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Newest XR NS initiative aiming at the Premier Steven MacNeil. Take pics where he should be acting and publish on social media. This is a clear cutting site by Annapolis Royal.
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We are to become one large carboniferous slime ... due to the wish that all be the same! Thus algae sides ...
 
This is horrendously obvious where I live. Ponds that used to shelter coots have NO coots this year. The usual huge flocks of geese of various types are reduced to a few birds. Wildflowers are no longer where they used to be, neither are the healing plants. Don't ask me what I think of the over development of Parks!
 
KayTheCurler said:
The usual huge flocks of geese of various types are reduced to a few birds.
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We have a huge overpopulation problem with Canada geese. Watching trends year to year (and I'm not a birder), I'd say that water bird populations (mallards, mergansers, gulls) appear to be more stable than land birds (except crows, which seem to be fairly consistent). Large reduction in finches and song birds, but even the mourning dove and grackle populations seem in decline.

KayTheCurler said:
Wildflowers are no longer where they used to be, neither are the healing plants.
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What I'm finding, watching the trail, is the waxing (and sometimes waning) population of invasive plant life. Garlic mustard is a huge problem, at present, as is dog strangling vine. Phragmites are a nightmare in damp patches, almost completely overwhelming the native bullrushes. Knotweed is going to be, unless they keep on top of it. Himalayan balsam is very bad in England, not as bad around here that I've seen.

The common healing herbs, though, that I think of, that grow trailside around here are catnip, mullein, wild raspberry, horsetail, and they're all doing fine. Catnip is a bit prone to being choked out by other weeds, Virginia Creeper in particular, but it also grows in other spots around here in fairly large quantity. Lots of soapwort and motherwort (my friggin' backyard, yikes!) around.
 
The base rule of good news is to not tell the bad news or nous will fade as an intimate cognizance!

Thus we did it ... MU's tardy ... the late mon ...
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
Nobody will be able to keep up the present standards of consumption.
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And that is just fine. Christmas gone, except for homemade stuff that people like or need. (Art, socks, coffee cups, recycled books and textiles.) Eating strawberries only in June July and early September. Squash, carrots, parsnips, potatoes, beets, cabbage the bulk of winter vegetables. Canning and growing a lot from your big back vegetable garden compared to your tiny living requirements. Bragging about how old your sturdy cell phone is. Eating real food, cooked in a real kitchen, using real time, no "skipping the dishes", in family/community (no cell phones allowed), where possible. Using the library, a lot, to borrow books and magazines and other entertainment. Also using other "libraries" of common goods/services, where you can borrow a sander, a specialized saw, use a router, access a spray booth, etc. And "living knowledge" libraries, where you can learn how to change your oil, replace a light switch, fix a simple plumbing problem, deal with an insect infestation in your broccoli, etc.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
For the ones who say you can’t use renewable sources in cold environments
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If you read the article, the facility is only used when the sun is out from 12 to 24 hours a day. If they tried to do that in the winter - like we do living in Canada - everybody would be dead. You need to do a few reality checks. When something sounds too good to be true - it is.
 
Pontifex Geronimo 13 said:
If you read the article, the facility is only used when the sun is out from 12 to 24 hours a day. If they tried to do that in the winter - like we do living in Canada - everybody would be dead. You need to do a few reality checks. When something sounds too good to be true - it is.
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Didn’t know that Alberta doesn’t have sun half of the year.
 
Pontifex Geronimo 13 said:
You need to do a few reality checks.
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Alrighty then ...

Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People
  • Global ecological deterioration indicates that the human enterprise has ‘overshot’ long-term carrying capacity.
  • We are currently growing the human population and economy by liquidating once-abundant stocks of so-called ‘natural capital’ and by over-filling natural waste sinks.
  • Humanity is literally converting the ecosphere into human bodies, prodigious quantities of cultural artifacts, and vastly larger volumes of entropic waste. (That’s what tropical deforestation, fisheries collapses, plummeting biodiversity, ocean pollution, climate change, etc. are all about.)
  • Corollaries: We will not long be able to maintain even the present population at current average material standards.
  • And, population growth toward 10 billion will accelerate the depletion of essential bioresources and the destruction of life-support functions upon which civilization depends.
  • The recent history of human population dynamics resembles the ‘boom-bust’ cycle of any other species introduced to a new habitat with abundant resources and no predators, therefore little negative feedback. (The real-life example of reindeer herds can be found here.)
  • The population expands rapidly (exponentially), until it depletes essential resources and pollutes its habitat. Negative feedback (overcrowding, disease, starvation, resource scarcity/competition/conflict) then reasserts itself and the population crashes to a level at or below theoretical carrying capacity (it may go locally extinct).
Hypothesis: Homo sapiens are currently approaching the peak of the plague phase of a one-off global population cycle and will crash because of depleted resources, habitat deterioration and psycho-social feedback, including possible war over remaining ‘assets,’ sometime in this century. (“But wait,” I hear you protest. “Humans are not just any other species. We’re smarter; we can plan ahead; we just won’t let this happen!” Perhaps, but what is the evidence so far that our leaders even recognize the problem?)

The crash may be triggered or exacerbated by the depletion or abandonment of economic stocks of fossil fuels. As noted above, modern civilization is a product of, and dependent on, accessible abundant energy. (At present there are no viable alternatives to fossil fuels. Even if we do develop equivalent substitutes for fossil fuel they will, at best, merely delay the crash).

The long-term human carrying capacity of Earth — after ecosystems have recovered from the current plague — is probably one to three billion people, depending on technology and material standards of living.

Getting there would mean five to nine billion fewer people on the planet. This is where we end up after a recovery following either controlled descent or chaotic crash.

But wait there is more: Climate change is not the only existential threat confronting modern society. Indeed, we could initiate any number of conversations that end with the self-induced implosion of civilization and the loss of 50 per cent or even 90 per cent of humanity.

The global community is in a particularly embarrassing predicament.

Homo sapiens, that self-proclaimed most-intelligent-of-species, is facing a genuine, unprecedented, hydra-like ecological crisis, yet its political leaders, economic elites and sundry other messiahs of hope will not countenance a serious conversation about of any of its ghoulish heads.

In these circumstances, the only certainty is that the longer we deny reality and delay concerted action, the steeper and deeper the crash is likely to be.

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Yes, the Climate Crisis May Wipe out Six Billion People | The Tyee

Creator of the ‘ecological footprint’ on life and death in a world 4 C hotter.
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Isn't It Ironic ...

Indigenous peoples have known for decades that climate change is happening, and they know better than most exactly what it means.

Indigenous peoples tend to live close to the land. They are subsistence farmers, herders, fishers, and hunters, with millennia of collective knowledge about the ecology of their surroundings.

Unfortunately, the same closeness to the land that has given indigenous peoples early warning about global warming also means that they suffer the consequences of it to a far greater degree than others.

The trends of history and hegemony have left many indigenous peoples living on land that is already marginal, so even relatively small changes in temperature or rainfall have an outsized consequence.

One of the cruelest ironies is that some of the biggest current threats to indigenous lands are efforts to alleviate global warming. As the industrialized world grudgingly comes to realize that petroleum-based energy is untenable, it is turning to alternative energy-generation strategies.

The problems faced by indigenous peoples are harbingers of what all peoples will face eventually, and they dramatically expose the ideological shibboleths the rest of us are not yet willing to examine: market-based solutions for every problem, the tendency to see carbon trading as a means to continue business as usual, the desire to keep our cars at any price, and many others.

Indigenous people have dealt with climate change and environmental upheaval for thousands of years; adaptability and resourcefulness are the hallmarks of any indigenous culture.

Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change

Just five years ago, governments, pundits, and the general public were talking about climate change—to the extent they were talking about it at all—as a vague issue that was open to question. Today it is not just accepted as a fact; it is seen as a crisis. But indigenous peoples have known for...
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Start again I heard them say ...
 
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