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The Sahara desert is slowly being reforested using a crescent swale technique to retain water and generate small oases of
#biodiversity
that will expand into whole ecosystems.
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I was born and raised in Jasper, Alberta. My family helped build that town. 1/4th of the town cemetery are my relatives.
Now gone.
The heartbreak and rage I’m feeling right now cannot be described.
This planet is on fire and so many people fight to continue on this path.
This place was a jewel of North America. Massive loss for the world, tbh.
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“new study finds that the world's biggest industries burn through $7.3 trillion worth of free natural capital a year. And it's the only reason they turn a profit.”
These industrial-capitalist systems are NOT going to fundamentally change. They can’t.
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Our bioregion is quite literally burning to the ground with record low precipitation & high heat. Smoke fills the air & our lungs daily.
I’ve lived here for over 40 years and have never seen anything like this. Never.
Planetary heating is a catastrophe.
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“Although no contemporary written records remain to tell us how the ruling elites responded, the archaeological evidence suggests that they persisted in their traditional ways until disintegration became unavoidable.”
#backloop
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There is a “significant likelihood” that multiple “tipping points” will be crossed when global temperatures exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, new research published in the journal Science suggests.
There are no non-radical responses available.
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@dlondonwortel
Those kinds of graphics are so powerful for conveying relative impact. What an amazing find.
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Co-designing new communities, landscapes, and worlds from within the rotting husk of an imperialist and global capitalist system is no easy task.
There are myriad of deep dependencies and bureaucratic firewalls that block us at every turn.
People everywhere are doing it anyway.
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“When we disrupt the ancient life support systems in the soil, we sabotage our efforts to limit global heating and undermine the health and resilience of the ecosystems on which we depend.”
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“Scientists suspect that this is the third vessel this subpopulation of killer whales has capsized since May 2020, when a female orca believed to be the originator of this behaviour suffered a traumatic encounter with a boat.”
Sentient beings self-defend.
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“‘I don’t know how to put it into words how bad it is,’ said farmer Gary Millershaski in southwest Kansas, among the areas hit hardest by drought. He expects to abandon 85 percent of his wheat acres.”
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“Riots are a work of vast and incomprehensible mourning.”
—Sean Bonney
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An Indigenous elder and scholar once gave me a great piece of advice when critiquing and speaking out on the state of things: “be tough on systems, soft on people.”
I now hold that as maxim.
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What if governments offered massive subsidies for small to mid-range agroecological farms that balanced food production with land conservation, at the same rate as they do fossil fuels?
Could this spark a revolutionary return to rural life for millions of young people?
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Reruralization as integrated agriculture-conservation land use, with distributed networks of cosmolocal villages and collaborative bioregional governance.
Humans as keystone species & stewards in restored landscapes with diverse cultures of regenerative living.
Who’s with us?
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#Insects
are one of the most undervalued beings on the planet, even though they maintain the foundational biological systems for all terrestrial ecosystems.
Their ongoing sharp decline around the world must be a core focus at the heart of out work to increase
#biodiversity
.
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I don’t think industrial civilization can be redeemed or “saved.” We are already in massive overshoot and collapse.
The path forward is to compost it to fertilize the soil from which to grow radical alternatives.
Adaptation, cooperation and salvage are crucial.
#backloop
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I just heard a very cool term for the first time: “mutually assured preservation.” That’s what communities based on reciprocity, trust, shared habits, and local economies are. They are living systems of resilient capacity. Let’s build more of those!
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"Species are being lost today faster than in any of the previous 5 mass extinctions that have struck the planet."
If biodiversity doesn’t end soon ‘total war’ will only be the first act in a long tragedy.
Restoration Agroecology & conviviality NOW.
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Hard to overestimate how influential this book has been for me. Deep dive into complex adaptive systems, adaptive cycles, multi-scale dynamics, and nested systems. Contributors bridge important work from ecological sciences and sociology. Rigorous, accessible, & so very relevant.
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If you sincerely refer to living human beings as NPCs you are a fascist, an enemy of to your own species, and basically a complete shitbag person. Dehumanization is not some cool trend of thought by Caucasian as fuck grad students, it’s the capitalist erasure of ethics.
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Looking forward to this new book by
@NaomiMillner
&
@PBresnihan
coming out this summer!
👉🏻
They trace a counter-history of modern environmentalism from the 1960s to the present, focusing on feminist, anti-colonial, Indigenous, and agrarian movements.
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When I was born there were 331 parts per million (ppm) of carbon in the atmosphere. Today there is 426 ppm.
