#THIS IS GREAT BASIN ERASURE

[theofficialpeanutgallery]

Anybody know how to request updates on wikipedia pages? Like, the real-life pages, not the fandom ones.

[nizar-dreams]

As amazing as Fantastic Beast is with all of the interesting creatures and additional lore, I loathe the take on the American Magical World. And not because American pride (‘Merica🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅) but because that might work in New York, but that social structure sure as fuck don’t work the farther west you get.

Each state is different, it gives them their charms, and each state also has… drumroll please 🥁🥁🥁🥁

NATIVE AMERICANS!!! Yes the people who’ve been on these lands since before the first of the 13 colonies even existed!!!

Can you imagine Magical America? The creatures who lived alongside tribes? The giant forests? Hell, the other sentient beings like the centaurs, goblins, elves, etc.? Imagine:

The great Rivers and Lakes guarded by the merfolk and swimming with the great salmons, occasionally assisting the tribes along their borders so they all may share what the waters have to offer them

The great Plains and Forests with centaur tribes being mighty and powerful, guardians of the lands and occasionally allying with the human tribes

Elves that are still short but mighty and healthy and who get mistaken for native children when they live alongside human tribes

Goblins living deep in the caves of mountains, living happily with little human interaction besides for trading for safe passages and materials.

Imagine the werewolves loving their inner wolves and having their own tribes and living peacefully in their homes.

Imagine that, for thousands, and hundreds of years they lived in peace, occasionally waring against themselves but things happen of course but they way the magic and earth had never been so healthy as it was. Gods imagine Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon? Or the Mojave Desert? The great basins, the plateaus…

And then, when the Europeans started claiming the land that the magical beings fought to protect the lands they have lived on for centuries, the creatures of the forest hiding the remnants of their great lands from human eyes and hands, protecting the magic that slowly dies as the land gets destroyed and the magical beings who called those lands home started to die and could no longer protect the land.

That they tried to cling and hide and fight for their homes with whatever they could, but when the magical Europeans got involved it just went to hell for the magical beings.

The Native Reservations, National Parks/Lands, and deep into the mountains, are some of the few places that magical creatures can live in relative peace. The centaurs are not as many, and the elves either live on the reservations or the forests. The goblins are not like their European kin, but they are not the same as they were, now instead of trade for safe passage it is trade for protection of human materials or trading for goblin creations. The merfolk have perished in most lakes and rivers where humans have polluted or hunted their food to extinction. The magical creatures who once lived on the land are either hunted down for sport or for being declared born of hell.

Now imagine Ilvermorny, created by a mother who wanted her children to learn magic, and turned into a way for tribes to take shelter and teach their ways as well as learn other ways for magic. The school cropping up in the midst of Magical Americas downfall becomes a place that the few tribes not driven out of their home learn different form of magic while creating a foundation for Native American magic to survive and be taught in the school. Imagine multiple sister schools (because America is too big for there ti be only one school) to the original Ilvermorny being created to teach, to embrace and preserve a culture they refuse to let be erased.

Years later and it is a core course that gets taught, and keeps a part of a culture alive that was on the bring of complete erasure.

Imagine that when African slaves started appearing and become enslave, those who escaped and found themselves at Ilvermorny schools, they started teaching their magics as well. Then as more minorities started to appear in America, so did the lessons in certain Ilvermorny schools where these minorities were prevalent.

America is a cauldron full of magical cultures being mixed, and Ilvermorny is the first to openly teach different magical cultures. The southern schools involve more Mexican, Spaniard, some French, and African magical courses, while the north is more French. The east coast is more influenced by British magics, while the west coast is influenced by the Spaniard, Chinese, and Russian.

They all had their own mix and all have the main course shared by the people who lived their first, but magical america is sooo much more more fascinating and so young still! There is still so much that I can’t possibly cover without a month of research! And we haven’t even reached the southern hemisphere!

Fantastic Beast is great, but it’s missing the uniqueness and complexity of America. And I can only dip a finger into the endless possibilities of the magical American world.

[fatehbaz]

“In the Forest Ruins”

Through the narratives of white explorers, colonial administrators, naturalists and ethnographers, the tropical forests of the colonial world were depicted as the Earth’s last pristine environments, isolated territories where society was found in its infancy [...]. Amazonia, the world’s greatest tropical forest, was one of the most symbolic spaces through which this image of nature and society, and the structures of knowledge-power it sustained, was factored. [...]  

