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The Disregard of Holism
- Original Watercolor Painting
Focusing on too many things at once is a problem I face personally, couple that with the need to take everything upon myself and low stress tolerance and you have a disaster waiting to happen. If you face the same problem as me, I’d highly suggest making a group of specialized people and solve small problems locally, whether that be growing food, hooking up satellites for free WiFi, setting up a Food Not Bombs chapter in your area, or even cooperation in local to state government. We all have our talents, honing yours can change a life, but it takes all of us to change the world in a significant way. To rebuild a structure, parts must be torn down, the more you tear down periodically, the better the structure is going to be, however it must be reinforced. You cannot expect a house to stand without a plan for a structure, we are the supports that make the wall, the roof, and the floor. The foundation is what we believe in, and what the foundation is, is hope. Hope for a future that can be, with action, collaboration, and resistance against the hierarchical, overbearing, and exploitative power structures that currently exist.
This has been my first post in a while, so I’ll see ya’ll again in probably a month to commemorate my first post on this site “A Beginner’s Guide to Solarpunk” which absolutely blew up my account, to be truthful I’m proud of how far we’ve all come with our small internet based movement reaching new heights and our voices getting louder in the ears of politicians and capitalists alike. We’re here to stay, don’t forget about it.
This has been @punkofsunshine, have a good one and stay safe.
Back when I was a little kid, plastic packaging wasn’t prevalant at all. Liquids and sauces were packaged in glass. Dry goods were packaged in cardboard. Tear-off lids were made of foil. On the edge of my estate were the recycling bins and my mother would trot us all over once a week so we could smash the brown and green and clear bottles into the correct bins. It was fantastic
But then it was revealed just how rapidly the forests were disappearing all over the world. It was a disaster, the world’s lungs were vanishing, and obviously it was all because of the individual consumers who were buying massive quantities of paper.
(whereas in actual fact most paper and cardboard came from farmed forests planted with rapidly-maturing trees that are harvested and replaced on the regular, not from virgin old-growth rainforest. We know these days why forests are being razed, but in the pre-internet era the only sources of information we had were newsprint and TV news headlines)
When companies started offering plastic versions of their packaging it was seen as a way the consumer could cut down on their paper waste, even though the plastic was flimsier and had to go into the bin as no one had worked out how to recycle it yet, but we were assured that’d be coming soon!
(and more insidiously, the glass packaged foods were now a few pence more expensive than the plastic packaged food. Was it really worth making a stand over tomato sauce? No, buy plastic, save the trees)
Nowadays it was obvious what happened: the companies realised they could save a couple pence by packaging their goods in moulded plastic rather than the traditional packages, so made a big fuss about the unsustainability of their old packaging in order to convince shoppers that they were making The Right Choice by moving over to plastic packaging.
Greenwashing has been happening for decades and it’s always been an advertising campaign.
At least 44 dead, 56 missing in Brazil downpours
ALTTorrential rains in northeastern Brazil have left at least 44 people dead and dozens missing, the government said Sunday, as rescuers capitalised on a lull in downpours to search for survivors.
“We registered 44 dead, 56 missing, 25 injured, 3,957 without shelter and 533 displaced,” Minister of Regional Development Daniel Ferreira told a press conference in Recife, the capital of hard-hit northeastern Pernambuco state.
The disaster is the latest in a recent series of deadly landslides and floods triggered by extreme weather in Brazil.
The number of dead had mounted from 34 since Saturday, with at least 28 killed in landslides, as heavy rains caused rivers to overflow and torrents of mud swept away everything in their path.
Authorities warned that heavy rain was forecast to continue Sunday, but the storm subsided in the morning.
Experts say Brazil’s rainy season downpours are being augmented by La Nina – the cyclical cooling of the Pacific Ocean – and by climate change.
Judicial Tyranny & Why We Need Strict Construction
COMMENT: The Insanity of the EU Bureaucrats and the European Court of Justice (ECJ - The Vnuk Case Summary: In August 2007 Slovenian Damijan Vnuk working on a
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Is the Media Trying to Reestablish the Establishment? | Armstrong Economics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXxGPDBRUzs They say that knowledge is power. This is why the media has been engaging in outright propaganda and they hate
Bill Clinton & Abraham Lincoln Were Elected with Less of the Popular Vote than Trump
Obama has clearly set up a shadow government and the Democrats are hell-bent upon obstructing everything and they intend to effectively overturn the Republicans…
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When Real News is Attacked by Government – The End is Near
The Deutsche-Wirtschafts-Nachrichten (DWN) has been under attack by politicians in Europe for reporting the truth. DWN editor Michael Maier has sent a sharp…
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When Clinton Made Same Argument as Trump Against Immigrants They Cheered
In 1996 Bill Clinton made it mandatory prison time for any alien who reentered the country after being deported. It was Bill Clinton who made it law that any…
The New American Coup – Media Leading Charge to Topple Government
There is clearly a coup unfolding led by the Democrats and the media. They will not accept Trump and are determined to destroy the government as we have known
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Global Warming is About Destroying Capitalism?
A shocking statement was made by a United Nations official Christiana Figueres at a news conference in Brussels. Figueres admitted that the Global Warming…
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CALPERS Trying to Cover-Up Leaks of their Mismanagement
Here is a board meeting of CALPERS illustrating that (1) the majority of the board is totally without any
Trump’s Tax Reduction Follows John F. Kennedy Approach
Already, all we hear is how Trump is trying to lower taxes for himself and friends. The stupidity of those who even say this is beyond belief.
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NASA Finally Admits It’s Going to Get Colder
NASA has actually admitted that there may be a link between the solar climate and the earth climate. “ recent years, researchers have considered the possibility…
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Zwei Billionen Euro im Muell Was uns der ‘Klimaschutz’ kostet”
Die Kosten zur Erreichung der Klimaschutzziele der Bundesregierung explodieren. Das rechnete jetzt der Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI) vor. Ueber zwei Billionen will Merkel im Kampf gegen das CO2 investieren. Kohle fuer die Muelltonne, denn wie eine Petition von 30.000 Wissenschaftlern gegen den Klimawahn zeigt, ist die Hysterie voellig unbegruendet. Wie Welt Online Mitte Januar mit…
Auswaertiges Amt gibt erste Schaetzungen zum Familiennachzug bekannt
Das Auswaertige Amt hat erste Zahlen zum erwarteten Familiennachzug vorgelegt.
Banken in Europa nervoes: Ueberraschend hohe Nachfrage bei EZB-Tender
Bei den Banken in Europa macht sich eine gewisse Nervositaet breit. Grund koennte die Lage in Italien sein.
Pestizid Glyphosat in Speise-Eis gefunden, auch Wasser gefaehrdet
Das Pestizid Glyphosat findet seinen Weg offenbar in die Lebensmittelkette.
Kaufhof-Eigner: Mitarbeiter sollen weniger verdienen
Der Kaufhof-Eigner HBC draengt auf neue, tiefere Loehne fuer die Beschaeftigten.
