Damn, Braiding Sweetgrass is on my list, now I need to add Moss as well haha. The list won’t stop growing!

Here’s to it growing year over year 💪

So they’ll use their green energy from the wind turbines to charge and power the vessels needed to maintain the turbines themselves. Beautiful. Poetic.

Scotland is one to watch in regards to climate effort. I’ll be living there soon and hoping to become involved in the industry.

I read Nudge and enjoyed it, despite agreeing with many of the criticisms of it. The writing style was accessible and entertaining, so I’ll probably check this out.

Both efforts are intertwined and can run in parallel

Nice! I wonder if they plan to integrate Pixelfed with Loops so they can work as one app - replace the Instagram/Reels combo

I noticed there is an animist community here, that’s something I’d like to learn more about. I believe it’s about respecting non-living things? It reminds me of the Japanese idea of tsukonogabi, where items gain a spirit after 100 years.

They even have a cool map that really helps visualise the scale of the network: https://wearetheark.org/map-of-arks/

Very good point!

Thanks for the insight and the video :)

Cheers!

I enjoy philosophy, thank you!

Thank you Solo 🙏

Thank you! If it’s climate adjacent I’ll check it out :)

Cheers, I’ve added them to the list!

Thank you for sharing!

Thanks for this!

I’m not sure how useful this exercise is, but I like to boil things down to the basic “cavepeople fighting for survival scenario”.

In this scenario, art is irrelevant. So are any politicians that don’t offer immediate results such as more food or more water.

What matters is survival by means of effectively allocating resources and defending those resources. This is where ambition comes in.

These drives don’t go away when survival is no longer at risk. They are inherent to our being because they ensure our survival. Unfortunately, we also love excess.

I fear the current system exists because our nature has resulted in it existing.

I am unfamiliar with the potlatch system, so please forgive me if I am misunderstanding it, but I would guess that the fact it is no longer around and capitalism is proves that it is not a viable long term solution that humans would gravitate towards.

I fear that eventually someone in the system would think “those people who are giving away their stuff are gaining social approval, sure, but at the end of the day I have all of my resources and can use them to accumulate more, and then social approval will be irrelevant because I will own all of the wealth”

Admittedly I need to learn more about degrowth. However, I feel GDP is just a manifestation of multiple cases of personal ambition.

Let’s say we all worked to the point that we had equal, abundant luxuries. Surely at this point we are happy and need no more? Unfortunately I think this is not the case. If a person or a group identifies a route to greater success, or dominion over others, it’s likely they will take it, just for the sake of being more powerful.

Then apply this not just to the individual, but to the group, and then to the nation.