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jane.EXE

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School AU and theyre friends

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New? Then handle with care!

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You know what the most frustrating thing about the vegans throwing a fit over my “Humans aren’t Parasites” post is?  I really wasn’t trying to make a point about animal agriculture. Honestly, the example about subsistence hunting isn’t the main point. That post was actually inspired by thoughts I’ve been having about the National Park system and environmentalist groups.

See, I LOVE the National Parks. I always have a pass. I got to multiple parks a year. I LOVE them, and always viewed them as this unambiguously GOOD thing. Like, the best thing America has done. 

BUT, I just finished reading this book called “I am the Grand Canyon” all about the native Havasupai people and their fight to gain back their rights to the lands above the canyon rim. Historically, they spent the summer months farming in the canyon, and then the winter months hunter-gathering up above the rim. When their reservation was made though, they lost basically all rights to the rim land (They had limited grazing rights to some of it, but it was renewed year to year and always threatened, and it was a whole thing), leading to a century long fight to get it back. 

And in that book there are a couple of really poignant anecdotes- one man talks about how park rangers would come harass them if they tried to collect pinon nuts too close to park land- worried that they would take too many pinon nuts that the squirrels wanted. Despite the fact that the Havasupai had harvested pinon nuts for thousands and thousands of years without ever…like…starving the squirrels. 

There’s another anecdote of them seeing the park rangers hauling away the bodies of dozens of deer- killed in the park because of overpopulation- while the Havasupai had been banned from hunting. (Making them more and more reliant on government aid just to survive the winter months.) 

They talk about how they would traditionally carve out these natural cisterns above the rim to catch rainwater, and how all the animals benefitted from this, but it was difficult to maintain those cisterns when their “ownership” of the land was so disputed. 

So here you have examples of when people are forcibly separated from their ecosystem and how it hurts both those people and the ecosystem. 

And then when the Havasupai finally got legislation before Congress to give them ownership of the rim land back- their biggest opponent was the Parks system and the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club (a big conservation group here in the US) ran a huge smear campaign against these people on the belief that any humans owning this land other than the park system (which aims at conservation, even while developing for recreation) was unacceptable. 

And it all got me thinking about how, as much as I love the National Parks, there are times when its insistence that nature be left “untouched” (except, ya know, for recreation) can actually harm both the native people who have traditionally been part of those ecosystems AND potentially the ecosystems themselves. And I just think there’s a lot of nuance there about recognizing that there are ways for us to be in balance with nature, and that our environmentalism should respect that and push for sustainability over preserving “pristine” human-less landscapes. Removing ourselves from nature isn’t the answer. 

But apparently the idea that subsistence hunting might actually not be a moral catastrophe really set the vegans off.  Woopie. 

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OKAY GUYS WE’RE GONNA DOA. THINK!!

1 reblog- I commit arson

5 reblogs- i commit arson

10 reblogs- i commit arson

15 reblogs- i commit treason

20 reblogs- i drink ble i mean milk

25 reblogs- i sing class of 2013 while dressed as hatsune miku

30 reblogs- miku miku you can call me miku

35 reblogs- i eat a snail

40 reblogs- i commit arson

45 reblogs- i eat 48 ten dollar bills

50 reblogs- i buy a store and only sell dino nuggets

55 reblogs- i suffocate Todd

60 reblogs- i duel ceasar via time travel

65 reblogs- i feed a victorian child sour candy

70 reblogs- i start selling weed

75 reblogs- i diss eminem

80 reblogs- i go to the grand canyon just to destroy it

85 reblogs- i leave my capitalist identity and start promoting communism

90 reblogs- i battle god

95 reblogs- i eat an entire stick of butter

100 reblogs- i commit arson

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Details on Omar As'ad's murder

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Shitposts. [1, 2]. Fankid doodle under the cut.

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50's diner vibes...

vote for swanatello, pretty please. it would make me happy.

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happy 420 everypony

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Commission, based on a pretty old homestuck page.

The bulk of my efforts were concentrated on trying to have this feel creepy, but not, “I’ve watched enough hentai to know what happens next,” creepy.

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listen to sex bo-bomb theyre terrible

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Dolorosa & Signliss doodle★ goodnight everyone(~  u~)>

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uu: ALL OF THE BIRDS FROM “MARCH OF THE PENGuINS” ARE NOW DEAD.

TT: Yeah, I get it, I live 400 years after the end of human civilization. I was aware.

uu: WHAT. NO. THEY WERE ALIVE LAST NIGHT.

uu: I AM TRYING TO “APOLOGIZE.”

TT: …Oh my god.

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I may be a decade late to the fandom, but Homestuck is a gold-meme!

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may i have this dance

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