GATTICA! GATTICA! GATTICA!
WhyDoYouPersist
joined 1 year ago
Someone will correct me if I’m wrong!
A true believer in Cominghome's Law.
As much as I may agree with the sentiment, these illustrations are a bit too worshippy to me. She's a person, who's living, and has a lot of promise to follow through on. Painting her in this light, literally, puts a bad taste in my mouth. I can't decide if it's the iconography aspect making it feel posthumous and elevated, or if it borders on cult of personality. I like to believe "hope" was the theme commissioned, but it doesn't land for me.
It's interesting how all the pearl-clutching rhetoric behind climate-driven immigration I hear coming from the US (right) seems to be under the assumption people will be clamoring to move there as shit continues to hit the proverbial fan. However, from this layperson's perspective it seems emigration will be the far bigger reckoning for America.
👏 Stop 👏 planting 👏 non-natives
There are several on that list. For every non-native planting there is a better native option that will benefit the local ecosystem rather than potentially harm it.
Let's fucking go.
Ken Paxton when a lizard gets protection
Janet Jackson is a moron. That's what I heard.
Why is no one talking about this??? Ostriches in the sand...
That 9/11 headline holy shit forgot about that.
Out of curiosity, what necessitates moving the leaf litter at all? Asking genuinely, not trying to rain on your triumph--very cool setup. Just want to mention that leaf litter provides several natural benefits as part of its ecosystem you may not be aware of:
-It provides shelter and food for ground insects that enrich soil and feed birds over winter
-Butterflies and especially moths (who also pollinate) rely on leaf litter to protect eggs from the elements over winter. We don't see nearly as many fireflies as we used to due to loss of their habitat when leaf litter is removed
-It acts as natural mulch, leaching nutrients and decomposing into additional top soil layers, as well as conserving water by moisture retention
-Energy/fuel is expended to collect and move the leaf litter, on top of negating all the above
I'd love to know if there's a unique circumstance in your situation that requires the use of collection and burning rather than natural decomp, I'm certainly open to learning something new.