Certain types of trees such as fire-resistant palms or highly fertile anthropic soils known as dark earths are among the most telling evidences of the constructed nature of the forest. Since they are part of the living structures of the forest, the nature of these ruins is completely different from the traditional idea of a ruin, to the extent that untrained eyes may hardly identify them in the forest landscape, let alone perceive the sophisticated infrastructures [...].

Kinja communities recognize nearly all trees and vine species in a given “wild” forest as directly useful, and the same is true for the Ka’apor, who employ a specific name -- taper -- to designate anthropogenic forests that grew over sites of ancient settlements, whose trees and plants they clearly distinguish as “archaeological” remnants of former villages inhabited by their ancestors. [...]

[B]efore European colonialism, great territorial expanses of the Amazon basin were occupied by populous and complex societies that employed advanced spatial technologies to produce large-scale modifications in the layout of the land. Moreover, the evidence shows that indigenous modes of inhabitation, both in the pre-colonial past and in the modern present, not only leave profound marks in the landscape but also play an essential role in shaping the forest ecology. Vast tracts of forests and savannahs in Amazonia that we perceive as natural are in fact cultural landscapes with a deep human past. The botanical structure and species composition of the Earth’s largest biodiversity refuge is to a great extent a heritage of indigenous design. [...]

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The geoglyphs remained unknown because after they were no longer occupied, the earthworks became covered by forest vegetation, and there probably exists hundreds more beneath the trees that still stand. In the 1970s and 1980s, when Brazil was ruled by a modernizing military dictatorship, this region was subjected to an aggressive project of colonization that unleashed rapid deforestation. This project was part of a macro-planning strategy to “occupy and integrate” the entire portion of the Amazon basin that fell within Brazilian sovereignty, nearly sixty percent of the total basin area. Its modern territorial schemes and spatial designs were based on the conception that the forest was an empty and homogenous terra nullius/tabula rasa that could be rationally domesticated, planned, and re-engineered as a whole. [...]

Frontier modernization was accompanied by what the Brazilian Truth Commission described as a “politics of erasure” of indigenous peoples [...].

This colonial imaginary had its complement and legitimation in scientific models that considered Amazonia to be a primeval environment that changed little since the Pleistocene, and over which native peoples exerted no meaningful impact. One of the central arguments supporting this view was the apparent lack of evidence that indigenous societies had domesticated and transformed their environs in any meaningful way, which was most clearly expressed by the conspicuous absence of archaeological complexes in the forest landscape. The lack of human design conformed to the pristine nature of the forest, inasmuch as the forest represented a negative image against which the concepts of both design and the human could be defined. [...] More than historical documents of violence, the discovery of these structures shattered the colonial imaginary about the nature of the forest that animated frontier expansionism. Figurations of the pristine, wilderness, the “green desert” and many other images of de-humanized nature employed to describe the forest constituted other means by which the politics of erasure was perpetrated, displacing indigenous peoples and eliminating their histories [...].

Rather than evidence of the lack of culture, we now know that the forest can be interpreted as a cultural artifact in itself, yet one whose contours do not fit within the binaries typical to western thought. Boundaries between domesticated-wild, cultivated-uncultivated or artificial-natural are not only never sharply demarcated in the landscape, but are practically meaningless to the modes by which the majority of indigenous societies perceive, engage with, and produce the forest. The Achuar, for example, like most indigenous groups of Amazonia, see the forest as an extension rather than the outside of the village space, and use the forest as a vast orchard which they codify in great detail.  [...]

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All images, captions, and text above by: Paulo Tavares. “In the Forest Ruins.” e-flux. December 2016.

[craftyshipper]

Lost IV

Part l, Part ll, Part lll

Some fluff before the danger goes down.

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Warmth.

That was all Momo could think as she slowly came awake. Her eyelids fluttering open as her gaze came to rest on the cave wall. The arm she felt across her stomach caused her to smile as she tugged one of the sleeping bags that they used as a blanket, further up their bodies.

Carefully she turned in the strong pair of arms that were holding her. The red and white haired male shifted slightly and settled down again as Momo pressed herself against his chest, causing him to subconsciously pull her tighter to him.

She smiled into the fabric of his shirt remembering the night before when he trusted her with the story of his past. She had of course cried and hugged him, the tender affection causing his own break down. He was doing better these days but remembering all the grief and abuse he went through alongside his mom, still hurt.

