Questions Oct 4

 PH -115 Land; Presentations continue: Tom, Gary... OCT 6 EXAM, drawn from texts referenced by the EVEN-numbered Questions.

1. "Land is resilient, like people." 95 Are we as resilient as land? Would we be moreso, if we lived closer to it?
2. Should industrial agriculture be allowed to get away with calling itself "regenerative"? 97
3. COMMENT?: "Foods are enriched because they are impoverished." 99
4. What do you think of Polyface Farm? 10
5. COMMENT?: "It is not the land that is broken, but our relationship to it." 103
6. Do you compost? What's been your experience with that? 104-5
7. Do you feel like a supra-organism? 105
8. What does it say about our bio-illiteracy that we have a stock expression denigrating "lowly worms"?
9. How does shifting from seeing scarcity to seeing abundance depend on imagination? 109
10. A Berry not Wendell says we've become an extractive species because we see ourselves as "transcendent"... 114 Do you see yourself that way? How do we get our feet back on the ground?

 

 

“The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.”

“We see quite clearly that what happens
to the nonhuman happens to the human.
What happens to the outer world
happens to the inner world.
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur
then the emotional, imaginative,
intellectual, and spiritual life of the human
is diminished or extinguished.
Without the soaring birds, the great forests,
the sounds and coloration of the insects,
the free-flowing streams, the flowering fields,
the sight of the clouds by day
and the stars at night, we become impoverished
in all that makes us human.”

From here on, the primary judgment of all human institutions, professions, programs and activities will be determined by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually-enhancing human/Earth relationship.”

― Thomas Berry

Megan on Rewilding

 Megan's Rewilding presentation was good, sorry so many of us missed it. Be sure to check out the recording on D2L.

Not THE God…

	TED Radio Hour ⁦‪@TEDRadioHour‬⁩ "We are as gods and might as well get good at it." ⁦‪@stewartbrand‬⁩ famously wrote this in the mission statement for his counterculture magazine, Whole Earth Catalog. It also makes up the title of a film on Stewart's life, and now, a new podcast: audible.com/pd/We-Are-As-G…   9/29/22, 1:45 PM

The Long Now

	TED Radio Hour ⁦‪@TEDRadioHour‬⁩ We humans have a huge impact on this planet. But we always have trouble thinking about time beyond tomorrow or next year, let alone 10,000 years in the past or future. So ⁦‪@stewartbrand‬⁩ & ⁦‪@longnow‬⁩ are building a giant clock to help us keep time: pic.twitter.com/Qq3D0M41jv   9/29/22, 6:55 AM

Stewart Brand

	TED Radio Hour ⁦‪@TEDRadioHour‬⁩ What do hippie culture, personal computers, reviving lost species, and defending online liberties have in common? For one thing...Stewart Brand. This renaissance man has played a key role in some of the most groundbreaking movements in the last century. n.pr/3LGrOWO   9/23/22, 9:24 AM

The false solution to climate change

	The Atlantic ⁦‪@TheAtlantic‬⁩ "The false solution to climate change isn't geoengineering or nuclear energy—it's the belief that we can decarbonize the economy only by upending our economic system," ⁦‪@AlecStapp‬⁩ writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…   9/29/22, 9:15 PM

Pencil tech

	The New Yorker ⁦‪@NewYorker‬⁩ "I hope you don't mind being written to with a pencil," Wendell Berry wrote, in a letter. "I no longer have the courage to write if I can't erase." nyer.cm/DgvX8OE   9/29/22, 12:28 PM

Monkey wrenches

Just as we take up the topic of (re-) wilding in Environmental Ethics, it's reported that the founder of the Rewilding Institute has died.

David Foreman, who as the co-founder of the environmental group Earth First! urged his followers to sabotage bulldozers, slash logging-truck tires and topple high-voltage power lines, earning him a reputation as a visionary, a rabble-rouser, a prankster and, even among some fellow activists, a domestic terrorist, died on Sept. 19 at his home in Albuquerque. He was 75...

[Earth First!'s] members drew inspiration from the writer Edward Abbey, whose 1975 novel, “The Monkey Wrench Gang,” depicts a group of eco-warriors who attack increasingly grandiose targets — including the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona — in the name of the environment... Earth First! and Mr. Foreman were not just more strident than the mainstream. They advocated a different philosophy, known as deep ecology, which holds that nature has inherent value, not just in its utility to people. Their vision included returning vast swaths of land to nature, ripping out any trace of human intervention.

