Chemtrails, the New Wave
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...did we leave it a better place?
a flickr friend, raised the issue:
"At the eve of the climate change conference in Paris, it is time to reflect and take action. What will we do with what we know?" -photo_tintin
Monday : The Hawk was gone ( Killed by the Game keeper ) and the little Bunnies danced.
Tuesday : the Fox was gone ( Killed by the Hunter ) and the little Bunnies danced.
Wednesday the Fish was gone ( Killed by the Plastic man ) and the little Bunnies danced.
Thursday the tree was gone ( Killed by the Palm oil man ) and the little Bunnies danced.
Friday the Man was gone ( Killed by the Warmonger ) and the little Bunnies danced.
Tomorrow the Earth is gone ( Killed by the Politician ) NO BUNNIES
I first posted this on NGYS on a day I was feeling despondent with humanity I am reposting it now because I hope at the end of this current crises we will be more enlightened
Nick Cave is a phenomenal artist for several reasons. One thing that I loved about this exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago is that there were audio pieces explaining some of the works. The main work the couple are viewing is called Speak Louder but the work above it is one of a few in his Tondo series. When Nick Cave started making Soundsuits, it was right after he heard about the police brutality and the Rodney King beatings. I posted a shot of his Soundsuits here:
www.flickr.com/photos/kirstiecat/52075785831/in/dateposted/
When he speaks about Tondo, he speaks about the effects of inner city violence on children. This is something that is a dear issue to me as I work with kids with disabilities in the public schools in Chicago. At one school I work at, kids come all over the city and 97% must be drawn from the highest poverty areas of the city according to the last census. So, when a parent is concerned because of a child's lack of attention or behavior and a nurse asks, "How much sleep does your child get each night?" and the parent replies "None because there are constantly gunshots and police sirens going off," you know something needs to change in this world.
As many of you know, I believe in proactive means to building better communities. As we continue to put more budgets into funding police, we actually have more crime because less is going into quality education, libraries, mental health facilities, preventing food deserts, equitable employment and low income housing. As our policing has increased, it means that there is also less of a viable public transportation system as well, at the same time that many families earning lower incomes cannot afford these astronomical gas prices and we all need to take an active role when it comes to climate change.
In my 21 years of working with children at Chicago Public Schools, I've worked at a few different schools. In 2003, I had the great honor of working with kids in the Cabrini Green neighborhood before re gentrification and racism (profit over people time and time again) unfortunately forced many people out. I've worked on the West side and lately on the North side. I love children all over the city. When I bike to the far South side to see art, some ask me if it's safe. Wherever children go, we should be willing to go. And, if we are not wiling to go there, we need to think about making it safer there. Chicago is a microcasm of the whole world in that respect. We have the ability to make a world where everyone has a basic level of human rights and a higher quality of life. We don't need little boys getting to go to space again. We don't need billionaires who have 10 homes. We need sustainability.
In all my years at Chicago Public Schools and in the hundreds upon thousands of children I've met (and hopeful helped), not one of them has ever told me he/she/they want to rob or kill people for a living. However, there was an eight year old girl who told a Speech Therapist I worked with that she wanted to be a cop "because they get away with murder." We need to be better.
I am an active voter and donate money to charity and some politicians. I wish I had more power. I wish I could also create something as beautiful as Nick Cave does when he falls into despair. Some people ask me what protesting does. Others ask me what making art does. Still, others ask me what voting does. I'll tell you I don't have all the answers (or any some days) but I can tell you this much, if we were ALL trying to make the world a better place. If we were all making decisions based on trying to be more kind, just, and human, this world would in fact change.
So, if you're kind, Speak Louder. If you're a fan of human rights, Speak Louder. If you want children of all races, religions, and socioeconomic backgrounds to grow up in a better world, Speak Louder. If you want Environmental Justice, speak louder. If you want immigration rights and body autonomy, speak louder. If you want those in the LGBTQ+ community to have the same quality of life as those who are cis gendered and/or heterosexual, speak louder. If you want an end to the For Profit Prison Industrial Complex, speak louder.