"I wish we didn't have to get up today." She murmured.

"Then don't." Came a sleepy reply.

"Were you faking sleep?" Momo giggled.

"I don't know what you're talking about." The smile in his voice was unmistakable.

Slapping his chest playfully, she pulled away and sat up to hover over him.

"What happened to not getting up?"

"Who said I was?"

Momo smiled softly before she leaned down to kiss his lips. He rolled his body so he was on his back and reached up to cup her cheeks in his hands.

When she pulled away he let out a soft sigh before tugging her down to lay on his chest. She let out a small squeak when she fell into his hard chest and she couldn't help but blush. Sure they were pretty much official, but that didn't make it any less embarrassing. Her flushed cheeks made her entire body burn, but she wouldn't have it any other way.

Sighing into his chest, an idea popped into her head.

"Would you be up for a swim with me?"

Momo raised her head and stared at her with a raised brow.

"What brought this on?"

"Well, I know we're stuck here, but we don't have to make it feel like a prison. Let's have some fun." She grinned as he gave a thoughtful stare.

"Sure."

"Great!" She jumped up from their makeshift bed to grab her red bikini. She slipped behind the privacy screen she created after dinner last night. It provided a place for them to change their clothes to avoid any embarrassing incidents.

Shouto took the opportunity to quickly change into his swimming trunks again, before removing the blue t shirt he had worn to bed last night.

"Are you ready?" She asked and stepped out from behind the screen.

Shouto nearly turned his gaze away from her, she looked amazing in her swimsuit and part of him felt like a pervert for staring at her. Momo, being the smart girl that she is, noticed the pink tint to his cheeks as he stepped out of the cave. She couldn't help but giggle.

He's too cute when he blushes.

Momo stepped outside and stretched her arms out over her head. The sunlight warming her skin as the cool breeze balanced out the heat. Her gaze found Shouto already standing in a shallow part of the water, the level coming up to his ankles and she was thankful for the crystal clear ocean before them. Otherwise swimming would be out of the question.

Jogging to his position an idea formed in her head. She didn't know if he'd get mad or not, she threw caution to the wind and sprinted straight for him. Unfortunately for her, he turned on his heel at that moment and she barreled into his chest, sending both of them to the ground with her on top of him.

"You know..." He paused, "You're taking be stuck on an island pretty well."

"When I have a wonderful partner as you, why should I worry?"

Shouto gave a small smile and flinched when something dug into his back. She paled.

"Oh my goodness, your bruise, I'm so sorry!" She jumped away from him and helped him sit up.

"That's not what made it hurt, something stabbed me." He touched his back and pulled away to find a small amount of blood. "Great, a scratch I didn't need."

Frowning, Momo reached around and dug into the sand where he previously laid. She was afraid she was going to find a rusty knife or piece of metal. Relief flooded her system when she pulled out a seashell, the pointed end had been poking out of the sand.

"Seashell 1, Shouto 0." She laughed and placed the shell into his hand

"Beaten by a shell." Shouto sighed. "What a tragedy."

Momo was still giggling at him and he stood up. "You think it's so funny?"

Biting her lip to stop her laughter, Momo paled when Shouto stood above her. Not normally the playful type, Shouto was feeling a little devilish. Though it was easy to feel this way when he was around Midoriya and Momo.

"Uh Shouto, wh-what are you doing?"

Realizing his goal, she tried to crawl away but he grabbed her and threw her over his shoulder.

"No!" She giggled. "Put me down!"

Carrying her deeper into the water, he tossed her into the ocean as if she was nothing. She let out a yelp before her body sunk into the water and she scrambled back to the surface to stare at Shouto who was looking very smug right now.

"You are going to pay for that!"

With a shrug he said. "Shouto 1, Momo 0."

Stealthily she created a water gun beneath the water, and she could care less that she was using her quirk for something so childish, she was going to have her revenge. Smiling, she filled the gun up with water and quickly lifted it up and sprayed Shouto directly in the face. The shocked expression he wore made her wish she had a camera to capture it.

“I guess that makes us even.” She raised the gun to rest it against her shoulder.

His stare hardened as he sunk below the water, diving down. She couldn’t move away fast enough, and he grabbed her feet, dunking her down below. She let out an undignified squeal as she went under than was quickly lifting up by her boyfriend.

