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Time for some good news!
The Okefenokee Swamp is a priceless wildland on the border of Georgia and Florida.
Habitat for countless species, source of two amazing rivers, the St Mary's and the Suwanee (as in "Way Down Upon The Suwanee River,")
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A mining company has been jonesing to excavate on the perimeter of the swamp, a process that would need so much water that the hydrology of the swamp was threatened. Thankfully a coalition has raised $60 million to buy the land from the mining company, and avert the threat.
Of course that begs the question of the nature of a system in which we must drain the coffers to keep habitats from being destroyed....
But for now, another crisis is averted.
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So many thanks to @lighthawk_org @stmarysriverkeeper @southernenvironment @francesemayes @willmking @kim.bednarek.23 @jamieav8r
and @mihai_marica and sophiazhou_piano for the Debusssy
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#habitat #wildland #development #mining #rareearths #Waterloss #wildfire #florida #georgia #suwanee #swaneee #Okefenokee #wildlife #alligator

Nuclear is the most expensive, least efficient, time consuming source of power, aside from all the other issues.
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Here shown: In 1977, the Tennessee Valley Authority began construction on the Hartsville Nuclear Plant, but cancelled the project in 1984 after spending nearly two billion dollars. The plant's unused cooling tower has been demolished.
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Solar has become "too cheap to meter"
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So many thanks to @southwings for flight support!
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#nuke #Radioactive #Climatecrisis #Uranium

Nuclear is the most expensive, least efficient, time consuming source of power, aside from all the other issues.
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Here shown: In 1977, the Tennessee Valley Authority began construction on the Hartsville Nuclear Plant, but cancelled the project in 1984 after spending nearly two billion dollars. The plant's unused cooling tower has been demolished.
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Solar has become "too cheap to meter"
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So many thanks to @southwings for flight support!
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#nuke #Radioactive #Climatecrisis #Uranium

#PathwaysToClimate | J Henry Fair (@jhenryfair) is a photographer and filmmaker. In his “Hand of Man,” Fair photographs fossil fuel infrastructure from an aerial perspective. He creates a distance—and an abstraction—from what’s happening on the ground. The aerial perspective exposes the fossil fuel industry and subverts the green and blue Earth we expect to see from above. By making beautiful images of destructive subjects, Fair creates a sense of irony, provoking conversations on climate change, the fossil fuel industry, and damaged environments.

To see more, visit: jhenryfair.com

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174th in the series #PathwaysToClimate, in which we are working with creators across a range of media to highlight the diversity and scope of artistic responses to climate change.

#PathwaysToClimate | J Henry Fair (@jhenryfair) is a photographer and filmmaker. In his “Hand of Man,” Fair photographs fossil fuel infrastructure from an aerial perspective. He creates a distance—and an abstraction—from what’s happening on the ground. The aerial perspective exposes the fossil fuel industry and subverts the green and blue Earth we expect to see from above. By making beautiful images of destructive subjects, Fair creates a sense of irony, provoking conversations on climate change, the fossil fuel industry, and damaged environments.

To see more, visit: jhenryfair.com

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174th in the series #PathwaysToClimate, in which we are working with creators across a range of media to highlight the diversity and scope of artistic responses to climate change.

#PathwaysToClimate | J Henry Fair (@jhenryfair) is a photographer and filmmaker. In his “Hand of Man,” Fair photographs fossil fuel infrastructure from an aerial perspective. He creates a distance—and an abstraction—from what’s happening on the ground. The aerial perspective exposes the fossil fuel industry and subverts the green and blue Earth we expect to see from above. By making beautiful images of destructive subjects, Fair creates a sense of irony, provoking conversations on climate change, the fossil fuel industry, and damaged environments.

To see more, visit: jhenryfair.com

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174th in the series #PathwaysToClimate, in which we are working with creators across a range of media to highlight the diversity and scope of artistic responses to climate change.

