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I absolutely love being a teacher but the American education system is so broken that I can’t help but leave the school most days feeling like I’m just slapping a bandage on a wound that won’t heal.
#and that is deeply hearbreaking tbh#I have yet to meet a single educator in any education setting I’ve worked in who feels they are supported#I’ll pour my heart and soul into these kids every single day#I’ll buy classroom materials for them with money out of my own pocket#I’ll design curriculum for them outside of contract hours (bc we know I don’t get enough time during contract hours)#and it still won’t be enough#and these are the smallest most minor issues#mine
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By implying that children are too stupid and rude to learn about the world and learn how the world works and how to interact with others, you are casting responsibility away from the people who are responsible for that child's upbringing and placing the blame on the children (who don't have the autonomy given to them to be allowed to decide what they want) who can't help what they do and do not learn, often.
If the children aren't okay, then investigate why before turning to thought-terminating clichés of, "Well, the kids are just stupid and dumb and aren't even worth the effort because they're lazy!"
#youth liberation#i was really bothered when i saw this clip where this person was saying almost verbatim that...#...'kids [these days] are too STUPID and they're teachers are scared!'...#...why is the blame placed on the kids who have no control over school curriculum and what their home life is like or if they have money...#...it's because when you place the blame on the people with no power or control you don't have the responsibility to change circumstances..#...you essentially keep the status quo while simultaneously belittling a group of vulnerable people...#...and thus you feed into the cyclical nature of the broken education system#the kids these days AREN'T okay but it ISN'T THEIR FAULT...#...it's the fault of late-stage capitalism and poorly-funded education and a world that wasn't even built with them in mind...#...they had NO PART in the creation of the world which is hostile to their entire existence#don't mind the incorrect usage of their in the second tag i was so focused on how pissed i was#also remember how a good chunk of these kids lived through *checks notes* the fucking PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN#which was a clown show in terms of supporting kids and their parent/s#some places handled lockdown in the US better than others but holy fuck in my area at least it was a nightmare#what do you expect from parents who are now working full-time and teaching part/full-time and parenting full-time?#what support exactly are you expecting they recieved? because you'll likely find they got either a little or NONE#hilarious that i used the wrong their in a post subtweeting about education LOL#look i was focused on how PISSED i was lol cut me some slack here
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I met 5 out of the 6 students on my Kindergarten self contained autistic support class and I gotta say I think I legitimately have been blessed with the best, sweetest, and MOSE ENTHUSIASTIC class ever!
#unusual thing to say on tumblr ik but im actually so unbelievably excited#only behavior I witnessed is a kid taking my letter cards out of a pocket chart to say the sounds which is freaking ideal lol#I may be overly optimistic but I may be able to push all of them into their typical Kindergarten classrooms full time by January#and nobody is giving red flags for any aggression? OR property destruction?#I got beat up and had my room torn apart nearly every day last year this may actually be too good to be true#AND they all have nice responsive fun knowledgeable and supportive families?!?!?!#three of them have a behavior tech to support them through their parents health insurance?!?!#and I only have Kinder so I don’t have to work around multiple grade level schedules and multiple curriculums#I had to plan completely different lessons for my Kindergartners and first graders for both reading and math last year#so I literally only have to do half of the planning I did last year#and I have two brilliant paraprofessionals who I know and like and who also like me#this is actually a dream come true#we’re going to make so much progress while having more fun than anyone else in the entire school#the kids were already getting along so well at the open house#this is my 5th year teaching and the first time I actually feel ready and excited for the first day
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No, Republicans do not actually care or suddenly care about antisemitism. Not on college campuses. Not in government. This is the same party whose members routinely go onto Fox News to espouse antisemitic conspiracies about Jews controlling the military or “transing” our children. This is the same party whose members have defended the Charlottesville Nazis. This is the same party that is currently led by a man (Trump) who enjoys playing with antisemitic stereotypes, namely those related to greed. This is the same party that insists the Jan. 6th insurrectionists we’re innocent, peaceful protestors rather than violent, right-wing racists.
The Republicans see this as an opportunity to further US geopolitical interests and as an opportunity to— hopefully successfully—malign Palestinian movements, higher education, anti-nationalism and anti-colonialism. But their constituents do not care, and neither do they. They do not care about the safety of Jewish people domestically or abroad.
