ArrowbearMoore

fedops, 6 days ago to random

@fitheach @simon_brooke @giantspacesquid do any of you sell your trees?

Thinking of getting a piece of land cleared to convert into a pasture with fruit trees. That means removing 300 dense-stand silver firs; 40 years old, average 40 cm breast height diameter and 15m high.

The offer I've gotten is 5 Eur/tree, for thermal use. This is ~8% of what firewood goes for, or 10% of the equivalent cost in heating oil. But it saves me min. 5 years of work and still leaves me with 700 trees.

Thoughts?

pvonhellermannn, 13 days ago to random

#ClimateDiary Anyone else struggling to see any prospects for turning things around? I will keep on trying to do what I can. Of course. But 2024 is challenging.

Last year did a post about how I wasn’t motivated by hope but by #DesperateDetermination. I now realise i got that wrong. Hope isn’t just fluffy “things will be alright”. Hope is some flicker of belief that you and others can change things; I did, actually, have “hope”. Less now, but will keep going.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/13/banks-almost-7tn-fossil-fuel-firms-paris-deal-report

seachanger, 17 days ago to random

the anti-woke folk are obsessed with not wanting to feel guilt, and they project it on children as a means of virtue signaling, as in “white kids shouldn’t be made to feel guilty for being white!” but isn’t this the hallmark of the sociopath? inability to empathize and have remorse? how do you look at our jagged, murderous histories giving rise to the jagged murderous present and take only from all that a righteous refusal to empathize with other human beings and feel things?

Toastie, 19 days ago to ghana

"If #Biden continues his current course, extraction of the lithium, copper, cobalt, nickel, graphite, and manganese vital for a green-energy transition will come at the cost of Indigenous lands and trust... it could also cost Biden the election."

Love the solidarity from #Indigenous #Ghana! ✊

#climate #GreenColonialism #RenewableEnergy #GreenEnergy #JustTransition #USPOL

https://www.newsweek.com/bidens-letdown-native-americans-threatens-indigenous-people-everywhere-opinion-1897073

ArrowbearMoore, 1 month ago to Alaska

The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation has almost $80 billion, money Big Oil bribes the state with to continue to drill baby drill, under the land that supported the ancestors of today's Indigenous people for 1000s of years. Today's Indigenous communities are threatened by climate change & resource degradation. 5% of the PF would go a long way alleviating these people's challenges. Instead this happens - https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/04/22/relocation-of-eroding-alaska-native-village-seen-as-a-test-case-for-other-threatened-communities/
#Alaska #Indigenous #ClimateChange

nomdeb, 1 month ago to random

Ooof. Back from a second trip out of state to assist in-laws with end of life care and decisions (one still TBC hospice, and the other a move to assisted living.) Let me tell you there are so many things to think about, and it would be a huge favor to our loved ones, to figure things out for ourselves and let others know our wishes. And in DETAIL. Because there is so much nuance in end-of-life care decisions. :(

seachanger, 1 month ago to random

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seachanger, 1 month ago to random

recommended background essay by one of Alaska’s greats, Seth Kantner, on the Ambler (mining) road canceled by Haaland and Biden today
https://alaskan.social/@EBecker/112284629317458198

seachanger, 1 month ago to Alaska

Kensington mine, north of Juneau, #Alaska is remote enough that we are just learning about this Jan 31st tailings spill into a salmon stream in late March

https://alaskapublic.org/2024/03/27/kensington-gold-mine-near-juneau-reports-105000-gallon-tailings-spill/

coffeegeek, 1 month ago to coffee

Posted yesterday on CoffeeGeek. An interesting article by our contributor Natia.

#coffee #pourouver

cc @coffee

https://coffeegeek.com/blog/techniques/the-argument-for-a-dirty-cup/

seachanger, 2 months ago to random

I visited my friend at their machinist school last week, where they’re learning to program huge machines to cut metal into intricate parts. watching a CNC machine execute its commands was unexpectedly chilling — it reminded me of getting annihilated by my phone’s backgammon game on the smartest setting… something about the way it doesn’t think, which takes time. it just lives in a brutal present tense of task execution. this is a subtoot about the dawn of the age of robot wars on earth

ArrowbearMoore, 2 months ago to environment

Throw this on the pile of outrageous acts done by profiteers exploiting resources. A couple from Louisiana have sued the Army Corps of Engineers into submission, to get permits approved to dredge gold from an estuary vital to Indigenous locals for subsistence. "The proposed site is considered to hold important habitat for fish, marine mammals and birds, and it is heavily used for subsistence food harvests, opponents have said."
https://alaskabeacon.com/briefs/corps-reverses-2022-decision-on-controversial-mine-plan-in-nome-region-approves-dredge-permit/
#Environment #Nature #Indigenous

