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KeithDJohnson

@KeithDJohnson@sfba.social

🌈💚 Editorial Guild at Permaculture Design Magazine / Teacher-Designer #Agroecology #EarthRepair🌎
https://www.permaculturedesignmagazine.com/
Born@312ppm CO2 (1952, organic garden farmer since 1975)
#TerraformEarth1st (w/ human-scale #earthworks, #water catchment, #restoration
#Homestead 10 A of partly forested sand in MI with my co-conspirator of 25 yrs, Peter Bane, (prev. #editor / #publisher of #Permaculture Activist, now Pc Design Mag, author Pc Handbook)
Be Fruitful & Mulch Apply

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

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2/ Snip "“The idea of growth is about to be phased out whether we like it or not. The economic model behind materialism, consumerism, & the social constructs associated with that, will have to go. We’ve got no choice there… The purpose of this work is to show the shortcomings of the existing paradigm. What will happen is we’ve got to make a better plan: once we understand our true boundary conditions, what will we really do?” Dr Simon Michaux of the Finnish
geological survey

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3/ Snip "Capitalism has forced the hyper-specialization of various regions into profitable mono-cultures which create single points of failure in the #food system. Just one example: 90% of the green leafy vegetables produced in the US from Nov — Mar are grown in the Yuma, AZ area. We import beef from South America & fruits from all over the globe. Staple grains have become just another globally traded commodity like steel or rubber. What this means is that practically nowhere in the developed world, & most especially not in the US, can people support themselves on locally produced foods. #Farmers markets are in no way capable of offsetting a major gap in imported foods. We are completely dependent on a highly complex global logistics chain in order to eat."

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4/ snip "Globally, approx 45% of crops (by calories) are grown not for human consumption but for animal feed & fuels. “The proportions are even more striking in the United States, where just 27% of crop calories are consumed directly — wheat, say, or fruits & vegetables grown in California. By contrast, more than 67% of crops — particularly all the soy grown in the Midwest — goes to animal feed. And a portion of the rest goes to ethanol & other biofuels."

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5/snip "The supply system fragility described above obviously affects far more than just food supply. All other critical supplies & materials needed for civilization similarly depend on foreign production, marine shipping, ports, truck drivers, warehouses, etc. Similar to the grocery store experiment, try going to your local hardware / home-improvement store & look at some “Made In _” labels. Just a couple examples: I found plywood made in Brazil & 1x4 lumber from Sweden.

Every aspect of our globalized supply chain is hyperfragile. When shocks eventually exceed the system’s resiliency, for example if a climate-caused #famine creates gaps in those “essential workers” so taken for granted during #covid, citizens of industrialized countries will experience shortages of building materials, gasoline/diesel, car repair parts, etc. Those shortages will create feedbacks affecting other sectors. A hyperfragile system pushed beyond its limit will experience impacts far exceeding the magnitude of the shock."

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6/ snip "Global warming doesn’t just mean temperatures getting warmer, it also means increasing extremes & variability. The hallmark of the was climatic stability. We’ve left that era behind.
“Extremely Hot Summers in the Northern Hemisphere have gone from happening 0.1% of the time in 1951–1980 to 22.1% of the time in 2009–2019. That is over a 200x (20,000%) increase!”

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7/ snip " is an easily overlooked but critically important factor to the stability of civilization. As Roger Hallam put it recently: “no insurance, no economy.” All property values in the US are underpinned by disaster insurance. If a property is in a zone, zone, earthquake zone, etc, you must carry the relevant insurance or you cannot get financing. If your property is deemed too high risk for insurance, no one is going to buy it because they will not be able to get financing. If insurers pull out of an area, the property values will tank, essentially becoming stranded assets. If businesses leave then residents don’t have jobs. It’s yet another example of a fragile system with a clearly defined breaking point that, once passed, will cause tremendous cascading impacts."

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8/ snip "Bill Rees is one of a number of #climate scientists who portray #climatechange as one symptom of a larger planetary problem of ecological #overshoot. In this excellent lecture (https://youtu.be/9oVTHKzC7TM) he briefly touches on: ocean acidification, freshwater contamination, #deforestation, soil #erosion, #desertification, overfishing and species #extinctions."

Key quotes:

“It’s not just mammals. Wild bird populations are also tumbling. Domestic poultry now constitute 70% of the world’s avian biomass. Average populations of thousands of monitored species of wild vertebrates, birds, fish, mammals, amphibians, have declined ~60% since 1970. Populations of #invertebrates, including essential #pollinators, are also in free-fall: Butterflies down 53%; beetles down 49%, bumblebees down 46%… All species monitored by WWF are down 68–70% in just 50 years.”"

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9/ snip "On average, the planet has lost 1% of its phytoplankton every year since 1900… “Over a century, this becomes a huge, huge decline,." Worm’s team estimates numbers have plummeted 40% since 1950. What’s more, phytoplankton numbers were more likely to dwindle in areas of the ocean that were warming. The loss of phytoplankton is a huge problem for marine food chains, because every creature in the ocean either eats phytoplankton or eats other organisms that depend on it. If their numbers decrease, the populations of these species drop as well. “The rest of the food web would basically contract". Even more chilling… is the potential impact on our atmosphere. The ocean absorbs 40% of the CO2 humans emit. Phytoplankton convert that CO2 into oxygen or die & bury it at the bottom of the ocean. If the phytoplankton are disappearing, the ocean as a carbon sink is declining, & that means more will stay in the atmosphere instead of being dissolved in the ocean.”"