Stop painting Republicans as the sudden bastions of pro-Semitic sentiments in the US or as leaders in the fight against antisemitism. Unconditional support for Israel is not an indicator that someone is pro-Semitic, especially considering that this is the party of “Jewish Space Lasers.”
And before someone “bean soups” this post with something like “What about the Democrats; there are antisemitic Democrats” or “There *are* leftist antisemites” or “college campuses aren’t bastions of anti-bigotry, they *do* have an antisemitism problem” or “there are antisemitic anti-Zionists,” I would like you to go back, reread the post, and point to where I denied these things. And would you look at that! I didn’t. Engage in good faith. Don’t purposefully derail or distract with whataboutisms. Thank you!
#Their constituency is not going to agree to defund colleges over campus antisemitism#they do support defunding higher ed over LGBTQ rights or DEI policies or CRT curriculum#but not over antisemitism#this is the same party whose constituency started drawing up lists of college professors supposedly#guilty of ‘Bolshevism.’ anti-conservative bias. and spreading ‘leftist’ propaganda#like. c’mon#this new campaign isn’t going to change public perception of your party#not when your members and constituency legitimately believe in and repeat great replacement conspiracies
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taking a moment to add my two cents i think
#i am awake because sitting up prevents me from coughing as much it seems#my hot take of the evening is i think that a lot of people who resent literary analysis just didn't get proper scaffolding#when they were exposed to it#i think a lot of people had english teachers who didn't know how to properly structure their instruction and just let kids loose#sending them out onto the seemingly empty field of the page and then immediately lining them up in their crosshairs for judgement#or at least my english teacher was a lot like that#i think a lot of people perceive literary analysis as pointless frustrating right/wrong busy work#or some kind of painful arduous endeavor that rewards nothing#because their teachers effectively set it up to be just that#an effective literary analysis curriculum should involve modeling and repeated practice with frequent feedback#but i feel like so many english teachers when we were growing up just focused on lecture and then assessment#leaving a massive gap between what skills students come in with and what's expected of them#not only that but also i feel like the lack of relevance in literary content has a lot to do with it#i didn't especially enjoy proper literary analysis until i had a choice in what to analyze#and had consistent scaffolding to support the direction i wanted to go#i didn't write 23+ pages on kafka because it was a requirement--i wrote it because my professor got me invested in it and provided support#i think that's an issue with a lot of areas in education#thankfully it's changing (however slowly) but god. death to the lecture -> assessment model of instruction
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i love watching a semi obscure and often not very good old movie bc uh. woman. and then walking away with niche and in depth queer interpretations of the film and like having a mental conspiracy board and being like do you see it? do you see the vision? but like no. you haven’t even seen the movie lol
#tkb and otzi thanks for seeing my visions lol…#if you want to know what I am vaguing about. there are in fact a lot of things. I was going to make a list but there are a lot and I’m also#like well this is sometimes me thinking about the women (a good and fairly well known film) as a dyke drama (not a wide held or strongly#textually supported take) and sometimes this is me talking about sylvia scarlett (not a good film semi well known) and its many#layers of queerness in terms of both gender and sexuality (some of which are like. textual and some of which I am pacing and explaining to#anyone within hearing distance lol) and SOMETIMES this is me talking about like. fours a crowd (a very meh movie not#well known) and being like hey. polycule! (it’s called fours a crowd lol but other than that not a ton of support for this theory to the#layman who isn’t always grasping at gay little straws)#if you do actually want specifics or elaboration my ask box is always open lmfao#anyways I know this reads as sarcastic but I do genuinely enjoy this. I just also wish that I could have a captive audience that I could#make watch these movies and then explain the vision to and have them yes and me. hire me as a film professor I have no#qualifications for it and probably wouldn’t really do a curriculum anyone is asking for but I#sure would personally have a lot of fun!#my post#ham rambles (hambles)#old hollywood
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Just remembered bushrangers were like. A Thing not even 200 years ago
Why the fuck does no one talk about that?? Why is that not like a Thing in our pop culture??
