The Mule Skinner Blog: '...Under (from) the fissures, After the pressures' ; Or, 'I am tired...'

Flowers

"All the names I know from nurse:
Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,
Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,
And the Lady Hollyhock.

Fairy places, Fairy things,
Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,
Tiny trees for tiny dames.
- These must all be Fairy names !"

(from Child's Garden of Verses
by R.L. Stevenson)

"Anyone can write a short-story.
A bad one, I mean."
(R.L. Stevenson)
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"Science without conscience is the Soul's perdition."
- Francois Rabelais, Pantagruel

- Acc to/above is citated from: Medical Apartheid. The dark history of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, by Harriet A. Washington (Doubleday ; 2006 ; p. 1.)

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"In the high society of the first half of the century, marriage, despite it's bestowal status upon the wife, was the most absurdity. Marriage, conferring instanteous rank or money, ... lost most of its prestige and moment right after the wedding. ...By the end of the century, spurred by Rousseau's moralistic Nouvelle Hèloíse, a contrary cult, that of virtue, arose. After 1770 conjugal and maternal love became not merely admissible, but, for some, moral imperatives. ...

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...Rousseau, who sought for himself the crown of morality in ostensibly defending marriage, presents in his Nouvelle Hèloíse the most enticing and extended defense of illicit love ever penned. The root of the problem is that as the century progressed sensibility became confused with morality: passionate feeling, if expressed in a highly civilized mode with grace and nuance, makes us forgive the Rousseau of The Confessions, for example, his pettiness, his jealousies, his betrayals. This moral-amoral byplay, present already in the novels of Richardson, was to be more intense as the century unfolded."
- Madelyn Gutwirth : Madame De Staèl, Novelist. The emergence of the Artist as Woman (10,15.)

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"...As the social contract seems tame in comparison with war, so fucking and sucking come to seem merely nice, and therefore unexciting. ... To be 'nice', as to be civilized, means being alienated from this savage experience - which is entirely staged. [...] The rituals of domination and enslavement being more and more practiced, the art that is more and more devoted to rendering their themes, are perhaps only a logical extension of an affluent society's tendency to turn every part of people's lives into a taste, a choice; to invite them to regard their very lives as a (life) style." - Susan Sontag , on 'Fascinating Fascism' (-74; p 103;104-5 at Under the sign of Saturn)
; "Anyone who cannot give an account to oneself of the past three thousand years remains in darkness, without experience, living from day to day." (Goethe) - as cited by Sontag (on same compile; p. 137.)

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"It is widely accepted that we are now living in the 'Anthropocene', a new geological epoch in which the Earth's ecosystems and climate are being fundamentally altered by the activities of humans. I loathe the term, but I can't deny that it's appropriate."
; (Goulson), Silent Earth : Averting the Insect Apocalypse (2021; p 47.)
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"It is sometimes said that humanity is at war with nature, but the word 'war' implies a two-way conflict. Our chemical onslaught on nature is more akin to genocide. It is small wonder that our wildlife is in decline."
; (Goulson, 2021 ; 118.)
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"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." (Voltaire)

- Citated from; (Joy, Melanie), Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows : An Introduction to Carnism(2010; p. 95.)
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"In the presence of the monster, you have eyes and ears for nothing else."
; (Flora Tristan) : London Journal of Flora Tristan: the Aristocracy and the Working Class of England ; 1842-edit. (tr: 1982. ; p. 71.)

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"Every minority invokes justice, and justice is liberty.
A party can be judged of only by the doctrine which
it professes when it is the strongest."
Mdme de Staêl
(on) 'Consideration sur le Révolution de la Francaise' [1818]

Mule Skinner Citations

”I see you´ve misunderstood me,” said the supervisor who was already at the door. ”It´s true that you´re under arrest, but that shoudn´t stop you from carrying out your job. And there shouldn´t be anything to stop you carrying on with your usual life.”
Kafka: Der Prozess

" Love is a severe critic. Hate can pardon more than love. They who aspire to love worthily, subject themselves to an ordeal more rigid than any other.
... Love must be as much a light as a flame.
[...]
Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination.
...Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer love. ..."
- (Thoreau) : Love [1852]

"Clearly, taking up office in this indigenous democracy required personality traits very different to those we take for granted in modern electoral politics. On this latter point, it is worth recalling that ancient Greek writers were well aware of the tendency for elections to throw up charismatic leaders with tyrannical pretensions. This is why they considered elections an aristocratic mode of political appointment, quite at odd with democratic principles; and why for much of European history the truly democractic way of filling offices was assumed to be by lottery." ; Graeber and Wengrow, 2021: The Dawn of Everything. A New History of Humanity ; p. 356.) [...I can't avoid for recalling, at this place, (that) Thoreau's opinion on elections - cited smwhr below at this - amusingly does resemble the same.]

"...But as we have seen, indigenous North American ideas... - certainly had the impact on European Enlightenment, ... No doubt it would be too much to suggest that the Enlightenment itself had its first stirrings in seventeenth-century North America. But it's possible, perhaps, to imagine some future non-Eurocentric history where such a suggestion would not be treated as almost by definition outrageous and absurd." ; "...we are generally taught to think of the French political philosopher Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu as the first to build an explicit and systematic body of theory based on the principle of institutional reform with his book The Spirit of the Laws (1748). By doing so, it's widely believed, he effectively created modern politics. The Founding Fathers of the United States, ...attempted to create a constitution that would preserve the spirit of individual liberty, and spoke of the results as a 'government of laws and not of men'. As it turns out, precisely this sort of thinking was commonplace in North America well before European settlers appeared on the scene. ... The connections may well run deeper than we think." (Graeber and Wengrow) ; p. 437; 480-1.

"Gradually, the observer realises that these organisms are connected to each other, not linearly, but in a net-like, entangled fabric." ; [Alexander von Humboldt] - ...citation is via: Sheldrake's (2020): Entangled Life: How fungi make our Worlds, change our Minds and shape our Futures (; p. 165.)

"It is remarkable to sense the presence of those long passed at the locations where their adventures took place. Spirits range without boundaries of any sort, and spirits can be called back in any number of ways. The method used in the calling also determines how the spirit manifests itself. I think a spirit may or may not choose to remain at the site of its passing or death. I think they might be in a number of places at the same time. Storytelling can procure fleeting moments to experience who they were and how life felt long ago. What I enjoyed most as a child was standing at the site of the incident recounted in one of the ancient stories that old Aunt Susie had told us as girls. ... Because the storytellers did not just tell the stories, they would in their way act them out. The storyteller would imitate voices for vast dialogues between the various figures in the story. So we sometimes say the moment is alive again within us, within our imaginations and our memory, as we listen. ... The myth, the web of memories and ideas that create an identity, is a part of oneself. This sense of identity was intimately linked with the surrounding terrain, to the landscape that has often played a significant role in a story or in the outcome of a conflict." , "...And the description of what that landscape looked like before the uranium mining began will always carry a considerable impact." ; (Silko), 'Interior and Exterior Landscapes: The Pueblo Migration Stories' ; Orig. publ. at 1986. - Cite is via collected essays, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit (1996; p. 42-3, 44.)

"An interesting aspect of these declines is that most of us have not noticed. The evidence suggests that insects, and also mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians, are all now much less abundant than they were a few decades ago, but because the change is slow it is difficult to perceive. Among scientists it is now recognized that we suffer from 'shifting-baseline' syndrome, the phenomenom whereby we accept the world we grow up as in normal, although it might be quite different from the world our parents grew up in. ..." ; (Dave Goulson) - Silent Earth (2021; p. 68.)

"...In an age of lies and illusion, the garden is one way to ground yourself in the realm of the processes of growth and the passage of time, the rules of physics, meteorology, hydrology and biology, and the realms of the senses"

; "...['In 2017,'] Georg Feulner theoretized that the cold itself slowed or stopped the cycle of vegetation growth that was drawing down carbon from the air and freezing the earth. He ended by noting that we are reversing that process. Think of the Carboniferous as a sixty-million-year inhale by plants, sucking carbon dioxide from the sky, and the last two hundred years as a monstrous human-engineered exhale, undoing what the plants did so long ago. You could imagine coal miners shoveling the carbon out of the bowels of the earth directly into the upper atmosphere, but that would not be fair to them,... Miners supply it. Others burn it - and the oil and gas that are likewise the product of ancient plants, likewise sequestered carbon, likewise catastrophically changing the carbon dioxide levels of the earth. ... Perhaps if we were not burning so rapidly, in the span of a few hundred years, the result... ,it would not be so devastating, but we have outpaced the capacity of plants to recapture the carbon."

; "... It has been a war against the earth and atmosphere. But looking back at 1936, what is most striking is how long ago it was in ecological terms. ...
There had, of course, been many kinds of damage: the Tasmanian emu, the African bluebuck, the North Atlantic great auk, the mysterious starling of the South Pacific, and numerous other species in numerous other places had become extinct. The earth was far from pristine. Much of western Europe had been deforested long ago and many of its species hunted out; the Near East overgrazed before that; mining had already broken the landscape and polluted the air and water around the world. In the nineteenth century, the North American prairie had been chopped up into real estate and bisected by wood-burning and then coal-burning railroads for which wars against the Native tribes of the plains had been fought in part decimating the great bison herbs there; the Great Plains had become the Dust Bowl earlier in the 1930s, as agriculture created massive soil erosion and wind picked it up. Engels describes the black rivers of the industrial north, and unregulated pollution of air and water, with few exceptions, was the norm in the postwar era. Even so, it was far more intact and sustainable than the world we inhabit today. It looks like Eden from 2021." - (Rebecca) Solnit : Orwell's Roses (2021.; p.44,60,70-1.)
(...To all 'Orwellist readers', warmly appreciated. - In a very 'proper way' text mostly 'avoiding' overusing the italics and'paraphrasing'. ; Both smght, I now noticing all too much used here, :)

"In 2015, English Heritage, the governmental entity preserving and presenting Britain's historic landscape, published the anthology Slavery and the British Country House, whose introduction notes, 'It is only in the last 20 years that the relationship between landed wealth, British properties and enslaved African labour began to emerge.' ... One of its authors notes, 'Across Britain as a whole, the slave compensation data suggests that in the 1830s 5 to 10 percent of all British country houses would be expected to have been occupied by slave owners and that in some localities and even some regions the figure would be much higher.' ... "
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" Orwell's father, ...was born in 1857, christened Richard Walmesley Blair, and raised mostly in Dorset in southern England. Richard Blair also... ...worked in opium production in India until his retirement in 1912, mostly as a subdeputy opium agent for the British government. Orwell was born in the small farming town of Motihari in the state of Bihar at the center of the north Indian opium industry. Not much is known about how his family lived during the time he, his mother, and his older sister resided with his father. A photograph of him as a disgruntled-looking but plump baby being held up by a dark-skinned woman swathed in white is a reminder that colonial posts were appealing to Britons of modest means partly because they offered a chance to lead a more luxurious, elite life, complete with cheap and abundant servants, than did the mother country. Richard Blair oversaw the farming of poppies and production of the drug in a process that impoverished, coerced and sometimes brutally punished the Indian peasant doing the growing and refining. ... 'Englands national flower is the Tudor rose. But the prickly is that the English owe much of their wealth to another blood-red flower; the poppy', a contemporary writer [Garry Littman] notes. ... " ; (Solnit) - p.163, 167.
; 'Supposin that source [on above, Littman] discussin' also the EITC on whose emergence I sometimes read some bits. ; ...Matter fact, priorly never felt any needs for reads on Orwell's backgrounds. - But of course, that gives furthermore some ideas WHY (was) his not a little mystified public image, so soon emerged in during the 1970s, -80s. (...bit similarly or w. resemblance by intent to it's popularisation, than were the UFO's's and a Roswell-myth, at 1950s.)

"The fungicide chlororathalonil has been in use since 1964, and is one of the most widely used pesticides in the world. Until 2018 it was the single most-used pesticide in the UK, and it is very commonly found in honey samples. Its harmful effects on bees were not picked up during its initial registration, and seem to have escaped notice for more than fifty years. In 2019 this chemical was banned by the EU, primarily, over concerns that it was contaminating groundwater - and hence getting into rivers and drinking water - rather than anything to do with bees. As with neonicotinoids, the rest of the world continues to use it without restriction. One has to wonder how many other chemicals of the hundreds that are currently in use will eventually turn out to be harmful to something, be it bees, humans or great crested newts. ... How can we have any faith in a system that has misled us so many times in the past ?" ; (Goulson; 113.)

; A 'Vision' [, World in the 2080's] : "In the same year, a group of German entomologists, ...published a data showing that insects on German nature reserves had declined in biomass (weight of insects) caught in traps by 76 per cent over a twenty-six year period to 2016. The authors of this study warned that, if insects were to continue to decline then ecosystems would begin to unravel, for insects perform a myriad of important roles. ... Why did we fail to act? ... ...most scientists warned against it [but], some tried to fix our ailing climate with geoengineering, by clouding the atmosphere with chemicals intended to reflect the sunlight and seed cloud formation. It turned out that the climate was far too complex to control in this way...making the weather even more unpredictable. ...My father told me that, back in the '20s, scientists even tried to replace the disappearing bees with little flying robots to pollinate crops, but they were expensive and clumsy compared to the real thing, and eventually abandoned. They also tried to genetically engineer honeybees to make them resistant to pesticides, but an unanticipated side-effect was that these 'super bees' proved to be less resistant to disease: they did not last long. [...] The natural enemies of the insect pests, predatory insects such as ladybirds, hoverflies, lacewings and carabid beetles, had long since been exterminated in the farmed landscape. ... [...] Countries put their own interests before those of humankind or those of our shared planet. ...Some said that we had moved into a post-truth world, whatever that meant; the word became so popular that in 2016 the Oxford English Dictionary made it 'word of the year'. ... [...]

...There are no pesticides and chemical fertilizers any more, no factories belching out fumes. This year I was able to show my grand-daughter her first peacock-butterfly - it had been several years since I had seen any butterfly. The tigers, rhinos, pandas, gorillas and elephants are all long gone, now nothing more than mythical beasts, storybook creatures that she will never see, but perhaps, in time, she will live to see the bees return ?" - Goulson: Silent Earth ( 2021; p.217, 218-9, 220, 222, 225.)

"...approach to rejigging the subsidy system [...currently, in uses at agricultures,] that should be considered by governments everywhere should be to introduce pesticide and fertilizer taxes. Both pesticides and fertilizers pollute and damage the environment, and it seems reasonable that the farmer using them should pay for this. ... Norway and Denmark have introduced pesticide taxes, levied at the point of sale of pesticides to farmers, and these have successfully reduced pesticide use. The Danish system is based on applying higher taxes to the more toxic and persistent chemicals, which seems eminently reasonable." ; "Governments could also consider more taxes on particularly unhealthy foodstuffs, like the existing 'sugar tax' currently levied on soft drinks in the UK. One could reasonable propose extending this to cover any highly processed food of little nutritional value, although that might end up including most of the food on sale in your local supermarket." (Goulson; p. 273, 275)

"Along with aerial mobility comes coexistence with ambient winds. ..."
; Biomechanics of Insect Flight (Dudley; 2002)

"Plastic only came into mass consumer use in the 1950s, but in the Pacific Garbage Patch it is already thought to be more common than plankton." ;
"... Since the China ban [ie, means post 2017-], America's plastic waste has become a global hot potato, ping-ponging from country to country.", ; from the Guardian-article , 'Where does your plastic go ? Global investigation... ' [viewed: 08.10.21]

“...As the preceding MIS 6 [MIS = Marine Isotope Stages] glacial ended, temperatures rose rapidly, peaking around 123 ka as the sub-stage MIS 5e, known as the Eemian [Italics added.]. This remains – so far - the warmest period hominins experienced across Eurasia. It lasted roughly 10,000 years, short on geological scales but equivalent to some 500 generations.
So what was this balmy world like ? At least early on,...Earth's position to sun was slightly different... average temperatures 2 to 4 C higher, with palpable effects. ...Most dramatically, melting polar caps and glaciers sent sea level rise up some 8m (25ft).

As it got hotter and hotter, beaches crept higher and a kaleidoscope of tree species replaced each other. Pollen records show that birch and pine gave way to oak-rich woodland, speckled by elm, hazel, yew and linden, eventually maturing into dense hornbeam forest. These lasted until the arrival of spruce, fir and pine, heralding the start of the succeeding MIS 5d cooler stadial....”,
“As resolution in palaeo-climate and environmental research has increased, it's been discovered that even the Eemian contained brief but drastic climate change. The warmest temperatures and highest sea levels existed for just 4 millenia between 126 and 122 until gradual cooling began, but this was calm before the storm. What came next is known as the Late Eemian Aridity Pulse (LEAP) [italics added] and was a time of crisis. ... Drastic loss of vegetation led to huge soil erosion and massive dust storms [italics added] tore through the air. Other sources record this immense climate shock. ... : it was so dry, bushfires were igniting.”

; “Visions of Neanderthals struggling through deep snow, breath puffing in frozen air, have been remarkably persistent since their discovery. Yet our ice age blinkers have concealed their innate adaptability [italics added]. Polar desert was never their true home, ...Mostly they...appear to have been most successful in more temperate climes, ...
Even cold-adapted animals such as woolly mammoths were ecologically malleable, originating during the MIS 6 glacial but found later alongside warm-loving straight-tusked forest elephants. It's our own pigeon-holing tendencies that limit Neanderthals to glacial worlds, when the reality is far more diverse. ...” ; (Sykes, Rebecca Wragg) : Kindred. Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art. (2020 ; p. 85-6,89; 95)

"...'Perhaps you imagine that they freed their slaves in the same that in Christian countries freed their serfs, by allowing them to settle on the land ? Oh no! The Jamaican negroes are less wretched than the English factory worker or the Irish peasant because the fruits of their labour are more valuable, but they are not more free ; they have been turned into proletarians on the English model; they are forbidden to own land; they are forced to pay an exorbitant rent for the cabins they live in; they contribute to the upkeep of the roads by forced labour and taxes. White officials punish them for stealing banana in the same way that the English Justices of Peace punish men for stealing a handful of potatoes - with the lash. ... The abolition of arbitrary punishment has unquestionably improved the slave's lot; but this improvement which will bring about an increase in the population, is calculated to serve the interests of the landed proprietors as well.' 'I see that this form of emancipation is one of those acts of apparent generosity which turn out entirely to the advantage of their authors - but do not forget that the government devoted the sum of twenty million pounds to this measure.'
'The Government ministers who advocated this form of emancipation were assured of the support of English commercial interests because the colonial landowners were indebted to London financiers to the tune of two-thirds of the value of their properties and the only way they could afford to free their slaves was if the government paid them compensation. A much more economical - and beneficial - system was suggested whereby the slaves would be freed gradually, and their freedom paid for with the labour of those waiting to be freed; this would also have ensured that the emancipated slaves received moral instruction and a period apprenticeship. But the Government could never have got this system accepted, because only by liberating all the slaves simultaneously and paying compensation could it guarantee that the English creditors would recover their money.'
"So the great act of humanity that the English have boasted about for thirty years was nothing but a carefully calculated financial transaction - and for the thirty years the whole of Europe has been deceived ! The fraudulence of the honourable members of the English Parliament has persuaded us to put our trust in the philanthropy and altruism of a pack of traders ! ... "

; "In France, and any country which prides itself on being civilised, the most honoured of living creatures is woman. In England, it is the horse; in these fortunate islands, the horse is king, and takes precedence not only over woman, but over man as well.
... Here I expect to find myself in opposition to an accepted opinion, but... I must say that I find the English horse supremely unattractive. The horse is indisputably the one of the finest animals in creation, but domesticity has as good as destroyed the beauty of its live, and it is the English more than any other people who are responsible for interfering with its natural grace. Take note, gentlemen I speak as an artist, ... Nobody who sees these English racehorses with their long, thin, narrow bodies, their lean flanks, their disproportionately long legs, their outstretched necks and thrusting heads, sniffing the air like great hunting dogs; nobody who sees their habitual sad, dull, stupid expressions, however rudimentary his instinct for harmony and line, can refrain from saying, 'This is downright ugly animal!' "

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"Fifty years ago the people of France were burning down the cháteaux, and twenty times over the armed might of Europe was powerless to prevent the triumph of their cause. Oh, lords! Repent, fear the vengeance of the people, appease their wrath, and be mindful of the saying, as old as the world; 'Vox populi, Vox Dei!'
; - Flora Tristan: The London Journal.The aristocracy and the Working Class of England [1842] - from 1982-transl (Hawkes), p. 160, 161.; 178, 183.; 304.
; ...I should suppose that opinions/view Tristan brought aforth in an above quoted 'discussion' (on slavery's ending, the 'mercyful' traders...), were rather well known amongst keen observers and followers by the time, 1840s. As well, noticeably she puts in that 'conversation' - 'w. the friend', on whom she offers no other specifications - also how the English commercial 'ventures'/trade were already directing the foreign (colonial) production 'shifted' on to it's Indian possessions. And, how consequently then, the West Indian manufacture already was at it's decline. (In expl.; Tristan also cites quite lenghty at her notes, the 'Marshal Pillet' - by 1815-writing 'bout [how, 'Europe'], "...will, a few years hence, be able to obtain all the sugar and coffee she needs at prices much lower than any the West Indies can offer." [as] "In India they cost little more to produce than do most common garden vegetables, because the cost of labour is nothing, ...even less compared with the costs in the West Indies,..." etc.)
; As well, she (fx, also) cites Pillet's remarks that the loss from England's American colonies having influenced the described.

...While not going very far in it's (by then) precedent histories, the 'discussion' of course, still bears some interest. ; Cons for, fx, how those World trade 'mechanisms', originated at the colonial era. And how, by today are known to still play a part, ao, in the increase from present ecologic havoc. And also of historically, even while (that) lacks some for the specifics to it's pre-1800ian colonial 'background'. ..but already well lots on here, at this place.

"The scramble for Africa, and the most active period of colonization, lasted less than a century. These events, which involved the greater part of the African continent, occurred between the late nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. Although in African history the colonial experience represents but a brief moment from the perspective of today, this moment is still charged and controversial, ... One might think that this new historical form has meant, from its origins, the negation of two contradictory myths; namely, the 'Hobbesian picture of a pre-European Africa, in which there was no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continued fear, and danger of violent death' ; and 'the Rousseauian picture of an African golden age of perfect liberty, equality and fraternity' (Hodgkin, 1957; 174-5.)
Although generalizations are of course dangerous, colonialism and colonization basically mean organization, arrangement. ..." ;
"... The outcome of these policies was the process of underdevelopment initiated everywhere colonialism occurred. First, the capitalist world system is such that parts of the system always develop at the expence of the other parts, either by trade or by the transfer of surpluses. Second, the underdevelopment of dependencies is not only an absence of development, but also and organizational structure created under colonialism by bringing non-Western territory into the capitalist world. Third, despite their economic potential, dependencies lack the structural capacity for autonomy and sustained growth, since their economic fate is largely determined by the developed countries. ...." (Mudimbe) ; The Invention of Africa Gnosis, philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge. ('African systems of thought' - Brit. Lib. Catlog. Publication Data.), (1988; p. 1, 3.)

