changed from a focus on clothing etc to focus on skin colour to reflect race concerns.

The Best Places to See Fall Foliage in Towns County, Georgia

for - article - Nature - We need to be ready for a new world’: scientists globally react to Trump election win - Nov 6, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/03/cop16-ends-in-disarry-and-indecision-despite-biodiversity-breakthroughs

big Jewish community is the focus of his travel, he doesnt notice other things, rest is fictious

Finnland hatte sich beim Ziel der CO2-Neutralität 2035 darauf verlassen, dass große Mengen von CO2 von Wäldern, Böden und Feuchtgebieten absorbiert werden. Inzwischen ist das Land dort keine Kohlenstoffsenke mehr. Dazu trägt die globale Erhitzung selbst bei, durch die viele Bäume sterben, aber auch die Abholzung des Waldes. Finnland ist ein Beispiel für die Schwächung der ländlichen Kohlenstoffsenken, von der viele Länder betroffen sind. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/15/finland-emissions-target-forests-peatlands-sinks-absorbing-carbon-aoe

for - definition - constructal law - Adrian Bejan - to - The constructal law of design in evolution and nature

to - The constructal law of design in evolution and nature - https://hyp.is/ZRIXfo76Ee-5yZdY2quRaQ/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2871904/ - youtube explainer video - constructal theory - flow - Adrian Bejan - https://hyp.is/R7V4Yo79Ee-52gO6UYAaYQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgEBTPee9ZM

for - paper - The constructal law of design and evolution in nature - Adrian Bejan - Sylvie Lorente - 2010 - from - The End of Scarcity? From ‘Polycrisis’ to Planetary Phase Shift - Nafeez Ahmed - 2024, Oct 16

from - The End of Scarcity? From ‘Polycrisis’ to Planetary Phase Shift - Nafeez Ahmed - 2024, Oct 16 - https://hyp.is/Qt8IMI74Ee--f4O18QMPFQ/ageoftransformation.org/the-end-of-scarcity-from-polycrisis-to-planetary-phase-shift/

1:24:14 We can organise our resources such that it can attract the money that regenerates across all types of capital and all types of nature

1:04:44 Debt mirrors in NATURE as the seeds, plants, trees, flowers, roots, soil, water, nutrients, pollinators, worms, rock and minerals - WE ARE IN DEBT TO NATURE - NATURE GIVES US SURPLUS

25:38 MMT changes our view on the nature of money

Moira's idea in Offred's past has disappeared, just like the shattering of Offred's daughter and her image, when Offred sees her picture. She is overly reliant on an idealised picture of her past to coping with the present, which is ironic because this is what they wanted. Except humans are always looking outside for the solution when it critiques something innate, a lack of completion or satisfaction.

for - The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability - Camilo Mora et al. - 6th mass extinction - biodiversity loss - to - climate departure map - of major cities around the world - 2013

Summary - This is an extremely important paper with a startling conclusion of the magnitude of the social and economic impacts of the biodiversity disruption coming down the pipeline - It is likely that very few governments are prepared to adapt to these levels of ecosystemic disruption - Climate departure is defined as an index of the year when: - The projected mean climate of a given location moves to a state that is - continuously outside the bounds of historical variability - Climate departure is projected to happen regardless of how aggressive our climate mitigation pathway - The business-as-usual (BAU) scenario in the study is RCP85 and leads to a global climate departure mean of 2047 (+/- 14 years s.d.) while - The more aggressive RCP45 scenario (which we are currently far from) leads to a global climate departure mean of 2069 (+/- 18 years s.d.) - So regardless of how aggressive we mitigate, we cannot avoid climate departure. - What consequences will this have on economies around the world? How will we adapt? - The world is not prepared for the vast ecosystem changes, which will reshape our entire economy all around the globe.

from - Nature publication - https://hyp.is/3wZrokX9Ee-XrSvMGWEN2g/www.nature.com/articles/nature12540

to - climate departure map - of major cities around the globe - 2013 - https://hyp.is/tV1UOFsKEe-HFQ-jL-6-cw/www.hawaii.edu/news/2013/10/09/study-in-nature-reveals-urgent-new-time-frame-for-climate-change/

Then let him do so. He cannot surprise me.