#seriously ned kelly only died like 143 years ago thats still pretty damn recent compared to other countries#but NO when we learn aussie history its always just 'The First Fleet :) The First Fleet again! gold rush! youll neber guess what its the#fuckign First Fleet again!'#and then we never touch aussie history again (unless you get really unlucky in modern history atar#tbf like. i get why#there really isnt much so you wouldnt be able to do a full highschool curriculum for it#and its. pretty damn boring so i wouldnt want to make a bunch of primary school kids sit through the history of federation or whatever1#but stiill#we had god damn BUSHRANGERS and no one talks abt them??#there isnt any media about them??#these could be our cowboy equivalents get on this shit abc#we talk a big game abt promoting aussie stories and supporting the aussie media industry and then just. completely ignore this fascinating#shit and instead make the 59th show set in Melbourne#australia really needs to get a more distinct pop culture i stg were so americanised#like. its there but its mostly because we have a far lower budget i feel like#cleverman is probably conceptually the most interesting aussje show i can think of but studying iit in class ruined me#me.txt
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working at a summer camp makes me hate 90% of the adults in this world and brings back trauma I didn't remember having. like oh my god, they're horrible to these kids. like they forget they're little, they're babies.
I have a kid, she's in our state for the summer, she lives with her mom another state during the year. she's stressed, she's away from her person, she's at a camp where she doesn't know anyone, she's stressed out. she was labeled a problem child and a cry baby before I even got a chance to work with her (I'm not a special counselor or anything, I'm just good with kids, so I kinda get used like a miracle worker by everyone else, which is kinda annoying, but I don't complain cause the kids need me).
it's the 3rd day of the second week of the session, so she's been here over a week, everyday she's spent most of the day hysterical, getting yelled at, and being so anxious that she would go all day without eating. you would assume that the director and supervisor at the very elast would have done something about this????? right????? nope.
first day I worked with her, I came to the realization that they just kept yelling as this 7 year old, for being overwhelmed, never once gave her a single tool to help calm down, and actively made the problem worse.
you wanna know what I did that calmed her down and got her playing with the other kids and actually enjoying camp in less than five minutes? I was kind, I gave her a breathing exercise to do, I explained what she was feeling (she kept saying she didn't know why she was upset, why she was crying, etc. cause she was too young to understand what it felt like to be overwhelmed/overstimulated) and "magically" everything was fine. did this stop another counselor from reporting it to the director, no, for whatever my co-counselor said she was "misbehaving" and was "difficult" and than the director came in her and threatened her with consequences if she didn't "pull herself together" (reminder, this kid is 7, going through a custody issue with her parents, and has extreme anxiety that manifests physically in the form of nausea). this of course sent her from being conversational and calm back into hysterics (I have no other word for how bad this break downs are, they're like panic attacks on steroids).
said counselors were back out of the room and within five minutes, with those breathing exercises, she was calm again. in the span of a few hours, I got a kid who no one had heard speak outside of tears playing and laughing and telling stories about her mom and her home (things that would typically set her off). it's so rewarding watching her come out of her shell and love camp, but so heartbreaking she spent over a week miserable.
this isn't the only case of this here, it's been like this since the current supervisor and director got hired and I need them to quit, cause they're ruining this camp (that has been here for generations, literally) for all of us. so many of the staff want to quit, kids don't want to come, we get less and less junior counselors, and all of us are miserable.
#vent#I want to die#this camp is making me loose faith in humanity#like#asthe kid who was quiet and sensitive and needed “extra” support as a kid#I feel awful watching these kids suffer#but because its technically not considered abuse/neglect/misuse of power by our training curriculum#I can't really so anything besides be 10 places at once with a dozen different kids#since giving extra care to kids without a special care plan/diagnosis of some sort isnt required#and they're just allowed to ignore their needs#cause it's not legally required#fucking hell I hate it here#but its such a hard situation cause#I dont want to leave these kids#but I hate watching this happen
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i am really looking forward to this trip so that i can stop thinking about how unbelievably stressful work has been recently, but there is still so much i have to do before i can reach the point of being "on vacation" that i am just too burned out and overwhelmed to actually take care of
my mother keeps asking questions that i cannot think far ahead enough to answer, asking me to make lists and plans of things to do during the trip when i can barely handle the process of finishing packing before we leave tomorrow morning
i've had to tell her so many times that i am genuinely incapable of so many things right now, but she doesn't understand because 'normally' all of this is 'so easy' for me
#and i'm feeling like a terrible manager to my classroom aid because i won't be here for the NAEYC accredidation visit#and i held out hope until the last minute that they would come while i was still here to do it so the pressure can all be on me#i can bullshit my way through all their questions and explain the rationale behind the decisions i make in my classroom#but her job description doesn't include the curriculum and developmental screenings and all that stuff. that's on me.#even though i won't be there she shouldn't be expected to suddenly have to learn all of that just for this one day visit.#it just all comes back to the fact that they expect us to magically meet all these expectations while having none of the necessary support#and idfk what to do about it and that pisses me off because i and my staff and my kids deserve better.#i have put every single bain cell i have access to into trying to prepare for this but it feels like it'll never be enough.#and even while i'm gone there's no way i won't still be thinking about work. they're my kids. i want to know they're doing well. my center#aid is my friend and i want her to be supported and successful to the best of her ability#not gunna make it through the day without crying multiple times at this rate#stochastic ramblings
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Okay but cute fic idea if it wasn’t done yet: Collei and the boys. Collei doesn’t think much of her self, but it’s safe to say the rest of Sumeru doesn’t agree. How can they when she has the four great prodigies in all of Sumeru ready and willing to drop everything to support her?