"As the consequence of what he had seen and analysed early in his expedition, Humboldt was able to argue, in his Geography of Plants, that cutting down forests causes climate change. His delineation of the consequences of deforestation... and the damage caused by Europe's exploitation of its tropical colonies... can be considered important early steps in the field of environmental science."
; (Rebok; 2014) - Humboldt and Jefferson.
A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment

"The belief in life after death and the desire for earthly happiness are not irreconcilable, but they pull in opposite directions." (Orwell) ; (on) 'The Christian Reformers' (1946)

"In summary, therefore, taking into account all of the above, the situation seems to be that the Denisovan signal remains at a constant and fairly low level throughout present-day indigenous populations so far sequenced in both North and South America. The Australasian signal, by contrast, is definitely and notably much stronger among populations in the Amazon, such as the Surui, and much weaker among other Native Americans such as ... While never reaching the high levels found among Amazonian populations, the signal among Aleutian Islanders and Athabascans is relatively stronger than in other Native North American groups and relatively stronger in Aleutian Islanders than it is in Athabascans - ..."
; "...the most peculiar character of the signal, so clearly present in South America yet 'somehow leaping over all North America in a single bound.'
For the purposes of my own quest, however, that anomalous, unexplained signal had the effect of opening up a new and fruitful avenue of inquiry. With the archetypically North American Clovis culture now known to have South American genetic roots, it was becoming increasingly obvious that to explore the mysteries of one half of the megacontinent I could not be oblivious to what had happened in the other half."
; "... Our entire understanding of this vast region is being transformed by new discoveries and, indeed, as we've seen, the notion of complex societies in the pre-Columbian Amazon is no longer anathema to archaeologists, some of whom now even dare to describe these societies as 'civilizations.'" (Hancock; 2019) : America Before : The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization (; p. 128 ; 133 ; 212.)

; "In summary, therefore, just 3 years of research between 2009 and 2012 witnessed a profound change in archaeological understanding of the geoglyphs of the southwestern Amazon. Previously they'd been thought to be just 750 years old; now, without any real attention being drawn to implications, they'd become 2,000 years old. To put this in context, an error and subsequent correction on a similar scale would certainly attract a great deal of attention if it concerned Western architecture - indeed it would be like discovering that the great gothic cathedrals of Europe such as Chartres and York Minster were not, in fact, works of the late medieval period but had actually been built by the Romans. What are we to conclude concerning mistakes of such magnitude, and ... similarly at Serpent Mound in Ohio, where in 2018 a date of around AD 1000 was still being touted in official notices despite firm C-14 evidence, on the public record since 2014, that the structure is more than 1,000 years older than that? ... In particular, I am not persuaded by the new consensus that the geoglyphs of the southwestern Amazon are 2,000 years old. Other C-14 dates mentioned in the 2012 report already hint at a more complicated picture." ; (Hancock; p. 194.)

"In the traditions of 'Western' science and politics - the tradition of racist, male-dominant capitalism; the tradition of progress; the tradition of the appropriation of nature as resource for the productions of culture; the tradition of the reproduction of the self from the reflections of the other - the relation between organism and machine has been a border war. ... ", "...The cyborg skips the step of original unity, of identification with nature in the Western sense. This is it's illegitimate promise that might lead to subversion of its teleology as star wars. ...Nature and culture are reworked; the one can no longer be the resource for appropriation or incorporation by the other. ... The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust. ...The cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. ...The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offpsring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins. Their fathers, after all, are inessential." ; (Haraway, Donna) : 'A cyborg manifesto', on Simians, Cyborgs, and Women The Reinvention of Nature (1991 ; p. 150, 151.) ; (an earlier version of the text is said originate for y.1983.)

"Meat and dairy products from industrial farms have especially large water footprints due to the water-intensive feed required to raise the animals. The amount of water used in producing a kilo of beef would keep a person in daily baths for three months. A kilo of chicken takes twenty-four bathtubs of water.
Feeding animals on grass can hugely reduce the toll on rivers and underground water surfaces. Rearing them on factory farms where they are fed grain is over fifty times more water-intensive. ..."
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"...The Turner's make much of their credentials for feeding their cattle only grass, so I ... asked if they ever fed cows concentrates like corn, soya or other grains.
'Never,' they said in unison.
'Not a single grain?'
'Never,' they insisted. 'Its not a natural diet for the animal and they're not particularly efficient at converting it to meat. It can cause stress and pressure on the animal, taking them beyond their natural capacity to cope, which has impact on their welfare. The quality of the meat and milk too is far better when they're not on concentrates.'
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They decided to set up their own 'Pasture for Life' label to distinguish...from...much looser understanding for terms such as grass-fed: ... Fed primarily on grass from the field is a step in the right direction, of course, but not the same as solely on grass. Studies have shown that even small amounts of grain fed to an animal at the end of her life can have a big negative impact on the quality of the eventual food."
(Lymbery, Philip) : Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were (2017); of chpts 14; 15 ('Homo Sapiens'; 'Living Landscapes' - in the first 'section' from, italics was added by us.)

" ('They Die Piece by Piece') ; In 2001, the Washington Post printed an article... how, though cattle were supposed to be dead before reaching the cutting room, this was often not the reality. ... slaughterhouse worker who'd spent twenty years as a 'second legger' - cutting hocks of carcasses sped past at the rate of 309 per hour - described the process to Warrick: 'They blink. They make noises, he said softly. 'The head moves, the eyes are wide and looking around.' ... On bad days, he says, dozens of animals reached the station clearly alive and conscious. Some would survive as far as the tail cutter, the belly ripper, the hide puller. 'They die,' said Moreno, 'piece by piece.' "
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"(Wittnessing the Zeitgeist) Despite the extensive reach of carnivism, there is reason to believe that the system will destabilize, and the timing is ripe to push for transformation. There are several reasons that challenging carnism is timely: increased awareness of the environmental crisis, a growing concern with animal welfare, the increasing credibility and popularity of vegetarinism, and the unequaled availability of information on both carnism and vegetarinism. Widescale meat production is a leading cause of environmental destruction. Methane gasses emitted from thousands of pounds of manure deplete the ozone layer. Toxic runoff from tons of chemicals used on the animals - synthetic hormones, antibiotics, pesticides and fungicides - pollute the air and waterways. Thousands of acres of woodlands are clear-cut to allow for the planting of food crops, leading to topsoil erosion and deforestation. More fresh water is usurped from reservoir than can be replenished. And chemical fertilizers seep into rivers and streams, enabling the proliferation of microorganisms that destroy aquatic life. Leading scientists agree that the system of mass meat production cannot continue without causing a breakdown of the ecosystem. ...",
[...]
" A final reason that the timing is ripe to challenge carnism is that the primary defense of the system, invisibility, has been weakening. It is becoming increasingly difficult for carnistic industries to hide their secrets from the public; the animal agribusinesses that depend on controlling information to sustain the myths of meat are now challenged by a ubiquituous, unregulated information source: the internet. Carnism is like the Wizard of Oz: once the curtain is pulled back from the system, its power virtually disappears." ; (Joy; 2010) - Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows : An Introduction to Carnism (; p. 52-53; 144-6.)

"...In a truly symbolic gesture that television cameras often capture during the inauguration of a new president, the aide carrying a football visibly shifts his gaze from the departing president to the new one at the moment of his swearing in. That shift signifies not only that the new president has acquired the full authority of his office but also that the existence of a civilian commander in chief of the nuclear forces of the United States - with, supposedly, exclusive control of these almost godlike powers of destruction - must not be and has not been interrupted for a single moment.

Now I was hearing this impression and all the official statements that led to it were false. ... "
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"It seemed obvious once I thought about it. The public's impression of exclusively presidential or even high-level military control, which I'd shared up until that moment, could not be valid. That applied all the more to the notion that only the president himself could 'push the button.' Could a single assassin's bullet, or temporary separation of the 'football'... (as has for several times, including, ...the shooting of President Reagan) open a window of total inability to respond to a nuclear attack?
Not really. The theoretical device... with its supposedly unique authorization codes, has always been exactly that theater - essentially a hoax. Whatever the public declarations to the contrary, there has to be delegation of authority and capability to launch retaliatory strikes, not only to officials outside the Oval Office but outside Washington too, or there would be no real basis for nuclear deterrence."
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"I thought I was discovering a parochial bias in the Pacific Command that should be brought to the attention of planners and decision makers at the national level. I was wrong. It was very next year that I learned, in the Pentagon, that President Eisenhower and the Joint Chiefs of Staff shared the admiral's views entirely. ...
[...]
Out of a list of tens of thousands of targets throughout the Sino-Soviet bloc that intelligence had identified as important, the Pentagon ordered lower levels to make plans to hit around a thousand of the most valuable of these in the case of general war with the Communistic bloc. ...
... - the planners were doing extermely intricate calculations, mostly by hand, to devise routes into the target timed so that the planes wouldn't be blown out of the air by nearby explosions. (In this era, nuclear warheads were to be delivered primarily by planes. When, decades later, delivery systems mostly switched over to missiles, planners discovered the same problem: the blast from one missile would knock other missiles of course or destroy them.) They were dealing with thousands of targets with multiple weapons on most of them, so they had plans for the planes to weave through a virtual minefield of detonations, timing it perfectly to miss an explosion on this side of the plane, and then one on the other, on and on.
[...]
How did the planners deal with the fact that you wouldn't even know which way the wind would be blowing on the various paths to the targets at the actual time of the Execute order? ...

I pointed these two problems to a planner once. 'Yes. I've thought of these problems before,' he said.
'Well, doesn't that make you question the value of making all these calculations and plans?'
'These men are risking their lives flying out there. We've got to do what we can to save their lives.'
'But it doesn't seem that this plan has any chance to save any lives at all. It would save lives only if the execution followed the plan down to the second, and there's not even the remotest possibility of that happening.'
'Well, we're ordered to make these calculations, so that's what we'll do.' " [... ; For a side-mention: acc the graph Ellsmere provides on his book's Introduction, the number total deaths from direct after or within six Months, in the imagined nuclear war against Soviet Union and China, solely in those countries, was at that time estimated to raise, ca, from 275 to 325 Million victims. ; p. 2-3.]
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"...Few people had access to more than a couple of levels of nuclear planning , and those who did didn't take the time to review far lower level plans or to observe actual implementation provisions in the field. They left these tasks to lower-level commanders (who generally didn't have access to the higher-level plans.)
But... As I came to see the highest-level planning in the Pentagon - not available at PACOM [ie; 'Pacific Command'] and not supposed to be seen by civilian offials - the president and CINCSAC ['Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command'] were no more inclined than the Pacific Command to contemplate a war with Russia alone that spared the Chinese."
"(Ellsberg) : The Doomsday Machine. Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (2017; p. 68,69 ; 85-6, 87, 89 - the italics, by Ellsberg.)

"In 1961 there were about seventeen hundred SAC [Strategic Air Command] bombers, including over six hundred B-52s and a thousand B-47s. In the bomb bays of the SAC planes were thousands thermonuclear bombs much larger than those I had seen in Okinawa. Many were from five to twenty-five megatons in yield. Each twenty-five-megaton bomb - with 1,250 times the yield of the fission bomb that destroyed Nagasaki - was the equivalent of twenty-five million tons of TNT, or over twelve times the total bomb tonnage we dropped in World War II. Within the arsenal there were some five hundred bombs with an explosive power of twenty-five megatons. Each of these warheads had more firepower than all the bombs and shells exploded in all the wars of human history.
[...]
...There were at least one warhead allocated for every city of 25,000 people or more in the Soviet Union. ...
In 1960-61 it was in reality quite possible - though USAF and CIA 'missile gap' estimates implied otherwise - that not a single nuclear warhead would land on U.S. territory after such an American first strike. Worldwide fallout from our own strikes would certainly kill Americans, but over so long a time, with radioactivity decaying in the atmosphere on the way over and deaths from cancer long-delayed, that the increase in mortality in any one year might not be statistically perceptible. But our Western European allies in NATO would be quickly annihilated twice over: first from the mobile Soviet medium-range missiles and tactical bombers targeted on them, which our first strike couldn't find and destroy reliably, and second from the close-in fallout from our own nuclear strikes on Soviet bloc territory." ; (Ellsberg 2017: p. 98, 99. The italics - again, Ellsberg's.)
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"The radars of the Arctic Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) had more than once, I soon learned, been fooled by a flock of high-flying geese into warning that Soviet bomber planes were coming toward us over the North Pole. In the pre-ICBM era that still allowed hours in which to discover the error, and meanwhile to get our planes on alert off the ground. But just a year after I joined RAND, the higher-tech radar and computer system Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), designed to detect incoming ICBMs, in its first week of operation reported that a missile attack was under way. That called for decisions in under fifteen minutes." (; p. 43.)
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"The body of U.N.Resolution 36/100 declares: 'States and statesmen that resort first to nuclear weapons will be committed the gravest crime against humanity. There will never be any justification or pardon for statesmen who take the decision to be first to use nuclear weapons.' Eighty-two nations voted in favor of this declaration. Forty-one, under heavy pressure from the United States, abstained; nineteen opposed it, including the United States, Israel and most NATO member nations." (; 325)

- ..It being, very difficult, to think of a more important book than Ellsberg's ('The Doomsday Machine') - From the view of the needs for complete (or even from 'partial') nuclear disarmament, of globally, from to finally take place. Most from the tellings are actually so urgent that one does not suspect the book wouldn't been read, widely and w. keen learnings from. ; And (these) few selections (on here, above/following), only offer some 'tips from the iceberg', all in all. - Indeed, no other question at the 'humanity's 'failings' would've to represent itself as so urgent for being solved. Or even for to be 'of minimized'. (Even as an expression, that too, plainly does sound from...horrifying.) ; Indeed - such as Snowden does write on books back cover, this history: '...reaches deep into the safe to reveal the United States government's mad plan for "a hundred holocausts. ...is an urgent warning and a call to arms to a public... habituated to the idea that the means of our extinction will forever be on hair-trigger alert." ; Read it through.

"...It should be commonly recognized that no stake whatever, no cause, no principle, no consideration of honor or obligation or prestige or maintaining leadership in current alliances - still less ...can justify maintaining any risk whatever of causing the near extinction of human and other animal life on this planet.

Omnicide - threatened, prepared, or carried out - is flatly illegitimate, unacceptable, as an instrument of national policy; Indeed, it cannot be regarded as anything less than criminal, immoral, evil. In the light of recent scientific findings, of which the publics of the world and even their leaders are still almost entirely unaware, that risk is implicit in the nuclear planning, posture, readiness, and threats of the two superpowers. That is intolerable. It must be changed, and that change can't come too soon.

The steps I have indicatd are only a beginning toward the ultimate delegitimation of nuclear weapons and nuclear threats. ..." (p. 347. ; the Italics - again Ellsberg's)

"Citizenship was explicitly juridically marked for 'whites only' through a litany of governmental actions from Fugitive Slace Act to the Chinese Exclusion Act. Each of these domestic moves signaled a desire to build an American nation in which only whites were citizens and national expansion, protectionism, and indigenous industry were federal priorities. ... Overtly and inferentially racist claims in public culture shaped the nation's understandings of who ought to be protected by intellectual property law and who ought to have access to the American Dream, which in turn shaped copyrights, patents, and trademarks.
[...]
I am less interested in demarcating specific changes in the period from the late 1700s to the mid 1800s with respect to race, citizenship and intellectual property law than I am establishing that despite the considerable racial democratization of creatorship that occurred from the 1830s onward, the 'inner energy,' ... of intellectual property law and political economy remained white and continuously racially exclusionary. ...Copyright discourse treated creativity as a raced endeavor through the continual invocation and bounding of the concept of imagination. Patent discourse treated innovation in the same way through its raced conceptions of human progress. And trademark discourse, which increased rapidly as the nation's industrial economy grew, supported intellectual property law as racial project by protecting racist images as product identifiers."
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"More specifically, the concept of true imagination operated as a vehicle for making raced judgements about the nature of creativity. Even when authors of color won their copyright cases, they were doing so through a doctrinal lens implicated by citizenship that prefigured them as lacking creative capacity. ...
Copyright's protectionist tendencies can be read as moves to police belonging, particularly through xenophobic attachment to whiteness. ...",
"... As Rayvon Fouché and Sharra Vestral argue, '[E]ven into the mid-twentieth century, racial segregationists and women's rights opponents used the paucity of patents by women and people of color as evidence of their inability to think creatively and contribute to the evolving technological nation.' This catch-22 severely and cruelly constrained the manner in which people of color could push for equal rights in the area of intellectual property ...
... Patents are certainly artifacts of technological society. They are also - as Fouché and Vostral, among others - demonstrate artifacts of a racialized society. Brian Frye's recent essay 'Invention of a Slave' notes how decisions to patent or not to patent the inventions of enslaved persons implicated larger conversations about slavery, abolition and territoriality in the nation. For instance, protecting the inventions of enslaved persons could be read as an endorsement of abolition, upsetting the balance between slave states and free states in the young nation." ; (Anjali Vats) : The Color of Creatorship. Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans (2020 ; p. 28-9; 31, 33.)

"From the 1960s on, creatorship evolved into an increasingly important imagined engine for national growth, one that also stoked the fires of economic protectionism, xenophobic nationalism, military adventurism, and neocolonial extraction. Copyright, trademark, and patent law evolved not in the spirit of radical equality espoused by the civil rights movement but from a perpetrator perspective, which protected white property interests in knowledge while disciplining people of color for their creatorship."
; "...With the expansion of GATT and the eventual creation of the WTO, ... A general lack of reflectiveness - or perhaps lack of interest - with respect to intellectual property's effects on systemic racial inequality combined with discourses about Black criminality, obscenity, originality, expertise, citizenship, and national identity in ways that entrenched white supremacist regime of knowledge ownership.
The year 1966 marked an important turn in intellectual property's commitments to racial liberalism. That year, Jack Valenti, former aide to president Lyndon Johnson, became president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Valenti's tenure was notable not only because it brought politics and the film industry together but also because it heralded the beginning of important policy and rhetorical changes in regulating intellectual properties, many of which were deeply racialized and sentimentalized in the service of economic nationalism.
The beginning of Valenti's tenure coincided with a number of evolutions in political economy and intellectual property rights. ...While nationalistic xenophobia persisted, the once protectionist impulses of those protecting intellectual property law evolved into a desire to profit from the export of domestic products, through intellectual property maximalism. ..."
; "...Claims that America had entered an era of colorblindness did not halt the racialization or (neo)colonization of knowledge production."
(Vats) : p. 68; 69-70; 71.

"Finally, the silencing of the Haitian Revolution also fit the relegation to an historical backburner of the three themes to which it was linked: racism,slavery, and colonialism. ..." ; "This corpus has taught generations of readers that the period from 1776 to 1843 should properly be called 'The Age of Revolutions.' ...
In the United States, for example, with the notable exceptions of Henry Adams and W.E.B. Du Bois, few major writers conceded any significance to the Haitian Revolution in their historical writings up to the 1970s. ... Likewise, historians of Poland have paid little attention to the five thousand Poles involved in the Saint-Domingue campaigns. The silence also persists in England in spite of the fact that British lost upward of sixty thousand men in eight years in an anti-French Caribbean campaign... The Haitian Revolution appears obliquely as part of medical history. The victor is disease, not the Haitians. The Penguin Dictionary of Modern History, a mass circulation pocket encyclopedia that covers the period from 1789 to 1945, has neither Saint-Domingue nor Haiti in its entries. Likewise, historian Eric Hobsbawm, one of the best analysts of this era, managed to write a book entitled The Age of Revolutions, 1789-1843, in which the Haitian Revolution scarcely appears. [...]"
; (Trouillot, Michel Rolph); 'An Unthinkable History. The Haitian Revolution as a Non-Event' - on Haitian History. New Perspectives. (2013; p. 46, 47)

"The reality, however, is more complex. For while drones make it easier to kill some bad guys, they also make it easier to go to war.
[...]
So Congress was able to keep allocating money for war, year after year, against the wishes of the majority.
...The public is barely even aware of these conflicts. It's like a low-grade fever that the body politic has learned to live with and basically ignores."
(Medea Benjamin) ; on Drone Warfare. Killing by Remote Control (2013; p. 150-2.)

"...Even the most rudimentary perusal of a handful of contemporary articles and books that mention nineteenth-century Haitian historical writing will reveal uncritical references (without any sense of irony and even tinged with just a hint of self-righteousness) to 'noirist' and 'mulattoist' or 'mulatrist' ideologies, the "mulatto" and "black" versions or 'legends' of history, and pithy references to the biased scholarship of a 'Haitian elite' or 'light-skinned intellectuals.' ...
Is there a reason why we should preface a gloss of Ardouin's works by clarifying that he was a 'mulatto historian,' if we do not also feel it necessary to first note that Jules Michelet was a "white" one? ..." ;
"... The argument that "mulatto" writers associated with Pétion developed the narrative that free people of color were the first authors of the insurrection in Saint-Domingue, for example, is simply not borne out by the evidence. ..., such claims were made as early as the start of the insurrection by nearly all of the French colonists, who, according to Raimond, used this narrative to distract from the real cause of slave rebellions, which was the rampant abuses the slaves had suffered under the colonial yoke. ...", "...The narrative of "mulatto/a" vengeance is a vocabulary, a kind of 'implicit racial grammar' (Stoler, 1995, 12 [ie, this refers/source is: Race and the education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial order of Things]), which underwrites nearly all writing about the Haitian Revolution. ..." ; (Daut, Marlene L.) : Tropics of Haiti. Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865. (2015) ; p. 24-5 ; 27, 29. (Italics at the quoted passages, Daut's.)

"Thinking about the epistemic uncertainty and genocidal imaginings that the life of Louverture evoked in the course of the revolution in Saint-Domingue, per Dubroca, Rigaud, and Edwards, allows Girard to present him in much more cerebral rather than evocative terms of "racial hybridity" as well. Girard writes, 'the inscrutable , towering Louverture was a hard man to befriend; his peculiar position at the juncture of African, Creole, and European influences further isolated him, leaving him a white man in a black man's skin, feared but not loved, alone and lonely' (2011, 25). It is Buscaglia-Salgado, however, who connects interpretations of Louverture's life more directly to the language of "racial hybridity." Buscaglia-Salgado makes the tragedy of Louverture a potent symbol for a vocabulary of "racial mixing":

He owed his authority both to his African father and to this European master ... [...] conciliator and translator, liberator and enforcer, father, brother, and son. Could anyone but the mulatto, in all his subjective disposition to metaphoricity, wear so many disguises? (206-07 [,of a 2003-book.])

The 'mulatto' as a pervasive icon of 'social camouflage' and 'agent provocateur of social instability' (Buscaglia-Salgado, 183, 184), ...suggest across great divide of time, ...examples of the anxiousness of revolutionary discourse about Haiti. ...
...It is precisely because the idea of "monstrous hybridity" was so widespread and nearly ubiquitous in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic discourse that it could so easily be repeated in the transatlantic print culture of the Haitian Revolution as an uncontested and even inconsequential fact rather than as a myth or stereotype. The troping upon a which the entire narrative of "mulatto/a" vengeance depends, like mythology, might be considered a form of what Patrick Brantlinger has called 'depoliticized speech' in the sense that it 'treats its subjects as universally accepted, scientifically established, and therefore no longer open to criticism' (168) [...Daut's listed sources seem lack an entry of a book by B.] In an era in which copyright was practically nonexistent and plagiarism did not constitute nearly the intellectual and even legal crime that it does today, the ideas about "race" that we find in various representations of the Haitian Revolution were reproduced, copied and repackaged over and over again to the extent that they not only became accepted as truths, but have become immune to criticism."

