Maria L

@marial.bsky.social

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What is it to live in right relationship? Ecology, climate change, earth systems, biophilia, well-being, good governance & solarpunk. ecopoë | 𝘰𝘪̈𝘬𝘰𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘦̄𝘴𝘪𝘴 = homemaking 𓁖 Giving social media another chance. 🇨🇦

I'd like to please remind you, beyond your own mandate, some good rules of thumb by Timothy Snyder that can hopefully help guide all of us better through these challenging times, in particular for this case 5, 8, 10, 11, 18, 19, 20 : https://scholars.org/contribution/twenty= lessons-fighting-tyranny-twentieth Thank-you, Maria
I would also like to please remind you of the recent words of Marie-Josée Hogue on this topic: "While allegations of interference involving elected officials have dominated public and media discourse, the reality is that misinformation and disinformation pose an even greater threat to democracy.. Disinformation is difficult to detect and, above all, to counter since the technological means available evolve at breakneck speed. It is noxious, and it is powerful, it poses a major risk to Canadian democracy. If we do not find ways of addressing it, misinformation and disinformation have the ability to distort our discourse, change our views and shape our society. In my view it is no exaggeration to say that at this juncture, information manipulation (whether foreign or not) poses the single biggest risk to our democracy. It is an existential threat." (Source: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/. 1.7459858)
“In Defence of Rachel Gilmore, Fact Checking, & Democracy Dear CTV News decision makers, As a Canadian concerned about the growth of dis/misinformation being used as a way to undermine democracies around the world, I am writing to you about your recent capitulation to the spurious accusations (that even appear to be libellous; libel also being a kind of misinformation that is personally harmful to people subject to it) & part of an inciting hate campaign by Sebastian Skamski and others directed against Rachel Gilmore. I was shocked to hear that the reason given for this dismissal was that the "volume of that push back" was a "distraction" for your network. (source: https://pressprogress.ca/ctv-cancelled-a-fact-checking-segment-in-response-to-political-pressure-from-pierre-poilievres-conservatives/_)”
Chart of: Total COz emissions since 1850 from fossil fuels, deforestation, land use change and cement (billion tonnes) 1 US 2 China 3 Russia 4 Brazil 5 Indonesia 6 Germany India 7 UK 8 Japan 9 Canada Guardian graphic | Source: Carbon Brief
Clip fm the article: “The platform feels like a collective endeavour toward a gentler world. Etiquette guides abound. Dunking - sharing a bad take for the purposes of mocking it - is discouraged. The people who skeet - what posting is popularly called on this platform - are better than that. But what's missing from Bluesky isn't merely Nazis, but the centre-left, the unclassifiable, and all snark unaccompanied by righteous political aims. It has no irreverent humour, no bite. Political uniformity breeds humourlessness. This is not because conservatives are funnier than liberals - anti-woke comedy is as tedious as woke - but because if everyone is "walking on eggshells" then no one risks being a bit silly.”
Screenshot fm article: “What we're facing is a new form of propaganda that wasn't really possible until the digital age. And it works not by creating a consensus around any particular narrative but by muddying the waters so that consensus isn't achievable.”
a photo of a fern frond on a bed of mosses. the frond is turned upside down, showing little balls of ochre pollen along the leaflets
an image from the linked article illustrating material efficiency, how, starting from one older panel, materials can be taken out to make more newer panels
screen capture of definition os ruse: ruse | ruz noun • an action intended to deceive someone; a trick Oxford Dictionary of English
A graph showing “Share of EVs in total new car registrations. The graph shows China way ahead in 2024 at 40%, with Eu at 24%, Global total at 20%, but US at only 10%
a single white sailboat on a blue sea below a blue sky
Top 3 Apps screenshot showing 1 as ChatGpt, 2 as Bluesky, 3 as Threads.
Bright orange & yellow sweet grm leaves stand out against a grey sky, tangled branches and little brown & green spiky seed pods.
Tweet by S Guilbault 🇨🇦 on the joint statement with US 🇺🇸 along with a photo of him shaking hands w John Kerry
US Climate Envoy, headed by John Carey, statement that “mitigation section, including the issue of fossil fuels, needs to be substantially strengthened “
Tweet by Jennifer Morgan on COO28 fossil fuel action text falling “way short”
Eamon Ryan representing EU stating criticisms of the COP28 text, and that it is not acceptable
white air dry clay sculpture of purple ringed-cap snail
