2. Step 1, oak seedling, marked with steel post, surrounded by a clump of grass I have been unable to mow.
3. Step 2, cut away the grass clump with the sickle to give the seedling light and air.
4. Step 3, pull up the steel post and replace with wood post. Drive wood post in with hammer.
If the wood post gets knocked down by cattle or deer, it won't tear up the mower.
5. In clumps where the seedling had died, I cut away the grass, pulled up the post, planted a different seedling (shellbark hickory, persimmon, blackhaw, or hazelnut, on this day) and then drove in a wooden post.
Hammer, sickle, shovel, stakes, seedlings, all on donkey cart.
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Much - probably most - of the increasing ecosystem catastrophe often referred to as climate change is a result of the exhaust gases which come from burning fossil fuels.
But.
Talking about halting fossil fuels is the stupidest and most useless topic in the world.
I'll explain.
2. We do not have any means except fossil fuels to do most of the things we do.
We can do less than 20% of all our activities as developed societies, modern societies, first world societies, without fossil fuels.
This is an absolute fact.
That's why we burn them. To do things.
3. There is, and has been for over 40 years, the pretense that "we have the technology" to do all the things we do without fossil fuels.
This is a lie.
We have designed technology which, if we had it, if it had been built and installed, would let us do about half of what we do.
This quote is from an article about 3M and PFAS.
And he's right.
And this is our value system.
Poison every living human and other life form ON EARTH to make a product that we lived without until 1965.
Coz we want it.
That's one value system, not "human nature."
I despise it.
2. All of you - and I hear this thousands of times a year, so you are many - who insist that necro capitalism and plastic are "human nature" - you're all quite literally denying my personal humanity.
Meanin' no personal offense, but fuck you.
This is a perversion. Most people
3. claim to love "the children" and want to protect them.
We absolutely know for certain that every human child on Earth has this shit in them. We absolutely know that this shit is gonna kill thousands of times as many children as guns are, but - they're expendable? Seriously?
I appreciate all of you who encourage me in my threads. I write them in the hope of literally, as one man, changing the world. I understand that the odds aren't good, but it remains physically possible, not to end or reverse climate change in less than century or two, but to
2. Reduce the rate at which we do increasing damage. We could immediately reduce motor fuel consumption, immediately. Not in 2025 or 2030 but in May of 2024.
This is a physical possibility, a relatively easy and low hassle one.
We could literally save millions of gasoline a year,
3. just with a 55 mph nationalspeed limit that ONLY CLIMATE BELIEVERS OBEY, based on some ⅔ of Americans claiming to be that.
I know it's not worth writing this, but I'm going to anyway.
This (screenshot) came off a pissing contest thread.
Many people strongly believe that we can't do anything about the climate because we are so many.
Actually we can't do anything about it because we don't want to.
2. Here's a chart on global energy use from a very few years ago. The general ratios haven't changed, just all the numbers have gotten bigger.
All that matters for this discussion is the sizes of the demands relative to one another.
Over half is industrial use.
3. So Prof Bill's question was, you tell me how to reduce emissions by 50% in 66 months?
If we reduce industrial output by half, and reduce transportation speed by half, those two things alone would get us real close.
Absolutely all, without exception all, current "climate action
I despair when I read crap like this.
I despair when I see what climate professionals in the aggregate say. "The stakes could not be higher" is absolutely true. It's where the truth ends.
Their recommendations are pure, unadulterated bullshit. theguardian.com/environment/ar…
2. They quote this woman. Christiana Figueres, UN climate chief.
She presents herself in this article as either a liar or a fool.
3. As follows:
Two immediate lies.
"...on the edge of positive societal tipping points away from fossil fuels."
The world has never burned more fossil fuels than the world is burning today.
The only tipping point we're approaching is the one where there's no food or water for us
I'm going to try to explain myself to newer readers. I know my ideas are so far out there that I sound crazy.
I'm old, city born and raised, country since age 37. Couple months shy of 40 years out here.
But I earned my living with technology. All of my living.
2. I designed, installed, maintained electronic, and later digital, communication systems, starting in a telephone central office, where all the calls get placed, working on that machine.
It was a fabulous machine, all relays, older than me (I was 21) and did the same stuff
3. as computers do now.
In many of the same ways, except visible to the naked eye.
Relays are digital. They're either on or off. Current either flows or not flows. Same decision trees as machine language. Fabulous machine to work on.
Started back in the 60's. Been a helluva ride.