How does a bean plant know to do this? What is the science behind it's structure deciding and intentionally moving in this way?

for - question - earth system boundaries - biodiversity - how do we reconcile these boundaries with climate departure?

question - earth system boundaries - biodiversity - how do we reconcile these boundaries with climate departure? - Does the term "functional integrity" imply autonomy from climate feedbacks? Obviously, climate feedback plays a huge role in determining biodiversity health - In 2013, Mora et al. found that climate departure, the year in which a climate variable moves out of the historical bounds will occur everywhere on the planet, regardless of an aggressive RCP pathway being taken. In this study, climate departure was found to take place (relative to 2013) - 37.5 years in the future under RCP45, or - 22.5 years in the future under RCP85 - It would seem that the biodiversity boundaries should take into consideration climate departure as species extinction and ecological system disruption is projected to occur, regardless of whether RCP45 or RCP85 is adopted. - Currently, we are still on a Business-As-Usual trajectory, but since 2013, scientific research has moved the danger threshold even lower so climate departure dates are likely even sooner than those calculated in the 2013 Mora paper

to - Mora, C., Frazier, A., Longman, R. et al. (2013). The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability. Nature 502, 183–187. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12540 - https://hyp.is/3wZrokX9Ee-XrSvMGWEN2g/www.nature.com/articles/nature12540 - Researchgate copy - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fpublication%2F257598710_The_projected_timing_of_climate_departure_from_recent_variability&group=world

Die französische Regierung hat in einer politisch unstabilen Situation viele klimapolitisch relevante Projekte nicht weiterentwickelt. Dazu gehören das Budget für die ökologische Transformation und die mehrjährige Energie- und Klimaplanung. Der Ausbau der Nuklearindustrie wurde von Präsident Macron im Alleingang vorangetrieben. Der neue Premierminister Barnier gilt als fachlich kompetent, hat sich aber über Jahre nicht zu diesen Themen geäußert. https://www.liberation.fr/politique/michel-barnier-premier-ministre-energie-adaptation-biodiversite-les-chantiers-environnementaux-urgents-qui-lattendent-20240906_FLLWY3AHGBAZPFYYJBMFEK25YI/?redirected=1

for - definition - love - as the recognition of our shared being - Rupert Spira - question - reconciling Rupert Spira's interpretation of the Eastern definition of "love" with the inherent suffering designed into nature

question - reconciling Rupert Spira's interpretation of the Eastern definition of "love" with the inherent suffering designed into nature - Consider that every individual of every species must eat in order to survive and maintain life, - In other words, suffering is unavoidable in life itself, and exists at every scale of multi-scale competency architecture (Levin) - How do we reconcile this definition of "love" with the suffering inherent in all of life itself? - If we accept that the universal consciousness manifests in ALL living beings, then it is indeed a strange situation because: - reality itself evolved biotic out of abiotic reality and - it did so by creating intrinsic suffering as predators must kill, eat and cause suffering to its prey and - mortality is built into all living organism, bringing about constant innate anxiety to defend against death through innate alertness to and defense against predators

for - recognizing true nature - validation of conceptual method - Rupert Spira

for - recognizing true nature - validation of conceptual approach - brain is the bouncer for the heart - Bernardo Kastrup

for BEing journey - self knowledge exercise - removing everything from our experience that is not essential Rupert Spira

BEing journey - self knowledge exercise - removing everything from our experience that is not essential Rupert Spira - metaphor - Like taking all our clothes off when we are preparing for bedtime

comment - self knowledge exercise - Rupert Spira - This exercise makes me think of my own thoughts around discovering or rather, rediscovering one's true nature - If we are to discuss the "greater self" from whence we came, then it's tantamount to discovering - the nature nature within - human nature - So anything that is recognized as human nature, cannot be the ground state - The ground state must go beyond anything that depends on the human body - Thoughts and perceptions are mediated by brains and sense organs, both depend on the human body and so - are dependent on human nature - Self knowledge is unmediated and directly experienced - It has the quality of the ground state within us, the nature part of our human nature

for - quote - know thyself - recognizing our true nature - has never been more important than at this hour of our civilization - Rupert Spira - Deep Humanity - know thyself - rekindling wonder - awakening to our true nature - Rupert Spira

