Yea I get that, and explaining its usefulness will fall on deaf GOP ears, but for the record It’s not even hazardous waste…it’s the urban soils that tend to have a lot of organic carbon content from all the living shit and garbage used as backfill especially in east coast cities. Standard protocols for direct soil sampling don’t consider carbon as much as they should and also remote methods (like GPR) don’t measure total organic carbon. Not high stakes research but important to get a full picture of the soils on a building site.
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One of my close friends got her doctorate last year and recently hired as a scientist at EPA. She is improving methods of surveying urban soils using remote methods like ground penetrating radar, this helps to inform landowners/potential developers the true conditions of the soil they are building on. A shame the government doesn’t think that’s important anymore.
I mean I could but no one is doing anything serious and it sounds corny as fuck but be the change you want to see in the world. The biggest protests this week in NYC was about Gaza, and look, I sympathize with the conflict but class solidarity over cultural dividing lines. No one is seeing the bigger picture that our collective voices are being stifled and we are in fact entering a Regime and it doesn’t matter if you are against/for Palestine our collective right to even protest is being attacked daily.
As a young man (I’m under 30) with 2 kids I feel stuck like this. A lot of the protesting actions I would have taken are tapered by “I have to be around for my kids”, but at the same time this country is not how I want my kids to be raised in and I don’t know my own red line for this. Suffice to say if I’m thinking about this 3 weeks into Trump’s America, then I hope I will feel compelled to be more active. NYC might be coming to a heat with the Mayor Adam’s BS so I’m keeping my eye out for any manifestations in the city.
I don’t know what I can personally do to make effective change, but what I have done since the inauguration is to let my close friends know I’m there for them since I can’t be the only one who feels defeated.
In the past I’ve hung hundreds fliers in the street for other causes, and I might do that again. It’s old school, gets people attention, and gets me out into the street and maybe interact with people.
Any ideas for an eye-catching poster? I was thinking “OUR DEMOCRACY IS DYING, WHAT CAN WE DO?”
Meanwhile people like Bernie and AOC are hitting up the mid-west and the southwest in his “fighting oligarchy” tour. Schumer is tone deaf to the time and a self righteous book tour ain’t the answer. Screenshot from a Bernie update a couple days ago.