#fic ideas#in which collei has four older brothers#def could’ve worded that synopsis better but shhhh#this would be a gen fic ofc#it’s just kaveh’s hangout where they all go to Tighnari’s dinner to celebrate collei#even alhaitham showed up to help with her curriculum#they’re all supporting her in their different ways#collei you are loved so very much
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Sobs
#ramblings of a lunatic#critical analysis for art class probably shouldn't be hard since i am very opinionated w/ a lot to say#and despite an abysmal lack of practice before now (hate you school curriculum hate you covid depriving me of important experiences)#we do have a lot of explaining terms and how to approach the topic!#...EXCEPT NONE OF THEM COVER HOW TO TALK ABOUT GRAPHIC NOVELS AND MY TEACHER DOESN'T KNOW EITHER#MAN#everytime I've tried to do comics in this class it really is like fitting a square peg into a round hole#they're trying their best to be supportive but it's just Not Their Area#anyway. gonna lie down on the floor for a while
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I mean like. Not to bring the mood down but... you guys know that's because American media is everywhere right? Like the world is unable to avoid some version of American accent on a regular basis. Of course ppl find it easy to mimic. This is absolutely not restricted to ppl in the UK, its really common for ppl who learn English as a foreign language to have perfect 'American actor' accents (cause the reason everyone's so good at the American accent that's expected of them as actors is cause at large there's little distinction between regions in the 'Hollywood accent' that ends up on TV and films and stuff. You guys have massive regional differences in pronounceation, but what makes it on to TV (in 9/10 cases) is a very standardised version of American English.)
But yeah. It's not just actors lol. Most British ppl can speak in a passable american accent, as can loads and loads of people worldwide. I'm not saying this to be like 'you should feel guilty! 😡' but it does always stun me when Americans are unaware of the impact their country has worldwide on all versions of English (and even on use of native languages. Many countries are using English more and more over their native languages and dialects , and yeah, historical colonialism has had an impact there.)
But in the last few decades things have progressed way way faster and that, is thanks to the impact of anglo/american/ect lead capitalism. I'm in no way dismissing the impact the UK has on this, but in recent years, its the US that is largely pushing that train .While the UK and several English speaking commonwealth countries are very involved in this kind of capitalist imperialism, there's a reason that more and more people are speaking American English. Not one of the many UK dialects, not Australian English, or NZ English. Across the world more and more people are increasingly speaking in the same standardised american dialect that's in so much of the media you export. Hollywood based media, with that standardised accent/ dialect and the standardised 'normal american life', has a stranglehold on the world and I just find it crazy that a lot of you guys don't even know.
It's stupid stuff like. So many countries are importing american cars and are widening their roads/ changing town planning to account for it (this is less of a thing in the UK but I see it more and more when I travel). Its the food becoming avaliable everywhere. Its the influence that for profit healthcare has even on countries with socialised health systems. Its houses being built to account for American style appliances. Fashion trends. Worldwide, everything is slowly evolving to be closer and closer to this 'American standard' which honestly? I really don't think actually represents the lives of real American people either. You've been turned in to products, the system has taken an unrealistic snapshot of 'American life' and it's being sold to you all day in day out, but it's also being sold to the rest of us. It's being pushed on us all.
