In the late 1950s Walt Disney Productions paid $1 per live lemming for the suicide sequence in "White Wilderness" (1958), to chuck 'em from a truck down a cliff. Director James Algar was rewarded a Disney Legends Award 40 years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)

https://web.archive.org/web/20141124032228/http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141122-the-truth-about-lemmings

#harshTruths #DisneyLegends

White Wilderness (film) - Wikipedia

Older people agree that no one is 'prepared' for these 17 harsh truths about aging

"How your mind stays young while your body starts to slow down."

Upworthy

15 hard truths that people swear made their lives so much better

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/harsh-truth-better-life-ex1

@bert_hubert completely true and also well documented in the more scientific reports on public administration.

If I could redo my studies, I would immediately again choose for public administration because it’s a ā€˜cynical’ study is done properly. At the Twente University it’s done properly.

You kinda get a mirror to look into to see that your need for job security feels way more important than achieving the goals of the organisation that you are a member of.
#harshtruths

Either I’ve now heard every #timkeller sermon, or they’re repeating some sermons before showing whole catalog on the ā€œGospel in Lifeā€ podcast, OR, he twice warned that you WILL DIE if you don’t clean your apartment. #harshtruths

šŸ¤” Genuine question: When the #science overwhelmingly tells us that our existing lifestyle choices will lead to huge sacrifices for the lives of our own children and future descendants, which category do you fall in to in justifying continuing to: fly; eat meat & dairy; buy unnecessary stuff; etc?

(Please boost for greater sample size.) šŸ‘

#ClimateChange #Capitalism #Growth #Degrowth #FossilFuels #Wildfires #War #Famine #Immigration #Pandemic #Disease #Drought #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #HarshTruths

I’m unaware of the science.
0%
I don’t believe the science.
0%
I don’t care for future generations.
21.4%
Other (please comment).
78.6%
Poll ended at .

ā€œWe live in a world that is now controlled by a handful of insatiable billionaires.

They become richer by impoverishing the rest of us, and raping the Earth.

They and our politicians are not going to save us.

They are either oblivious to the destruction they are causing, don’t care, or have determined the only way to save the planet is to depopulate it.ā€

https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/110837178632453662 via @breadandcircuses

#harshtruths

Bread and Circuses (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image 🄵 It's hot as hell in South America, in the Middle East, in Southern Europe, in China and Southeast Asia, and in much of North America — so many heat waves, and so many heat deaths, it's almost impossible to keep track. šŸ”„ Forest fires are STILL out of control in Canada, sending *double* the previous record amounts of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. ā˜€ļø But that's not all we have to worry about. Because climate chaos also will destabilize our economies, disrupt food chains, cause crop failures, and more. Our Mastodon friend Geoffrey Deihl, aka Sane Thinker (@gdeihl), has some strong words about what we must expect, and what actions we should be prepared to take... _______________________ These heat waves, droughts, and floods are destroying agriculture. If agriculture fails at scale — and it will if we stay on this path — societies will crash, massive inflation will rise, and hundreds of millions of people will migrate to escape death only to find closed borders. Infrastructure will break, including hospitals, medical care, and medicines. Riots, military law, and governmental collapses will be in the daily news, if our power is on to see it. This is how the economy is going to break if we don’t act. This situation was foreseen 50 years ago by the oil industry. Exxon funded its own scientists to perform studies that predicted the crisis we’re in today with remarkable accuracy. Exxon's executives chose to minimize and hide this information, and our congress, bought by oil, couldn’t be bothered to look closer. We also have a compromised, corporate owned mainstream press that wallows in routine sins of omission, and a murderous lack of urgency in reporting on the #ClimateEmergency. Finally, they’re forced to give it coverage, because the planet is thrashing before our eyes. What they won’t do, however, is tell you how to change the outcome. We live in a world that is now controlled by a handful of insatiable billionaires. They become richer by impoverishing the rest of us, and raping the Earth. They and our politicians are not going to save us. They are either oblivious to the destruction they are causing, don’t care, or have determined the only way to save the planet is to depopulate it. We have to save ourselves. The fastest way to do this, perhaps the only way, is to deprive them of money. We need to slow this economy down to a crawl, or be complicit in watching our world burn and drown. It is time to sick out, protest, strike and walk out. I know it’s hard, I know it’s scary, I know it involves risk, but if enough of us do it, we can’t all be fired. We will gain the upper hand. It’s the only way. We can either sacrifice now, or sacrifice everything later, and it appears later is here. _______________________ There is much more in the full article, and I urge you to read the whole thing. FULL ARTICLE -- https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/the-economy-is-going-to-break #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Degrowth

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On this, the warring stars' most blessed day, remember that the Republicans would totally be the fascist Empire, the Democrats would be the ineffectual Senate, and antifa would be the cool Rebellion. #HarshTruths #MayThe4th #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #MayTheFourth #StarWars