Just to say it, the environmental crisis is purely pollution, deforestation and over farming.
Carbon dioxide is not a real problem. It is at best, a pointless distraction from the real problems, and at worst, a method of implementing both a global taxation system and a population control measure at the same time.
It's also the #1 mechanism for greenwashing, my aunt has gotten on the climate train with her husband(they are now booking their third flight of the year as well), her husband, although a lovely chap, was telling me about "how now can produce aluminum without co2 emissions".
I tried to tell the poohr guy that with aluminum production for example, there was more of a problem with things like slag and sulphuric acid being released into the waterways, but was faced with cricket chirping and bambi eyes, it never ends!
To echo what Mara has added, I have fairly radical ideas about what needs to happen to help the environment. I want plant, animal and insect life and species to return to 1970 levels. And further reductions to land and water pollution. I absolutely see a scary environmental crisis.
But I do not think there is a climate crisis. And I will never regard CO2 as a problem (it's even well below ancient maximums and optimum levels for plant life).
The public are being misled on this with a combination of exaggeration (hottest days since records began - if you ignore records which report similar ninety years ago or greater thousands of years ago) and omission (ancient high temperatures without industrial revolutions or high CO2, current recovering coral reefs and any reporting of growing antarctic ice, massive long term world climate trends dictated by solar cycles, etc...) along with much much greater awareness and reporting of events.
Also, I used to like the Green Party thirty years ago because you could talk freely about this stuff.
And also I find the making life more difficult for people's dependence on cars to be cruel. And the refusal to recognise that people's jobs and lives absolutely require cars also cruel.
People will drive cleaner and cleaner cars anyway. No bullying to use currently unsuitable technologies required. People in terraces and flats really need cars too.
When the technology is suitable people will buy it.
Also, while I'm here, why the hell is the country and environmental movement speeding towards national energy insecurity, blackouts and sky high bills? Because of the foolish net zero agreement and foolish rejection or ignoring of nuclear for base-load assurance.
Thanks for sticking in there….your words act like ripples on the surface of a lake, the energy of the words passing from one to the other……planting seeds, affirming reality, building strength and resistance.
I'm so grateful for you, for Nevermore, for Paul Cudenec, from across the ocean here in Australia. Thanks to all of you. I feel like if it wasn't for you all I would have gone that little bit more batshit crazy in 2020. I'm still trying to get my head around what it means that almost everyone capitulated when the heat turned up. I feel like an imposter because I don't get out there and do anarchist things due to ME/CFS and CPTSD. But then on the other hand, I consider I must be truly an anarchist because I didn't throw out the basic understanding that made me one when the pigs came to fuck us in the face. I just don't know what to do with them now, how to function in this new world. Well, this new old world. I don't even think this new world is the new world. It is as hard as steel but as flimsy as gossamer so it's hard to know if we're flat sticking into the 4IR prison forever or if the whole thing is going to collapse next Thursday.
It's like there's no land at the top of the Faraway Tree, just swirling mist in every direction. Maybe it's necessary for the collective to be so cast adrift. Maybe we're being born and it just all feels like utter death. I don't know.
Everyone has to do what they can, your life situation and eventualy illnesses that follow do not dictate what you feel in your spirit.
There is even one thing thats worse than the lifestyle anarchists and those "scene people", and thats those fuckwitts that want to review your "anarchist CV" and dictate what your opinion are(like described at the bookfair above) and decide that you aren't entitled to certain opnions because you aren't "doing enough".
I'm sure there are plenty of things you *can* do you just have to find them and figure out which ones are right for you.
Having ones head "screwed on right" is also a wonderful attribute, from what you write, you seem to doing well in that department!
Thank you truly, Uncle Walrus, for your heartwarming comment. I do seem still to have a lot of shame around being unwell. I want to write about current and future society, and I want to get out and get involved in local food production and creative community endeavours, and that I can't do any of those things ATM drives me barmy (though my health has stabilised a lot with a year of the disability support pension and bunches of Feldenkrais so here's hoping).
Things happen to people, sometimes people get poisoned, sometimes people have too much intensity or emotion in their life which pushes them beyond their breaking point, which one applies to you is none of my business, but it's ok to forgive yourself for being sick.
However here is a side note, any eventual "recovery" will be on you.
For *me* recovery involved a strict excercize regime, cannabis and a slight change of diet where I had to avoid as many seed oils and eat as "natural" as possible(my conditions are different than yours), I have no idea what "recovery" looks like for you though so I'm not trying to lay my shit on you and trying to be preachy. Getting into food production is great! A good place to start might be just some lights on your countertop and some herbs, or a small grow tent! Personaly I'm about to press a bunch of apples into cider, I don't even drink alcohol usualy, but I'm extremely excited about my own cider from start to finish!
Anyway I'm going off on another monolouge! In short, theres nothing wrong with being sick.
Heres a shameless self plug, come join our party until telegram becomes unbearable(which is probably real soon) we have posted some of your articles about guerilla gardening etc there, a lot of the writing in Nordic language but some English and some English speaking subscribers too, and a lot of the subscribers are people who aren't even anarchists who have been tricked into subscribing into an anarchist news channel. Hope to see you join our party even though we frequently post about both posetive and negative things.. https://t.me/corvidnews
Just to say it, the environmental crisis is purely pollution, deforestation and over farming.
