"There are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”
- Marshall McLuhan
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US Army Iraq vet still angry Bush and the American government inflicted that catastrophic terror of a war on the world; meditator, poet, father, lover of this planet and the incredible beauty of Creator's creation, griever of all the killing + destruction
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"There are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”
In case you hadn't seen it, the Stockholm Resilience Centre has assessed planetary boundaries for the last 16 years. Of 9 boundaries assessed, 6 have crossed safe thresholds: Climate change Novel entities Modification of biogeochemical flows Freshwater change Land system change biosphere integrity
The planetary boundaries framework highlights the rising risks from human pressure on nine critical global processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth
Can you imagine being a part time employee, who actually sucks at his job, and getting a $29BILLION Bonus?
Yeah, me neither.
This is fascinating. Our world is so beautiful. I wish we could get civilization to stop destroying it
The largest migration on Earth stores carbon in the ocean : Short Wave : NPR 🧪🦑🌎
The twilight zone of the ocean is a mysterious place. At 200-1000 meters below the surface, it's a tough place to study. That's why, during World War II, people reading sonograms from this zone were…
"Over 6M Acres of BLM Marked For Sale... onX and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership unveil a first-of-its-kind interactive map showing 6 million acres of Bureau of Land Management lands identified for potential sale across 17 Western states."
BLM's resource management plans specify land that's available for sale immediately. See which lands are at risk and how it could impact access for outdoor recreation.
make as much money as possible before systems fully destabilize and collapse
Part of me wants to be cynical and snarky, but the most honest reaction is just grief. They are guaranteeing collapse will be terrible, and that the biosphere destabilization will be as difficult as possible to survive. We and our children will face profound hardships because these assholes want to
The EPA has postponed enforcing limits on methane emissions linked to oil and gas operations while it weighs the possibility of scrapping the rules altogether.
training AI. I've been using mapquest for driving, and it's definitely got its frustrations, but it's not as frustrating as supporting a genocide supporter. Next is getting my photos off google photos, then figuring out how to get my android phone over to a linux os.
import tool. It's importing all my emails, contacts, my calendar, and will forward new mail to my Proton mail address. The relief I am feeling in my body is huge. It costs $10 a month. I am so glad to pay that cost to not be spied on, to not support a genocide supporter, and to not have my email
Yall, since I learned that Alphabet, google's parent company, has been supporting Israel in their genocide on Palestinians, I've been researching ways to leave the google system. I just switched to Proton mail. I dreaded it because I thought it would be a bear. It wasn't a bear. They have an easy