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"...If images of women of color as the very emblems of 'concupiscense' and 'corrupt feminine desire' dominated in the print culture of colonial Saint-Domingue, they are also ever present in the literary history of the Haitian Revolution. There is a distinct connection between the highly sexualized mythology of women of color found in colonial writing from Saint-Domingue and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial European descriptions of these same women as not only degraded and corrupt, but violent and vengeful during the Haitian Revolution.
[...] ...At times in the literary history of the Haitian Revolution, as in much of eighteenth-century naturalist travel writing, all women of color were defined as being capable of inspiring or committing vengeful acts because of their "race." This is because the act of "miscegenation" itself was often viewed as responsible for the internal feelings that would inevitably lead to racialized vengeance.
[...] ...the colonists' obsession with the sexuality of women of color has often served to cover up an anxiety about the possibilities, real or imagined, for these women to transgress colonial authority and contribute to anti-slavery efforts."
; (Daut) - p. 71-2; 200,203, 205. (, Italics - Daut's)

"...What we have begun, I will finish." ; (...Toussaint, on proclamation by 1793. - Acc. to, Hazareesingh, Black Spartacus. The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture., 20...20) ; p. 50.

"... The system vomits men, but in Latin America industry sacrifices labor more than it does in Europe. ...
[...] What the United States set out to achieve for itself, and did achieve, is certainly different. Seven years after their independence, the thirteen colonies had doubled their territory, already extending beyond the Alleghenies to the banks of Mississippi, and four years after that they had forged their unity by creating a common market. Purchase of Louisiana Territory from France in 1803 again doubled the land area; then came Florida and, at mid-century, the invasion and amputation of half of Mexico in the name of 'manifest destiny'. Then the purchase of Alaska and the usurpation of Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. ...
...We are entering times of rebellion and change."
(Eduardo Galeano) ; Open Veins of Latin America. Five Centuries of Pillage of a Continent ('1971/-73'; p. 269, 283)

"...for all the promise of this golden child of climate seemed to have, its course was cut short. Most ages last at least a few million years, but a mere 11,700 years after it began, the Holocene had been declared dead. ...evidence has converged on who killed the Holocene. Culprit: Humans. Date of death: 1950." ;
"Waste is just another word for wealth. ...If we squander this moment of energy wealth, creating heat waste instead of structure, we will all be back in the junkyard soon enough."
(Summer Praetorius) ; 'Dawn of the Heliocene' - Article, at Nautilus (a 'webmag')

"... In 1778 , a law was passed in metropolitan France that required all 'blacks' in the metropole to carry identification card or risk being shipped back to the colonies (Peabody, 1996, 129). The Police des noìrs, as it was known under the ancien régime, was abolished in 1789 after the French Revolution, but was quickly re-established, along with slavery in the colonies, under Napoleon in 1802. (Peabody , 1996, 138). In addition, on May 29, 1802, a new law forbade free people of color from residing in Paris and in June of the same year another law forbade both 'blacks' and 'mulattoes' from even entering the country ...Kadish adds that 'the memory of violence [in Saint Domingue] also produced profound mistrust... abolitionism virtually disappeared in France in the early years of the nineteenth century (Kadish, 1995, 669-70)."
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"..., much of the transatlantic abolitionist movement could be deemed racistic by today's standards, even though it would be hard to question the commitment to anti-slavery of most its activists. ... As Miller has written of a later moment in the nineteenth century, 'To argue against slavery and the slave trade ... was to be a part of a certain, small elite movement, but to go further and militate against all prejudices based on skin color ... was a far lonelier position' (2008, 51). ..."
; Daut (2015) - p. 245-6, 247-8 (italics, Daut's.)

"Chuck said: God is an indian giver, I don´t trust nothing but the Mississippi River"
Bob Walkenhorst

"In his 1829 Appeal, David Walker, for example, assumed that the 'person' to lead the U.S. equivalent of the Haitian Revolution would be male, because in this time period persons were almost always grammatically referenced as men:

Read the history particularly of Hayti, and see how they were butchered by the whites, and do you take warning. The person whom God shall give you, give him your support and let him go his length, and behold in him the salvation of your God. God will indeed, deliver you through him from deplorable and wretched condition under the Christians of America. I charge you this day before my God to lay no obstacle in his way, but let him go. (23)

Furthermore, and with far more dire implications for women, Walker blamed female slaves and, by extension, all women of color for the lack of revolutionary prowess to be found among the slaves in the United States. Walker told the tale of 'servile' 'black' slave woman who gave in to her 'natural fine feelings' when she helped a white slave-driver escape certain death at the hands of escaped slaves (28, italics in original). Walker concludes:

But I declare the actions of this black woman are really insupportable. For my own part, I cannot think it was any thing but servile deceit, combined with the most gross ignorance: for we must remember that humanity, kindness and the fear of the Lord, does not consist in protecting devils. (29)

Peterson says of Walker's rendition of this story that 'in Walkers text it is the black woman who serves as the emblem of black disunity' (1995, 65). ... For the militant Walker, however, woman's position as a member of the 'gentler sex, naturally more moral, more loving, more caring than men' was not the virtue or ideal that it would appear to be throughout the majority of the early black press (Horton, 55); instead, these gendered distinctions were nothing more than a weakness that made 'black' females obstacles to freedom rather than allies. The characterization of this 'servile' 'black woman' whose innate weepy sentimentality is portrayed..., was part of a broad myth concerning women's (in)ability to participate in the necessarily depersonalized violence of the Revolution. Maria Stewart not only understood this, but dared to refute it." ; (Daut; p. 323-4.) -...Quite so, apparently - It feels not very difficult to think Walker of had shared the particularly eighteenth/nineteenth-centurist masculine 'value-system', and that for reflected on his (black) females blaming example given in text, such as described in above quote.
; ...But, for the more 'multisided' view to it, feels it fair also cite from a bit more of text, on this. Fx, cons that (on Walker's 'Appeal', 1829), the first cited remark - ie, one that contains reference for the Hayti, and the pronounced masculine 'identification' for Walker's imagined 'chosen one', the "saviour" to be supported ("The person whom God shall give you,...") - that said 'declaration' also is then followed w. paragraph showin' well-expressive of his provocative anti-slaverist tone, and also of the religious 'emphasizes' at text (Both often arise forth also elsew. on it, during it's times a highly inflammatory 'pamphlet'): "The whites want slaves, and want us for their slaves, but some of them will curse the day they ever saw us. As true as the sun ever shone in its meridian splendor, my colour will root some of them out of very face of the earth. They shall have enough of making slaves and butchering, and murdering us in the manner which they have. No doubt some may say that I write with bad spirit, and that I being a black, wish these things to occur. Whether I write with a bad or a good spirit, I say if these things do not occur in their proper time, ... I should like to see the white repent paradventure God may have mercy on them, some however, have gone so far their cup must be filled." ; In other words...It's quite interesting how, in unity w. 'pure' 19th centurian manner, Walker's shared 'masculine zeal' seems from relative unproblematically to encontain both the emphasizes from the 'true' christian morality - instead of the proslaverist (and also, 'Northern' US) hypocrasies - and then also for urging his 'colored brethren' to a rebellion - ie, to that widely feared insurrection from the U.S. slaves.
; ...The very next paragraph in text then returns for praising Haitian revolution, but - in the same sentence - as well contains: '...I am sorry to say it, plagued with that scourge of nations, the Catholic religion; but I hope and pray God that she may yet rid herself of it, and adopt in its stead the Protestant faith; also, I hope that she may keep peace within her borders and be united, ...' ' ; italics added.

; But, furthermore then remarked, that few paragraphs after (that point) in text follows the 'refutation', or condemning from the current U.S. institutions and a white 'morality' in general, passages underlining that existent hypocrisy of the (white) oppressors, and, also where he somewhat then reproaches his black 'brethens' from their 'tameness'. ...Plus, it then also seems had for referred the Jefferson's at the time, more or less widely read, polygenistic surmises at that Notes on Virginia. ...All of what seems fitted for, somewhat amazingly, in one paragraph, 4-5 pages in lenght. ; In the midst all that (one passage), Walker also returns bit more onto his presented example 'bout the colored woman's "ignorances" (or, for the disaproval from her 'fine feelings', as that seen by Walker); "...The actions of this deceitful and ignorant colored woman, in saving the life of a desperate wretch, whose avarious and cruel object was to drive her, and her companions in miseries, through the country like cattle, to make his fortune on their carcasses, are but too much like that of thousands of our brethren in these states: if any thing is whispered by one, which has any allusion to the melioration of their dreadful condition, they run and tell tyrants, that they may be enabled to keep them the longer in wretches and miseries. Oh! coloured people of these United States, I ask you, in the name of that God who made us, have we, in consequences of our oppression, nearly lost the spirit of man, and, in no very trifling degree, adopted that of brutes? ..."
; ie, Walker also somewhat expands on the meaning he offers by (his) given example, at that particular part the text. ; Thinkin', it not changes the fact that for followed a standard 'gendered distinctions' of the time...a 'typical male'. (But that latter section then also combines together several other main themes on text, in parallel/also 'developed' at his 'Appeal'.) - Quotes from acc. Wilentz's 'David Walkers Appeal' (fp 1965, rev. ed. 1995) ; ...And, now that I got on the 'approximate' manner from commenting on it, might not exceed an 'appetite' if I further cite few lines from Wilentz' 'Introduction', also. Now past the 20 y. later it supposable that of Walker's persona ("mystery), or about his "startling" writing (a'ka Wilentz' termings...), somewhat more may have in the mean time from surfaced - But as I'm not very well aware of the details (I've mostly, only read the pamphlet), the following few selected word having to suffice: "This was once a dangerous pamphlet. ... ' ; '...Only twenty years after Walker published the first edition of his Appeal, the once-marginal slavery question had become the central issue in American politics. A dozen years later, white Americans would go to war against each other - and Walker's prophecy would be fulfilled." (; vii, xxi)

"It is well known that Eric Williams argued that slavery created modern capitalism before modern capitalism killed slavery. ... While he readily admitted that the slave trade, in aggregate, generated seemingly 'small and insignificant' returns in comparison to Dutch and British East India trades, he argued that the profits from British slave trade played a prominent role in the industrialization of England by concentrating capital in the hands of the specific merchants and providing an African vent for British manufactured goods. More critical to his argument, however, was the contention that the Atlantic slave trade also indirectly stimulated the demand for British exports, in light of the fact that the Africans sold to planters created a New World economy and a New World market for British manufacturers. ...
Williams' provocative coupling of the Atlantic slave economy to Britain's industrialization did not go unchallenged and continues to be debated by economic historians. This literature is massive, but the interpretive framework that divides recent scholarshiop was laid out in the 1960s and 1970s. [....'and', fx, Engerman] ...and other neoclassical economists insist that it is the difference between the alternative economy and the historical reality that shows the true contribution of the Atlantic slave trade to economic growth.
[...] ...Key to Capitalism and Slavery argument is the notion that the entire Atlantic network of colonial trade was built on British slaving. It was not simply the capital generated from the African trade, but the profits from British exports and imports, to and from the American colonies. ...
...identifying manufactured exports as the cause of the effect of industrial growth is something O'Brien and Engerman consider indeterminate. ...
[...]
The neoclassical economists are at best unconvinced by the mercantilist arguments in support of Caribbean trade and are apparently suspicious of the claim that Atlantic trade was responsible for the Britain's economic growth. But during the past three decades there have been other business and economic historians who..."
David Beck Ryden: West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783-1807. (2009 : p 24-5; 26; 27; 28.)

"Place may be the first of all concepts; it may be the oldest of all words."
N. Scott Momaday

"Allowing the entry of alien species of any kind is the ecological equivalent of Russian roulette. How many cylinders spin in the barrel of the extinction gun? And what precentage of the cylinders are loaded? ...
The accommodation of invasives into novel ecosystems is not cheap. By 2005, the economic costs due to invasive species in the United States alone had risen to an estimated $137 billion annually, ..."

; "A dilemma facing each one of the delegates lies in the division of loyalties. Called by the late ecologist Garrett Hardin the tragedy of the commons, it originates when individuals, or organizations or nations, share a limited resource - in this case global clean air and water - because each will obtain as large a share as allowed by the rules or an even larger share by outright cheating.

A textbook example of the tragedy of the commons is the depletion of living resources in the open sea. Within territorial waters the harvesting of fish and other seafood is weakly regulated in many parts of the world, if at all. ...The downward spiral has been hastened by habitat destruction, spread of invasive species, climate warming, acidification, pollution with toxins, and eutrophication from excess nutrient runoff.
... The numbers of larger food and sports species, such as tuna, swordfish, sharks, and larger groundfish ..., have fallen 90 percent since 1950. Cod, ...have declined by over 99 percent."

; "Not everyone claiming to be a conservationist agrees that biodiversity should be protected intact. A small but growing minority believe that humanity has already changed the living world beyond repair. ...
[...] It has been my impression that those most uncaring and prone to be dismissive of the wildlands and the magnificent biodiversity these lands still shelter are quite often the same people who have had the least personal experience with either. I think it relevant to quote... Alexander Humboldt on this... 'The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.' "
Wilson, Edward O.
(from) The Half-Earth. Our Planet's Fight for Life (2016 : p. 37,38 ; 67; 71,79.)

"News for today will be the movies for tomorrow"
Arthur Lee

"... It is often said that the human brain is the most complex system known to us in the universe. That is incorrect. The most complex is the individual natural ecosystem, and the collectivity of ecosystems comprising Earth's species-level biodiversity. Each species of plant, animal, fungus, and microorganism is guided by sophisticated decision devices. Each is intricately programmed in its own way to pass with precision through its respective life cycle." ;

"... History without the wildlands is no history at all."
Wilson (2016, On above,) - p. 206; 211.

"Look, a tiny baby-aeroplane, flyin' high in the sky."
Hunch-Muscle Jones

"... Other notable findings of the Report [IPBES - Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services] include:

...More than a third of the world's land surface and nearly 75 percent of freshwater resources are now devoted to crop or livestock production.
...agricultural crop production has increased by about 300 percent since 1970, raw timber harvest has risen by 45 percent and approximately 60 billion tons of renewable and nonrenewable resources...extracted globally every year... nearly doubled since 1980.
Land degradation has reduced the productivity of 23 percent of the global land surface, ...global crops are at risk of pollinator loss and 100-300 million people are at increased risk of floods and hurricanes...
In 2015, 33 percent of marine stocks were being harvested at unsustainable levels; ...
Urban areas have more than doubled since 1990.
Plastic pollution has increased tenfold since 1980, ...
...[The 'varia' of 'wastes', having from...] produced more than 400 ocean 'dead zones, totalling more than 245,000 Km2...
Negative trends in nature will continue to 2050 and beyond in all of the policy scenarios...

...a key element of more sustainable future policies is the evolution of global financial and economic systems to build a global sustainable economy, steering away from the current limited paradigm of economic growth."
Strange Sounds
- article by 29.5.2019: "Environmental degradation and Species decline is deadly serious: Nature's dangerous decline 'unprecented' and species extinction rates 'accelerating' " ; (Italics - added on this by us ;bold - as on the article.)

"Reading always beneficial."
Jörn Donner

"The ecological effects of this regional deforestation were profound, extending even to the climate itself. Although clearing changed little or nothing about the larger atmospheric movements of the wind, clouds or rain, it brought substantial changes at ground level in the way ecological communities experienced atmospheric phenomena. Microclimates, hydrology, and soil mechanics were all altered by the clearing process. It is difficult to quantify these changes with any precision, given the data are available to us: ...
Most New England naturalists agreed by the 1790s that deforestation and agricultural cultivation had the effect of warming and drying the soil, making the surface land hotter in summer and colder in winter. Temperatures in general fluctuated more widely without the moderating effects of the forest canopy to shade the ground and protect it from the winds. ..." ; "... If seasons were defined as much by an ecosystem's cycle of biological rhythms as by the movement of winds and storms, then on one special but important sense destroying the forest changed the very seasons themselves."
(Cronon, William) ; Changes in the Land (1983 ; 122, 123.)

"... Moving away from traditional accounts of Puritanism as the exceptional origin point for US culture, in the past decade scholars have offered a more nuanced portrait of the nation's religious landscape and worked to better situate that landscape in a global frame. Such work has been deeply intertwined with scholarship addressing the parameters of secularism and its complex relationships with (rather than simple opposition to) religion. It has explored the many division within American Protestantism, the role of Catholicism and Judaism in the hemisphere, the United States' complex and varied engagements with Islam, and the fraught relationships between slavery and religion. ...issues as diverse as evangelism, trade policies, national expansion, and scientific endeavor. ..." ; "...As Stephanie Kirk and Sarah Rivett's work [ie: Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas (2014)] has shown, the western hemisphere operated as both a site of religious desire in the colonial era, as sects competed for dominance within it, and as a space of religious change, as European colonists adapted to meet the demands of a 'New World'. ... From the earliest Spanish incursions into the region to later voyages by the English, European colonial efforts were couched in religious rhetoric and often configured as efforts to spread Christianity - Catholic or Protestant - to the furthest corners of the earth. ... [survival, of] first Protestantism... then Puritanism... [was] depicted as the engine driving settlers across the Atlantic, while the conversion of Native populations was offered to as the force that kept them in the Americas once they arrived. This rhetoric of religious imperative persisted even as settler colonists engaged in genocidal conflicts over land and introduced African slavery into the hemisphere. The notion that American settlement marked the fulfillment of a divine order, in other words, justified all manner of colonial horrors.
... The gap between intent and interpretation, Guyatt demonstrates [Providence and the invention of the United States, 1607-1876 (2007)], has produced a structure in which atrocities could be justified by recourse to providential history. This is especially clear in the context of Indian Removal and genocide, as well as New World slavery. ..." (Fenton) : Old Canaan in a New World. Native Americans and the Lost Tribes of Israel [2020]; p. 12-13; 13-14.

"De Coincidentia Oppositorum"
Nicolaus Cusanus
(as claimed by biographer)

"Scientists estimate the contaminated area will not be safe for 24,000 years, give or take a thousand."
; ...sentence/lines of the Guardian-article by Kim Wilsher, [...16.09.19...] on the Chernobyl-miniseries (and, on it's 'concealments' not always adequate from revealed...)

"In Cooper's novel, bee hunting establishes a colonial geometry that both requires and produces the disappearance of Native peoples. ...
[...]
...Bees and Native peoples alike exist in Cooper's text at the vanishing point, forever receding into distance, only to be further chased by those laying claim to their dwellings. ..."
; "The honeybee is not indigenous to the Americas. There is archeological evidence [that, the honeybee]...is recent addition to the western hemisphere, having arrived with settler colonists in the seventeenth century. ...
Bees from England thrived in North America, probably because they were already accustomed to cold and shifting temperatures, especially after weeks at sea [I slightly wonder how reliable this last claim is (,meaning the last sentence)...While I find no else to criticize about this - in the ecological literatures it's common described a historical 'issue'; The described changes on the N.American 'landscape' btw, ca, 1600-1900, and cultural 'thematics' which followed, or 'accompied' that process.] The American landscape provided an excellent supply of food and shelter for bees: there were ample opportunities to feed on local flora, and new swarms could make homes in the hollow trees that were ubiquitous in the continent's vast forestlands. In these favorable conditions the honeybee acclimated quickly and spread throughout the hemisphere. Honey became the popular sweetener not only for colonists but also among existing populations. ... The honeybee thus had a sudden and lasting impact on both the physical and the social landscapes of the Americas.
...bee and its hive long have stood as potent symbols for human modes of social order and sovereignty. ... Charles Butler's 1609 work, The feminine monarchie, a paean to the late Queen Elisabeth I, describes bees as living 'under the government of one Monarch, of whom above al [sic] things they have principal care and respect, loving, reverencing and obeying her in al things.'
The queen was not the only appealing bee in the period: ... the drone ... stood as a sign for everythig from beggars to sick people to, eventually, colonists. The drones forced exit from the hive at the beginning of winter (a sentence of death by exile) seemed a harsh but necessary warning to unproductive members of society. [Etc...]" - Fenton [2020] (p. 142, 143 ; 145-7.)

"Industrial infrastructure can be taken away in any moment given and people should be capable to steal parts of it to keep machines rolling in the ruins of destroyed society."
Lee Felsenstein

"Federal and tribal government blood rules such as 'blood quantum' have helped to constitute unique formations of the Indian and the tribe for more than a century. Where the federal policy project of the nineteenth century was to detribalize, what has happened in effect is a rearticulated tribalization of Native American in blood fractions and through bloodlines. A key mechanism meant to dilute Indians out of existence has reconfigured them and, in the particular form of lineal descent, propagates them. If the material properties of blood - the red fluid itself - are no longer legitimate for the study of race, symbolic blood remains very much at play in twenty-first-century sociopolitical formations of the Indian. ...

For much of human history, actual and symbolic blood permeated discussions about and experiences in the social and political realms. ... Blood was let flow for medical and religious reasons, in tortureous executions in some lands and eras, in sacrifices in others. Nonhuman animals were butchered and hung in the open, and their blood was drunk raw or cooked. In what is today western Europe, during the rise of the medical sciences, there were live human dissections of criminals sentenced to death. Menstruating women, considered both taboo and powerful, preoccupied people around the world. ... menstural blood also nourished. It represented fecundity and has been used as fertilizer. Blood signified moral and physical purity and social solidarity. The color and condition of blood preoccupied the minds of thinkers and represented the essence of life and personhood. Some believed it to be 'the seat of the soul.' ...

Against a backdrop in which blood signifies contamination and purity, ... race emerged as a tool for the state and for science to categorize and trade in human bodies and body parts. Blood types illustrate the point. When ABO blood types were uncovered, in 1900, they were investigated by scientists as indicative of race. ...Nearly all populations exhibit all three blood types, A, B, and O, but proportions of each blood type within different populations differ, sometimes dramatically. ...

...Marks writes that research that attempted to track race to blood group neglected 'the fact that blood' is a metaphor for heredity, not heredity itself."
; (Tallbear) : Native American DNA. Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of the Genetic Science (2013) ; p. 47-8 (italics, Tallbear's)

"...Natural resources, including both black bodies and labor and Native American land and resources, constituted important forms of property in earlier centuries that drove nation-state's civilizing project. In our twenty-first century 'knowledge society,' ... ... Both DNA and the knowledge produced of it constitute important forms of property today and drive the current civilizing project. ..." ;
"... Both law and the biosciences then confront the same fundamental question; what constitutes the 'members of the same group' for the purpose of understanding the transfer of properties? In law one must determine who is a group member in order to determine who inherits material property. In the biosciences, the order of cause and effect is reversed. Who inherits biological property determines who is a group member.

