Snowdrops

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#photography
#winter
#flowers

🎵 But then I saw her fate
🎶 Now I’m a bereaver

- The Monkees, during their one gig playing a wake

2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice

New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-2025-in-top-three-hottest-years-on-record-as-ocean-heat-surges/

Again and again, I see the notion that humanity is committing "collective suicide" because we are not acting on #ClimateChange and other forms environmental destruction.

I do not accept this thesis. This is not suicide, it is murder - perpetrated by the oligarchs of this world and others who want the #FossilFuel economy going for their own profit.

And they have invested _massive_ amounts of money into propaganda to keep this system running. Not just by funding climate change denial - but also by promoting the concept of the individual "carbon footprint". Essentially, they have socialized the risks and privatized the profits, tricking us into believing that _we_ are to blame for not doing enough as individual persons, rather than _them_ for creating and perpetrating the system.

This is part of the "personal responsibility" ideology pushed by those who already own most of the world, but still want more. If _we_ as individuals share in the blame for _their_ decisions, even though _they_ gain all the benefits from them and we do not, then that means we would have to fight _ourselves_ to save the world - rather than the true villains of this story.

So let's put the accountability where it belongs, okay?

A rock, covered with different lichens (Cladonia sp.) and mosses

#lichensubscribe #mosstodon #nature #rocks

Spot on, couldn't have expressed it any better!

#ProLife #ProChoice #GunControl
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Back from about 7h bike and hike. Got up before 6am - totally worth it but with a couple of challenging sections.

It was quite a walk along this ridge. Sometimes pathless, sometimes directly at the cliff. But always with some gentle wind.

Just got a blister at my right heel. Luckily it only got worse shortly before reaching the bike. Time to resupply our medikit with anti-blister patches.

#hiking #wandern #mountains #alps #alpen #outdoors #photography #landscape #Nature #karwendel