Dr. bird 🌻 | Inspiring Change

The genuinely solid idea of “perfection is the enemy of good” being perverted and used against anti-capitalists to argue that liberation for all and regenerating our ecosystems is “too idealistic,” is genuinely so fucking evil because of how fucking violent colonial capitalism is.

…treat the planet like an endless stock of resources to use however the fuck we feel like with zero consideration for how it impacts anything else in the area instead of like a delicate balance of living beings who’s ecological symbiosis we depend upon to survive”.

Dr. Emami’s team in so many professional words was literally like: “it’s the way we build and keep the buildings, it’s the way we feed each other, it’s the chemicals we spray on everything destroying our ecosystems, it’s the way we…

Furthermore, heavy metals could be emitted into the atmosphere from industrial processes and vehicular emissions. These airborne metals can then settle onto the lake surface or be washed into the lake through precipitation [51].

The urban runoff could also contain heavy metals from road runoff, atmospheric deposition from vehicle emissions, and waste from urban areas which can enter into the lake through stormwater drainage systems [51].

According to [50], 17.84% of the land in Lake Pontchartrain basin is covered with agricultural lands, while 7.77% is urban areas and the rest is wetland forests/scrubs or marshy lands.

Agricultural runoff which has heavy metal containing pesticides and fertilizers during rain events could transport these contaminants into the lake.

These industries could potentially contribute to the heavy metal pollution via processing equipment/machinery involved in manufacturing, contaminated ingredients, infrastructure maintenance, and fertilizers and pesticides in golf courses.

…along the Tickfaw River, industries comprise farms, bars, restaurants, vacation spots, golf courses, and smoke and spice companies.

…chemical manufacturing plants; along the Amite River, there are electrical equipment repair shops, spice manufacturing facilities, and pharmacies; and…

According to [5], there are between 1 and 25 industries within a five-mile radius, with the highest number located near the Amite River around Baton Rouge. Industries along the Blind River include restaurants, bars, parks offering boat rides, and…

It reveals the level at which we need to fundamentally change the way we think, build infrastructure, and live our entire lives. They reported that:

I need everyone to understand the gravity of what Dr. Emami and their team uncovered regarding the extremely high level of heavy metal contamination that they found in 2023 samples of the Louisiana lake they analyzed.

Trust me when I say I understand how and why you feel the way you do 🌻🐦‍⬛🌞if we don’t make the necessary changes we need, we will get what we worked for❤️‍🩹💙💛❤️‍🔥

We don’t if we choose to change.

Here’s just a tiny bit of where we’re at: link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

…significantly worsened, most of you ignore an ongoing pandemic as it causes full body cumulative damage, and environmental devastations escalate each year. We DO need to change or we WILL be wiped out as a species.

This is not the fucking 60s bro. This is 80 years after — the entirety of which governments have acted like businesses, our planet and our bodies have been contaminated with micro-/nano-plastics, heavy metals, and PFAs, our qualities of life (that were never good to begin with) have…

…deregulated global colonial capitalism matteroffactly never fucking existed before in history. When you downplay that shit it’s clear you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about and you detract from urgent need for fundamental changes.

I need folks who haven’t fuckin seen the climate science to actually just shut the whole entire fuck up about “how not dire our circumstances genuinely are” because you pretending like this time of 80+ years after incrementally privatized, corporatized, and…

Dr. bird Pitches an Op Ed ...to the Chronicle of Higher Education

I pitched an oped to The Chronicle of Higher Ed about a tenured professor who was fired as the principal investigator of a research team for reporting on extreme high levels of heavy metal industrial pollution inside a Louisiana lake.You can read it here either way: open.substack.com/pub/bbirdbph...

…thrivable, let alone liveable, incomes for every job, and I have research expertise to know the way we live disassociates us from our bodies, makes our relationships violent, and destroys our only planet. Please, get me out.

I’m facing potential surrendering my cat and living out of my fucking car next month because practically no jobs exist here, I have been straddled in millennial debt poverty my entire fucking life because this country normalized corporatized education, doesn’t provide us…

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Like “yeah ya fuckin fool, please do send me to another country. My quality of life would be significantly better”.

It ignores the way our governmental parents ruined other countries and frames basic human needs as luxuries / privileges. Fuck that.

Paid and unpaid u.s. propagandists use the language of abuse parents to spread their rhetoric. I literally just had a person threaten me on a YouTube video saying “we should send all the people like you to live in another country for a little while.”

I am tired of being told to calm and slow down by people who know nothing of our need for urgent changes or we won’t fucking survive.

And if the truth starves before you listen?

If it freezes, and you die, before it thaws again?

If We do not change, together, you will only have it left to drink when our waters run dry.

I’m officially on Mayhem Market drbird.mayhem.my

Yeah it’s truly horrific