markrstoll

@markrstoll@masto.ai

Author of Profit: An Environmental History, from Polity. Professor of environmental history, Texas Tech University. Also author of Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (Oxford UP, 2015). Born at 313 ppm.

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markrstoll, to history

A very interesting exhibit in New York on environmental posters through the decades. Fascinating!

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/arts/design/review-poster-house-climate.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU0.nNLj.BZycony6coTm&smid=url-share

#environmentalism #greenwashing #envhist #histodons #environment #NYT

markrstoll, to history

Ramya Swayamprakash: “Stoll’s storytelling is incisive and compelling ... [and his] writing is delightful.... In a world as divided and at peril as ours, #Profit makes for an excellent teaching resource ... using the book as the intellectual backbone of an #environmental #history survey class. Profit could not have come at a more prescient time.”

https://networks.h-net.org/group/reviews/20015103/swayamprakash-stoll-profit-environmental-history

#envhist #environment #Histodons #capitalism

markrstoll, to environment

If you haven't yet, check out Ramya Swayamprakash's review of #Profit for H-Net Reviews:

https://networks.h-net.org/group/reviews/20015103/swayamprakash-stoll-profit-environmental-history

#capitalism #environment #envhist #Histodons #economy

markrstoll, to environment

Enthusiastic review of #Profit in H-Net Reviews!

https://networks.h-net.org/group/reviews/20015103/swayamprakash-stoll-profit-environmental-history

#envhist #environment #Histodons #capitalism #globalcapitalism

markrstoll, to climate

This article is drawing a lot of well-deserved ridicule today:

Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels

Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/03/back-into-caves-cop28-president-dismisses-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels

markrstoll, to Colorado

Interesting #NPR story about the return of #wolves to #Colorado as mandated by voters.

Wolves are returning to Colorado. But is it too crowded for them to thrive?

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/02/1215438481/wolves-are-returning-to-colorado-but-is-it-too-crowded-for-them-to-thrive

#environment #environmentalism #rewilding

markrstoll, to Belgium

Belgian court orders 55% emissions cut from 1990 levels

Court of appeal ruling means government has only until 2030 to reach target

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/belgian-court-orders-faster-emissions-cuts-as-countrys-climate-targets-insufficient

#Belgium #climatecrisis #climate #environment #TheGuardian

markrstoll, to food

#COP28 : #KingCharles warns of ‘vast, frightening experiment’ on natural world

UK monarch addresses world leaders at climate summit where more than 100 states commit to transforming #food systems

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/01/cop28-king-charles-warns-of-vast-frightening-experiment-on-natural-world

#environment #climatecrisis #TheGuardian

markrstoll, to history

A great article (long read) on the history of the ecology of the Great Plains Grasslands. With (short!) quotation from yours truly!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/other/the-most-imperiled-ecosystem-grassland-wildlife-declining-in-west-texas-great-plains/ar-AA1kaS1O

#envhist #histodons #environment #ecology #GreatPlains #grasslands #EndangeredSpecies

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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So, there's this old ballad, meant to be sung as a duet. There's one line that I never quite understood, which is "you know a hog must root." See:

My initial guess was it's the woman in the story describing that she wants her home a certain way, same as a pig wants its wallow a certain way. It occurred to me later that maybe the sense is more like "because I know you will never change."

Could be a sexual meaning, but given the rest of the song that seems unlikely?

markrstoll,

@ZachWeinersmith I think your first guess is right -- that she knows he'll never change.

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/democracy
#smbc #hiveworks #comics

markrstoll,

@ZachWeinersmith Some truth to this, of course, akin to Churchill's "democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." But it's a little too cynical and bitter for me. With some changes, it could work much better, as it does in some European countries.

markrstoll, to FIRE

‘There’s still beauty’: a #NationalPark bounces back after California’s biggest single #fire

The recovering #ecosystem of #Lassen Volcanic national park offers lessons on how to protect public lands in a #climatecrisis era

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/23/lassen-volcanic-national-park-dixie-fire-greenville-california

#California

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Potable
click for bonus panel: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/potable
#smbc #hiveworks #comics

markrstoll,

@ZachWeinersmith Note that the first cholera pandemic started in 1817 in Calcutta. Before that, it was unknown outside India. Not a problem for Medieval Europeans!

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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This is no doubt entirely the consequence of growing up on an Early Internet that was largely cynical male nerds, but it's amazing the extent to which nice comics about relationships have become popular! We all thought the Sunday Comics pages were sappy because editors insisted on it, but it's what the public wanted all along.

