Thread by @BlkinGeoscience

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"You can't answer all questions by yourself. You have to collaborate with other people."

#Geosustainability

https://twitter.com/BlkinGeoscience/status/1436356707626725382

Geoscience is the most critical science for the 21st century because we have the knowledge that is req for the resources that society needs. Many people don’t realize that the cell phones in their hands have geos working for them in the background. @atekwanae #geosustainability

@atekwanae 🗣️🗣️🗣️ Do people know how important we are? We need a PR campaign to explain how valuable we are to society.

We don’t connect instruments that surgeons use to earth materials and if we make those connections better, we may see more students getting into earth science @atekwanae

We have to do a better job communicating our science so that people don’t reject it. We have to figure out how to do better so that when we bring our conversation to the community it will help move our policies forward. @atekwanae #geosustainability

As humans, we also have to step back and reduce our desire for things. If you have an iPhone 10, you don’t need the 11. Use the device for longer as opposed to changing your devices so often. @atekwanae #geosustainability

Sustainability is all about satisfying our needs but in a responsible manner so that we don’t impact future generations from being able to satisfy their needs. @atekwanae #GeoSustainability

Geociences are very relevant to solving the challenges for advancing our economies and eliminating poverty. But we need to give the students a meaning for their degrees. We really need to look at our curriculum and align them with these socially responsible goals. @atekwanae

Let’s not fail our students. They are the future of our countries and we need to set them up for success. And they want more alignment to social issues with their degrees. @atekwanae #GeoSustainability

I want to bring awareness to proper waste management. It should not be looked at as refuse. We have to rethink what we do and why we do it and how it generates waste. @Drexxrn #GeoSustainability

The more and more we develop and get urbanized, the more waste management becomes an issue. If we educate people now then waste management can be a problem of the past for us. @Drexxrn

In the Bahamas, a lot of us do really good research but one of the biggest frustrations is finding or connecting the dots in those industries locally.

There’s also a difficulty with awareness. You have to change the cultural mindset. @mr_curtisy #GeoSustainability

@mr_curtisy We introduced a plastic ban in Jan 2020. From a policy persp, it helped us to improve our carbon footprint as a nation. Policies I’d like to see implemented: investigating the other uses of polystyrene because it’s still being imported somewhere in the supply chain

@Drexxrn I’d love to see more approaches to how we deal with our waste. We’ve had our main dumping site transformed into a more composting/recycling area. However it’s not the only one in the nation and there are at least 5 that I can think of where open dumping is a norm

@drexxrn I would love to see for a policy to be implemented and define what is dumped out there and a long-term action to move away from open dumping.
#GeoSustainability

@mr_curtisy In the Bahamas we are feeling the brunt of climate change. It is important that we as a nation understand that we are in a crisis. It's really important that we utilize the power of our voice on social media so we can highlight our contributions. #GeoSustainability

When we think about #geosustainability & the way we conduct research at CEI, we ask is it culturally relevant? But nationally, I think there has to be an understanding of top priorities. What issues do we need to tackle? @mr_curtisy

Our #GeoSustainability is linked with tourism and how we live as a culture is misconstrued. I hope that moving forward as Bahamians we can bring light to that. @Drexxrn #GeoSustainability

People forget that we live where they vacation. @future_rift_doc #GeoSustainability

I think regenerative agriculture is our savior. We need to think about how we design landscapes, compost our waste, how we protect the soil. We need to implement regenerative agriculture practices in our policies and school systems. @mr_curtisy #GeoSustainability

@mr_curtisy You can follow @mr_curtisy & @Drexxrn work with sustainable development and resource management at the Cape Eleuthera twitter page: @CEIbahamas

Follow @atekwanae and her work with UC Davis College of Letters and Science: @UCDLandS

Thanks for joining us! #GeoSustainability