So basically the transition from safe operating space to unsafe operating space occurred within my lifetime.
This fact haunts me every damn day.
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Many well-meaning people often don’t understand that given where things are with geopolitics, ecological breakdown, and sunk coasts economics there are NO non-radical solutions to these crises left. Expect a rapid emergency turn towards heavy-handed government. Expect chaos.
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“It's not about fear-mongering or inviting in doom and gloom. It's not about hunkering down for the apocalypse. It is simply about being clear-sighted about the future. And taking steps to make sure we are resilient in the face of whatever may come.”
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“Bioregionalism is an approach illustrating a possible future wherein our models of economic and social governance are more localised, democratic and self-sustaining.”
A primer on
#bioregionalism
👇🏼
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This account endorses art and provocation within an economy of ethics.
Provocation.
Art.
Transgression as survival tactic in the area of a dying civilization.
Art and everyday conversations as insurrection.
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More of this please. Swarm actions for dismantling the infrastructures of degeneration. Make capitalist ecocide untenable.
Yesterday 200 people invaded and disabled the Lafarge cement plant of La Malle in Bouc-Bel-Air in the Bouches-du-Rhône.
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“Capitalism always rested upon twin pillars: the theft of common property & the exploitation of wage labor. The dispossessed English peasants… are the forbears of the campesinos of Chiapas, the pastoral Maasai people of Tanzania…”
#extinctionmachine
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@AndyJBoyce
👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼
Great point, Andy! Deserts are not something to be fixed. But desertification due on part to capitalogenic changes to climate are hopefully something people can halt and reverse.
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“When people try to grow crops using human knowledge they will never be anything more than farmers. If they can look at things with an empty mind as a child does, then, through the crops and their own labor, they will be able to gaze into the entire universe.”
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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The options now aren’t ‘growth’ vs. ‘degrowth’, but what kind of
#degrowth
people want.
Forced degrowth via social and ecological collapse, or planned degrowth based on inclusive cooperation for a better quality of life?
Either way “transformative change” is the future.
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The singularity is canceled. Posthumanism postpones. This is the present and the future. Will you rebel now?
@ExtinctionR
#CaliforniaWildfires
#hashtagextinction
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"Saito warns against the illusion that humans can escape the limits of our condition through a technological fix that somehow accommodates both ‘sustainability’ and ‘development.’”
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“A food forest, or edible forest garden, is an ancient food production system that goes back thousands of years, especially in the tropics. Yet there’s still much to learn today, especially in cold climates.”
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Friendly reminder: Merleau-Ponty taught us that sense-making is only ever anchored in our bodies. And our bodies are deeply entangled in the natural world. Meaning is, therefore, and ecologically generated activity. So go outside. Touch grass. Get out of your head.
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"Ever bigger machines, entailing ever bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom."
—E.F. Schumacher
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Feeling the need to only grow staples and medicinals in the garden this year. Potatoes, asparagus, kale, squash and beans. Anyone else being pulled towards staple-maximalism?
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What if I told you another lifestyle is possible? One where you get to be outside most of the day, working and learning, and being with people who also value just being alive and healthy?
Would you take immediate steps to be part of something like that?
#MakeKin
#Regenerate
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Altruism? Cross-species empathy? Non-human animals are much more capable and more sensitive than is often assumed.
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I can’t even articulate how much I support this group and tactic.
Speak truth directly to power in public.
Disrupt mainstream politics. Make business as usual untenable. Refuse to go quietly into extinction.
BREAKING: we just shut down Greg Gianforte, the coal-loving, climate-denying Governor of Montana.
We invoked his four children by name: David, Richard, Rachel, and Adam.
This is who he incinerates.
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Love opening up my feed on a Sunday and seeing my mutuals talking and sharing stories about water and watersheds.
If more people rallied around watershed governance and the essential role that water has always played in human activities things would be very different.
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"The subject of agriculture lies within a power-relations struggle that has not been sufficiently addressed by political ecology and environmental thinking" —
@ofgiraldop
#agroecology
Open access:
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It’s not “humanity” in general (in abstraction), but specific people in specific places that are consuming the biosphere to extinction.
The super-rich 1% are responsible for the same carbon pollution as the poorest two thirds of humanity - 5 billion people.
New figures from
@Oxfam
#MakeRichPollutersPay
#COP28
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The heart of neoliberalism is the denial of reality: of ecological systems, constituent relations, and of ethical imaginaries.
It ignores the unimaginable complexity of living systems and reduces all human activity to the function of extracting and abstract exchange.