#PathwaysToClimate | J Henry Fair (@jhenryfair) is a photographer and filmmaker. In his “Hand of Man,” Fair photographs fossil fuel infrastructure from an aerial perspective. He creates a distance—and an abstraction—from what’s happening on the ground. The aerial perspective exposes the fossil fuel industry and subverts the green and blue Earth we expect to see from above. By making beautiful images of destructive subjects, Fair creates a sense of irony, provoking conversations on climate change, the fossil fuel industry, and damaged environments.

To see more, visit: jhenryfair.com

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174th in the series #PathwaysToClimate, in which we are working with creators across a range of media to highlight the diversity and scope of artistic responses to climate change.

Happy Chernobyl Birthday!
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Nuclear is the most expensive and inefficient source of power.
Its boosters say it has no climate footprint (not counting all of the concrete needed to produce it)
And let's not even talk about the waste problem or Fukishima.
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Shown is the San Onofre reactor, commissioned in 1983 with a construction cost of $13 Billion (2024 dollars), it was then decommisioned in January 2013.
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With solar power plummeting in price, there seems little reason to build these monstrous money hogs.
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So many thanks to @Lighthawk_org for flight support
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#Climatecrisis #Climatechange #nuclear #nonukes #toorisky #forever #BetterAlternatives #gosolar #photovoltaic
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Happy BP Deepwater Horizon Birthday!
Oh wait, it's "Earth Day", another excuse to sell more green branded products that the earth surely does not need.
Sorry for my cynicism...
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So many thanks to @Southwings for flight support

Happy BP Deepwater Horizon Birthday!
Oh wait, it's "Earth Day", another excuse to sell more green branded products that the earth surely does not need.
Sorry for my cynicism...
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So many thanks to @Southwings for flight support

Happy BP Deepwater Horizon Birthday!
Oh wait, it's "Earth Day", another excuse to sell more green branded products that the earth surely does not need.
Sorry for my cynicism...
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So many thanks to @Southwings for flight support

Happy BP Deepwater Horizon Birthday!
Oh wait, it's "Earth Day", another excuse to sell more green branded products that the earth surely does not need.
Sorry for my cynicism...
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So many thanks to @Southwings for flight support

Happy BP Deepwater Horizon Birthday!
Oh wait, it's "Earth Day", another excuse to sell more green branded products that the earth surely does not need.
Sorry for my cynicism...
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So many thanks to @Southwings for flight support

Happy BP Deepwater Horizon Birthday!
Oh wait, it's "Earth Day", another excuse to sell more green branded products that the earth surely does not need.
Sorry for my cynicism...
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So many thanks to @Southwings for flight support

At this moment, when the USA is suspending the Endangered Species Act to allow more drilling in the Gulf Of Mexico, to bring down the high price of oil resulting from our invasion of Iran,
It bears remembering the BP Deepwater Horizon Spill.
There are estimates of how many endangered species were killed, how much economic damage was done to fishermen, how much climate heating resulted, but we will never really know.
I am sad to repeat our same mistakes.
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Thanks to @southwings for flight support
Thanks to @carolynenger for the Phillip Glass
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"Only about 51 Rice’s whales remain, and they and other wildlife are largely on the brink of extinction because of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig spill, which devastated the gulf when it leaked about 210m gallons.""
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#Climatecrisis #Climatechange #Endangered #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #Deepwater #DeepwaterHorizon #EndangeredSpecies #Marinelife #MarineMammals

