I finished Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency over the weekend. Great, but also horrendously anxiety-inducing...
Anyway, short week, then I'm taking all of next week off! Wooo!
Timing is everything. You don't have to believe me but I was told from someone very well connected in switzerland in the private banking sector that this is a bioweapon that targets certain DNA. He also told me that the real killer will be the vaccine which is a nanoweapon that will destroy immune system and be activated by 5G. I realize that sounds crazy and I actually have a recommendation for anyone here that reads this. Go read the book Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Fistenburg. The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life, Firstenberg, Arthur, eBook - Amazon.com . Don't think of it as 5G was built to be a weapon thats backwards. As this book will help you understand, electricity has a HUUGGEE effect on our body. I don't want to go on a rant but I will tease you with one thing I learned from this book which is that the term "general anxiety disorder" that we prescribe Xanax and shit for, actually started as 'Neurasthenia' which was a disorder from the first electric exposure way back in the day.
-_-... What. The. F*ck. Man...! Thanks for saving me the trouble of looking the author up.
Better book and qualified author: https://www.amazon.com/Count-Down-Threatening-Reproductive-Development-ebook/dp/B084G9MMVH
Stopping back to leave the comment that Wisconsin Public Radio recently did an interview with an entomology and wildlife ecology professor, Doug Tallamy, about creating biodiversity in your yard. He says that oak trees are really important.
Anyway, he also has a handbook for transforming lawns: "Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard"
I’ve been reading a great book called <em>Natures Best Hope</em>, which goes really in depth about the benefits of native plants, not just for pollinators but so much other biodiversity.
Just a recommendation to throw out there for people wanting to get into planting for helping nature. (I’m also a biologist and love the book).
Read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Mycelium-Running-Mushrooms-Help-World-ebook/dp/B004GTLKEG
I just take some immune support blend you can find in any natural foods store (Mycommunity brand or something). I think Reishi, Turkey Tail, and Shiitake are known to be the best. My supplement includes those, and some more.
You can also try AHCC (shiitake mushroom derivative) which has great reviews for cancer patients (look at Amazon). It's in phase II clinical trials at the University of Texas for fighting HPV infection with promising results, though the sample size is still too small to be substantial evidence. They're taking 3 grams a day I think for the study, but do more research on it yourself, you can find primary study info here: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02405533?term=AHCC&rank=1
Could be quackery, but everything I've read about mushrooms' potential for fighting cancer is enough for me to try and feel good about it.
Oh yeah, electrical pollution. 15 bucks on Kindle May be a little rich for my blood but you never know as it definitely has the crazy pants appeal :).
"We live today with a number of devastating diseases that do not belong here, whose origin we do not know, whose presence we take for granted and no longer question”
https://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Rainbow-History-Electricity-Life-ebook/dp/B084SZW2LC
Man upptäcker oftare at polymerer är farliga än naturligt förekommande molekyler därför att polymerer er mycket annorlunda än någon andra grupp av materialen som vår kropp har utvecklats till at omgås genom hundra tusen år. Du kan till exempel läsa något av Shanna Swans forskning eller hennes bok.
Very true. While this isn't an argument to avoid water saving measures at the municipal level, the primary changes need to come from ag. And the ag related solutions aren't as simple as us city-dwellers would like to think.
Two good books I recommend on the topic:
There is a very good book on the topic written by one of the pioneering scientist researching fertility, called Count Down. Basically sperm count in the western world have been declining on the average of 1%/year since 50 years ago. The main cause is, well, to put it roughly, everything derived from oil and petroleum, from plastic to pollution.
Definitely would recommend it for a read, as it's well written and detailed with solutions of how and what to avoid to reduce the effect of the environment on one's health.
I just finished the book 'The World in a Grain' and it makes it that much more harrowing to see haphazard abuse of sand based resources.
>Not all sand is equal. Beach sand is not suitable for concrete.
You have just reminded me to buy my holiday reading.
But isn't the climate science settled among the scientific community? It depends on the amount of greenhouse gases that can be stopped from being emitted, but based on current pledges by countries, the modelling is that there will be 3 degrees or warming by 2100.
Then there is the issue of whether the "precautionary principle" should be applied. Read the book Countdown by Dr Shanna Swan for a great example of this. BPA is found in many plastics and it took about 20 years before the scientific evidence shows that it can cause health problems and lower fertility rates. The plastic companies simply replaced BPA with another bisphenol plastic that has similar if not worse impacts on health and fertility rates.
But of course, an argument can be made that lower fertility rates is a good thing due to human overpopulation. More plastic pollution and even more climate change can help bring human population back down from where it is now.
