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A student of life, filters of regeneration, prosoc technology & community/bioregional organizing. @[email protected]

[ajay! @sanaking]

EBPG Co-Housing and Eco-Village Working Group - Aug Meeting! https://t.co/T2Uc25AEGj #Meetup via @Meetup

[Mayur Jani @mayurjani]

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[ajay! @sanaking]

Donate today https://t.co/1bN01uXGWV and join us to gather! I have an extra ticket!

[Ride for Palestine @ride4pal]

TODAY'S THE DAY! 🚲🇵🇸
Join us today for MECA's 5th Annual Ride for Palestine: the Ride of Return. Today, we ride for Palestine. In solidarity. For justice. For Palestine. Support the movement and donate: https://t.co/cB2e3yHQRt

[ajay! @sanaking]

https://t.co/y6tVdmoyVI

[maude @sheisartmoney]

A silent moment for the beloved Dr. Linda Davis who was the victim of an ICE car chase in Savannah yesterday. Love to all who’ve lost. All affected. We mourn.

[Ali Zaeteri @alizaeteri]

Malcolm X wrote:

“The Israeli Zionists are convinced they have successfully camouflaged their new kind of colonialism.”

He said Zionism disguised itself as a “religious movement” when it was really a political land grab.

[ajay! @sanaking]

Donate to @MECAForPeace! https://t.co/Zuem1m3pJs

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is one of the most thought-provoking critiques I've heard on the current thinking around climate change and CO2.

This is Olivier Hamant, Research Director at France's National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE).

Hamant explains that it's actually a counterproductive trap to laser focus on CO2 reduction, and even on climate, as we create "solutions" that actually "worsen the penury of resources, worsen global pollution and worsen the collapse of biodiversity."

It's a bit like the story we often hear about the danger of AI, where an AI tasked with "eliminating cancer" decides the most efficient solution is to eliminate all humans. We've given our economic and political systems the narrow goal of "reducing atmospheric CO2," and these systems actually end up destroying the living world that actually regulates our climate.

Hamant's alternative is elegantly simple: start with life, with biodiversity, which he says is "the most systemic lever" with positive impacts on climate, pollution and resource shortage.

I've often been struck with the collapse of biodiversity and the lack of public attention on the topic. For instance a recent survey in the UK found that, in just the last 3 years alone, the insect population in the UK had collapsed by an astounding 63% (https://t.co/lQ7c7bh7BK).

Yet if you look at it, the UK is actually doing an extremely good job in terms of CO2 emissions, they've more than halved them since the 1970s (https://t.co/bpt1YUq3nD). So what gives? What's the point of reducing CO2 emissions if they're simultaneously literally destroying the very foundation of life in the country - the insects, plants, and ecosystems that sustain everything? It sounds like madness.

Hamant is right that at the end of the day life is the litmus test, it all starts and ends with it. Maybe we need to start asking ourselves if we're not treating a symptom and killing the patient.

[Revolutionary Change @JenPerelman24]

Friendly reminder that liberals love genocide too as long as it’s done politely.

[ajay! @sanaking]

Defending Life Against Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Aggression - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/fw7ywGUwJr via @Change

[ajay! @sanaking]

I'm @[email protected] on #Mastodon! Come follow me at https://t.co/x4nbVzktJn

[L E F T, PhD ⚫️ @LeftSentThis]

“I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.”–W.E.B. DuBois (1956)

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

If you're an American neocon watching Biden & Harris facilitating Israel's wars—which the neocons have wanted forever—then Harris is a solid candidate to support. Let's stop with this "neocons just support Harris because they want to save democracy" from Trump nonsense.

[ajay! @sanaking]

September Safer Soils, come potluck w us: https://t.co/FQUm82Jksu

[DSA @DemSocialists]

To achieve a ceasefire in Gaza, the US must stop sending bombs to enable Israel’s genocide & occupation in Palestine. That’s why we are calling for an arms embargo. Sign the #NotAnotherBomb petition calling on Biden and Harris to immediately take action for a lasting ceasefire: https://t.co/5M3kPE3SHQ

[ajay! @sanaking]

I gifted a meal by taking a photo at Kitava with the free @GiftAMeal app.

#Kitava #GiftAMeal https://t.co/GkAGobYD7R