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 • • 1h ago

New Mexico and western conservation groups file formal protest against federal drilling plan in Carlsbad.

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r/environment2 • • 15h ago

300 Glaciers Have Disappeared From the American West Since the Mid‑20th Century, the Survivors Have a Few Things in Common

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r/environment2 • • 19h ago

Big Oil Wants Wants a "Get Out of Jail Free Card" — The Supreme Court Can't Let That Happen

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r/environment2 • • 15h ago

Climate change pushed Earth to its limits in 2026 as certain "vital signs" reach record extremes, report says | Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are higher now than at any other time in the last 2 million years. Heat waves scorched Europe, killing an estimated 14,000, and baked portions of...

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r/environment2 • • 10h ago

Sign the Petition - help us fight for clean air in NYC!

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City council has long sought to dismantle the citizens idling complaint program and to allow truck idling again in the city for the sake of big business. Intro 561-A is their latest attempt. Please sign the petition and tell Speaker Menin that NYC deserves clean air!


r/environment2 • • 17h ago

Tohono O'odham speaks out against saguaro removal for border wall.

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r/environment2 • • 9h ago

Urban Biodiversity Survey

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r/environment2 • • 1d ago

Scientists say 7 of Earth's 9 key 'planetary boundaries' have now been breached and warn we're running out of time

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r/environment2 • • 1d ago

OCEAN POLLUTION

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r/environment2 • • 1d ago

Humans are implicitly a cancer to Earth, but will we wake up?

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Humans are implicitly a cancer to Earth, but will we wake up?

Throw wet wipes, sanitary pads down the WC, ends up they flood the oceans and even create a disgusting 'wet wipe' island in UK river Thames https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/14/wet-wipe-island-london-river-thames-pollution-hammersmith-bridge

Over consume FMCG wastefully plus even deceive themselves that diesel from palm oil is 'environment friendly ', but looks at the terrific haze now.

And palm oil isn't even native to SE Asia at all, just that the Indonesia government doesn't care or thinks it's a national cash cow, so allows all land to be plundered or burnt to grow oil palms but this is instead driving the climate towards crisis because the flooded peat forests are actually where the rain (sky rivers etc) comes from, according to biotic pump theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotic_pump without the soaked peat lands, the land will face drought and also increase in typhoons, making human life pretty intolerable and the soil denuded and lifeless.

Ultimately, the whole SE Asia or Indonesia will go up in flames which the citizens will already be too sick or stupid with cancers to fight because they have been eating and drinking all the toxic plastics they themselves dump as quick dispersal micro plastic wet wipes and flushed sanitary pads into the sea.

So humans are indeed not so much plagued by cancer as much as the human species is a cancer itself.

So the early humanity discovers that it itself is a cancer, the earlier humanity can change before it self destructs in an ignorant way...

As for wet wipes, maybe they should only be allowed to be used as a medical supply with clear disposal instructions, otherwise, they shouldn't be allowed to be created at all, it's ridiculous for these seemingly innocent disposables to be killing the entire earth, just because we can't be bothered to dispose them properly when used.


r/environment2 • • 1d ago

Planetary Boundaries Crossed: Earth Resilience Drops — We Ignore it at Our Own Peril: Latest Science

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r/environment2 • • 1d ago

Elephant death and the health of the Savannah ecosystem.

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r/environment2 • • 2d ago

Carney warns Burnham over Thames Water nationalisation

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r/environment2 • • 3d ago

The Sixth Extinction: Lessons From Earth's Greatest Mass Extinction

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r/environment2 • • 3d ago

Russian diesel is coming back. What if we tested it ourselves?

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r/environment2 • • 3d ago

The Sixth Extinction: Lessons From Earth's Greatest Mass Extinction

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r/environment2 • • 3d ago

Can't blame Google if we're ignorant of how drastically we've changed our consumption behaviour, and it's us, in a way, who are encouraging these IT giants to clear forests and set up their data centres.

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r/environment2 • • 4d ago

They hate the truth, it bursts their bubble.

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r/environment2 • • 4d ago

How climate change worsened Hurricane Isaias | Climate Central says climate-warmed Gulf waters made Isaias’s winds 7 mph stronger than they otherwise would have been. This would result in over a doubling of the hurricane’s damages, because of the exponential rise in damage with winds.

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r/environment2 • • 4d ago

Big Oil Wants Wants a "Get Out of Jail Free Card" — The Supreme Court Can't Let That Happen

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r/environment2 • • 4d ago

With all the oil tankers being damaged or destroyed in recent days, what level of oil clean up or ecological mitigation is being attempted?

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r/environment2 • • 3d ago

If climate changes naturally, why is there so much concern about it now?

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r/environment2 • • 5d ago

Big Oil Wants Wants a "Get Out of Jail Free Card" — The Supreme Court Can't Let That Happen

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r/environment2 • • 5d ago

Climate change has devastated one of the world’s great penguin colonies

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