quote - know thyself - recognizing our true nature - has never been more important than at this hour of our civilization - Rupert Spira - (see below) - The words "know thyself" were carved above the entrance of the temple temple of apollo in delphi and stand as such at the dawn of western civilization and - I would suggest that at this hour of our civilization, - this recognition of the essential nature of our self and therefore - the recognition of the essential nature of - all people - all animals and - all things - has perhaps never been more important than it is now

for - Rupert Spira - meditation - metaphor - movie and screen - BEing journey - identifying our true nature - movie and screen metaphor - Rupert Spira

see also: Barnouw, Erik (1993), Documentary a History of the Non-fiction Film (PDF), New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 241–242, retrieved March 30, 2020

for - Dr. Donna Thomas - book - Children's unexplained experiences in a post materialistic world - analytic idealism - children perspective of reality - adjacency - children as natural philosophers - Deep Humanity as reminder of our philosophical nature

adjacency - between - Children as natural philosophers - Deep Humanity - adjacency relationship - At time 59 minute of that interview, Dr Thomas makes a very insightful observation that - children are naturally philosophers - and ask deeply philosophical questions - Another way to look at Deep Humanity is that it is reminding us of these deeply philosophical questions the see all had when we were children - but we stopped asking then as we grew out of childhood because nobody could answer them for us

for - planetary emergency - economic cost of nature - from an insurance perspective - natural capital valuation - from insurance industry perspective - biodiversity - natural capital valuation - from insurance industry perspective - Swiss RE - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BES) metric - from insurance industry perspective

for - sustainable building - building reuse vs new build - which is better? - California Forever - intentional community - green debate

sustainable building - building reuse vs new build - which is better? - Study by Preservation Green Lab in 2012 concluded that in most cases, reusing existing buildings is far lower carbon footprint than building new - Research study shows that we cannot expand human activity into intact nature any longer if we are to stay within planetary boundaries - Rockstrom - https://hyp.is/0dbJ4FQSEe-QxY8q4Y3yvw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaboF3vAsZs

for - question - planetary emergency - ignorance or apathy - what should we do?

question - planetary emergency - ignorance or apathy - what should we do? - Johan Rockstrom advocates for three simultaneous internventions that must be executed in order to achieve the following impacts: - Legally binding global governance regimes must be implemented: immediately - Paris Agreement - biodiversity agreements - Internalize all externalities - Implement a global price on carbon emissions of at least 100 USD / ton - Stop all expansion of human activity into intact nature

for - human learning - key feature - evolutionary nature - indyweb - key feature - evolutionary nature of learning

nature made

26:30 Brings up progress traps of this new technology

26:48

question How do we shift our (human being's) relationship with the rest of nature

27:00

metaphor - interspecies communications - AI can be compared to a new scientific instrument that extends our ability to see - We may discover that humanity is not the center of the universe

32:54

Question - Dr Doolittle question - Will we be able to talk to the animals? - Wittgenstein said no - Human Umwelt is different from others - but it may very well happen

34:54

species have culture - Marine mammals enact behavior similar to humans

• Unknown unknowns will likely move to known unknowns and to some known knowns

36:29

citizen science bioacoustic projects - audio moth - sound invisible to humans - ultrasonic sound - intrasonic sound - example - Amazonian river turtles have been found to have hundreds of unique vocalizations to call their baby turtles to safety out in the ocean

41:56

ocean habitat for whales - they can communicate across the entire ocean of the earth - They tell of a story of a whale in Bermuda can communicate with a whale in Ireland

43:00

progress trap - AI for interspecies communications - examples - examples - poachers or eco tourism can misuse

44:08

progress trap - AI for interspecies communications - policy

45:16

whale protection technology - Kim Davies - University of New Brunswick - aquatic drones - drones triangulate whales - ships must not get near 1,000 km of whales to avoid collision - Canadian government fines are up to 250,000 dollars for violating

50:35

environmental regulation - overhaul for the next century - instead of - treatment, we now have the data tools for - prevention

56:40 - ecological relationship - pollinators and plants have co-evolved

1:00:26

AI for interspecies communication - example - human cultural evolution controlling evolution of life on earth

for - limits to economic growth - physics calculations - by Tom Murphy show absurdity of continual growth - energy and waste heat perspective

to - Nature Physics - LImits to Economic Growth - Tom Murphy - https://hyp.is/CM3Grj9_Ee-obTc6jrPBRA/tmurphy.physics.ucsd.edu/papers/limits-econ-final.pdf

for - progress trap - abstraction - the ECONOMY! - abstracted and separated from nature

for - quote - metaphor - progress trap - live off the interest, not the principal of nature - Ronald Wright

How does this fare with Indian Education System in High School? The mainstream boards like CBSE and ICSE emphasise rote learning instead.

