While I was looking for video of black petrels flying (couldn't find any) I found this amazing and truly scary story!!! Just when you thought humans were the only environmental B88888s on the planet:
Things to share we have found out about like pollution / degradation from products etc
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Yeh i started thinking more about the evils of over painting when I was 22 and there was this furore in our hinter-coast about this Titanium mine. In the end the company did kind of good by the local nesting Western (black) Petrel colony (extremely rare in the entire world) which are like slightly smaller black albatrosses. (I do like to deal with issues with some emotions involved so a few facts about these black petrels: they go to sea when they finally manage to fly properly, and return exactly 7 years later to breed. They live in these burrows, and when they arrive home after their long time away, they crash land into the native bush, somersaulting sometimes, making a heck of a ruckus, right where they first fledged. They also return in the evenings.)
So yeh the corporation / company that owned the mine promised to return the environment after 5-10 years intensive mining to pretty much the same (to humans) environment as it had been before. It had to be on the foreshore, it had to operate 24 hours. They made "good" concessions like they tilted their lights as downwards as they could trying to hide the lights from the returning 7 year old black petrels.
But yeh in the lead up to this co-operation there were very serious confrontations between protestors and locals and it's kind of amazing no person was killed.
I can't tell you if local environmentalists feel that the petrels are ok with all of what happened now, I simply don't know.
Anyway, if nearly all paint has titanium in it, is it really a good idea for us to quickly paint our homes often, knowing it will be slightly shoddy/the paint will fall off?
Or paint our interiors just to have a change of colour etc, every few years, even if we do it really properly?
Apparently concrete / cement is pretty bad for the environment as well.
I know no one can be perfect and we all have different priorities. I just also want to know what is going on, and yeh this club could be a good place to share things we have found out that might not make it into the news / our normal scope of information.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ourchangingworld/audio/20172173/black-petrels-new-zealand-s-most-at-risk-seabird