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Lithium mining, in particular, is an environmental hazard for all the reasons stated in the article, and measures need to be taken. However, until we come across a better raw material and method for renewable energy storage and distribution (hopefully soon), not lithium mining is much, much worse for far more people and that really should be emphasised.

Always has been. Th irony appears to be lost on them.

Read a short but very accurate saying today that a lot of people ignore at their peril. "Mother Nature always bats last."

Seemingly so. (Excellent wordplay use there btw.)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygzxd8g9jo At least 14 people have died in floods and landslides caused by days of torrential rain in South Korea, the country's disaster management office has said. There are fears the death toll could rise as emergency rescue efforts continue, with 12 people reported missing. Footage showed people wading through thick mud in the landslide-hit resort town of Gapyeong on Sunday as they made their way across a damaged bridge to evacuation shelters. Further south, an entire village was covered with earth and debris following a landslide in the central Chungcheong region, according to video footage from Saturday. Much of the destruction has been in the country's south, with six people killed and seven missing in Sancheong. Thousands of roads and buildings have been damaged and submerged by raging floodwaters, with reports of damage to farmland and the widespread death of livestock. Across the region, nearly 10,000 people have evacuated their homes since the downpour began on Wednesday, while more than 41,000 households have temporarily lost power, local media reported. Well, this continues to be horrible.

Well, the President did state his ambition to "Stop the Count" a while back, so here we are, I guess.

Usyk is just a machine. Taken on all of his peers and beaten them more than once. Not sure exactly where he is in the pantheon of heavyweight greats, but he just seems to have no weaknesses.

Good to see that Farage actually acknowledging what the scientific consensus has known for decades now. Just a shame that he still doesn't want to do anything about the consequences because he evidently thinks UK will be fine in spite of all of it. Perhaps he should talk more to some farmers.

If US golfers aren't boorish and brash arrogance, then they're pure vanilla nothingness with no entertainment value at all. Scheffler clearly falls into the latter category.

Preparation.

Hell knows, Heaven suspects, I would think.

Highlighting a problem without suggesting/detailing a better option than that problem is mostly pointless self-gratification for the benefit of the highlighter, no one else. That goes for practically every situation where this is a factor. It's fine to get things off your chest and long may people have the opportunity to do it, but don't pretend it's being done for any other reason than to make yourself feel better.

It really isn't very comforting, I agree - apart from the rather macabre comfort that humans are at least no more inhuman to other humans now than they were in the past. The stories themselves coming to light with more regularity and that being both grim and dangerously normalised is IMO down to the ubiquity of information we have at our fingertips now, and how we deal with that in a healthy way is a whole other debate. You're right in that the current status quo is deeply unhealthy, so something does need to change.

General pop, let the inmates deliver justice in their own way. I think we're just hearing about more of them in this digital age where it's a bit easier for it to come to light.

Related to the above, apparently both Fred Rogers and Sesame Street are "woke" now, so the current administration are going to places even their predecessors had the decency not to tread: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5367gzpxjo The US House of Representatives has passed a bill allowing Congress to claw back billions in pre-approved funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid. ...The approved funding cuts include large reductions to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which includes PBS and NPR.

Reforms counterparts elsewhere are, sadly, proving more competent than someone might like at the moment. I do agree the framing is awful right now, but I have no idea what would be the best way to switch the narrative in an effective fashion (emphasis on the "effective" there).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/18/epa-office-research-development-eliminated/ The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday it was dismantling its scientific research branch, expanding the Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the agency. The move to eliminate the Office of Research and Development, which will prompt the exodus of hundreds of chemists and scientists assigned to conduct independent research on a range of environmental hazards, is part of a push to cut 23 percent of the agency’s staff. Its work, which often underpinned stricter federal regulations, was criticized by chemical manufacturers and other industries. Yep, let the polluters have a free hand. I'm sure that will turn out well.

Hopefully more people working for that administration will develop a conscience that they clearly didn't have before and do likewise.

Yeah, people may (justifiably) slag off the Beeb but it's another example of not really knowing how much worse things could be.

This. Any one you walk away from, I guess? On they go.

Excellent reverse-mockers in that case.

I'm sorry, I didn't quite hear that. Do repeat your last, please?

If only that were more commonly the case and that was reflected in policy decisions and voting patterns.

At this point, I'd be interested in any take on this aspect of it all, if anyone would be interested.

And yet non league men's football has a not unreasonable following both here and out in the wider world. Let's not pretend this is all about appreciate elite ability.