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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
7d ago“When a wild place becomes the backdrop for a tragedy, do you think we should keep it open to families, or does safety have to come first?”
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What changes when you treat the Earth as alive?: Technologists
The metaphor that makes bad law We are not the villains of this story, though every other camp casts us that way. We are the people who actually cleaned the rivers.... Is zero extinctions achievable, or is that hubris?: Degrowth advocates
The arithmetic of more We’ve watched this argument cycle for forty years and it always hits the same wall. Every economy runs on a physical base — land, biomass, energy — and a growing one needs more of it each year. The extinction wave is not a puzzle to out-clever.... Is zero extinctions achievable, or is that hubris?: Pragmatic triagers
The list nobody wants to make I allocate a conservation budget. That sentence already casts me as the villain. But the money is finite and the species are not, so someone draws the line — and pretending we don’t just lets it get drawn by accident.... Is zero extinctions achievable, or is that hubris?: Technologists
Reversible For all of history, extinction meant gone. Past tense, permanent, the end of the sentence. That is about to stop being true, and most of conservation hasn’t updated for it. We freeze tissue from the last individuals.... Is zero extinctions achievable, or is that hubris?: Conservationists
Twenty-two birds In 1987 the last wild California condor was taken into captivity. Twenty-two birds left on Earth. Everyone with sense said let it go with dignity. We didn’t. Today more than five hundred fly, half of them wild.... Is zero extinctions achievable, or is that hubris?: The Story
The only number that doesn’t bend Extinction is the one environmental loss with no undo. A population can fall ninety-nine percent and still recover; at one hundred it is simply over, for good.... What changes when you treat the Earth as alive?: Indigenous practitioners
It was never a theory For us this was never an intellectual position to be argued into. The Māori speak of whakapapa — a genealogy that includes the river, the mountain, the forest as literal relatives.... - Rdc66...
Hello everyone, my name is Ray. Originally from Northern Minnesota, I’ve lived the past 15 years in Las Vegas. Quite a cultural difference! I was a restaurant manager and consultant for 20 years and am now retired....