Paralleling white-supremacist law and presaging twenty-first-century biotechnoscientific claims, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century anthropological theories - Lewis Henry Morgan's theory of cultural evolution being exemplary - facilitated anthropologists' claiming as their inheritance (and the inheritance of the nation) Native American material and cultural patrimony. ... Thus, the 'institutions, arts, inventions and practical experience' of the indians formed 'part of the human record,' and as peoples the Indians possessed 'a high and special value reaching far beyond the Indian race itself.' The (white) human sciences needed to study american indian in order to progress and, as Morgan argued, in order to 'recover some portion of the lost history of our own race.'
[...]
In addition to aiding claims to Native American patrimony, the (potential) absorbtion of 'red' into the white body affected another key shift in U.S. history. ...it helped to consolidate the black/white national binary, ... Indeed, Native American race [, as a concept or 'signifier'; or, such as the 'defining for' in the text cited; 'race category of "red" '] was largely neglected in seminal twentieth-century U.S. racial-formation analyses, ... Understanding the consolidation of the black-white binary is critical for understanding histories of race and power in the United States. But then are the relationships between red and white, and red and black, for that matter. ..."
;
"...'genetic articulations of indigeneity' rest on assumptions of certain forms of physical and social death. And those assumptions contradict the analyses and work of indigenous peoples who view their presence as peoples, cultures, land stewards, and sometimes governmental entities as still vital. ... In indigenous peoples' articulations, that distinctiviness is much more than biological, and it is not a marker of inevitable defeat. ... It is unsurprising then, that indigenous critics of human genome diversity research resist terms that objectify indigenes as historical-biological curiosities whose raw material must be captured and studied for posterity before they most certainly vanish. DNA sequences - like baskets, bones, pots, and ceremonial objects - become artifacts of soon-to-be-extinct populations. Such a disconnection between genetic and indigenous articulations of indigeneity is not easily bridged." ; (Talbear; p. 136; 137-8. ; 150-1.)

"...Actions which appeared to be childish, most of them were exhibitions of bravado, not unlike humming a jazztune while walking into a gathering of a Ku Klux Klan."
Maya Angelou

"...It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our present knowledge, that totally opposing conclusion are drawn about prehistoric conditions on our planet, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or geophysical view-point." ;
" Since it was previously taken for granted that the continental blocks - whether above sea level or inundated - have retained their mutual positions unchanged through the history of the planet, one could only have assumed that the postulated land bridges existed in the form of intermediate continents, ...The well-known palaeontological reconstructions arose on the basis of such assumptions, one example of them, for the Carboniferous, is given in Figure 2. [below...]

This assumption of sunken intermediate continents was in fact the most obvious so long as one based one's stand on the theory of the contraction or shrinkage of the earth, a viewpoint we shall have to examine more closely in what follows. The theory first appeared in Europe. ...
[...]
It is probably no accident that the permanence theory has it's most numerous adherents in America: geology developed late there - thus simultaneously with geophysics - and this necessarily led to more rapid and complete adaption by geology of the results advanced by its sister science than in Europe. There was absolutely no temptation to make the contraction theory, which contradicts geophysics, one of the basic assumptions. It was quite otherwise in Europe, where geology already had a long period of development behind it before geophysics had produced its first results, and had, without benefit of geophysics, already arrived at an overall view of the earth's evolution in the form of contraction theory. It is quite understandable that it is difficult for many European scientists to free themselves completely from this tradition and that they view the results of geophysics with a mistrust that never completely fades.

However, where does the truth lie? ... There clearly remains but one possibility: there must be a hidden error in the assumptions alleged to be obvious."
(Alfred Wegener) : The Origin of Continents and Oceans - on 1929 publ. ed (Quots. are via it's 1966 repr. : p. 5; 8-9, 16-7 .)

"Practice is a technique, aiming to force body in different repetitive tasks that have been ordered to happen on variety of levels."
Michel Foucault
(Surveiller et Punir. Transl. here WG)

" We are perhaps too ready to believe that, because colonisation by force is no longer a real danger, the substance and tendencies of empire have therefore ceased entirely to exist. This book deals with the relationship between size and power, and with the penalties and paradoxes of the pursuit of global dominance, not just for those encroached upon and invaded, but also for the invaders themselves, the warriors who so easily became captives in one fashion or another. It would be nice to believe that such issues could be safely consigned to the realm of history. It would also be unwise."
Colley, Linda : Captives. Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 (2002; on 'Introduction', p. 19-20.)

"...Paradoxically, piracy was often co-opted and exonerated as a tolerated abuse, even though at its high point in the 1690s and 1710s, it posed a major threat to mercantile shipping on the principal British trade routes to the West Indies and India. Pirates posed crucial challenges to law enforcement by preying on merchant shipping and escaping punitive action. On the other hand, state-sponsored privateering expeditions that were issued 'letters of marque' encouraged the seizure and destruction of competitive merchant shipping by other European countries. ... , pirates were in the dangerous and profitable position of opportunistically playing various legal and political minefields to their advantage. The issuance of frequent pardons and royal proclamations, as piratical activity could not always be stopped by force, also presented unique occasions when blanket absolutions could be obtained for previous piratical acts.
... A number of illegal and violent maritine activities, such as buccaneering, privateering, and wrecking, existed alongside piracy. ... Buccaneers were vigilante settlers and only occasional seafarers who acted violently on their own initiative in ways that enhanced the colonial presence of the British. Like Sir Henry Morgan, governor of Jamaica, a noted buccaneer who sacked Panama, they were frequently rewarded for their prescient services after the fact. Privateers operated against rival shipping with governmental approval through secret letters of marque... Of course, as in the 1701 case of the trial of the Captain Kidd, a privateer turned pirate, this could embarrass the state considerably. ...Pirates, however, ...formed a renegade subculture recruited from insubordinate elements of the seafaring milieu and struck out for themselves in remarkable fashion, to the extent that historians have speculated that they were remnants of the radical elements from the English Revolution. Piracy was especially significant as a virtualizing activity on the colonial periphery. Some aspects of piracy represent a proletarian, anticapitalist challenge to the bourgeois economic and political institutions that Defoe supported. ... "
; (However...) "Piratical discourse should be treated with some caution, as its relation to piracy as a historical practice is still somewhat unclear. Although Defoe's General History of the Pyrates has become an ur-text for studies of piracy, its imaginative power derives from a deliberate confusion of real and fictional pirates. Piratical articles often revealed a collectivist origin behind the fraternal contract. ..."
(Aravamudan, Srinivas) ; Tropicopolitans. Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804 (1999; p. 82-3; 84.)

"If, ..., we are to trace shifting attitudes in Britain towards Islam in the Mediterranean (and anywhere else), we need to look beyond the standard and formulaic language of denunciation, suggestive though it can sometimes be. Contemporary reactions must be explored more broadly...
, for after 1600 they multiplied rapidly.

One of the paradoxes of Barbary captive-taking was that it not only exacarbated pre-existing hostility to Islam, but also increased the volume and variety of information available about it in Britain, and transformed both the extent and complexity of Muslim-British contacts. ... this same decade, the 1630s also saw the establishment of the first ever chairs in Arabic at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, in part so that officials and interpreters could be trained up to deal with Barbary and the Ottoman empire in the future. ... The 1640s saw...also the first publication of the Qur'an in English...
This went through several editions before being entirely superseded in 1734, when the London-based orientalist George Sale (himself ' half a Mussulman' in Edward Gibbon's later opinion) produced a new and remarkable version of the Qur'an. ...
[...] There was also an element of awe involved, which never entirely went away. By the seventeenth century, the great Islamic empires together probably contained between one third and one quarter of the world's population, and sprawled across the globe on a geographical scale that dwarfed western Europe as a whole, never mind the England..."
;
"[The imperial city of Meknès, 'in Moroco today'] ...was a project roughly contemporaneous with the buildings of Versailles by Louis XIV of France, and it was inspired by a comparable regal hubris and territorial ambition. The sultan's palace at Meknès was simply the 'largest he had ever seen', reported an envoy dispatched to redeem Britain's Moroccan captives in the 1720s. ... Set against this..., Versailles was unduly compact; while William III's extensions to Hampton court near London would have seemed almost toy-like in comparison.

This indeed, was a crucial point. To the extent that Islamic societies did appear different to Britons at this early stage, it could still be because they seemed bigger, stronger or richer."
(Colley); Captives (p. 105-106; 110.)

"As in the aftermath of Pequot war, trade centers that New Englanders already dominate or wished to enter became the destinations of Indian captives. Despite the prohibitions on New England Indians issued in Barbados and Jamaica, owners ... found buyers there, especially for small lots that formed part of the constant traffic between the two regions. [...]

Iberia, North Africa, and the Portuguese Wine islands formed another node of trade and slavery. The Wampanoag, Pocasset, and Christian Indians condemned in the 1675 summer campaign were among the first shipped abroad into slavery. Plymouth and Massachusetts consigned the 187 captives aboard captain Thomas Spragg's vessel Sampson to be sold at Cadiz, a port on the Atlantic side of the southernmost tip of Spain. ..."
, "A polyglot town where English, Dutch, and French merchants maintained trading houses, Cadiz had been regional center of the slave trade since 1300. Traditionally its slave markets included Africans and South Asians, as well as 'Loros,' or 'Browns,' a group that included 'Berbericos' (Muslim captives from the Barbary states and elsewhere in North Africa), Indians from the Americas, and people of other ethnicities from southern and eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Religion was the main dividing line between slave and free peoples, although phenotype - that is, racial appearance - began to carry increasing weigth. European renegades who had converted to Islam while captive could be enslaved. Dark-skinned Europeans could be at risk of illegal enslavement by privateers, although English officials did apparently free the occasional Greek or Spanish slave who could prove European and Christian affiliations. ... The New England Indians' enslavement met with little surprise or legal challenge in a place where ethnicity and color did not define slave status. ..."
;
"Madagascar was part of the East India Company's monopoly territory, but the company had not yet exploited it. Instead, the island offered captains a chance to buy slaves while evading national slave trade monopolies, such as the one held by the Royal Africa Company. About twenty-five English or English-American ships traded there between 1675 to 1692. Madagascars muslim rulers also welcomed trade with North Africa, with the Dutch from bases in South Africa, Mauritius and Java, and with the Portuguese in Goa and West Africa, sending approximately six thousand slaves per year into these and other markets. English and American ships generally headed to Barbados to sell their human cargo after stopping at Madagascar. In addition to Malagasy slaves, Madagascar markets included captives from Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Mozambique, and North Africa, all of whom could be purchased much more cheaply than slaves in West Africa. Muskets and ammunition provided the main currency in exchange.

Other New England Indians entered Atlantic slave markets via Fayal, one of the Azores, a chain of volcanic islands that together with the Madeira and the canaries are often called the Wine Islands or Western Islands. ..."
(Newell) ; Brethren by Nature. New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery (2015 ; p. 175, 176-7; 180.)

"Equiano's most important precursor was the Defoe... A general affiliation to Defoe was noticed as early as 1808 by Abbé Grégoire in his fascinating tract, De la littérature des nègres. Reinflecting in racial terms a picaresque trope from Robinson Crusoe, Equiano says, 'my life and fortune have been extremely checkered, and my adventures various' (2:254). Equiano echoes Crusoe's solitary penitence: 'How strange a Chequer-Work of Providence is the Life of Man! and by what secret differing Springs are the Affections hurry'd about as differing Circumstances present! ...for I whose only Affliction was, that I seem'd banished from human Society, that I was alone, circumscrib'd to what I call silent Life.' ... It is remarkable that the last six chapters of the autobiography each end with Equiano fulfilling different shape-shifting fantasies: as a naval captain, a parson, an Arctic explorer, an evangelical poet, a colonizing missionary, and as a colonial projector. These additions to Equiano's curriculum vitae jostle with a list of other qualifications, including shipboard powder monkey, domestic servant, trader, accountant, barber, labor organizer, abolitionist activist, and Parliamentary lobbyist.

Equiano's conscious imitation of Defoe is clear enough, even as he slyly complicates the racial metaphor by averring that his life 'was written by one who was unwilling as unable to adorn the plainness of truth by the colouring of imagination' (2: 254). ...

...In his...listing of the conventions of slave narrative, James Olney points out that an allusion to a 'plain, unvarnished tale' was one of the most enduring critical reflexes when slave narratives were reviewed or introduced by amanuenses, even if Othello was not alluded to by the teller. ...

In the manner of Oroonoko, and Othello before him, the voiced African's royal antecedents come to the forefront alongside the narrative of Christianization. It is this aspect, of voicing African royalty, that makes up the other half or a peculiar bourgeois-aristocratic composite. Othello took his 'life and being from men of royal siege,' and Oroonoko was an anomalous royal slave. The cliché of the royal black captive recurs incessantly in British literary representation from Oroonoko to Rasselas. " ; (Aravamudan) - 1999 (; p. 249, 250-1.)

; "No attempt has been made to create heroes or heroines, or to appeal to the imagination or the heart." (William Wells Brown, Boston, May, 1880.)
(on Preface for My Southern Home,
or, The South and it's People.)

"Ethics[...] can have no science. What it says does not add to our knowledge in any sense. But it is a document of a tendency in the human mind which I personally cannot help respecting deeply and would not for my life ridicule it"
Ludwig Wittgenstein

"To all those who wish to talk about man[...] who, on the other hand, refer all knowledge back to the truths of man himself[...] who refuse to mythologize without demystifying, who refuse to think without immediately thinking that it is man who is thinking, to all these warped and twisted forms of reflection we can answer only with a philosophical laugh - which means, to a certain extent, a silent one."
Michel Foucault
(Order of Things)

"Pay. No Pay? ´O´ Bay"
WG

"In the alteration between news of pollution and unemployment, one can study today how these two scenarios replace and subvert one another, [...] Here it is as if there was a performance of a mixture of Marx and Macbeth, or the collective bargaining talks in the public sector and Goethe's of 'sorcerer's apprentice'.'"
Ulrich Beck
(Reflexive Modernization. Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the modern Social Order)

"[...]
Operating on stock exchanges became a matter of dark dealing and of dark fibre. ... A 2015 report by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) estimated that dark pool trading accounted for one-fifth of all trades in stocks that also traded on the public exchanges - a figure that doesn't account for many other popular forms of financial instrument. ...Initially advertised as places to trade securely, many dark pool operators have been censured for quietly inviting in the same high-frequency traders their clients were trying to avoid - either to provided liquidity to the market, or for their own profit. ...
The combination of high-frequency trading and dark pools is just one way in which financial systems have been rendered obscure, and thus ever more unequal. ..."

;
"Technology is in fact a key driver of inequality across many sectors. The relentless progress of automation - from supermarket checkouts to trading algorithms, factory robots to self-driving cars - increasingly threatens human employment across the board. There is no safety net for those whose skills are rendered obsolete by machines; and even those who programme the machines are not immune. As the capabilities of machines increase, more and more professions are under attack, with artificial intelligence augmenting the process. ... The complacent of the Right against communism - that we'll all have to buy our goods from a single state supplier - has been supplanted by the necessity of buyin everything from Amazon. And one of the keys to this augmented inequality is the opacity of technological systems themselves.
[...]
The reason Amazon workers need hand-held devices to navigate around the warehouse is because it is otherwise impenetrable to humans. Humans would expect goods to be stored in human-type ways: the books over here, DVDs over there, racks of stationary to the left, and so on. But to a rational machine intelligence, such an arrangement is deeply inefficient. Consumers don't order goods alphabetically or by type; ... As a result, Amazon employs a logistics technique called 'chaotic storage' - chaotic, that is, from a human point of view. By locating products by need and association rather than by type, it's possible to construct much shorter paths between items. ... Arranging the world from the perspective of the machine renders it computationally efficient, but makes it completely incomprehensible to humans. And moreover, it accelerates oppression.
[...] Reducing workers to meat algorithms, useful only for their ability to move and follow orders, makes them easier to hire, fire, and abuse. Workers who go where their wrist-mounted terminal tells them to don't even need to understand the local language, and they don't need an education. Both of these factors, together with the atomisation produced by technological augmentation, also prevent effective organization. ..."
(James Bridle) : New Dark Age. Technology and the End of the Future [2018: 108-9 ; 113, 114-6.]

"Don't believe in riches,
but you should see where I live."
U2/Bono
(God, part II)

"...I will not undertake to explain; sure I am, that whoever knows Rome, will not condemn this ébauche of it."
(Hester Piozzi) : Observations and Reflections. Made in the course of a Journey Through France, Italy, and Germany, 1788.

"What a story and how they fight
Let's gamble and guess who will win.
[...] Information – in between"
Accept : T.V. War (- 86)

"In white suprematist capitalist patriarchy, black males and white females are uniquely positioned to compete with one another for the favors white 'daddies' in power can extend to them. If the individuals from these groups should fail to understand either their connection to one another or their position in relation to white patriarchy, they are bombarded by mass-media images within the pedagogy of popular culture that constantly remind them that their chances of receiving rewards from the patriarchal mainstream and their hopes for salvation within the existing social structure are greatly enhanced when they learn how to 'do it for daddy'."
(bell hooks), from 'Doin it for daddy: black masculinity in the mainstream' - on Reel to Real. Race, sex and class at the movies (1996; p. 84)

"Scrupulous histories are always written (by man), not made."
MS Jones

"It's your world. Change it."
No Sweat-sneakers (advert text).

"BANANA (Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything)."
- A term used by opponents refering to the(claimed ecopopulist) 1980's enviromentalism movements and community groups

"Instead of 'climate change' the preferred terms are 'climate emergency, crisis or breakdown' and 'global heating' is favoured over 'global warming', although the original terms are not banned.
' We want to ensure that we are being scientifically precise, ...
The phrase 'climate change', for example sounds rather passive and gentle when what scientists are talking about is a catastrophe for humanity.' "
(Guardian, 17.5.2019) on 'Why guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment'
- Exceptionally...We make note about this aspect, because,
it's from a greatest importance: (the) Language, terms do matter.

[...And, by-the-way: I disagree on that other change-of-term: Global warming should be preferred to the Global heating, simply 'cause it, by now, gives a lot better idea about it, on about the whole phenomena. (Those moderations, alterations and lies 'around' the issue, in during period for few decades time, past.) ...Personally changed even for using, when necessary, the'-hell' addix too. (It, sort of, catches from more 'layers' on this Warming/Climate-'issue.' ;W-G.]

"The need for accumulating (stuff) is one of the first symptoms of the death in individual life as well as in the society."
Walter Benjamin
(Das Passagen Werk. [Der Sammler] - Transl. here WG)

"...the probability of truly catastrophic cyber-attack, like a meltdown of the world's financial system or a broad-based attack on electric grid, is certainly not negligible. An attack of this magnitude will likely remain the province of professional intelligence services for some time to come. ...
And, of course, the possibility of cyberwarfare involving nuclear power plants was vividly on display in the case of the so-called Stuxnet worm, revealed in 2010 to have attacked the Iranian uranium-enrichment program by speeding up specific centrifuge models, and in other attacks of a similar nature dubbed 'Olympic games,', both reportedly launched by the United States and Israel.

While the highest-profile cybersecurity incidents of recent years have generally been state-to-state affairs, the power to conduct low- to medium-grade attacks and exploitation on a wide scale has clearly migrated to actors far below the level of sovereign states. The most famous example is the hacker group known as Anonymous, whose diffuse and largely uncoordinated membership has launched attacks on a range of targets - from Sony, to companies that refused to host WikiLeaks, to government vehicles, to the Church of Scientology. But it is not the only example. ..."
; The Future of Violence. Robots and germs, hackers and drones. (2015; B.Wittes - G.Blum ; p. 23-4.)

"For most things there's explanation:
Nice, Neat and Wrong."
H. L. Mencken

"It is abundantly clear that increased consumption and economic growth from within the existing paradigms will harm the environment. This is a recipe for disaster of unprecedented magnitude."
Ryan King
(War, Waste, and Moneylenders: factoring social and economic instability into ecological catastrophe and the decline of western civilization - Article at Mongabay.com)

"...Evolving more recently, so that no one would mistake a human for our predecessors of even a couple of million years back, seems like a virtue, as if we improved ourselves while other organisms stuck with the same old styles their parents wore.
Regardless of the shaky ground on which that impression lies, we don't even win the prize for most recent evolution; in fact, lose by a wide margin. Strictly speaking, according to the textbook definition... , many of the most rapidly evolving species, and hence those with the most recent changes, are not primates but pathogens, the disease-causing organisms like viruses and bacteria. Because of their rapid generation times, viruses can produce offspring in short order, which means that viral gene frequencies can become altered in a fraction of the time it would take to do the same thing in a population of humans, zebras, or any other vertebrate.
...evolving quickly is not necessarily a good thing. Often the impetus of rapid evolution in nonhuman organisms is a strong and novel selective agent: a crop is sprayed with a new insecticide, or a new disease is introduced to a population by a few individuals who stray into its boundaries. Those who are resistant, sometimes an extremely tiny minority, survive and reproduce, while the others perish. These events are not confined to crops, or even to nonhumans. Some estimates of death rates from the medieval out-break of bubonic plague called the Black Death in Europe have gone as high as 95 percent."
; "...According to the old conventional wisdom, Neandertals were those brutish hairy characters that lost out in evolution to the more cunning and - not coincidentially - more attractive Homo Sapiens, who went to make better tools, develop language and generally evolve into, well, us. But ever since the 2008 finding of complex stone tools made by Neanderthals, ...the 2010 discovery by Svante Pääbo and his colleagues that 1-4 percent of the genome of non-Africans today seems to have come from Neanderthals, all parties have been hastily revising their stories."
; "The suspicion that humans might not be evolving may stem from the misconception, ...that evolution is progressing toward a goal. A related fallacy is that all of life has been aimed at the production of humans, the pinnacle of evolution. ...Humans are no more of an end point to evolution than they are its most recent product.

...But to many people, ...that we are evolving because, our genes have changed, often through random forces, is unsatisfying. What they really want to know is whether natural selection, the remaining evolutionary mechanism, is still in force.
Here, too, the answer is yes."
(Zuk, Marlene) ; Paleofantasy. What Evolution Really tells us about Sex, Diet and How we Live (2013 : p. 15-6. ; 34-5. ; 253.)

"I do not say the story is true, for I did not witness
the happenings which it portrays, but the fact that in the telling of it to you I have given fictitious names for the principal characters quite sufficiently evidences the sincerity of my own belief that it MAY be true. [...and follows...] the story as I painstakingly pieced it out from these several various agencies."
E.R.Burroughs
(Tarzan of the Apes ; 1912)

"The question that the tension between these divergent new strands of environmentalism raises, then, is whether and how it might be possible to move environmentalism beyond the stereotypical narrative of the decline of nature without turning it into progress boosterism. What affirmative visions of the future can the environmentalist movement offer, visions that are neither returns to an imagined pastoral past nor nightmare of future devastation meant to serve as 'cautionary tales' ?..."

; "...Environmentalists currently face the challenge of reenvisioning conservation in terms that enable the imagination not so much of the end of species as of their future. It may be interesting ... one of the first critical works to engage questions of ecology and literary form, Joseph Meeker's The Comedy of Survival [1974] ... argued that tragedy, ... has an inherently anthropocentric bias. ...taken as a suggestion that might shed light on certain cultural contexts rather than as a general principle, Meeker's claim helps to explain the persuasive force of extinction stories in which the charismatic animal, in a loose sense, comes to replace the human of high social standing who undergoes a tragic fall. It thereby also raises the question whether a comic narrative about species extinction might be possible."
; Heise, Ursula - Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (2016: p. 12; 50-1.)

