Some physical tasks exhilarate us; others, drain/wear us out.
👉Our EMOTIONAL/MENTAL states are similar. Feelings/behaviors can rev us up or, we may crash & burn from them.
When U look at this tree, U can discern where you're standing right now. Are U more like the withered barren tree on the left; or, are U more like the flourishing one on the right w/plush green leaves?
#Optimist: Das Glas ist halbvoll. #Pessimist: Das Glas ist halbleer. #AfD: Falls das Glas wirklich nicht voll ist, pinkeln wir lieber rein, als Wasser aus dem Ausland reinzulassen! Jawoll!
The annual wildfire season in Canada is coming to an end. Or, anyway, it should be by now.
But 2023 is unlike any other year. As of yesterday, there were more than 900 fires still burning, over half of them out of control.
Look at the area burned in the second graph below. The damage to wildlife is literally incalculable. Greenhouse gas emissions from all of these fires is off the charts.
Sure, some reply guy will tell you that forest fires are normal and natural and necessary. But not like this. What we’re seeing this year is an unnatural catastrophe caused by human industry — by the oil companies, their financiers, and the governments that support and subsidize them.
It’s a crime. It’s ecocide. And you know what? To them, it’s just Business As Usual.
@breadandcircuses yesterday I watched the documentary: Requiem for the American Dream (Noam Chomsky, 2015)
Now I'm reading news with a new lens. 😤
So much destruction is tied up with greed. I mean, knew that. But that the structures that hold it in place have been patiently, maliciously, strategically engineered, for profit - and endorsing harm to the 99% of us? 😢
@Marielvd@harld@raoulbeunen ...de portemonnee is altijd belangrijk, de uitdaging voor politici is kiezers soms niet alleen daaraan te laten denken wanneer ze stemmen, soms lukt dat, zeker als de dreiging groot en zichtbaar is #optimist