I'm reading your book. I'm curious what think of ecological overshoot (described very well by William E. Rees). You mention climate change in the book, but (so far anyway) not ecological overshoot, of which climate change is just one of many symptoms. Thank you.
Another recent watercolor, of a good view from near where I live. #DrawingAugust
Watercolor of trees I saw on a walk in the woods for #DrawingAugust.
Looking through the drawings/paintings for the hashtag, most people draw nature. We think nature is beautiful; we love nature; and we are destroying nature. Funny, that.
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Quote from Development in Progress by The Consilience Project.
"Without a change in our approach, in the presence of increasingly powerful technologies, the scale of the impact of their externalities will be similarly exponential. It should be obvious that this trajectory cannot be maintained on a finite planet."
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"[I]n our current approach to tech development, the harms are the norm rather than the exception—and they are lasting, cumulative, and at scale with economic growth. In its current shape, our world system depends on exponential growth."
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I'm a "protect as much nature as I can while I'm around" doomer.
This article says Medium Chain Chlorinated Paraffins are harmful to human health. That means it's likely they are harmful to all wildlife. It sickens me every day the disregard we have for life on the only planet in the entire universe we know has life, the exploitation of innocents. 💔💔💔
There are so many ways we've poisoned the entire planet, and we find new ways we're doing it all the time. Even if we were able to "solve" climate change, reverse wildlife loss, repair habitats, tear down the dams and free the rivers, the poisons will last for eons.
And we are rapidly destroying ecosystems around the world. Soon we will discover that we cannot eat or drink cars, batteries, steel. By then it will be far, far too late. 🤷☠️☠️☠️☠️
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Nickel mining in Indonesia is destroying forests and marine ecosystems. Nickel is used in batteries and steel, among other things.
There is absolutely nothing "green" about EVs, nothing "critical" about "critical minerals". What is critical is flourishing, intact ecosystems. >>
EVs are not a solution, of any kind. They are simply another way to perpetuate this ecocidal way of life using electricity (fossil fuels once removed) instead of fossil fuels directly... plus all the materials, roads, plastic, wildlife death from cars and trucks, and pollution that ALL cars produce.
How long is going to take before people stop believing EVs are "green"? How much more biodiversity do we have to lose, how much more forests, how much more pollution will be spewed into the environment, how many more wildlife will be killed, and habitat lost?
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“This is potentially a win-win outcome" Not for the environment it's not. Mining is a disaster for every living being and every ecosystem. You can't "global trust" your way out of that.
The harm he and his ideas have caused is immeasurable.
Support legacy forests by sending a letter to the Washington Commissioner of Public Lands to prevent logging in the Elwha Watershed
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thank you!
yes!
Hugo, do you have a version of your graph with English? thank you!
Thank you! I'll check it out. Glad to hear they've been honing the format.
I have a couple of times in the past but got slightly annoyed with the format at times, will give it another go!! thank you.
Their words are honeyed traps, their names sanctified brands, crafted to seduce trust and deflect scrutiny. Every virtue they signal is a mask for to distract from the damage they inflict. I'd take honest truth about the desire to destroy life on planet Earth style over that any day.
... utter horrors.They are masters of moral disguise. They cloak themselves in the language of justice and progress, parading slogans, titles, and causes as shields. They perform goodness like theater—loud, polished, and public—while behind the curtain, they orchestrate harm with clinical precision.
Re: The Nature Conservancy in particular, check out this excellent article by Katie Fite for just some of the horrific things TNC does in the name of "conservation". If only more people knew the truth about them, and so many other organizations that virtue signal all day long while covering up... >>
But in the long run it does nothing to serve life or Life. I do think it would be interesting to have a discussion about the "moral hazard" of pushing so many people onto false solutions that will only perpetuate this ecocidal way of life.
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... working to reduce. The corporate propaganda (including from NGOs) that sells us these false solutions drag so many people down a path of business-as-usual by alternative means. They honestly believe they are doing something, while in fact making it worse. It serves the rich, the corporations. >>
I am convinced that these many many organizations and so-called "solutions" that are purporting to be making things better are actually making things worse by providing a false "out" for people. We see this all the time with support for EVs, renewables, and how it prevents people from...>>
... but I honestly don't know exactly where Nate sits in that range. Maybe that's fine.
I completely agree with him on the things that are NOT in service of Life (and I'd add many more). This is the only section I have any quibble with, and perhaps I just absolutely misunderstood 😂
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