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Stranger Things
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One Nice Bug Per Day
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KIROKAZE
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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@justbeingora
staying @ someone elseās place is so perpetually uncomfortable? everything feels like an inconvenience + invasion of privacy. sitting in a chair? inconvenience. opening a cabinet to get a glass? invasion of privacy. breathing? invasion of
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Representation Matters
We are all Mr Norrell.
I know I am
me @ my body: perhaps... since it's summer... you could sleep without the blanket?
my body: interesting thought! interesting thought. but no
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The Little Mermaid 1989
Do you guys know how long it took me to work out that he has seven daughters because there are seven seas?
Decades.
Which sea is Ariel?
Fucking red sea. Have you seen her hair.
Attina- Bering sea (Bering is the largest, Attina is the oldest)
Alana- Black sea (hair)
Adella- Mediterranean sea (personality is romantic)Ā
Aquata- Ā Coral sea (personality is shy)
Arista- White sea (hair)
Andrina- Caribbean sea (personality is carefree)
Ariel- Red sea (hair)
Omg.
Was their mother the Dead Sea?
lol
Canāt you see? Havenāt you noticed? I am here by your side. I will never leave you. I have made you in My image, the image of beauty and love and grace. How many times do I need to tell you? How many people will it take for you to believe? I. LOVE. YOU. More than any other creation in this magnificent world. I chose you out of all of them. Have courage, dear heart.
a.k. | Godās voice rings clear in the midst of the flood. (via shepraises)
Date a boy who can see you spending the rest of your lives together
Even if the world celebrates a Paris climate deal on Dec. 11, the process will still have to be regarded as a failure. Let me explain why.
The basic reason is that the unequal distribution of carbon emissions is not even on its agenda. The historical responsibility of the West is not on the table, nor is a method of national carbon accounting that looks at how the emissions a country consumes rather than produces. Instead, what is on the table are expanded and new mechanisms that will allow the rich, Western countries to outsource their emission cuts so they can paint themselves green.
When the figures are in, 2015 is likely to be the warmest year on record, and weāve just reached one-degree Celsius temperature rise since the industrial revolution, halfway to the two-degree Celsius widely agreed to be the upper safe limit of global warming. Itās the fastest surface temperature increase in the worldās known geological history. We are now entering āuncharted territory.ā
The dangers of global warming have been knownāeven to oil company executivesāsince at least the early 1980s. Yet, despite 25 years of the United Nations-led climate talks, the world is burning more fossil fuels than ever.
This is not simply the fault of big emerging economies such as China, India, or Brazil. Instead, what we are dealing with is the fundamental failure of neoliberal capitalism, the worldās dominant economic system, to confront its hunger for exponential growth that is only made possible by the unique energy density of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas.
Historical responsibility
A glance at global history reveals how closely energy is linked to economic growth. The Netherlands was the first country to get a taste for exponential industrial growth back in the 16th and 17th centuriesāand the Dutch empire was built on the availability of cheap domestic peat as well as timber from Norwegian and Baltic forests.
One reason the British took over the Netherlandsā imperial leadership was its vast reserves of cheap coal, which started to be burned at the end of the 18th century, exponentially growing in the 19th century. Then came oil and gas, which helped make the US the imperial master from the early 20th century onwards.
So, there are more than 300 years of massive fossil fuel burning by the so-called West to account for. And while this historical responsibility still played a significant role at Kyoto in 1997āresulting in emissions cuts that were only legally binding for industrialised countriesāit has gradually been pushed into the background.
Now in Paris it seems almost forgotten. But the fact that about 80% of historical carbon emissions have to be attributed to the developed countries cannot simply be wished away.
The rapid rise of emissions, particularly in China and India, is often cited as the reason for why these rapidly industrialising countries now also have to curb their emissions. Iām not saying that they shouldnāt. Both countries clearly have their own imperial ambitions, which they hope to achieve by stimulating massive industrial expansion.
But letās bear in mind that Indiaās carbon emissions per capita are still 10 times lower than those of the US. And Chinaās rapidly rising emissions are to a great extent driven by export-driven industries, producing consumer goods for the West.
Creative carbon accounting
In fact, if a consumption-based approach to carbon accounting is taken, the UKās national carbon emissions would be twice as high as officially reported. This is also true for most Western European countries and the US, which have experienced increasing rates of deindustrialisation over the past two decades with not only jobs but also carbon emissions being offshored to developing countries. In return, the West is receiving cheap consumer goods without recognising the responsibility for the embedded carbon emissions that come with them. A clear form of carbon colonialism.
Of course, some of the exponential growth in carbon emissions by India and China is also due to increases in homegrown consumption. China apparently now has the largest middle class in the world. However, if we take a consumption-based view, then even Chinaās emissions per capita will not reach the USās current rate for a long time, and Indiaās lag further behind.
Yet, rich countries continue to be eager to outsource their responsibilities. Carbon offsetting will see an unprecedented growth in the coming years. Countries such as Norway and Switzerland will continue to strike bilateral deals with poor nations desperate for cash. Emissions trading systems (ETS) will allow maximum flexibility for companies to offset their emissions.
