ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): climate change

Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts

Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Absolute lunatic.

The very best the State of Georgia has to offer.

Thursday, July 18, 2024

Reading

Kōhei Saitō
SLOW DOWN
The Degrowth Manifesto

Translated by Brian Bergstrom

KŌHEI SAITŌ
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

When [John] O’Neill examined quality of life relative to environmental damage, his research proved that the more stable a nation’s social foundation was, the greater the tendency for that nation to overshoot planetary boundaries. Almost every nation satisfied social demands by sacrificing sustainability.

This is an incredibly inconvenient truth to uncover. It means that using developed nations as models when helping emerging countries raise their living standards to attain the minimum social foundation will inevitably, when seen from a planetary point of view, lead us down the path to total destruction.

Monday, May 20, 2024

Currently Reading

George Monbiot
REGENESIS
Feeding The World Without Devouring The Planet

Monday, March 25, 2024

Still Reading

Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell
THE BOOK OF WILDING
A Practical Guide to Rewilding Big and Small

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Currently Reading

Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell
THE BOOK OF WILDING
A Practical Guide to Rewilding Big and Small

Friday, June 2, 2023

Currently Reading

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FEED THEM SILENCE

Lee Mandelo

Monday, May 15, 2023

Currently Reading

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HALF-EARTH SOCIALISM

A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change, and Pandemics

Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass

Monday, July 19, 2021

Andy Marlette

July 2021

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH

Life After Warming

David Wallace-Wells

Penguin, 2019

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.