Coincidentally, I heard myself in class last time recalling (not endorsing) Edward Abbey's Monkeywrench Gang shenanigans, and its "incendiary call to protect the American wilderness" at all costs, legal or not. “My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don’t know anything else worth saving. That's simple, right?” (continues)

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David Foreman, Hard-Line Environmentalist, Dies at 75

David Foreman, who as the co-founder of the environmental group Earth First! urged his followers to sabotage bulldozers, slash logging-truck tires and topple high-voltage power lines, earning him a reputation as a visionary, a rabble-rouser, a prankster and, even among some fellow activists, a domestic terrorist, died on Sept. 19 at his home in Albuquerque. He was 75.

John Davis, the executive director of the Rewilding Institute, a research and advocacy group that Mr. Foreman founded in 2003, said the cause was interstitial lung disease.

Mr. Foreman was a leading figure among a generation of activists who in the late 1970s grew frustrated with what they saw as the compromises and corporate coziness of many mainstream environmental organizations, including the Wilderness Society, where he worked as a lobbyist.

In 1980, during a hike through the Mexican desert, Mr. Foreman and four friends developed the idea for a grass-roots movement built around the aggressive protection of the environment for its own sake. He came up with the name, Earth First!, and its motto, "No compromise in defense of Mother Earth."
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We are deeply saddened to report that Dave Foreman passed away this evening peacefully, at home. The founder of The Rewilding Institute who coined the now ubiquitous name for a movement to protect and restore wild nature, Rewilding. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/l2WNAk0COY

— Rewilding Institute (@Rewilding) September 20, 2022

Tweet by NPR on Twitter

	NPR ⁦‪@NPR‬⁩ Researchers say diseases that spread between humans and animals, like COVID and monkeypox, will become increasingly commonplace as human expansion into previously uninhabited areas intensify. n.pr/3SlA8xG   9/29/22, 6:06 AM

The earthly afterlife of creative people, the “influential dead”

…If we are attentive enough to our inner lives, we can each recognize the influential dead living within us, whose life's work has shaped and is shaping our own. (Figuring most dominantly in my own private retinue are Rachel Carson, Walt Whitman, James Baldwin, Hannah Arendt, Virginia Woolf, Lewis Thomas, Carl Sagan, and Rilke.) Those who attain such immortality, Butler intimates, are passionate lovers of life, enamored with all the dazzlements of nature and human nature…
https://www.themarginalian.org/

 My friend Ann and I were eating at a Chinese restaurant. When an elderly waiter set chopsticks at our places, Ann made a point of reaching into her purse and pulling out her own pair.

"As an environmentalist," she declared, "I do not approve of destroying bamboo forests for throwaway utensils."

The waiter inspected her chopsticks.

"Very beautiful," he said politely. "Ivory."

 

Rural climate skeptics are costing us time and money. Do we keep indulging them?

 

BY ERIKA D. SMITH, ANITA CHABRIA

SEPT. 27, 2022 5 AM PT

GREENVILLE, Calif. —  

Looking back, Bradley Bentz doesn’t know what took him so long to move out of Los Angeles County.

For decades, he’d lived a short walk from the Santa Anita Park racetrack in Arcadia and a few minutes drive to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. It was the typical city life.

“The cars and the smog. The noise. The lights that you can’t even tell when it’s dark,” Bentz said, shaking his head as if waking up from a nightmare. “I just couldn’t do it.”

So he headed to the sparsely populated mountains of Plumas County. He joined the U.S. Forest Service, started a family and eventually settled down just outside of Greenville, becoming the second-generation owner of his father-in-law’s business, Riley’s Jerky.

“I kind of just —,” Bentz said, searching for the right words to sum up his life, “fell in love.”

Even though it’s extraordinarily beautiful, with thick forests and pristine rivers, rural Northern California isn’t for everyone — nor should it be.

This is the part of the state where climate change has become a full-fledged existential threat. Sure, Southern California is prone to its fair share of disasters, but it is in Northern California where catastrophic wildfires aren’t just likely but are certain to destroy remote small towns for decades to come.