But even if you have to memorise raw facts, note-taking is prolly not the best way to go.

I can't help of thinking about the debate on nature vs. nurture here. How might we extend it to the idea of content vs. process with respect to cultural anthropology.

How does a culture vary based on the content they use and produce with respect to the process by which they transmit and use that same content?

In colonialized cultures the process has been bastardized which then leads to changes in the content as well. Ultimately both switch and are changed from their original. How could a culture hold onto their past which makes it the culture that it was?

There's some fun stuff going on at these junctures.

Die taz zum Torpedieren des Green Deal und besonders des EU-Renaturierungsgesetzes durch die EVP und über die Rolle Manfred Webers. https://taz.de/Agrarlobby-gegen-Naturschutz/!6012538/

Because we'd need to find the values that guide us to make AI better.

It's something like: $$\text{Self-awareness} \propto \text{Fulfillment of goals}$$

Interesting. For me, humane values would be doing the right thing and helping people. I think Stoic philosophy resembles "humane values" in my regard.

Strongly Agree

Seit 1970 ist der Bestand an Fischen, die zu wandernde Arten gehören, um 80% gesunken, wie ein neuer Bericht zur Aktualisierung des Living Planet Index zeigt. Verantwortlich ist vor allem die Zerstörung von Fluss- und anderen Wasserökosystemen durch Staudämme, Bergwerke und Schadstoffe. Der Populationsrückgang ist weltweit am deutlichsten ist der in Südamerika und der Karibik. Ein Viertel der Süßwasser Fischarten ist vom Aussterben bedroht.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/21/living-planet-index-migratory-freshwater-fish-populations-decline-dams-weirs-mining-water-abstraction-pollution-threat-aoe

for - follow up - 2001 human genome Nature paper - proteins synthesized by higher level processes, not just genes - 2001 Nature paper on human genome project

to - 2001 human genome project Nature paper - https://hyp.is/KMjUJBYFEe-U9JdKN9-cVw/www.nature.com/articles/35057062

for - purpose in nature - exorcism of - Ray Noble - quote - gene centered view - organisms as machines - exorcism - Ray Noble - gene centered view

for - evolutionary biology - purpose in nature Denis Noble - Ray Noble

Das französische Komitee für die Biodiversität beurteilt die aktualisierte Biodiversitätsstrategie der Regierung positiv, weist aber zugleich auf Defizite hin. So werden nicht alle Aspekte des Abkommens von Kunming-Montréal umgesetzt, obwohl es von Frankreich unterzeichnet wurde. Für die Biodiversität schädliche Subventionen, insbesondere bei der gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik der EU, werden nicht abgeschafft. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/biodiversite/strategie-nationale-biodiversite-du-gouvernement-du-bon-mais-peut-mieux-faire-20231016_2VTD2OM2OVDH3HWKD7NNWUN4IU/

In Frankreich beginnt in dieser Woche eine öffentliche Debatte um ein großes lithium-bergbauprojekt im zentralmassiv. Der umfassende Artikel beleuchtet eine Vielzahl von Aspekten des lithium-Abbaus und der zunehmenden Opposition dagegen, die eng mit dem Kampf gegen die individuelle motorisierte Mobilität verbunden ist. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/course-au-lithium-made-in-france-une-opportunite-a-saisir-ou-un-mirage-ecologique-20240310_FQOVXTBNKJC5NJ7EZI2UQKOAIY/in

In Frankreich ist ein Komitee zur Anticipation von Trockenheiten im Ministerium für die ökologische transition zusammengekommen. Der zuständige Minister hat dabei die Situation im Departement Pyrénées Orientales als Vorzeichen dessen bezeichnet, was im ganzen Mittelmeerraum bevorsteht. Er Versuche, einen "Krieg um das Wasser" zu verhindern.https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/secheresse-en-france-le-chaud-dans-linconnu-20230427_75BMFEACMNABDKKZZM7GWCRHAM/

