#environmental crisis

[balkanradfem]

Biking to the garden yesterday I craned my neck to see if the big elderberry was close to bloom yet - it's the biggest one in the town, and the plant lady and me would gather flowers there for syrup.

And well. It was cut down. The entire huge elderberry plant, it was the size of a tree, spreading about 10 meters in both directions. But now it's just scraps on the lawn.

I started crying instantly, people looked at me weird by the time I got to the garden. That was a source of life-giving food, drink and medicine for me. It's gone now, just how every few months another extremely beneficial plant or a tree disappears from the city. And I just don't get it, how are people doing this, now, that we're having the worst heat waves every summer, in the middle of a climate crisis? Giant plants giving us shade and keeping the water inside is an absolute necessity during hot months, do they understand that it will be impossible to survive without big plants? That nobody will be able to go out? That the grass on that lawn will now also dry out without any shade protecting it, and you'll get a dead area? Or worse, they know and plan to install something like another parking lot there. So the sun can heat it up and make sure the temperature goes up to death-inducing levels.

I feel so helpless. Reading the books on climate crisis, we're instructed to protect every last tree, animal and bug like it's the last one, because it possibly is. But I never get in time to protect anything - and even if I did, there's no way I can stop people cutting things down on their private, or public land. Big plants are on people's mercy and people seem to love cutting them down more than anything. I will not be at peace until I can live in a place that I can grow and protect. There is absolutely no way that an elderberry plant that was growing here probably for decades and decades was suddenly in the way and needed to be cut down. We needed that plant.

#sadness #environmental crisis #climate crisis #living in the city is too painful for me #there's nothing protecting the environment #i need to be in the forest that is mine and i can make sure there are only new things planted #and nothing big is ever cut

[thoughtportal]

Almanac for the Anthropocene collects original voices from across the solarpunk movement, which positions ingenuity, generativity, and community as beacons of resistance to the hopelessness often inspired by the climate crisis. To point toward practical implementation of the movement’s ideas, it gathers usable blueprints that bring together theory and practice. The result is a collection of interviews, recipes, exercises, DIY instructions, and more—all of it amounting to a call to create hope through action.

Inspired by a commitment to the idea that there can be no environmental justice without decolonial and racial justice, Almanac for the Anthropocene unites in a single volume both academic and practical responses to environmental crisis.

#read this #books #book #Anthropocene #solarpunk #solar punk #collective action #community building #community garden #community organizing #climate crisis #DIY #decolonisation #environmental crisis #Almanac for the Anthropocene

[bpdfox]

It pisses me off that major environmental crises like the very real threat of the Great Salt Lake drying up and being completely gone within 5 years, releasing clouds of arsenic dust that could reach as far as Wyoming and Arizona, are going completely fucking undealt with because Mormons want to water their lawns and it doesn't matter anyways because "Jesus will come save the day and make everything better! We don't need to do anything except pray and wait!"

#like hello #fuck off #utah #exmormon #climate crisis #environmental crisis #salt lake #salt lake city #slc

[vox-anglosphere]

Our thoughts are with India during this environmental catastrophe

#Taj Mahal #Agra #environmental crisis #flooding #monsoons #climate change #environmentalism #global warming #India #Commonwealth #anglosphere #Yamuna River #catastrophe

[sinatsu-kun]

AI-Generated Pictures of the beauty of nature that surrounds us.

These artificial intelligence-created artworks serve as a reminder of the breathtakingly beautiful and diverse habitats that AI is capable of creating in just a matter of seconds. This shows the natural portrayal of nature and what it is supposed to be. Earth, our only home, has to be safeguarded, preserved, and, most importantly, given importance, especially by our world leaders.

My present level of commitment to embarking on all the ecological and sustainability issues our world confronts is agitating. Shrieking about how much we owe our Earth, all this information moving through my nerves, sending impulses to my brain, and telling me how we, as inhabitants of this planet, should act right now.

Hopefully, these images can help one realize the natural processes and diverse ecosystems we once had and help conserve and regrow these natural habitats that ought to be unmoved. Let us all aim for sustainable development. We all deserve tall grasses, thick woodlands, leafy green trees, clean water, and infinite fresh air supplies. No one should be left behind—present nor the future. It is never too late. We're all in this together. After all, we're just cleaning up the mess that our forefathers put upon us. -Aspiring Ecologist

#nature #environment #ai generated #ecology #sustainability #environmental crisis #climate change #advocacy #forest #naturecore #planet #earth #biology #ecosystem #biodiversity #life #ai image #ai-generated art #ai-generated image #digital illustration #youth #environmental issues

[millionmovieproject]

#fuck capitalism #capitalism kills #we live in hell #socialism now #abolish capitalism #peoples union #nature #conservation #natural energy #pollution #environmental crisis

[mediamatinees]