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Hurricane Ian Is a Storm That We Knew Would Occur

Hurricane Ian, which made landfall in southwest Florida on Wednesday, may join that lineage of truly monster storms—Katrina, Sandy, Camille—whose names are repeated for generations. Ian hit Cuba on Tuesday as a Category 3 hurricane, causing an island-wide blackout that left eleven million people without power. The storm blessedly moved a little to the east overnight, sparing Tampa Bay a direct hit; it cursedly jumped in strength to the very border of Category 5 on the intensity scale, and so Floridians face a deadly combination of roaring wind, surging ocean, and pelting rain. Whatever the eventual damage, it's already another stark demonstration of what happens when there's too much physical energy in a closed system, and too little political energy.

Physical energy first. We've trapped a huge amount of the sun's heat in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel—the heat equivalent of more than half a million Hiroshima-sized explosions each day. That energy gets expressed in many ways. Some of it drives mammoth heat waves, such as the one that afflicted China for most of the summer. (Next week, the temperature there is forecast to top forty degrees Celsius—a hundred and four degrees Fahrenheit—which would be a national record for October.) Most of that excess heat—about ninety-three per cent of it—has gone not into the atmosphere but into the oceans, and that has a direct bearing on storms like Ian. Hurricanes draw their power from ocean heat, and so more storms in recent years have shown an inclination toward what scientists call "rapid intensification," their winds spinning up rapidly as they pass over patches of particularly hot water (such as, for instance, the current Gulf of Mexico)... Bill McKibben

Wolves and brown bears among wildlife making ‘exciting’ comeback in Europe

Wolves and brown bears among wildlife making ‘exciting’ comeback in Europe 

 

Man Plants Trees In The Same Spot Every Day — Decades Later, The Result Is Stunning.

InspireMore Staff

Posted: September 27, 2022

 

“I will continue to plant until my last breath.”

Since 1979, Jadav Payeng has single handily planted a forest bigger than Central Park. The dedicated arborist managed to turn an eroding wasteland into a tropical paradise for man and beast alike. Approximately 115 elephants, rhino, deer, and tigers call the 550-hectare forest home.

Payeng has a dream to restore his home island of Majuli and neighboring Jorhat with the beautiful forests that once covered them.

Agricultural development and human influence destroyed the natural beauty of his home, but Payeng is doing his part to bring the ecosystem back. He’s a man on a mission, and he proves that small acts every day can add up to tremendous change over time!

“I tell them, cutting my trees will get you nothing,” he said. “Cut me before you cut my trees!”

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(Re-)Wilding

Well that was fun yesterday in Environmental Ethics, heading out again into the shade and shadow of Peck Hall and the Walnut Grove to talk about trees and seaforestation. "The seas can turn carbon into forests at a rate exceeding that of the lushest parts of the Amazon," if (as Abby reported) industrial agriculture doesn't deplete the kelp forests first. "It would take an enormous, civilization-defining effort to achieve" the sea forest transformation we need, but "it is an alluring vision"... (continues)

Re:wild - Biodiversity is the Solution | rewild.org

Re:wild protects and restores the wild. We have a singular and powerful focus: the wild as the most effective solution to the interconnected climate, biodiversity and human wellbeing crises.

 

Founded by a group of renowned conservation scientists together with Leonardo DiCaprio, Re:wild is a force multiplier that brings together Indigenous peoples, local communities, influential leaders, nongovernmental organizations, governments, companies and the public to protect and rewild at the scale and speed we need. Our vital work has protected and conserved more than 180 million acres benefitting more than 16,000 species in the world's most irreplaceable places for biodiversity...https://www.rewild.org/

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Take action on climate change at http://countdown.ted.com. Biodiversity is the key to life on Earth and reviving our damaged planet, says ecologist Thomas Crowther. Sharing the inside story of his headline-making research on reforestation, which led to the UN's viral Trillion Trees Campaign, Crowther introduces Restor: an expansive, informative platform built to enable anyone, anywhere to help restore the biodiversity of Earth's ecosystems. This talk was part of the Countdown Global Launch on 10.10.2020. (Watch the full event here: https://youtu.be/5dVcn8NjbwY.) Countdown is TED's global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. The goal: to build a better future by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030, in the race to a zero-carbon world. Get involved at https://countdown.ted.com/sign-up Follow Countdown on Twitter: http://twitter.com/tedcountdown Follow Countdown on Instagram: http://instagram.com/tedcountdown Subscribe to our channel: http://youtube.com/TED

 Why Putin’s War Is a Crime Against the Planet

Sept. 27, 2022  Top of Form

Bottom of Form

By Thomas L. Friedman

There was no good time for Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked, idiotic invasion of Ukraine. But this is a uniquely bad time. Because it’s diverting worldwide attention and resources needed to mitigate climate change — during what may be the last decade when we still have a chance to manage the climate extremes that are now unavoidable and avoid those that could become unmanageable.

