#Monsoon's age has accelerated so much from stress

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It's a continuation of this.

More dumb convos with @dracally3 regarding their oc Crow, Monsoon and Jimmy's new tatt. 😂😂😂

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Soak Up the Virtuousness of Health this Monsoon with Alkaline Water

RO Service Center Surat - Monsoon has made its entry in nearly all the countries of the country and it’s time to rejoice in the spell of water after the gut- wrenching summers. Still, this is the season wherein colorful conditions come on with the rains. With water logging in different places and sticky conditions making a perfect background for mosquito parentage, conditions like dengue, chikanguniya, malaria, diarrhoea, typhoid, viral fever, cholera,etc. infest people of all age groups. When moisture seems to be at its peak, it's recommended to drink acceptable water to keep yourself doused. But indeed after drinking enough water, you can get ill which could be due to colorful reasons like mosquito bite, changes in hormone situations and so on. Out of all the possible reasons, one major reason is drinking impure water.

RO Repair Center - Yes, according to different studies, it's proved that people do n’t have access to pure and clean water which results in different types of ails in the body. Thanks to the mischievous life and poor diet, our bodies are stressed out fully. It’s time to replenish your mind, body and soul with the virtuousness of alkaline water. Yes, not only pure but water with alkaline parcels can be a life- changing potion for your body. Though not scientifically proven, alkaline water is yet believed to have loads of health benefits over normal purified water. Let’s soak up the virtuousness of health this thunderstorm with alkaline water. To know how, read its benefits further.

Health Benefits of Alkaline Water

Ultra Hydrating – Unlike normal water, alkaline water hassuper-hydrating parcels as its motes are much lower in size and get readily absorbed by your body. Therefore, it hydrates your body veritably snappily.

Alkalizing – Alkaline water helps to restore the pH balance of our body by reducing the acidity, which occurs due to poor diet, stress and environmental poisons. Therefore, it boosts our vulnerable system as well.

Antioxidant – Adding further to its benefits, alkaline water also helps to neutralize free revolutionaries that can beget cellular and DNA damage while accelerating the geriatric process.

Rich in Minerals – It has advanced attention of alkaline minerals similar as calcium, magnesium, and potassium which are vital for maintaining healthy bones and overall health.

Rich in Oxygen – Being rich in oxygen, alkaline water increases the quantum of dissolved oxygen in the blood.

Detoxifying – It removes mucus make-up on colon walls. Therefore, it enables the body to absorb important nutrients for its effective functioning.

Sanctification – In addition to other advantages, alkaline water helps to flush out waste and poisons that get accumulated in the body over time.

Amping – The negatively charged hydroxyl ions in alkaline water result in increased energy, internal clarity, and overall alertness.

Weight Control – Alkaline water eliminates the body’s demand for adipose apkins which cover vital organs from acidity by storing acidic waste in lower critical corridor of the body.

Either all other advantages, the most important benefit of alkaline water is that it neutralises the acidity by lowering gratuitous acidic content in the stomach and gastro-intestinal tract in our body. In fact, if you use alkaline water with a pH of over10.5 for washing fruits and vegetables, it can also remove fungicides and chemicals scattered over them in an effective manner. Reap the benefits of alkaline water by installing Alkaline Water Cleansers using which you can have access to alkaline water all the time. Havells – a ultraexpensive brand for electrical products – offers a wide range of Water Purifiers which are drafted using the rearmost technology to offer only the stylish. For further word on water cleansers.

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Environmental long-term policy is dead

From an environmentalist’s perspective, the past 4 months have convinced me that we’re screwed. Let’s start with the situation. 

Situation

The expansion of the human population from <1B to >7B has been driven by fossil fuel. Fossil fuel enabled the industrial revolution and the green revolution (massive expansion of yields in agriculture which feeds the world - this expansion from Haber-Bosch - fertilizer - and from synthetic herbicides/ pesticides, and from the mechanization of farming). Fossil fuel powers our homes and businesses and heats and cleans our water. Fossil fuel enables a more financially efficient distribution of resources through a global system of trade. All this has created massive gains in societal stability, longevity, and overall health and standards of living. The optimist would look at the last 100 years and say - wow. Look at all we’ve accomplished. 

Complication 

This all looks good from a linear perspective, but the world is non-linear. Why is eating 2000 calories of milkshake every day worse for you than 2000 calories of healthy vegetables and grains? Because our bodies are complex systems that react non-linearly (dynamically) to inputs. And just as the virtual milkshake-ification of our human diet is causing global epidemics in obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, so too is the fossil-fuel-driven boom causing disease symptoms in our ecosystem upon which we depend for everything. 

