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The greatest carbon sink in the world are actually our oceans, and we’re not even close to paying attention to their health. I think all modern takes on climat

The greatest carbon sink in the world are actually our oceans, and we’re not even close to paying attention to their health. I think all modern takes on climate change have become very reductive. Yeah monoculturing dead forests isn’t a solution, but so is not doing anything. The ideal solution at this point frankly is to reduce human consumption and leaving large swaths of land to their own devices. Give them time to heal. (And provide some help with native flora and fauna if the land is too far gone to heal on its own).

meristohm 5y ago
Pollution and climate change fall squarely within Timothy Morton’s “hyperobject” definition. I accept what’s happening and I try to imagine it, and I accept that I fail to understand. I used to like E. O. Wilson’s half-earth idea, but it’s got an eracist undertone (or overtone if you can empathize with aboriginal people displaced from homelands in the interest of national parks and the many other reasons). The US National Park System is awesome, in part for the mission statement of perpetual stewardship, and it could be so much better. Allowing traditional land-use practices could help restore and preserve landscapes. We collectively need to reduce our energy-conversion demand and agree on government regulations that help keep a balance rather than promoting or allowing for exploitation. That kind of shift will not be easy. Feral, a book by George Monbiot, discusses rewilding in Wales. The New Wilderness, by Diane Cook, is fiction about a group of humans opting into a rewilding experiment, exchanging the amenities and stresses of the city for that of a generations-long series of camping trips.
sweetheart 5y ago
And the best way to do this is to stop consuming animal products, as the majority of our land worldwide used for agriculture is used to support animal culture. Moving away from consuming animals free huge portions of that land, as well as helps to heal the oceans which are devastated both by the byproducts of global warming, but also directly via overfishing. There is no version of halting global warming that does not involve reducing our reliance on eating animals and their secretions.
- sweetheart 5y ago
  I’d love if the folks downvoting would care to explain how what I’m saying is neither directly relevant nor true. I’m all ears.

meristohm 5y ago

Pollution and climate change fall squarely within Timothy Morton’s “hyperobject” definition. I accept what’s happening and I try to imagine it, and I accept that I fail to understand. I used to like E. O. Wilson’s half-earth idea, but it’s got an eracist undertone (or overtone if you can empathize with aboriginal people displaced from homelands in the interest of national parks and the many other reasons). The US National Park System is awesome, in part for the mission statement of perpetual stewardship, and it could be so much better. Allowing traditional land-use practices could help restore and preserve landscapes. We collectively need to reduce our energy-conversion demand and agree on government regulations that help keep a balance rather than promoting or allowing for exploitation. That kind of shift will not be easy. Feral, a book by George Monbiot, discusses rewilding in Wales. The New Wilderness, by Diane Cook, is fiction about a group of humans opting into a rewilding experiment, exchanging the amenities and stresses of the city for that of a generations-long series of camping trips.

sweetheart 5y ago

And the best way to do this is to stop consuming animal products, as the majority of our land worldwide used for agriculture is used to support animal culture. Moving away from consuming animals free huge portions of that land, as well as helps to heal the oceans which are devastated both by the byproducts of global warming, but also directly via overfishing. There is no version of halting global warming that does not involve reducing our reliance on eating animals and their secretions.

sweetheart 5y ago
I’d love if the folks downvoting would care to explain how what I’m saying is neither directly relevant nor true. I’m all ears.