Carbon dioxide is not a real problem. It is at best, a pointless distraction from the real problems, and at worst, a method of implementing both a global taxation system and a population control measure at the same time.
It's also the #1 mechanism for greenwashing, my aunt has gotten on the climate train with her husband(they are now booking their third flight of the year as well), her husband, although a lovely chap, was telling me about "how now can produce aluminum without co2 emissions".
I tried to tell the poohr guy that with aluminum production for example, there was more of a problem with things like slag and sulphuric acid being released into the waterways, but was faced with cricket chirping and bambi eyes, it never ends!
To echo what Mara has added, I have fairly radical ideas about what needs to happen to help the environment. I want plant, animal and insect life and species to return to 1970 levels. And further reductions to land and water pollution. I absolutely see a scary environmental crisis.
But I do not think there is a climate crisis. And I will never regard CO2 as a problem (it's even well below ancient maximums and optimum levels for plant life).
The public are being misled on this with a combination of exaggeration (hottest days since records began - if you ignore records which report similar ninety years ago or greater thousands of years ago) and omission (ancient high temperatures without industrial revolutions or high CO2, current recovering coral reefs and any reporting of growing antarctic ice, massive long term world climate trends dictated by solar cycles, etc...) along with much much greater awareness and reporting of events.
Also, I used to like the Green Party thirty years ago because you could talk freely about this stuff.
And also I find the making life more difficult for people's dependence on cars to be cruel. And the refusal to recognise that people's jobs and lives absolutely require cars also cruel.
People will drive cleaner and cleaner cars anyway. No bullying to use currently unsuitable technologies required. People in terraces and flats really need cars too.
When the technology is suitable people will buy it.
Also, while I'm here, why the hell is the country and environmental movement speeding towards national energy insecurity, blackouts and sky high bills? Because of the foolish net zero agreement and foolish rejection or ignoring of nuclear for base-load assurance.
Thanks for sticking in there….your words act like ripples on the surface of a lake, the energy of the words passing from one to the other……planting seeds, affirming reality, building strength and resistance.
I'm so grateful for you, for Nevermore, for Paul Cudenec, from across the ocean here in Australia. Thanks to all of you. I feel like if it wasn't for you all I would have gone that little bit more batshit crazy in 2020. I'm still trying to get my head around what it means that almost everyone capitulated when the heat turned up. I feel like an imposter because I don't get out there and do anarchist things due to ME/CFS and CPTSD. But then on the other hand, I consider I must be truly an anarchist because I didn't throw out the basic understanding that made me one when the pigs came to fuck us in the face. I just don't know what to do with them now, how to function in this new world. Well, this new old world. I don't even think this new world is the new world. It is as hard as steel but as flimsy as gossamer so it's hard to know if we're flat sticking into the 4IR prison forever or if the whole thing is going to collapse next Thursday.
It's like there's no land at the top of the Faraway Tree, just swirling mist in every direction. Maybe it's necessary for the collective to be so cast adrift. Maybe we're being born and it just all feels like utter death. I don't know.
What are "anarchist things"!??!
Everyone has to do what they can, your life situation and eventualy illnesses that follow do not dictate what you feel in your spirit.
There is even one thing thats worse than the lifestyle anarchists and those "scene people", and thats those fuckwitts that want to review your "anarchist CV" and dictate what your opinion are(like described at the bookfair above) and decide that you aren't entitled to certain opnions because you aren't "doing enough".
I'm sure there are plenty of things you *can* do you just have to find them and figure out which ones are right for you.
Having ones head "screwed on right" is also a wonderful attribute, from what you write, you seem to doing well in that department!
God bless, and good luck sister.
Thank you truly, Uncle Walrus, for your heartwarming comment. I do seem still to have a lot of shame around being unwell. I want to write about current and future society, and I want to get out and get involved in local food production and creative community endeavours, and that I can't do any of those things ATM drives me barmy (though my health has stabilised a lot with a year of the disability support pension and bunches of Feldenkrais so here's hoping).
Things happen to people, sometimes people get poisoned, sometimes people have too much intensity or emotion in their life which pushes them beyond their breaking point, which one applies to you is none of my business, but it's ok to forgive yourself for being sick.
However here is a side note, any eventual "recovery" will be on you.
For *me* recovery involved a strict excercize regime, cannabis and a slight change of diet where I had to avoid as many seed oils and eat as "natural" as possible(my conditions are different than yours), I have no idea what "recovery" looks like for you though so I'm not trying to lay my shit on you and trying to be preachy. Getting into food production is great! A good place to start might be just some lights on your countertop and some herbs, or a small grow tent! Personaly I'm about to press a bunch of apples into cider, I don't even drink alcohol usualy, but I'm extremely excited about my own cider from start to finish!
Anyway I'm going off on another monolouge! In short, theres nothing wrong with being sick.
Thank you for your reply! :)
Heres a shameless self plug, come join our party until telegram becomes unbearable(which is probably real soon) we have posted some of your articles about guerilla gardening etc there, a lot of the writing in Nordic language but some English and some English speaking subscribers too, and a lot of the subscribers are people who aren't even anarchists who have been tricked into subscribing into an anarchist news channel. Hope to see you join our party even though we frequently post about both posetive and negative things.. https://t.me/corvidnews