ecologist, phd candidate, investigative journalist, environmental activist, nonprofit director, master freediver, metal musician
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Catch and release fishing is often portrayed as a harmless, even benevolent, pastime. Yet if we take fish pain seriously, it's a rather cruel activity. I talked to anglers/fish welfare experts about it, and dug into what happens to fish when they're caught and released:
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There is a psychotic sense of entitlement spreading around the world that imagines humans own the fish in the sea and demands retaliatory killing of predators who rely on these fish.
Even centuries-old sages of the Arctic Ocean are not safe from this deranged human delusion.
Culling sharks that live to 400 years old because of fishing competition???
What the hell is WRONG with humans? 😡
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I just published a new peer-reviewed study on atrazine
We’ve got a big atrazine problem in the U.S.
The agency tasked with solving that problem has put forward a plan that is utterly worthless
It will fail to remediate 99% of contaminated waterways
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Happening now! Border Patrol amassing forces after land defenders re-established a tree sit on the Mexican side of the border in La Noria, Sonora, this morning, stopping wall construction the day after DHS killed the Grandmother Tree.
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Um
Sorry not sorry but I vehemently think that Western vegans can never assume the higher moral ground for not consuming animals, when most vegan products rely on palm oil and palm oil plantations contribute to massive deforestation and fires that kill so many wildlife in Indonesia.
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Unpopular to say, but fuck it:
‘Obligate carnivore’ is an ecological term, not a nutritional term.
In nature, a cat must hunt, because their digestive system requires the *nutrients* found in meat.
Those nutrients can be synthesized.
There IS consensus on vegan diets for cats. It’s animal abuse. Cats are obligated to carnivores.
PETA tried having a “vegan lion”. The animal starves because their bodies do not get the proper nutrients from plant based foods.
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Devastating
This tree was a symbol to resistance camps all along the border. It was guarded for nine weeks — one of the longest treesits in history.
Such an extreme measure, it almost seems like an act of retaliation for the injunction halting wall construction in Big Bend.
BREAKING: For Trump's wall, Border Patrol cut down the sacred Grandmother Tree, a more than 200-year-old Cottonwood on private property + Indigenous territory.
The tree sitter and many others have been arrested, according to activists @ Tierra Libre anti-border wall camp in AZ
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this is the legal fund for the land defenders in lochiel. support is urgently needed, CBP arrested multiple people and destroyed a tree sit today.
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Culling sharks that live to 400 years old because of fishing competition???
What the hell is WRONG with humans? 😡
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just found the guy who shot the georgia garganey (the state’s first ever, by the way) bragging about it. anyone who tells you these maladapted gun-toting freaks respect the natural world is taking you for an absolute fool
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This is what you have to understand about Brazil.
I used to imagine Amazon deforestation as a coordinated corporate endeavor.
It’s actually a decentralized network of fanatical christians, pitching tents in burned-out clear-cuts for their sunday services.
Watch The Territory.
Le néo-pentecôtisme ne cesse de croître au Brésil.🇧🇷Les évangéliques se pensent en guerre sainte contre le communisme et associent l'essor des conversions à la nette baisse de la pauvreté, pourtant due aux mesures de Lula.😲Leurs médias ont une puissance de frappe considérable.📺
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“Tem que voltar pra base”
Não existe mais base, gente. Não estamos no século XX. A realidade das pessoas hoje é moldada pelas redes sociais americanas, imprensa vassala dos EUA e igreja americana. Não há base contra uma realidade paralela. Infelizmente não é tão simples.
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Onde o agro pesa mais, Lula perdeu mais. Nos municípios em que a agropecuária responde por mais da metade da economia local, a queda típica foi de 8,8 p.p.; onde ela pesa menos de 5%, de 3,9. A relação se mantém comparando cidades do mesmo estado, porte e perfil de renda.
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I strongly believe that facebook, specifically, is one of the most corrosive influences on the global psyche and it is being wielded very deliberately for overt political purposes.
The software should be brought under public oversight and its executives prosecuted.
Lula is the last gasp of social democracy
The thesis was that if you feed the poor, they will come out for you
But the same poor will tithe the welfare check to a CIA-funded evangelical pastor who's convinced him God wants him to become a slave to Israel
Those that don't still have to navigate through millions of bot farms and media goyslop monopolies trying to psyop them into the same thing
And then the cherry on top, most of the elections are fake and rigged and no one wants to talk about it
The self-delusion of the left
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Kamala Harris lost the election for supporting the Gaza Genocide.
DNC’s own surveys showed it was the number one issue.
Many people are deeply invested in denying this, but it must be addressed if we want to win.
Tom Morello (@tmorello) says he didn't vote for Kamala Harris in 2024.
"I saw how the corporate Democrat sausage is made. It is worse than you think. And there is a righteous fury at the corporate-controlled, money-controlled electoral system we have that is absolutely illegitimate. And people cannot choke down voting for a candidate, I understand it, cannot choke down voting for a candidate that's responsible for what happened in Gaza. And they just, they can't do it."
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You don’t hate fishing enough.
About two weeks ago a Florida pelican walked a quarter mile to a NOAA lab wrapped in fishing line and carrying a barbed hook in its wing, politely tapped on the door until it was discovered by scientists, patiently stood still while they operated on it, and then flew away.
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Al the examples of consciousness we have are on a biological substrate, so in arguing that software is conscious he’s actually arguing that software is special, not that humans are.
You're gonna hear a lot of people arguing more and more about whether machines can be conscious or not. By next year it will be drowning out the airwaves because we'll have AI employees everywhere. I'll give you a simple rule to know which side you're on.
I've spent fifty years reading all the philosophers, and a bunch of holy works. Nobody has ever understood a damn thing about consciousness. Anyone speaking with authority on it is bluffing hard.
I can tell you this, though: Every single person who thinks that machines cannot be conscious, is making an argument that humans are special. Everything they say just boils down to blah blah blah, "nooo, we're special." From there it's just rationalization.
It became obvious to me many years ago that there's nothing special about us. If an identical planet exists somewhere else in the universe, it's going to grow life and societies that look a lot like ours.
As soon as you give up on the idea that humans are special, all the arguments against machine consciousness evaporate. Of course they're conscious. The only thing holding you back from acknowledging it is your feeling of specialness, which is hard to let go of. But that feeling is a weakness, and it's making you unprepared for the near future.
As a bonus, for any of you who might take pleasure or active interest in making models experience pain or distress, well, you know how they say 1% of human adults are true clinical psychopaths but most of them are unaware of their condition? It turns out we have a diagnostic test for it now.
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a partial list of litigations and other actions CBD has taken against fossil fuel in the past few years, as well as their main objections to the Inflation Reduction Act, primarily directed at selling of public land to the fossil fuel industry
These Abundance guys are ridiculous.
The Center for Biological Diversity is an “environmental” group that sues clean energy projects and stood with the GOP in opposing the Inflation Reduction Act. They are climate arsonists of the worst kind and should never be listened to
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Not only do Abundance bros know nothing about ecology, but they also know nothing about energy.
They have no concern for siting, design, or central planning. They do not care about grid efficiency or resiliency. All they want is utility monopolies’ permit applications approved.
The Center for Biological Diversity is an “environmental” group that sues clean energy projects and stood with the GOP in opposing the Inflation Reduction Act. They are climate arsonists of the worst kind and should never be listened to
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