The fact that people are out here for #JoeBiden is wild to me.
1) He spent the last three years calling millennials complainers
2) Remember the Anita Hill #controversy
3) He’s a centrist establishment democrat with outdated views #rememberHillary2016
4) He was against desegregation in the 1970s
5) He supports cuts to social security and Medicare
6) He supported the Defense of Marriage act which denied LGBT people rights
7) He supported the Iraq War
We can do so much fucking better. It’s time for radical change, not business as usual politics. Kthnx
Y'all he didn’t just vote for it, he wrote the 1994 Crime Bill with infamous segregationist Strom Thurmond. This led to higher mass incarceration rates in the late 90s and the effects can still be felt today.
Some beautiful solarpunk designs mentioned in here.
« Copenhagen has opted for a dumb – or, as local planners call it, “a green and blue” – solution to their increasing flood risks: namely, a series of parks that can become lakes during storms. The city estimated they would cost a third less than building levees and new sewers, and come with the added ecological benefits of rewilding. […]
[… Other cities are] developing in a way that’s erasing the indigenous resilience in the landscape.”But you don’t have to erase to go forwards, she says. “You can leapfrog and embed local intelligence, using a nature-based traditional Chinese technology that’s climate resilient, ecologically resilient and culturally resilient. And we can make beautiful urban spaces with them as well.”
It is eminently possible to weave ancient knowledge of how to live symbiotically with nature into how we shape the cities of the future, before this wisdom is lost forever. We can rewild our urban landscapes, and apply low-tech ecological solutions to drainage, wastewater processing, flood survival, local agriculture and pollution that have worked for indigenous peoples for thousands of years, with no need for electronic sensors, computer servers or extra IT support. »