Harriet Tubman was here!
Fields Point and Combahee River wetlands
Combahee River, Wiggins, SC
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This is the site of the first bluff on the Combahee River, a defensive position of the Confederate Army in the Civil War, and the first landing of the Combahee Raid.
South to Beaufort. The Combahee River Raid, guided by Tubman, stopped here first, engaged the Confederate pickets, and moved on upriver.
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The exhibit will open again at @hamptonumuseum in April.
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so many thanks to @southwings for flight support!
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#South #Southern #Charleston #coast #SC #Hurricane #Rice #ACEbasin #Combahee River #Wetlands #Habitat #Landscape #Tubman
#earth_deluxe #ourplanetdaily #somewheremagazine #somewheretravels #Discoverlandscape #welivetoexplore #natgeotravel #ig_landscape #landscapelover #landscape #landscapehunter #natgeo #naturephotography #nature_prefection #earthcapture #discovernature
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I am mad about this power plant they want to build on the Edisto River to run another data center.
We already have some of the hightest electricity prices in the USA thanks to shady dealings in the past.
• First they said the power plant would cost $2.5 Billion, now they say $5 Billion!
• Did you know that the executives of the power company get a percent of the construction costs? So in fact they want the price to go up, which they will charge to you, the ratepayer.
• And they have not even cleaned up the toxic remains of the old power plant, 100 million yards of poison which leaches arsenic
into the Edisto, from which Charleston gets drinking water.
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And they want to dig a gas pipeline through the ACE Basin from Savannah to power the thing. All for another data
center, which will further enrich the richest people in the world.
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It's a transfer of money from your pocket to Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg et al. at the expense of our natural heritage and our pocketbooks
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if this makes you angry, call your elected officials and ask them to vote for S.867 to regulate data center construction.
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Many great groups are fighting this @southernenvironment @conservationleague @scelp_org
@earthjustice
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So many thanks to @southwings for flight support
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Goldberg Variations thanks to @sophiazhou_piano
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#wildlands #acebasin #huntersparadise #cleanwater #edistobeach
##DominionEnergy #canadys #datacenter #LNG #hydrofracking #pipeline #AI #LLM #WaterDepletion

He had his eye on us! My grandson Will and I, with photographer friend Henry Fair went to the Okefenokee Swamp. This place of exceptional beauty was a nostalgia trip for me--I grew up near there--and a chance to speak up for the environmental dangers. See the article in this month's Garden & Gun, a magazine out of Charleston that covers the contemporary South. (If not familiar with G & G, don't worry about the "gun" part--it has to do with hunting and dogs and bourbon around the fire.) The photo of the boat was taken with Henry's drone--that's us, cruising slowly and greeting all the wildlife and the many alligators who briefly woke from their Pleistocene naps. The other photos I'm posting, I took. What a journey to the blinding white beaches of the St. Marys River, through the moss-hung waterways--and having the chance to meet with the devoted people who work to protect this sacred place. This bird standing on its own reflection is one of my favorite images--seems metaphorical: isn't that what we do? And I'm happy to say that the recent mining threat is now defeated and that UNESCO designation, a protection, is pending. @gardenandgun @jhenryfair gardenandgun.com (widely available--also on Apple Plus News My Magazines) @kimbednarek23 @cjlotzdiego @emilyfloore @theconservationfund

He had his eye on us! My grandson Will and I, with photographer friend Henry Fair went to the Okefenokee Swamp. This place of exceptional beauty was a nostalgia trip for me--I grew up near there--and a chance to speak up for the environmental dangers. See the article in this month's Garden & Gun, a magazine out of Charleston that covers the contemporary South. (If not familiar with G & G, don't worry about the "gun" part--it has to do with hunting and dogs and bourbon around the fire.) The photo of the boat was taken with Henry's drone--that's us, cruising slowly and greeting all the wildlife and the many alligators who briefly woke from their Pleistocene naps. The other photos I'm posting, I took. What a journey to the blinding white beaches of the St. Marys River, through the moss-hung waterways--and having the chance to meet with the devoted people who work to protect this sacred place. This bird standing on its own reflection is one of my favorite images--seems metaphorical: isn't that what we do? And I'm happy to say that the recent mining threat is now defeated and that UNESCO designation, a protection, is pending. @gardenandgun @jhenryfair gardenandgun.com (widely available--also on Apple Plus News My Magazines) @kimbednarek23 @cjlotzdiego @emilyfloore @theconservationfund

