#SilentSunday near #LikaLodge : forest strawberries , May blossoms , young trees & wild flowers : overwhelm of tastes, touch & fragrances : almost unbearable happiness!
Update! Due to a “Faak”-ery in the SEE/Balkans (long delay - missed my connection) & after a lot of planning & juggling with FlixBus / train options, I decided to stay overnight in Villach, then take an early train tomorrow. Now, with the cancellations because of storm damages in Germany, I do hope I will get to Berlin at all! or at least to Munich,… & then : I’ll make a new plan. #InterRain#InterRail#ClimateChaos#climate#chaos
@dromografos these sharp weather events are the way climate change is probably going to play out. Not a slow heating and gradual change but sharp swings.
Can't help but feel someone is pushing drastic and intense wars, in an effort to make us look away from what big oil and big money are doing to our planet.
@compost
The problem is not only loss of topsoil.
Some examples:
we hardly had any plums nor cherries the last couple of years. Why? When the trees are in full blossom a week of rain ruins everything (+ the fact that there are no bees with cold rainy weather anyway)
Onions bolt when temperatures fluctuate heavily. On top of that wetter springs make them rot away. Same kind of story for garlic. (professional growers in my region complain about this lot!)
The best bet for annuals is nowadays to sow as many times as possible a couple of weeks apart and hope that some batches will succeed.
The whole climate change problem related to food production is soooo much more complex and diverse than what most people realise.
It's not without reasons that I'm very pessimistic about the future.
@john_fisherman the issue is that only a tiny number of people actually want to live this path, how does the #openweb have use and meaning to the vast majority. This is a social, rather than tech issue that is urgent to address for the needed social change and challenge in this era of #climatechaos
There is an older gentleman I often see at the river park - he might be in his late 80s or early 90s. Today, he came up to me shaking his head and saying that the temperature broke all high records for today.
We chatted some more, he made a joke about, “when I get old” and I joked back, “you have plenty of time”. His face changed to sorrow.
“No,” he said, “ I don’t want to keep living in this terrible country in these terrible times.”💔 #ClimateDiary#ClimateChaos
@davidho
Thank you for this "gift article", but despite this free gift I could not read it, because NYT came up with all possibilities to become a paying subscriber.
But, wtf, just the head line is more than enough to know what this is:
Just another piece of shit from the techno-fixers who will do anything to keep on going on doing what they are best at: destroying life on the planet.
This proves to me that the last of the people who believe the conspiracy theories or are hard core deniers are essentially unscrupulous liars and charletans. They can and should be shouted down and ignored.
"A Quebec man who posted conspiracy theories online that forest fires were being deliberately set by the government has pleaded guilty to starting a series of fires himself”
Dec. 15th, 2023, on the northern banks of the tidal river #elbe
Today's highest temp: 8 °C.
Drizzle on and off.
Mosquitos dancing in the air.
Shrubs, usually bald this time of the year, still clinging to their foliage.
In Marshallese culture, there is a prominent attitude of "Enaaj Emman," which translates loosely to "It will be okay." It is strongly embedded in the culture and people's everyday thinking. If you are ever despondent, somebody is always there to remind you that "enaaj emman." It is a focus on hope and happiness that pervades daily life despite the struggles, setbacks, and disappointments that inevitably happen. People retain this optimism even after being irradiated by nuclear testing by the USGovt throughout the 1950s.
Having lived in the Marshall Islands for eight years, I am acutely aware of the threats and dangers posed by both nuclear waste and fossil fuels.
At this point, I expect to see this country of beautiful coral atolls and generous, gentle people be subsumed by rising sea levels. They are undergoing severe stress at 1.1C and will be completely uninhabitable at 1.5C. We will push past 1.5C by the end of this decade, and I don't think we have enough time, nor are we doing the right things, to reverse the momentum. These islands will be gone, and an entire country and culture will have been displaced or extinguished.
It fills me with profound sadness, especially when I think how it all could have been prevented but for the fraud perpetrated by fossil fuel energy companies and the greed of their executives. And let's not forget about the collusion of our politicians through bribery, nor forget about the perpetuation of the fraud through mass media owned by members of the same bourgeois class.
