because that’s naturebreaking out of those boundaries that we want to keep it in.”
Many humans separate our creations from what many would call nature. Oftentimes it seems that we view it as two separate categories.
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Though the Times reported that one New York City healthofficial had linked two deaths to diseases carried by pigeons
Weird how easy it is for information to be skewed in media, intentionally to push an agenda or accidentally due to laziness. Even one of the most reputable papers in the country is not free from misinformation.
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heir greatest sin is simply being out of place in our minds
Interesting way to look at humans relationship to elements of the natural world in relation to what we deem worth protecting and what we deem an issue. Makes more sense in regards to something like a pigeon than a termite infestation in ones home but still interesting.
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99percentinvisible.org 99percentinvisible.org
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America’s squirrels have also been wreaking havoc overseas. In Great Britain, the eastern grey squirrels introduced in 1876 quickly began to displace the native red squirrel
I wonder how many native squirrel populations there are? Are any squirrel populations these days native or are they mostly the result of human introduction?
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Squirrels were intentionally put into parks where they were fed and sheltered.
I wonder what other creatures we see as abundant in urban settings are also a result of the same sort of implementation process?
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In fact, squirrels were considered so elusive that the very wealthy liked to keep them as exotic pets.
The logic behind that which is deemed exotic is interesting. Aside from being rare, the desire for it seems to be heavily subjective. Seems like something becomes exotic when it has a large amount of competing desire for it and a limited supply. However, just being rare does not automatically give something demand.
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99percentinvisible.org 99percentinvisible.org
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She belonged to the wrong class, so he ordered her removed from the room, whipped, and her lands confiscated because he saw her clothes as an act of usurping his power.
Human potential for cruelty and stupidity never ceases to amaze me.
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teams that wore red during matches statistically did better than they should have.
I wonder how valid this statistic actually is. Is there actual validity to this claim or could it just be a statistical anomaly? Seems hard to prove a cause-effect relationship.
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99percentinvisible.org 99percentinvisible.org
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In the 1950s, small family farms started getting pushed out by big companies and industrial agriculture.
A given when big industry sees something as potentially profitable. Oftentimes damned near impossible for smaller businesses to compete.
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Today, bees have become more livestock than wild creatures
Definitely a trend in terms of species of life with a good degree of utility towards humans.
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The demand is so high it takes upwards of two million hives, almost every commercial beehive in the country to do the job.
When a part of the natural world is morphed to fulfill a human purpose is it still nature? If humans morphing bees to function as a pollination device for almonds in a very industrial setting counts as nature then do not most human creations which manipulate the worlds resources count as well?
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Environmentalists and business leaders alike have gotten on board and according to at least one poll the majority of UK residents are on board (only 32% against).
Wasn't a proposal like this recently attempted in the US federal government but failed?
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He and others like him realized that if the days started earlier in winter, people could get access to more natural light early on when waking up.
Understandably practical for the time. These days it seems less important due to the prevalence of high quality artificial light artificial light everywhere. Also somewhat annoying that it suddenly becomes dark a whole hour earlier.
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some become intertwined with power, politics, and freedom.
Politics and science seem to have a complicated relationship to say the least.
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times caught up with these people as commercial alarm clocks arrived.
An inevitable consequence of technological progress is the abolition of professions technologies can do cheaper and more efficiently.
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Culturally, this was a pivot point of sorts — part of a larger shift from waking up with nature’s rhythms to being “on the clock.”
In relation to what we talked about last class, this article regards the human social construct of a work day as being separate from nature.
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In fact, there were entire professions devoted to keeping track of conveying the time in the 19th century, including “knocker-uppers”
Interesting to think about the variety of professions that have become obsolete due to technological progress.
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Eventually, of course, there were global agreements around time
What were the first countries to agree on time zones? I would assume they most likely forced these onto the rest of the world as well.
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It’s hard to wrap our minds around it now, but time had mostly been more local up until then.
