KeithDJohnson

KeithDJohnson, 5 months ago to random

1/ Derrick Jensen wrote: "Premise One: Civilization is not and can never be sustainable. This is especially true for industrial civilization.

Premise Two: Traditional communities do not often voluntarily give up or sell the resources on which their communities are based until their communities have been destroyed. They also do not willingly allow their landbases to be damaged so that other resources—gold, oil, and so on—can be extracted. It follows that those who want the resources will do what they can to destroy traditional communities.

Premise Three: Our way of living—industrial civilization—is based on, requires, and would collapse very quickly without persistent and widespread violence..."

https://derrickjensen.org/endgame/premises/

KeithDJohnson, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to permaculture

1/ Reduce your need to earn.
#permaculture #economics Commenters have informed me that this is in Reading, W of London, on Broad St.

KeithDJohnson, 11 days ago to climate

A useful & startling chart: "A look back at half a billion years of earth’s #climate history. Within about 25 years we will be entering a temperature realm not seen since the #Pliocene 3 million years ago."
[Article is one year old.]
https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to-the-apocalypse-7790666afde7

KeithDJohnson, 5 months ago to random

Sink, sank, sunk.
When we ignore #hydrology, infiltration, #soil, & runoff management, we create the conditions for #flooding.
I say, let it be lake & #wetlands again.
https://westobserver.com/news/united-states/their-land-is-sinking-but-tulare-lake-farm-barons-defy-calls-to-cut-groundwater-pumping/

KeithDJohnson, 2 months ago to random

🧵 1/ #SharonAstyk wrote:
"A bit of good news today, even as "H5N1 is found in Ohio cows, & cats exposed have died - the strain transmitted to an agricultural worker seems only to have one of the mutations required for easy human to human spread. The BAD news is that this mutation was found ONLY in the human case, which means that it may have occurred IN the human case, which is very bad.
Let's put that in context - I doubt that even all the agricultural workers in contact with infected herds have been tested. Moreover, given the heavy reliance on undocumented workers in most agricultural businesses, I'd be shocked if someone showing symptoms of viral illness weren't either afraid to come in for testing or fired by the bosses who don't want the hassle. But that one sequence is cool.🤨
But let's assume that we get lucky, & it is a few years before the virus starts transmitting human to human. What I want to talk about today is the food supply in a larger context."

KeithDJohnson, 2 months ago to random

Some elevators help you envision equivalent measurement classifications.

KeithDJohnson, 6 months ago to random

Ecosystems and immune systems collapsing?
"Bangladesh battles record dengue deaths as disease pattern changes
The densely populated country faces its worst-ever outbreak in history, with more than 1,500 dead and hospitals packed to the brim". https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/21/record-dengue-deaths-in-bangladesh-experts-flag-change-in-disease-pattern

KeithDJohnson, 3 months ago to permaculture

#Permaculture instructor #AndrewMillison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the Northern border of #Senegal to see an innovative land recovery project within the Great Green Wall of #Africa that is harvesting #rainwater, increasing #food security, & rehabilitating the #ecosystem. #restoration https://youtu.be/WCli0gyNwL0

KeithDJohnson, 1 month ago to random

I'm a Tenured College Professor. I'm Quitting. Here's Why.
by Jessica Wildfire

"Most of my professor friends can't support themselves. That includes the fancy tenured professors, even at nice schools. They have sugar mamas & sugar daddies. They're married to lawyers and bankers, or IT managers. If they're like me, they've got a secret side hustle.

Here's an irony:

My university forces everyone to disclose outside income. So if you have a second job or a side hustle, you're technically supposed to report it. You're supposed to ask them for permission. They can say no.

That's right, the same university that gave me a chocolate bar for a raise also says I can't take on a second job to support my family. They're worried it would distract me from all the free work I'm doing for them." https://www.okdoomer.io/im-a-professor-heres-why-im-walking-away-from-my-tenure/

KeithDJohnson, 4 months ago to gardening

Yesterday in the pit #greenhouse. That snow should all melt off in today's very rare sunlight. #gardening

Exterior photo of the pit greenhouse nearly buried in snow. Thornless blackberry vines are trellised around the perimeter walls.

KeithDJohnson, 1 year ago to random

Philanthropy exists to launder the reputations of the rich.

KeithDJohnson, 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to Israel

1. 'AND', the most powerful word in any language?
   Sharon Astyk (a Jew by marriage) wrote the following rules for discussing #Israel / #Palestine / War in a FB group she administers.