Chat GPT-4 prompt through Bing: “what evidence is there that social media platforms are being used by bad faith actors as arenas for hybrid warfare psy ops to support the rise of authoritarian parties to gain hegemony over dwindling resources & fight to block people mobilizing to coordinate action on things like climate change that would challenge their maintenace or ascent to power”
John Singer painting of the hydra attacking Hercules. To defeat it he found a way to cauterize the wound after cutting a head of so no more would grow back. This is analogous to not only the covert hostile attack-climate-action approach of bad faith actors, but their many resources & military tact & skill to respond if challenged
Graph fm the quoted post showing the production gap for global fossil fuel towards 2030 going way up instead of down. Brown “Stated Policies” line is likely the NDCs
Photo of the back of my cat’s head as she sits on my lap as we lounge on the recliner liking out the window at the wet west coast rainforest.
Global average temperature change graph fm 2000-2100, showing RCP2.6 (blue, mitigation) & RCP8.5 (peach, business as usual, no mitigation) scenarios.
Weekly World News rag with headlines like: “Mermaid Cemetery Discovered!, Humans Turning Back Into Apes, and Boy Thinks Out Loud For Real!
Michiko, the lynx point ragdoll, with the light shining on her just so, looking over her shoulder at me as she sits on my lap.
Gandhi sitting at his spinning wheel spinning cotton as part of his support for the khadi movement
holding a glass of green smoothie with a green straw in front if a green wood
GoT scene walking through the hall of faces
Bonhomme from Winter Carnival in Québec city and a girl both westing winter hats. Bonhomme’s knit red hat is called a toque in Fr & En Canada.
There is a rolled up crêpe on a blue & white plate, and you can see the hands of the man about to eat it, but on the floor behind the table is a ragdoll cat who is determined to get somma dat crêpe, who is reaching out to swat the man with a big floofy white paw paw
Same quoted text fm the RT thread, focusing on, “although the lawsuits charge the companies with misleading consumers, the companies say they had “no duty to warn” when, they say, the “alleged impact of fossil fuel use on global climate has been ‘open and obvious’ for decades”
A yellow maple tree stands out against all the green conifers in a picnic clearing in the woods
My e-bike at the side of a flat backwoods bike path.
My son looking out over the Atlantic fm the red sands of PEI. The sky ranges fm pale blue on the left through white clouds, golden, pink to cerulean blue.
Winter camping w our JDM Honda Stepwagon van by a cold mint green glacial lake
A network of interconnected risk bubble
A time lapse photo of a kayaker going over a very large waterfall in a tiny yellow kayak. (Dear governments, this is a professional, please don’t try this at home.)
Clip from the book on the climate modeler page that says: “Did you know? The Earth’s temperature is 2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer today than in 1880!” with a girl with dark hair in pigtails on the left with a super happy smile on her face.
Map of global distribution of vulnerability to climate change.
Graph of growth of SUV market in America showing SUV line going up as car line goes down with pickups & vans more constant (pickups going up slightly also in recent years).
Graph showing steep rise in the use of glyphosate on various crops since the early 90s
Graph of global temperatures showing average trend projected to reach 1.5 deg C by Dec 2034
Mole, fm Wind in the Willows
Vista looking over a shrubby bluff at turquoise water and large waves beating the Oregon shore below a blue sky.
A background design of flames engulfing bodies & skeletons in thangka, Panjarnata mahakala
An old b&w photo of a Victorian lady attempting to revive her friend—who has swooned and is laying elegantly upon a chaise—with smelling salts.
My husband & little one out for a sunset stand up paddleboard ride on the coast of British Columbia. The water is reflecting the sky between ripples and there are gold and peach contrails crisscrossing the sky.
A look towards a calm sea with rolling treed hills along the horizon. In the foreground to the right is a small tent nestled between manzanita bushes & arbutus trees.
A view of a bog in the Scottish highlands. In the foreground are lit up fluffy white tufts of bog candles and in the background receding hills, puffy white clouds and blue sky
A white Honda Stepwgn camper van with the pop up lifted and awning out is by a mountain lakeside with a covered kitchen/seating area behind the van and a staging area fir stand up paddle gear in front of it.
April 2021 photo of my Honda Stepwgn campervan & 3 yr old boondocking at the side of a cold turquoise lake beside snow covered mountains. Grateful I had the van during covid social distancing to allay some of the stress & cabin fever.
Minou, the ragdoll cat, looking up and over her shoulder towards the sky with a dreamy look on her face. Her pale blue eyes are narrowed into slits due to the bright sunshine.