"[...] Look into the truth that is still. Look into the land of the prophet. Look past the living streets of Boston. Look, finally, into the eyes of the Beacon Street Union."
Robert Pomerene
(The Eyes of the Beacon Street Union)

"A 2017 study in Australia, home to some of the world's high-tech farming, found that 'wheat productivity has flatlined as a direct result of climatic change.' ...In June 2018, researchers found that a two-degree Celsius rise in temperature - which, recall, is what the Paris accords are now aiming for - could cut U.S. corn yields by 18 percent." ;
"...The paper [...by 2017(?)], in the journal Environmental Research, said that rising carbon dioxide levels, by speeding plant growth, seem to have reduced the amount of protein in basic staple crops, a finding so startling that, for many years, agronomists had overlooked hints that it was happening. ...In the developing world, where people rely on plants for their protein, that means huge reductions in nutrition: India alone could lose 5 percent of the protein in its total diet, putting 53 million people at new risk for protein deficiency. ... 'The idea that food becomes less nutritious was a surprise,' said one researcher. 'Its not intuitive.' But I think we should continue to expect surprises. We are completely altering the biophysical conditions that underpin our food system. And not just ours. People don't depend on goldenrod, for instance, but bees do. When scientists looked at samples of goldenrod in the Smithsonian that date back to 1842, they found that the protein content of its pollen had 'declined by a third since the industrial revolution - and the change closely tracks with the rise of carbon dioxide.'

Bees help crops, obviously, so thats scary news. ... But [Aug, 2018, (?)] ...new study found something as frightening: crop pests were thriving in the new heat. ... Even if we hit the UN target of limiting temperature rise to two degrees Celsius, pests should cut wheat yields by 46 percent, corn by 31 percent, and rice by 19 percent. ...Even fossilized plants from fifty million years ago make the point: 'Plant damage from insects correlated with the rising and falling temperatures, reaching a maximum during the warmest periods." ;

"... Scientists have even theorized that AIs following their own impulses might explain why we haven't found other civilizations out in space. Forget asteroids and supervolcanoes, says Bostrom- ...But what if there is some technology 'that (a) virtually all sufficiently advanced civilizations eventually discover and (b) it's discovery leads almost universally to existential disaster'? That is to say, perhaps the reason we don't hear from the other civilizations is because interstellar space is dotted not with sentient life but with orbiting piles of paper clips.

No one, I think, has a particularly good answer for this set of practical challenges. ...
Still,... Practical problems are by definition theoretically soluble - that's why we call them 'problems.' For the moment, lets assume that we won't create Frankenstein's monsters and that we will make sure that all people have equal access to the fertility lab. ...
And then let's ask a more metaphysical, and maybe more important question: What does that do to the human game? What it does, I think, is begin to rob it of meaning."
; (McKibben) - Falter (2018; p 36, 38-9. ; 161-2.)

"There should be a word for when you commit a treason against an entire planet.
In July 1977, one of Exxon's senior scientists, ...addressed many of the company's top leaders. Speaking at the oil giant's New York City headquarters, he flipped through slide after slide showing some of the earliest research under way on what was then called the greenhouse effect. ...

Fossil fuel corporations had worried at least a little about climate change for a long time. As early as 1959, at a symposium called 'Energy and man', ..., the physicist Edward Teller told the industry's most important executives, 'Carbon dioxide has a strange property. It transmits visible light but it absorbs the infrared radiation which is emitted from the earth.' The temperature, Teller predicted, would rise, and when it did, ' there is a possibility that the icecaps will start melting and the levelof the oceans will begin to rise.' ..."
; "We know that Exxon executives took these warnings seriously. Internal documents show that the company (and other oil giants) built their new oil drilling platforms with higher decks to compensate for the sea level rise they now knew was coming. In the Arctic, a team assigned to investigate the effects or warming concluded that 'global warming can only help lower exploration and development costs' in the Beaufort Sea. ..., the team predicted, drilling season in the Arctic would lenghten from two months to as much as five months, which is in fact what happened.

It wasn't just Exxon that knew. In the autumn of 2018 new documents emerged that Shell scientists had predicted in the late 1980s that carbon dioxide levels could double as early as 2030, and predicting an increase in 'runoff, destructive floods, and inundation of low-lying farmland.' All in all, Shell's experts said, 'the changes may be the greatest in the recorded history.' Take a minute to think through the implications of these exposes. By 1988, when James Hanson made global warming a public issue, the oil companies knew that he and the other researchers were right. They were, in fact, using Hansen's NASA climate models to figure out how low their drilling costs in the Arctic would eventually fall. So, imagine what would have happened if they had merely told the truth. ..."
; (McKibben, 2018; p. 72-3, 74-5.)

"The reasons are clear."
Investing in Development. A practical Plan to Achieve the Millenium Development Goals. United nations Development Programme (2005)

"Urban multispecies justice can also productively inflect planning, architecture, design. ... , city authorities in a time of biodiversity loss find themselves facing the quite different challenge of how to make visible the nonhuman inhabitants of urban spaces and architectural structures in such a way that they enhance rather than harm biodiversity. How can we plan traffic flows in such a way that they accommodate not just cars but also the movements of animals? How can we design buildings so that they become not death traps for birds but habitat for insects, reptiles, birds, and bats? Which rodents should we plan to include and exclude, in what numbers, and for what reasons? If we assume we will never get rid of rats, for instance... - how might we design sewers, gardens, and waste disposal procedures in such a way that the rats' behaviours become useful rather than harmful? How do we ensure that increased urban biodiversity does not increase health risks for the poor? By proposing multispecies justice as a framework for considering such questions, I am not suggesting that these questions will be easy to answer or that there will not be disagreement about them. ... But I am suggesting that the values, cultural perceptions, emotions, and traditions that inflect our perceptions and interactions with nonhuman species always have to be an explicit part of conversations about conservation, and that thinking about the construction of new, functional multispecies habitats may be a more productive and democratic goal to invest our energies than the attempt to recreate the habitats of the past. "
; Heise (2016; p. 236-7.)

"If it was for luck, the luck had no if at all."
(Writing on the wall at MSW)

"...Large Blue butterfly populations are thus not a scalable effect of the butterflies' DNA. They are nonscalable sites of interspecies encounter. This is a problem for the modern synthesis, because population genetics was from the early twentieth century at the core of evolution without history. ...

Reintroducing history into evolutionary thinking has already begun at other biological scales. The cell, once an emblem of replicable units, turns out to be the historical product of symbiosis among free-living bacteria. Even DNA turns out to have more history in its amino-acid sequences than once thought. Human DNA is part virus, viral encounters mark historical moments in making us human. Genome research has taken up the challenge of identifying encounter in the making of DNA. Population science cannot avoid history for much longer.

Fungi are ideal guides. Fungi have always been recalcitrant to the iron cage of self-replication. Like bacteria, some are given to exchanging genes in nonreproductive encounters ('horizontal gene transfer'); many also seem averse to keeping their genetic material sorted out as 'individuals' and 'species,' not to speak of 'populations.' When researchers studied the fruiting bodies of what they thought of as a species, the expensive Tibetan 'caterpillar fungus,' they found many species entangled together. ..."
(Tsing, Anna) : The Mushroom at the end of the World. On the possibility of life in Capitalist Ruins (2015; p. 142-3.)

;
"The story of landscape is both easy and hard to tell. Sometimes it relaxes readers into somnolence, making us think we are not learning anything new. This is a result of the unfortunate wall we have built between concepts and stories. We can see this, for example, in the gap between environmental history and science studies. Science studies scholars, unpracticed in reading concepts through stories, don't bother with environmental history. ... Distilling general principles, theorists expect that others will fill in the particulars - but 'filling in' is never so simple. This is an intellectual apparatus that shores up the wall between concepts and stories, thus, indeed, draining the significance of the sensitivive science studies scholars try to define. ...

Telling stories of the landscape requires getting to know the inhabitants of the landscape, human and not human. This is not easy, and it makes sense to me use all the learning practices I can think of, including our combined forms of mindfulness, myths and tales, livelihood practices, archives, scientific reports and experiments. ..." ; (Tsing) (; 2015: p. 158-9.)

"It's as simple as reducing packaging and moving towards alternative, biodegradable materials and recycling."
Dr (Mike) James

"... Since the wealthy would be able to afford the procedure more often, and since any beneficial genetic modifications made to an embryo would be transmitted to all of that person's offspring, linkages between class and genetics would ineluctably grow from one generation to the next, no matter how small the disparity in access might be. Consider the effect this could have on the socioeconomic fabric of society. If you think our world is unequal now, just imagine it stratified along both socioeconomic and genetic lines. Envision a future where people with more money live healthier and longer lives thanks to their privileged sets of genes. It's the stuff of science fiction, but if germline editing becomes routine, this fiction could become reality.
Germline editing may inadvertently transscribe our societies' financial inequality into our genetic code - but it may also create a different kind of injustice. As disability-rights advocates have pointed out, using gene editing to 'fix' things like deafness or obesity could create a less inclusive society, one that pressures everyone to be the same - and perhaps even encourages more discrimination against differently abled people - instead of celebrating our natural differences. ... While some disease-causing gene mutations produce defective or abnormal proteins on a biochemical level, the individuals that live with disease are certainly not defective or abnormal, and they might live perfectly happy lives and not feel any need for gene repair." ;

"...Given the deplorable history humans have when it comes to programs aimed at improving our gene species' pool, perhaps it's not surprising that CRISPR's potential to endow individuals with healthier genes earns it comparisons to these sad chapters in our past.

But while it's certainly attentive-grabbing to equate gene editing with these dark precendents, the comparison doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Technically, the use of CRISPR in embryos to combat human disease would be an eugenic practice, but so is preimplantation genetic diagnosis, ultrasound technology, prenatal vitamins, and even a mother's abstinence from alcohol during pregnancy. That's because eugenic, as it was originally defined, means 'well-born' and so could apply to any action intended to lead to the birth of a healthy child. Our current, looser interpretation of the term reflects beliefs and practices that emerged in the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century and that were aimed at improving the genetic qualities of the entire population by encouraging breeding between people with desirable characteristics and discouraging or preventing reproduction by people who were deemed undesirable."
; Doudna, J. - Sternberg, S.: A Crack in Creation. The New Power to Control Evolution (2017; p. 232-3, 233-4.)
[...By the way; From selecting just this part of the text, compels us (,necessarily) for adding slight remark: Acc my opinion, the 'abstinence from alcohol during pregnancy' can't be identified in the same w. those other mentioned modern-day technologies. (Some that appear keenly eugenistic.) ...Because from, practically obviously: That abstinence being merely just some common sense.
; ...Also, we'd probably, otherways find it for quite as logical including into same 'historical eugenisms', as well, fx, any (imaginable) prehistoric 'momma' smoking cannabis and practising some herbal medicinery to oneself. - I mean, there's difference between a 'targeted' effect and 'co-effect'. Quite as notable, indeed, then is that the words often carry the meaning and contents beyond their most apparent interpretations from. (Consequently, at least what comes for the social context of this, we actually can't exclude the noted more notorious chapters for human eugenistic practices, of the past. At least, that shall remain present at some level of a 'connotation'.) ; Quite as recognizable, from this example, also that the line 'in between' easily gets...from 'blurred'.]

"If you wanna know a secret, you got to promise not to tell.
...If you want to see an angel, you got to find it where it fell."
Ozark Mountain Daredevils ('If you wanna get to heaven')

"The [degrowth-] scenario only becomes feasible through a process of democratisation whereby the interests of the majority of humanity, including future generations, will begin guiding the behaviour of the elites. When this happens [...] the advantages of sustainable living will appear as an attractive option." ; on Sustainable Futures - Replacing Growth Imperative and Hierarchies with Sustainable ways (ed. Ulvila-Paananen)

"Our understanding of the Earth we inhabit is undergoing a radical change. [...]

This new conception of the Earth System is inconsistent with the understanding of a nature victimized and colonized by humans that has emerged since the 1960s. It is an understanding captured in phrases from the 1990s like 'the end of the nature,' 'nothing but us' and 'the Earth's cry for rescue,' and morphing into more recent renderings like 'a humanized Earth,' 'the kind of nature we wish to have,' 'Nature no longer exists apart from humanity,' and 'It is our choice what happens here,' Whether the mood is one of lament or triumph, in all of these expressions nature is our victim or servant.

Yet Earth System science now tells us that, rather than dying, nature as the Earth System has in fact come alive or (perhaps a better metaphor) is waking from its slumber. It's true that wherever we look we see human influence, but at the same time we see stirring an 'angry,' 'ornery,' 'vengeful' Earth that is more detached from us than it has been for 10,000 years. Contrary to the comforting expectation that in the Anthropocene we can have 'the kind of nature we wish for have,' as we enter the new epoch we will meet an Earth that is further and further from the Earth we might want. And against the belief that 'the world we will inhabit is the one we have made,' the world we will have to live with is the Earth we have turned against us.

In other words, ... This all follows from the primary fact that Anthropocene is a rupture, whereas all of these views about the death of nature and so on do not recognize that a rupture has occurred but write as if there is continuity, a continuous process of human colonization going back thousands of years, albeit one that has intensified in recent decade." ; "...Nature is no longer (as Pope Francis writes) 'a magnificent book in which God speaks to us and grants us a glimpse of his infinite beauty and goodness', but a grim report in which scientists speak to us and grant us a glimpse of disrupted natural patterns and a chaotic climate. Or perhaps it is more accurate to say that it is both, a sublime Earth that presents itself to us as beautiful when becalmed and terrifying when enraged, an intimate planet and an alien one, Mother and Other."
(Hamilton, Clive) ; Defiant Earth. The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene (2017 ; 47-8, 48-9.)
[...Much as I agree on large part that previous (,that Hamilton), finding it lot less argumentable that a humanity would appear had made to itself for so much lasting, distinguishable, 'significant' imprint on an Earthly history - Even when considering that geostratigraphic 'markings' from that then, already, are to so apparent.
After all, at least such a claim, it then must also owe itself to as much for the faults in the conception - Some generated by this 'present' science, faults that I think logical trace for the histories 'till well recent, in that science, esp. Or, to the histories how that came for emergence to a 'dominative view' - and therefore (,at least partly) responsible to the caused present harm. ...I don't either find it for any 'existential defeatism' if one would, fx, little plays w. that (nowadays often remarked) enthreatening scenario about a future of the Earth 'devoid of humans'. Present-day problems considering, only seems perfectly sensical imagine smght like. And if we think it somehow necessary take in uses the name for such period, Anthropocene, ...feels it quite as logical imagine that such period ultimately would have to have it's end too. (Another 200 thousand years; only 10 000 years; a hundred years...)

; Likewise, I'm not at all so sure that it to correct estimate, when it stated (that Hamilton, p 115.): "If in a hundred million years' time an alien civilization writes the history of the Universe, the Earth will be known as the Planet of the Humans." (Sounds all too much for plainest 'science-faiths', on my any finding...) ]

"It's a perverse company you work for
They build the past
It just can't last
It's obsolete by design"
Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Coincidence and Likely Stories)

"...The National Academy of Sciences estimates that between 1,700 and and 1,850 billion tons of carbon is trapped in the permafrost, which is more carbon than is present in the Earth's atmosphere and all vegetation combined. But Max Holmes, who studies the permafrost's carbon contents, tells me the deposits are little close to 1,500 billion tons. ..."
; "...Holmes says, 'It is something I worry about. I wouldn't use the term 'doomsday', but I certainly imagine carbon from permafrost making it a whole lot harder for us to get a handle on stuff. I mean, right now, humans are putting 9 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year, mainly from fossil fuel combustion, secondarily from tropical deforestation. Both of those things, if we really put our mind to it, we could stop or slow. But with the permafrost, once it starts thawing, it's not directly under our control, and I think that's quite likely to start happening."
;
"Gene drive [ital. added] may sound like a solid solution to wiping out vector-borne diseases and even some invasive species, but it could have serious adverse effects. For starters, once a gene is driven into population, its effects could be hard to or even impossible to reverse. What if the gene that is programmed to be inherited with almost absolute certainty somehow spread beyond its bounds, wiping out gene pools that it wasn't meant to?
[Stewart Brand]...Referring to the birds of the Hawaiian archipelago that were rendered extinct by avian malaria, he tells me that bringing those birds back now might require intervention beyond the techniques used to get them back, creating an entirely new crop of ethical issues. 'Well, you're mucking around with the genes of these animals anyway, ' he tells me, 'and if you can bring back the Hawaiian 'ô'ô and we can tweak it so that it's not suspectible to avian malaria, is that okay?' ...If it were up him, he would 'tweak the damn birds,' but he recognizes that the uncertainties about unintended effects require a great deal of research before the technique is used."
(Britt Wray) ; Rise of the Necrofauna. The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction. (2019; p. 114-5, 116.; 220-1.)

"All voting is a sort of gaming, like the checkers or
backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it,
playing with right and wrong, with moral
questions; and betting naturally accompanies it."
Thoreau
(On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
- Orig. titled Resistance to Civil Government)

"[Wray - Asking V. Dooren]: What exactly do you mean by saying that we can keep 'faith with the dead' ?

"[Van Dooren]: Keeping faith with an extinct animal is about not resurrecting them; it's about making the difficult choice to learn from their extinction to mourn... and as a result change the way that we live. It is the attempt to not rush to overcome death and instead prevent it from happening again. Given the current context, as we're letting endangered species go extinct, resurrecting them doesn't represent the beginning of a new ethical relationship with them. It could just begin another phase of extinction for them." (; Wray, 2019 ; p. 243-4.)

“From at least 220 million years ago, the ancestors of all living mammals exploited the darkness. This has been named 'the nocturnal bottleneck' – a rather negative-sounding name for something quite extraordinary. Some scientists suggest this mammal night-time activity pattern could have lasted the entire Mesozoic, but there is no way to know for sure how varied their activity patterns really were; some species may have returned to being active during the day. In the modern world most mammals are still at their most active at night. ... [; Although - this also makes me wonder 'bout...that there too is several exhibiting the life-styles 'in-between'...The Squirrel at least seems be, principally, daily-active of course. Yet, fx the hares – and apparently resultant the Fox(es), perhaps, from following their main prey – seem be active both at day, and night. (Although by the day clearly less...) - More generally, acc. the Wohlleben reasons to that are (at least partly) due because from a vast human activity – during by day. ; Anycase, both good reasons for to restrain of the further, (nowadays constant) increase in a human constructed night-time light...] [...]

Mammalian hearing is also a super-sense. There are species that detect sound at super-high and low frequencies, from the tiny conversation of rodents and pinpoint moth-detection of bats, to belly rumbles between savannah elephants and the ocean-spanning songs of lonely whales. None of this would be possible without the refinement of the mammal ear, a process we now know could only take place thanks to the miniaturisation of our Triassic ancestors.”,

“Perhaps the most intriguing venomous mammal alive today is the Solenodon. This creature can grow to nearly half a metre (22in) from nose to tail-tip, and looks like a shrew on steroids. It has a coat ranging from almost black to hay-yellow... They only live on the Islands of Cuba and Hispaniola, and represent one of the oldest branches of the modern placental mammals still alive today, having diverged from the rest around 70 million years ago in the Cretaceous. Exactly when they diverged, and how they reached the only two islands they now call home, is still a matter of debate. They may have been carried there across the sea on a raft of vegetation, or reached it when the islands were connected to the mainland. ...
[...]
If they manage to survive being hunted, we think of small mammals as living fast and dying young. ... But recent research suggests this wasn't the case for the very first mammals.” : (Elsa Panciroli) ; Beasts Before Us : The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution (2020; p. 164-5, 168-9.)

"Insects were the evolutionary Wright brothers, and... Birds and bats are the only powered flyers among modern tetrapods. ...the origin of bats remains a mystery. The first bat fossils are about 52 million years old; they were already able to echolocate and were 100 per cent batty in form. Hopefully one day someone will find a proto-bat, and the mystery of their evolution will become clear." - (Panciroli) ; (footnote, on p.217.) ...Indeed. - Or, at least a (very) quick glance on a net for that, seems affirm (to me) that still 'by this day' (20.11.21) was no newer 'evidence' discovered(...perhaps). ; Acc. Wikip. (on bats flight, ao...) there's that : "...A 2020 study proposed that flight in bats might have originated independently at least three times..." ; And, acc. the Smithsonian-article, on a present year (...'app.') : "...of the better-preserved specimens...scientists know that the first bats couldn't echolocate [?]." ; Whatever the case (, specifically from to that) - No question, a following (on it) araises more my interest, fromafter these few 'glances' only: "...bones of...[some] earliest know bats are...as thin as a human hair. The only reason we know about these bats is that they lived around lakes that favored exceptional preservation,..." ; So...indeed interesting.

"...With the number of days on Earth over 35 Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) expected to triple in the coming decades, hyperthermia [ie; overheating from the body - in direct contrast to a (currently) more familiar opposite term, hypothermia] , is a real danger not just to humans, but to all animals.", "...A study published in 2020 looking at the distribution of mammals since the 1970s found that declines in range correlated with large body mass, increased air temperature, loss of habitat and high density of humans. ..."
; "Habitat destruction is the most insidious driver for extinction. [italics to these added - by us.] ...Our use of land for agriculture is the major driver of biodiversity collapse, as we try to feed 7.8 billion people and more each year. Around 70 per cent of that agriculture is related to meat production, which also gobbles vast volumes of water and grain. This is part of the reason that becoming vegetarian...one of most powerful ways an individual can act to save the world. Around 60 per cent of all mammals alive today are kept by humans for food. There are over 1.4 billion cows, 1.8 billion sheep and goats and 980 million pigs, which alongside humans account for 34 per cent of all mammals on Earth. Our pet cats total 600 million, our dogs 470 million. Wild mammals, meanwhile, now represent only 4 per cent of all mammals alive today." ; "We are a walking disaster taxon. ..."; (Panciroli ; p. 293, 294; 295, 296; 297.)

"The knowledge of an effect depends on,
and involves,
the knowledge of the cause."
Baruch Spinoza (Ethics)
- Cited via Phemister (2006), The Rationalists. Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz.

"... This thoroughness is what makes gene drives so powerful - and so alarming. It's been estimated that, had a fruit fly escaped the San Diego lab during the first gene drive experiments, it would have spread genes encoding CRISPR, along with the yellow-body trait, to between 20 and 50 percent of all fruit flies worldwide.
Scientists pursuing CRISPR gene drives have been outspoken about the need to carefully weigh the risks before conducting further experiments and about the importance of developing guidelines that ensure future research proceeds safely. Perhaps the most obvious safeguard to prevent accidentally unleashing a gene drive into the world is stringent containment, such as physical barriers separating organisms from the environment and ecological barriers between the animal's habitable range and the geographical location of the laboratory. ...scientists have proposed a variety of strategies that could theoretically inactivate gene drives that run amok. One of these is the so-called reversal drive, a gene drive that essentially functions as an antidote by overwriting any changes in the genome created by the original gene drive.
Even with the most cautious experimental design and planning, we can't predict all of the environmental effects that a gene drive might have, and we can't completely eliminate the possibility of a gene drive getting out of control and disrupting an ecosystems's delicate balance. ...

There's also no way to guarantee that this incredibly powerful tool won't wind up in the hands of people who have no compunction about using gene drives to cause harm - and who may, indeed, be attracted to them for exactly that purpose. The ETC group, a bio tech watchdog organization, worries that gene drives - what they call 'gene bombs' - could be militarized and weaponized to target the human microbiome or major food sources." (; Doudna - Sternberg, 2017 ; 151-2. [emphz added].)

