fgusmao

@fgusmao@mastodon.social

Environmental Scientist & Philosopher
Metalhead & Father
Professor of Conservation at UNIFESP
Suspended from Twitter for defending Animal Rights
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fgusmao, to NewZealand

In Move to Protect Whales, Polynesian Indigenous Groups Give Them ‘Personhood’ - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/world/australia/whale-personhood-polynesia-maori.html

"#Indigenous leaders of #NewZealand, Tahiti and the Cook Islands signed a historic treaty that recognizes #whales as legal persons in a move conservationists believe will apply pressure to national governments to offer greater protections for the large mammals"

#ethics #Philosophy #Conservation #EnvironmentalEthics #EcoEthics #whale

fgusmao, to random

"The tree on the mountain height is its own enemy... The cinnamon tree is edible: so it is cut down! The lacquer tree is profitable: they maim it. Every man knows how useful it is to be useful. No one seems to know how useful it is to be useless."

fgusmao, to philosophy

Oh, the HORROR!

https://dailynous.com/2024/01/25/philosophy-journal-horror-stories/

@philosophy

fgusmao, to philosophy

Happy New Year, and so on...

Source: https://youtu.be/1BiHOLmc-yw

fgusmao, to random
fgusmao, to Cat

Leia wishes you a Meowrry Christmas!
😻🎅

fgusmao, to Switzerland

"#Switzerland signed the #BernConvention... in 1979... that list the #gray #wolf as a strictly protected species, meaning it should not be “disturbed, captured, or killed.” #EU countries...aren’t able to kill wolves except in exceptional cases, but Switzerland exploited flexibility in the Bern Convention’s Article 9 ...(allowing) cantonal hunting offices to shoot “problem wolves” that cause considerable #damage to #livestock with the consent of the federal government"

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/switzerland-grapples-return-gray-wolves

fgusmao, to random

Austerity Is an Strategy to Boost

https://catalyst-journal.com/2023/11/capital-order-clara-mattei-book-review

> policies have their roots in efforts by economic elites to crush -class power after WWI and redistribute upward. To reverse austerity, over is essential.

CLARA E. MATTEI
The Order: How Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to
University of Chicago Press, 2022

fgusmao, to random
fgusmao, to science

Falling behind: in their thirties tire of putting life on hold

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03296-9

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03296-9

> Temporary contracts, low salaries and cost-of-living hikes force many researchers to put off and other big decisions

fgusmao, to philosophy

#Necro-Waste and #Hauntology: Ghosts, Specters, and the Infinitive #Responsibility of the #Past, Mark D. West - #SocialEpistemology Review and Reply Collective

"We live in a world marked by the dead...
The #dead don’t walk among us, for there is no need for that.
We walk to them, bearing gifts of flowers.
We are haunted, haunting ourselves with our imaginations and our memories"

Source:
Mark D. West (2023) SERRC 12 (10): 65–75
https://social-epistemology.com/2023/10/31/necro-waste-and-hauntology-ghosts-specters-and-the-infinitve-responsibility-of-the-past-mark-d-west/

#philosophy
@philosophy

fgusmao, to random

It is not wrong

source: @epidemiologistkat

fgusmao, to worldwithoutus

kills over 1,300 baby elephant seals in Argentina

"The Chubut Department of Flora and Fauna in Southern Argentina confirmed they have registered more than 1,300 bird flu-caused deaths of baby elephant seals on the province’s shores, the largest number of deaths since they started keeping records.

The Valdés Peninsula is home to the largest elephant seal colonies in "

https://buenosairesherald.com/society/bird-flu-kills-over-1300-baby-elephant-seals-in-chubut

fgusmao, to australia

Map showing the Results by Polling Place, with red indicating more "No" votes, and blue indicating more "Yes" votes. Point size indicates % population.

An amazing contribution of Jesse Reilly to understand the results of the Referendum.