Localized time zones is a very interesting concept to consider. It is understandable in a time without the internet but for some reason I never considered it because I have become so desensitized to universal time zones.
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Suddenly, high-speed transit collapsed both time and space, making it easier to go faster and farther while also forcing the world into fewer and fewer time zones.
Interesting that high-speed trains had this effect. However, trains are seen as a rather slower form of transportation these days. I wonder what effect planes have had on the collapse of time and space in relation to differing time zones?
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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His first principle was that a park should complement the city to which it belongs.
I love this philosophy. I completely agree.
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the desire for public parks.
Strange to think about a time when an amenity like parks was not widespread in America. They have become so engrained into my mind as a fundamental part of a metropolitan space and yet they are a relatively new addition. I wonder what the next generations version of this will be?
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Olmsted was especially excited to discover that Birkenhead’s beauty was shared “about equally by all classes”
The magic of a good park. Universal utilization by people from all walks of life. Good public spaces are essential to this concept.
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Every square inch of land on Earth has been altered by our presence.
In relation to human contribution to climate change?
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century and a half ago, city dwellers in search of fresh air and rural pastures visited graveyards. It was a bad arrangement. The processions of tombstones interfered with athletic activity, the gloom with carefree frolicking. Nor did mourners relish having to contend with the crowds of pleasure-seekers.
Interesting motive for the creation of public parks. Wonder how many other public services were created through a similar process?
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www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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Happily, there is a plenty of middle ground between climate apocalypse and climate denial.
This seems like the authors main philosophy.
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saying the world would end in 12 years
Understandable that author would take issue with such a dramatically phrased statement. Definitely intended to rally the public towards climate activism however.
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How would they die?
Food system collapse? Increasingly unlivable areas?
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I also care about getting the facts and science right and have in recent months corrected inaccurate and apocalyptic news media coverage of fires in the Amazon and fires in California, both of which have been improperly presented as resulting primarily from climate change.
Interesting perspective. Seems like this author presents himself as a "rational centrist". He cares about climate change but seems irked by hardcore alarmism.
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Apocalyptic statements like these have real-world impacts. In September, a group of British psychologists said children are increasingly suffering from anxiety from the frightening discourse around climate change.
Is this inherently a bad thing? I wonder why reality must be sugarcoated to such an extreme that it creates ignorance in children? Understandably they will be more stressed about real world issues but also will be more knowledgable and activist driven.
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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These scientists have no shame or respect.
People dislike those who tell them what they don't want to hear.
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People tell me cows were once bred domestically. Can you imagine? This was supposedly stopped because they caused significant environmental damage due to methane and deforestation, but we all know it was orchestrated by the synthetic meat companies.
Is this written as some sort of science fiction rant piece? Referring to cattle farming as a thing of the past definitely makes it seem like it.
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Or, as is far more likely, is it a price-fixing conspiracy by the global bakery mega-corporation?
One of the more humorous lines. I think the satire really comes through in this.
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They’re not even trying to be convincing any more.
The ambiguous "They". A dangerous word that generally doesn't seem to actually refer to anyone specifically and more vaguely group together a whole bunch of unrelated people as being members of a conspiracy
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but if that was happening we’d have seen it by now!
The core of the climate denial argument. The author is definitely trying to write this as authentically as possible from the perspective of a climate change denier. It is interesting that sometimes human beings have a hard time caring about or even accepting societal issues if they are not directly in front of them.
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Climate change is a myth. We all know this, deep down. Some of you reading this may have been taken in by the fear-mongering governments or corrupt scientists so have been brainwashed into thinking climate change is a real thing that “threatens all of humanity” or some other nonsense, but it’s just that: nonsense. When you look closely at it, the so-called evidence for climate change, or “global warming” or “warmageddon” or “planetary death spiral” or whatever they’re calling it these days, it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
I assume that because this piece is in The Guardian this is meant to be some kind of satire. It seems to be mocking the ridiculousness of climate denial by presenting it firsthand in a stupid light.
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