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@appassionato
Anthropocentrism is anti-humanist.
@appassionato
The question is: how much space remains on Earth that has not been artificialized by humans?
Almost none.
The reality is that artificialized space is, by definition, no longer functioning in its biosystemic role of balancing ecosystems, soil, carbon, biodiversity, water purification, etc.
So, thinking about fixing anything can only happen by letting non-human life do what it does best in chaos: stabilize.
We will never fix anything ourselves: we are the problem.
Pastoralism (agriculture and domestication) is already in itself an optimization of natural biosystem functioning ... which rejects natural competition.
@appassionato
Do you think you're going to cohabitate with wolves and bears ?
Have not people just forgotten that tree roots will destroy concrete houses ?
"we have fixed Nature : there are trees in front of my window !"
the reality : our bread comes from :
Just a tiny input: The contribution of industrial agriculture to feed the world is, at least on the global scale, frequently overestimated.
Statistics usually take only markets into account. Howevers, since subsistence and smallholder farmers are supplying a large proportion of the rural (and peri-urban) populations, we should not forget them.
The pictures of the harvester-threshers are also used as propaganda. In reality, the relation mouths fed by smallholders vs agroindustry is around 50:50.
(Note that in 'developed' countries, there are indeed not many farmers left. However, grandpa's vegetable garden and granny's backyard chicken coop don't appear in the eitherstatistics )
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We are fighting and we are winning against this adminstration's bullying. We are coming together against the bullies and they are running away scared because they don't understand that we will do that.
People are working hard every day to find ways to make sure fewer animals get hit by cars and planes and rockets.
Maker spaces are more common than ever. Solar and wind are more common than ever. Coal plants are shutting down every day.
aetherograph
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Unprecedented numbers of acres are being bought back or given back to their rightful stewards, and the world heals because of it. People are working hard every day to learn how to help a forest recover faster.
We are not at zero. We are at decades of effort to heal the world. We've come SO far.
aetherograph
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In 1982 there were only 22 California Condors left in the world. In 1992, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), with its public and private partners, began reintroducing captive-bred condors to the wild. In 2001 the first wild nesting occurred in Grand Canyon National Park since re-introduction. In 2002 there were only 8 pairs of wild nesting birds population-wide.
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In 2008, for the first time since the program began, more California condors were flying free in the wild than in captivity. Today there are nearly 500 – more than half of them flying free in Arizona, Utah, California, and Baja Mexico.
When I was born, there were no condors in the wild. I'm 37 now, and there are over 250 condors flying free.
aetherograph
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When my mom was born in 1955, there were days when she wasn't allowed to go outside to play, because of the air pollution. When I was born, that never happened anymore.
When I was born, humpback whales were critically endangered, and people thought they were going to go extinct. Today, they've recovered to exceed their recorded numbers. Other whales too!
We fixed it.
We CAN fix it and we ARE fixing it and we DID fix it.
aetherograph