"There are great, frowning precipices and much falling water, and the Nature seems have sometime held here her carnival."
-Memorandum by Abraham Van Helsing
(From Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1891)

"There's no greater a feeling."
- Crow-Goddess
From Sorceress, by Michael Scott (2009)

"... Another prominent African American leader before the Civil War, Martin R. Delany, struggled even more than Douglas to find his political footing after the war. Like Brown, Delany went South, but his vision to reconstruct the South met with considerable resistance. ... '... Without realising it he took a class position that soon put him at odds with large number of blacks.' Later, Delany would campaign for southern Democrats, unaware that 'being Democrat meant even more being pro-Confederate and pro-planter in the low country; it meant being a scab as well.' Delany met with angry crowds of blacks who 'beat their drums and refused to listen to what they called a damned nigger Democrat,' hardly the title Delany had worked for when he spoke years earlier of a nation within a nation." ;
"It is, indeed, difficult to locate a stable center by which African American history and identity can be located in the last few decades of the nineteenth century. It was a time of extensive mobility and new modes of white supremacist containment, a time when people found themselves or placed themselves in significant new locales, ... Many African Americans who were prominent leaders before the Civil War found themselves, like Douglas and Delany, facing the challenge of a new political landscape and undefined public roles. ...African Americans were reminded again and again that they lived in a culture characterized by 'terror, organized and random.' Perhaps the most pressingly continuous narrative connecting past to present was the reappearancce of systemic slavery and racial oppression in new forms, and this time without a clear center, legalized slavery, for rallying the cooperation of white allies. When the Supreme Court's ruling in Unites States v. Stanley helped to facilitate the proliferation of Jim Crow laws, Douglas observed, 'It is the old spirit of slavery, and nothing else.' Many others agreed, and some, like Brown, realized this spirit would haunt any attempt to represent black life and thought."
- From 'Introduction' (John Ernest; 2011 ed.)
at William Wells Brown's My Southern Home,
or, The South and it's People (xxxix-xl ; xli.)

"So when I hear scientists say, 'The data speak for themselves', I cringe. Data never speak. And data generally and most often are politically and socially inflected."
(From a blog-post/writing viewed in passing...)

"...that's about (estimated) 160 000 litres oil
consumed in the world on each second..."
- Excert from a BBC-Document,
(emphasis added)

"It was inevitable that these issues would come up in cabinet discussions. Churchill's ministers had met on numerous occasions to review various aspects of their ongoing war in Kenya and specifically addressed issues related to detention without trial and forced labor. In one meeting in February of 1954, for example, the cabinet minutes recorded that Churchill and his men realized, 'This course [i.e., detention without trial and forced labor] had been recommended despite the fact that it was thought to involve a technical breach of the Forced Labour Convention of 1930 and of the Convention of Human Rights adopted by Council of Europe. ' They then went on to recommend finding legal-appearing means for circumventing the constraints of these treaties. Nearly a year later Churchill's cabinet would discuss the public relations problems caused by the blanket amnesty, ultimately agreeing to it despite its implications.

That insiders in both official and unofficial circles knew about British crimes in Kenya was an open secret, as a 1953 row between Churchill and Lady Mountbatten would illustrate. ...

As charge after charge was leveled at the colonial government, neither of the colonial secretaries nor Governor Baring nor Churchill nor his successors Anthony Eden and Harold MacMillan ever wavered from their course. ...But there were alternatives. In retrospekt, the most obvious was immediate decolonization. At any point Britain's prime minister and colonial secretary could have put an end to the violence by pulling out of the colony altogether and granting Kenya its independence. ...Officials in the British colonial government also believed they were fighting a moral war for Western civilization over the forces of dark savagery. There would be no contemplation of an imperial retreat from Kenya before Mau Mau had been crushed. In their minds, the colony had to be rendered governable, if only to protect the long-term British interests. Yet, paradoxically, Britain's very presence in Kenya and the brutality of its forces were the real root of the turmoil. Withdrawing was never considered, though, at least not until the end of the Emergency when Mau Mau had been destroyed and with it much of the Kikuyu population. Even then, there were colonial officials, particularly in Kenya, who believed the colony would remain part of the Empire for at least another generation."

"There are demographic figures. The British colonial government undertook a census of the Africans in Kenya in 1948 and 1962, years on either side of the Emergency. The population figures reveal that the growth rate of the Kikuyu was notably below that of the neighbouring Kamba, Luo, and Luhya populations, something that should not have been the case. ...adjusted using growth rates comparable to other Africans, we find that somewhere between 130,000 and 300,000 Kikuyu are unaccounted for. I believe the lower growth rate was likely to two factors: actual deaths and a slower birth rate due lower female fertility. ...malnourishment, disease, miscarriage, the absence of regular male partners, and the psychological stress resulting from war trauma, ...at the very least it is safe to assume that the official figure of some eleven thousand Mau Mau killed is implausible given all that has been uncovered." ;
"...The version of history for which I found little corroborating evidence is that which depicts camps as a benign system, and colonial officials, camp commandants, and guards as paternalistic reformers. In the official written record as well as in later interviews the testimonies of British colonial agents are littered with omissions, half-truths, and lies. ..."
(Elkins, Carolyn) : Britain's Gulag. The Brutal end of Empire in Kenya. (2005 ; p. 304-5., 366 ; 374.)

"There is questions that demand an answer and there is answers that don't grant much weight on question."
(Aphorism from/via W.I.T.C.H.)

"We are all censors at heart. If I don't tell her the internet surely will." - Suzanne Moore
(From column at Guardian)

"Though the song of the nightingale is admittedly impressive, I personally think that you cannot better the song of a blackbird on an early spring morning." (; p. 215, fn no 53.)
...If ever havin had the luck for hearing blackbird sing, one might readily agree - It sounds, indeed, very peculiar, is even exceptional. (...from any other birds.) ; Besides, the males let one surprisingly close, at least those adapted for 'urbanized' land. ; 'Though, noticing those bird to have quite plenty sounds and melodies from, I'm not sure if the bird even uses just those same 'tunes' in during the night-time.

; "There is a fascinating website, farmsubsidy.org, which tells you exactly how much subcidy every 'farmer' in the EU gets each year. You'll be perplexed to hear that the sugar producers Tate & Lyle are the biggest UK recipient, having received no less than £594,270,084 of 'farming subsidy' over the last fifteen years (yes, that is the correct number of digits). They don't actually do any farming whatsoever - they simply buy sugar cane from tropical countries and process it into refined sugar. We also give similar astronomic sums to companies who grow and process suger beet, a crop that is grown in intensive monocultures with the application of many pesticides, all to produce a substance that is fundamentally bad for us, ... Perhaps this is not the wisest expenditure of the taxpayers' money." (; p. 216, fn no 55.)
- From (Goulson, Dave) : Bee Quest. In search of Rare Bees. (2017 - pgns at citates.)

"Scientists once tried to build a sealed living world - nicknamed Biosphere 2 - from scratch in a big greenhouse in the Arizona desert. They failed."
Mark Lynas
(Six Degrees. Our future on a hotter planet)

"Knepp is a wonderful example of what can happen if we just stop. Stop doing anything at all - stop trying to conserve, stop trying to interfere, stop trying to manage - just let the nature catch up, absorb the changes that went before, and then do its own thing. Who knows what will happen next at Knepp, what new species will arrive? What will it look like in a year, a decade, a hundred years? The truth is that we really don't know, we cannot anticipate - and although I am a scientist, and it is my job to seek to understand and predict these things, I rather like that." ; (Goulson 2017 ; p. 219.)

"Efficiency could reduce consumption, but humanity has a poor track record of doing so."
Rex Weyler
(Why De-Growth? - A post on Deep Green-blog)

"The fruits do not yield their true flavor to the purchaser of them, nor to him who raises them for the market. There is but one way to obtain it, yet few take that way [...] It is a vulgar error suppose that you have tasted huckleberries who never plucked them. A huckleberry never reaches Boston; they have not been known there since they grew on the three hills."
Thoreau
(Walden, or Life in the Woods, 1852)

"Demi-Fools, carried away by the revolution that is changing everything in France, began twenty years ago to allow that women are capable of something. But they must give themselves up to occupations becoming their sex: educate flowers, make friendships with the birds, and pick up plants. These are called innocent amusements.
...
All such reasoning can be reduced to this: a man likes to be able to say of his slave: 'Shes too big a fool to be a knave.'"

; "...Nevertheless love is only a passion in so far as it makes one forget one's self-love. Thus they do not completely know love, these women, who like Léonore, ask of it the pleasures of pride. Unconsciously, they are on the same level as the prosaic man, the object of their contempt, who in love seeks love plus vanity. And they too, they want love and pride; but love goes with the flaming cheeks; [...] is the proudest of all despots; [...] will be all or nothing." - Stendhal ; On Love [De L'Amour]
(Chpt 55, 'Objections to the Education of Women'
; Chpt 59, footnote no 1.)

"When at strange places it's better keep your own books along."
(From Tintenblut by Cornelia Funke)

"...It was decided that a squadron of twelve Hawker Hurricanes could indeed be spared - a generous gesture on the face of it, given the possible imminent pressure on the Western Front, but not entirely. ...These aircraft were not a gift, however, they were sold - under protest from the Air Staff - at an eye-watering £9,000 apiece. ...

...[later]Chamberlain was remembering [that] with advantage. The Finns bought, and were to buy, almost everything. And, further, like the deliberations on intervention itself, which was now at the forefront of British foreign policy, there was absolutely no sense of urgency involved in supply, a matter that had already vexed Gripenberg hugely. This was not aid, it was, in effect, business. ...
The Hurricane squadron, uncomfortably decorated with their hakaristi markings, were prepared and sent in convoy in late February. They would arrive in theatre in the very last few days of the war."

; "Given that the political-military model for the Red Army was essentially industrial - the Red Army as a great khaki factory - some allowance was now made for the essential difference between an industrial worker and a soldier, or a factory manager and an officer - in effect upgrading the status of the soldier as opposed to the worker who was not risking his life. This would develop further after the war." ; (Edwards, Robert): White Death. Russia's War on Finland, 1939-40 (2006; p. 221-2, 231., italics Edwards'.)

"Late twentieth-century humans played dice as never before with the systems that support life."
Hughes, J. Donald
- An Environmental History of the World. Humankind's Changing role in the Community of Life (2001 - emphz, added.)

"..., very intense radioactivity with long-lived isotopes had been allowed to accumulate beneath the cointainment, and the continued operation of the facility did not make economic sense. On the basis of the preliminary data, the cost of the cleanup was estimated at $40 million. [fn., 'The cleanup at Chernobyl cost 8 billion rubles'] The reactor was shut down for a long time. A commission was set up to inquire into the causes of the accident." ...Such as noted - the referred accident (,on preced.) not later one at Chernobyl - But of the US Three Mile Island, on 28.3.1979.
;
"The reader may find it useful to know that the only way to control nuclear reactor is by controlling the proportion of slow neutrons, designated by the Greek letter [here simply: b](beta). The nuclear safety rules stipulate that the power of nuclear reactor may be safely increased at a rate of 0.0065 effective b per second. Once the proportion of slow neutrons rises to 0.5 b, a prompt neutron power surge begins."
;
"...The radiometer ran 500 roentgens per hour. As they opened the door, they felt a surge of heat from below; it was carrying radioactive gas, ionized neutrons and gamma rays. No one was wearing a respirator, nor was helicopter protected underneath by lead plating. This was added later, after hundreds of tons of sand had already been dumped. The crew looked out of the open door and, staring down into the nuclear volcano and aiming with the naked eye, dropped the bag. And countless bags thereafter. There was no other way to do it.
...At an altitude of 360 feet (110 m) radioactivity rose to 1,800 roentgens per hour after the bags had been dropped. The pilots were taken ill in the air.
... All of that ['fission fragments and radioactive ash from burnt graphite'] ended up in people's lungs. Uranium and plutonium salts had to be flushed from the blood of these heroes for several months, in fact, they had to have their blood replaced several times. "
;
"I should like to finish this chronicle by quoting a distinguished Soviet scientist, a member of the Soviet Academy of Medical Science and a major specialist on leukemia, Andrei Ivanovich Vorobyov. Here are his comments on the Chernobyl tragedy:
'[citate:] You can imagine what would happen to the planet if nuclear power stations were bombed, even with conventional warheads, with no nuclear charges. The mere thought of mankind existing in such a mutilated state is surely intolerable to any civilized person. It seems to me that after this accident mankind must abandon its medieval mentality.
...' "
; (Medvedev, Grigori) : The Truth About Chernobyl (1991[1989] ; p. 15; 60; 194; 266-7. - ...Medvedev's book seems, now from read, quite much reflect impressions, or say, the felt anxieties from soon after that tragedy. (And the state of the world, by then. How incomprehensible was the general global shock, how it've felt by the timing. The text seems dated to 1987, almost exactly the year after accident. However, year of publication seems by -89.)
; But simpliest, most in the description feels still well knowings worth. (Like the remark that resulted could've lead even for worse disasters, had the operators not been able extinguish fires from the turbine hall and the devastation spread for other reactor units of the plant.) ; Or, on how devastatingly everywhere the radioactive contamination was soon found to spreading, fx; '...all those cars and other vehicles would have to be buried, because a month or two of operations in this area would suffice to fill the interior of each with as much as 5 roentgens per hour or even more' (p. 222.)

"Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads (without improvement), are the roads of Genius."
William Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- (Cited) via R.L.Stevenson's Roads (1873)

"Gorbatchev's first reaction was to ask how the explosion could have happened. 'After all, the scientists had always assured, the countrys leaders, that the reactor was absolutely safe,' he recalled. 'Academician Aleksandrov said, for example, that an RBMK reactor could be installed even on Red Square, since it was no more dangerous than a samovar.' "
;
"In the fall of 1987, ...

The first village in the Narodychi district that Yaroshinskaya visited...was under constant radioactive monitoring. The local school was closed when radiation levels in the building exceeded 1.5 rem per hour. But the authorities kept their construction program going, expecting people to keep living there. The workers...were tiring easily and developing headaches. They were paid supplements of thirty rubles per month, allegedly for better nutrition. The workers called it 'coffin money.' Neither they nor the locals could tell why a new kindergarten was being built in the radiation-affected village, where there were hardly any children. A new bathhouse was also going up, apparently to make it easier for the locals to cleanse themselves of radioactive dust.

Yaroshinskaya was appalled. ...The situation was the same in all of them [villages, in that region]: there was new construction, and radiation levels were being kept secrect, endangering the health of both the locals and the evacuees who were being resettled there from the exclusion zone. ...80 percent of the children in the region had enlarged thyroid glands - a sign of abnormally high levels of radiation exposure. ..."
;
"In September 1988, the month in which Adamovich's article was published, Yurii Shcherbak brought a small group of filmmakers to Narodychi , the subject of Yaroshinskaya's utmost concern. The documentary film produced with his help showed calves born without eyes and with other deformations caused by high radiation levels at local farms - in one case, levels 150 times those of the city of Kyiv. Over the course of the year after the accident, sixty-four deformed animals were born at that particular farm, compared to three during the previous five-year period. But the twenty-minute documentary would not be shown... ...The authorities were still doing their best to keep the truth under wraps, but their monopoly on information was crumbling.

In the late summer of 1988, ..."
; (Plokhy, Serhii) Chernobyl. History of a Tragedy (; p 121, 308-9, 311. )

"The factory farm , which allows ranchers to make sickly animals highly profitable through the use of antibiotics, other pharmaneuticals, and controlled confinement, has created new, sometimes monstrous creatures."
Jonathan Safran Foer
Eating Animals (2000s)

"International diplomats stonewalled and blocked Chernobyl research because leaders of the big nuclear powers had already exposed millions of peoples to dangerous radioactive isotopes during the Cold War in producing and testing nuclear weapons. Awakening to this fact in the 1990s, Americans and Europeans were taking their governments to court. In this global context, Chernobyl wasn't the largest nuclear emergency in human history. It was just a waving of red flag pointing to other disasters hidden by Cold War national security regimes."

; "Nadia's hunch was correct. Nuclear bomb target maps suggest that distance is the main factor in nuclear accidents, but radioactive fallout from the smoking reactor swept along in a patchwork fashion. Rain laced with fallout fell on April 27 on several regions of northern Ukraine and southern Belarus. The day before, these regions had normal background levels of contamination. Of the ...people who left Pripyat the day after the accident, most were resettled to two regions that registered levels of contamination greater than Pripyat by the time they got there.
An employee at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Nadia knew she had been dropped in a place extrem
ely ill-equipped to protect against radioactivity. ...
Nadia shot me a look. 'I decided we better get out of there.' ..."
; "...Citing a 1980 pollution law, Chekherev did something no one had done at the wool factory in Chernihiv. He issued a stop work order, shutting down the tannery and holding up the processing of 19,000 hides. He refused to let the cleaned skins leave the factory. ...
...Experts in Moscow had drawn up a plan that called for warehousing the hides for several months so that the most powerful , short-lived isotopes decayed and the processing the leather in extra baths of water of water and chromium. ...Radioactive isotopes can only be moved from one place to another, while they decay on their own schedule. The cleaner the leather emerged from the factory, the dirtier the water flowed from the factory's drainpipes."
;
"...It didn't take many curies of radioactivity in the soil for it to show up in the food chain. Scientists had known that for decades. ..."
;
"...The results were more than predictable. In Gomel and Mogilev provinces, meat and milk in 1987 were more radioactive than in 1986, hotter again in 1988. It took about fifteen curies per square kilometer for nearly all the milk be over permissible levels. Mushrooms, meat, and wild boar also become more, not less, contaminated in subsequent years. The same dynamic played out in Ukraine. Even in 'clean' areas, 30-90 percent of milk came in hotter than permissible. 'Despite restrictions,' a regulator wrote, 'most of this produce is consumed by the population. The rest is given over to the state for sale.' The too-radioactive food slipped into the food chain. It traveled widely to large cities and towns. Sometimes farmers in contaminated areas purchased clean food that was delivered to them but then sold their homemade radioactive produce in neighbouring communities where no one was checking for radiation. ...
...Why in 1990 were people still living in areas measuring over a hundred curies of cesium-137 per square kilometer? Why write up orders if lower-level managers had no choice but to disregard them?
There are several answers to these questions, none of them very satisfying. ... "
(Kate Brown) ; Manual for survival. A Chernobyl Guide to the Future. (; p. 5; 27; 95-6; 114; 115.)

"...Frodo learned now enough to content him,
indeed more than enough,
for it was not comfortable lore.
Tom's words laid bare the hearts of trees and their thoughts,
which were often dark and strange, and filled with a hatred
of things that go free upon the Earth, gnawing, biting, breaking, hacking, burning: destroyers and usurpers."
Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring

"One road was paved with gold,
one road is just a road."
Patti Smith
('My blakean year')

"Just as humanity did at the time
of our Agricultural Revolution,
the ants independently invented the town."
R.Dawkins
Ancestor's Tale (2004)
(The Leaf's Cutters tale)

"...From the particles, Lozytska deduced that the reactor did not blow up from a steam or chemical explosion, as Soviet authorities asserted. Rather, she determined there had been a localized nuclear blast in a thin layer of fissionable materials. Only a nuclear detonation would release the spectrum of radionuclides, she reasoned, that she found in the hot particles. Lozytska typed up her findings, but she could neither publish nor speak about them until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. ...
[...] Still tracking the story in 2000, De Geer learned that Russian scientists in the town of Cherepovets, a thousand kilometers from the Chernobyl plant, had detecked Chernobyl-issued xenon isotopes in the days following the accident. That evidence astounded him. It showed a mysterious deviation from the known path of fallout. De Geer calculated that only a jet of radioactive gases ascending three kilometers into the air could have delivered xenon isotopes as far as Cheropovets. No steam explosion could send gases that high. De Geer computed that a nuclear explosion occurred in a part of the reactor where a two-meter thick steel floor had vaporized in heat so tremendous that only a nuclear explosion could generate it. De Geer published his article in November 2017, resolving a dispute that had quietly played out for decades. ..."

; "Looking back on it now, it is clear that Soviet officials staged the Kyiv conference on Chernobyl health effects to drum support for a change of course. They were growing weary of the Chernobyl accident. ...At the Kyiv meeting, public officials presented their results to an international audience who they hoped would endorse their view that the Chernobyl chapter had closed.
[...]
Most of the American delegates to the Kyiv conference depended on funds from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), which was in charge of producing the American nuclear arsenal. At the time, worrisom reports had leaked out about how DOE scientists had exposed thousands of people in secret experiments during the first decades of the Cold War. Lusbaugh supervised a clinic at the Oak Ridge Associated Universities, where researchers covertly placed radioactive cesium and cobalt in the walls of hotel-like rooms and irradiated over two hundred patients who were suffering from leukemia, lymphoma, arthritis, and other ailments. After patients died, Lusbaugh carefully autopsied them. Lusbaugh was not alone. Curious about the properties of radiation, American scientists during the Cold War sprayed neighborhoods with deadly radioactive material, injected and fed Americans radioactive substances, and zapped prisoners with neutron rays. They carried out human radiation experiments with nearly every kind of American: whites, blacks, Latinos, children, pregnant women, patients, wards of hospitals, prisoners, students, scientists and soldiers. The researchers functioned behind a wall of secrecy and with generous public funding. ...
In the mid-seventies, the secrecy, funding and power began to deteriorate. Victims requested the release of records and sued for reparations. ...

[...] The career trajectories of the foreign scientists at the Kyiv conference suggested that they would not ask uncomfortable questions or raise objections. Though there is no reason to doubt the sincerity of their scientific opinions, these men had a pointed interest, given their past and the tarnished legacies of the agencies they represented, in endorsing the view that radioactivity in any but high doses causes no harm. For the officials who had carefully curated the image of nuclear safety, the conference was an opportunity arising at an especially tense moment. If Soviet scientists could prove that large-scale exposures to 'low' doses of Chernobyl radiation harmed only a few dozen firemen, then they could show that even the worst nuclear accident in human history had no effect on human health. And if that were true, then the fallout from nuclear testing, the weeping radioactive waste from bomb factories, the civilian reactors that daily emitted radioactivity, the widespread use of radiation in medical treatments, and the exposed bodies of workers, patients, and innocent bystanders in secret medical tests could be forgotten. ..."
;

"...Sixty-six nuclear accidents occurred in Ukraine alone in the year after Chernobyl blew. More nuclear mishaps transpired after the Soviet Union collapsed, including the fires in the Red Forest in 2017.
Calling Chernobyl an 'accident' is a broom that sweeps away the larger story. Conceiving the events that contaminated the Pripyat Marshes as discrete occurrences blurs the fact that they are connected. Instead of an accident, Chernobyl might better be conceived of as an acceleration on a time line of destruction or as an exclamation point in a chain of toxic exposures that restricted the landscape, bodies, and politics. ..."
; (Brown) - p. 147-8; 149-150, 151, 152-3. ; 142.