I understand the need to continue seeking solutions. I hope people create those solutions. Enaaj emman. I appreciate people like @pvonhellermannn who, despite feeling despondent, has provided to us long threads informing us about this crisis. Hope is still alive as Tina Stege, #ClimateEnvoy from the Marshall Islands, impresses upon us in these two posts:
Yet I am despondent. I am also very angry. My reaction is to want to dislodge and remove the parasitical elites of the 1%, punish them harshly, and completely dismantle their capitalist systems. I despair that billions will have to die before we make that happen. Certainly among the first great wave of casualties will the Marshall Islanders. And that fills me with rage.
It also brings back memories of living in the islands. It's as close to an anarchist way of life as I've ever seen in the world. And I'm now reminded of an elder woman who was asked by another Peace Corps Volunteer, "Who do you think is the best US president?" Her response: "I think President Kennedy was the smartest president. He sent all these young people here so they could learn "mantin majel" (Marshallese custom). There is so much wisdom in that statement, that it resonates even more strongly for me 35 years later. The world needs to learn Mantin Majel and enact its inherent values of peace, cooperation, solidarity, and optimism.
Apparently the storm surges also close airports on Ailinglaplap Atoll, the outer atoll where I lived for three years.
Ailinglaplap was the traditional capital of the Marshall Islands and home to the Paramount Chiefs ("Iroojlaplap") because it's islands are the largest/longest, naturally and without landfill, in the entire country.
The storm closed two of the three airports. The airports are small and made by scraping the reef that lies beneath the six inches of topsoil and sand. The planes that land on the outer island (read: not the urban atolls of Majuro--the current capital--and Kwajalein) airports are small 19-seat planes. Pretty exciting take offs and landings if you enjoy short, unpaved runways in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
[Excerpt:]
"MAJURO — Powerful waves, driven by offshore storm surges, hit an important U.S. military installation in the Marshall Islands Saturday night, causing some damage and resulting in evacuation of all 'non-mission personnel' from the island.
"Flooding caused by the waves also hit two airports at Ailinglaplap Atoll, leaving rocks, coral and debris in their wake that will keep those airports closed for weeks. Other islands in this atoll nation were reporting flooding and moderate damage."
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"Wave swells also seriously flooded islands in Ailinglaplap Atoll, tossing debris onto airfields at Woja and Jeh islands. It likely will take weeks to clear the runways for air service to return. Kili Island, home of the displaced Bikini Islanders, also experienced flooding Saturday-Sunday.
"The elevation of most islands in this atoll nation are in the three-to-six-foot (one-to-two-meter) range. Ocean flooding due to rising sea levels has increased throughout the Marshall Islands in recent years, with dozens of small, “nuisance” inundations on Majuro Atoll, the capital, and other atolls each year. Saturday night’s wave flooding incident at Roi-Namur was a significant escalation over minor ocean inundations seen in the Marshall Islands the past year."
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"While Kwajalein and Ailinglaplap were dealing with the aftermath of wave-driven ocean flooding, Majuro has been facing an ongoing power crisis for the past two weeks, with numerous extended power outages affecting most parts of the capital atoll. These have resulted from the decline of old generators that constantly break down, leaving the utility company without adequate electrical generating capacity to power the entire atoll."
The Marshall Islands are a harbinger of what's to come from climate change.
Hoo boy it is CHILLY out here this morning. My breath plumes, some of the vegetation is rimed with frost, and my fingertips are keenly aware of the world within a few minutes of my leaving the house. I reach Roosevelt Circle at 7:32, set up my big sign, and hold up EVERY DISASTER MOVIE STARTS WITH A SCIENTIST BEING IGNORED. No Craige today.
So they are seriously talking about what happens if AI tries to "take over". Meanwhile, the stuff we could have been working on for the past 40 years is blowing up in our faces. #ClimateChaos#AI#Terminator
Interesting to hear the #MOD view of the Russian Ukrainian war... As you would expect it's very #mainstreaming and pushing a strong rightwing view. Good to see this side as balance. No thinking on #climatechaos over the next 10-20 years in any long term thinking expressed.
"Earth close to ‘risk tipping points’ that will damage our ability to deal with climate crisis, warns UN
Analysis also warns of further tipping points on horizon such as drying up of groundwater vital for food supplies"
It is clear that a collapse is not just a '#doomer' scenario, but a real threat. #Acceptance of that fact is step 1 towards a sane way of dealing with the situation. The next step would be to adopt another mindset. A very profound #Mindshift is needed.
Why it is unlikely that we can avoid a collapse of both the ecological system and western civilisation is the main topic of my book, but in the last part of it I focus mostly on the things that we can do that will soften our #crashlanding.