SkilletJames

Climate people, did the fossil fuel industry seed and propagate the idea that renewables (specifically batteries) require materials, which require mining, which is bad (so implicitly we should just run on fossil fuels forever)? It's just striking to me how devoutly people repeat it unexamined....

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

The oceans are dying, just as happened in The Great Dying 250 million years ago

Only today it's happening much, much, faster

And do the world's governments and fossil fuel giants care?

Do they hell

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Drought in Michigan

Barack, save us from this madness. I want to grow old on my food forest nut farm🌰
Republicans want to play with fire and burn down the house and forests.

Makes me think of who or how many can afford legal representation and how the people with a lot of money are far more likely to win a civil case. The court serves people with at least an extra 10-20k to pay in legal fees. Of course that scales up in ways like this… those with more power win.

End of what?

Capitalism is like the term termites would use to describe how they exhaust all available resources before eating the young and old before dying out if they had language. I’ve learned to just view it as catalysts and physics along natural biological processes. No free will, just animals consuming…

People are afraid to bring new life into this depraved, cruel, war-torn, climate-endangered world, pretty obvious if you read the news each day

Iconic anti-war poster, originally by US printmaker Lorraine Schneider, 1966 #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

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Climate Change, Overshoot and the Demise of Large Cities Why large cities will need to contract or be abandoned altogether

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“Over thousands of years humanity genetically selected itself for stupidity and obedience by exterminating its critics. It is remarkable that despite this un-natural selection, people who question the system still exist”
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So what’s the population density of Japan? I tried doing some math ( not my strong suit).maybe 338 people per 396 acres? Or 338 people per sq kilometer? In no way can I see how that works out well for wildlife.

‘We don’t want contact because you are bad’: loggers close in on uncontacted people in Peruvian Amazon Logging, drug trafficking and the climate crisis endanger the world’s largest isolated Indigenous group, on the border with Brazil

‘We don’t want contact because you are bad’: loggers close in on uncontacted people in Peruvian Amazon

Air quality sucks today. And we’re about to make it so much worse!! Happy 4th of July 🎉

Fire works suck. And the air quality today already comes with a warning. Humans are so dumb in some ways.

I think any study that is based on a premise that agriculture is sustainable in the 50 year term, might get a nasty surprise soon.

Im saying I don’t see how agriculture can last much longer with biophysical limits. without industrial agriculture. If a number of people and animals, plants etc survive the goal would be biodiversity that could contribute to a functioning ecosystem. my baseline is no agriculture. No economic engine

I’d like to see the study and read it. From what I can tell it said that animals have the most impact. I won’t argue against that. It makes sense too, similar to bugs decomposing wood they create a lot of methane. We are imagining different worlds. Study talks about meeting targets…

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today ~ this:

www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...

How America’s prairie was nearly destroyed — and why it should be restored » Yale Climate Connections A new book traces the environmental collapse of a crucial ecosystem and how its return could fight climate change.

This article talks about how tilling the prairie ecosystem for agriculture in the USA is like adding 11 million cars to the road every year. Talks about bringing back the prairie and bison. I think there were 60 million bison before Europeans arrived?

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/07/how-...

My pigs can live on my pasture alone. They don’t need grain imported. I also don’t have enough to where they over graze. And with the carbon negative nuts they have very low emissions if any at all. Most studies are on industrial animal farming. I Dunno the answer for small scale high diversity.

Metastatic Modernity Launch | Do the Math I am excited to announce a new effort that will attempt to provide a crucial set of perspectives on modernity. It is to be a series of video shorts (5–10 minutes is my target) called Metastatic Modernity.

It’s false because it’s dependent on an omnicidal modernist civilization. Maybe you’d like to read some from Tom Murphy? Have you read overshoot by William Catton? Or the limits to growth?

dothemath.ucsd.edu/2024/07/meta...

I’m referring to a world where we stop annihilation of all life on earth through the use of fossil fuels. Yes the haber- Basch process. If we don’t use fossil fuels to feed humans. How will the crops get fertilized? Is it possible that in some circumstances working with animals could be lessdamaging

Oh apologies. I didn’t realize that.

Cardiovascular Disease Resulting From a Diet and Lifestyle at Odds With Our Paleolithic Genome: How to Become a 21st-Century Hunter-Gatherer Our genetic make-up, shaped through millions of years of evolution, determines our nutritional and activity needs. Although the human genome has remained primarily unchanged since the agricultural rev...

The shift from hunter gatherer diet to agriculture resulted in weaker health, increased child mortality etc.

www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S002...

You can deny my personal experience of how I felt, eating while working and living on organic farms around the world. We had about the best whole food availability in the world. Extreme privilege of food choices.

Our world in data makes a lot of assumptions in its data. It cherry picks information with the assumption we will keep a globalized, modernist economic system in perpetuity which is an unscientific and biased perception which denies we have exceeded the earths carrying capacity and created 6th massE