"... In part because of the tremendous physical computing power and human expertise that resulted from nuclear weapons research, informatics development in the U.S. Human Genome Project began under the auspices of GenBank at the U.S. National Laboratories at Los Alamos, New Mexico. It was there also that the expertise and machines existed that built the matrix for the flourishing of artificial-life research at the nearby Santa Fe Institute.
A database is an information structure. Computer programs are the habitats of information structures, and an organism's genome is a kind of nature park among databases. Just as racial hygiene and eugenics were committed to science and progress, and populationist doctrines of the human universals were unambiguously on the side of development and future, the genome is allied with all that is up-to-the-minute. Yet something peculiar happened to the stable, family-loving, Mendelian gene when it passed into a database, where it has more in common with LANDSAT photographs, Geographical Information Systems, international seed banks, and the World Bank than with T. H. Morgan's fruit flies at Columbia University in the 1910s or UNESCO's populations in the 1950s. Banking and mapping seem to be the name of the genetic game at a accelerating pace since the 1970s, in the corporatization of biology to make it fit for the New World Order, Inc. If the modern synthesis, ideologically speaking, tended to make everyone his brother's keeper, then, in its version of kin selection and inclusive fitness maximization strategies, the sociobiological synthesis runs to making everyone his or her sibling's banker.
Biotechnology in the service of corporate profit is a revolutionary force for remaking the inhabitants of planet Earth, from viruses and bacteria right up the now repudiated chain of being to Homo sapiens and beyond. ..."
;
"...Pursuing the symptomatic logic of this essay, my technique is resolute overreading. I know no better strategy to deal with the vermin-infested normality of rational discourse. Just state the obvious. Say what should not be said.
Du Pont's wonderful advertisement for OncoMouse [tm], the first patented animal in the world, in Science magazine in 1989-90 provides my first text. OncoMouse[tm] contains a cancer-causing bit of DNA, called an oncogene, derived from the genome of another creature and implanted by means of genetic engineering techniques. A model for breast cancer research, the redesigned rodent is like a machine tool in the workshops for the production of knowledge. OncoMouse[tm] is transgenic animal, whose scene of evolution is the laboratory. ...For that very reason, the mouse has been at the center of controversy since its production. ...What interests me here, however, are the stories that are crusted like barnacles onto the striking advertising image."
(Donna Haraway) - 'Universal Donors in a Vampire Culture; It's all in the Family: Biological kinship categories in the Twentieth-Century United States', on
Uncommon Ground. Toward Reinventing Nature (1995 ; p. 349; 356. - italics: Haraway's.)

"(The) Genius loci... is."
M-S jones)

"These standardised reports were unlike anything I've ever seen. One chart showed that in hard-hit regions of Gomel Province, the populations had dropped in half between 1985 and 1987. Poof, in one region 15,000 people had voluntarily relocated. That was bad, but what sent a chill down my spine was the text under the chart: 'As apparent from thetable above, considerable demographic and migratory changes in the structure of the population have not occurred in Krasnopole Region.'
What? How could the author determine there were no demographic changes when 50 percent of the residents were gone? I suppose the bureaucrats who filed that report never imagined it would be read. I found more documents that also unhitched facts from conclusions. An analysis of cerebral-vascular and neurological health in contaminated areas showed a tripling of illness between 1985 and 1988, but then, as if no count had ever been taken, the official concluded they had found 'no essential changes or a significant increase.'
[...]
Sovok is a lovingy derisive word for an unreflectingly loyal Soviet citizen, bound by ideology and lacking independent thought and action. It describes bureaucrats aimlessly filing contradictory documents between long coffee breaks, somnambulists going through motions. ..."
; "Seeking to calm the unruly public, Soviet minister of Health Evgeny Chanov called for backup. He asked the World Health Organization (WHO) to send a delegation of 'foreign experts' to assess the 350 mSv safe lifetime dose. Wasting no time, WHO officials put together a commission of physicists - not physicians - who were already on record minimizing the Chernobyl accident. ... [...]
After their whistle-stop tour, the WHO consultants came to the conclusion that any association between the reported rise in noncancerous diseases and Chernobyl fallout was a mistake of 'scientists who are not well versed in radiation.' They suggested instead that health problems were due to 'psychological factors and stress.' They wrote that 350 mSv 'would present only s small risk to health, comparable with other risks to human life.' Using as a baseline the findings of the Life Span Study of Japanese bomb survivors, ...The WHO consultants were proposing a threshold ten to fifteen times higher than the recommendation of IAEA and the International Committee for Radiation Protection.
[...]
The world's leading health agency's hasty assessment greatly disappointed Soviet green parties, citizens' groups and activists. The World Health Organization report was also an embarrassment for international science. ...",

"After Hiroshima, American propagandists glossed over the deaths and acute radiation illness suffered by Japanese bomb survivors. Soon after the war ended, Hollywood distributors sent MGM films Madame Curie to occupied Japan, a biopic about the first scientist to distill radium. The film shows the Curies in their ramshackle lab at the moment of discovery. In a soft-focus shot, Pierre Curie looks at the empty space behind Marie's shoulder and evokes the limitless metaphysical horizon. 'If we can prove the secret of this new element, then we can look into the secret of life.'
In 1953, ...President Dwight Eisenhower unveiled the 'Atoms for Peace' program, dedicated to using nuclear power for medicine and to generate electricity 'too cheap to meter'. ...
Soviet leaders gamely joined the race with Americans. In 1954, engineers plugged in the world's first nuclear power generating reactor in Obninsk, a closed city near Moscow. The reactor produced all of five megawatts for grid, but the propaganda value of juxtaposing the peaceful Soviet atom against the martial American A-bomb was immeasurable. ...
[...]
For Americans, selling the idea of nuclear power in Japan was not seamless. In 1954, the wind shifted during the Bravo test of a hydrogen bomb in the Bikini atoll and contaminated a Japanese fishing vessel, the Lucky Dragon, with a thick coating of black fallout. By the time the vessel reached port, the crew was suffering from radiation poisoning. Japanese panciked on learning that Lucky Dragon's radiation catch was making its way through the fish market. A few months later the antinuclear film Godzilla hit Japanese theaters. Nine million Japanese paid to see the sci-fi horror film depicting a deep-sea, prehistoric monster wakened by oceanic nuclear tests. The confused and angry beast pulverinized Japanese cities with his radiactive breath. As protests erupted in Japan against nuclear testing, Japanese and American leaders quickly settled in closed-door meetings on a deal to transfer U.S. nuclear designs and fission products to Japan. Among Japanese leaders, who were eager to secure an independent power source form industrial expansion, the choice between the two competing visions of nuclear power - that of Madame Curie and Godzilla- was easy. The antidote to nuclear fear was the beacon of nuclear power.
...The UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) started as a relatively toothless branch of international governance. It had no power to inspect or control the bomb-producing superpowers and could only regulate countries seeking to build nuclear reactors. ...",
"...Officers, especially, in nuclear navies, where sailors live in close proximity to submarine reactors, requently refer to 'hormesis,' the idea that exposure to radiation in small doses has favorable biological effects. Scientists tried for decades to prove this notion in studies. They poured lots of money into the endeavor to no avail.
The debate between scientists promoting hormesis and geneticists' warning that no dose is safe echoed in 1989 more loudly than ever before. ..."
;(Brown) - p. 184-5 ; 211-2, 218-220, 223.

"I'm a Duck. The Duck I am.
Da-da Da-Da, Duck.
(The Duck I am.)"
(W-G.)

"The Earth is loaded with plants and, nothing impedes their free development."
Alexander von Humboldt
(On Personal Narrative... ; 1799-1804).

"Of all the stops on the nuclear weapons assembly line, plutonium production is the dirtiest. Each kilogram of final product generates hundreds of thousands of gallons radioactive waste. In four decades of operation, the Hanaford plutonium plant near Richland and Mayak plant next to Ozersk each issued at least 200 million curies of radioactivity - twice what Chernobyl emitted - into the surrounding environment. The plants left behind hundreds of square miles of uninhabitable territory, contaminated rivers, spoiled fields and forests, and thousands of people claiming to be sick from the plants' radioactive effluence.
... Ozersk and Richland were government owned and managed by corporate bosses. Richland was unusual on the American landscape because it had no private property, no free market or local self-government. Ozersk was one of ten nuclear cities in the Soviet Union that existed secretly, off the map, behind fencing; every resident required a special pass to live there. Strangely, residents appeared to like these restrictive arrangements. ..."
;
"...Histories subdivided into 'science,' 'environment,' 'culture,' and 'architecture' also fail to unwrap the larger story of how scientific research, cultural currents, urbanization trends, territorial zoning, policy, and finance created the landscapes we call home at the same time they produced warheads, missiles, and defense budgets increasingly impossible to shoulder.
The nuclear weapons complexes created militarized landscapes that blossomed far beyond the immediate territories of the plutonium plants. In the American case, Tri-Cities boosters lobbied for and won highways, bridges, dams, schools, housing, and farm subsidies to ensure national security and self-sufficiency. These allocations also provided financial security for citizens who felt increasingly entitled as a result of Cold War promises of universal affluence. Across the militarized American terrain rolled multiple wars: the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on cancer, and the war on terror. ...
Taken as complex, the militarized landscape also helped produce health epidemics. In the United States from 1950 to 2001, the overall age-adjusted incidence of cancer increased by 85 percent. Childhood cancer, once a medical rarity, has become the most common disease killer of American children. Cancer rates are just the end of a continuum of American health problems that include diabetes, heart disease, asthma and obesity. These socio-cultural-economic problems written on the body are also etched across American communities, one-quarter of which are within four miles of a Superfund site filled with plastics, chemical solvents, pesticides, nuclear waste, and all the other unwanted detritus of consuming societies. This is the house plutonium built.
Russia scores no better. From 1960 to 1985, cancer rates in the Societ Union grew from 115 to 150 per 100,000 people. ..."
; Kate Brown : Plutopia. Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters, 2013 - p. 3-4 ('Introduction') ; 337.

"When politics, bereft of relevant stories, cannot connect with the lives of those it claims to represent, it contributes to the dominant condition of our age: alienation.
Alienation means many things. ..." ;

" 'Altering human nature' may sound frightening, in view of developments in the twentieth century. But all political movements, consciously or otherwise, attempt this. As Margaret Thatcher, who instinctively understood such matters, explained, 'Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.' What she was talking about, though she did not express it in these terms, was shifting people along their value spectrum. The likely impact of her policies was to promote extrinsic values at the expense of intrinsic values. The likely impact of the fellowship societies established in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to draw people in the other direction.
There were similar initiatives in 'Red Vienna' after the First World War, in Spain before and during the Civil War, in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, and among contemporary or recent movements such as Occupy, the Movimento Sem Tierra in Brazil, the Zapatistas in Mexico, Nuit Debord in France, the Indignados and Podemos in Spain, and the People's Science Movement in the Indian state of Kerala.
[...] It is striking, reviewing this history, to see that even organizations now viewed as highly statist understood the importance of reviving community life. ..."
(Monbiot) ; Out of the Wreckage. A New Politics for an Age of Crisis (2017; p. 54; 73-4.)

"Politicians indulge in the same sophistry about the love of liberty as philosophers about the state of nature. They judge, by what they see, of very different things, which they have not seen; and attribute to a man natural propensity to servitude, because the slaves within their observation are seen to bear the yoke with patience; they fail to reflect that it is with liberty as with innocence and virtue, the value is known only to those who possess them, and the taste for them is forfeited when they are forfeited themselves."
Rousseau
(Discourse on Inequality ; 1754).

"Some places have gone further: a neighbourhood in Suwon, a city in South Korea, widened the pavements, created 'pocket parks', then banned cars for a month. The local authority handed out bicycles and electric scooters (and taught people how to ride them). Cafes and restaurants spilled into the streets, and people began to connect in ways that were impossible before. Though cars were allowed back after the experiment, the community's attitude towards them had changed: the speed limit was cut by half, reducing the number of vehicles passing through, and street parking was restricted. The district now organizes a car-free day every month."
;

"Here is an example of a fair political funding system. Every party or independent candidate would be entitled to charge the same small fee for membership (independents would be encouraged to form a supporters' club) - perhaps $20, £20, or its equivalent in other currencies. ...Any other political funding of parties or candidates, whether spent by the parties and candidates themselves or by others on their behalf, would be illegal. ...The funding of referendums is even simpler: the state should provide an equal amount for those campaigning on each side of the question.

This issue has been supremely complicated in the United States by perverse judicial rulings: a constitutional amendment would be requited to negate them. ...

The cost of the current system is the destruction of democracy in anything but the name: financial crises, caused by the ability of the financial sector to buy its way our of democratic constraints; the environmental crisis, exacerbated by the political power that destructive industries have purchased; the wages crisis and the collapse of working conditions, caused by the freedom to exploit that employers have purchased; and innnumerable bad, destructive and irrational policies, arising from the generalised corruption of politics, as well as the rise of an extremist anti-politics in response to a broken and unresponsive system. In other words, it runs into many billions. It runs beyond billions, into costs that money alone cannot represent."
(Monbiot) ; p. 78, 145-6. (Italics added, on above.)

"These, however, were all slight matters
to a man who had escaped
from Durham's fertilizer mill."
Upton Sinclair
(The Jungle ; 1906)

"...their mouths fringed with nails so they resembled steel-toothed carnivores..."
Ray Bradbury
(Martian Chronicles / The Silver Locust ; 1953).

"It is generally believed, outside Germany, that the entire judicial system of the country collapsed without a struggle after Hitler's takeover. This was not so, partly because any long-established, organically developed legal system has tremendous staying power and partly, of course, because the very character of such a system, based as it is upon justice and impartiality - the exact opposite of tyranny - offers passive resistance at the very least.

In 1935, I learned...
[...]
...that the pictures did not represent the true conditions on Wedemeyer's estate, [that] I had known all along; but I must admit that I was rather startled to find that they had been taken on an estate ran by Reichsbauernfuehrer - the top Nazi official in charge of peasant affairs. "

; ...Schlabrendorff's post-war book also contains some Appendices. Those have selections of the writings of Hitler's pre y. -33 adversies (mostly are, from prior to that year.). Among them is Ernst Niekisch' y. -32 written essay ('Hitler -A German Catastrophe'), ...of which the following passages:
" 'The measure of confidence enjoyed by Hitler is unprecedented. He has not yet performed any deed which would show him worthy of such trust; instead, it is given to him blindly. He is a past master in the art of making people believe in him, without first having had to answer the question about his ability and qualifications. ' [under sub-titling as 'On Hitlers secret of political success']

'The National Socialist movement has become a monstrous credit structure, but up to now nothing has come of it. Credit has accumulated in vast amounts, but not a single creative task has been accomplished...'
'National Socialism belongs in this category, it is the most daring structure of credit fraud that has ever been erected on political ground...' [...under subtitling: 'On the future of the National Socialist movement']"
(Shlabrendorff, Fabian von):
The Secret War Against Hitler (publ. 1965), p. 60-1, and; 370, 372(Niekisch)
[; Can't avoid from the mention...that this 'selection' was added purely due because it of closely seemed like some 'mirror-image' of the present reality. Perhaps, from only superficially, but...]

"...The Belarussians had an IBM computer with a registry of individual doses of over 100,000 people, including evacuees, liquidators, and 34,000 children. The foreigners asked for the registry once, twice, many times. They were put off.
And then something strange happened. Soon after the first IAEA [ie; International Atomic Energy Comission] scientists began arriving in the summer of 1990, 'hooligans' broke into the offices of the Institute of Radiation Medicine in Minsk. In what looked like professional job, the thieves knocked out a security guard with a blow to the head, took his keys, stole two computers and a pile of floppy disks, and sped off in a waiting car. The computer files contained the data on radiation exposure for 134,000 Belarussians. ...
..., the only database of its kind in the world, was never recovered. And that wasn't the only incident. ..."
;

"...The World Health Organization, overtaken by infighting, proved a disappointing leader in the crowded Chernobyl field. In 2003, WHO scientist Keith Baverstock attempted to put together an international Chernobyl Research Board to try again to ask open-ended questions on Chernobyl health impacts. Gonzalez preempted Baverstock's initiative by creating the Chernobyl Forum, an umbrella organization representing seven UN agencies, with the IAEA again at the helm. Instead of a major investigation of health effects, the Chernobyl Forum reviewed investigations in Western literature - most of them repetitive examinations of pediatric thyroid cancer - and issued a 'comprihensive report' that ran in the same well-worn track of earlier IAEA/UNSCEAR [UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Radiation] reports of 1987, 1988, 1996, 2001 and 2002. With an insistent repetition, the Chernobyl Forum blamed the rise of health problems on psychological trauma and called estimates of fatalities in the thousands 'exaggerated and incorrect'.
Fred Mettler, the author of the 1991 IAEA assessment ...also took charge of the Chernobyl Forum report published in 2006. Mettler was arguably the single most influential voice in producing judgements of Chernobyl-related health damage that are today cited in the media as fact (fifty-four fatalities and six thousand cases of childhood thyroid cancers). ..." ; "...Lost in the risk estimate's wonderful magic trick of making dozens of other harmful radioactive elements disappear are the bodies that ingested them and an accounting of how they fared. I too wanted to believe in the charts, to dissolve into them and make those sick kids in the contaminated regions go away."

"For Westerners, Soviet medicine was like the bloodless, late socialist economy, which was like Soviet hotels and Soviet restaurants. They were bad and poorly organized with incompetent and corrupt stuff. Soviet science long had a poor reputation abroad. Western commentators often focused on Trofim Lysenko, a Stalin-era geneticist who rejected evolutionary science and argued that plants and animals acquired characteristics in their lifetimes that could be passed on to their offspring. Historians judged that Lysenko slandered famed Russian geneticists to climb to the top of the scientific hierarchy. ...

Historian Hiroshi Ishikawa argues that Soviet science was not entirely undone by the politics of Lysenko. Geneticists who were purged from biology moved into physics departments in the early fifties where colleagues welcomed them as they puzzled over questions of radiation and health. Rather than view the genes, as geneticists did in the west, as impervious to ecological influence, Soviet scientists influenced by Lysenko's ideas came to understand intergenerational transfer of induced genetic abnormalities caused by environmental factors. With this science, Soviets gained a sensitivity to exposures to radioactivity and other toxins. They grew critical of Western risk estimates about radioactive fallout. ..." ; "...The period of nuclear testing qualifies as the most unhinged, suicidal chapter in human history. In the name of 'peace' and 'deterrence,' military leaders waged global nuclear war.
The damage of a half century of nuclear bomb testing appears to have left a perceptiple footprint on human health. Rates of thyroid cancer in the United States tripled between 1974 and 2013, and better detection did not account for all the increases. ..."
; Brown (Manual for Survival) - p. 234; 259, 262., - 273; 311.

"Digital democracy is no magic wand. It risks empowering one group...at the expense of others. It is vulnerable to hacking by money and undemocratic power.",
"The most obvious application of digital technologies is to provide us with the information we need to make intelligent political choices. When we vote, or participate in any other way, we should do so as informed and thoughtful citizens, rather than arriving at the polling station in a haze of ignorance and confusion and stabbing our pencils at a name we vaguely recognize while muttering, 'They're all as bad as each other.'"
;
"The people of Switzerland vote in around ten referendums a year, clustered into three or four polling days. Some of these are initiated by the parliament, some by citizens. Any law passed by parliament can be challenged by the people. If, within one hundred days, someone can furnish 50,000 signatures from people opposed to the law, the gorvernment is obliged to put the question to the country. These referendums are binding: if the people vote against it, the law is struck down. ...
...
It is true that some Swiss referendums have approved illiberal measures, such as a ban on the construction of new minarets. Other immoderate proposals, however, such as the expulsion of foreign criminals and an attempt to ban samesex couples from marrying, have been rejected, whilein 2016 a law granting asylum seekers free legal assistance was approved. ...
Rather than fostering extremism, the system tends to encourage caution (sometimes excessive caution) among political parties: they hesitate to introduce disruptive laws for fear of triggering a referendum. While direct democracy might limit innovation by governments, it stimulates innovation by citizens. ..."
(Monbiot) ; p. 156, 157. ; 152-3.

"Meanwhile, because semi-skilled jobs will become automated, leaving only high- and low-paid ones, global inequality will rise by 40 per cent. By 2060, countries such as Sweden will have the levels of inequality currently seen in the USA: think Gary, Indiana in the suburbs of Stockholm. There is also the very real risk that climate change will begin to destroy capital, coastal land and agriculture, shaving up to 2.5 per cent off world GDP, and 6 per cent in south-east Asia.
But the bleakest part of the OECD report lies not in what it projects but what it assumes: a rapid rise in productivity due to information technology. Three-quarters of all the growth to 2060 is expected to come from increased productivity.
However, that assumption is, as the report states euphemistically, 'high compared with recent history'.

In fact... ,there is no certainty at all that the information revolution of the past twenty years will turn into the kind of growth and productivity that can be measured in market terms. In that case there is substantial risk that the meagre 3 per cent annual growth projected by the OECD over the next fifty years will be closer to 0.75.

Then there is the migration problem. ..."

; "In addition, capitalist planning and modelling are typically unaccountable: by the time a major infrastructure project starts delivering results, ten or twenty years after its impact was first predicted, there is no person or organization still around to draw conclusions. Thus, most economic modelling under market capitalism is actually close to speculation.",

"[...] We would ask our supercomputer lateral questions: do young men get depressed because the Nike brand dies? Does the global sports industry suffer because Nike marketing spend is gone? Does quality decline when there is no brand value to maintain in the production process? And what would the climate impact be? To promote its brand, Nike has worked hard to reduce carbon emissions. We might decide keeping the price of Nike trainers high [...on preceding paragraph, given as '$190 and their production price...likely to be lower than $20'] is a good thing. Or not.

This, ...is what a postcapitalist state would use petaflop-level computing for. ..."
(Mason, Paul) : Postcapitalism (2015 - p. 28 ; 271,272.)
[...Indeed, one often quite astonishes from what a major advantage of some brand producing decent quality jogging shoes, hyped upward to ridiculous and unreal of its market-price - Meanwhile, practically all the medium-cost 'competitors' turning out inferior and non-endurable alternatives to, and, w. a near same production cost. For the consumer and environment (ecology, 'climates'...) the current form of the 'market' is actually just...some absurd, hideous 'jest'. Think about it.]
;

"...The Soviet gulag contained 1.4 million prisoners, about 200,000 of whom were killed each year. At least 6 million Jews were murdered in the Nazi concentration camps, and an estimated 3.3 million Russian prisoners of war died in German camps between 1941 and 1945. The Spanish war itself accounted for maybe 350,000 dead.

The scale of death during the Second World War makes it difficult to comprehend. So its impact on the politics and the sociology of the working class has been the subject of a horrified silence. But let us puncture it. The majority of the Jews killed in East Europe were from politicized working-class communities. Many were adherents either of pro-Soviet, left Zionist parties or the anti-Zionist Bund. The Holocaust wiped out an entire political tradition in the global labour movement in the space of three years.
In Spain, the unions, co-ops and militias of the left were destroyed by mass murder - and their traditions suppressed until the 1970s. Meanwhile, in Russia the working-class political underground was exterminated by the gulag and executions.
[...]
...Where workers' uprisings threatened the Allied plans - as they did both in Warsaw and Turin in 1944 - generals simply halted the military advance until the Wehrmacht had done its job. After that, the communist parties stepped in to limit all action to the restoration of democracy only.
There was no repeat of 1917-21. ..."
;
"Neoliberalism was designed and implemented by visionary politicians: Pinochet in Chile; Thatcher and her ultra-conservative circle in Britain; Reagan and the Cold Warriors who brought him to power. They'd faced massive resistance from organized labour and they'd had enough. In response, these pioneers of neoliberalism drew a conclusion that has shaped our age: that a modern economy cannot coexist with an organized working class. Consequently, they resolved to smash labour's collective bargaining power, traditions and social cohesion completely.

