It has been a week. Thank you for sharing about all of the positive news about environmental measures that passed this week. I hope it’s a sign of good things to come that when it’s entirely up to voters, action happens on the environment.
I'm so sorry - for you, for Americans, for all of us populations of the world on the road to nowhere, for nature, for Gaza. Imo we weren't going to make it before Trump. Now annihilation will come faster. I take refuge in a glacial fatalism. I study history, with its cruel, wasteful destruction. Humans and human life were always like this, more or less. But still with interludes of joy and beauty.
I remember the famous lines from the poem about the Battle of Maldon which "took place on 10 or 11 August 991 AD near Maldon beside the River Blackwater in Essex, England, during the reign of Æthelred the Unready. Earl Byrhtnoth and his thegns led the English against a Viking invasion. The battle ended in an Anglo-Saxon defeat." (Wikepedia)
This is my preferred translation: "Minds must be firmer, heart the keener, courage the greater, as our might fails." (Greenfield) I can in no way live up to this, but it gladdens me that some people have and may still.
"Minds must be firmer, heart the keener, courage the greater, as our might fails." I really like this.
I don't know about "Imo we weren't going to make it before Trump." I've been arguing with some folks in the collapse subreddit who claimed that, at least as far as climate goes, Biden/Harris are just the same as Trump, and I don't believe that. I don't know that all is lost, whatever that means. Just that it will be worse than it could have been.
Jessica, I agree with you that Trump is likely to be much worse than Harris. But even if Harris were the patron Saint of Conservation, she could not have promoted that against the Popular desire for economic growth. I'm glad you like the quote.
It has been a week. Thank you for sharing about all of the positive news about environmental measures that passed this week. I hope it’s a sign of good things to come that when it’s entirely up to voters, action happens on the environment.
Yes, climate and enviro fights will have to be local now, for the most part. And there's a lot of good that can be done there!
I'm so sorry - for you, for Americans, for all of us populations of the world on the road to nowhere, for nature, for Gaza. Imo we weren't going to make it before Trump. Now annihilation will come faster. I take refuge in a glacial fatalism. I study history, with its cruel, wasteful destruction. Humans and human life were always like this, more or less. But still with interludes of joy and beauty.
I remember the famous lines from the poem about the Battle of Maldon which "took place on 10 or 11 August 991 AD near Maldon beside the River Blackwater in Essex, England, during the reign of Æthelred the Unready. Earl Byrhtnoth and his thegns led the English against a Viking invasion. The battle ended in an Anglo-Saxon defeat." (Wikepedia)
This is my preferred translation: "Minds must be firmer, heart the keener, courage the greater, as our might fails." (Greenfield) I can in no way live up to this, but it gladdens me that some people have and may still.
"Minds must be firmer, heart the keener, courage the greater, as our might fails." I really like this.
I don't know about "Imo we weren't going to make it before Trump." I've been arguing with some folks in the collapse subreddit who claimed that, at least as far as climate goes, Biden/Harris are just the same as Trump, and I don't believe that. I don't know that all is lost, whatever that means. Just that it will be worse than it could have been.
Jessica, I agree with you that Trump is likely to be much worse than Harris. But even if Harris were the patron Saint of Conservation, she could not have promoted that against the Popular desire for economic growth. I'm glad you like the quote.