The classic view over Greenwich Park now savaged by weeks of extreme heat and drought. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
The classic view over Greenwich Park now savaged by weeks of extreme heat and drought. / alisdare1
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Greenwich Park - just a short bus ride from where I live in London - parched by the heat and lack of rain on 12 August 2022. It was not just the bleached grass that was shocking - many of the trees were already losing their leaves and younger trees looked seriously stressed. London and much of Europe have seen many weeks of extreme heat and drought. The mainstream media reprimands individuals for wasting water, justifiably exhorting us to limit our showers, but all the while ignoring the highly profitable water companies which fail to invest in infrastructure, reservoirs or leakage prevention. The media also overlooks the devastating impact of large scale agribusiness, particularly livestock farming, which places an increasingly unsustainable demand on the planet's scarce water resources, as well as further inflating emissions and driving deforestation. Meanwhile, corporate greed is accelerating the consumption of fossil fuels and water and turbocharging climate change. We need rain. We need more regulation. More action. We need to get to net zero asap and water management should not be in private hands. Water companies are siphoning off enormous profits from a vital public utility and failing to invest anything like what is needed. The head of Thames Water (the same company which dumped raw sewage into rivers over 5000 times in 2021) is set to pocket £3 million as a 'golden hello' for signing on as CEO ,while in total the UK's water companies have handed an average of around £2 billion every year to their shareholders in dividends since they were privatised. If they were nationalised, those profits could instead have been invested to upgrade the infrastructure and mitigate the impact of climate change and have even provided extra funds to promote sustainable alternative energy sources. www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/20/thames-water-...www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/01/england-priva...As Caroline Lucas writes in the Guardian (12.08.22) - ' (Drought) is a consequence of years of inaction on the climate emergency. This is producing a perfect storm of energy insecurity, food supply chaos and extreme weather that is wreaking havoc on society.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/12/drought-uk-... |
| 撮影日 | 2022-08-12 16:14:26 |
| 撮影者 | alisdare1 , Woolwich, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Greenwich, England, UK 地図 |
| カメラ | ILCE-7RM4 , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.004 sec (1/250) |
| 開放F値 | f/11.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 24 mm |