“That was a cheap shot.”

“I never said I’d play fair.” And then he kissed her.

She dropped the toy into the water and wrapped her arms around his neck to kiss him even deeper, her lips sliding gently against his and she had to resist the urge to let out a small moan. Once she pulled away, she rested her forehead against his and sighed with a smile playing across her lips.

Shouto sighed in content, his arms wrapping securely around her waist, he wished this moment would last forever.

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“Look at them.” A burly man dressed in a long brown overcoat passed the binoculars over to his friend. “They are acting like they are on a vacation, they’ve been stuck there for the last four days.”

“Ah, but don’t you see where they got most of their supplies?” He grinned maliciously. “That girl has a creation quirk, she would be most useful among our group.”

“Hm, shall we take her?”

“We will...eventually...let them enjoy this peace before we destroy it all before them, especially when I kill that boy.”

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“Do you think we’ll find a clear spring up here?” Momo asked as they continued hiking deeper into the foliage around them. After their swim, they washed up and changed into their other set of clothes. Momo wearing a pair of pink shorts and a tan t shirt while Shouto wore a pair of black pants and a blue t shirt. A pair of black and white converse were worn by both of them.

“We might, I figured we give it a chance before we decide on using your quirk to make a larger tub.” He glanced around the trees. “I mean we could always bathe in the ocean but salt water doesn’t feel too good for that.”

She laughed. “But it’s clear.”

“And salty.” He added. “If we find a spring, the natural minerals in the rocks would have purified it.”

“It would be nice to wash up in clean water.”

They had only been using a small basin filled with water he made from his ice after he melted it with his fire and washed up with the washcloth and soap Momo made.

An odd feeling crawled up Momo’s spine, as if they were being watched and it wasn’t until she bumped into Shouto’s back that she realized he had come to a complete stop.

“What’s wrong?”

Stepping around him, she froze in place, the scene before her sending a wave of nausea over her.

“S-Shouto.” She called out to him and grabbed his arm. “Wha-what happened here?”

He took a look around at the skeletons that littered the ground, they seemed as if they had been there for a very long time. That wasn’t the disturbing part. What made it worse was the fresh blood that trekked its way across the mossy floor, the two bodies laying only a few inches away.

“Shouto?”

“I don’t think we’re alone out here...we need to start thinking about an escape plan.” He grabbed her arm and they both ducked behind a tree to hide themselves. “If the people that did this are still here, we are in more danger than we thought we’d be.”

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“Hold on just a damn minute.” Aizawa spoke up again. “You are seriously underestimating my students, especially the two that are missing.”

“I apologize, but even with the quirks that they have, they have someone with an ability to block the use of quirks.”

“An erasure quirk?” Midoriya gasped.

“Yes, he has a quirk similar to yours, but his requires touching the person to do so.” The man frowned. “Exactly how do you expect them to defend against something they don’t know about.”

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Part IV done  ^_^

[comeloro]

Aesop Skincare

Like chemists in a lab, I remember trying products of all textures in my best friend’s bathroom. 

“This one,” she said as she dropped a honey-like gel into her opened palm. “Is like a barrier between your skin and pollution. It traps everything.” 

She warmed it up between her hands and pressed it into her skin. I was mesmerized — I had truly never interacted with skincare in this way before. 

The honey-like gel was Aesop’s B Triple C Balancing Gel, a brand and product with a cult following I soon found out. As I researched the brand and its product range, I began to fall deeper into curiosity. It seemed to be a perfect marriage of prescriptive skincare and thought-provoking art, and it showed me that a methodical approach to beauty does not have to be so sterile. 

It can be intimidating when you first approach Aesop. Sleek, uniform bottles and jars line the walls of their shops almost like an art piece that you are not allowed to touch or interact with. The experience may seem otherworldly until you encounter the centerpiece of every space, the basin, which is where engagement with the product is encouraged through experimentation and demonstration. 

Though the price tag is not initially inviting either, I soon found out that everything has a specialized purpose in the skincare ecosystem. Not every product is justifiable for the cost either, and that’s the beauty of it to me. I can honestly count on one hand the products that I am willing to invest in, and it’s different for everyone depending on their skin characteristics and lifestyle factors, such as dryness, oiliness, environment, travel, etc. Put simply, what I think is worth the cost may not be worth it to others, but the freedom to choose where and how you invest in your personal care is priceless.

