Warming the climate and run off is making harmful algal blooms worse
Turning the ocean into a lifeless 'dead zone'

"The scale of each harmful algal bloom event seems to be increasing...We're basically seeing that the warming climate is changing the frequency and length and locations and toxicity of harmful algal blooms...If there isn't something done to mitigate, to reduce climate emissions, warming will continue and these kinds of events will be more and more likely."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-28/harmful-algal-blooms-around-the-world/105562252
#FossilFuels #pollution #bushfires #floods #runoff #ocean #MarineHeatwave #HABs #DIYDisaster #Biodiversity #MassMortalityEvents #RiskSociety #DeadZones #climatebreakdown

Widespread marine species mortalities a ‘human-mediated disaster’

"Effects of marine heatwave driving ‘foreseeable’ SA algal bloom could rival black summer fires, scientists warn."

“Alongside rapidly reducing emissions, Australia needs to be better prepared for environmental disasters such as this. We should all accept that this is likely to just be the tip of the iceberg for what our future looks like with unmitigated climate change and rapid biodiversity loss,” James Trezise, Biodiversity Council director

"Prepare for “an increasingly dangerous and unstable future.""
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/24/effects-of-marine-heatwave-driving-foreseeable-sa-algal-bloom-could-rival-black-summer-fires-scientists-warn
#FossilFuels #pollution #runoff #ocean #MarineHeatwave #HABs #DIYDisaster #Biodiversity #MassMortalityEvents #RiskSociety

Deaths and #Trauma on Australia's #Roads.
"The annual road toll has risen about 10 per cent since 2001.
Only NSW is on track to achieve its target. However, it made no progress in the past 12 months, with the same number of road deaths as the year before.
Australia’s trajectory to meet the National Road Safety Strategy targets of halving road deaths through the decade to 2030 and reducing serious injuries by 30 per cent is badly off course."

And of course the habitual call for more of the same follows: More funding, more roads, more...

"#VisionZero is a principle that no one should be killed or seriously injured using our road networks. Its adoption is a commitment to a road transport system that does not kill or seriously injure people."
https://www.roadsafety.gov.au/nrss/fact-sheets/vision-zero-safe-system

The 'Integral #Accident'
"When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane #crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution… Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress. – Paul Virillio
https://gregswan.net/2018/11/30/french-cultural-theorist-paul-virillio-on-the-integral-accident/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-14/road-toll-rises-in-almost-every-state-and-territory/102338652
#RoadTrauma #Cars #Traffic #Fatalities #Injuries Equitable #Mobility #Roadkill #Toll #Sacrifice #RiskSociety