Orenburg, Russia on April 10, 2023 vs. April 11, 2024. Significant number of neighborhoods appear to have been built in a floodplain. (Sentinel-2 satellite) #flooding#russia#satellite#remoteimaging#disaster
Floodwaters are still rising in Russia and Kazakhstan a week after rapidly melting snow caused several rivers to swell beyond control. Water levels in the Ural river, Europe’s third largest, have risen far above bursting point to over 10 meters (33 feet), forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes. A Kremlin spokesperson described the flood as the worst the region has seen in 80 years. Read more from BBC News.
1/ #BillMollison's first words from The #Permaculture Designers Manual: DESIGN
PHILOSOPHY
"Although this book is about #design, it is also about
values & #ethics, & above all about a sense of
personal responsibility for earth care. I have written at
times in the first person, to indicate that it is not a
detached, impersonal, or even unbiased document
Every book or publication has an author, and what that author chooses to write about is subjective, for that person alone determines the subject, content, & the values expressed or omitted. I am not detached from,
but have been passionately involved with this earth,
& so herein give a brief vision of what I think can be
achieved by anyone."
2/ "The sad reality is that we are in danger of perishing from our own stupidity and lack of personal responsibility to life. If we become extinct because of factors beyond our control, then we can at least die with pride in ourselves, but to create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claims to consciousness & morality.
There is too much contemporary evidence of #ecological#disaster which appalls me, & it should frighten you, too. Our consumptive lifestyle has brought us to the brink of annihilation. We have expanded our right to live on the earth to an entitlement to conquer the earth, yet “conquerors” of nature always lose. To accumulate wealth, power, or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state."
Don’t know if it’s true, but I have just heard from my sib Tidy that “a state of emergency” has been declared for Austin the weekend of the eclipse. She says so many fucking weirdos are heading down here to stare at the sun through cardboard gas station glasses that the population is expected to DOUBLE. My weekend farmhand has already told me she won’t be coming in because she fears the traffic. IN JOHNSON CITY TEXAS, POP 1627. I cannot get behind this. Stay home. I beg of you. #Eclipse
#DHS will be the 1st in the fed govt to roll out a plan to integrate #AI into a variety of uses, from #crime to helping #disaster survivors.
DHS has seen the opportunities & risks of #ArtificialIntelligence firsthand. It found a #trafficking victim by using AI to create an image of the child 10yrs older. But it has also been tricked into investigations by AI created #DeepFakes.
Today in Labor History March 18, 1937: A natural gas explosion in New London, Texas killed over 300 students, teachers and parents in the worst public-school disaster in American history. The event led to worldwide sympathy. Even Hitler sent a telegram of condolences.