Lyle Lewis

Where insanity has been normalized.

Humanity is doing better than ever — by strip-mining the future to fund the present.

It’s baked in by 10k years of monotheistic religions that came about as a result of agriculture.

Humans aren’t smart enough to know the difference between effective, silly, and dangerous.

Scientists seek to turbocharge a natural process that cools the Earth — The Washington Post Terradot, a carbon removal company, is using “enhanced rock weathering” to sequester carbon by spreading crushed volcanic rock over farmland.

Maybe crushed rock will pull carbon from the air. Maybe it’ll poison the soil, the lungs, or both. Desperation is being cloaked as “climate innovation.” Hubris and haste are starting to rhyme.
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Extinction isn’t a gamble. It’s a sure thing.

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win' Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

Green turtles—a small rebound after decades on the brink.
Wins are needles in a haystack—and we cheer crumbs like feasts. Our shifting baseline has made environmentalists beggars.
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A Beautifully Burned Forest This book challenges conventional wisdom by revealing the hidden beauty and ecological necessity of severely burned forests

"In this book, avian ecologist and former PBS Birdwatch host Richard Hutto challenges conventional wisdom by revealing the hidden beauty and ecological importance of severely burned forests." 🌏https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-03180-8

HIGH DESERT MUSEUM High Desert Museum Reels • May 9 • Have you seen a porcupine in the wild? The second-largest rodent in the United States, a po... Have you seen a porcupine in the wild? The second-largest rodent in the United State... See more Quill you help find my friends in the wild? WANTED ALIVE: PORCUPINES

“persecution of porcupines took place in the last century when they were clubbed to death, poisoned & trapped. Basically, it was a war on porcupines, because of this reputation they have as tree damagers..not popular with the timber industry, orchardists, or dog owners” www.opb.org/article/2024...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n...

A GOP bill would gut the Marine Mammal Protection Act—weakening safeguards for whales already on the brink.
We’re the kids in the marshmallow experiment: take the short-term gain, lose the future.
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inko @inkobell i didnt even know people were allowed to hunt them.... literally i can't fathom that at all The greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is North America's largest grouse, known for its elaborate mating displays and sagebrush habitat. Appearance: Thes... Colorado Parks and Wil..., +4 more Conservation status Near Threatened Population decreasing Encyclopedia of Life Mass 4.4 - 6.6 lbs (Male, Adult), 2.2 - 4.4 Ibs (Female, Adult) ATTENTION SAGE GROUSE HUNTERS DEPOSIT WINGS HERE na avada Division of Witatite in cor population. Sex and age a long term sude of he andera sage ord ATTENTIO SAGE GROUSE HUNTE DEPOSIT WINGS HE The Nevada De study of the state

sage grouse's population declines are mostly being caused by degradation of sagebrush habitat. there are more perches for raptors, fences, transmission lines, roads-but also energy & livestock industries have done everything in their power to keep them from being listed endangered

Ken is blind to anything that might interfere with worshipping his religion—consumerism.

Copious cherry-picking, too!

A species that creates myths has no problem dismissing facts.

The Grand Canyon could fit in the chasm between “need” and “will.”

I supervised endangered species biologists. They could have had an embedded day care facility. Our ability to lie to ourselves is without precedent.

Arctic seals and more than half of bird species are in trouble on latest list of threatened species Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction and more than half of bird species around the world are declining.

The IUCN calls the extinction crisis a mix of “hope and concern.” But hope thrives in the absence of honesty. Humanity would rather lie to itself about endless growth than face the limits of a finite planet.
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Public lands could fall into disarray as a result of the government shutdown, advocates say The impacts from the government shutdown could have longterm impacts on the way public lands are managed, according to experts.

Federal lands: degraded before, disarray-ier now.
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Give the wildlife in your garden a break

Downy woodpecker entangled in plastic artificial decorative Halloween spider webs.

What frightens me most about Halloween cobwebs isn’t how they look…..it’s that they catch the living.
Enjoy the season, but keep the plastic webs indoors; or skip them altogether.

There are nearly 8.2B people who trust that the world will go on as usual.

True. So is extinction. It doesn’t accept barter or credit.

Scientists resurrect 40,000-year-old organisms from Arctic ice – now they’re worried — BBC Wildlife Magazine Extracted from the walls of a permafrost tunnel, the revived life forms could help researchers understand more about Earth's changing climate. October 9, 2025 Resurrecting organisms trapped in Arctic ...

Arctic warming now stretches into spring and fall……the scientists’ tipping point from joy to worry. 🙄
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Making the ghastly palatable. We don’t die anymore……we pass.

Survival of snow leopard populations 'precarious,' researchers say. Here's why Survival of snow leopard populations could be "precarious" in the future due to the way the elusive mountain cats have evolved, scientists recently discovered.

Genetic diversity is nature’s insurance policy. Snow leopards have almost none left. As the planet changes, evolution has no time to bail them out. Extinction isn’t a question of if, but when.

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Grok has been realigned with Elon’s thinking over the last 3-4 months. It’s spewing nonsense.

I do. All we have ever had is the present. If I can help a bird, a bee, or a native plant exist in a little better place for a little longer…..it’s worth it. Our lives are a cryptic gift from the universe.

In the end, it always circles back to money. His livelihood is premised on the growth of renewables. He’s blinded by $$$.

No one’s asking for zero impact. I’m asking that “green” projects stop repeating the same extractive logic under a new label. Minimizing harm means measuring it honestly, not redefining it as progress.

A model trained on a worldview that can’t yet imagine limits.

That’s not just AI—it’s humanity. We keep coding our own delusion of endless growth into every system we build.