ArrowbearMoore, 2 months ago to Birding

Ed Yong does human right.
In this edition of The Ed's Up he shares about The Spoonbill Club - an experiment for Long Covid folks to feel a bit more connected to the world. There are some great bird photos. #LongCovid #Covid #Birding #Birds #MECFS
https://buttondown.email/edyong209/subscribers/52fddcf1-8136-4203-90a8-4dc4a6496d5b/archive/the-eds-up-birding-for-long-haulers

bojacobs, 2 months ago to nuclear

An early plan for long-term burial of spent nuclear fuel was to put it in the Arctic since the ice was "permanent"

"The US Left Nuclear Waste Around The World, Now Climate Change May Unearth It"

#nuclear #NuclearWaste #ColdWar @sts #RMI #Greenland #climate

https://www.iflscience.com/the-us-left-nuclear-waste-around-the-world-now-climate-change-may-unearth-it-73226

ArrowbearMoore, 2 months ago to nature

I lived half my life on Tukudika land without knowing half the history. So many lies. If you want to feel like an impending geyser, prime yourself with this article.
The lands we call wilderness never were that, they were people's homes. I'd like to see Norris' name rubbed off the map.
#Native #Yellowstone #NPS #Nature #Indigenous
https://mountainjournal.org/norris-and-banishing-the-tukudika-shoshone-from-yellowstone

ajsadauskas, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to environment

Really important article here about how big oil companies, including ExxonMobil, knew plastic recycling was BS since the'70s, but kept pushing the lie anyway.

"New research by the Center for Climate Integrity reveals that the plastics industry knew this plastic waste crisis was coming. And so petrochemical manufacturers worked hard to persuade the public that we could recycle our way out of the problem."

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4513908-big-oils-big-deception-that-plastics-are-recyclable/

This is in addition to them knowing about the dangers of carbon emissions since the 1970s, and deliberately delaying action: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

(Worth noting the plastic used in the synthetic rubber in tyres is a major source of plastic pollution: https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/112009009421402914)

"Twenty petrochemical companies generate more than half of all the world’s single-use plastics. They include major oil and gas companies such as ExxonMobil, the world’s leading producer of single-use plastic waste.

...

"Behind the scenes, however, they were admitting all along that such efforts were “virtually hopeless.” For more than 40 years, they knew that plastic recycling is not technically or economically feasible at scale. More than 90 percent of all plastic has ended up in landfills, ecosystems, or incinerators.

...

"Since the 1970s, these companies, their trade associations, and their front groups promoted recycling “solutions” using misleading advertising, inaccurate educational materials, performative investments, and commitments that they knew they were unlikely to meet.

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"Internal documents reveal that the industry knew by 1986, for example, that “recycling cannot be considered a permanent solid waste solution [to plastics], as it merely prolongs the time until an item is disposed of.” In 1994, an Exxon employee warned staffers at the American Plastics Council that they did not “want paper floating around” saying they could not meet recycling goals, since the issue was “highly sensitive politically.” These compelling admissions and many more are grounds for a thorough investigation.

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"Plastics are a product made from fossil fuels. As the world moves away from fossil fuels in a race to avert climate catastrophe, journalists have shined a light on how oil companies promote recycling, in part because plastics are their 'Plan B.'"

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4513908-big-oils-big-deception-that-plastics-are-recyclable/

These days, the CEO of ExxonMobil likes to gaslight the public and blame activists:

"Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."

https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/112009009421402914

Well, these same companies knew about the problems with toxic fossil fuel pollution since the 1970s. That's both greenhouse gas and microplastic pollution.

And they deliberately and knowingly lied to delay action.

@green #environment #plastic #pollution #ClimateChange #waste #CarbonEmissions

Toastie, 2 months ago to random

OH GOODIE, it's the first of the month and my print edition is here. 🤓 📖 ☕

A magazine open to a two page spread. It's a set of infographics, illustrations of cars, trucks and pedestrians (one of whom is fleeing for their life), with a headline reading "highways of hazard".
Another page of the magazine. On the left is text surrounded by lots of white space and the headline "faces like mirrors." On the right is a portrait of a gray haired, multi-racial lesbian couple gently embracing.
Another page of the magazine, almost wall to wall text but with an illustration around the edges showing a seed sprouting and a wildflower stalk with a stack of purple buds. The headline says "Regeneration underground"

JimsPhotos, 2 months ago to wildlife

Colobus Monkey with an interesting expression on its face

#wildlife #monkey #zoo #colobus #nature

LeftistLawyer, 2 months ago to Economics

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GottaLaff, 2 months ago to random

Via a follower on Threads.

Sharing this again to get the word out…
Click the link below to send a message to the #SupremeCourt. It only takes a minute or two out of your day so make your voice heard. #SCOTUS

https://www.supremecourt.gov/contact/contact_pio.aspx

LeftistLawyer, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

It’s well known that over the past couple of decades, at least, women have been attending college in greater numbers than men. It’s also well known that they outperform men academically over the same time frame as well.

Many of these women are studying subjects that have been neglected by men since Galileo. And they’re making amazing discoveries.

Ladies and mysoginists, the new science will be dominated by women. New frontiers will be explored, and old frontiers will be tested by intellects alien to “man”kind.

I’m fucking here for it.

/end #science

Toastie, 6 months ago to random

Fliplanthropy