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Hugo
@nonviolence.bsky.social
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Nature is all 🐦 Tax the rich so we can all eat more animals, buy more cars & holidays? Without a moral foundation that starts with animals, every house of cards will crumble. Any economy that is not - plant based - local - low tech is not circular 🍩
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · Mar 3
We don't know because we don't want to know.

Active not knowing.

🚬 = 🚗 🥩 ✈️
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 12h
There is a lot behind this case study. Food system science denia aka Lysenkoism.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenko...
Our current Greenwashing Revolution is exactly the same, only global.
www.imdb.com/title/tt4893...
Holodomor: Voices of Survivors - Ukrainian Famine/Genocide (TV Movie 2015) ⭐ 9.0 | Documentary, History
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 12h
It's the speed of change, again, that is spooky.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 12h
Yes. Holodomor was a good case study.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · Feb 25
My personal take on #collapse preparation & adaptation is to get ready to die first #DieFirst

This is 100% selfish and rational to me. How do you prepare (to die)? #TalkCollapse
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodom...
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 12h
Progress: From 550 million humans being undernourished to 750 million in just 6 years... All good. We just need more progress and more humans and more consumption to make it.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 12h
Progress: From 550 million humans being undernourished to 750 million in just 6 years... All good. We just need more progress and more humans and more consumption to make it.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 13h
Random eg: Vegetation change can influence maritime cloud brightness. This paper strengthens the idea that biotic GHG like forest-VOCs affect maritime stratocumulus albedo. It bridges biotic pump dynamics, aerosols & radiative forcing. Forests breathe water & aerosols, shaping clouds across oceans..
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 4d
Deforestation eliminates volatile organic chemicals (VOCs), thereby reducing the natural aerosol cooling.

This is not as bad as losing the CO2 & water pump engine that forests represent - which is worse than burning FFs. But VOC aerosols were underestimated so far.
@leonsimons.bsky.social
Unaccounted impacts of diterpene emissions on atmospheric aerosol loadings - Communications Earth & Environment
Diterpenes are an underestimated source of secondary organic aerosol, accounting for up to 13% of the secondary organic aerosol burden from isoprene, according to combined chamber experiments and chemical transport modelling.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 13h
Given that we are discussing the end of everything, I hope everyone can work on dropping any LW theory bias. Clouds, ice, aerosols & even forests are real? There are no reputational or financial incentives anymore - if scientists believed their own science. We are toast. Any ego should go to sleep.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 13h
Yup. In the south, the challenges are too big to cope with already due to what we in the North do all day long. Drive cars, eat meat and fly on holiday.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · Aug 15
Around the time of the flood in Valencia in Spain in 2024, there was a flood in Nigeria too. Was it worse or lighter than the flood on Spain?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Ni...

What about 2025?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Ni...

Why do I ask, you ask?

It's about cars, meat and airplanes, isn't it?
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 13h
I know that by 'world', you mean 'pathogen'.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 14h
The biosphere, N and novel entities might get us before the climate does.

E.g. Our fertilizers are returning the ocean into pre-algea and pre-plant evolutionary state. 4 million metric tons of antibiotics (herbicides & pesticides) annually kill the microbiome. Hugo's Law: More bad leads to more bad
The Bacteria That Made Life Possible Are Now Killing Us
YouTube video by MinuteEarth
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 14h
People are working on it. FFs get attention because deflect more responsibility than meat. Hansen & Leon work on sulfur. Others on the biotic pump. I showed that ice forming bacteria represent albedo climate forcing of 10-22 W/m2 but I don't think people followed. We don't reduce anything bad anyway
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 15h
Interesting.

Here where I live and why there is no hiding unless we deregulate rivers asap AND go local, plant based and low-tech.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 15h
Interesting.

Here where I live and why there is no hiding unless we deregulate rivers asap AND go local, plant based and low-tech.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 15h
Agreed re solar absorbed.

Albedo is at a record low.

What contributes? Everything 😅
- Less sulfur
- Less ice (forming bacteria)
- Less bright clouds due to the destruction if the CO2 & Water pump aka primary production
- ...
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 15h
Burning fossil fuels bought us a lot of time to figure all this out. Had we continued to burn wood instead of coal, we'd be all dead today.

Fossil fuels are like smoking. It risk cancer which can kill vital organs.

Eating animals aka deforestation is like cutting out vital organs today. Primary.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 15h
Lack of land sinks and albedo due to the destruction of the CO2 & water pumps on earth (primary production aka vegetation) is the main driver for me now. Worse than burning fossil fuels. We are not just smoking (FFs), we are killing primary production 🫀🫁 our last vital organs.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 15h
IPCC has >60% impact after 10 years. Same thing.

2°C budget is zero today.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 15h
I get it. But I do not see irrigation as natural & sustainable.

Nature doesn't irrigate & neither should we. We should learn to work with natural water cycles or we make it worse.

Plants didn't need fertilizers and irrigation to grow before humans - still don't.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural...
Natural farming - Wikipedia
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 15h
The Nazis couldn't save and protect anybody and anything. All they could do is stop. But they didn't. In theory, we could stop a lot. Right now. But we won't.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 15h
Regulating rivers is what got us into this mess, no?
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 15h
There is one big benefit that high-tech has that low-tech can never match.

Patents, trademarks and copyright aka huge wealth 💰 for only a few. ©️™️ High tech is inequality per definition.

3.5 billion have never used the internet. 7.5 bn have never entered an airplane. Are we high enough? #Tech
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 15h
Some ask the question.
www.brookings.edu/articles/can...
Can Natural Disasters Help Stimulate the Economy? | Brookings
Following the East Coast earthquake and Hurricane Irene, some have asked whether such disasters could help stimulate the economy through recovery spending. Martin Baily writes that even if GDP is boos...
www.brookings.edu
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 16h
⏰ High-tech is the exact 180° opposite of resilience.

High-tech invents and creates too many needless necessities and destroys all life on Earth.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 16h
An English permaculture acquaintance of mine moved to Sicily - confident that he can collect rain water to grow food 🎭 It was sad & funny to watch. There's a chance if we allowed our crops to have sex again and adapted to less water & more heat. But he wasn't into this 🤷‍♂️
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Going to Seed
Going to Seed inspires a shift in agriculture towards adaptation, community, and diversity. Adaptation Agriculture or Adaptation Gardening allows the ecosystem to select the best plants, rather than r...
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 16h
Sugar does not cause cancer but it has no fiber and harms your metabolism and gut. Meat and dairy and saturated fats cause cancer and diabetes.

Don't eat animals products if you want to prevent or have #cancer
www.aicr.org/news/diet-ca...
Diet-Cancer Experts Welcome WHO Report on Meat and Cancer
Recently, the World Health Organization in Washington, DC published reports on meat consumption and cancer research. Here, we dive into both.
www.aicr.org
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