Richard Heger

Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Policy and Management, Restorationist, Advocate for Biodiversity and Sustainability.

[Self-sufficiency @downshifting___]

First potato this year!! I dug it up by mistake when weeding. It is too early to harvest potatoes, because the root cellar is not yet cool enough.

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

We’re not just losing trees. We’re losing living history.
The oldest beings on Earth have witnessed centuries of human triumph and failure. To cut them down for short-term profit isn’t just deforestation,it’s historical erasure.
Protect what remains. 📜🌳 #Ecocide #LivingHistory

[Sustainable Pop Aus @SustPopAus]

Nothing the corporate empire fears more than stable/falling populations.

Nothing the earth needs more than stable/falling populations.

[Monica Piccinini @yourvoiz_org]

The world has a new way to make money from the Amazon. Indigenous peoples and traditional communities could find themselves serving a more hostile economy.

The Amazon does not need new masters.

https://t.co/AvxFdseTrN

[Sustainable Pop Aus @SustPopAus]

Key Points:

"economists employed by one of Canada’s largest banks reported that the immigration cuts were easing rental pressures & limiting the rise in unemployment --
to borrow an Australian phrase, the immigration slowdown has been great news for Canada’s “battlers”."
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"Many of the temporary newcomers also had little to no discretionary income, so there has been no equivalent drop in consumption. Employers may groan at the shrunken labour pool, and universities may bemoan the loss of exorbitant foreign student fees, but their business models are not identical to the Canadian national interest."
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"Immigration must be evaluated by its effect on a country, not by the enthusiasm of a select few seeking to pad their bottom line."
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"Immigration and economic anxiety are not separate issues"

https://t.co/QMV7wuycYV

[Monica Piccinini @yourvoiz_org]

Can we save the Amazon by putting a price on it, or does that simply turn conservation into another form of extraction?

My latest for The Ecologist explores the uncomfortable line between protecting nature and commodifying it.

https://t.co/n4gVlZDrcF

[Monica Piccinini @yourvoiz_org]

Life is political. Everything we do is political. Claiming to be “apolitical” isn’t neutrality, it’s cowardice!

Silence in the face of injustice is itself a form of violence! Ed Sheeran, of all people, should understand that better!

[Sustainable Pop Aus @SustPopAus]

It amazes us how the ecological component is always omitted when it comes to population expansionism.

Until we learn that our future is inextricably linked to the health of our land, and that growing populations increase our ecological impacts-
... our problems will only get worse.

[Dereck Joubert @dereckbeverly]

The same global appetite that empties Africa's wild places is reaching deeper and deeper into Latin America. This is what the wildlife trade is costing us. https://t.co/T1HvB754lQ

[Lyle Lewis @LyleLewis__Real]

Data centers require more “clean” energy to satisfy their enormous electricity demand. So we build more consumption, then build more infrastructure to satisfy the consumption.

The energy transition has become a merry-go-round, and humanity has vertigo.

[Lyle Lewis @LyleLewis__Real]

@Blueoceanarctic It’s an argument I’ve heard forever. I live in the forest so I KNOW all about forests. I live near the ocean so I’m automatically a marine biologist. ���

[Gregory K Bovino @GregoryKBovino]

Notice what’s happening here folks!!!! Senator Mullin votes to keep the welfare magnet humming, then gets handed the DHS job. WTF!!!???

That’s not a contradiction, it’s his personal brand.

He can’t sell mass interior enforcement to a coalition that funds cheap labor ( legal and illegal aliens). So you get targeted enforcement and a “Worst of the worst” strategy.

Whose side is Mullin on?

Choosing illegal aliens over American citizens as the Secretary of Homeland Security is a new one on me!!!!!

[Lyle Lewis @LyleLewis__Real]

84% of all wildfires are caused by humans. More access, more people, more wildfires. It’s not complicated.

Logging creates even-aged stands of trees that burn hotter and faster. The most destructive wildfires are occurring in historically logged areas.

[Monica Piccinini @yourvoiz_org]

Nepal is another warning we cannot ignore. As climate-driven extremes devastate lives and communities, our leaders and industries keep denying, delaying and protecting BAU. The climate crisis is here. How many more disasters before they act?

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

Did you know?
The Congo Basin absorbs 1.5 BILLION tons of CO2 yearly.
The Amazon holds 10% of all species on Earth.
We are losing 27 football fields of forest EVERY MINUTE.
Protecting them is the most powerful climate action we have. #EnvironmentalSustainability

[American Museum of Natural History @AMNH]

What’s that critter? It’s the lowland streaked tenrec. Its yellow & black quills provide protection from predators, but also serve as a means of communication! This animal can rattle its quill tips together, producing a high-pitched sound that’s thought to signal others.

[Monica Piccinini @yourvoiz_org]

The Amazon's Trees May Be Reaching a Dangerous Tipping Point

https://t.co/PL0meVLhEI

[Lyle Lewis @LyleLewis__Real]

This fish survived 22 years after being tagged. Its lineage survived the rise and fall of the dinosaurs. Today, after the extinction of the Chinese paddlefish, the American paddlefish is the last surviving member of its ancient family.

[Federation for American Immigration Reform @FAIRImmigration]

🏛️ Iowa Immigration Law Goes to Supreme Court

FAIR has filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court defending Iowa’s recent immigration law, which has been the target of a lawsuit brought by anti-borders activists.

FAIR urges the Court to review and reverse an erroneous decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit overturning the law.

https://t.co/UHWgJMIHJF

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

📉 Since 1970, global wildlife populations have already plummeted by an average of 69% due to industrial expansion and habitat destruction. We are actively tearing down the web of life that keeps humans alive.
📌 Source: WWF / UNEP-WCMC Living Planet Report