Im Februar setzen sich die Messungen von Rekordtemperaturen fort. Dabei stellt seit über einem halben Jahri die Zahl dieser Meldungen selbst bisherige Rekorde ein. In den ersten beiden Wochen wurden an 140 Stellen der Erde die höchsten Monats-temperaturen der Aufzeichnunggsgeschicht festgestellt. Noch beunruhigender sind die Anomaliee bei den Meerestemperaturen. Guardian-Artikel mit SInfografiken und tatements von Klimawissenschaftler:innen, die von dieser Entwicklung alarmiert sind. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/17/february-on-course-to-break-unprecedented-number-of-heat-records

for - Deep Humanity - BEing journey - nature

Der Guardian kritisiert in einem Editorial den Verzicht auf Kernelemente des Green Deal in der europäischen Agrarpolitik, darunter die Nicht-Verabschiedung des Nature Restoration Law. Er verweist auf eine Umfrage, die zeigt, dass eine Mehrheit in Europa eine konsequentere Klimapolitik unterstützt.

differences /b/ poly and mono people: CNM people = m+ excited, l- bored, stronger social bonds, less anomie, less jealousy

there is some =/ /b/ poly and mono people : mental health, childhood memory, family relationships

people are actually quite the same, there's not something wrong with them

6:15 "born this way" versus "soziales konstrukt" ... nature versus nurture.<br /> siehe auch: calhoun experiments on overpopulation, universe 25, 1958<br /> bei übervölkerung sieht man in städten (in zentren) "dekadenz" und "sittenverfall" ...<br /> also aggression, homosexualität, kaputte familien (mütter lassen ihre kinder verhungern), ...<br /> und am rand der städte sieht man "the beautiful ones" (aussteiger, einsiedler, einzelgänger)<br /> die komplett alleine bleiben, und den ganzen tag ihr fell pflegen.<br /> (die beautiful ones sind die führer, avantgarde, pioniere, ... die einen neuen lebensraum suchen wollen,<br /> aber die am rand vom mauskäfig blockiert werden)

Fundamental problem: Othello x Desdemona is unnatural and bending the laws of nature -- but Brabantio alienated diminishes this idea in the mind of the reader.

Exaggerated emotions in the form of water and nature -- what could this mean? ALSO, Shows the role of emotion in this political setting, which is a recurring motif of overlap in personal and political decisions that runs throughout. How do you make a good ruler, leader who does not impulsively use personal emotion to decide in political circumstances? Reminds me of Hitler

Humans reject any imperfection, even if it means, in this case, a more artificial rose. The last sentence could be a subtle commentary on human nature and our pursuit of both perfection and security. 

Der britische Premierminister Sunak hat in n Wales an Protesten von militanten Vertreter:innen der konventionellen Landwirtschaft teilgenommen, die eine Abkehr von der Net-Zero-Politik fordern.

Die globale Erhitzung trifft die Bevölkerung in der Nähe des Titicacasees vor allem aufgrund der Verlandung des Sees. Übernutzung des Wassers in den Zuflüssen der Umgebung wirkt dabei verstärkend. Fiscchfang und Formen der traditionellen Landwirtschaft wie der Kartoffelanbau funktionieren zunehmend weniger, so dass z.B. auf Milchwirtschaft mit Zufütterung von Soja umgestiegen wird. Reportage zu den komplexen ökologisch-sozialen Veränderungen. https://taz.de/Klimawandel-in-Lateinamerika/!5989226/

"But twins have a special claim upon our attention; it is, that their history affords means of distinguishing between the effects of tendencies received at birth, and of those that were imposed by the special circumstances of their after lives."

Sizilien leidet gerade unter extremer Trockenheit, die zu großen Einbußen bei der Orangenernte führt. Sie gehört zu einem anhaltenden Prozess der Aridifizierung, durch den sich die Bedingungen in Sizilien immer mehr denen im heutigen Algerien annähern. Ausführlicher Bericht in der Repubblica über die mangelnde Vorbereitung der Region auf zunehmenden Wasserstress, unter anderem die mangelnde Aufgeschlossenheit für die Regeneration von Böden und Gewässern, wie sie das Nature Restoration Law der EU vorsieht. https://www.repubblica.it/green-and-blue/dossier/siccita--gestione-acqua/2024/02/08/news/siccita_sicilia_arance-422075670/

This post discusses the importance of unity, love, respect, and preparation, using ants as a role model, in order to achieve success in life.

