🐝 Musings
the universe: “here is the gift of life! the odds of winning this are 1 in 400 trillion. what will you do with it?”
— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) October 4, 2022
humans: “i will act morally superior to others on the internet while helping make the earth uninhabitable for my kind and go extinct”
the universe: “k whatever”
(Conservation Science - 13 January 2021)
“Rewilding, renaturalization, or restoration is not about recreating the past, but recuperating the function of ecosystems by restoring keystone species and disturbance cycles that make them more resilient and less dependent on management.”
— spencer 🦀 (@Unpop_Science) September 11, 2022
excellent ecology thread: https://t.co/XzAp8nHzXU
“All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder — and ultimately impossible — to solve with ever more people.”
—Sir David Attenborough
Carbon tunnel vision conditions us to ignore the wounds inflicted on our world unless they are greenhouse gases. This is a gift to the industries destroying it before our eyes with cruder tools like bulldozers, abattoirs, nets, chainsaws, and pollution.https://t.co/wmixyZ5q5w
— spencer 🦀 (@Unpop_Science) July 31, 2022
“THE PAST: “An industrial ecosystem of unprecedented size and complexity, that took more than a century to build with the support of the highest calorifically dense source of cheap energy the world has ever known (oil) in abundant quantities, with easily available credit, and unlimited mineral resources.”
“THE PRESENT: We now seek to build an even more complex system with very expensive energy, a fragile finance system saturated in debt, not enough minerals, with an unprecedented number of the human population, embedded in a deteriorating environment.”
—Simon P. Michaux, PhD (Geological Survey Finland)
*Screams in forest ecologist* This (deliberate?) confusion between loss of profitability in a context of clearcut and the natural dynamics of forests must stop. Aging forests do not "die" and even less spontaneously combust. The promotion of sustainable forestry requires better https://t.co/FAGaHJtIbw
— Maxence Martin (@Max_Martin_PhD) September 20, 2022
(NorthernBeat - 28 July 2022)