He had his eye on us! My grandson Will and I, with photographer friend Henry Fair went to the Okefenokee Swamp. This place of exceptional beauty was a nostalgia trip for me--I grew up near there--and a chance to speak up for the environmental dangers. See the article in this month's Garden & Gun, a magazine out of Charleston that covers the contemporary South. (If not familiar with G & G, don't worry about the "gun" part--it has to do with hunting and dogs and bourbon around the fire.) The photo of the boat was taken with Henry's drone--that's us, cruising slowly and greeting all the wildlife and the many alligators who briefly woke from their Pleistocene naps. The other photos I'm posting, I took. What a journey to the blinding white beaches of the St. Marys River, through the moss-hung waterways--and having the chance to meet with the devoted people who work to protect this sacred place. This bird standing on its own reflection is one of my favorite images--seems metaphorical: isn't that what we do? And I'm happy to say that the recent mining threat is now defeated and that UNESCO designation, a protection, is pending. @gardenandgun @jhenryfair gardenandgun.com (widely available--also on Apple Plus News My Magazines) @kimbednarek23 @cjlotzdiego @emilyfloore @theconservationfund

He had his eye on us! My grandson Will and I, with photographer friend Henry Fair went to the Okefenokee Swamp. This place of exceptional beauty was a nostalgia trip for me--I grew up near there--and a chance to speak up for the environmental dangers. See the article in this month's Garden & Gun, a magazine out of Charleston that covers the contemporary South. (If not familiar with G & G, don't worry about the "gun" part--it has to do with hunting and dogs and bourbon around the fire.) The photo of the boat was taken with Henry's drone--that's us, cruising slowly and greeting all the wildlife and the many alligators who briefly woke from their Pleistocene naps. The other photos I'm posting, I took. What a journey to the blinding white beaches of the St. Marys River, through the moss-hung waterways--and having the chance to meet with the devoted people who work to protect this sacred place. This bird standing on its own reflection is one of my favorite images--seems metaphorical: isn't that what we do? And I'm happy to say that the recent mining threat is now defeated and that UNESCO designation, a protection, is pending. @gardenandgun @jhenryfair gardenandgun.com (widely available--also on Apple Plus News My Magazines) @kimbednarek23 @cjlotzdiego @emilyfloore @theconservationfund

He had his eye on us! My grandson Will and I, with photographer friend Henry Fair went to the Okefenokee Swamp. This place of exceptional beauty was a nostalgia trip for me--I grew up near there--and a chance to speak up for the environmental dangers. See the article in this month's Garden & Gun, a magazine out of Charleston that covers the contemporary South. (If not familiar with G & G, don't worry about the "gun" part--it has to do with hunting and dogs and bourbon around the fire.) The photo of the boat was taken with Henry's drone--that's us, cruising slowly and greeting all the wildlife and the many alligators who briefly woke from their Pleistocene naps. The other photos I'm posting, I took. What a journey to the blinding white beaches of the St. Marys River, through the moss-hung waterways--and having the chance to meet with the devoted people who work to protect this sacred place. This bird standing on its own reflection is one of my favorite images--seems metaphorical: isn't that what we do? And I'm happy to say that the recent mining threat is now defeated and that UNESCO designation, a protection, is pending. @gardenandgun @jhenryfair gardenandgun.com (widely available--also on Apple Plus News My Magazines) @kimbednarek23 @cjlotzdiego @emilyfloore @theconservationfund

