#india

[herpsandbirds]

thank you for all your posts. i love seeing all these animals

Bless you my child. Here is a special friend for you.

Brown Boobook aka Brown Hawk Owl (Ninox scutulata), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, Maharashtra, India

photograph by Digvijay Lande

[twilektrekkie]

@apathyislikeawoundedsoul

“yOu jUsT loOk LiKe A mAn”

You wish your grimy homophobic a$$ looked as good as mine 🌝

[reasonsforhope]

The present isn't a dystopia. It's just a complicated, chaotic, sometimes amazing, sometimes brutal world.

The future is, I think, unlikely to become a dystopia in the sense we imagine it. I saw this for two reasons:

1.

First, I say "the sense we imagine it" because dystopias are based on the idea that all hope (for humanity, usually, sometimes all life) has been extinguished forever, and the forces of dystopia shall never be overthrown.

I don't believe that kind of world is possible - a world where there is never more hope. A true end to history. I don't think it's ever possible for all humans to stop fighting, as long as we're here. I have lots of evidence to based this on, much of which is called "all of human history." (And eternal dystopia is especially impossible if you look at deep time - there have been five previous mass extinctions, and life is still here.)

But it will not come to that.

Here's why:

2.

We have already averted truly apocalyptic levels of warming.

Yes, read that again. Let it sink in. This is what the science now says. We have already averted truly apocalyptic global warming.

To quote David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, from his huge feature in the New York Times:

"Thanks to astonishing declines in the price of renewables, a truly global political mobilization, a clearer picture of the energy future and serious policy focus from world leaders, we have cut expected warming almost in half in just five years... The window of possible climate futures is narrowing, and as a result, we are getting a clearer sense of what’s to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse." (New York Times, October 22, 2022. Unpaywalled here. Emphasis mine. And yes, this vision of the future is backed up by the current science on the issue, as he explains at length in the article.)

So we've already averted truly apocalyptic warming, and we've already cut expected warming IN HALF in just the past five years.

The pace of technology, of innovation, of prices, of feasibility, of discovery, of organizing, of grassroots movements, of movements in other countries around the world, have all picked up the pace so fast in the last five years.

Renewable technology and capacity are both increasing at an exponential rate. It's all S-curves, ones that look like this:

-via The Economist, June 20, 2024.

How much more will we manage in another five years? Another ten? Another twenty?

I know the US is about to fucking suck about the environment for the next four years. But the momentum of renewable energy is far too much to stop - both in the US (x) and around the world.

(Huge shoutouts to India, China, and Brazil for massive gains for the environment in renewables, and Brazil for massive progress against Amazon deforestation.)

We're going to get there.

Say it with me. We're going to get there.

[mauveliptint]

What really baffles me is when I see Indian men ranting about misandry and feminism. We've never even had a large-scale feminist movement in India. If this is how they react to the 1–2% of Indian women resisting misogyny, I can’t even imagine the meltdown they’d have if all women stood against it. They’d probably invent new ways to oppress us. It js shows how deeply threatened they are by any challenge to the patriarchal structures.

[iko66]

Jodhpur Rajasthan India

[enigma-the-mysterious]

SSR: It's a romance! I mean a bRoMaNcE!!!

People: RRR is not gay. SSR never intended to make it gay

Meanwhile, SSR, on camera:

[wgm-beautiful-world]

MYSORE PALACE INDIA

[desigirldairies]

— "POV: You’re lost in an ethereal fairytale."

[strangepersonflower]

Emma Watson in Indian Style 😲

[herpsandbirds]

Fire-tailed Myzornis (Myzornis pyrrhoura), family Paradoxornithidae, order Passeriformes, East Sikkim, India

photograph by Risav Pal

[ketakiw]

Sunday sketching!

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[koshalaram5]

[daydreamingastronauts]

guys am watching a film with my mum where they are actively trying to hide a dead body after they kill that person and I was just pointing what they are doing wrong and how they can do it right and my mum is mortified helppppppp

[bear-pattern-hamster]

"Bear-Pattern-Hamster📚Carrie🧸🐹"

[theinsomniacindian]

Would anyone believe me if I said that this post is what made me realise that I was aroace

(356) In all honesty, I like to headcanon India as aroace. I know not many people do, but I’m Indian and I love this headcanon.

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