Speak Louder.
mcachicago.org/exhibitions/2022/nick-cave-forothermore
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Loving the ability to see the Ibis feeding together with 2 of their youngsters (which are the darker birds) and a squirrel in the back feeding by the creek. Praying that we can start to really maintain our environment we have so much to be grateful for and yet seem to ignore so much of the harm we are causing. We MUST change our habits for the better!
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜
On 07-07-2007 the dutch public broadcasting organisation took the initative to open a website where people could upload photos.. The photos deal about global warming and what to do about it. They can be found on the website www.liveearthalert.nl
Here is a selection of the photos.
Witzelrodaer (Witzelröder) Schweiz, trockenes Seitental im Buntsandsteinhang rechts der Werra
Witzelrodaer (Witzelröder) Switzerland, dry side valley in the Buntsandstein (or Bunter sandstone) slope right of the Werra
Blick in Richtung Bad Salzungen und den Bergen der Rhön.
View towards Bad Salzungen and the Rhoen mountains.
A reflection of a closed window in an open window.
It's all about attitude and being neighbourly!
Happy Fence Friday!
Un reflet d'une fenêtre fermée dans une fenêtre ouverte.
Tout est une question d'attitude!
Sea Forest / Land De-Forest - the Madness of Mankind.
Rain forests - that reduce tons of CO2 - destroyed by the thousands of acres each day.
Wind turbines - that reduce? CO2 - built by the thousands at great cost to the electricity consumer.
Links to the original 2017 LD web page;
londondada.art/2017/01/13/london-dada-work-no-900-sea-for...
Blue glacier ice and golden desert sand compete against each other to shape the future face of the earth. In between only tiny emerald green oasis of life may remain. This shot was taken in June 2019 in Switzerland when a huge cloud of Sahara dust was blown over the Alps.
June 2019 | Swiss Alps
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A reflection of a closed window in an open window.
It's all about attitude and being neighbourly!
Un reflet d'une fenêtre fermée dans une fenêtre ouverte.
Tout est une question d'attitude!
Outlet glacier, Hoffellsjökull, as seen in Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður National Park in south-east Iceland. Due to climate change,
Hoffellsjökull Glacier has retreated a considerable distance and a deep glacial lake is rapidly developing in the depression left behind.
Sierra Club's Daily Ray of Hope 1/27/16 - Thank You Sierra Club!
"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"
~ Leonardo da Vinci
big storm in the forecast - again. Yesterday there was a violent storm and Tornado at UBC.
bc.ctvnews.ca/tornado-officially-recorded-at-b-c-universi...
part of Of course of 'Climate Change"
Sedotto dalla cappa di caldo, l’avventore della piazza trova ristoro nella parvenza d’ombra di un albero stordito dagli umori del suo sudore.
Record number of lightning strikes caused countless wildfires, plus high temperatures and low humidity, throughout Northern California.
21 Aug 2020: Over 2,000 wildfires resulted from Sunday's freak storm.
Flying back from Melbourne to Brisbane yesterday, it was devastating to see continuous fires and smoke from the Hunter Valley to Brisbane. Here you can see the town of Armidale and the fires on the nearby Great Dividing Range in the Oxley Wild Rivers National Park. Three people have lost their lives and 100s of houses destroyed as well as wildlife.
King tides- Tarawa Kiribati
The seawalls are meant to protect us, but due to "Climate Change" we no
longer feel safe within the walls for the King Tides are getting Higher and
Stronger.
This is the "URG Coral"; first recorded and measured by the Underwater Research Group in the 1960s. Based on growth rates it is thought to be over a century, maybe 300 years, old. Today I found it totally bleached, following months of extreme conditions with heavy rains, storms and warm waters.
Within the former German-Soviet Environmental Agreement in the years 1989-1991 3 biological expeditions to the Taymyr peninsula in northernmost Siberia were performed. They laid the ground for a partnership agreement between the Taymyrsky Zapovednik (nature reserve) and the Schleswig-Holstein Waddensea National Park and later the establishment (1993) of the Great Arctic Reserve (Zapovednik). The Taymyr peninsula is covered by the most extensive and northernmost tundra habitats in Siberia. These enormous wetlands are used during the short Arctic summer by millions of waterbirds, which winter in Southern Europe, Southern Asia and Africa. The biodiversity of the Taymyr peninsula is with 20% well covered with different kinds of protected areas. However, there may be need to connect them by South-North corridors to secure adaptation of biodiversity moving North with climate change. With increased warming and thawing of tundra massive release of methane stored in the ground could trigger further climate change.
