Nord.redJim East, wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net
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I am not Jim West.
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I am NOT Jim West.
Grass is a pestilence that should be eradicated worldwide, but legumes can be excellent support species, and some even make tasty fruits. Dialium guineense is one that most people don’t seem to know, but apparently bonobos like it!
solarpunk memes@slrpnk.net
I would argue that growing your own food and NOT cooking it is even more revolutionary.
Solarpunk technologyI just thought that this was interesting. I’m not so hyped about it like the author of the article.
Shortages could lead to dramatic changes in how water is distributed in the future. More than 70% of water is used by agriculture – which includes thirsty crops like alfalfa and hay that are used to feed cattle and the bulk of the winter lettuce and leafy greens grown in the US.
Here it is. Animal agriculture is the single biggest consumer of water, using much more than even controversially water-intensive activities like hydraulic fracturing… but the author of this article deemed it important to mention lettuce?
What about the rest of America? I’m more concerned about the Amazon and Cerrado biomes.
It’s got electrolytes…
Himalayan glacial loss threatens 2 billion as Asia’s ‘water tower’ shrinks (scmp.com)
Temperatures Are Soaring in the Western United States. Climate Change is to Blame, Says a New Report. - Eos (eos.org)
Heatwaves of this scale, the report forecasts, are expected to occur just once every 500 years. Such rare occurrences make it challenging for researchers to estimate how often these events might happen if the climate warms further. But the current attribution study estimates that, if the climate warms another 1.3°C, heat events so extreme that they are forecasted to happen just once every 100 years will become 6.4 times more likely and 1.8°C hotter.
Heatwave scorching US west ‘virtually impossible’ without climate crisis, say scientists | Unseasonably warm and even dangerous temperatures this week were up to 30F above average for the time of year (theguardian.com)
Thousands ordered to evacuate as Oahu floods put dam at imminent risk of failure (nbcnews.com)
Global Climate Impacts: Agriculture, Sea Ice, and Cultural Landscapes Across the Sahel, the Baltic Region, and the Tibetan Plateau (globalclimatedispatch.substack.com)
After a Decade of Missteps, a Texas City Careens Toward a Water-Shortage Catastrophe (insideclimatenews.org)
Officials in Corpus Christi expect a “water emergency” within months and fully run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel supplies to Texas airports, fuel a surge in gasoline prices and trigger an “economic disaster” without precedent, former officials said.
After a Decade of Missteps, a Texas City Careens Toward a Water-Shortage Catastrophe (insideclimatenews.org)
Officials in Corpus Christi expect a “water emergency” within months and fully run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel supplies to Texas airports, fuel a surge in gasoline prices and trigger an “economic disaster” without precedent, former officials said.
Research shows 41 U.S. states are getting warmer, all in slightly different ways (phys.org)
Global seawater levels significantly higher than previously thought, putting tens of millions more people at risk; the problem is greatest in the Global South, the Pacific, and Southeast Asia (apnews.com)
vibes
I am NOT Jim West.
Grass is a pestilence that should be eradicated worldwide, but legumes can be excellent support species, and some even make tasty fruits. Dialium guineense is one that most people don’t seem to know, but apparently bonobos like it!
food forests
I would argue that growing your own food and NOT cooking it is even more revolutionary.
Cocoa boom, water bust (theecologist.org)
‘The river won’: how campaigners in Brazilian Amazon stopped privatisation of waterway (amazonwatch.org)
Undaunted, the activists in Santarém took on one of the US powerhouses of world trade. Cargill generates revenues of more than $160bn (£119bn) a year, employs 155,000 people and accounts for more than 70% of the soy and maize shipped through Santarém.
Indigenous Resistance Forces Brazil To Revoke Amazon Waterway Decree After 33 Days of Occupation (amazonwatch.org)
Santarém, Pará, Brazil – On Monday, February 23, Brazil’s government announced the revocation of Decree 12,600/2025, which opened the door to the privatizing the Tapajós, Madeira, and Tocantins rivers for industrial waterways in the Amazon. The government confirmed the decision following a meeting in Brasília between Indigenous leaders Sônia Guajajara, Brazil’s Minister of Indigenous Peoples, and Guilherme Boulos, Minister of the Presidency’s General Secretariat. The announcement came amid an Indigenous occupation of Cargill’s port in Santarém, Pará State, and in the wake of growing national and international solidarity and extensive news coverage of the mobilization.
Major river deltas are sinking faster than sea-level rise (preventionweb.net)
Climate change will disrupt the monarch butterfly’s famous migration (earth.com)
The paper is here
How climate change is impacting drinking water in the US | Access to drinking water is becoming less reliable, according to new research. (abcnews.com)
The paper is here
Can this Mexican paradise navigate a water crisis? (yaleclimateconnections.org)