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Just spitballing here, but what if the idea of a self-sustaining homestead, as unit, is just as maladaptive as the western Protestant-capitalist notion of self-sufficient individualism?
What if the proper unit of organizing sufficiency is always the group, and the community?
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I submit that
@GreatDismal
’s THE PERIPHERAL (2014) might be the most probable near-term collapse scenario. The Jackpot will cull our herd and then the elite survivors will focus on high tech decarbonization projects for subsequent 50-60 years.
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I love this. Let’s make this a thing in every town and city everywhere. No more golf without serious carbon reduction legislation.
No more anything business as usual until normie complicity is completely disrupted.
“We’re all in this together” right?
Climate activists targeted several golf courses around Spain, plugging up holes to protest the amount of water used to maintain these courses as the country is gripped by a severe drought
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Are we ready for p/ACC (permaculture accelerationism) yet? Let me know when that meme is ready to launch — I have ideas. Some of them might not even be stupid.
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Send protection spells and good luck our way friends. Our home and everything we have been working towards are now threatened by these wildfires. 😔
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They will definitely attempt to block the sun before there will be any attempt to scale back extractvism and capitalist domination.
Shady politics indeed.
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This one illustration speaks a whole bookmobile full of insight about our current “predicament.”
#InfernoEconomics
We need more exits towards the paradigm periphery. Discuss.
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The planet’s indigenous folks, leading scientists & international policy experts are ALL telling us the human species is heading straight for ecological disaster and civilizational collapse, & people everywhere are STILL not revolting nor rioting in the streets. Not a good look.
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A new study shows that cutting down trees for paper, furniture, and fuel emits three times more carbon than flying.
Industrial forestry is not and never will be “sustainable.”
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Ecological regeneration in the global North requires a resurgence of place-based culture. People and lifeways woven into landscapes via rich and meaningful communal processes.
We won't be able to regenerate landscapes until we regenerate the cultures that can steward those landscapes
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I suspect we will start to see reoccurring famines in many places in less than 10 Years — given freshwater declines and drought.
NASA reports an expected 30% drop in crop yields by 2050 + 50% increase in food demand in that same time.
You do the math.
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In her 1990 publication, Elinor Ostrom, Nobel laureate, argues that land and other resources can be managed efficiently and sustainably as common goods—refuting Garrett Hardin’s thesis in his 1968 essay, “The Tragedy of the Commons.”
#commoning
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In 1971 Noam Chomsky shared this vision of governance:
“A federated decentralized system of free association…seems to be the appropriate form of social organization… in which the creative urge intrinsic to human nature will be able to express itself.”
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Old-growth logging has forced the species into near extinction while people continue to debate policy and relentlessly accumulate capital.
Most people in the Global North are quite literally standing by while the biosphere is consumed to annihilation.
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Hey friends, just a reminder: it’s not too late to start a garden, or help someone with theirs.
Growing your own food is super fun, you’ll meet good people, and it will help you learn more about how ecosystems work.
Just start small and slow and see how it goes!
#GrowFood
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Something I need to get better at ASAP: being in spaces and conversations with people who have I very little in common with (values, ideologies, lifestyles, aspirations).
Because the only way out of this insane culture is through the dance of otherness.
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A recent international study of MOSS from soil from more than 123 ecosystems has shown that topsoil mosses improve nutrient cycling, decomposition of organic matter and even control of pathogens harmful to other plants and people.
Love your moss, folks.
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If I could make a living creating highest quality compost for the locals and run a plant/tree nursery for hardy perennials I would quit my job and do it. Instantly. Without hesitation.
I would rather labour outside regenerating soils and growing things that almost anything else.
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This gorgeous creature is Osmia Calaminthae, an extremely rare, tiny, metallic blue 4mm bee that scientists thought was extinct and rediscovered in Florida in March 2023.
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”History is going to look at us and be baffled. They just lived through the hottest days in 100,000 years…and nobody cared? Nobody was interested? Outside of a handful of scientists and activists and a handful of well meaning people?” —
@umairh
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“The best way to describe your work in a capitalist enterprise is not that the employer gives YOU a job; it’s that you give your employer THE SURPLUS!”
Gonna just leave this thread right here:
We’re going to be honest:
Too many Leftists lack an understanding for what Capitalism is, not as an abstract socioeconomic system, but as a MODE OF PRODUCTION.
Move past LABELS and watch
@profwolff
break down Capitalism as a MODE OF PRODUCTION using simple arithmetic.
(1/6)
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I would like to introduce all to my new favourite podcast:
@futureecologies
.
