H/T Lyle Lewis Environmental Coffeehouse *Sandy Peter D Carter Paul Beckwith Becky A Robertson Also, importation of rice is an important water saver as the huge amounts of HO2 required to grow rice is borne by the country growing the rice, therefore saving water by the countries buying rice.

Without people, there would be no cats, windows, cars, power lines, turbines—they exist because of us. HUMANS are killing North America’s birds.

Lyle Lewis The Earth is under chemical attack. open.substack.com/pub/cribb/p/th…

I’ll be off-grid in the backcountry for most of September with no connectivity. I’ll pop out occasionally for groceries, but otherwise I’ll be a rare sight here. Wishing you all well.

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This is stating the obvious but someone needed to publicly say it. The mainstream media only ever seems to mention the how "wonderful" and "ground-breaking" space exploration is. It's another fetish that will take us further into the ecological overshoot paradigm.

The U.S. Forest Service calls it forest health. But standing here feels like grieving at a gravesite. The life that once filled this forest is already gone, and what remains is a tinderbox for the fires to come.

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Vultures are among the most overlooked and maligned creatures on Earth. Their disappearance is unraveling ecosystems, spreading disease, and leaving holes in the fabric of life. On #VultureAwarenessDay (9/6), remember: without them, the world rots faster.

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Lyle Lewis INTERNATIONAL VULTURE AWARENESS DAY You may think us ugly & retched Making our living off of eating the dead Keeping Earth clean is what you're seeing We are Nature's guardians of health & well-being The garbage men & women of Planet Earth Preventing disease