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10/ snip😮 😲 😬
"Billionaires are, by definition, psychopaths. It is impossible to earn a billion dollars. Take a salary, let’s say $500,000/yr, & calculate how long you'd have to work, spending nothing, to earn your first billion. At $500k/yr it would take 2,000 years. Or, if you simply steal $3 from every single American, you can make a billion in a single year. Billionaires’ wealth comes only from wage theft from workers. It is never earned. It is estimated that ~5% of deaths in the US are attributable to poverty, making every billionaire a de-facto mass murderer. No one becomes a billionaire because they are intelligent or talented. They become billionaires because they are able to rob millions of other people into poverty, destitution, & early death & still sleep soundly at night. These are the people determining our future. They are brain damaged by power. If you are banking on billionaires saving the planet because “it’s in their best interest,” you misunderstand their interests."

KeithDJohnson, to random
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I learned a new word today (thanks to Wonkette): testeria; when men lose their shit.
The "...post immediately received national attention and provoked widespread testeria."
A much better and generally more appropriate word than 'hysteria'. '
There he goes again. Reacting like a typical testerical male.'

https://www.wonkette.com/p/black-idaho-drag-queen-mona-liza

KeithDJohnson, to random
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What does it take for a massive civilizational infrastructure to manage its catchments, watersheds, wetlands, & forests as preventative solutions to drought? I hope someone's asking questions like this (without threat of being suppressed, or worse, for saying so).

"Mexico City could run out of drinking water by the end of June, an event locals call "Day Zero."

Mexico City has long struggled to bring water to its millions of residents, but 3 consecutive years of low rainfall & high temperatures have created a serious emergency.

The Cutzamala water system — a series of treatment plants, reservoirs, & canals that provide water to tens of millions of people — is running dry.

About 40% of Mexico City's water is lost due to leaky pipes." https://www.businessinsider.com/mexico-city-water-crisis-day-zero-drought-rain-2024-5

KeithDJohnson, to random
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Rambling around YT for late-breaking news, YT's algorithm knows I like , so it shows me a guy named Don McMillan (new to me), a very funny who uses (I know right?) to get laughs.
He gets laughs!
Probably most appreciated by "Nerds, Geeks, or Dorks" or some combination thereof, like 'engineers', or something (he explains the differences with excellent charts & graphs). https://youtu.be/kwz-Md6OoyA

KeithDJohnson, to H5N1
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"Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison squirted raw H5N1-containing milk from infected cows into the throats of anesthetized laboratory mice, finding that the virus caused systemic infections after the mice were observed swallowing the dose. The illnesses began quickly, with symptoms of lethargy & ruffled fur starting on day 1. On day 4, the animals were euthanized to prevent extended suffering. Subsequent analysis found that the mice had high levels of H5N1 bird flu virus in their respiratory tracts, as well their hearts, kidneys, spleens, livers, mammary glands, and brains.

"Collectively, our data indicate that [Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza] A(H5N1) virus in untreated milk can infect susceptible animals that consume it," the researchers concluded. The researchers also found that raw milk containing can remain infectious for weeks when stored at refrigerator temperatures."https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/after-mice-drink-raw-h5n1-milk-bird-flu-virus-riddles-their-organs/

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Flooding, 3ft of hail, record breaking heat, forest fires and smoke, water shortages, and drought. A relentless heatwave with no historical precedent pushes the limits of survivability in Mexico. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/26/2242853/-A-relentless-heatwave-with-no-historical-precedent-pushes-the-limits-of-survivability-in-Mexico?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web

KeithDJohnson, to random
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Ken Burns delivered the keynote address to the 2024 undergraduate class during the 73rd Commencement Exercises. He observes that voting for Trump is voting for slavery.
https://youtu.be/9n1OqPzIKH4

KeithDJohnson, to random
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Good advice from Robert Reich.
@rbreich

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/my-message-to-the-graduating-class

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Photo of a sculpture of a child hiding under a school desk, with the caption "This Memorial Day we remember all the school kids who paid the ultimate price so Republicans can continue to get campaign donations from the NRA."

KeithDJohnson, to random
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#Sign of the times.
Some, most, political parties, on the other hand, insist on repeating the same mistakes over and over and over and...

pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
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If anyone here is near in the next few weeks: do come and see the Emma Stibbon “melting ice rising tide” exhibition at the Towner Gallery, which rather brilliantly connects her polar art with new work on the changing Sussex coast line.

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@pvonhellermannn Those of us thousands of miles away can enjoy digital views of her work at https://www.emmastibbon.com/galleries

Thanks for sharing the photos of species that thrive in your beloved chalky places.

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#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

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Jenna Orkin, on another platform, shared this image, without comment. I looked into the story. I was 11 at the time.:

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"Just 10 "superspreader" users on #Twitter were responsible for more than a third of the misinformation posted over an eight-month period, according to a new report.

In total, 34% of the "low credibility" content posted to the site between January & October of 2020 was created by the 10 users identified by researchers based in the US & UK. More than 70 per cent of posts came from just 1,000 accounts.

This amounted to more than 815,000 tweets." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-23/twitter-misinformation-x-report/103878248

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GOP gags House Dems. "MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republican leaders in the House of Representatives enforcing a ruling against Democrats that they are not allowed to say anything negative about Donald Trump including mentioning his criminal and civil cases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXOG-BEw_Kc

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Lawyering while #black and female is VERY threatening to GQP Trumpists, so they react vengefully. Rachel calls them out. https://youtu.be/UAV2qRnZ8aY

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