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In Camera Multiple Exposure
My series of photographs focuses on environmental degradation affecting everyday life. Since last one hundred years, the equation between natural resources and human population has seriously gone wrong resulting in chaotic imbalance of ecosystems and human societies. The world faces dearth of food and space for human population; as a result the burden results in rapid deforestation, invasion of wild spaces, global warming, and land erosion. Excessive consumption of fossil fuel causes environmental warming.
This phenomenon is outrageously rampant in Pakistan because of lacking awareness. Our glaciers are receding, valleys becoming polluted and agricultural lands being colonized to accommodate ever bulging population. My photographs (multiple exposure technique) provoke the viewer to concentrate on invasive role of increasing local tourism in polluting glacial landscapes, rivers, lakes and mountain valleys. Heaps of non biodegradable plastic bags and bottles not only litter surroundings but also mark irreversible effects on environmental preservation.
A view of the Middelgruden offshore wind farm. The wind farm was developed off the Danish coast in 2000 and consists of 20 turbines.
NICA ID: 397418
Country: Denmark
Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
Photo Date: 25/05/2009
Make no mistake, we all deserve a pat on the back. The GOP is making a janky attempt at a coup, but it is in vain. Biden won. A stellar outcome.
It was a heroic effort on the part of ordinary American voters and poll watchers and administrators at the local level. Every single county. We pulled off (in the middle of a pandemic) a free and fair and relatively frictionless election. And one, that if you believe in democracy, revealed that Trump has many many voters. To us* who have been reviled by Trump and who were hoping for a landslide, the results of the votes are that Trump has not been repudiated in a landslide---there are lots and lots and lots of Trump voters in this country. If you accept election as reality, you have to accept that reality too.
Which leads me to this question. How did one of the two major parties in a rich, functioning democracy become such an unrepentantly illiberal and extremist party? How did this happen?
And what exactly, is the future, of disinformation?
How did MAGA succeed so wildly? We now have a huge swath of the US population radicalized against any form of ordinary European social welfare of the kind that our peers enjoy.
If McConnell holds on to the senate, because we're not successful in winning both runoff races in Georgia, the number of things that can happen for Biden legislatively is sadly, tragically, infinitesimal.
And McConnell won't care. Unemployment can go up. The pandemic can rage. The deficit can get out of control. Senior administration officials and even cabinet positions not being filled––he doesn't care. He just doesn't care.
So we have to make moves. Please volunteer an hour of your time, if you can. The site below will help you reach out to voters (some of them first time voters) directly via text or call.
The experience of living in America in 2020 is of living in two completely distinct countries with two different sets of facts and realities that are geographically coincident. Not entirely maybe (cities are more blue, rural areas are more red) but, you know, you can live cheek by jowl with people who have just a completely different apprehension of what is going on in the world and what is true.
It is most distressing, but there is only one way to steer the ship in the direction of progress (think human rights, climate policy) and that my friends, is to act.
"Stop The Steal" rally courtesy disinformation campaign, origins Roger Stone:
*Us, as in those of us who condemn Trump's myriad abuses of power but also recognize that a federal prosecution case against him is a bad idea. It will further martyr him amongst his base, and bring yet more media coverage to Trump, a subject none of us wants to endure more of frankly.
And to make things fair, here’s just another take:
www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/opinion/liberal-media-censorin...
Water scarcity can lead to both drought and desertification as well as instigate conflict in communities and between countries. 22 March is World Water Day, a day to focus attention on the importance of fresh water and advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
Dryland near Manatuto, Timor-Leste.
NICA ID: 361724
City: Manatuto
Country: Timor-Leste
Credit: UN Photo/Martine Perret
Photo Date: 20/03/2009