Kids in the UK go through phases of talking only in American accents. Anyone born later than the 90s is carrying round 2 sets of spelling and vocab, cause we're all so used to the American way, that you barely know which one you're using half of the time. In the UK we have always had really strong regional accents yeah, and dialects differ between areas that seem tiny to you guys, I know. But like. Those dialects are being lost cause all UK accents are evolving to become closer to this standardised american and yeah not great, but at least we share a language! US American society is largely rooted in the same foundations as UK society, largely we have the same flaws! But oh my god. What about the rest of the world.
It's global. This impact continues to be seen, steamrollering ahead, in places that had completely different starting points. UK culture isn't that dissimilar to that of the US, so we aren't losing nearly as much as cultures that had something completely different. So much is being lost.
Languages and dialects and everything else is just being wallpapered over so we all meet the same ideal of the 'American life' and it's not even real! It's just a product based on how ppl were actually living in the US, manipulated until it's the most marketable mould. You guys are victims of it as well but like. It's based on your culture so you don't lose as much if you conform to it. Just like how in the UK, if we conform, we lose more than US, but nowhere near as much as countries that had languages, dialects and cultures that were so so different to UK/US culture. The less like the US, your starting point, the more there is to lose.
And look. I said it to start with. I'm not having a go. That's not what this is. But you guys really need to be aware, you need to make an effort to understand the impact that this plastic Hollywood american culture is having on the rest of the world. You need to actively look for it, and make an effort to not pay in to it. Because when Americans see other cultures represented in media and say its not relatable, when you guys go on holiday and make no effort to learn local customs, and try and pay in dollars and spend your time abroad like you're still in America, when you see cultural differences and immediately argue that the American way is better and of course everyone should have giant cars and never dry laundry outdoors and live in American style homes, without any kind of critical thought. Just 'this is how we do it so why wouldn't everyone else do it this way. This is the only way. The American way is obviously best.' When you guys do that you are individually feeding in to this absolute bulldozing of cultures (including American ones!) to allow for better marketability.
It isn't any one individual American citizens fault that things are the way they are, and you guys are victims of the same system, but you need to have some self awareness when it comes to the fact that as individuals you are unknowingly, helping driving this forwards and as individuals, there are things you can do to limit your personal impact (and no arguing that you have no culture is not it!!! Being all self deprecating doesn't do shit. Take some responsibility and accept that individual Americans didn't create this system, but currently, individual Americans really are doing their bit to keep promoting it, to keep pushing it on the rest of the world.
And I've already rambled for an age so I'll stop here but I just want to make clear as an ending note here, that this really isn't about piling on Americans and being all 'boo it's all America's fault. They should apologise. Their culture isn't worth anything.' Not at all this is the opposite of that. The fact that millions of Americans have been convinced you have no culture, all while a mimicry of American culture is plastered on to the rest of the world, and while you as individuals are encouraged to help that happen, often without even realising what you're doing; is a crime. You've been wronged, as have we all.
And America is not the problem. The problem is imperialism and it didn't start with you guys. It started in Europe, and Europeans, particularly British ppl, have a responsibility to push back and be self aware, take some fucking responsibility and not inadvertently keep feeding in to that system, just as you guys do. The US didn't start the fire, imperialist capitalism is a fire that started burning long before the United States was even considered, but its on all of us, to do what we can to not feed that fire. And right now? You guys are the face of it.
This idea of what America is, is the face of imperialistic capitalism, and that means that even if you don't mean to, you guys are feeding that fire more so than the rest of us. You're responsible for spreading it, more so than the rest of us. And if you don't step up and take responsibility, accept that you're gonna get it wrong sometimes and you need to try to do better; if we don't all do that. There will be nothing left. They'll paper over it all, the lives of real Americans just as much as those in Scotland and India and the Netherlands, and 100 other cultures, that are at risk, thanks to this fire, that's currently, largely coming from America.
So yeah. It's absolutely not just on you guys and ppl who act like there's no racism or wealth divide in Europe or anywhere else for that matter are complete idiots, however, this Americanisation of the world (and I hesitate to call it that. Because its not a representation of real American lives. Its simply wearing an American face.) Its real. It's happening.
And we don't tell you about it to make you feel guilty (those of us who aren't dicks at least) ,we are telling you. We are kicking up a fuss. Because it isn't fair. It's not right and while individual Americans ignore that and refuse to take responsibility where they can (small apples. We aren't asking for you to call a violent revolution in our names. Just take some time to learn about the rest of the world. Stop assuming America is always right and examine your biases. When you find them. Stop personally pushing them.) , while that is happening, as individuals, you are contributing to this. It's not even altruism. This system is hurting Americans too. It's hurting us all. All we ask is that you do what you can to not personally contribute, and keep an open mind, be aware. That's all any of us can do.
when a british actor does an american accent everyone’s like “i didn’t even know they were british until they were on colbert.” but when americans do a british accent everyone’s like “they’re supposed to be from east cocksford but their glottal e’s are north dicksford. shameful.”
