Frank Forencich

Reflections on humans, activism, and the fate of the planet

[Frank Forencich @ExuberantAnimal]

Exuberant Animal and Irreverent Health! https://t.co/okbyKNVhom

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Had enough yet?

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

Let's talk about the greatest magic trick of all: convincing an entire generation that their inability to focus on mind-numbing busywork while surrounded by the most advanced attention-hijacking technology in human history is somehow a brain disorder. Your kid can't sit still for seven hours under fluorescent lights in a cinder block room memorizing state capitals? Must be ADHD! Your teenager can't focus on homework after spending six hours being bombarded by algorithmically-perfected dopamine hits from TikTok and Instagram? Clearly a neurological condition! You find it hard to read three consecutive pages of a book without checking your phone seventeen times? Definitely ADHD. We have lost our collective minds - literally.

[American Rivers @americanrivers]

The Chilkat River, the lifeblood of Klukwan, Alaska Native communities, supports an abundance of salmon, bears, and other wildlife, including the largest congregation of bald eagles in the world.

But a large, acid-producing hard rock mine, known as the Palmer project, would contaminate the Alaska watershed, endangering a way of life that has existed for thousands of years.

🗣️ Use your voice today! Help protect the Chilkat for generations to come: https://t.co/QpdUSFJoaA

[Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham @GovMLG]

A UNESCO World Heritage Site with thousands of years of Tribal history, Chaco Canyon is home to remarkable buildings, shrines, roads, and archaeological resources that tell the story of some of the earliest peoples of this continent. Its cultural and archaeological significance is simply beyond measure.

The Trump Administration's move to strip protections from the land surrounding this sacred site is wrong. I stand firmly with New Mexico's Congressional Delegation and our Nations, Pueblos, and Tribes in opposing this action. Chaco Canyon is not for sale.

#ChacoCanyon #NativeAmericanHeritage #CulturalPreservation

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

Unpopular opinion:
The more you "focus on your mental health" as a medical condition, the worse it often gets. Real resilience comes from facing life, not pathologizing it.

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

Carl Sagan warned that suppressing uncomfortable ideas, common in religion and politics, is deadly for science. Science thrives on open inquiry, not dogma, and no one can predict who will make the next breakthrough.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

George is one of the only people using the correct vocabulary. It’s important to stop being afraid of “diagnosing” people with serious pathologies when their symptoms are self-evident and the consequences of ignoring them are existential.

[Peter Strachan @Peter_Strachan]

@martinrev21 Where is humanity on this curve?

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

“Earth is not a platform for human life—It's a living being.

We're not separate from it but part of it, Its health is our health.”

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

The constant pumping of music into every public space, every idle second of sport, every supermarket and café, speaks to an underlying sickness, a kind of cultural mental illness. As a society we are allergic to silence, terrified of spending even one second with our own thoughts

[Just.A.Thought 💭 @e_galv]

Something happened to me over the course of the past few years.

I went from holding a deep sense of hope about the future and our ability to fundamentally change our material conditions through uniting, organizing, and supporting one another... to feeling utterly hopeless.

This transition has been eye opening in many ways. The human brain is tricky, and I've noticed how this hopelessness has changed the way I think, without me prompting it to.

Whereas the current events of the day and the general state of the world used to live in the forefront of my mind, they have since been buried somewhere I have to search to find. I feel so out of touch sometimes.

This may sound strange, but the more I speak with other people, the more I realize I'm not the only one experiencing this. I think many of us are in a state of dissociation, freeze, and numbness.

We are on autopilot.

Our minds are protecting us from the onslaught of negative, terrifying, horrible, unbelievable, and getting worse by the day news. One can only hold so much at once.

I believe this is part of the plan. When everyone is on autopilot, then no one can act. Or plan. Or be present. Or use their critical thinking skills all that well. It's like flipping a switch and turning millions of lights off at once.

But I don't want to exist in the dark. None of us do. And I don't have all of the answers on getting myself or anyone else back to a place of light and hope.

I think the first step is to talk about it. I know I'm not alone and you aren't either. Maybe if enough of us share these experiences with one another and admit where we are at, we can figure out how to move forward.

[Stephanie Ⓥ @SVcrazycatlady]

We must stop seeing the planet as resources for only humans.

We are just one species, and we must stop hoarding everything.

We are driving the extinction of all species on Earth through our egocentricity, including our own.

Human supremacy ultimately benefits no one. End it

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

People just won’t listen to how serious climate change is

[George Tsakraklides @99blackbaloons]

The ecosystem may consist of “higher” multicellular and “lower” monocellular organisms, but as far as rights, entitlements, and even actual, palpable power goes, it is a completely flat structure.

[Tangwa Abilu.🌿🌏🌾🍀🍃.SDG's. @AbiluTangwa]

There is something deeply broken in a species that poisons the very insects and ecosystem that allow its food to grow. By killing the pollinators for profit, we are cutting the branch we are sitting on. 🌎

[Tangwa Abilu.🌿🌏🌾🍀🍃.SDG's. @AbiluTangwa]

We are burning, cutting, and poisoning the lungs of the Earth and the homes of our pollinators simultaneously. The remaining forests are not "empty land" waiting to be used—they are bustling cities of life that we cannot survive without.

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Biologist Paul R. Ehrlich died Friday at 93. He told Scott Pelley in 2023 that humans are to blame for the mass extinction crisis.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Trump to log billions of Trees in 2.5 million acres of western Oregon’s public forest lands
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[Green is a mission @Greenisamissio1]

Thoughts

I think there needs to be a new "we" for all present and future generations, regardless of their origin, a new "we" for forests, oceans, deserts, wetlands. A new "we" for agriculture, forestry, energy and environmental protection. Together we can change it💚❤️💙☘️🌿🌱🌳