• Who: The author (West Africa Curation), @oxygen02 (illustration), and the Ants.
• What: Learning from the Ants' love, unity, respect, and preparation.
• Where: Africa.
• Why: To achieve greater things in life
• How: By observing and emulating the Ants' behavior and characteristics.

for - nature-based carbon sequestration - reestablish whale populations - Nate Hagen - The Great Simplification - David King - climate crisis - solutions - progress trap - overfishing - whales

Durch einen 1,4 Milliarden Euro Deal besteht die Möglichkeit, die Doñana-Region in Andalusien, Europas größtes Feuchtgebiet, zu bewahren. Die Gegend, zu der einen Nationalpark gehört, leidet vor allem unter Wasser Stress. Der Deal soll einen auch symbolisch wichtigen Konflikt beenden, bei dem konservative und reaktionäre politische Kräfte die Bauern unterstützt hatten, die illegal Wasser für Erdbeer- und Himbeer-Anbau verwendet haben. Die spanische Umweltministerin Teresa Ribeira erklärt ausführlich Prinzipien einer Green transition, die so durchgeführt wird, dass die Lebensbedingungen in einer Region verbessert werden und die Bevölkerung sie unterstützt. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/27/spain-environment-minister-hails-andalucia-wetlands-deal-green-transition

• for: insight - conservative vs liberal - speed of sdopting social norm

• insight

  • liberals are voted in to speed up adoption of a new social -
  • conservatives are voted in to slow down the acceptance of a social norm
  • paradoxically, humans have both a conservative and a liberal nature. We naturally have a tendency to both conserve and to try new things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fP4zFQMXSw

The fun things usually happen at the messy edges. This description of zettelkasten is a perfect encapsulation of this, though it's not necessarily on the surface.

This is a well done encapsulation of what a zettelkasten. Watch it once, then practice for a bit. Knowing the process is dramatically different from practicing it. Too many people want perfection (perfection for them and from their perspective) and they're unlikely to arrive at it by seeing examples of others. The examples may help a bit, but after you've seen a few, you're not going to find a lot of insight without practicing it to see what works for you.

This could be compared with epigenetic factors with respect to health. The broad Rx may help, but epigenetic factors need to be taken into account.

Zum stark verwässerten und wenig verbindlichen Renaturierungsgesetz der EU stellt die taz fest, die EU sei als verlässliche Partnerin für die ökologische Transformation ausgefallen. Es bleibt nur noch die kommunale Ebene. https://taz.de/Schwaches-EU-Renaturierungsgesetz/!5972203/

In dem sogenannten Trilog-Verfahren haben sich Vertreter:innen des europäischen Parlaments und der europäischen Kommission auf eine endgültige Version des Nature Restoration Laws geeinigt, durch die bis 2030 20% der Land- und Wasserflächen der-unter Schutz gestellt bzw. wiederhergestellt werden sollen. Vor allem aufgrund des Einflusses der europäischen Volkspartei wurde die von der Kommission vorgelegte Version des Gesetzes stark verwässert. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/10/eu-strikes-landmark-deal-nature-restoration-law

• for: evolution - forgetting our non-self nature, adjacency - evolution - non-self - Fransisco Verella, adjacency - evolution - no-self - Fransisco Verella

• adjacency between

  • evolution
  • non-self
  • Francisco Verella
• adjacency statement
  • Verella makes the interesting claim that evolution designer is to be blind to our lack of self
  • in fact, major evolutionary transitions in individuality embed the creation of a new higher order individual at each major stage of transition.
  • More fundamentally, major evolutionary transitions to individuals at each level need to define a biological self through a new physiological boundary between what constitutes a new unitary individual "self" (our inner world) and the rest of the environment ( our new outer world)
  • It will be interesting to see how Verella's claim reconcile with that

Vielle Aufforstungsprojkete, vor allem in den Tropen, schaden der Artenvielfalt und führen zu empfindlichen Monokulturen. Eine Studie untersucht die Funktioen tropischer Walt-Ökosysteme über die CO₂-Speicherung hinaus. https://taz.de/Studie-ueber-Aufforstung/!5966549/

