Legally Angry

🌊💚🌎 SYSTEM CHANGE NOT CLIMATE CHANGE

[landsccape]

[ur-daily-inspiration]

When a hug and a sniff make the perfect blend of cuteness! 🌼🐿️ By @dickvanduijn

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[riotnotdiet]

The feminine urge to touch artworks in the museum and make the alarms go off

[sioltach]

What would it be like, I wondered, to live with that heightened sensitivity to the lives given for ours? To consider the tree in the Kleenex, the algae in the toothpaste, the oaks in the floor, the grapes in the wine; to follow back the thread of life in everything and pay it respect? Once you start, it's hard to stop, and you begin to feel yourself awash in gifts.

Braiding Sweetgrass: Wisgaak Gokpenagen, A Black Ash Basket written by Robin Wall Kimmerer

[legallyangry]

[shrinkrants]

“This is the thing about ecology: everything is interconnected. It’s difficult for us to grasp how this works, because we’re used to thinking of the world in terms of individual parts rather than complex wholes. In fact, that’s even how we’ve been taught to think of ourselves – as individuals. We’ve forgotten how to pay attention to the relationships between things. Insects necessary for pollination; birds that control crop pests, grubs and worms essential to soil fertility; mangroves that purify water; the corals on which fish populations depend: these living systems are not ‘out there’, disconnected from humanity. On the contrary: our fates are intertwined. They are, in a real sense, us.”

— Jason Hickel, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

[radical-agriculture]

it’s gardening season! please don’t plant lettuces/greens directly into the ground in an urban area or close to a building without getting a soil test. the risk of lead poisoning is very high. if you can’t afford a soil test and you must plant into the ground, try to grow something where you will only be eating the fruit and not the leaves & stems (i.e. tomatoes, cucumbers, etc) bc there’s less of a chance that heavy metals will migrate to the fruit tissues. better yet, build a raised bed or plant in pots!

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

Wow, I had no idea - thank you.

[ecohygge]

Changing the Way We Think About Ecocities

The way we understand ecocities needs radical change in order to ensure a sustainable future, akin to our ancestors realising the earth was

[grouchydairy]

“When consumers are told they are equally to blame for the climate crisis (a narrative conveniently crafted by the fossil fuel industry) but face a dearth of options for actually leading a more climate-friendly life, it’s all too easy to convince people to feel guilty merely for living.”

— The New Republic

[solarpunks]

Zero Emissions Isn’t Enough. We Need Climate Repair.

Ceasing fossil fuel consumption is a huge lift, but it isn’t enough to save the planet. We need to think much, much bigger: toward global solutions that can capture excess carbon in the atmosphere and begin repairing the deep damage we’ve done to the planet.

Solarpunk author and friend of the blog Andrew Dana Hudson has a long article in Jacobin this week arguing that society needs to *think bigger*. 

Halting global warming at 1.5 degrees isn’t the same as actual climate repair.  Carbon removal though all possible avenues - natural carbon sinks, regenerative agriculture, better soil management etc are all necessary but not sufficient. 

He argues that though the deployment of cheap, decentralised. renewable technologies like wind and solar - energy intensive technological projects like direct carbon capture will increasingly become more viable. 

This piece is a brilliant example of ‘Yes, and’ thinking for climate solutions

ADH is the author of Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures, as well as the solarshades.club newsletter.

[sataniccapitalist]

Climate Change Has a Cost. The World Wants the US to Pay Its Share

The concept of richer countries, particularly the US, compensating poorer nations for loss and damage tied to climate change gains steam at the UN climate summit.

[solarpunkwitchcraft]

“The issue of compensation is known as "loss and damage,” which refers to the loss of and damage to cultures, livelihoods, property and lives due to the human-induced climate crisis. This year has seen many such tragedies occur across the globe, including flooding that has devastated Pakistan and Nigeria, droughts in the Horn of Africa and cyclones in the Caribbean. The people who suffer the very worst impacts live in regions that historically have had low emissions and have contributed the least to causing climate change. As such, there’s a general consensus extending from climate justice activists all the way to governments that these people should be compensated for the loss and damage they’ve experienced.“

[dystopia-in-d-minor]

“The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal.” ― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

[solarpunkwitchcraft]

“Old-growth forests can remind humanity of a time before capitalism and colonialism. These ancient trees – bound by an earthen ecosystem of reciprocity that has taken thousands of years to become what it is today – are a testament to the abundance that comes from a collectivized, relational world. The existence of these ancient forests challenges the ideology of capitalism and colonialism, systems that necessitate individualism and conquest for material gain. In the movement to save ancient forests, we can remember our way forward into a future that honours Indigenous Rights, stewardship, and collective reverence for these last stands of biodiversity.”

— Maia Wikler, Ancient remnants (via probablyasocialecologist)

[sonnywortzik]

“I shall not easily forget an ‘environmental’ presentation staged by the New York Museum of Natural History in the seventies in which the public was exposed to a long series of exhibits, each depicting examples of pollution and ecological disruption. The exhibit which closed the presentation carried a startling sign, ‘The Most Dangerous Animal on Earth,’ and it consisted simply of a huge mirror which reflected back the human viewer who stood before it. I clearly recall a black child standing before the mirror while a white school teacher tried to explain the message which this arrogant exhibit tried to convey. There were no exhibits of corporate boards or directors planning to deforest a mountainside or government officials acting in collusion with them. The exhibit primarily conveyed one, basically misanthropic, message: people as such, not a rapacious society and its wealthy beneficiaries, are responsible for environmental dislocations — the poor no less than the personally wealthy, people of colour no less than privileged whites, women no less than men, the oppressed no less than the oppressor. A mythical human ‘species’ had replaced classes; individuals had replaced hierarchies; personal tastes (many of which are shaped by a predatory media) had replaced social relationships; and the disempowered who live meagre, isolated lives had replaced giant corporations, self-serving bureaucracies, and the violent paraphernalia of the State.”

— Murray Bookchin, Society and Ecology

[sonnywortzik]

“I shall not easily forget an ‘environmental’ presentation staged by the New York Museum of Natural History in the seventies in which the public was exposed to a long series of exhibits, each depicting examples of pollution and ecological disruption. The exhibit which closed the presentation carried a startling sign, ‘The Most Dangerous Animal on Earth,’ and it consisted simply of a huge mirror which reflected back the human viewer who stood before it. I clearly recall a black child standing before the mirror while a white school teacher tried to explain the message which this arrogant exhibit tried to convey. There were no exhibits of corporate boards or directors planning to deforest a mountainside or government officials acting in collusion with them. The exhibit primarily conveyed one, basically misanthropic, message: people as such, not a rapacious society and its wealthy beneficiaries, are responsible for environmental dislocations — the poor no less than the personally wealthy, people of colour no less than privileged whites, women no less than men, the oppressed no less than the oppressor. A mythical human ‘species’ had replaced classes; individuals had replaced hierarchies; personal tastes (many of which are shaped by a predatory media) had replaced social relationships; and the disempowered who live meagre, isolated lives had replaced giant corporations, self-serving bureaucracies, and the violent paraphernalia of the State.”

— Murray Bookchin, Society and Ecology

[riotnotdiet]

The sun comes out and suddenly I've never ever been depressed 🌸🌺💮