WIST QuotationsMay 1

A quotation from Thoreau

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable, — of a bad one, to make it less valuable. We can afford that railroad, and all merely material stock, should lose some of its value, for that only compels us to live more simply and economically; but suppose that the value of life itself should be diminished!

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1854-07-04), “Slavery in Massachusetts,” Anti-Slavery Celebration, Framingham, Massachusetts

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #badgovernment #goodgovernment #government #humanlife #life #values

💧🌏 Greg CocksApr 5
A Fire Deficit Persists Across Diverse North American Forests Despite Recent Increases In Area Burned
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56333-8 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #fire #wildfire #bushfire #NorthAmerica #USA #Canada #management #planning #mitigation #climatechange #NAFSN #treering #firescar #forest #tree #vegetation #contemporary #model #severity #loss #cost #economics #ecosyastems #humanlife #infrastructure #risk #hazard #lossoflife #water #watersupply #waterresources
Der böse Hexe Njähähä 🧙‍♀️🪄⚡️Mar 26

That thing is not even just a security issue and serious danger to the own people.

We can watch that scum celebrating multiple death and destruction without mercy for civilians while looking forward to continue. #humanlife #maga #war #signalGate #attackPlans

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to <em>The Atlantic</em>’s editor in chief.

The Atlantic
Show threadLM LittleFeb 8
@gerrymcgovern TY for the post!
#BigData vs #ecosystems vs #HumanLife #Waterislife #water
OccuWorldDec 24

PRESSING THAT BUTTON
exploitation

#exploitation #button #billionaires #capitalists #devaluing #humanlife #commonstruggle #ClassSolidarity

Show threadLaemenPangDec 6
@Lazarou They feel nothing, they are dead inside. #Devoid. It is unsatisfied need for #Power and #Kapital at the expense of #HumanLife. It is a #LegalCrime world for most of us, and we are the victims. Victimized in every way you can concieve of since birth, but you are unaware or in #Denial. As the trajectory of your life goes on, you realize that #Autonomy and #Agency are hard to find, maybe in the absolute sense #Unattainable. #ConflictTheory
Steve Dustcircle 🌹Nov 30

#BigPharma Is the Only Reason Anyone Still Dies From #HIV

We have the means to eradicate #AIDS as a threat to #humanlife. #Greed is keeping this from happening.

https://newrepublic.com/article/188772/big-pharma-greed-hiv-drugs

Big Pharma Is the Only Reason Anyone Still Dies From HIV

We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.

The New Republic
Srijit Kumar BhadraNov 11, 2024

Why this discrimination by selling less healthy products in low-income countries like India?

Products sold by companies, including Nestle, PepsiCo, and Unilever, in India and other low-income countries were assessed as part of a global index and found to be less healthy than those in high-income countries, as per a Reuters report.The companies, among the biggest food and beverage MNCs, were assessed to, on average, sell less healthy products in poorer countries, according to the global index published by the non-profit group Access to Nutrition Initiative (ATNI).The index was first released in 2021, but this year is the first time it split the assessment into low and high-income countries.Reference: Food companies sell products that are less healthy in poorer countries, says report

#HealthAndSafety #PublicHealth #Human #HumanLife #MastodonIndians #MastIndia #India

Srijit Kumar BhadraNov 4, 2024
Family life is frequently fraught with deep sorrows, tragedies and pains that are difficult to articulate coherently to others. Others may consider these feelings ridiculous or irrational. It frequently feels as if there is no other option except to live with this pain, swallowing it whole for the rest of one's life.

#Human #HumanLife #FamilyLife #PersonalChallenge #MentalHealth
8Petros [$ rm -rv /capitalism/*]Oct 22, 2024

#capitalism #accounting #externalisation #TheCommons #environment #HumanLife #subversion #economy

I am not sure how to phrase a query for the search (and do not want to use an LLM), so let me ask here.
I am looking for people and resources relevant to formulate structured requirements of nature-centric accounting, to integrate usually externalised costs of "enviroment services" aka the commons, materials, and human life, into mainstream capitalist P/L accounting.
Seemingly non-revolutionary, in effect it could upend the whole capitalism which relies on externalisation of costs and privatisation of benefits.
Is anybody doing anything in this regards? Please?