Unfortunately, what happens between Ukraine and Russia does not stay between Ukraine and Russia. That’s because the world is flatter than ever.

We have connected so many people, places and markets to so many other people, places and markets — and then removed so many of the old buffers that insulated us from one another’s excesses and replaced them with grease — that instability in one node can now go really far, really wide, really fast.

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Questions SEP 29

 PH -93 Wilding

1. COMMENT? "Nature is not an 'it' out there. It is us... There may not be any 'individuals' in nature..." 63
2. RE: ecosystem engineers (67)... What do you think of Stephen Tvedten's response to the "dam complaint"? 
3. Should wildlife tourism be discouraged? 71
4.  Do you recall any discussion about Trump's border wall disrupting animal habitats and migratory routes? Do you think most politicians understand or care about these issues if they don't hear about them from their constituencies? 73
5. Is Knapp Castle's rewilding experiment replicable in the U.S.? 76
6. More coming soon

Arboreal distancing

 Thanks to Ed Craig for this. "Conversations in the overstory"--

22 Benefits of Trees - TreePeople

https://www.treepeople.org/22-benefits-of-trees/

Silent Spring

	Project Gutenberg ⁦‪@gutenberg_org‬⁩ Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency #OTD in 1962. via ⁦‪@Wikipedia‬⁩ pic.twitter.com/PMOO1F9phj   9/27/22, 5:42 AM

Trees!

We're talking trees in Environmental Ethics today. One of my favorite authors, Richard Powers, has made himself an authority on the subject by writing the excellent 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Overstory. We're treated to an excerpt, at the end of Paul Hawken's "Forests" chapter in Regeneration.

The title is a clever play on the botanical and literary dimensions of the word. "An overstory," says our verbose verbal authority Merriam, "is the top foliage from multiple trees that combine to create an overhang or canopy under which people can walk or sit."  

And an overstory is a fable, or complex of connected fables, intended to create an understanding of one's place in a larger narrative. “The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” 

Philosophers generally hesitate to go all in on that concession, holding out for more receptive listeners and (if we're very lucky) readers willing to follow the argument and even sometimes let it upend treasured convictions. But it's generally true, I think we've observed especially lately, that opposing arguments tend to amplify rather than deconstruct partisan intransigence.

So it's wonderful that Powers and others (including KSR, next on our reading list) have created such a fine and growing body of work in the category known as cli-fi. Time before last this course was focused on that genre, maybe it'll be time to do it again in 2024... (continues)

The world’s largest living thing is showing signs of breaking up

An ecologist from Utah State University is warning one of the world's largest living things, a colony of genetically identical trees sharing a single root system, is in danger of breaking up into several distinct parts, for the first time in its long history...

https://newatlas.com/biology/pando-worlds-largest-living-thing-signs-breaking-up/

 Federal Government’s $20 Billion Embrace of ‘Climate Smart’ Farming

The techniques are a cornerstone of the Agriculture Department’s approach to addressing a warming planet, but it is unclear whether more widespread deployment of such methods can truly reverse the effects of climate change.

By Linda Qiu

·         Sept. 26, 2022                                       Article Here

The Fall of Freddie the Leaf by Leo Buscaglia

Can't have a tree class without Freddie

https://youtube.com/watch?v=c8ZjVXyNbhI&feature=share

One expert’s treatment by a congressman at a recent hearing highlights how men use insults to obscure the issues

…The sparring was emblematic of broader misogynistic undertones in attacks on women in the environmental movement, experts say. These attacks go as far back as the 1960s, when Rachel Carson, who exposed the dangers of the then-widely used pesticide DDT in her book "Silent Spring," was framed by her critics as "hysterically overemphatic" and depicted as a witch in a chemical industry magazine…
https://19thnews.org/2022/09/congressman-climate-lawyer-misogyny-insults/

Volunteer for WILDING?

 Still looking for a VOLUNTEER for this THURSDAY, to do something on "Wilding"-- You're just one step away, like the song says...

