The Last Male Northern White Rhino on Earth Has the Best Caretaker.
This is an essay by Naomi Klein. If you have a few minutes, I encourage you to read it. She ties in a trip she took with her son to the Great Barrier Reef and another trip she took to North Dakota as part of the Standing Rock/Dakota Access protest to the consequences we will inevitably face as we “pause” in our efforts to control the changing climate as a consequence of the trump election and all that emanated from that. You may not agree with everything (or anything) Naomi Klein says or believes, but she’s a good writer who can make a compelling case supporting her advocacy.
Excerpt:
THE STAKES IN THE 2016 ELECTION were enormously high for a great many reasons, from the millions who stood to lose their health insurance to those targeted by racist attacks as Trump fanned the flames of rising white nationalism; from the families that stood to be torn apart by cruel immigration policies to the prospect of women losing the right to decide whether or not to become mothers, to the reality of sexual assault being normalized and trivialized at the highest reaches of power. With so many lives on the line, there is nothing to be gained by ranking issues by urgency and playing “my crisis is bigger than your crisis.” If it’s happening to you, if it’s your family being torn apart or you who are being singled out for police harassment, or your grandmother who cannot afford a life-saving treatment, or your drinking water that’s laced with lead—it’s all a five-alarm fire.
Climate change isn’t more important than any of these other issues, but it does have a different relationship to time. When the politics of climate change go wrong—and they are very, very wrong right now—we don’t get to try again in four years. Because in four years, Earth will have been radically changed by all the gases emitted in the interim, and our chances of averting an irreversible catastrophe will have shrunk.
This may sound alarmist, but I have interviewed the leading scientists in the world on this question, and their research shows that it’s simply a neutral description of reality. The window during which there is time to lower emissions sufficiently to avoid truly catastrophic warming is closing rapidly. Lots of social movements have adopted Samuel Beckett’s famous line “Try again. Fail again. Fail better” as a lighthearted motto. I’ve always liked the attitude; we can’t be perfect, we won’t always win, but we should strive to improve. The trouble is, Beckett’s dictum doesn’t work for climate—not at this stage in the game. If we keep failing to lower emissions, if we keep failing to kick-start the transition in earnest away from fossil fuels and to an economy based on renewables, if we keep dodging the question of wasteful consumption and the quest for more and more and bigger and bigger, there won’t be more opportunities to fail better. Nearly everything is moving faster than the climate change modeling projected, including Arctic sea-ice loss, ice sheet collapse, ocean warming, sea level rise, and coral bleaching. The next time voters in countries around the world go to the polls, more sea ice will have melted, more coastal land will have been lost, more species will have disappeared for good. The chance for us to keep temperatures below what it would take for island nations such as, say, Tuvalu or the Maldives to be saved from drowning becomes that much slimmer. These are irreversible changes—we don’t get a do-over on a drowned country.
🚨 The FCC plans to kill net neutrality on December 14 🚨
It’s real simple: ISP lobbyists are pushing the FCC to kill net neutrality so phone and cable companies can block apps, slow down websites, and charge fees to control what you see and do online.
Our only chance is congressional pressure and legislative action. But we need grassroots support. Tell your representatives that you support “Title 2” rules and ask for their help protecting a free and open internet.
Go to Battle For The Net to be connected to your congresspeople.
Please reblog.
Please listen to and amplify Native voices on this issue too.
The Zium Museum is a virtual museum packed full of a diverse array of artworks from 37 talented artists and game developers, ranging from beautiful abstract paintings to vast digital installations that could never exist in a traditional museum. A well constructed digital space that celebrates artwork in all forms.
MADiSON is a sinister supernatural first person horror adventure in which you use a polaroid camera to help solve puzzles and complete an occult ceremony to put an end to your torture at the hands of an evil demon.
Finnish antifascists beautifying their streets! If you see fascist propaganda, cover that shit up! [video]
Porque hemos muerto muchas veces, porque nos hemos rendido y apagado nuestros fuegos. nos hemos escondido entre ramas secas y hemos estado días bajo lluvias incansables. Porque nos han golpeado y aunque golpeamos de vuelta, siempre hemos acabado en el suelo. Porque nos hemos entregado cien mil veces al desencanto y hemos visto las ruedas y los piñones dar vueltas sin avanzar. Porque nos han dicho cómo va a terminar todo y que no podemos hacer nada para cambiarlo es que hoy llamamos a florecer. a volver a sentir. a olvidar las expectativas y volver a ser parte de la nada/todo
People take dog fighting very seriously and are very verbal against it
Yet cockfighting never gets any attention and is largely still legal and I’m sick of looking up roosters just to stumble upon a forum where people are openly talking about breeding birds to fight and all the gruesome results that come with it
Care about chickens people please
People will actively stand up against the dog fighting industry because dogs are pets, but cock fighting is largely ignored because we like to eat them, and they are therefore exempt from our compassion.
sometimes you just.. fuck a demon. have a one-night stand w/ an age-old malevolent entity. maybe even sometimes that blossoms into more. life's just like that, occasionally. like that's just how it is
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My 3 moods
1. hungry as fuck 2. horny as fuck 3. tired as fuck