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Ismaele's avatar

We are not living in the Anthropocene, we are living in the Spodocene (from the Greek "spodos", meaning "ash", "residue"): https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/the-spodocene-inhabiting-the-ruins

Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Or maybe the crapocene. And we need to be digging our way out ASAP!

Vin LoPresti's avatar

Radiotrophic fungi in Chernobyl and the Antarctic -- a new producer base (energy obtained from abiotic environment) that previously numbered only photosynthesizers and chemosynthesizers (certain bacteria).https://vinlopresti.substack.com/p/chernobyl-40-years-later-we-got-this

Life finds solutions. It's a message we'd damn well better cling to as the degradation continues. Thanks, Caitlin.

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

I have it on my radar to write how magical our earth is — but how they’ve hidden that magic and given us musk fake satalites and fake nuclear weapons historical narratives. This line is beautiful: “We are swimming in an ocean of miracles.”

We just have to remove all the BS so we can see it: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-scientism-erased-the-aether

Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

And everyday brings wonders before breakfast

If only we could see them

Hassan Al-Mosawi's avatar

أحسنت النشر والقول – سلام غزة و القدس عليكم - العزة والنصر حليف محورالمقاومة وحلفاءها والذلة والعار لمحور الشر وجماعة أبستين (امريكا و بريطانيا وفرنسا وتركيا والسعودية وقطر والامارات و دول الناتو والنازية الجديدة والماسونية والصهيونية و أسرائيل) وحلفاءه

David Gosselin's avatar

Some real solid poetry from Caitlin these days.

Love it.

This is how we feed the inextinguishable flame.

It can never be snuffed out, much to the chagrin of Zeus.

Bohdan's avatar
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Let's play a little with verses if

Anthropocene rhymes with "make a scene":

So we've made so many scenes;

In this great Anthropocene -

"Whole" and "recent" Holocene -

We have seen us acting mean,

Must have been in our genes...

Making Sense of the Madness's avatar

Just got caught up on the “Anthropocene” debate within Geology. Epochs typically are ascribed in hindsight, but since they never really laid down any hard rules in that regard, yada yada yada. They’re having a hard time deciding where the Anthropocene really began. I’m kinda leaning towards the Industrial Revolution, but that’s tentative, even if it feels most right to me. Humans have been having an impact on the environment a while, though being the biggest impact has to be relatively new- last hundred or so years, methinks.

John Day MD's avatar

Subsistence farmers need good soil, reliable clean water, weather that will grow crops and not kill people, fuel for heat and cooking, and good shelter from the weather and elements, as well as the energy to sustain this hard-working life, and effective storage techniques. Salt and cooking oil also enter the equation. Communities of actual working and self-sufficient families are how this has been accomplished.

How ya doin'?

JennyStokes's avatar

There is death here in France and Spain as wildfires soar. Why?

No money for proper forest conservation..............we are now building weapons!

Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

More important than ever that the search for justice continues! The work that the Hind Rajab Foundation is doing to track down and bring Israeli criminals to justice is one that is vital in the effort to hold Israel accountable.  Let us hope they will also turn their sights on the criminal leaders of the countries of the west who are co-perpetrators of these crimes.

Find out what they’re doing here:

https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org

The least we can do is donate to help them:

Support the Hind Rajab Foundation

https://donate.stripe.com/cN228hbY5g7jaM84gg

Hassan Al-Mosawi's avatar

أحسنت النشر والقول – سلام غزة و القدس عليكم - العزة والنصر حليف محورالمقاومة وحلفاءها والذلة والعار لمحور الشر وجماعة أبستين (امريكا و بريطانيا وفرنسا وتركيا والسعودية وقطر والامارات و دول الناتو والنازية الجديدة والماسونية والصهيونية و أسرائيل) وحلفاءه

Loam's avatar

I'm mesmerized by that tiny plant emerging from a crack in the asphalt, holding its small flower. I wholeheartedly embrace its message: fuck Fox News!

pete king's avatar

There was a time when this would have been considered dystopian. This is becoming reality-now and will be at the hands of the Zionists and their puppets.