timessquareblue:

Harris Theater, 226 W42nd Street, ca. 1984

theauspolchronicles:

Iceland held a funeral for the first glacier to lose its official glacier status due to climate change.

There’s something sad and poetic about that. Something ancient, massive, beautiful, and awe inspiring has been killed… and we all know why it was killed.

A plaque was laid down that says: 

“In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.”

415ppm C02

This is a tragedy and a reminder that climate change isn’t a hypothetical issue for us to face in 2050. It is a real problem happening right now all around the world. Iceland loses 11 billion tonnes of ice per year. Scientists expect all of Iceland’s more than 400 glaciers (which cover 11% of the country’s surface) will be gone be 2200.

An Australian mammal, the Bramble Cay melomys has gone extinct due to climate change destroying its island habitat. Many other animals are threatened with extinction such as bumblebees, whales, apes, the Monarch butterfly and more. 1.5C degrees of warming will lead to a loss of 80% of the world’s coral reefs and 2 degrees will destroy them ALL. Atoll nations Kiribati, Tuvalu, the Maldives, and the Marshall Islands are at great risk of rising sea levels. Farmland in Fiji is becoming too salty due to climate change and entire coastal villages must abandon their ancestral homes and their cultural connection to their lands. The Torres Strait Islanders are being threatened by rising sea levels, destroying land the Indigenous Peoples have a deep spiritual connection to. The effects of climate change are here. We are already suffering the effects and we haven’t even reached the worst of what’s to come.

Meanwhile governments around the world deny climate change. Australia is the 3rd largest exporter of fossil fuels in the world, contributing a massive carbon footprint. Our emissions are rising.

And this is all because oil/fossil fuel companies have been paying people to lie about climate change for decades. Exxon KNEW that climate change would warm the climate BACK IN THE 70s and decided profits were more important than saving the environment. Governments have known about climate change for DECADES but big business donations have made them drag their feet or create misinformation campaigns to divide public opinion and allow them to get away with inaction.

Anyone who denies climate change is a fucking liar.

Any politician who doesn’t act on climate change is evil and destroying the planet.

reguess1997:

panzerschwanzwagen:

radicalgraff:

Anti-Thatcher graffiti seen around the UK shortly after her death on the 8th of April 2013

what a bunch of misogynists

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quinndolyns:

quinndolyns:

Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers.

…

After I arrived, I was ushered into what I thought was the green room. But instead of being wired with a microphone or taken to a stage, I just sat there at a plain round table as my audience was brought to me: five super-wealthy guys — yes, all men — from the upper echelon of the hedge fund world. After a bit of small talk, I realized they had no interest in the information I had prepared about the future of technology. 

They had come with questions of their own.They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern.Which region will be less impacted by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition, or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?”

rich people are fucking terrifying

The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr. Robot hack that takes everything down.

This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers — if that technology could be developed in time.

eat the rich before they eat the rest of us

nprbooks:

Whooooo we made it to #FridayReads!! I’m about to head off on vacation, and I’m taking Tracy Chevalier’s A Single Thread, since I’ll be touring Winchester Cathedral with her for a story (YAY SO EXCITED!). Arts pal Colin Dwyer is in the midst of a cycle of reading either about Ancient Rome or space – so he’s got Barry Strauss’s Ten Caesars. And Mama Susan Stamberg has the lovely 1997 memoir The Orchard, about growing up in Ipswich, Mass. How about y’all?

– Petra

socalledunitedstates:

Keyhole garden

Is your backyard too hot and dry to cultivate the vegetables you have only dreamed of? Keyhole gardens were developed for the sole purpose of maximum crop output in the hottest and driest of conditions. Their low cost, low maintenance, and versatility make them a desirable gardening option for your yard and for gardening across the globe.

Humanitarian foundations spearheaded the development of keyhole gardening to help improve lives around the world. Keyhole gardening is simple enough to be taught to school-age children in third-world countries where the children then use the concept in their homes and villages. A single keyhole garden affords enough abundance to provide a large family with a year round supply of vegetables.

Keyhole gardens are circular raised bed gardens. The larger outer circles are where crops are planted. The center portion of these gardens are active composting baskets. Small aisles are built to access the compost baskets. Keyhole gardens get their name from the bird’s eye view of these features.

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