One more unit of fossil-fuel-driven development is no longer causing one more unit of benefit, just as that fifth milkshake isn’t getting you the last 20% of the way to a healthy diet for the day. In fact, the opposite is happening, but diabetes and obesity are harder to see and to fight than starvation. So we drink the milkshake. And similarly, we insist that the world can’t exist as it is without fossil fuels. We stay dependent on our linear, scale-economics-focused system, and we ignore or de-prioritize the acidification of the ocean, increasing weather volatility, accelerating temperature shifts, accelerating ice shelf collapses. 

Obesity and ecosystem disruption are brethren diseases. They are symptoms of over-consumption.

Resolution

In my former profession, we told stories using the framework “Situation-Complication-Resolution.” First say something everyone can agree on - then assert a problem or issue (complication). Lastly, follow with a solution that addresses the problem logically and concisely. 

I have lost faith that we’ll find a resolution as a species. There will be no global collaboration to significantly reduce carbon emissions. This election and the worldwide movement away from globalism, away from “the elite” and “the experts”, has all but cemented this. And since a framework around carbon is probably the clearest and easiest thing we could have agreed on, I believe that:

1) we won’t address the global destabilization of the environment in any structural, systematic way

2) Adaptation will rule, and adaptation will be driven regionally. Any actions taken to address nitrogen-cycle, water cycle, or ecosystem destabilization will have to be taken where the problem is very clearly defined and visible to the local population, e.g. regulation of fishing or deforestation activity, regulation on the types and means of farming, how to provide clean water for a particular area, how to deal with shifting weather patterns and their impact on infrastructure like water systems and low-lying lands... and so on

3) Regional adaptation won’t be sufficient and all the most vulnerable regions in the world are due for a lot of threat multiplication, which will almost certainly lead to conflict, dislocation, destabilization, etc. Hotspots will be places like: 

India/Pakistan, massively overpopulated and dependent on a very regular monsoon cycle and snowpack in the Himalaya (also both nuclear-capable!)

Bangladesh, even more over-populated and dependent on the Himalaya and the sea, low-lying (sea level rise disruption), already facing massive problems with arsenic in their wells, and so on

The Middle East, dependent on fossil fuel revenue, significantly overpopulated due to over-drawing of depleting water sources (Egypt, wheat imports, and the Nile-fueled water table which is dependent on runoff from decreasingly glaciated mountains in East Africa... Syria, already a mess; Saudi Peninsula, already a mess with only more environmental stress to come)

Oceania e.g. Indonesia and ocean-bordering Southeast Asian nations, with incredibly overpopulated dense land reliant on all kinds of ecosystems that are extremely stressed and potentially on verge of collapse such as fishing, palm oil

Central and East Africa, dependent on aforementioned glaciated mountains and with very low levels of infrastructure yet pretty high population density

Who’s not mentioned? North America. NA is probably going to be the safest and most insulated, although local or systemic fishery collapse or water table collapse will hurt states or entire regions. California and Texas and parts of Oklahoma (farming/ag/heat), Florida/Eastern Seaboard/NY (rising sea levels) might face pain, but the northern states might actually benefit from a more moderate climate. 

Europe. Europe’s likely risks are political and social, although the bleed-over from MidEast climate disruption will continue to exacerbate tensions. Parts of southern Europe may be hurt by desertification-type shifts (Spain). 

South America. Always geopolitically isolated. Brazil may face challenges due to their insane dependence on resources (mining, soya) and the culling of the rainforest. But otherwise, it’s not clear the most dangerous or egregious issues could occur in SA. 

Conclusion

So what can we do? What long-term policy should we take? The point is moot. I don’t think much about long-term environmental policy any more. Carbon tax, cap-and-trade, too late. The ship has sailed. Regions (in the US, states and cities) will lead the charge to address their own individual issues, and it probably won’t be enough and poor people will suffer, but we’ll end up paying enough to adapt and the middle-class+ will likely muddle through. 

What’s the optimist’s take? 

That the global trend toward insular nationalism is somehow quickly reversed - that our leadership (and populations that elect them) quickly see the value in coordination from a global community perspective. 

That those with the greatest means take responsibility for helping those with whom the system hasn’t been so generous. 

That a thousand, a million innovations, that a billion altruistic and passionate individuals, collectively shift our focus away from consumption and mandated growth toward purpose, progress, efficiency, harmony, and collaboration. 

That we harness the power of capitalism within a thoughtful, healthy society and a thriving ecosystem, rather than letting consumerism and the power of the transaction rule us and degrade all else. 

Even if we were so fortunate, we’ll still face most of the same issues. So do your best in your personal and professional life to fight a good fight. And prepare for storms.