#climate change
this may be a hard pill to swallow for some people but like. 90% of the fires in australia wouldn’t be happening right now if people had just fucking listened to indigenous peoples
literally just. give us our FULL sovereignty back over these areas half of them aren’t even inhabited and almost none of them have ANY cultural significance to white australia (not that that should even matter cause it’s. aboriginal land and it always will be but whatever). give us control over them and shit like this won’t happen and our communities will heal.
Is OP implying the fires are the result of some kind of Aboriginal curse or something? Is the continent itself breaking out in fever in an attempt to cleanse itself of white people? Do the Aboriginals have some effective anti-wildfire strategy that the white people are too arrogant to listen to?
we had landcare practices to prevent shit like this. we’d burn the forest litter/hazardously flammable stuff in the cooler months to prevent massive forest fires happening. when our lands were invaded we could no longer implement these practices and now the leaf litter will build up and set on fire again and again and now the forest fires will be huge.
Its scientifically proven that Aboriginal people didn’t suffer from wild bushfires, pre invasion. And its also proven that back burning (burning parts of the land per season) actually encourages new life and promotes animal breeding. Aboriginal science outweighs white science.
Followers, ☝️ This 100%. Happy to send people the studies and papers and stuff (or just have the conversation with sources) but by looking at tree ring scars, we can see that some areas had fires once every 80 years - and now those same regions are burning every few years. It’s un-natural for Australia, this isnt a continent meant to be chaotically and uncontrollably burning forever.
The intensity of fire is increasing bc of biomass is changing, plant species are changing, rivers diverted and drying up. Soil salinity is spiking, soil erosion is getting worse - and a thousand other things that aboriginal activists and people have been warning about for centuries.
Areas under native title where mosaic burning happens HAS LESS/NO OUT OF CONTROL FIRES. The evidence is literally right there.
Part of the out of control fires are climate change, part is european settlements and farming practices causing absolute fucking chaos on local ecosystems. these fires are not sudden or out of the blue or anything - they’ve been a long time coming from systematic environmental neglect and intentional environmental fuckery. You reap what you sow.
Plot twist: The peoples that have actually been livingin Australia for thousands of years, surprisingly, have got this shit figured out
Archaeologists who work in the Arctic are typically spoiled with pristinely preserved artifacts, but recently the blessing of ice has become a curse: the researchers are struggling to save the wealth of delicate material that is emerging from melting permafrost and eroding coastlines because of climate change. In northern Alaska there is only one full-time archaeologist: Anne Jensen, a senior scientist at Ukpeavik Iñupiat Corporation, one of the largest companies owned by Alaskan natives.
Every summer Jensen excavates hard-to-access sites where Inuit people lived and hunted hundreds—even thousands—of years ago. This past summer Jensen and her colleagues returned to Walakpa, once the site of a coastal village that continues to reveal surprises because of erosion. They hope to save thousands of years’ worth of cultural and environmental data from falling into the sea. Read more.
The more I research about conservation, the more I cannot STAND climate doomerism.
“Ough oof we’re all gonna die, everything is going extinct, blaaaahhh”
Meanwhile there are so many efforts and projects that are like “Blease…volunteers…interested homeowners…….random individuals who care…..pleas……….literally begging………”
A bunch of stuff you can probably do even if you have noland, nomoney, and no or limited ability to do physical work
like, off the top of my head
- share social media posts from nearby conservation organizations so other people can see them
- talk to your neighbors. develop a friendly relationship with them. perhaps pepper in casual references to invasive plants and species in decline around you (I have done this)
- but talk to your neighbors for its own sake
- teach your friends and any kids you may know cool facts about bugs, snakes and creatures so they will care more about them
- teach your mom and your dad and your grandma about creatures like spiders and snakes. help people to appreciate them.
- make and/or post relevant memes. my anti lawn memes and other memes are free for you to repost without credit.
- maybe even make a meme page idk
- look up the sounds of birds that live in your area on youtube. impress others with your ability to identify bird calls. increase knowledge of people around you.
- vote in localelections
- do not have an outside cat. Don’t even do it for the wildlife, do it for the poor cat. Don’t take my word for it on this, go google the kinds of worms cats can get.
- Since the bird flu is going around, tell other people you know with outside cats and inform them that eating a bird could literally kill their cat. this is just a good idea to do regardless
- if you have a cat, whether they are outside or inside or not, try leash training them. tell other people. post online if you want. If you are capable of doing so, take your cat out on a leash to chill in the yard with them or walk with them or whatever you want to do.
- “some cats can be leash trained” will be pointless to say until people see other people walking cats. Be the first in your neighborhood to be crazy enough to do it
- if you have a friend with a garden, ask if they’d like to take your compostable stuff for theircompost
- or just start a compost pile. you don’t have to have a garden to have compost. just make compost and give it to people,?? 
This isn’t even getting into existing ways to organize in your community this is just random crap
The people who are doing the work you can’t do are set back by stuff like “people think bugs and snakes are scary and harmful, so they don’t care about saving them”
But you CAN help change the way other people see bugs and snakes, if you have contact with other people at all
share!!!! your!!!!! knowledge!!!!! with!! people!!!!!! please! People are RIDICULOUSLY uninformed about nature
*I* know that snakes are good for the ecosystem, that there are only two species of venomous snake in my area, and that snakes are timid and absolutely don’t chase you, but that doesn’t mean everybody else knows that and more people than you would think actually don’t
Tracing the Romance Genre’s Radical Roots, from Derided “Sex Novels” to Bridgerton
As the Climate Changes, So Does Fiction
I couldn’t decide on which article to share, so I shared both.
1,000+ Scientists Worldwide Engaged in Civil Disobedience for Climate Action
“… “I’m taking action because I feel desperate,” said U.S. climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who along with several others locked himself to the front door of a JPMorgan Chase building in Los Angeles. A recent report found that the financial giant is the biggest private funder of oil and gas initiatives in the world.
“It’s the 11th hour in terms of Earth breakdown, and I feel terrified for my kids, and terrified for humanity,” Kalmus continued. “World leaders are still expanding the fossil fuel industry as fast as they can, but this is insane. The science clearly indicates that everything we hold dear is at risk, including even civilization itself and the wonderful, beautiful, cosmically precious life on this planet. I actually don’t get how any scientist who understands this could possibly stay on the sidelines at this point.” …”
Corporate media will not cover the climate crisis.
Image: no source - found on Pinterest.
i need y'all to get that headlines about climate change are supposed to spur people to action, and scientists sound the alarm because humanity still CAN do something, not because it’s inevitable and Literally Everyone Will Die
DoNOT let people let you forget that our world is still as habitable as it is today because of the work of scientists and activists of the past, that things would be MUCH WORSE now if people hadn’t acted.
Remember the ozone hole? Remember that? You haven’t heard about that in a little bit huh? THAT’S BECAUSE WE FIXED THE PROBLEM. If no one had done anything, there would be holes in the ozone layer all over the place and we would be slowly irradiated by the sun. THE EARTH WOULD HAVE BEEN UNINHABITABLE BY MIDCENTURY.
Every time you repeat the line that “Unless we end capitalism worldwide, there’s literally nothing we can do to help climate change!” the people that devoted their lives to saving species that would be gone now, preserving habitat that would be obliterated now, and fixing problems that would have been well along the way to making us extinct by now beam psychic rays of contempt in your direction