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dr. gianluca grimaldaDay 65: After a smooth 9-hour boat ride over the Sepik river, we made it to Sisimagung, Northern Papua. This is the 65th day of my no-fly trip from Italy to the Solomon islands. The coastline is beautiful, what you could describe as paradise on earth. Coconut trees gently bend over sandy beaches and the sound of the waves quietly resound among villagers busy with their fishing nets or cooking earths. It is then all the more upsetting that this beauty is slowly but incessantly being destroyed by sea level rise. This is what Jeffery Bae, a local resident, tells me in the few hours I have here before getting on a truck to Madang. It seems impossible that a sea so quiet can become the agent of destruction, but this is precisely what happens, as Jeffery shows traditional houses made with sago and bamboo leaves having been dismantled by the latest storm surges.
"We will have to relocate", tells me Jeffrey with an empty, "but we don't know where, because right behind our village there's a swamp".
Once more, I hear the same story: no help from national, regional governments, and neither from international organisations.
How many million stories are similar to Jeffrey's, and I wouldn't hear were it not for my slow travel.
Check interview here:
https://youtu.be/hk4Vr9p5ZFc
#refusetofly #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #climateemergency #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #collapse #TippingPoint #papuaisland #PNG #Wewak #Sepik #WestSepik #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco
"My village is being destroyed by sea level rise": Interview with Jeffrey from North PNG
Protyus A. GendherIts effects were cumulative: each layer intensified the demands placed on households while eroding the conditions required for transmitting essential skills. What appears as individual struggle is, in fact, structural design. #collapse
Collapse of the Extraction Stack – How Policy, Economics, and Labor Restructured the Household and Erased Generational Skills
How Policy, Economics, and Labor Restructured the Household and Erased Generational Skills The Extraction Stack is the layered system that reshaped American domestic life over the last half‑century…
Eudaimon ꙮ"It's Not What You Think" | Frankly 147
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPctKcmnTvQ&t=0
I don't insist on publishing here each video Nate Hagens publishes, be it his personal reflections (like this one), be it an interview or a round table. Still, I recommend you follow his work and learn with him.
I have liked this one very much, and I totally recommend you watch it. Here's the description, and see why I think that what he says is so important, especially in our current predicament:
> In this week's Frankly, Nate explores a pattern of thinking that permeates so many of our conversations: we often decide what we think before we've fully heard what's being said. Using the metaphor of a chessboard, he invites listeners to examine how we process information through a series of expanding perspectives. At the closest range, we instinctively assess people and ideas through lenses of threat, familiarity, and belonging. Soon after, conversations become filtered through ideologies, tribes, and cultural labels. That makes it harder to separate the argument itself from the person or source presenting it. From renewable energy to geopolitical conflicts, Nate presents real-world examples of how these deeply human shortcuts can limit our ability to learn from one another and shape the trajectory of our civilization itself.
> As the camera continues to pull back, a larger picture emerges. Beyond personalities and factions lie the structural forces shaping our world: energy, economics, and the biophysical realities that underpin civilization. The view widens again to include the living Earth itself, along with the possibility of a different future beyond the trajectory of our current social and economic game. Nate argues that the work of our time is learning to hold those instinctive ways of thinking alongside broader systems perspectives, so we can see the whole board without feeling pushed across it.
> Are our strongest convictions helping us understand the world, or narrowing what we're able to see? How does the scale of our perspective shape the futures we believe are reachable? And if a more resilient future is possible, what kinds of thinking will help us find a path toward it?
Show Notes and More:
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com
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0:00 Introduction
2:30 Lens One: Friend or Threat
6:47 Lens Two: Us vs. Them
7:53 Lens Three: Seeing the System
10:52 Lens Four: Planetary Stakes
11:50 Lens Five: The Long Repair
13:01 Holding All Five Lenses
16:55 Personal Reflection
#NateHagens #TheGreatSimplification #Collapse #Transition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPctKcmnTvQ&t=0
I don't insist on publishing here each video Nate Hagens publishes, be it his personal reflections (like this one), be it an interview or a round table. Still, I recommend you follow his work and learn with him.
I have liked this one very much, and I totally recommend you watch it. Here's the description, and see why I think that what he says is so important, especially in our current predicament:
> In this week's Frankly, Nate explores a pattern of thinking that permeates so many of our conversations: we often decide what we think before we've fully heard what's being said. Using the metaphor of a chessboard, he invites listeners to examine how we process information through a series of expanding perspectives. At the closest range, we instinctively assess people and ideas through lenses of threat, familiarity, and belonging. Soon after, conversations become filtered through ideologies, tribes, and cultural labels. That makes it harder to separate the argument itself from the person or source presenting it. From renewable energy to geopolitical conflicts, Nate presents real-world examples of how these deeply human shortcuts can limit our ability to learn from one another and shape the trajectory of our civilization itself.
> As the camera continues to pull back, a larger picture emerges. Beyond personalities and factions lie the structural forces shaping our world: energy, economics, and the biophysical realities that underpin civilization. The view widens again to include the living Earth itself, along with the possibility of a different future beyond the trajectory of our current social and economic game. Nate argues that the work of our time is learning to hold those instinctive ways of thinking alongside broader systems perspectives, so we can see the whole board without feeling pushed across it.
> Are our strongest convictions helping us understand the world, or narrowing what we're able to see? How does the scale of our perspective shape the futures we believe are reachable? And if a more resilient future is possible, what kinds of thinking will help us find a path toward it?
Show Notes and More:
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com
---
0:00 Introduction
2:30 Lens One: Friend or Threat
6:47 Lens Two: Us vs. Them
7:53 Lens Three: Seeing the System
10:52 Lens Four: Planetary Stakes
11:50 Lens Five: The Long Repair
13:01 Holding All Five Lenses
16:55 Personal Reflection
#NateHagens #TheGreatSimplification #Collapse #Transition
MidnightOut-of-Control Icebergs Are Wreaking Havoc on the Oceans
GrumpyOldFart“Iran Warned Trump: If You Do Not End War on Lebanon, We May Strike Israel Without Warning”
by Jeremy Scahill in Drop Site News on Substack
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“Tehran believes it won a historic victory over the U.S., but is prepared for the deal to fall apart, a senior Iranian official tells Drop Site”
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony
Brian Gordon“Capitulation Day”"
"we no longer employ qualified people to handle matters of war and peace, but leave war planning to entertainers and negotiations to profiteers.”
It’s hard to overestimate Trump’s and the Republican’s stupidity and venality.
“Trump has so far committed $2.5 billion in taxpayer dollars to killing renewable energy projects.
"Yes, $2.5 billion to destroy already-approved, cost-effective clean energy projects while Americans are suffering from soaring electricity prices thanks to data centers and high gasoline prices.”
#ClimateChange #Collapse #Narcissism #pathocracy
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-trump-champion-of-renewable
A very British famine
Factcheck: Nine false or misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas - Carbon Brief