Production is great. The themes explored are deeply relevant & approached with sobering insight and refreshing optimism.
I highly recommend letting Adam & Mendel guide you into adjacent possibilities.
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Private property is a historical and cultural belief system / psychological schema enforced by people with guns —- an “institutional reality.” It’s NOT a natural phenomena or absolute right.
The planet is a commons.
If you you think otherwise you might be stuck in the matrix.
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Here’s a disturbing thought:
what if Religion and righteous zealotry is the only vehicle for genuine transformative change re: this planetary ecological crisis?
jihads, crusades, satyagrahas for watersheds and ecosystems?
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“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.”
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Hey everyone. Look at this adorable wombat. Let’s do better with/in the biosphere. Alright?
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I envision withdrawing from all social media within the next year.
There’s nothing left to say or debate on these platforms anymore.
ALL efforts need to be place-based.
We are either working together locally & regionally IRL on the daily for transformative change or we’re not.
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The notion of *bioregionalization* needs to be on the lips, thoughts, and agendas of every degrowther, just transitioner, and community organizer interested in reconciling ecology with the need for social change.
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From the macro to the micro there are patterns and structures that repeat. This suggests something significant about the enabling conditions and relational tendency of the cosmos imo. What do you think?
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The Blackfeet Nation recently released 30 bison (iinnii in the Blackfoot language) to tribal lands near Chief Mountain, an area steeped in Blackfeet cultural significance in the northwest corner of the reservation bordering Glacier National Park. [1/2]
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I said this 30 years ago and I’ll say it again: every human adult needs to get into a fist fight at least once in their life to even know what they are. Post your wrong objections to this thesis below. 😀
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This picture of Edmonton, Alberta was taken in 2018 during a summer of wildfires. My daughter woke in the middle of the night sobbing, unable to breath.
That shook our family and became the last straw, radicalizing me to the my core.
Hoping it does the same for New Yorkers.
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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
— Ursula Le Guin
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Today in COLONIALISM is ONGOING:
This was our river, the Widzun Kwa, after the bentonite clay spill from CGL.
They told us about it more than a week afterwards. We drink from this river. Our children and elders drink from this river.
They watch us 24hrs a day but can't let us know this when it happens?
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The older I get the less I feel the need to defend my own perspectives. The only things I feel the need to fiercely defend are people, lands, water, and animals. Ideologies are fabrications; ecosystems are collaborations.
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Super fatigued by all the words today. So many pundits and people expressing the same old things.
Imagine if all the people diagnosing and podcasting and writing actually spent that time/energy collaborating IRL and changing real systems?
How many more commentaries do we need?
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A trend I notice: every time I post something with the term ‘decolonial’ I lose a handful of homesteading followers.
Are people that deep in denial (and deflective of guilt?) that they run from any hints of “woke”?
I’m glad to shed the detritus, but come on Trads… get hip. 🤣
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I’m developing a strange obsession with identifying very unconventional places people might grown food — in urban centres (walkways, random patches of grass, nooks) and rural public spaces. I think I like that.
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As fertilizer prices rise and food prices increase what is y’all’s strategy for feeding your families, and dealing with the desperation of those who cannot?
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MY TOP 12 POLICY SUGGESTIONS for transitioning to a saner world 🧵:
1. Phase out fossil fuel subsidies.
2 Phase out industrial agriculture subsidies, while increasing incentives for genuinely ecological farming.
3. Comprehensive and inclusive watershed governance law.
[1/6]
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CRYPTO is an ecological disaster.
"Once-dead coal-fired plants are roaring back to life and spewing hazardous emissions, overheating trout from waste heat...noise pollution, power shortages"
CO2e emissions per 1 BTC rose 126 x in 5 yrs.
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Nature is not beautiful, it is sublime; both devastatingly dark and menacing, as well as wondrously generative and affording. To overcode that spectrum with human values and expectations is the apex of toxic anthrocentrism.
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I have yet to encounter another human practice that multisolves and benefits people and biodiversity as much as syntropic Agroforestry.
Does anyone know of a better way to regenerate ecosystems while also providing local food, fibre and fuel?
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$200,000 grants for small farm diversification & ecological practice transitioning for anyone with 10 or more acres. Paid for by 1% tax increase for anyone making more than $500,000. Ya?
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What I’m currently interested in and focused on:
• ecosystems and habitat restoration
• community-based water stewardship
• agroecology and local food systems
• adaptive ecological governance
• convivial biodiversity conservation
Let’s talk about it!
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