Access to the interactive map:
https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/tigerstyle/clnsqdgbh00w701ps3mc3eq6a.html?title=false&access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoidGlnZXJzdHlsZSIsImEiOiJjam55bW81cG4wdTJpM3ZvMHN2bDFuc3UzIn0.BhggU09IZiMD_Eo9gghc1A&zoomwheel=true#4.03/-24.29/131.49

Original source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/voice-referendum-results-polling-place-jesse-reilly-r18rc

fgusmao, to philosophy

"While 's outrageous acts of should be condemned unconditionally, one must not confuse what is really at issue in the . The choice is not one hardline faction or the other; it is between the fundamentalists on both sides and all those who still believe in the possibility of peaceful co-existence."
Source: SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

https://web.archive.org/web/20231013160206/https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/israel-palestine-hamas-and-hardliners-against-peace-by-slavoj-zizek-2023-10

fgusmao, to sustainability

What is the role of large in an ? 🐺🐻

Find out with this infographic!

Source:

fgusmao, (edited ) to philosophy

Brazilian style Environmental Philosophy:

ECOLOGY without class struggle is GARDENING

"Ecologia sem luta de classes é jardinagem"

> A quote from Chico Mendes, an Amazonian environmental activist and trade unionist, cowardly murdered in 1988.

https://jacobin.com.br/2020/12/ecologia-sem-luta-de-classes-e-jardinagem/

#Conservation #EnvironmentalEthics #philosophy #Ecology #Environment #Amazon #classstruggle #Brazil #Brasil #Amazonia

fgusmao, to sustainability

We are destroying ...

All-a-glow: characteristics confirm widespread for mammals

"We found that is widespread in mammalian taxa; we identified examples of the phenomena among 125 species representing all 27 living mammalian orders and 79 families"

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230325

Glowing Mammals Spectra Source: All-a-glow: spectral characteristics confirm widespread fluorescence for mammals https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230325

fgusmao, to california

"Three California Tribal Nations Declare First Stewardship Area
>It’s an unprecedented day for Indigenous and -led as three federally-recognized Tribal Nations announce the Yurok-Tolowa-Dee-ni' Indigenous Area – the first-ever ocean protection area designated by Tribal governments in the US"

https://nativenewsonline.net/environment/three-california-tribal-nations-declare-first-u-s-indigenous-marine-stewardship-area

fgusmao, to australia

abandons efforts to eradicate deadly after 15 months

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-20/varroa-mite-eradication-efforts-abandoned-australia/102876418

>Resources will be reallocated to slowing the spread of the
>Non-compliance from and illegal movement was a major factor in the failed eradication effort
> and groups made the unanimous decision to move to a approach

fgusmao, to Futurology

is threatening the of the world’s oceans

>"None of the 17 () is on track to be achieved by 2030... But progress on a few, including the 14th goal — to conserve and use the — has actually been going backwards since the 2015 UN summit..."

@philosophy
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02746-8

fgusmao, to anime_titties

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/31/population-collapse-almost-wiped-out-human-ancestors-say-scientists
>"Early ancestors came close to eradication in a severe evolutionary bottleneck between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago, according to scientists. "A genomics analysis of more than 3,000 living people suggested that our ancestors’ total plummeted to about 1,280 breeding individuals for about 117,000 years. Scientists believe that an extreme event could have led to the bottleneck that came close to wiping out our ancestral line."

fgusmao, to Amazon

"We are killing this ": the scientists tracking the Amazon's fading health https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-02599-1/index.html
>"Since 2010, Gatti has collected air samples over the in planes such as this one, to monitor how much the absorbs. In 2021, she reported data from 590 flights that showed that the Amazon forest’s uptake — its sink — is weak over most of its area1. In the southeastern Amazon, the forest has become a source of CO2."

fgusmao, (edited ) to climate

"Given the unfortunate continued from The Good Food Institute and other private PR armies of the conglomerates, it's important to keep in mind that none this has anything to do with , , or the , and everything, instead, to do with the complete conversion of into - or, basically, as " (LinkedIn) https://sethitzkan.medium.com/opinion-software-to-swallow-impossible-foods-should-be-called-impossible-patents-71805ecec9de
@philosophy

fgusmao, to Ethics

UPDATE – Money tight as world launches global

https://carbon-pulse.com/218362/

"Only two countries provided funds at the announcement"

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