Monday, April 28, 2025

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #228, April 28, 2025.

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #228, April 28, 2025.   Compiled by Dick Bennett.

EcoWatch.com offers a cornucopia of significant reports on the climate calamity.  –D
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·         Climate    Animals    Health + Wellness    Insights + Opinion     Oceans    Solar

Examples on Climate from EcoWatch.com 4-25-25.

“$28 Trillion in Climate Warming Damage Caused by 111 of the World’s Biggest Companies” Cristen Hemingway Jaynes  (4-25-25).   

“Unleashing the 89% of People Who Want Climate Action Could Lead to ‘Social Tipping Point’ and More Government Action, Experts Say” By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (April 22, 2025)

“‘Into the Thaw’: Jon Waterman on a Changing Alaska.”

 

LITHIUM RUSH IN ARKANSAS: 

I googled Lithium in Arkansas and found numerous entries introduced by this statement:

Arkansas may hold a significant amount of lithium within the Smackover Formation in southwestern Arkansas. Studies estimate there could be between 5 and 19 million tons of lithium in the region, potentially meeting global demand for lithium in car batteries multiple times over. This discovery has sparked interest from companies like ExxonMobil and Standard Lithium, who are exploring ways to extract lithium from the brine deposits. 

 

HAZARDS? And here are two of numerous items turned up by googling Lithium in Chile or Lithium Mining in Chile:
    
“Lithium Mining Is Leaving Chile’s Indigenous Communities High and Dry (Literally).”   April 26, 2022.    NRDC  https://www.nrdc.org › stories › lithium-mining-leaving...   

Chile community blessed and blighted with lithium deposits

   NPR  https://www.npr.org › 2025/02/23 › nx-s1-5266009 › c...   

How the extraction of lithium in Chile is tearing communities apart.  May 28, 20244:20 AM ET  Heard on Morning Edition  By John Bartlett.   Chile is the worlds second largest lithium producer. Its discovery has been a welcome boon to the economy, but a disaster for many in the local communities.

 

April 21, 2004:  Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu released from prison.  April 25, 1954: first solar battery.  April 26, 1986:  Chernobyl nuclear power plant melted down in Kiev with contamination widespread.     [Info thanks to Syracuse Cultural Workers’ annual Peace Calendar  SCW is a significant peace, justice, and ecology organization.]

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