For being such a “strong candidate” the centrists are really consolidating their support under Biden at a lightening speed to stop Bernie. Sorta seems like someone else is a stronger candidate in that case but ‾\_(ツ)_/‾
“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”
— Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (via philosophybits)
Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti. Those are the countries. It will be drought-resistant species, mostly acacias. And this is a brilliant idea you have no idea oh my Christ
This will create so many jobs and regenerate so many communities and aaaaaahhhhhhh
it’s already happening, and already having positive effects. this is wonderful, why have i not heard of this before? i’m so happy!
Oh yes, acacia trees.
They fix nitrogen and improve soil quality.
And, to make things fun, the species they’re using practices “reverse leaf phenology.” The trees go dormant in the rainy season and then grow their leaves again in the dry season. This means you can plant crops under the trees, in that nitrogen-rich soil, and the trees don’t compete for light because they don’t have any leaves on.
And then in the dry season, you harvest the leaves and feed them to your cows.
Crops grown under acacia trees have better yield than those grown without them. Considerably better.
So, this isn’t just about stopping the advancement of the Sahara - it’s also about improving food security for the entire sub-Saharan belt and possibly reclaiming some of the desert as productive land.
Of course, before the “green revolution,” the farmers knew to plant acacia trees - it’s a traditional practice that they were convinced to abandon in favor of “more reliable” artificial fertilizers (that caused soil degradation, soil erosion, etc).
This is why you listen to the people who, you know, have lived with and on land for centuries.
It’s a “pie in the sky” when you want to your citizens to have healthcare and a cleaner environment.
Also there’s some kinda twisted shit with Biden constantly using the phrase “pie in the sky.”
“Pie in the sky” is a phrase from the 1911 song “The Preacher and the Slave,” by Joe Hill. Hill wrote the song as a parody of the Christian hymn “In the Sweet By-and-By” which was sung by Christians from the Salvation Army to drown out labor protests at the time. In the pocket of the coal industry, the Salvation Army insisted that the poor and starving people of the labor movement should be grateful for what they had and they would be rewarded after death.
The Salvation Army was nicknamed the “Starvation Army” and Hill wrote the following lyrics referring the organization telling the workers they don’t need food, they’ll have pie in the sky when they die:
You will eat, bye and bye, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.
Over 100 years later and the corporate elites still use this line to tell us to shut up and die… and to be grateful for it.
I’m sure Joe Biden doesn’t know that. I didn’t know that, and I’m a collector of useless and boring history trivia. Stop trying to make things look worse than they are. It’s an incredibly common turn of phrase, and I doubt 1 in 100 ppl know its origins.
Does that change the meaning of the phrase or the intention behind it?
What Joe Biden is saying if he DOES know the meaning behind this phrase: shut up and die
What Joe Biden is saying if he DOESN’T know the meaning behind this phrase: shut up and die
At the heart of a story now playing out in schools, workplaces and courts across the U.S. is a disagreement over the legal meaning of the word “sex” — and whether discrimination against gay and transgender people for being gay or transgender is sex discrimination.
The White House has a particular kind of power over this question. It has the power to interpret whether LGBTQ people are protected by sex discrimination protections in laws passed by Congress, to issue rules and policies that reflect that interpretation, and — through those actions — the power to send a message to the country.
In the last several years, two White House administrations have used this power in diametrically opposite ways. LGBTQ activists and their allies say it feels like civil rights “whiplash.”
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