He had his eye on us! My grandson Will and I, with photographer friend Henry Fair went to the Okefenokee Swamp. This place of exceptional beauty was a nostalgia trip for me--I grew up near there--and a chance to speak up for the environmental dangers. See the article in this month's Garden & Gun, a magazine out of Charleston that covers the contemporary South. (If not familiar with G & G, don't worry about the "gun" part--it has to do with hunting and dogs and bourbon around the fire.) The photo of the boat was taken with Henry's drone--that's us, cruising slowly and greeting all the wildlife and the many alligators who briefly woke from their Pleistocene naps. The other photos I'm posting, I took. What a journey to the blinding white beaches of the St. Marys River, through the moss-hung waterways--and having the chance to meet with the devoted people who work to protect this sacred place. This bird standing on its own reflection is one of my favorite images--seems metaphorical: isn't that what we do? And I'm happy to say that the recent mining threat is now defeated and that UNESCO designation, a protection, is pending. @gardenandgun @jhenryfair gardenandgun.com (widely available--also on Apple Plus News My Magazines) @kimbednarek23 @cjlotzdiego @emilyfloore @theconservationfund

So they want to build a data center in Walterboro.
This will be an energy monster which will push our already high South Carolina electricity prices even higher.
These data centers suck oceans of water from the ground, so you can expect your well to run dry if you live near it.
And they want to build a natural gas power plant on the Edisto River to power it. Of course they will charge SC ratepayers for the construction.
These are the same thieves that foisted the largest financial disaster in SC history with the bankruptcy of the Summer Nuclear Plant in Columbia.
$8 Billion dollars disappeared. and who got stuck with the bill?
And to fuel the generator they want to dig a gas pipeline through the ACE Basin from Savannah to power the thing.
Oh, and guess who will pay the bill for that? Yup, SC ratepayers.
And the power will be used to run another data center, which will further enrich the richest people in the world.
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It's a transfer of wealth from SC citizens to Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg et al. at the expense of our natural heritage and our pocketbooks
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if this makes you angry, call your elected officials.
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Many great groups are fighting this
@southernenvironment
@conservationleague
@scelp_org @earthjustice
@chsclimatecoalition
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So many thanks to @southwings for flight support
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Goldberg Variations thanks to @sophiazhou_piano
#wildlands #acebasin #huntersparadise #cleanwater #edistobeach #DominionEnergy #canadys #datacenter #LNG #hydrofracking #pipeline

The title of this piece of art is "Arsenic" because it is a photo of a coal ash dump leaching arsenic into a pristine river from which CHarleston gets its drinking water.
This toxic time bomb is a perfect example of why we need stringent rules to protect our water.
I submitted my comments. The portal is open till 11:59 today...
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Today is the last day to comment on a proposed relaxing of the already lenient rules that protect our waters in the USA.
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https://www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-HQ-OW-2025-0322-0001
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Flight support thanks to @southwings
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Ignore the following hotographers triva....
Co-incidentally, I just sold a print of this (getting to the end of the edition) and am recreating the file with a new raw converter. Amazing the differences. Some aspects i am convincing myself are irrelevant, others i am adjusting the new file to match.
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#water #groundwater #river #stream #wetland #waterislife #protectwater #drinkingwater @southernenvironment @scelp_org @nrdc_org @riverkeeper @conservationleague @waterkeeperalliance

This is a video about a natural gas power plant being planned for the Edisto River, the longest free-flowing blackwater river in USA. Construction would be at the site of an old coal plant, covering the toxic remains there, 100 million tons of poison which leaches arsenic into this river, from which Charleston gets drinking water.
And they want to dig a gas pipeline through the ACE Basin from Savannah to power the thing.
Oh, and they will charge SC ratepayers for the $5 Billion price tag.
And the power will be used to run another data center, which will further enrich the richest people in the world.
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It's a transfer of wealth from SC citizens to Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg et al. at the expense of our natural heritage and our pocketbooks
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if this makes you angry, call your elected officials.
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Many great groups are fighting this
@southernenvironment
@conservationleague
@scelp_org @earthjustice
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So many thanks to @southwings for flight support
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Goldberg Variations thanks to@sophiazhou_piano
#wildlands #acebasin #huntersparadise #cleanwater #edistobeach #canadys #datacenter #LNG #hydrofracking #pipeline