Researching further, I found that each Aesop space has its own unique design and is meant to weave into the fabric of its host location. This is timely, as gentrification sweeps through more and more corners of cities, causing cultural erasure and pushing out the very essence of a place — its people. It’s admirable and relatively unheard of for a corporate company to work locally within the community to make their presence a non-intrusive collaboration, and Aesop does it thoughtfully and with care. 

Aesop also features and supports the arts, something that is embedded in their brand ethos. They feature quotes from literary figures on product jars and the shop’s reusable canvas bags, as well as employing local artists to design and furnish their retail spaces. One of my favorites to date is their collaboration with Luca Guadanigno, wherein the Italian filmmaker and screenwriter partnered with the brand to design their first store in Rome and paid homage to its ancient and sacred history. Their monthly emailed Ledger is also worth a subscribe and further supports the ways in which intelligent, creative touches can exist non-superficially in retail.

It’s an interesting thought that everyone can be an experimenter of different formulations, as creatively or as regimented as they would like to be. Everyone is ultimately their own expert of their skin, and I admire a brand that empowers that notion and encourages thoughtful consumption. I’ll link my essential Aesop products below, and I’d love to hear about your thoughts, as well as any products you have or are curious about trialing. 

My essential Aesop products:

-B Triple C Facial Balancing Gel 

A lightweight, aloe-based moisturizing and balancing gel with the added benefits of vitamins B and C to protect and repair the skin. It made my skin so smooth that I stopped wearing foundation and heavy makeup, which condensed my makeup routine significantly and saved me $.

-Camellia Nut Facial Hydrating Cream

Great for dry skin and absorbs quickly so it doesn’t feel like a cream is sitting on top of your face. Soothes irritated skin and smells like sandalwood.

-Parsley Seed Eye Serum

I had never used an eye product I liked before this one. It’s aloe-based and soothes puffiness, plus has the added benefits of concentrated antioxidant and vitamin content. Especially great if you are in a warm, humid, or polluted environment.

-Herbal Deodorant Roll-On

The first natural deodorant that has worked well for me and not caused irritation or strange stains on my clothes. Smells clean and herbaceous like sage. Alcohol and aluminum free. 

-Redemption Body Scrub 

This scrub is the best one I’ve used for my dry, sensitive skin type. Small pieces of bamboo are the exfoliating agent, rather than plastic beads. It’s better for the environment and provides an even, non-irritating exfoliation. It smells “clean” in the woodsy sense, like pine and spruce.

Images by Victoria Roccaforte and Erika Nathanielsz.

[kathleenseiber]

Who are the real pests?

Since Charles Darwin sailed around South America less than 200 years ago – a blip in the Earth’s history – the human population has mushroomed exponentially, from less than 1.2 to around 3.5 billion in 1968 and now approaching eight billion people.

This uncontrolled population growth is the inconvenient truth we can no longer skirt around, as David Attenborough recently warned. Now, two papers have highlighted its impact on wildlife through disrupted ecosystems.

People and livestock comprise a whopping 97% of the global mammal biomass, notes one group of scientists in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, and our tentacles have infiltrated the natural balance on every continent.

“We have affected most life forms through climate modification, harvest, erasure and fragmentation of habitat, disease, and the casting of alien species,” the international team of field scientists writes.

Led by Joel Berger from Colorado State University, US, they each drew from their own work on different continents, merged with other research, to document changes among and between species that impact native ungulates.

These are hoofed mammals ranging from the tiny Javan mouse deer (Tragulus javanicus) to the seven tonne African elephant (Loxodonta Africana), that are embedded in complex predator-prey and broader ecological dynamics.

The impacts the team identified ricochet throughout the biosphere.

Changing climates have caused toxic algal blooms in the Patagonian Pacific, in turn decreasing fish available for harvest. In search of other food sources, fishermen use dogs to hunt huemul (Hippocamelus bisculcus), a beautiful and now rare species of deer that has dwindled to 1% of its former range.

A Patagonian huemul deer (Hippocamelus bisulcus ). Credit: Joel Berger/ Colorado State University

Receding ice in once-pristine areas of the Himalayas has attracted human colonisation, along with stray and feral dogs that hunt rare, endangered ungulates including kiang (Equus kiang), chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii), saiga (Saiga tatarica) and takin (Budorcas taxicolor). They’ve also spread diseases and driven away snow leopards (Panthera uncia).

