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  1. Last 7 days
    1. absolves the North from its obligation to reduce its carbon footprint by treating climate change as inevitable and beyond human control.137

      This is where the responsibility should fall.

    2. the dangers of top-down governmental decision-making

      The government will always make decisions without giving the affected group any power in it, then tie a bow on it and advertise that it is the "safest choice"

  2. Sep 2026
    1. to say a place is yours to design and define authorizes you to deny all your connections to people, nature, and the past.

      Everything has history, no matter what we change, add or take away.

    2. But they also ask who eats what foods and who doesn’t, and who plants what in their gardens

      Most people don't notice that nature is not just the things we see but have become everything we touch and use on a daily basis. The mango body whip has me questioning what exactly is considered nature.

    3. has become so firmly entrenched that seeing nature in other ways has been next to impossible.

      One of the many powers of writing is being able to change perspectives. So much of what we see and read is a copy-and-paste viewpoint. The only way to change perspectives is to challenge them!

    4. , L.A. is the ideal place to tackle the problem of how to write about nature.

      There are a few versions of this I can see. From the disasters of wildfires or recent Long Beach storm, to the beauty that is Santa Monica.