Le Gerbier et le Roc Cornafion, seules îles samedi matin tôt sur la mer du Vercors.

#isere #myisere #grenoble #igersgrenoble #frenchalps #alpes #iseretourisme #photography #vercors

A nobbly, gnarly old hornbeam rising out of a sea of bluebells.

This is a familiar tree as I've shot it from a different angle in winter. I actually prefer this angle, so will be revisiting this scene in different conditions throughout the year.

I saw numerous birds flying in and out of the trunk while photographing it, so there's obviously at least one nest there.

#woodland #trees #forest #spring #bluebells #landscapephotography #nature #mastoart #photomonday

Why are so many climate scientists so scared and so angry?

Maybe it's because they know better than most of us how bad our situation today truly is, and how horribly we've been betrayed by our so-called leaders.

Here's an excerpt from an excellent piece on this subject by Alan Urban...
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Even if the planet stopped getting warmer right now, we would still be in big trouble. The ice caps would keep melting and sea levels would keep rising.

Look at what’s happening at a mere 1.2°C of warming. We’re already seeing some of the worst heat waves in human history, not to mention record-breaking floods, droughts, wildfires, and water shortages.

But of course, warming isn’t going to stop at 1.2°C. Because of the heat we’ve already trapped in the atmosphere, and because we continue to emit huge amounts of greenhouse gases every year, the climate is warming exponentially.

All of these climate-related crises are stretching farms to the limit, yet this is just the beginning. As crop yields decline and the population grows, we will see food insecurity get worse and worse until we’re in a global famine.

And that right there is why climate scientists are scared. They understand that human civilization was born during the Holocene, when global temperatures were very stable and stayed within a range of about 1°C.

As we push the planet out of that range and raise the temperature about 50 times faster than would occur naturally, it will become harder and harder to produce enough food to feed everyone, and this will lead to social instability, political upheaval, the worst migration crisis ever, and wars over resources.

Disasters that weren’t supposed to happen until we reached 1.5°C are happening now, so we can only imagine what will happen when we hit 2° or 3°C.

This is why top scientists from around the world are warning us that we face a ghastly future filled with untold suffering. They’ve been telling us over and over, year after year, summit after summit, that we have to stop burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible. But as you can see [below], the world keeps ignoring them.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40CollapseSurvival%2Ffaster-than-expected-why-climate-scientists-are-so-scared-985db6579f2e

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism

So we know the UK has a problem with #productivity caused by under-#investment; likewise we know all sorts of public & private services are being starved of investment....

Meanwhile #Germany is recording record levels of #ForeignDirctInvestment (FDI), and what do you know, the third highest source of that FDI is the UK... not least by firms looking to maintain a foothold in post-#Brexit #Europe...

Where's our investment gone?
Well looks like some of it is helping the German economy!

"Catamaran" by James DeFazio

Available at:
https://james-defazio.pixels.com/featured/catamaran-james-defazio.html

#catamaran #sailboat #sailing #blackandwhite #boat #fineart #seascape #nautical #fineartprint #wallart #artworkforsale #AYearForArt

The UK's #tory engineered #healthcrisis in one simple statistic:

in 1960 the Uk ranked 7th for #lifeexpectancy among OECD nations.... 60 years later in 2020 it had dropped to 23rd!

And if you want to have a look at the OECD data, what you can see is that the relative decline has been largely since 2010.... I wonder why?

The NHS (and our #health) is not safe in #tory hands

#SaveOurNHS
#GTTO

link to OECD data (use age range function to get the picture)
https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-birth.htm

Parquetout

#Isere #Matheysine #photography #landscapephotography