I hope that progress will be made in recognizing medicine as a great social preserving and preventing force and that the day will come when the doctor will be regularly paid and chiefly engaged in keeping people well, not in curing them after they are impoverished and wasted by sickness.
-- D. F. Ford (1921)
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
-- Herbert Simon
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HerbertSimon #Attention #Information
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
We tend to overestimate short term changes and underestimate long term changes.
-- Ian Morrison
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IanMorrison #Change
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico
True understanding and intelligence depend upon an individual's ability to turn an idea around in the brain and verbalize (or write) it clearly.... The human mind is a synthetic instrument.
-- Frank Reuter
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrankReuter #Learning #Understanding #Writing
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico
In a networked world, ubiquity conquers superiority -- a widely accepted technology will overwhelm even a technologically superior rival.
-- Kevin Kell & Gary Wolf
This one is especially Urgent: Defend Chaco Canyon | Environmental Action
Chaco Canyon and its surrounding area are one of the most pristine wildernesses left in the US. This landscape is bursting with natural and historical treasures. Wildflower meadows, riverside woodlands, and sprawling deserts around Chaco Canyon shelter wildlife of all kinds—elk, to bobcat, birds & more.
#ChacoCanyon #Wilderness #EnvironmentalAction #Petition
https://environmental-action.org/take-action/urgent-action-needed-defend-chaco-canyon/
Last day to comment on proposed BLM rollbacks to expanded Chaco Canyon protections (put in place in 2021 during Biden's first year in office -- #ThanksBiden). The Protect Chaco website walks you through it and provides a comment to copy!
#chacocanyon #environment #nationalparks #USpol
https://protectchaco.org/over-15000-people-want-to-protect-chaco/
Thank you for your support! We are closed to further submissions, but the Dept. of the Interior is taking comments until April 7. How to submit on e-planning: 1. View the project on e-planning titled: “Evaluation of Potential Revocation of Chaco Withdrawal” 2. Click on “Participate Now” at the top of the page. 3. You can either copy and... Read more »
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby-Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Trump admin is lookin to overturn the federal drilling ban near Chaco Canyon, and gave a short 1 week comment period.
https://nativenewsonline.net/environment/tribes-object-as-trump-administration-moves-to-reopen-chaco-canyon-to-drilling/
#ChacoCanyon
Amid strong objections from tribal nations and advocacy groups, the Trump administration is moving to overturn a federal drilling ban near Chaco Canyon, a landscape widely regarded as sacred by Indigenous communities across the Southwest. The administration recently announced a short, one-week public comment period as it considers opening the area to additional oil and […]
The deadline is April 7--only one week allowed for public comment!
Please join me in reading, signing and sharing.
Urge the Department of the Interior to keep the 10‑mile protection zone around Chaco in place. Submitting a public comment is a critical way to stand with Tribes and communities calling for the protection of this sacred landscape.
#ChacoCanyon #NPCA #Petition
https://www.npca.org/articles/10970-why-chaco-culture-s-buffer-matters
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