These are all mechanisms designed to cement the status quo. The European Union ETS has not made a significant impact on the trading blocās carbon emissions since its inception in 2005, allowing Shellās CEO Ben Van Beurden to insist even in 2015 that: āThe reality of demand growth is such that fossil fuels will be needed for decades to come.ā
Nothing significant has changed since Rio 1992 or Kyoto 1997. Paris 2015 will be no different. The talking will continue until we realise climate change is a failure of a system, whichāon the back of fossil fuelāis geared towards exponential economic growth. Nobody who sits at the negotiation table in Paris has the mandate nor inclination to ask fundamental, systemic questions of the logic of the dominant economic system and the way we consume the resources of this planet.
Source:Ā https://qz.com/562417/stop-blaming-india-and-china-for-the-wests-300-years-of-destroying-the-environment/
The Paris Climate Accord was economic and climate colonialism and it deserves to go to hell.Ā
The fucking West has for centuries fueled global warming by industrializing, all the while enslaving people of color in their own lands, and now they want people of color to curb their own development to pay for the Westās sins? FUCK RIGHT OFF.Ā
If the West wants developing countries to curb their emissions then it needs to compensate in trillions of dollars to account for the economic growth lost in achieving those reductions. Thatās economic and climate justice.Ā
[To the crackers whoāll no doubt show up in our inbox complaining about this: No. This is not an endorsement of the US pulling out of the Paris Agreement. This is saying that the US should be one of the core countries that should be boundĀ by an emissions-curbing agreement.]
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Sashi Tharoor
Description
In the eighteenth century, Indiaās share of the world economy was as large as Europeās. By 1947, it had decreased six-fold. In Inglorious Empire, Shashi Tharoor tells the real story of the British in India, from the arrival of the East India Company in 1757 to the end of the Raj, and reveals how Britainās rise was built upon its depredations in India. India was Britainās biggest cash cow, and Indians literally paid for their own oppression. Britainās Industrial Revolution was founded on Indiaās deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry. Under the British, millions died from starvationāincluding 4 million in 1943 alone, after national hero Churchill diverted Bengalās food stocks to the war effort. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters and entrenched institutionalised racism. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed. Tharoor takes on and demolishes the arguments for the Empire, demonstrating how every supposed imperial āgiftā, from the railways to the rule of law, was designed in Britainās interests alone. This incisive reassessment of colonialism exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britainās stained Indian legacy.
Review
āFerocious and astonishing. Essential for a Britain lost in sepia fantasies about its past, Inglorious Empire is history at its clearest and cutting best.āāBen Judah, author of This is LondonĀ
āRare indeed is it to come across history that is so readable and so persuasive.āā Amitav GhoshĀ
āBrilliant EL A searing indictment of the Raj and its impact on India. EL Required reading for all Anglophiles in former British colonies, and needs to be a textbook in Britain.āā Salil Tripathi, Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee, PEN International, and author of The Colonel Who Would Not RepentĀ
About the Author
Shashi Tharoor served for twenty-nine years at the UN, culminating as Under-Secretary General. He is a Congress MP in India, the author of fourteen previous books and has won numerous literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writersā Writersā Prize. Tharoor has a PhD from the Fletcher School and was named by the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1998 as a Global Leader of Tomorrow.Ā
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Iām every one in this
MAN 1 (in a high pitched, whiny voice) Look what youāve done to my peonies!
WOMAN (angrily) Theyāre marigolds!
MAN 2 God! I think sheās right! They are marigolds!
MAN 1 I may not know my flowers, but I know a (yells in her direction) bitch when I see one!
Iām walking everywhere like this from now on.
Being a good person is a choice. Donāt let people fool you into believing that truly good people never have bad thoughts, are never tempted by the easier path, by the low road, never mess up or act out selfishly. Never believe a person can be good without making a conscious effort.
Every single time you do something good, youāve made a decision to make the world a little brighter.
Goodness is not an inherent trait, it is a choice. Keep making it! I see you, Iām proud of you, and Iām rooting for you!
Aw, this is cute.
Honestly I canāt believe that Iām watching this right now. This is This is the sweetest most gentle and loving and pure thing Iāve ever beheld and I feel so blessed to have seen this
āSshh donāt cry, my baby.ā
white people think the world belongs to themā¦ however, what goes around, comes around
God is good
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Look at the animal kingdom doing the lords work
Amen Hallelujah, wonāt He do it.
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Whatever you do comes back 3 fold
Natural selection
pls kill all men who yell at girls from cars
A lotta men you know would be dead. Surprise
I love surprises
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC387823/
āā¦the most aggressive males in the Forest Troop were wiped out. The males, which had taken to foraging in an open garbage pit adjacent to a tourist lodge, had contracted bovine tuberculosis, and most died between 1983 and 1986. Their deaths drastically changed the gender composition of the troop, more than doubling the ratio of females to males, and by 1986 troop behavior had changed considerably as well; males were significantly less aggressive.After the deaths, Sapolsky stopped observing the Forest Troop until 1993. Surprisingly, even though no adult males from the 1983ā1986 period remained in the Forest Troop in 1993 (males migrate after puberty), the new males exhibited the less aggressive behavior of their predecessors.ā
Baboons can do it, so can we.