The multi-billion-dollar fashion industry’s appetite for cashmere has accelerated breeding of domestic goats – mostly in Mongolia, China and India – which compete with native ungulates for food and are in turn at risk from feral dogs.

Feral pigs have spread to every continent except Antarctica, and in 70% of US states, disrupting fish, reptiles, birds and other small mammals, plants and soils.

In the US, a century of intensive livestock grazing in the Great Basin Desert has disrupted plant communities, encouraging mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) populations which attracted pumas (Panthera concolor) and have thus permanently changed predator-prey dynamics.

The impacts the team identified ricochet throughout the biosphere.

Colombia is now home to wild hippos, Australia has banteng, and New Mexico has gemsbok (Oryx gazelle) and Barbary sheep, while Burmese pythons contributed to the downfall of white-tailed deer and reconfigured the Everglades food web.

It’s a mess, they say, and future repercussions are unpredictable. What we do know is that things can never go back to the way they were.

“For many assemblages of animals, we are nearing a moment in time, when, like Humpty Dumpty, we will not be able to put things back together again,” says Berger.

In an effort to conserve biodiversity, protected areas have been implemented worldwide; however, alien species threaten to infiltrate them, according to the second paper published in the journal Nature Communications.

Along with habitat destruction, pollution and CO2 emissions, alien species are one of the top five major threats to global biodiversity loss, says co-author Tim Blackburn from University College London, UK – and they are becoming more pervasive.

He and a team of Chinese researchers, including lead author Xuan Liu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, investigated nearly 900 terrestrial animal species, including mammals, birds, reptiles and invertebrates, known to have become established in new environments around the world.

They then determined if these species live within or near the boundaries of nearly 200,000 protected areas, defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, including wilderness, national parks and natural monuments or features.

The American mink ( Neovison vison) was found in 1251 protected areas. Credit: Professor Tim Blackburn, UCL

Encouragingly, less than 10% of the protected areas, which cover about 15% of the Earth’s land surface, currently contain alien species, suggesting they are doing their job. However, nearly all are at risk of invasion – 99% of protected areas had alien species within 100 kilometres of their boundaries, and 89% within a mere 10 kilometres.

This is a problem, because the team determined that more than 95% of protected areas have environments within which at least some of the alien species could flourish once they get in.

Tellingly, areas that already contained alien species were those with a larger human footprint due to transport links and high human population density nearby.

“At the moment, most protected areas are still free of most animal invaders, but this might not last,” says senior author Li Yiming. “Areas readily accessible to large numbers of people are the most vulnerable.”

Alien species that have infiltrated include the cane toad (Rhinella marina) in 265 protected areas including Australia’s Kakadu National Park, and the Harlequin ladybird (Harmonia axyridis) and wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in 2686 and 1673 protected areas, respectively.

The most invaded parks were found in Hawaii’s Volcanoes National Park, Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge and Kipuka Ainahou.

“Human activities are putting lots of different pressures on the natural world,” Blackburn says. “The so-called developed nations are the worst offenders, as the richest 10% of humanity uses 50% of current resources.

“We urgently need to move to a way of living that is not destroying the life support systems that we depend on.”

Berger’s team says although food webs and ecosystems are changing, with concerted efforts all is not yet lost.

“Basically, the world is changing, it has changed, and it will continue to change,” he says. “From a more positive side, though, there are so many places worth protecting that even with change, they still reflect processes, species and hope.”

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[ricoprimenae]

Sa mga parents nga gustong muangkon sa sweldo sa teacher ky sila mn kahay motudlo sa ilang mga anak kon modular ilang pilion sa mode of learning, nya moingon dayon, "aw, ihatag na lng na ang sweldo sa maestra sa parent".