Anyway, enjoy today's butt-plug/death comic on smbc.

markrstoll,

@ZachWeinersmith The "research" for this panel must have been ... stimulating.

markrstoll, to anime_titties

Some good news for everyone:

released in in effort to prevent extinction in UK

Nineteen captive-bred cats released at secret location in in first phase of project

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/13/wildcats-released-wild-cairngorms-scottish-highlands

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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This is weird but, do you have any musicians you don't like because they sound too good? Like I just can't get into Joan Baez because her voice is too pretty for folk music. I'd much rather hear Hedy West, whose voice is quite pretty, but actually sounds like a song would've been before mass media. Like I recognize Baez as great, but it just doesn't work for me thematically.

Example of West if you haven't heard her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_iJqpFuJns

markrstoll,

@ZachWeinersmith Odetta is classically trained but -- oh my God -- what her voice can do to songs!

If you don't like Baez, you're going to hate early Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins. I suppose I'm fine with lovely voices singing folk songs because young white girls strumming autoharps and earnestly singing folk music were all the rage when I was growing up in the 1950s/60s.

markrstoll, to climate

"This year’s summer might be relatively cool compared with the ones to come, scientists say, if humans do not slow and eventually halt the burning of fossil fuels, which releases climate-warming greenhouse gases into the atmosphere."

Free link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/09/world/hottest-summer-global-map.html?unlocked_article_code=zWb8GuSM5pjC-2L_gmtqBnzUMUn-N7Vp3XjlMcGcCx9SKOM0okAuw9b6dkWx95QVciBE-KA4_W8YSGwsiWuL0C0qLxjebt3j7kwH8WKeQoJ1mstWB9Z2E9llAi3SQlHntT6duudp6j7SJxAmXWg3WYuy9n8DpK0ABsz1WbOfPXS3sHxCWafMNdwLSW6j9gyTAjIYVXyoronGmmM16nRSdN6vlQ-ogqlQR2nmtiK_MR1mtazK6k5AyVvGf4ccTr2OZOEt-85yDVMmLUovbXJQ5A-qy-WVitJl-EF9MRDb2AEqR1P16ojqEH89C_Gq4t4tSixU4AWoyzrmYjcim_aORxHPgzmE6Z484Xjg0vduPgZT&smid=url-share

#NYT #climatecrisis #environment #climatechange

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Sanctum
Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/sanctum

markrstoll,

@ZachWeinersmith "Kayqa huk museomanmi pertenecen!"

seanbala, to random
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I didn’t realize that you were moonlighting at the Arkansas State Plant Board - @markrstoll

Thank you for your service 😂

markrstoll,

@seanbala See no weevil, hear no weevil, speak no weevil!

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Bonus panel here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/only-one

Gain all the powers of a patreon supporter here: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h

#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics #ultimatepower

markrstoll,

@ZachWeinersmith So, this guy with the sword is ambidextrous. Whose head did he cut off to get that power?

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Funny thing - when you read more scholarly histories of science it's amazing the extent to which nobody is ever that far ahead of the field. Even people we think of as rebels - Einstein, Cantor, Darwin, were firmly inside existing discussions and movements. I remember one author saying good scientists are a year ahead of the field, great ones are 5, the greatest are 10, and more and more that seems right, even generous.

markrstoll,

@ZachWeinersmith That rings true. Even in other fields, like history. Most scholars and scientists go running after The Latest Thing, like kindergarten soccer players crowding around the ball.

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Was
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/was (click for bonus panel)
#smbc #hiveworks #comics #linguistics

markrstoll,

@ZachWeinersmith I'm sad because that's the simple past, not the past imperfect. Past imperfect would be "I was teaching badly. I was feeling unhappy. Etc." But since you did this in the past, your past is imperfect, too.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/past_imperfect_tense

flexghost, to random
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“We Are All Domestic Terrorists”

  • Republican motto
markrstoll,

@flexghost The Sedition Party!

KimPerales, to climate
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Some good news for the🌎: August forest clearing in Brazil’s Amazon down 66% compared to the same month last year, with #deforestation decreasing for 5 consecutive months. #ActOnClimate
#ClimateCrisis
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/deforestation-in-the-amazon-rainforest-continues-to-plunge/

markrstoll,

@KimPerales I look forward to the day when they begin reporting #reforestation statistics.

markrstoll, to Turkey

in have identified massive structures below a Roman-era castle. Includes a church and the best-preserved temple to Fascinating.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/01/1191263572/turkey-archaeology-zerzevan-castle-discoveries

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