VELOCITAC - A Pact to Act in Defense of Life duxbury.wordpress.com/velocitac-a-pa…
#polycrisis #activism #Environment #life

This was fun. Give it a spin!

Tracking reality is, after all, an essential survival skill.

I'm not perfect. A tad too skeptical. I'll take it.

Test your misinformation susceptibility now! What is #YourMIST ? 🧐 yourmist.streamlit.app #misinformation #fakenews

Balloons do not float off into infinity.
They end up tangled in branches, fields, verges, shorelines or out at sea where whales & turtles mistake them for jellyfish.
I have often picked up the horrible muddy remains of balloons 😫
Please don't buy them!

Way of Life duxbury.wordpress.com/2024/01/12/way…

What's happening?

'Verification'

The process whereby 'Social Media' platforms attempt to tamp down bots and improve confidence in their veracity by /borrowing authority/ from governments and businesses.

Might this displace any role of government in regulating online commerce?

#water
Research ongoing to find out if Hydrogels can support 4X more efficient desalination using sunlight, among other potential apps.

news.mit.edu/2023/surprisin…

(The current evaporation limit via heat alone is 1.5 kilograms per square meter. This could go as high as 6 kg/m2.)

'knowledge confers a moral imperative to act.'

Instead of using the actual name 'Democratic party,' a few years ago the opposition abused the language by replacing the proper name with 'Democrat party.'

So...

Don't say 'Republican party' any more.

'Repulsive party' might fit. Driving people away.

Simply unamerican.

Stewardship = Survival

“As the original stewards of the natural environment, Tribes and Indigenous communities have expertise critical to finding solutions to the climate crisis and protecting our nation’s ecosystems' 
- CEQ Chair Brenda Mallory
whitehouse.gov/ceq/news-updat…

France has made plastic waste an urgent priority. Researchers have discovered plastic munching bacteria and are evolving them in the lab to supercharge The creation of enzymes that break the plastic down.

I’m posting the article from the Guardian in the thread.

By 2025 all…

The longer our media debate maintains its carefully cultivated blindspot on the role and function of Transnational Organised Crime throughout all of this, the more difficult it becomes to deal with its minions - and objectives.

David and I share a clear-eyed acceptance of the facts today.
I might be a little bit more optimistic.
I see this as a training issue... people just don't know what to do.
We are pushed off-balance by corporate exploitation.
But we've go the numbers on them.
We 'll figure it out!

The same people that brought you President Trump are funding the No campaign... the Atlas Network epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index…

Life is forever altered.

Given the obvious evidence that business as usual is not being reconsidered,

the concentration of toxins and microplastics in the air, water, and land

- and in us -

will continue to increase as industrial 'externalities' accrue in the environment.

Baseline anxiety increases with pollution pressure.
These foreign substances and chemicals in our bodies cause physical disease, along with neurological and cognitive dysfunction.

Amazes me that nobody has quantified this in a metamodel yet.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

'Shower Thoughts'

Alternative definitions of GDP:

Globalists Defending Profiteers

Government Dispensed Propaganda

Garbage Data Proliferation

Growing Deeper Problems

Giving Death Props

Guilty Denier's Pajamas

Gathering Doom Protocol

Grossly Distorted Policies

Your turn

Anyone out there reading the magazine Icarus Complex?
#ClimateAction #ClimateSolutions
icaruscomplexmagazine.com/manifesto/

(I've always had a thing for periodicals.)