Ian HuntI began to take note of these calculations about the weight of wild animals, industrially raised animals and animals for human uses (which fundamentally show up the scale of the multiple disasters of human re-ordering of the planet's life), a few years ago when an Australian writer did an essay on them -- afraid I forget her name. #EverdayEcocide #ecology #biomass #bioabundance #extinction https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/18/a-wake-up-call-total-weight-of-wild-mammals-less-than-10-of-humanitys
3/3. I could try to answer my own question (not with an unambiguous yes or no) but interested to hear from people involved in #Heritage on this -- I feel like our emotional attachments are skewed and there is not enough focus on the world that is coming, and one way of equalising this might be to start looking for cultural heritage at risk from sea level rise in a global, comparative way -- mapping it. #ClimateDiary #EverdayEcocide
2/2 #DanesMoss Here is the campaign page. https://savedanesmoss.com/ Is anyone involved here? The weary business of having to get legal costs to fight a council-led development that the council itself will ultimately decide on. (The massive defunding of local councils has been terrible, of course, and is part of this story: loss of expertise, govt bullying of the ones thay try to make good planning decisions, but still, when they go wrong they need to be called out.) #peatlands #EverdayEcocide
Felicity Martin recently described carbon offsetting as 'the land version of cryptocurrency'. Biodiversity accounting, trading, offsetting (they never call it bioabundance) is if anything an even more destructive and self-deceiving form of #EverdayEcocide . Peatbogs (this one up to 5m deep in places) are not fungible! I have become interested in the struggle to protect #DanesMoss, #Macclesfield, Cheshire. Letter here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/07/the-fight-to-protect-cheshires-irreplaceable-peatland