In my opinion, ok ra kaau sa akong part, bsag tibuok sweldo pa, basta buhaton nya ang mosunod;

1. Siyay buhat sa module.

2. Siyay mobuhat exams.

3. Siyay mocheck.

4. Siyay morecord.

5. Siyay buhat sa card.

6. Siyay moassess sa score sa iyang anak.

7. Siyay mobuhat sa table of specifications ug answer key sa iyang test

8. Siyay moenroll sa iyang anak sa LIS, unya

9. Siyay monitor sa iyang attendance, unya

10. Siyay mobuhat ug weekly activities sa iyang anak para naay variety of learning

11. Dapat iintegrate ang contextualization ha ug localization sa mga terms, unya

12. Analyze maayu ang mga competencies nga angay edevelop sa imong anak para masabtan sab sa imong anak ug maayu ang imong gipang tudlo, unya

13. Iadtu lng nya sa deped division ha if magpass ka sa mga reports sa imong anak nga imong natudluan para mapromote sa next level,

14. patabang lang sa imong bana ha if mag reading mo aning mga forms nga mosunod;

1. Form 10,

2.Form 9,

3. consolidated grade sheets,

4. class record,

5. form 1 ,

6. form 5 (dapat no erasures ha)

P. S.:

1.) Dapat naay weekly outputs imong mga anak ha, ikaw check, buhati lang imohang kaugalingun rubrics.

2.) 50 diay mo kabuok magbahin sa sweldo nga 22, 316, so naa kay 446.32 kada buwan.

ingna lang ko ha if nabuhat ni nimo tanan kay akong ihatag nimo ang 446.32 kada buwan...

enjoy teaching ha, we know you are a great parent. DepEd needs you...

1/8 pana sa trabahuon namong mga maestra ug maestro ha ingnun lang nya tika sa ubang buluhatun later kay mag online selling sa mi ha?

#basin nagtuo mo'g sayon ang kinabuhi sa maestra.

#Repost

Just for laughssssss!!!.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[ecopoeticsatchicago]

Week 9 Writing Assignment

GREAT

WATER                         AGREEMENT

The State                     ,

The Province                         ,

The Commonwealth                       ,

The Government that have a shared duty to protect, conserve and 

manage  finite Waters; 

                                     these form a system.

Management in the Basin

is essential to integrity of the Ecosystem;

Managing these Waters will restore them

As A Dependent Basin

and Continued adequate Water             for                                 the people;

The States must balance economic protection as (a) reinforcing pillar of development;

there has been significant progress in restoring the Ecosystem.

the Waters remain at risk.  

In light of the demands that may be placed on the Water,

the States and Provinces must act;  

There are threats of serious or irreversible damage—

postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation;

Harmony in the Basin Reaffirming,

The principles of the Great Lakes Charter.

Acknowledging,

Nothing is intended to provide(d) for the rights of aboriginal peoples

or the rights held by any Tribe

recognized by the federal government of the United States

based upon the government of the United States.

acknowledging the commitment of these peoples to preserve and protect the waters of the Basin The continuing and abiding roles of the federal government continue unaffected;

the valuable contribution of Commission;

dependent upon cooperation.  

Agree. 

SOURCE: http://www.glslcompactcouncil.org/Docs/Agreements/Great%20Lakes-St%20Lawrence%20River%20Basin%20Sustainable%20Water%20Resources%20Agreement.pdf 

WORKING NOTES

In week 5, I experimented with erasure on a different doc semi-related to my final project, and one of Prof. Scappettone’s comments was to try creating complete sentences instead, so that was my guide throughout this. For the purpose of this assignment, I used the first two pages of the “GREAT LAKES—ST. LAWRENCE RIVER BASIN SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES AGREEMENT.” It just so happened that the part about tribal rights really fit with the Whereas reading, so even though I wasn’t planning on exploring that as much with my final, I think it fits really nicely within this piece to demonstrate the general oppressive and controlling nature of the federal government when it comes to water. Further, it’s intriguing that this is a pseudo-cooperative federal/state/local agreement where these states pretend to be committed to the sanctity of the Great Lakes and where the federal government pretends they care about the lakes (even though they want to create pipelines and pumps and look for resources). Within that, then, too, what plays out at a local level is absurd, which is what I’ve been discussing over the weeks/what I hope to convey with the final. Basically I think this document will be great as an intro to the collection of works and texts in my final project because it’s THE document that “creates” the control of these waters--this document helped lead to the Great Lakes being trapped in this relationship with our governments and what dictated water access. That’s why I took the liberty of seriously erasing and plugging in different parts with this assignment. 

There are 29 pages, so for my final, I’d like to do the whole thing as one part, and instead of just cutting and forming sentences, I might try inserting names of places where water has been cut off (or something). Regardless, for my final, the whole document will be played around with, even though this one was only the first two pages. 

