Aphrodite fritillary (Speyeria aphrodite)
Driftless Area South Central Wisconsin, Dane County USA
2022-07-16 _F2A3326aaa
Fascists don’t like nonbillionaires and Washington’s genocide of those nonbillionaires continues to unfold with increasingly lethal effect. But we never did listen:
“Peter Carter, April 22 at 11:34 PM
2022 FOSSIL FUEL CO2 EMISSIONS 37.5 billion tonnes
65% INCREASE FROM 1990
From 1960 Global fossil fuelCO2 emissions have
increased every decade
COLLAPSE & CLIMATIC ANNIHILATION TREND
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“I Did a Data Check on the World Model that Forecast Global Collapse. Here's What I Found.”
“Given the unappealing prospect of societal collapse, a researcher decided to conduct a quantitative comparison between Limits to Growth World3 scenarios and available empirical data. Here's what she found.”
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“Why would we use our innovative powers to invent robot pollinators to replace the bees, if we also have the choice to invent agricultural practices that do not have the side effect of insecticide? Why use drones to plant new trees, when we could also restructure our economy so that existing forests are not cut and burned down? Now that humanity has attained global reach and unprecedented power to shape its destiny, limits to growth force upon us the question: who do we want to be and what world do we want to live in?”
[robot pollinators aren’t being built and won’t be purchased to pollinate our natural world, or even the produce you might try to grow in your backyard. Robot pollinators = death of wildflowers at the very least. Dinosaurs brought us flowers and now as fossil fuel they are taking them away. This is one example where tech solutions to biosphere collapse will benefit private wealth and not social good]
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“People need to understand that it’s not a single book being removed in a single school district, it’s a set of ideas that are under threat just about everywhere.”
“I do fear we’re losing sight of just how unusual this is,” Friedman said. “Book bans are becoming normalized in many places.”
“Book Bans Rising Rapidly in the U.S., Free Speech Groups Find
A new report from PEN America, the free speech organization, details a new rise of censorship efforts across the United States.”
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Emilio-Manuel Quental-Mateus:
Chile’s President Gabriel Boric said he would nationalize the country’s lithium industry
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Val Eisman:
“Ambitious targets intended to slam the brakes on our current mass extinction may already be slipping out of reach barely a year after they were established, new research suggests.
Data on birds and mammals reveal there's a huge time lag between environmental change and its impact on animal populations, of up to 45 years depending on the species and the drivers of change.
his means the historic 'peace pact with nature' pledged at the United Nation's Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in December last year may already be out of date, as the extent of this lag was not taken into account in projections of future losses.
"There is wide recognition that time is short for the integrated, ambitious actions needed to stop biodiversity loss by 2050," write Natural History Museum zoologist Richard Cornford and colleagues. "This work shows that time is even shorter than had been thought."
Cornford and colleagues show that the past impacts of habitat loss and climate change explain today's trends in bird and mammal population sizes better than recent impacts. Their findings imply we will not see the overall consequences of changes we implement now for at least a decade in most cases, and until then we will witness already locked-in effects of past land use and climate change on species abundance.
"Larger species typically display longer ecological lags than smaller ones," Cornford and team explain. So we'll see today's impacts on smaller birds and mammal populations in about a decade, but have to wait even longer for the full impacts, either good or bad, to emerge for larger species."
“The Current Mass Extinction Is Already Far More Dire Than We Realized”
[America’s 2 parties are dominated by heaping out death, destruction, inequality and injustice all while gorging themselves at the trough. Every move they make and every breath they take is in keeping with this agenda that damns the nonrich. This includes their offering token gestures to the99% which are done solely to perpetuate their assault. Their class warfare they wage never takes a rest. Democrats and Republicans have created this world and now we are paying the price.
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“RT News
Facebook Brands Seymour Hersh Reporting ‘False’
Facebook has decided to label US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s article on the Nord Stream sabotage as “false information”.
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Isabel Ebert \ Extinction Education April 20 at 12:46 PM
"The Earth Energy Imbalance is simply (Energy In) to the Earth system minus (Energy Out). As long as it is positive, Earth warms, when it is zero Earth stabilizes, and when it is negative Earth cools.
Between 1961 and 2020, EEI was about 0.48 Watts per square meter. Between 2006 and 2020, it was much higher, being 0.76 W/m**2.
Politicians, company CEOs, decision makers, policy makers, and the general public must learn these basic facts of EEI, and know that their efforts are futile until the EEI is reduced to zero, and even temporarily below to restore our planetary capacity to support life, including that of humans."
“EEI (Earth Energy Imbalance) is the single most important Metric to know to understand Earth warming”
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In America the powers run advertisement on Public Television expressly discouraging kids from going to college and these efforts coincide with a rash of child labor laws being passed throughout the country. The rich have no need for anything other than slaves and the consequences to the country of discouraging education are completely irrelevant. In America our politicians have completed replaced the concept of “country” with the “rich.” The 99% are welcome to serve this view of “country” or die. And that includes children who can now working in factories and bars.
But it doesn’t stop there:
“NY Times reports kids in schools across US forced into military indoctrination”
Nejla Routsong
“A lot of recruitment for these programs are happening in heavy communities of color,” he said….
In analyzing data released by the Army, The Times found that among schools where at least three-quarters of freshmen were enrolled in J.R.O.T.C., over 80 percent of them had a student body composed primarily of Black or Hispanic students. That was a higher rate than other J.R.O.T.C. schools (over 50 percent of them had such a makeup) and U.S. high schools without J.R.O.T.C. programs (about 30 percent).”
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“Traffic congestion, constant construction, powering lights and other typical city activities require vast amounts of energy. Learn how scientists are addressing these environmental issues with sustainable solutions.”
“Cooling Our Cities”
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I can appreciate the articles sentiment but we are already locked in to +2C today:
“Our window of opportunity to correct course and keep global heating below our 1.5C goal is closing rapidly.
We need immediate action and POTUS can deliver. Halt fossil fuel projects and declare a #ClimateEmergency now.”
“UN: World set to blow through 1.5C carbon budget in 10 years”
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“Religious persecution is when you are prevented from exercising your beliefs, NOT when you are prevented from imposing your beliefs.”
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Narcissist
“Since his retirement from politics, Barack Obama has displayed an astonishing lack of regard for the public good. Instead of serving his fellow human beings, he has mainly devoted himself to a rigorous program of conspicuous self-celebration.”
“Barack Obama Has Been One of the Worst Ex-Presidents Ever”
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Censorship:
The headlines “rt.com Blair knew Iraq bombing was illegal but ordered it anyway – media” was marked by facebook as “This post contains one or more links to a publisher Facebook believes is wholly or partially under the editorial control of the Russian government. Learn more”
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“Peter Carter, April 23 at 3:41 PM
EXTREME DROUGHT & FLOODS 2022
21 April 2023 ,WMO, State of the Global Climate 2022
These extremes will get much worse due committed increased climate change.
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The coming El Niño will reveal the depth of our 2 parties betrayal. And still it will grow worse
Transphobia, Environment, Abortion, etc nobody launches an attack unless they think they can navigate the assault to a reasonable chance of success. The country’s leadership can either hinder or through inaction facilitate that success. Biden is not the leader America needs
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