Or re-wilding.

Spotted on my bikeride this morning:

Agnes Callard encourages students to reflect on humanity’s distant future

...In her speech, Callard embarked upon a theoretical experiment she called the “infertility scenario,” borrowing from philosopher Samuel Scheffler’s book “Death and the Afterlife.” In this hypothetical situation, humanity discovers that every single person alive has been made sterile by a virus that has spread to every corner of the earth, meaning the current population is the last generation of humans. 

... the objective of this thought experiment was to feel the full, somber impact of humanity with no future and to unpack the question: Why do we care about future generations?

“I’ll tell you about my reaction: When I really start to vividly imagine us being the last humans, the last generation…when I envision the vast silence blanketing our once chattering globe because the human story has come to an end… my reaction is that I feel sick.”

According to Callard, this response extends beyond an innate fear of death and speaks to something broader: the dread of an unfinished “human quest.”

“The way I would paraphrase the horror is: It only came to this. It only got this far. We didn’t get a chance to finish. We didn’t get there. What’s sickening to me is the thought that the quest we are on—all of us, everyone in this room, but many others for thousands of years now—thousands of years at least, but probably longer, because history only records a fraction of human thought—this human quest has not been brought to its proper endpoint.”

...
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/agnes-callard-encourages-uchicago-students-reflect-humanitys-distant-future

The animal-size hole at the center of modern life

I have a ridiculous dog named Walnut. He is as domesticated as a beast can be: a purebred longhaired miniature dachshund with fur so thick it feels rich and creamy, like pudding. His tail is a huge spreading golden fan, a clutch of sunbeams. He looks less like a dog than like a tropical fish. People see him and gasp. Sometimes I tell Walnut right out loud that he is my precious little teddy bear pudding cup sweet boy snuggle-stinker.

In my daily life, Walnut is omnipresent. He shadows me all over the house. When I sit, he gallops up into my lap. When I go to bed, he stretches out his long warm body against my body or he tucks himself under my chin like a soft violin. Walnut is so relentlessly present that sometimes, paradoxically, he disappears. If I am stressed or tired, I can go a whole day without noticing him. I will pet him idly; I will yell at him absent-mindedly for barking at the mailman; I will nuzzle him with my foot. But I will not really see him. He will ask for my attention, but I will have no attention to give. Humans are notorious for this: for our ability to become blind to our surroundings — even a fluffy little jewel of a mammal like Walnut.

John Berger, the brilliant British artist-critic, could have been writing about all this when he lamented, 45 years ago, modern humanity’s impoverished relationship to animals. “In the last two centuries,” he wrote, “animals have gradually disappeared. Today we live without them.”

On its face, this claim is ridiculous. Animals are everywhere in modern life. More of us own pets than at any other time in human history. We can drive to zoos, cat cafes, national parks, wildlife sanctuaries. We can lie in bed and share viral TikToks of buffaloes grunting, puppies howling, parrots taunting hungry cats. We can watch live feeds on our tiny phones of eagles incubating eggs or drone footage of polar bears hunting seals on 50-foot IMAX screens.

But Berger would argue that these things are all just symptoms of our lost intimacy with animals. None of them represent meaningful old-fashioned contact. Since the primordial beginnings of our species, he writes, animals have been integral to human life: “Animals constituted the first circle of what surrounded man. Perhaps that already suggests too great a distance. They were with man at the center of his world.” Animals were not only predators and prey — they were myths, symbols, companions, peers, teachers, guides. The patterns of their movement defined the edges of the human world. Their shapes defined the stars. They made human life possible. A few ostrich eggs could sustain hunter-gatherers for days — first as food, then as water carriers that enabled them to cross vast, parched distances... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/21/magazine/animal-voyages.html?smid=em-share

We Can’t Have a Stable Climate If We Keep Destroying Nature | Time

The climate is changing, and it is changing quickly. Our planet is 1.2°C (2.2°F) hotter today than in 1908, when Henry Ford debuted the world's first mass-market automobile. Without a dramatic course correction, there is a 50-50 chance of planetary warming surpassing 1.5°C (2.7°F) in the next five years. If we reach that point, 90 percent of coral reefs could die off, extreme heat waves will become nine times more common, and sea levels will rise several feet. Historically, the conversation around climate solutions has focused on decarbonization—reducing fossil fuel use and investing in renewables. Though this is critical, it is not sufficient. Even if we transition to 100 percent clean energy, temperatures will continue to rise unless we also address our unsustainable relationship with nature.