#so yeah sorry to rant but honestly#I'm so tired of ppl refusing to take responsibility on every side of this#imperalistic cruel capitalist regimes going 'well hey. at least we aren't America. this is their fault.'#meanwhile. Americans contribute to the bulldozing of their own cultures to make room for a capitalist monster wearing them as a mask#and if you call out any Americans or make them aware of something they are doing individually that isn't helping. it's either#refusing to see/ accept their own bias. or just as bad! yes! just as bad!!! america is beyond help. there's nothing worth saving#nothing we can do. that's bullshit and making stupid excuses like 'oh our schools don't teach us to respect other cultures'#'we don't know how.' fucking learn! try! that's all anyone asks of you. nobody cares about your schooling. school is shit for working class#ppl in most countries!#you think the english curriculum is any more balanced? we're subjects of a colonial empire. it's propaganda and its not even competent!#i don't think the average American understands how many more hours of schooling they get vs a lot of places. I'm not saying it's right#but teaching time? you guys have longer school days and you stay in school till youre older. our national curriculum ends the year we turn#16 in the UK. year 11 finishes in June. you can leave school 2 months shy of 16 to get a supermarket job. (and many working class ppl do)#and our government still pat themselves on the back and say its eqv. to high school finishing at 18 in other countries. like for context.#i haven't had a geography lesson since i was 13. my last english lesson? i was 15. that's completely normal here. so yeah. the#'our schooling was shit so we can't use Google to learn a bit of geography' falls pretty fucking flat. sorry.#they should have done better by you but they didn't. join the queue. do what you can and take some fucking responsibility now#the only way out of this is for us all. American and otherwise. to do what we can. be self aware. try to be better. keep learning#because if you fall to apathy? capitalism wins. if you believe the propaganda? capitalism wins. if capitalism wins we all lose#the system is designed to wear you down so you're too tired to remember that it doesn't have to be this way.#that's been happening for decades and it's why things are such a mess now. the only way out. is remember there is a way out#climb towards it. do what you can. it seems like low hanging fruit. it doesn't look like enough to change anything.#but there are more ppl being hurt by this system than those benefiting. 99% of us. if everyone picks an apple. that's a lot!#that's a fucking lot! keep going even when it seems like you aren't making progress. make your voice heard. vote. don't passively support a#system that's on its way to destroying you. destroying us all. do what you've got to do to live. but don't forget that all the things that#seem like they don't matter? really really do matter once you add up everyone's contributions. you can't control other ppls actions only#your own. but your contribution matters. your vote matters. your voice matters. join the union. educate yourself. stay curious. question.#the informations out there go online learning 1 thing. challenging 1 bias is better than all or nothing. i dont have time to learn anything#small apples. low hanging fruit. the oceans made up of billions of drops. the longer you don't try. the longer you've no chance of success#we can do better. we can absolutely all do better.
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Planet's Fucked: What Can You Do To Help? (Long Post)
Since nobody is talking about the existential threat to the climate and the environment a second Trump term/Republican government control will cause, which to me supersedes literally every other issue, I wanted to just say my two cents, and some things you can do to help. I am a conservation biologist, whose field was hit substantially by the first Trump presidency. I study wild bees, birds, and plants.
In case anyone forgot what he did last time, he gagged scientists' ability to talk about climate change, he tried zeroing budgets for agencies like the NOAA, he attempted to gut protections in the Endangered Species Act (mainly by redefining 'take' in a way that would allow corporations to destroy habitat of imperiled species with no ramifications), he tried to do the same for the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (the law that offers official protection for native non-game birds), he sought to expand oil and coal extraction from federal protected lands, he shrunk the size of multiple national preserves, HE PULLED US OUT OF THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT, and more.
