If the world wasn't so full of greedy, idiotic, assholes we could have ultra high speed zero-emission electric trains connecting North America and Asia and we wouldn't need to pollute the skies or the seas.

🤝

We probably burn more fuel in a day with all the air traffic in the world than it would take to build the entire railway from Prince George or Edmonton through Fairbanks, across the Bering Sea/Land Bridge and on to Yakutsk, Moscow, and Beijing.

It's such a shame, you know?

#Rail #theWorld #Canada #USA #Alaska #Siberia #Russia #Ukraine #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels #HighSpeed

"In Russia, being an Indigenous rights activist makes you a "terrorist" and gets you a jail term. Yet another step toward the country's darkest future."
- Dr. Ian Garner‬

#Sibéria #Russia #IndigenousPeoples
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/jailing-daria-egereva-plight-russia-indigenous-people

From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en

82 years ago, on May 18, 1944, #Russian special forces deported #Crimean_Tatars from their homes by force, without warning. Families were given just minutes to pack. At least 200,000 people (most of them women, children and the elderly) were taken by cattle trains to #Central_Asia and #Siberia. Their homes in #Crimea were taken by #Russians arriving in the peninsula.

My thoughts on "The lost #pianos of #Siberia": I'm mainly jealous of the quixotic book title, not so much of the actual endeavours on the wrong side of the Ural mountains ... https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/pianos-lost-and-found.html

#bookreview #travelwriting #nonFiction #musicalInstruments