The floor of the lean-to is now cleaned up to bare soil. The plastic and leaf mix is in the chickenfood sack. Next to it some old PVC flooring that is also partially disintegrated but cannot go into the regular recycling bin. The lean-to wall has a broken plank and there are some big field stones on the ground. The barn foundation is made of more of those. Behind the cleaned up area, more junk and a few trees and shrubs.
#Homestead#Cleanup#Barn
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myrmepropagandist

Dreamed of plastic insects. Product development gone wrong or evolution? Cataloging finds from drop traps in central park: a lovely blue-green, miniature, plastic purse. Perfect for a doll. No. An egg case. A new and undescribed species of plastic roach. Peas in a pod. Each has a tiny foil-wrapped lipo battery visible through the translucent, colorful exoskeleton. They cluster at USB ports, sipping micro-volts. Fast, lightweight, versatile, a triumph of economical design #plastic #ideas

A tiny blue plastic airplane on the sidewalk, it’s upside down like a dead beetle.
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