Unpacking Generational Wounds and Environmental Impact in Disney's Strange World

Spoilers for Strange World ahead! So, I want to give a special shout out to my friend for telling me about this movie (and managing to do so with zero spoilers. I know that was hard). If she hadn’t told me to watch this, it most likely would’ve stayed hidden deep in the void of projects Disney’s released with little fanfare. I’m not one hundred percent sure why it wasn’t promoted and don’t want…

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#dennis quaid #disney+ #environmental activism #environmental crisis #family comedy #family movie #growing pains #jaboukie young-white #jake gyllenhaal #lgbt+ #strange world

[swirley1618]

#funny #i guess #small talk #environmental crisis #extinction rebellion #webcomic #cyanide and happiness

[signpetitions]

The Biden administration’s Willow project would emit more hydrogen dioxide than a third of the coal plants in USA. It is absolute insanity to start more fossil fuel production when the planet is already far beyond its limits. Sign the petition to stop this madness!

#sign the petition #please sign and share #petition #nature #environment and nature #sign and share #climate change #environmental crisis #climate action #environment #i love nature #natureblr #animal rights #urgent #indigenous lives matter #indigenous tumblr #indigenous liberation #climate chaos #climate breakdown #climate bill #climate disaster #activism #activist #future #sustainability #green living #ecosystem #ecology #protection #no planet b

[indizombie]

We, as consumers, contribute so small to the grand scheme of environmental impact. The top 100 countries produce [nearly] 75% of global greenhouse gases. There are billionaires who are flying around the world in their private jets and producing CO2 endlessly, endlessly, endlessly… We’ve been told to walk to work, turn off the tap when you’re brushing your teeth, all these things – but we’re not seeing a change in the world, and we’re being constantly fed that we’re heading towards this crisis, we’re in a crisis. We shouldn’t have to put that pressure on ourselves to change that. We vote, we strike, we stand up, we speak up, we do all these things. But I think the emphasis should be on putting that pressure on those companies and our government to make better changes.

Max La Manna, a plant-based chef who doesn’t want the onus to fix climate change to entirely be on us

#Max La Manna #environmental impact #consumption #greenhouse gas emissions #environmental crisis #companies #governments

[poligraf]

The belief that we can manage the earth and improve on nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal.

Rene J. Dubos

#quote #quotes #life quotes #earth #nature #conceit #belief #climate emergency #climate change #environmental emergency #environmental crisis

[hezigler]

#environment #environmental crisis #bees #honey bee

[eggcolomba]

An illustration made for one of my news report about environmental crisis

#illustration #environment #environmental crisis #environmental activism #poster #poster design #art #drawing #digital art #tour eiffel #fire #climate crisis #climate change #report #news reporter #my art

[egoschwank]

al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1187

first posted in facebook may 9, 2023

rick rivet -- "above the beach" (2019) 

"my work explores a métis-canadian sensibility with modernist concerns" ... rick rivet

"'above the beach' ... is a part of a series in which rick rivet is probing the environmental crisis in arctic regions" ... oeno gallery artist description

"i am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together see how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly" ... john lennon

"my intent is a kind of visually poetic content with meaning layered and built through a process of chaos/control of medium and ideas" ... rick rivet

"the walrus was paul" ... george harrison

"the artwork is eclectic in that i use elements from the symbolism, ideology and imagery of shamanic tradition, transforming and integrating them into a contemporary poetic approach to painting" ... rick rivet

"now i'm living out here on the beach but those seagulls are still out of reach" ... neil young

"i don't think that's a seagull there neil ... but here's another clue for you AL, the walrus was pUL ... booj'a oog oog oog, booj'a oog oog oog, booj'a oog oog oog, booj'a oog oog" ... al janik

#rick rivet #above the beach #métis #canadian #environmental crisis #oeno gallery #john lennon #i am the walrus #visually poetic #paul #george harrison #beatles #shamanic tradition #on the beach #neil young #pUL #al things considered

[lesbiangummybearmafia]

We're killing our planet everyday. We're running out of time to fit what we can. Yet governments all over the world hold summits speak hollow promises to fix or change this or that by 2030, it's always 2030... I doubt highly any of it will be done by then. Huge companies and corporations who are the largest problem are not being rained in. The powers that be try to drop it on us like using metal straws is going to stop the climate crisis! Humans because of what are doing to our one and our only home... we're vermin, we're a plague!

#climate crisis #climate change #environmental crisis #earth #our only home #world government #us government #g7 summit #hollow promises #our planet is dying #we are killing our planet

[wewantclimateactionnow]

"Why does solar need to improve?

Solar has the potential to transform our industries, transport and the way we live – if we push the technology as far as it can go.

Ultra-cheap electricity unlocks huge possibilities, from turning water into green hydrogen to serve as energy storage or to use in industrial processes, through to electrifying transport, energy systems and everything else we use fossil fuels for."

#jail climate criminals #climate change #climate crisis #solar panels #solar energy #australia #klimawandel #klimakatastrophe #cambio climatico #qihou bianhua #changement climatique #renewable energy #climate anxiety #environmental crisis #we want climate action now #climate action