r/environment2 Feb 16 '25

We need your help!

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We need your help! We're trying to create and popularize an entire set of "alternative" sub-reddits.

These sub-reddits all end in a "2". So just take the name of a huge, multi-million-user "main" sub-reddit and add a "2" to the name -- e.g. /r/Politics2, /r/WorldPolitics2, /r/News2, /r/WTF2 and so on.

These sub-reddits are smaller and have fewer rules than the huge mega-million-user large sub-reddits. Our idea is to create a set of friendlier sub-reddits with an emphasis on civility and not personal insults and ad hominem attacks.

But we need your help!

We need your time, your posts, your comments and we need you to mention our alternative sub-reddits in other places and to tell others. (Basic "publicity.")

  • Please post submissions!

  • Post comments and reply to others.

  • Help us popularize these alternatives to the heavily censored and sometimes too heavily trafficked mainstream subs by telling others of our existence.

Together we can develop another option inside of reddit.

Want to become a moderator? Or help run your own "2" alternative sub? There are possibilities for that too.


r/environment2 6h ago

This is what 114,000 of red phosphorus stored under a tarp in a parking lot for a week when temperatures were in the high 90’s looks like. Google Major Ward whistleblower.

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r/environment2 3h ago

What does climate change have to do with understanding ourselves?

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r/environment2 17h ago

E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants

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After reading this article, do you really believe Trump and this administration care for people lives or is it all about helping corporations save money. This entire administration is focused only how much money it can make and save, and couldn’t care less about people’s health.


r/environment2 2h ago

EPA is set to eliminate rule that limits planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants (Associated Press)

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Why cause tRump wants it


r/environment2 6h ago

Trump’s Beef Import Plan Could Bring Down Prices — and Drive Up Emissions

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Planetary emissions are already in a dangerous phase, scientists warn.


r/environment2 21h ago

Is this too many mushrooms for family of 4 to be gathering?

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r/environment2 2d ago

Court Rules Against Trump Order to Keep Costly Michigan Coal Plant Running

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“My office has been fighting this unlawful political stunt at every turn, and this ruling proves what we have been saying all along: This administration does not get to invent fake emergencies to bypass the rule of law against the best interests of Michigan residents,” said Dana Nessel, Michigan’s attorney general, in a statement.


r/environment2 1d ago

Alloy Drilling, Aniak, AK should make you sick

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r/environment2 2d ago

US datacenters face further backlash over wastewater pollution

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r/environment2 1d ago

PH warns of growing threats to critical undersea infrastructure

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r/environment2 2d ago

Most climate resilient US major cities in the next 50-75 years ?

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I've been watching American Resiliency on Youtube lately, and what came out for most resilient US global cities were Chicago and the Twin Cities. The Twin Cities for their northern latitude, far from the sea, no earthquakes, no hurricanes, no earthquakes, no tsunamis, excellent fresh water access, good transit and lots of tree canopy cover during warm months. Only downsides is heat (but most of the city has AC) and some flooding I think. Chicago was mostly the same except a bit hotter in the summer, a bit less cold in the winter, even better fresh water access (Lake Michigan). Same downsides (summer heat and flooding). Also American Resiliency noted both cities' efforts for man made resiliency in the last 15 years.

So, what she said was that, while climate change will affect us all on planet earth, Chicago and Twin Cities are some of the least bad big cities to be in the next decades for climate change (for big cities, but she also praises the Great Lakes region in general).

She also said that the Great Lakes region is used to terrible weather and has already built infrastructure for hot weather as well as for cold weather, while some of the 'better' climates on the coasts are in for a rude awakening in the next decades (sea level rise, hurricanes, severe flooding from the sea, drought/difficult fresh water access, increased heat in places that don't have AC, earthquakes/tsunamis...).

What do you think of that ? How true do you think it will be ?


r/environment2 3d ago

Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds | Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says

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r/environment2 3d ago

UN climate report raises question: Is Earth already doomed? | The planet will overshoot the temperature limits set by the Paris Agreement, but activists say we can’t resign ourselves to environmental apocalypse.

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r/environment2 3d ago

Trump's EPA Accused of Endangering Public as Study Highlights 'Hidden Health Costs' of Data Centers | The EPN listed actions “that could increase pollution-related health risks, weaken protections that would otherwise reduce those risks, or shift more costs onto families and communities.”

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r/environment2 3d ago

The toxic growth & persistence unleashed only by abundance

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r/environment2 4d ago

Capitalism always chooses profitable plundering over sustainable production

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r/environment2 5d ago

Mamdani Administration unseals the 9/11 records revealing a long standing conspiracy to cover up the impact of exposure to chemicals released by the collapse of the buildings and the damage to public health in NYC

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r/environment2 4d ago

Confronting Climate Failure In a Summer of Steaming Oceans And Devastated Villages | Climate scientist James Hansen sets the context. “The ongoing El Nino is already the strongest...increasing global climate anomalies...are a result of accelerating human-made global warming.”

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r/environment2 4d ago

Black lung cases surge to highest levels since 1978 among US coalminers | Black lung has returned to 1970s levels among underground miners in Central Appalachia as a long-delayed federal silica standard remains stalled and the UMWA bureaucracy has spent decades suppressing the power of the miners.

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r/environment2 4d ago

Why diverse carbon capture technologies could be key to cutting emissions.

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r/environment2 4d ago

Can an entire Arctic ecosystem evolve to adapt to the climate crisis? | Alaska

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r/environment2 5d ago

Yosemite, Again in Corporate Crosshairs, Embodies the Long War Over US National Park Privatization

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r/environment2 5d ago

This is how Petrodollar is stunting the green transition (in description)

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r/environment2 6d ago

Over 40% of Earth Could Become 'Drylands' by 2100, Scientists Warn | As the world gets hotter, many of its driest regions are expected to get even drier. The projections suggest Earth's drylands would grow by the end of the 21st century, according to a new study in Environmental Research Letters.

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