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Restoration Ecologist. Expert in Sustainability and Circular Economy. Working to Clean up our plastic pollution mess.
One 20 lber yesterday. Blanked today
05.04.2025 04:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Just halibut fishing today. Got boarded by the coast guard and got our IDs run by ICE.
05.04.2025 04:07 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Remember the Bush years when Americans used to sew a Canadian Flag patch on our backpacks when travelling overseas?
30.03.2025 17:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It could be that Waltz's Signal account was hacked by the Russians and Jeffery Goldberg's number inserted. For certain, the Russians have known all along that the dipshits in Trump's cabinet are using Signal.
27.03.2025 21:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Maybe running the Department of Defense is more complicated than throwing stink bombs from a Fox News Desk. Who knew?
27.03.2025 21:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As Musk systematically attacks the resiliencey of the U.S. Government, Trump presses the bruise and crushes the economy.
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This article doesn't make any surprise arguments against DOGE. But it does clearly lay out the massive, widespread, irreparable damage being done to the country by indiscriminate cuts.
The Download: dismantling US science leadership, and reproductive care cuts
flip.it/FlWgD_
He's not finding waste, fraud, and abuse. He's arbitrarily defining it on the fly, to justify dismantling the administrative state.
18.02.2025 23:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I support the Society for Conservation Biology's statement on the importance of scientific integrity.
conbio-northamericansection.informz.net/informzdatas...
Trump inherited less than 4% unemployment. Most economists would argue that is full employment and that most people are cycling within that. What happens when millions of government workers get dumped into a private sector that has no capacity to hire them?
18.02.2025 02:45 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The World Economic Forum has compiled a list of global risks ranked by severity. It's worth a read.
www.weforum.org/publications...
Two new studies suggest Paris climate goal is dead. One scientist is going even further
flip.it/Mx__Md
Great lakes regions of the world need to start planning for how to absorb 8 billion climate refugees.
How NAZI do things have to get before we're permitted to call it what it is?
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During times like these, it is important to remember that working for the government, in any capacity, IS SERVICE TO THE COUNTRY.
09.02.2025 21:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0All I'm saying is...
09.02.2025 20:11 β π 8339 π 2279 π¬ 116 π 49This is straight up brown shirt naziism.
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I'm not an economist. But, I thought this was an interesting analysis. I looked at some general economic indicators and the political party in control with some major events in the background.
I'm not an economist. But, I thought this was an interesting analysis. I looked at some general economic indicators and the political party in power with some major events as backdrops.
24.01.2025 19:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The World Economic Forum just released their report on Global Risks. It offers important insights into the mechanistic linkages between the identified risks and the policies that produced them, or are intended to mitigate them. It's worth reading.
www.weforum.org/publications...
Nascent days.
22.01.2025 02:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I studied the ecology of disturbances in grad school. After a disturbance, systems are reset and they become highly productive. The American ecosystem is in the ascent days of a resetting disturbance. There will better days.
21.01.2025 15:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Insurance is simply the wrong financial instrument for health care. It works for other kinds of things because they are stochastic and insurance invests and determines rates based on actuarial probabilities. Health care is NOT stochastic for most things.
10.01.2025 20:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Addressing the climate polycrisis requires that we do more than meet 2050 regulatory minima for zero carbon. We have to claw back the exceedances across all 9 Planetary Boundaries. Promoting Biodiversity is critically important to Biosphere Integrity.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...