Earth's forests, grasslands and marshes are natural climate regulators, thanks to the silent miracle of photosynthesis. But when we degrade that land—through deforestation, over-grazing and over-farming—we release the carbon stored in those ecosystems, while reducing their capacity to store future emissions. Already, we have converted 50 percent of all nature to agricultural land, cities, and roads. This is deeply concerning, as intact nature absorbs 25 percent of our carbon emissions from fossil fuel use—that number is falling every year as nature is further degraded. Unsustainable land use and agriculture is the source of approximately one-quarter of all greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. Human-managed lands could be a powerful tool for mitigating the climate crisis; instead, they are accelerating it...

https://time.com/6215338/cant-have-a-stable-climate-if-we-keep-destroying-nature/

E.P.A. Will Make Racial Equality a Bigger Factor in Environmental Rules

…all new air, water and chemical safety regulations, many of which affect the profits of electric utilities as well as automakers and other major manufacturers, would now be inscribed with provisions that try to mitigate the impact of environmental damage to poor and minority communities. That could include stricter pollution controls...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/climate/environmental-justice-epa.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Midterm report presentations

Stake your claim in the comments section below.  Select a date and general topic area corresponding to our syllabus assignment in Regeneration, and narrow your focus as you get further into your research. Your task is to tell us something interesting and important about your topic that we wouldn't have learned from the assigned text alone. You can put up a supporting blog post if you like (and have become an author on the site) if you wish. Be sure to give us at least a couple of discussion questions.

Sep 27 - Sea Forestation: Abby

Sep 29 PH -93 Wilding: VOLUNTEER?

Oct 4 PH -115 Land: Land Use and Zoning, Tom Smith

Oct 6 EXAM 1

Oct 13 PH -147 People: Conor Lumley

Oct 18 PH -169 The City: Andrew

Oct 20 PH -191 Food: Kelsey, Jacob (coordinate to make sure you don't duplicate one another's topics)

Oct 25 PH -213 Energy: Matt, Solar...

Oct 27 PH -255 Industry, Action + Connection, Afterword: Julian, Politics

 Climate activists hold rallies around world

Frank Jordans

ASSOCIATED PRESS

BERLIN – Youth activists staged a coordinated 'global climate strike' Friday to highlight their fears about the effects of global warming and demand more aid for poor countries hit by wild weather.

Protesters took to the streets in Jakarta, Tokyo, Rome and Berlin carrying banners and posters with slogans such as 'We are worried about the climate crisis' and 'It’s not too late.'

The demonstrations were organized by the Fridays for Future youth movement that took its cue from activist Greta Thunberg, who began protesting alone outside the Swedish parliament in 2018...

From The Tennessean newspaper p. A5 Saturday September 24, 2022

 

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization 

by Neil deGrasse Tyson

In talking about his new book recently, Tyson reminded us that during the three years after the first moon shots, after images of the whole planet were published, the EPA  and NOAA were formed, the first Earth Day occurred, etc..  In his view the "cosmic perspective" generally changed understandings of our situation from seeing earth as divided up into nation states to seeing it as a whole ecosystem and the only one we all have to depend on.

 The fourth agricultural revolution has already begun

The first agricultural revolution is characterized as the advent of modern farming, the second began during the industrial revolution when crop rotations were introduced, and the third revolution saw the dawn of synthetic fertilizer discovery and genetic breeding techniques, accelerating farmland productivity. The sector is now facing a multitude of complex and interdependent challenges. This comes at a time when the demands on the sector due to rapid population growth are set to accelerate, meaning a fourth revolution is needed.

The sector will also have to adapt to the impacts of climate change as, by 2030, extreme weather events such as droughts and floods will become even more common. The agricultural industry is adopting technology to overcome these challenges in what some have already called ‘The Fourth Agricultural Revolution’.

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This seems to be the exact opposite of WB's vision...

Med school mission

	Harvard Medical School ⁦‪@harvardmed‬⁩ "This is fundamental to the mission of medicine," says Renee Salas, HMS assistant professor, of the importance of teaching about climate change in medical school (via ⁦‪@medpagetoday‬⁩) medpagetoday.com/special-report…   9/23/22, 11:40 AM