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A solution for the climate crisis proposed by Paul Hawken and featured in his book Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation. Hawken's work includes various actions and techniques to reverse global warming, with the azolla fern being one of the suggested solutions due to its incredible ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. By facilitating this massive drawdown and subsequent sequestration of carbon, Azolla can help to cool the planet, much like it did during the Eocene epoch millions of years ago, potentially leading to a significant impact on climate change.

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Junichiro Tanizaki | In Praise of Shadows

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“For the beauty of the alcove is not the work of some clever device. An empty space is marked off with plain wood and plain walls, so that the light drawn into it forms dim shadows within emptiness. There is nothing more. And yet, when we gaze into the darkness that gathers behind the crossbeam, around the flower vase, beneath the shelves, though we know perfectly well it is mere shadow, we are overcome with the feeling that in this small corner of the atmosphere there reigns complete and utter silence; that here in the darkness immutable tranquility holds sway. The “mysterious Orient” of which Westerners speak probably refers to the uncanny silence of these dark places. And even we as children would feel an inexpressible chill as we peered into the depths of an alcove to which the sunlight had never penetrated. Where lies the key to this mystery? Ultimately it is the magic of shadows. Were the shadows to be banished from its corners, the alcove would in that instant revert to mere void.”

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“Today, as I watched a group of young people working on a tiny hut, a young woman from Funubashi came walking up [to the farm]. When I asked why she had come, she said, “I just came. That’s all. I don’t know anything any more.” Bright young lady. Nonchalant. Has her wits about her. I then asked, “If you know you are unenlightened, there is nothing to say, right? In coming to understand the world through the power of discrimination, people lose sight of its meaning. Isn’t that why the world is in such a fix?” She answered softly, “Yes, if you say so.” “Maybe you don’t have a really clear idea of what enlightenement is. What kind of books did you read before coming here?” She shook her head to show rejection of reading. “People study because they think they do not understand. But studying is not going to help make one understand. They study hard only to find out in the end, that people cannot know anything. That understanding lies beyond human reach.” […] People think they understand things because they become familiar with them. This is only superficial knowledge. It is the knowledge of the astronomer, who knows the name of the stars; the botanist who knows the classifications of the leaves & flowers; the artist who knows the aesthetics of green & red. This is not to know Nature itself. Astronomer, botanist and artist have done no more than grasp impressions and interpret them, each within the vault of his own mind. The more involved they become with the activity of the intellect, the more they set themselves apart, and the more difficult it becomes to live naturally.”

— The One-Straw Revolution, Fukuoka

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“In general, people are only concerned with whether this kind of farming is an advance into the future, or a revival of times past. Few are able to grasp correctly that natural farming arises from the unmoving & unchanging centre of agricultural development. To the extent that people separate themselves from Nature, they spin out further and further from the centre; at the same time, a centripotal effect asserts itself, and the desire to return to Nature arises. But if people merely get caught up in reacting, moving to the left or to the right, depending on conditions; the result is only more activity. The non-moving point of origin, which lies outside the realm of relativity, is passed over, unnoticed. I believe that even returning to Nature & anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the overdevelopment of the present age. Nature does not change. Although the way of viewing Nature invariably changes from age to age, no matter the age, natural farming exists forever as the wellspring of agriculture.”

— The One-Straw Revolution, Fukuoka