Lépingrad

Français pro-France ; pro-Albanais, -solution à un Etat, -Ukraine. Respecter la femme, la nature, les nations. Live and let live.
DISCERNEMENT & EMPATHIE

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

There is a mountain of unworn clothes in the driest desert on earth, large enough to be photographed from space. It grows by 39,000 tons a year and almost none of it will ever rot.

The Atacama, in northern Chile, is a place where it may not rain for a decade. On its edge is a duty-free port called Iquique. Every year about 59,000 tons of clothing arrives there from Europe, America and Asia. It is last season's stock that never sold, and the bags people leave at charity shops.

Dealers pick through it for anything they can resell across South America. Two thirds of it is worthless. Nobody will pay to ship it back out, so lorries drive it into the desert at night and tip it.

The local landfill refuses to take it. The reason given is that the clothing does not biodegrade and is full of chemicals. Most of it is polyester, which is plastic, and in a place with no rain and no soil life it will lie there for centuries. Some of it is set alight, and the smoke drifts over a town of 100,000 people.

In 2025 a Chilean court ruled that the dumps had done serious damage to the land.

For most of history this could not have happened. Clothes were wool, linen and leather. They were worn out, handed down and patched, and at the very end a rag merchant paid for the scraps. In Yorkshire, from 1813, old woollens were shredded and spun into new cloth. Anything left went on the fields, where wool breaks down in months and feeds the grass.

Nobody ever had to find a desert for worn-out wool. We invented a fabric that cannot die, and then we started making it to be thrown away.

[MOON LOVER @M1ONLOVER]

moon eye

[𝑰𝒕𝒔𝑱𝒂𝒉𝒚 ✦🇲🇶| MBAPPE BO @JLPEcolo]

@AlertesInfos Dans la 5eme puissance mondiale je le rappelle

[AlertesInfos @AlertesInfos]

🇫🇷 FLASH - 7 millions d’adultes en France métropolitaine déclarent ne pas avoir suffisamment à manger. (sondage OpinionWay)

[eki @ekibuilds]

@netanyahu @MiloradDodik @Cvijanovic_Z 2 genocidal maniacs supporting each other, classic

[Arthur Brand (art detective) @brand_arthur]

The two Renoir paintings, recently stolen from a museum in southern France, have been found. Great work by the French Police.

https://t.co/tPwDkt2Yv7

[fran @4l3xfulstop]

@OOCprogresismo2 Los tres peores dictadores de la historia hitler, mussolini y simeone

[🇪🇺Stef🇪🇺 @CryptoStefTA]

More of this less nationalistic trophies

[Lépingrad @lepingrad]

@greece_northern @George_Pe2001 The idea that Balkans saw wars at an insane frequency may be objected by highlighting of frequent were wars in or neighboring China, Persia, India, Russia, or all the Wars of succession of something, wars of n years in Western Europe

[🇬🇷Eᴘɪʀᴜs•Mᴀᴄᴇᴅᴏɴɪᴀ•Tʜʀᴀᴄᴇ🇬🇷✨🫒 @greece_northern]

BREAKING 📢

Greece 🇬🇷 & Bulgaria 🇧🇬 Reach Historic Agreement

The famous ruler of the medieval Bulgarian Empire, known for his extensive conquests and his rivalry with Emperor Basil II, will return home

Bulgaria will return artifacts looted by the Bulgarian army during WWII

[Milos @milos_gis]

Every French🇫🇷 passenger train, on an ordinary Tuesday, from first departure to last

[VIEW @viewsoff]

Moon eye 👁️

[MOON LOVER @M1ONLOVER]

Full Moonrise

[Paulo @Paulo_X_]

C’est quand c’est à mon tour d’être un adulte que l’abandon de poste est considéré comme une démission et fait perdre droit au chômage, que le CPF devient payant, que le litre d’essence est à 3€ et le kilo de viande hachée à 16€

[Lépingrad @lepingrad]

Je danse avec un pas carencé

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

Once the world's rarest bird—down to a single breeding pair in 1980—now winner of NZ Bird of the Year.

The black robin, saved from extinction by an extraordinary conservation effort, now has around 350 adult birds—still vulnerable, but with hope for the future.

1/2

[Robert Francis @rbfrncs]

Every single surviving Black Robin is a descendant of Old Blue, she should be a household name 🥲

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

Québec City, Canada 🍁🇨🇦

[Lépingrad @lepingrad]

@2ears__1mouth @abibi2020 @AdamGirard1990 reclaim the same amount of biodiversity in numerical terms)

[Lépingrad @lepingrad]

@2ears__1mouth @abibi2020 @AdamGirard1990 life exists between boundaries. Too little is harmful, as well as too much. The current biosphere isn't suited for a much warmer world and adaptation takes a much longer time than that of human scale (after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, it took 10 millions years to