We are at a crucial tipping point in being able to slow the pace of climate change, where we decide what emissions scenario we will operate at, with existential consequences for both the environment and people. We are also in the middle of the Sixth Mass Extinction, with the rate of species extinctions far surpassing background rates due completely to human actions. What we do now will determine the fate of the environment for hundreds or thousands of years - from our ability to grow key food crops (goodbye corn belt! I hated you anyway but), to the pressure on coastal communities that will face the brunt of sea level rise and intensifying extreme weather events, to desertification, ocean acidification, wildfires, melting permafrost (yay, outbreaks of deadly frozen viruses!), and a breaking down of ecosystems and ecosystem services due to continued habitat loss and species declines, especially insect declines. The fact that the environment is clearly a low priority issue despite the very real existential threat to so many people, is beyond my ability to understand. I do partly blame the public education system for offering no mandatory environmental science curriculum or any at all in most places. What it means is that it will take the support of everyone who does care to make any amount of difference in this steeply uphill battle.
There are not enough environmental scientists to solve these issues, not if public support is not on our side and the majority of the general public is either uninformed or actively hostile towards climate science (or any conservation science).
So what can you, my fellow Americans, do to help mitigate and minimize the inevitable damage that lay ahead?
I'm not going to tell you to recycle more or take shorter showers. I'll be honest, that stuff is a drop in the bucket. What does matter on the individual level is restoring and protecting habitat, reducing threats to at-risk species, reducing pesticide use, improving agricultural practices, and pushing for policy changes. Restoring CONNECTIVITY to our landscape - corridors of contiguous habitat - will make all the difference for wildlife to be able to survive a changing climate and continued human population expansion.
**Caveat that I work in the northeast with pollinators and birds so I cannot provide specific organizations for some topics, including climate change focused NGOs. Scientists on tumblr who specialize in other fields, please add your own recommended resources. **
We need two things: FUNDING and MANPOWER.
You may surprised to find that an insane amount of conservation work is carried out by volunteers. We don't ever have the funds to pay most of the people who want to help. If you really really care, consider going into a conservation-related field as a career. It's rewarding, passionate work.
At the national level, please support:
The Nature Conservancy
Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
Cornell Lab of Ornithology (including eBird)
National Audubon Society
Federal Duck Stamps (you don't need to be a hunter to buy one!)
These first four work to acquire and restore critical habitat, change environmental policy, and educate the public. There is almost certainly a Nature Conservancy-owned property within driving distance of you. Xerces plays a very large role in pollinator conservation, including sustainable agriculture, native bee monitoring programs, and the Bee City/Bee Campus USA programs. The Lab of O is one of the world's leaders in bird research and conservation. Audubon focuses on bird conservation. You can get annual memberships to these organizations and receive cool swag and/or a subscription to their publications which are well worth it. You can also volunteer your time; we need thousands of volunteers to do everything from conducting wildlife surveys, invasive species removal, providing outreach programming, managing habitat/clearing trails, planting trees, you name it. Federal Duck Stamps are the major revenue for wetland conservation; hunters need to buy them to hunt waterfowl but anyone can get them to collect!
THERE ARE DEFINITELY MORE, but these are a start.
Additionally, any federal or local organizations that seek to provide support and relief to those affected by hurricanes, sea level rise, any form of coastal climate change...
At the regional level:
These are a list of topics that affect major regions of the United States. Since I do not work in most of these areas I don't feel confident recommending specific organizations, but please seek resources relating to these as they are likely major conservation issues near you.
PRAIRIE CONSERVATION & PRAIRIE POTHOLE WETLANDS
DRYING OF THE COLORADO RIVER (good overview video linked)
PROTECTION OF ESTUARIES AND SALTMARSH, ESPECIALLY IN THE DELAWARE BAY AND LONG ISLAND (and mangroves further south, everglades etc; this includes restoring LIVING SHORELINES instead of concrete storm walls; also check out the likely-soon extinction of saltmarsh sparrows)
UNDAMMING MAJOR RIVERS (not just the Colorado; restoring salmon runs, restoring historic floodplains)
NATIVE POLLINATOR DECLINES (NOT honeybees. for fuck's sake. honeybees are non-native domesticated animals. don't you DARE get honeybee hives to 'save the bees')
WILDLIFE ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER (support the Mission Butterfly Center!)