Studie: https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(23)00223-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0169534723002239%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

laws to control the state of nature

such as Hobbes

right to your own body only, not others

property is accepted into normal life, compared to life

more optimistic view of human nature, but still focused on rationality and reason (enlightenment values).

state of nature isn't necessarily needing to be solved by bringing in a common power

blurry idea of consent means that transition from state of war/nature to good society is not so clear after all?

isnt that just cont the state of nature/war as fear

realism

but isnt he saying its bad??

realism anarchy

this is interesting cos not only does he include the personal into the political which seems a bit contradictory, but also in his awful state of nature i would argue that women still occupy similar roles so what does this have to do with his perfect society?

does this really fit with previous assertions of self-interest. what research did this guy do?

moral system based upon human nature what now??

colonial perception of human nature based on reason and rationality.

idea of progress and civilisation is still in use today in histeographical books and promotes a colonial view of the world

right to nature

but how does this sovereign come about then?

having a state, a sovereign gives meaning to things, without it there is nothing meaningful so anything (bad) can happen

he does acknowledge the influence of other things on us so it is kind of convincing

no one to lead

• for: quote, quote - ESP, quote - interspecies communication, quote - Katie Zacarian, interspecies communication, reconnecting with nature, Stop Reset Go

• quote

  • this Earth shot as we call it that we're aiming for at Earth species project is for
    • machine learning to decode non-human communication and then
    • that new knowledge and understanding that results from that would RESET our relationship with the rest of Nature
  • and you know this is a to me a really compelling as a potential unlock in addressing the
    • biodiversity and
    • climate crisis
  • that we're saying to help us find new ways to Coexist on the planet with other species

Die Extremwetter-Ereignisse dieses Jahres entsprechen den Vorhersagen der Klimawissenschaft. Der Guardian hat dazu zahlreichende Forschende befragt und viele Statements in einem multimedialen Artikel zusammengestellt. Alle Befragten stimmen darin überein, dass die Verbrennung fossiler Brennstoffe sofort beendet werden muss, um eine weitere Verschlimmerung zu stoppen. Festgestellt wird auch, dass die Verwundbarkeit vieler Communities bisher unterschätzt worden ist. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/28/crazy-off-the-charts-records-has-humanity-finally-broken-the-climate

even though human society has been largely wiped out, there is a beautifulness in the way that the dystopian landscape is described.

Unconscious as nature (“mother”) for Jung — awfulness of humanity, repressed, for Freud

This seems apropos to the situation in which I view Donald J. Trump.

Goats climbing dams whaaaat :D

• for: progress trap, unintended consequence, ecological realization, ecological awakening
  • claim
    • the idea that we need a profound, sudden and massive change in ourselves in a dangerous notion
    • comment
      • why?
      • it presumes we have a deficit as an ecological being
      • when in actual fact, we cannot be otherwise
      • so instead, our job is to awaken our already ecological nature
      • by this, we mean our deep, intrinsic ecological nature as ecological (interdependent) beings
      • we humans have a strange and very limited kind of interdependence, which is exploitative to other people and other species
      • we have to become aware of that culturally conditioned limitation

Die dritte nationale Biddiversitätsstrategie Frankreichs wird von NGOs als Signal der Hoffnung bewertet. Verbesserungen auf der Governance-Ebene und geplanten Schritten wie der Reduktion der Pestizide und der Lichverschmutzung um 50% stehen viele Unklarheiten, etwa über für die Biodiversität schädliche Subventionen, gegenüber. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/biodiversite/nature-un-plan-de-protection-presque-prometteur-20230720_OOMXT5W4AVCKLIO2SLXBDQUSRI/

Kriterien französischer NGOs zur Bewertung der Biodiversitätsstrategie: https://www.lpo.fr/qui-sommes-nous/toutes-nos-actualites/articles/actus-2023/le-crash-test-de-la-strategie-nationale-biodiversite

Der Standard interviewt den deutschen Ökologen Josef Settele zum Renaturierungsgesetz der EU. Settele gehört zu den 6000 Wissenschaftlerinnen, die sich in einem offenen Brief für die Verabschiedung des Gesetzes ausgesprochen haben. Er bedauert, dass es Abstriche beim Schutz von Ökosystemen gab und weist darauf hin, das mit diesem Gesetz die Verpflichtung zum Schutz von 30% der Gesamtfläche noch bei weitem nicht erfüllt ist. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000179484/das-gesetz-sichert-unsere-ern228hrung