"Hi Folks. I just want to set down rules for any discussion of Israel/Palestine/ProtoWWIII.
Here are the rules.

1. MORE THAN ONE THING CAN BE TRUE AT THE SAME TIME, INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY:
   #Jews were mass murdered over and over again and have a justifiable fear of being murdered again AND that fear has made us do horrifying things to the Palestinians over and over again that are not justified in any way.
   Jews have lived in Israel for thousands of years, and have a historic claim to it AND we use religious language and assumptions that may be mythological to most. AND real Palestinian people lost their homes unfairly. More than one people can have a historic claim to the same place.

KeithDJohnson, 8 months ago to Futurology

A selection of #photos from my #rewilding files. An asphalt drive and abandoned parking lot at a rest stop in W. Michigan, being reclaimed by Life.

I love it when that happens.
I like to help it along.
Resisting takes too much energy.

#restoration #ecosystem #asphalt #reclamation #water #SoilBiodiversity #succession #complexity

Further up the drive, wild grapes, creeping blackberries, and poison ivy grapple with grasses and forbs to colonize the asphalt.
Maples are totally colonizing the cracks in the cement curbs of the drive.

KeithDJohnson, 7 months ago to permaculture

"Every year the world subsidizes fossil energy adds 12 trillion dollars to the global economy. Take that away and you are in a fine pickle. You had better find something else to spend it on, and quick.

Here are a few items from my shopping list. All of these are steps along the way to a New Carbon Economy, one that mines greenhouse gases from the sky, burns them for energy, and then buries the #carbon waste underground, essentially forever." https://peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2023/09/my-new-12-trillion-dollar-annual-budget.html
#biochar #forests #MarinePermaculture #wetlands #remineralization #albedo #permaculture #CO2 #reforestation

KeithDJohnson, 5 months ago to permaculture

1/ 'Away' has gone away.
"In 2019, researchers in Australia estimated that we ingest a credit card’s worth of #microplastics every week.

Businesses have an opportunity to save some $10 billion in material costs if they replace just 20% of their single-use plastic packaging with reusable alternatives. But the shift will also require buy-in from customers, who will have to embrace a host of unfamiliar products & practices.
American culture needs to “dispose of that disposable mindset, where everything is to be used and thrown away,”"
https://grist.org/solutions/zero-waste-circular-economy-reuse-refill-containers/
#permaculture #economics #waste

KeithDJohnson, 5 months ago to climate

11/27/2023 - The intensity and frequency of extreme #rainfall increases exponentially with global warming, a new study finds. The analysis by researchers from the Potsdam Institute of #Climate Impact Research (PIK) shows that state-of-the-art climate models significantly underestimate how much extreme rainfall increases under global warming – meaning that extreme rainfall could increase quicker than climate models suggest. Extreme rainfall will be heavier and more frequent. Society needs to be prepared for this.”
https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/future-floods-global-warming-intensifies-heavy-rain-2013-even-more-than-expected

KeithDJohnson, 4 months ago to Futurology

"For decades, beavers were considered pests – trapped & shot on sight. Now the attitude towards nature's best engineers is changing, & farmers are working to bring them back.
#Beavers are vital to #ecosystems, as their dam building habits spread water through parched landscapes. This can not only help to regulate the flow of water, it provides another important service – keeping fires under control. Beavers are nature's firefighters.
In northern New Mexico, Darr has seen farmers "drastically" change their perception of beavers. "They were pretty hesitant, but they saw first-hand how the beavers provided sustained, reliable #water sources throughout the year, even during the hot dry summer we had. To see it is to believe it. We just have to show people what beavers can do for other wildlife, & humans."
#permaculture #climate #drought #flood https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240111-the-us-is-bringing-back-beavers-because-theyre-natures-best-firefighters

KeithDJohnson, 3 months ago to conspiracy

Rebecca Solnit wrote: “I don’t know whether these #billionaires know what a city is, but I do know that they have laid their hands on the city that’s been my home since 1980 & used their wealth to undermine its diversity & affordability, demonise its poor, turn its politicians into puppets & push its politics to the right. They have produced many kinds of dystopia without ever deviating from the line that they are bringing us all to a glorious utopia for which they deserve our admiration.
By producing​ such extremes of wealth, tech is returning us to a kind of feudalism, with a few powerful figures accountable to no one. Here’s #ElonMusk, the world’s richest person, who invited in misinformation, disinformation & hate, providing a platform for extreme right-wingers, racists & #conspiracy theorists, while also using his #Starlink #satellite technology first for & then against the Ukrainian military in their conflict with #Russia. ”
#SanFrancisco #SiliconValley