INVASIVE PLANT AND ANIMAL SPECIES (this is everywhere but the specifics will differ regionally, dear lord please help Hawaii)
LOSS OF WETLANDS NATIONWIDE (some states have lost over 90% of their wetlands, I'm looking at you California, Ohio, Illinois)
INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE, esp in the CORN BELT and CALIFORNIA - this is an issue much bigger than each of us, but we can work incrementally to promote sustainable practices and create habitat in farmland-dominated areas. Support small, local farms, especially those that use soil regenerative practices, no-till agriculture, no pesticides/Integrated Pest Management/no neonicotinoids/at least non-persistent pesticides. We need more farmers enrolling in NRCS programs to put farmland in temporary or permanent wetland easements, or to rent the land for a 30-year solar farm cycle. We've lost over 99% of our prairies to corn and soybeans. Let's not make it 100%.
INDIGENOUS LAND-BACK EFFORTS/INDIGENOUS LAND MANAGEMENT/TEK (adding this because there have been increasing efforts not just for reparations but to also allow indigenous communities to steward and manage lands either fully independently or alongside western science, and it would have great benefits for both people and the land; I know others on here could speak much more on this. Please platform indigenous voices)
HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS (get your neighbors to stop dumping fertilizers on their lawn next to lakes, reduce agricultural runoff)
OCEAN PLASTIC (it's not straws, it's mostly commercial fishing line/trawling equipment and microplastics)
A lot of these are interconnected. And of course not a complete list.
At the state and local level:
You probably have the most power to make change at the local level!
Support or volunteer at your local nature centers, local/state land conservancy non-profits (find out who owns&manages the preserves you like to hike at!), state fish & game dept/non-game program, local Audubon chapters (they do a LOT). Participate in a Christmas Bird Count!
Join local garden clubs, which install and maintain town plantings - encourage them to use NATIVE plants. Join a community garden!
Get your college campus or city/town certified in the Bee Campus USA/Bee City USA programs from the Xerces Society
Check out your state's official plant nursery, forest society, natural heritage program, anything that you could become a member of, get plants from, or volunteer at.
Volunteer to be part of your town's conservation commission, which makes decisions about land management and funding
Attend classes or volunteer with your land grant university's cooperative extension (including master gardener programs)
Literally any volunteer effort aimed at improving the local environment, whether that's picking up litter, pulling invasive plants, installing a local garden, planting trees in a city park, ANYTHING. make a positive change in your own sphere. learn the local issues affecting your nearby ecosystems. I guarantee some lake or river nearby is polluted
MAKE HABITAT IN YOUR COMMUNITY. Biggest thing you can do. Use plants native to your area in your yard or garden. Ditch your lawn. Don't use pesticides (including mosquito spraying, tick spraying, Roundup, etc). Don't use fertilizers that will run off into drinking water. Leave the leaves in your yard. Get your school/college to plant native gardens. Plant native trees (most trees planted in yards are not native). Remove invasive plants in your yard.
On this last point, HERE ARE EASY ONLINE RESOURCES TO FIND NATIVE PLANTS and LEARN ABOUT NATIVE GARDENING:
Xerces Society Pollinator Conservation Resource Center
Pollinator Pathway
Audubon Native Plant Finder
Homegrown National Park (and Doug Tallamy's other books)
National Wildlife Federation Native Plant Finder (clunky but somewhat helpful)
Heather Holm (for prairie/midwest/northeast)
MonarchGard w/ Benjamin Vogt (for prairie/midwest)
Native Plant Trust (northeast & mid-atlantic)
Grow Native Massachusetts (northeast)
Habitat Gardening in Central New York (northeast)
There are many more - I'm not familiar with resources for western states. Print books are your biggest friend. Happy to provide a list of those.
Lastly, you can help scientists monitor species using citizen science. Contribute to iNaturalist, eBird, Bumblebee Watch, or any number of more geographically or taxonomically targeted programs (for instance, our state has a butterfly census carried out by citizen volunteers).
In short? Get curious, get educated, get involved. Notice your local nature, find out how it's threatened, and find out who's working to protect it that you can help with. The health of the planet, including our resilience to climate change, is determined by small local efforts to maintain and restore habitat. That is how we survive this. When government funding won't come, when we're beat back at every turn trying to get policy changed, it comes down to each individual person creating a safe refuge for nature.
Thanks for reading this far. Please feel free to add your own credible resources and organizations.
#us election#climate change#united states election#resources#native plants#this took 3 hours to write so maybe don't let it flop? i know i write long posts. i know i follow scientists on here#that study birds and corals and other creatures#i realize i did not link sources/resources for everything. i encourage those more qualified to add things on. i need to go to work
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