Norobiik @[email protected]Dec 4, 2023

Experts say #ExtremeWeather brought by #ClimateChange, #EcologicalDisruption from #DamBuilding, #WetlandConversions, and #overfishing threaten food supplies and livelihoods for the millions who depend on #TonleSapLake, #SoutheastAsia’s largest lake. #FoodSecurity

Dwindling fish stocks hit incomes in #Cambodia | Inquirer Business
https://business.inquirer.net/435260/dwindling-fish-stocks-hit-incomes-in-cambodia-prey-to-climate-change

Dwindling fish stocks hit incomes in Cambodia, prey to climate change

KAMPONG PHLUK, Cambodia  - Fisherman Siem Huat has seen fish stocks dwindle in recent years in Cambodia's majestic Tonle Sap Lake, and with them, his family's sole source of

INQUIRER.net
BellingenNSWMay 14, 2023

The broken relationship between humans and nature:
Skimming the edited extract from Foreign Bodies by Simon #Schama:

#Displacement is a symptom of #Ecosystems under stress.
“The crashing of barriers between wild and domestic spaces has an ominous side."
"Clearcutting for suburban #Construction to meet the quickened demand has brought new residents ever closer to those ubiquitous reservoirs of #Disease."
The #AmericanDream (The #AustralianDream): the suburban hyperfertilised #Lawn
"The #Sprawl of herbicide-saturated, brilliantly lurid carpet lawns of “colonial” McMansions."
The cult of #Individualism
Cities, suburbanites and species out of place..

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/13/simon-schama-foreign-bodies-book-extract-broken-relationship-humans-animals
#EcologicalDisruption #HumanWildlifeInteractions #HWI #WildlifeTrade #Extinction #Biodiversity #Pandemics #Zoonosis

Simon Schama on the broken relationship between humans and nature: ‘The joke’s on us. Things are amiss’

More than ever, the relationship between our two worlds has been disrupted, says the historian. If we don’t mend our ways, will we face even deadlier threats than Covid, Sars and Mpox?

The Guardian
Preston WalbergJan 5, 2023
@ericholthaus, or any other meteorologist. Toronto (likely the whole Great Lakes region) has been experiencing a warm spell. We've not seen subzero temps for over a week. I've seen a few articles noting record daily highs, but I've seen nothing noting records for extended periods of unseasonably warm weather. Curious the significance of the event (standard deviations from mean). #ExtremeWeather #EcologicalDisruption