Offener Brief von 6000 Wissenschaftler:innen zur Unterstützung des Nature Restoration Law: https://zenodo.org/record/8128624

IM Umweltausschuss der EU ist das Renaturierungsgesetz durchgefallen – vor allem wegen des Widerstands vieler Abgeordneter der Europäischen Volkspartei. Ohne dieses Gesetz sind die Klimaziele der EU kaum zu erreichen.

https://taz.de/Keine-Einigung-auf-Renaturierung/!5940284/

WWF und Greenpeace haben in Österreich die EU-Parlamentarier aufgerufen, für den Entwurf der Kommission für das Nature Restauration Laws zu stimmen. Die Europäische Volkspartei hat gegen dieses Gesetz, das ein wesentlicher Bestandteil des green Deal ist, kampagnisiert. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000178340/entscheidung-im-eu-parlament-abstimmung-252ber-renaturierungsgesetz

In der EU versuchen Konservative in einem Bündnis mit der extremen Rechten, das neue Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung von Naturräumen im Plenum des Europaparlaments endgültig scheitern zu lassen. Der Guardian stellt diese Politik in den Kontext einer breiter angelegten Anti-Klimapolitik der europäischen Konservativen und Rechten.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/03/the-guardian-view-on-europes-green-deal-blowing-in-the-wind?

Hintergrundinformationen zum Renaturierungsgesetz der EU. In der vergangenen Woche wurde der Entwurf der EU-Kommission vom europäischen Parlament mit Modifikationen verabschiedet. Das Gesetz verpflichtet die EU-Staaten zu Wiederherstellungsplänen und zur Orientierung an Indikatoren, wobei die konkreten Vorgaben vom Parlament aus dem Entwurf gestrichen wurden.

Bericht der EU-Kommission zur Situation der Ökosysteme in der EU: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX%3A52020DC0635&from=DE

https://taz.de/Streit-um-Renaturierung/!5944684/

• comment
  • A Deep Humanity analog to the word "structure" is the word "pattern"
  • Hence we have the equivalency:
    • platonic form = structure = pattern
  • and the author's prior statement that
    • These mental and subsequently materialized ideas then
    • have the potential to
      • influence the physical world and to
        • feedback into the mental world to produce additional structure and
        • physical material
  • is equivalent to Indyweb / Deep Humanity statement that
    • individual and collective learning are deeply entangled
    • cumulative cultural evolution is mediated through this entanglement
    • that is best represented by the idea of dependent origination
    • individuals articulate ideas and externally present them to other consciousnesses
    • a multi-meaningverse exists whenever social learning occurs and
      • multiple perspectives, multiple meaningverses converge
    • each individual perspective surfaces their own adjacencies of ideas drawn from their own salience landscape
      • which in turn emerge from their own respective unique lebenswelt
  • We might also say that to the degree that internal patterns of the symbolosphere correlate with external patterns of the physiosphere, then
  • that is the degree to which the universal pattern manifests in both nature nature and in human nature
  • since humans (human nature) are an expression of nature (nature nature), we should not expect otherwise

• David Hume
  • in the section of the treatise of human nature on skepticism
  • https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4705

taz-Interview mit Alison Schultz zu Debt for Nature Swaps und anderen Instrumenten der Klimafinanzierung für Länder des globalen Südens.

Die französischen Wälder verliere die Fähigkeit CO2 zuabsorbieren, viermal schneller, als in den Planungen der Regierung angenommen. Diese Veränderungen sind folgende globalen Erhitzung. Sie gefährden die bisherigen Zielsetzungen Frankreichs zur CO2-Neutralität, weil der Wald bei weitem nicht in dem Ausmaß als Senke zur Verfügung steht, wie dort vorgesehen.

https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/la-foret-francaise-un-puits-de-carbone-bientot-a-sec-20230531_736OXSN6AZHDLF3GNTZELEKDGA/

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  • Mary Harrington believes it is hubris to believe we can escape our human nature.
  • I believe that cultural evolution is complex
    • We learn and change behavior over the course of even one life time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUWlZ7yoQmc

Has a somewhat touchy-feely approach, but there are some interesting touchstones worth exploring here from a cultural perspective.

the self-reliance of the soul as evidenced in nature.

• In Other Words...
• nature fights back