“Here is another ancient African proverb: “When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.” Have you ever wondered where Indigenous knowledge comes from? In Kenya, the success of mangrove restoration and conservation has hinged upon the traditional wisdom imparted by our elders.”
If you go to truth social, they have subcategories like gardening, board games, and healthy recipes too.
Granted the front page is full of “fuck AoC and wokeness” and “Hunter Biden is taking China money lock him up” and “School shootings are a false flag to take our guns”.
Listen, I'm not trying to gate-keep. If y'all want to turn this into something about conservation, and that's the consensus, it's fine with me. I'll go start m/TrueConservative or something like that. That's a pretty new direction, though. I've been the primary contributor to this magazine for the last couple of months, adding content generally well-aligned with reddit's r/conservative. But with the moderator AWOL, I guess it's up for grabs. I'll post a poll in a few minutes.
That's the paradox of tolerance, I cannot tolerate intolerants, and I will not give them a safe bunny space nearby me. Go to explodingheads if you like free speech so much.
Conserving traditional knowledge may help us conserve nature.
Environmental conservation is not a recent phenomenon in native African communities. Past generations knew about environmental degradation and the need for preservation. This found expression in traditional religious practices simply because the African believes that everything that belongs to the ecosystem and the environment has a strong spiritual meaning for humans. Indeed the African’s attitude to nature is deeply rooted in the belief that all things were created by the Supreme Being for a harmonious continuity, and as such there must be a relationship of mutual obligations between all created things.
Yea, and even in the developed world we are forgetting valuable vegatables and fruits. My parents ate more locally diverse than me. Those traditions should be conserved.
This is very true. My parents generation would keep and exchange seeds and cuttings. Nowadays a lot of commercially available seeds produce sterile plants that cannot be passed down.
Heritage and “heirloom” seeds cost a little more, but it is worth it to conserve the traditional vegetables our grandparents ate.
The world does not revolve around the US. Your "we"is my "what?"
US politics are important, they bleed out and influence the world, but I refuse to start from there.
So whatever you have going around over there, I think it's appropriate to discuss modernising traditional values on age.
The world does not, sure. Conservative discussions often do. And when they don't, they involve the conservative politics of other countries which closely relate to American conservatism.
CHANG: I’m holding a bee with my bare fingertips. Oh, he’s squirming. I can feel his little legs scraping against my fingers.
And the fact that there are male bees out here tells Leif that the coveted queen bees must be around here, too. And remember, at this point, we’re also still keeping our eyes peeled for that one species that Leif had mentioned - the bombus crotchii. And then boom, all of a sudden, we find a double whammy.
Oh, my God.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Whoa.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Whoa.
CHANG: That’s huge. What is that - queen?
RICHARDSON: This is a queen of Crotch’s bumblebee.
CHANG: That’s…
A queen of the very species that we were looking for. And she was at least two to three times bigger than any other bee we saw that day. And, you know, the excitement - it didn’t even end there because we spin around, and I see my editor, Christopher Intagliata, looking down in sheer horror.
Oh, my God.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Whoa.
CHANG: Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
RICHARDSON: What? Whoa.
CHANG: Oh, my God.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: What is it?
CHRISTOPHER INTAGLIATA, BYLINE: [Expletive].
CHANG: Christopher is covered with something…
When he realizes his legs are covered with hundreds of giant black ants
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