So hot we might die?
Relax. If it was THAT bad,
Someone would warn us.

#haiku #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #heat #RecordHeat #collapse #extinction #Cassandra #ClimateWarning #ClimateReporting #ClimateLogic

Snails that don't eat food and have iron shells! Threatened by deep sea mining
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 5).
#Biology #Conservation #Extinction #DeepSeaMining

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/celebrate-endangered-species-day-meet-the-scaly-foot-snail-the-most-metal-animal-in-the-world/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TIS_051526&utm_term=endangered%20scaly-foot%20snail&_kx=VisLG0kqBDd2CULr-mKgR5bMUlllZouh9hJnA_VvWCZ2nPFqqBM9K9jToYR9SmgV.WEer5A

There's a meme on FB that asks why no billionaire has funded the halting or reversal of climate change, just so people would revere them for literally saving humanity. This was my response:

Partly it involves a process change to everything we do, so it doesn't happen on a specific day and so there is no glory, like saving us from an asteroid that's about to destroy Earth. There is no definitive problem that on a certain day you can say "see, it's done".

Partly because the solutions involve changing how everything on the planet operates in a way that many people will regard as adverse, because even though we talk about caring about our kids, people are really a lot in it for themselves and if it comes down to them having a good time or leaving a livable world for their kids, they're going to have a good time and pretend to hope their kids will survive it.

Partly it's that there's good money in pretending it's not a big deal, and these are people who like to use money as their signal of goodness. To the extent they pretend they care about humanity, in many cases they're just trying to make a profit on the fact that others do.

Partly it's that the solution is actually something that even billionaires don't have enough to just buy outright overnight.

Partly it's that it cuts into their lifestyles, in many cases, because the are some of the most planet-intensive people in existence. One of the things we need to do in order to survive as a species is stop being consumption-oriented and they are the poster-children for consumption.

Partly it's that they do not perceive that the threat is to all of humanity, only to some of it, and they think the people who escape it will be the clever ones, who they imagine are the ones with money. They think that by becoming rich, they have avoided it, and that they are humanity's best chance.

Partly it's that they have a bunker in their basement that is prepper-stocked with what they imagine is everything they need and they just don't care about others.

Partly it's that although we revere them as super-smart for getting to where they are, we over-attribute intelligence and under-attribute sociopathy. So, yes, they don't care that much about others, but also they aren't in a lot of cases the smartest among us.

Partly it's that everything else they do they already model as saving humanity in one way or another, so the "high" of having these alleged bragging rights would not last long.

Partly it's that their notion of what "investing" in has nothing to do with outcomes you want to see in the world, and everything to do with what brings monetary return, which steers them in the wrong direction.

Partly they think there are too many people and it's good that most of them will die, so they are doing humanity a favor by culling its numbers. (I'm not going to get into the racial breakdown of the order in which people die, but there's probably a lot to be said there, too.)

Partly they may just do the calculation that there are cheaper ways to get adulation.

#climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDenial #collapse #extinction #billionaires #LateStageCapitalism #sociopathy #Consumption #AntiConsumption #sustainability #ClimateCulling

'necrosis'

#Necrosis #LoveTrees #DarkArt #AbstractArt #Surreal #Desolation
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