[fatehbaz]

Often when I think of so-called North America, the landscape of the continent, the iconic lifeforms of this place, I think of lions, camels, giant sloths, and mammoths. I am careful to remember their presence. And their absence. Ghosts. At the scale of geological time, these megafauna creatures were living alongside humans in North America practically yesterday. For the majority of human history on the continent, these Pleistocene megafauna were right there alongside bison. And I think this fact, the presence of superlative megafauna, gets obscured in conversations about what exactly constitutes the “typical North American environment.”

Of course, for millennia, the North American landscape has been a deliberately crafted result of Indigenous cultivation, the vital presence also erased in similar conversations about “wild” North America. If you grew up or have lived near parts of the US with many federal-administered national forests and parks, designated “wilderness” areas, so-called “wild and scenic rivers,” populations of less than 5 people per square kilometer, etc: You’re probably familiar with how many enthusiastic subcultures develop, sometimes defined by a professed love of a mythical or romanticized “wild” which might manifest as many local groups of backpackers, fly-fishing guides, river rats and runners, university-employed biologists, mountain bikers, academics working with ecology, etc. Some groups might be engaged in de facto assertion of colonial/settler sense of “ownership” of this land and continued Indigenous erasure. Some might be mostly interested in signalling the optics of the “lifestyle brand” or “aesthetic.” Some might be genuinely invested “bioregional citizens” with love of the ecology and respect for original inhabitants. A hodge podge, an eclectic mix. In any case, if you’re familiar with these places, you might also be familiar with the celebration of charismatic animals or iconic megafauna species: grizzly bear, gray wolf, moose, elk, caribou, bison, etc. These animals will get mentioned all the time, everywhere, in casual coffee shop conversation and in formal policy. You’ll see local cities, nonprofits, agencies, and businesses employ images of these creatures featured in essays, pamphlets, naturalist courses, and marketing, often as part of an interest -- sometimes superficial, sometimes sincere -- in “conservation” or “ecological rehabilitation.” It will be said that “this land is incomplete” with the absence of the wolf and the grizzly. They will say that so-called North America’s landscape is at least partially defined by these keystone species. The landscape of North America must include these animals. “When you think of North America, you think of bison.” They are the emblems, the icons.

The lions that lived in North America, a now extinct subspecies, apparently belonged to the same genus of the still-living modern lion of Africa. (The American lion is so closely related that, until recent years, it was considered a subspecies of the modern African lion.) The sheer size of Megatherium or Eremotherium; 4 meters tall. I struggle to imagine early American people interacting with a sloth so large. But it happened. I’ve always been excited by how all of these animals lived with modern humans in North America only 10,000 years ago. Yesterday.

We’re talking about lions prowling the periphery of oak woodlands in the Great Plains. Mammoths on the Rocky Mountain Front. Camels in the Great Basin.

So little time has passed since the extinction of these animals, that an “average” depiction of the typical ecology of “modern” North America would have to feature these species. The pantheon of native megafauna of the western US and Mexico doesn’t just include grizzly bears, moose, and bison, but also includes sabre-toothed cats. Some iconic animals associated in popular consciousness with the “Old World” resided or originated in the Americas, including camels, horses, elephant-like creatures, and lions.

This also confounds and complicates the idea of what, precisely, are we trying to “return” to? Are we attempting to go back in history before nineteenth century imperial expansion into the American West, when grizzlies and bison were still relatively healthy, when passenger pigeons and Carolina parakeets were alive? Shouldn’t we be attempting to go back even further, before colonial settlement along the Atlantic coast, too? When US government land managers talk about “rewilding” North America, I first consider if this is a moot point without Indigenous autonomy, and I then wonder if “rewilding of historical North American environments” would necessarily have to involve mammoths and lions to be authentic.

Maybe a silly thought experiment, but still. Even if mammoths are truly “lost in deep time” and inaccessible to us, is there still value in trying to glimpse their ghosts, to read their past presence in our contemporary vision of the land? The trend of woodland conversion into grassland, the recent history of the Great Plains for example, was probably instigated by these Pleistocene megafauna. 

These “Ice Age creatures” made North America, often in tandem with Indigenous peoples.

“Bring the grizzly and the bison back!” When I overhear a local advertisement, or attend an ecology lecture, or see marketing material for a conservation policy, and when these proclamations celebrate the desired return of bears or wolves, I always inevitably imagine the simultaneous return of Pleistocene megafauna. They were here for most of the recent geological past. They are just as much a part of the historical landscape of the continent.