https://archive.is/ZuACG

KeithDJohnson, 5 months ago to random

"Eerily similar to #HIV"
"Roughly a third of adults who get #COVID-19 report having had what is considered long COVID. And months after the initial infection, a staggering number of those who haven’t recovered - up to 80% - have some trouble carrying out their daily activities.
Researchers have found that although one’s risk of developing long COVID increases with the severity of the initial infection, people can and do develop long COVID even after infections that were asymptomatic or considered mild.
#Vaccination dramatically reduces a person’s chances of developing long COVID. A fully vaccinated individual is five times less likely to continue to have any symptoms or ill-effects three months after their initial infection compared to someone who has not been vaccinated."
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/10/in-cleveland-and-beyond-researchers-begin-to-unravel-the-mystery-of-long-covid-19.html

KeithDJohnson, 6 months ago to random

Isostatic rebound and plate readjustment as Earth redistributes the melting ice water load on the crusts. Expect more shaking, quaking & baking.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/coastal-town-iceland-evacuates-anticipation-volancic-eruption-rcna124888

KeithDJohnson, 1 month ago to Christianity

Brian Broome (on another platform) wrote:

"I was just reading the story about the woman who left 1,000 dollars in tips at a #taco joint because she thought she was gonna be #raptured. [during the eclipse]
When she wasn't, she went back to the taco joint and demanded her money back accusing the servers of stealing it somehow.
And I'm really hard-pressed to think of a better analogy for the state of American #Christianity."

KeithDJohnson, 1 month ago to random

Reflecting on Columbine, 25 years later, a survivor writes: "When a door plug falls off a plane, we ground hundreds of planes and investigate. When it’s believed a car battery might cause a fire, millions of vehicles are recalled. When a batch of lettuce isn’t processed properly, we remove it from the shelves and the FDA posts a warning. We regulate, investigate and set up systems and protocols for safety in this country for nearly everything — except guns. We’ve set up a national hotline for suicide prevention, but nothing exists to report suspected would-be mass murderers. Why? Why do we refuse to do better?
If we’d taken mass shootings seriously 25 years ago, how many children would be alive today? How many families’ loved ones? How much blood has to be spilled before it’s enough? Will our collective empathy ever kick in?

I am doubtful."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/columbine-school-shootings-anniversary_n_6611798be4b0d81853f96577

KeithDJohnson, 1 month ago to random

#JimWright wrote:
"Donald Trump is fundamentally broken inside.
His brain is filled with faulty circuits forged by a lifetime of wealth, privilege, and never ever being told no.
He's not a functional human being, he's a spoiled, ignorant, selfish, self-centered, power-mad psychopathic serial abuser who is utterly lacking in empathy, compassion, self-reflection, self-control, self-restraint, or any of the normal checks and balances of a healthy mind.
He can't be fixed.
Donald #Trump needs to be isolated from power for the safety of society."

KeithDJohnson, 13 days ago to TeslaMotors

#Musk is a free-speech absolutelynotist.
"This is why right-wing #billionaires sue people reporting on them," continued Collins, who previously worked as a reporter for #NBC News covering, among other thing, right-wing disinformation. "They know they can't win these lawsuits. But they also know legal fees will cripple the little guy reporting on their lies & crimes. This is how free speech is actually chilled—vengeful dipshit billionaires.
"This is the latest example of billionaires & pandering politicians abusing the legal system to retaliate against their critics & harm the public's right to know,""
https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-media-matters-suit

KeithDJohnson, 5 months ago to permaculture

1/ How to quit capitalism.
by @Daojoan "Let’s start with something controversial: Capitalism is not an economic system. It is a philosophical & ideological force that shapes our lives, environment, & perception of humanity.

It’s a behemoth that thrives on relentless growth, often at a devastating cost. Under its reign, we witness the widening chasm of inequality, where the affluent soar on the wings of wealth while the less fortunate are left to the whims of an unforgiving market.

Our planet, the cradle of life itself, is treated as a commodity, its resources extracted with reckless abandon, its delicate #ecosystems pushed to the brink for profit.

In its unbridled form, #capitalism has ushered in an era where consumerism is king, & possessions are the yardstick of success. In this relentless pursuit of more, we have lost sight of what truly matters — our connection to each other, our harmony with nature, & our sense of #purpose beyond material gains." https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/how-to-quit-capitalism
#permaculture #economics