If you want to know more about this i can recommend
hey stupid considering sperm counts have fallen 60+% since the 1970s and so have testosterone levels, and by 2045 , Americans wont even be able to reproduce without IVF, id say as a culture we better severely shake the tree , to figure every single possible intervention that might move the needle to reverse the trend
https://www.amazon.com/Count-Down-Threatening-Reproductive-Development-ebook/dp/B084G9MMVH/
are you capable of assembling a single fact in support of your opinion?
I dont mind ad hominem at all, but making it the entirety of your rhetoric is not only incredibly weak sauce but also the metaphorical equivalent of basing your entire diet on ketchup, ie confusing the entree for the sauce that makes it more interesting and increases palatability
Also, because she was mentioned in the article, Jesse Michels interview with Shanna Swan is worth a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ne8ZbYxjKs
https://www.amazon.com/Count-Down-Threatening-Reproductive-Development-ebook/dp/B084G9MMVH
I also want to point out 5G is also the culprit. Go research thr danger of electromagnetic radiation. I highyly suggest you read " The INVISIBLE RAINBOW - A History of Electricity and Life " You could get this from on Amazon.
So I recently attended a conference where this professor discussed his idea behind saving the animals.
So basically a ton of animals are slowly going extinct, due to loss of habitat, fishing etc etc.
so y’all know the foot chain: bee pollinates the plant, plant feeds the rabbit, rabbit feeds the Fox etc. we can slowly bring back the animals buy giving insects a place to live and eat.
Now some insects and birds are very… (specialized? I think that’s the word I want) where this insect only has their cocoon on a specific plant and a bird mostly relies on that specific insect for food.
So instead of landscaping with non-native plants, landscape with plants that are native to your area. He has studies that show a significant growth in insect and bird populations after using native plants!! Like someone with a <1 acre plot of land in Chicago with native plants in their yard now has an endangered bird roosting in their native tree!! (Don’t quote me on this exactly, I’m pretty high and my memory sucks)
So basically he suggests you shrink your lawn(of course still have a lawn, but not some huge sprawling lawn). And just landscape with native plants.
Also their are some plants that benefit more species than others. So they would be the most valuable to plant (like an oak tree).
Anyway the studies showed that this little chance can really make a difference. I often feel like there aren’t many things I can personally do to make a difference, but it’s things like this that remind me I can. 💚
here’s his book “Nature’s Best Hope” a New York Times best seller
/u/A_Man_Underground I recommend you give this book a read - <em>Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency</em> by Mark Lynas. That book is best described as the peer-reviewed science to 2020, translated from scientist into normal person, and referenced and cited accordingly. The endnotes of each chapter are where you'll find the studies in question.
It doesn't detail the consequences of RCP8.5 per se, so much as it tells you what is likely to happen with each degree of temperature rise above the preindustrial, complete with the consequences (such as +3°C leading to +4°C leading to +5°C leading to +6°C with the only uncertainty about that horrifying progression being how long it takes).
And yes, it does demonstrate that the ultimate end-state is not something that our civilisation can endure.
For the time being, the water crisis hasn’t hit residential customers. Farmers are most effected right now which eventually translates to higher food prices. However, if we continue to grow without implementing water conservation measures we’re very likely to see water shutoffs in the next decade. Read this book, it’s actually as entertaining as it is educational!
https://www.amazon.com/Cadillac-Desert-American-Disappearing-Revised-ebook/dp/B001RTKIUA
> I personally think prenatal development and hormones influence both gender expression and the attraction to it.
I kind of agree with you in some way. You should look into a book called "Countdown", you might like it if you arent already familiar with it
https://www.amazon.com/Count-Down-Threatening-Reproductive-Development-ebook/dp/B084G9MMVH
its all about prenatal hormones and endocrine disruption.
You can study this subject by reading Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race by Shanna H. Swan, Ph.D.
From what I can see, there is no consensus on one factor. It could be multi-factorial. I really haven't seen anyone suggesting evolution as a factor, much less a main factor. But I am by no means an expert.
https://www.amazon.com/Count-Down-Threatening-Reproductive-Development-ebook/dp/B084G9MMVH
This seems to be the best book for laymen looking to get into the issue.
I'm going to have to look that one up.
It's called "Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future."
Added to my reading list.
This is where I started my journey and I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which my missus had bought me for Christmas. But the real deal is Paul Stammets, who Merlin Sheldrake quotes a lot in Entangled Life. Have a look out for a copy of Mycelium Running.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004GTLKEG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
The reason things are made from oil is because it was highly profitable to turn chemical residues into products, not because things should be made from these residues. We need to divest from all these chemical products. There is a lot of scrutiny now into how these products are affecting us, notably our fertility.
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