Unions had come under attack before - but always from paternalist politicians who had proffered the lesser of two evils: in place of militancy, they'd encouraged a 'good' workforce, defined by moderate socialism, unions run by agents of the state. ...
The neoliberals sought something different: atomization. Because today's generation sees only the outcome of neoliberalism, it is easy to miss the fact that this goal - the destruction of labour's bargaining power - was the essence of the entire project: it was means to all the other ends. Neoliberalism's guiding principle is not free markets, nor fiscal discipline, nor sound money, nor privatization and offshoring - not even globalization. All these things were byproducts or weapons of its main endeavour: to remove organized labour from the equation.

Not all the industrialized countries followed the same path, nor at the same pace. ..."
(Mason),2015: p. 196-7 ['The massacre of Illusions'] ; 91-2 ['The Attack on Labour']

"If the submission demanded be founded on justice - there is no appealing to a higher power - for God is Justice itself. Let us then, as children of the same parent, if not bastardized by
being the younger born, reason together, and learn to submit to the authority of reason - when her voice is distinctly heard. But, if it be proved, that this throne of prerogative only rests on a chaotic mass of prejudices, that have no inherent principle of order to keep them together, or on an elephant, tortoise, or even the mighty shoulders of a son of the earth, they may escape, who ..."
Wollstonecraft
(A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ; 1792)

5/11/21

'...Under (from) the fissures, After the pressures' ; Or, 'I am tired...'

“We live in a strange world, where all the united science tells us that we are about eleven years away from setting off an irreversible chain reaction, way beyond human control, that will probably be the end of our civilization as we know it.”

;

“We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction and the extinction rate is up to 10,000 times faster than what is considered normal, with up to 200 species becoming extinct every single day.

Erosion of fertile top soil. Deforestation of our great forests. Toxic air pollution. Loss of insects and wildlife. The acidification of our oceans.

These are all disastrous trends being accelerated by a way of life that we, here in our financially fortunate part of the world, see as our right to simply carry on.

But hardly anyone knows about these catastrophes...” (Greta Thunberg) - No One is too Small to Make a Difference (2019) ; p. 41 ,48. (...of) 'A Strange World', and, 'Cathedral Thinking'.

;

(pic), on the above. ; Nemi – our most latest discovery at the comic book heroines. (Or, maybe she actually inhabits some reality too. Sometimes you come to think, her at certain ways to quite as 'realistic' a realm – Lives on some parallel universe, perhaps?) But here now shown in a 'pondering', contemplative mood from....

“... The first country to industrialize and produce greenhouse gas on a grand scale, the United Kingdom, is expected to suffer least from climate change. The world's slowest-developing countries, producing the least emissions, will be among those hardest hist; the climate system of the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the world's poorest countries, is scheduled to be especially profoundly perturbed.

The Congo is mostly landlocked, and mountaineous, but in the next generation of warming those features will not be protections. Wealth will be a buffer for some countries, but not a safeguard, as Australia is learning already: by far the richest of all countries staring down the most intense, most immediate warming barrages,it is an early test case... changes likely to hit the rest of the well-off world only later this century. The country was founded on genocidal indifference to the native landscape and those who inhabited it, ...In 2011, a single heat wave there produced a significant tree dieback and coral bleaching, the death of plant life, crashes in local bird populations and dramatic spikes in the number of certain insects, and transformations of ecosystems...”,

“...When the country enacted a carbon tax, its emissions fell; when under political pressure, the tax was repealed, they rose again. ...” (; Wallace-Wells: The Uninhabitable Earth. A Story of the Future, p. 132, 133.)

;

“The extermination of biological diversity and of indigenous cultures that know how to live in peace with Mother Earth is part of one extinction, one interconnected war against life. Ecocide and genocide are one indivisible process, and they began with the idea of the colonization of the Earth as the 'civilizing mission' of a 'superior race'.” (Vandana Shiva), foreword to Extinction rebellion Handbook (2018; This is Not a drill ; p. 6.)

; ...On a little further from that is wrote (p. 7), ao the following noted; "...In 1492 the estimated population of indigenous people in the continent north of Mesoamerica was 18 million. By 1890 the native American population had dropped to 228,000.” [...And the paragraphs by middle these above 'selected' for presented - those seem cite from the U.S.'s then (y. 1833) president Andrew Jackson's 'annual message to congress'.; Of (his) 'declarations' to an advocated 'colonialistic' – and exterminating – 'grasp' of the lands and resources originally 'owned' by those said peoples. ...in that speech where the said demands were 'manifested' (/also not very much veiled) under the claim for the needed '...favorable change in their condition'. From behalf of the more "intelligent', and "superior" civilization.; That, of course, is a quite familiar 'page' to anyone w. reads for those notorious eviction policies during the Jackson's two terms...]

When the coming of Spring had awakened everything – the 'early' birds, the ground-worms, along w. rabbit (of course it didn't sleep but tried to fool the fox an all Winter long), the leafs of the trees, in their first buds by the season (flowerings also, at least on willows, earliest by the March/April...), we seemed to be obliged leave ourselved for some time to the rest as well. (Sleeping, I mean.) ; In a way, the best Summer season – from growth of the vegetations - and from everything else being still from the several weeks away.

(Or it was. As now we're already to a few weeks after – And a Summer too is well on it's begins already, by this moment.)

('...I could sleep for a'...) THOUSAND YEARS ; ...Also, as it has been most part rather more to the 'regularity' in the weathers – this year, much of my Springtimes were from spent in the garden-side. Or, for the 'most part'. ; As the consequent – These writes then weren't to so much from. More for some 'secondary interest'. (And therefore, there's actually a some bit referencing for the observance of Spring, already wrote during the now past Months.)

; Although, I've not been to so 'buzy' in a garden either, the truth said. Not on 'every day', at least. I'm probably also so much lazy and too indetermined from to maintain any that sort activity, 'for the scheduled', cons my gardening activities.

Besides, I so like as an idea that garden from good amounts is left to develop by it's own.

For the occasioned, in a buzied 'intervals' I'm, anyways, now doing my several tasks there; From increasingly more during by this now lived most lovely early-growth season here. I-o-w: As we now are already in the May, the experience tells me that the June would be from surprising soon for the approaching. Early part that – There's usually, necessarily quite some more for do. ; But 'till then I'm actually, the most part, just keepin' some care of my most from my new seedlings. Alongside, doing a fewsome sowings and 'preparations' on outdoors that already can be done. ; And, by this moment (30.4 – in fact a week after that, like was said...) it seems that the squashes we're having for to, most probably, need now be sowed. By the next, in about some few weeks time...

And there's then some other cultivations - even some new plants I've decided from to grow and plant by this year. (More 'bout them on a latter 'section' from this posting.)

And along w. those tasks, is then some 'clean-ups' in garden - and 'check about' from some perennials that were by last planted. Fromafter the Winters passing seen to emerge from under snows. ; Not for very many those seemed been harmed by the (slight) more severe Winter frosts we now had – from the “severe” only if I compare that to our former, maybe to the some 5 most recent years from. As the Winter now wasn't exactly for very cold – it was just, happily, from more colder than the previous few.

As some 'essentials' – like usual in anything having to do w. the plants; those garden 'cultivables', the household-plants, or from some as the ornamental ones...; I wouldn't actually find there any haste now from any good at all. As the plants naturally tend best grow acc. to some natural 'pace' to their own. Or say; they favor to following from their own 'rhythm' in that – the growth. - And so we're basically at these earliest Spring Months, here, only awaitin' the somewhat steadier warmer season from make it's more permanent 'stays'. (On here 'Northern soils', too.) ; Now mostly awaitin' the nightly temperatures to reach, about, smght like by averages over the 5 to 10 Celsius-degrees. But it still takes some weeks from any good growing to start, acc my any recalls from. For the “usual” from ca some 5 to 6 weeks more.

(photo, beside) ; ...Water container. Having that in uses for my collecting from rain waters. ...By this Spring, so far, we've not had any scarcity of the waters for these gardening uses. But from learnt of the earlier seasons, I've actually acquired the additional number these plastic containers. (Here some reason: The Squashes esp., for lot more favor the rain water than tap water, As they don't like so much the lime that's added for a last mentioned.)

(By the moment when that previous said was written – for by now, actually, in any 'good Summer' it would be only some Month away, from after this day. As it tends still for take until around the middle by June before it for adequate favoring from most perennials growth. And before the soil becoming to warm enough for that.)

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“Everything we see online is there because of some sort of design decision.” - by Peter Pomerantsev ('a propaganda expert')

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“...In 82 percent of countries around the world, less than half of the public express trust in the media, and this is contributing directly to the rising cynicism towards governments. The governmental institutions of the European Union and Washington DC are viewed as centers of elite privilege, which serve themselves rather than the public. Such feelings often hold greatest sawy among communities that also benefit economically from those governments' policies.”

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“... The emphasis on 'real time' knowledge that was originally privileged in war has become a feature of business world, of Silicon Valley in particular. The speed of knowledge and decision-making becomes crucial, and consensus is sidelined in the process. Rather than trusting experts,...we have come rely on services that are fast, but whose public status is unclear. A 2017 survey, for example, found that more people were willing to trust search engines than human editors.” (William Davies) - Nervous States. how feeling took over the World. ; on 'Introduction' (xiv, xvi.; italics are Davies')

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'The God didn't dare to create Valentina, so I had to do that instead...' ; (Crepax) ; SOME FORGERY, as the comment by, as any 'words by'. - Acc to any (my) knowing, Crepax never said anything like the words – And this only does originate from our own wrote few sentences from...

; (Obviously)...that latest (citate) given here only to an example on how much of the usual propaganda works – It prefers from the plainest untruths for told and circulated in the most likely sources for peoples 'daily' informations, perhaps hoping gain the claimed some 'credence' and reliabilitet. - But, even more preferable is said for thought it found, if possible, to conceal those 'untruths' in midst from something where is some 'bit of the truth...' (Hence them became, sort of, parts from the shared ”truth”.)

(pic) ; ...Crepax's Valentina (of 'In Poco Loco'. Guessin that story by originally drawn at the y., ...67?) ; Anyway – Here (also) as some addition, for our continuing Big Wimmen-series.

(...As any friend of the Valentina's adventures would know; her 'frivolous', often s/m-oriented, deeply imaginary dreams are a some reality to their own - do 'visualize' some psychogical 'thematics', and not much on any 'common-place' manner. ...Guessin' that the dr Freud would've been, post mortem, also bit 'shaken' when Crepax perhaps by earliest had some ideas that then ultimately did lead for this 'Big Girl'...)

And it said that often does work, the propaganda to succeed for the surprising often.

We all probably tend possess at least some complete falsified 'beliefs' originating from that type 'propaganda'; From the biased – or mistaken – sources from. (I don't think I'd to know any lot for about the God – But thinkin' that the reading the Orwell taught me some good lot on cons from the propaganda...)

(photo) ; Tree – photographed on a cold evening by last January here. ; ...Think I recall that from been some of the coldest earliest very coldest days during a last Winter. Nearby for the minus 20 Celsius, maybe. Might have on Feb, though. Not too sure of which the day, not too certain from. ;

...Consider this, if wish, instead to one selection on that Big Wimmen-series. (Trees like women, often, appear little mystical..At least..in the 'best of circumstances.') ; On the other hand – open for consideration – it's being a species of the Betula, the birches. Belongs to the broad-leaved trees therefore. They're actually the more often 'sexless', maybe – Or at least I can't tell from the birches any of that what comes for the individual trees. ; Guess we can think this tree then for an Androgyne from any 'sex'.

(Whichever. – Also, it's so birches oftenmost look tend have the more feminine 'look' than from 'male'. Whatever the any worth by this argument.) But indeed, during by some coldest days the trees here again seemed near in their looks some 'other-worldly' dimension. (If that by some exaggeration. But only little...)

(on these few...) 'Unmoralities...' ; BY the same (...'breath'), having to confess from yet another thing:

Didn't actually read that book cited at the above quots (That by Davies', a 'political economist and sociologist') And frankly said. ...I find that aspect on this making - from a view-point by (these) writings - for the 'slight bit', from the 'more or less', remarkably - hilarious.

By no way I'd for to think, from to think that such would appear somhow as anything defendable – As fort any 'deed'. Not very well serves any my own 'needs for know', and – let me use as the words rather – needs for to 'find out'.

The both from selected paragraphs (on above, from that book) only seemed for to provide us easily some very important view-points to being pointed out; And hence those chosen on that place. Important as some p-o-w's from thinkin' anything 'bout this further continuing social fragmentation an this increase, 'in general', a distrust towards much of any the 'established' political 'facades'. Or; towards those agencies of the official 'expertise' on informing, indeed. – Often information sources which the most (,'from us') are, maybe, apt to think as somehow, anyhow reliable sources. ; As for having, 'till lately', represented an important part in the present organized societies, say...

; But, the curious discovery in my any recent readings for the sociology – Or again, better said; the social sciences, the political science, and also the futuristics about and on that 'information society' theory, are that there by now so many simultaneous ongoing directions from - All that lot seemed (a lot) for stress that one same particular aspect: that present speed of the change.

How that - generally known as, fx by term from 'the digitalization' - now operating on 'all levels' seems, by the enfastened rate, how it seems so much said for to undermining any 'firm ground' below the 'human feet'. How it ('nowadays') by constantly projected to ('soon') exceed any the capacities from our regular, formerly "trusted" human systems to handle that change. Or, our previous and 'safely usual' ways for 'coping by' with any changes. (How we regularly do 'come by'.) All of those biologic, mental...ao, human capacities from. ; In short, anything from with we'd gotten used to react and response for all the newer innovations, the constant social - and more later - from the self-evidently 'necessity' those technological changes now promised to commpletely re-arrange our former 'human condition'.

(Sometimes you even start to imagine that idea as something from very seriously envisioned a 'tomorrows' from: All about the lot of the drum-beat for those 'Wellsian' master-race, now 'on it's making' might make one think that - already having taken place; happened while we were...from watching the telly? See - I am not much of believer for the 'self-evolved' humanity...; Often even thinkin 'bout that 'master-class', from as some 'masters of deceit'. With a bit of the envy, naturally -And particularly fromafter my few above given public acclaims...)

...But, from why that then become a bit hilarious, also was due because from...W. a thought that fromafter all my (plentiest) recent reads and constant newsings of been at least 'glanced' for – I'm then also finding myself (personally,) in the recognized sort hurry and 'haste' to try reach some ('decent') understandings about the said prior noted 'change' from - So much so, (that) I'm having not any place to reads for the more profounds on it. Just for selecting a few interesting sounding social 'stats' and of researches for cited and then presenting those tellings, 'alongside'. - It then becomes a merely funny discovery of what are most apparent 'limits' by this present age of information. (Or the cult of that information, to use Roszak's already quite distant, aged terms for about something like that digital 'information-haste'...)

...Like some distrustable 'Google-motor'. Or, from (bit jokingly said) as some devotedly partial, a 'non-interested' false-news advocacy. (A “Big biller” for an endless flow of stacks and 'parcels' of what permits the lots to say, but little for any knowledges – At least if by that knowledges meant for something what you'd think for somehow...useful. For as something one could 'rely on'.)

Yet - I'm then also actually finding my this little slip for the “unconfirmed” informations, from a bit more excusable. (While that “omission”, of course, doesn't speak too well behalf my own reliability from...) Doesn't appear for represent me from anything like someone who'd inclined to towards something you'd think from the honest interests. Not for as someone trying to represent oneself for (somehow) impartial an 'informant'. Or for the 'devoted' and comprihensive for what comes to one's principal ideas or ideals.

; But...yet, from to little more defend (my) rejections at this (here - 'in time'); The few given quotations, of that Davies - Them seemed provide us a few rather important viewpoints on cons just this aspect, aspects for discussed.

All from that what should/would concern this information speedway (world wide web), by the presently. (Or even if, 'by the recently'.) That said mass-increase in the mischievous 'informings' - And cons all the same sort 'malleable' little malpractices. Some that seem said from become by the more common. ; Both feats seem 'surface' as some often recognized 'recent' characteristics on it; 'False news' bots, the misinforming campaigns (prior election times)...etc. - And indeed, why not then call for all that by something like the real term for all such sort: propaganda ?

Better still - as some defense, of course - is, that I'm certainly not alone on w. such mischievous practice. (That what now was on above here – in a few examples, was for revealed.)

Should we even think that as a some...'sign of the times' ? Something actually defensible then, perhaps...therefore? ; Also, the similar (of course,) surprisingly often does take place. (As I've that discovered.) As we're then finding (that), in during this constant more 'speeded-up' age, period - The surprising much from, for the 'devastating' many, in the some present written books seem appear be comprised by – With the similar manner.

(Quite number from those at least.)

In a many typical bookstalls. On the 'street shops' – Or, in most the actual indoors sales of the books. (Is the...bookstore, even anymore some proper name for such places ? It sometimes does make you wonder from...) -------

; Yet, some even lot more dishonest practices - like fx the direct forgeries and plagiarizations, on other peoples more proofs-oriented writing from, of course, always been found for happen. Both too some real 'scourges' - slaps in the 'face' for some idea from any honest knowledge. Both at the means from that to purpose from all literary expression - and cons to their very similar (many) uses at the other human communication(s). It 'always' having existed. From the days since by the first invention of the written word. (In during all writing times, and through the periods, eras known to us as for some such times.)

Sometimes often one even comes to see that in the most unexpectable places. Sometimes presented as an authentic 'proofs' for a some most unexpectable things. (But let us not go for all that.)

(However, by this certain timing, cons these few noted 'betrayals' from...I don't feel for too much any moral resentment, not for some afterthoughts by embarrassingly 'knocking'. ; Having learnt somewhat of my own past mistakes. – Had I not told about, most wouldn't probably had noticed anything particularly vile at those places... :)

By anycase, it well now in place for to end these personal confessions of this lack in my 'own' morals.

Hope still that (any) from you wouldn't do anything similar, of the resembling sort even...

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“Even when it comes to war, historical memory has a sadistically short half-life, horrors and their causes gauzily evanescing into familiar folklore in less than the span of a single generation. But most wars throughout history, it is important to remember, have been conflicts over resources, often ignited by resource scarcity, which is what an earth densely populated and denuded by climate change will yield. Those wars don't tend to increase those resources, most of the time, they incinerate them.” ; (Wallace-Wells; p. 101.)

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“And so, in the peculiar and still insular mythology of Hawaii, the dislocations of war became the promises of progress. Whether or not the promises have been fulfilled depends of course upon who is talking, as does whether or not progress is a virtue, but in any case it is war that is pivotal to the Hawaiian imagination, war that fills the mind, war that seems to hover over Honolulu like the rain clouds on Tantalus. Not very many people talk about that. They talk about the freeways on Oahu and condominiums on Maui and beer cans at the Sacred Falls and how much wiser it is to bypass Honolulu altogether in favor of going directly to Laurance Rockefeller's Mauna Kea, on Hawaii. ... Or, if they are on a more visionary turn, they talk, in a kind of James Michener rhetoric, about how Hawaii is a multiracial paradise and labor-management paradise and a progressive paradise in which the past is now reconciled with the future, where the I.L.W.U.'s Jack Hall lunches at the Pacific Club and where that repository of everything old-line in Hawaii, the Bishop Estate, works hand in hand with Henry Kaiser to transform Koko Head into a $350 million development named Hawaii Kai. If they are in the travel business they talk about The Million Visitor Year (1970) and the Two Million Visitor Year (1980) and twenty thousand Rotarians convening in Honolulu in 1969 and they talk about the Product. 'The reports show what we need,' one travel man told me. 'We need more attention to shaping and molding the product.' The product is the place they live.” ; (Joan Didion), of the “Letter from Paradise, 21* 19' N., 157* 52' W.” (Of a famous y. -68 essays-collection – at that, on p. 202-3. - ...If/whether that then not published in some other places, too. ; But, the felt like, somehow, a quite fitting an 'analysis'. (Maybe) due because it seems to 'draw aforth' some ideas and impressions. A lot of what – Only by the later seems for become as the more common from...'recognized'?. Or from 'discovered'...)

As for some another p-o-w's...

(Btw; I use this abbreviation, quite regularly to mean: Point-of-view. ; Therefore, not to be confused for the 'Prisoner-of-war' – As that's perhaps a more usual meant by with abbreviation from it. In my uses, almost always to the first mentioned)

...we're then having here as some links;

As the said questions about an untrustable sources (at 'web', or more in general') - and the former ethical contemplates seemed a little from 'preparing' us on these noting.; Here's then a some link/newssing (, by the 'recently published'...?), on (about) Twitter(...? - really...??) ;

Perhaps a some exemplary 'case-in-point' - cons all that which we said on above at least. (As the resemblant issues around by the questions from the Net's very 'typifying', limiting and often also, even 'distorting' nature having become to so much by lately discussed. Such as I read, ao, from via that Bridle's book (2018) – Also wrote on a little from, now some Months past at here.)

; ...In related, can be noted, even for that having become elsemuch too more often for remarked about the paradoxical invalidity on an information at a global/local WWW(s). - Concerning those several, many seen critiques; Often the sometimes surprising impartiality found in an information/news is more often is from covered in the more critical articles.

; If I should (then) trust for this source(s) here – Indeed a failure of the sort, at least in a level by what nowadays also is more often for talked about; The demand from thr better 'transparency' concerning anything that's then put from available to the public. (As the 'news'. Or smtgh similar.) ; In that light, indeed, quite some Ideological and Ethical failings, in very brief. (...And also leavin' the rest to any readers own finding from and about, around that. 'Around' from this particular topic - as by ourselves we did have 'discovery' only via of this singular, one newssing...)

Guess, we'll then also obliged here further of to add that the (above) link only caught my attentions on reading the (recent?) lenghtier newssing at that Guardian. ; On a 'long read', as they seem call those. As the noted link picked only via from the reads from Roy's article at that. On the India's health crises...

; ...Also guessin', still, that from all the lot that for the constant happening – in a 'global world' – by increasingly, nowadays, at least does find some 'coverage'. Not the less due because the said informations-highway, 'web', must've now have become ever further places available. (In the more of the places anywhere in the world. In more of the countries.) ---------

Some another article viewed by the lately on that serie (ie, from those 'long reads'.) – was this. (The article named as: 'Invention of whiteness'.) ; Thought that for quite worth reads, some look - if the aspect for an interest, to anyone readers interests. (...Some views on how far the so called 'racial' origins of the 'modern', ie of the better 'known', by during the 1800s/20^th century's formulated racial 'segregations', and accompanied race theories actually reach – Acc. the said, essentially, it about how novelty such attitudes actually appear in a more close historical look.)

...Not too much anything to add or say cons that. Except, from a some passing mention perhaps - At following few paragraphs.

; About from that...this otherways rather informative article didn't offer any words, not anything from 'premarked'/for the mention 'bout an (american) Indian slavery. (In during by the years for it's existence with the some centuries by a trans-Atlantic slave trade. Ca, by from the early 17^th century onwards – if for thinkin' that on an N.America's part.) But the article seemed to only for, alongside the 'mains' on it, from refer to the somewhat lot better known histories from African-American slavery. Precisely said, on that what for a more often goes described by the word of a same notorious history of the chattel slavery. Across the N. Atlantic/for the West Indies, etc. ao. But an indian slavery, in the early colonial years acc to Newell's writing, also did feat from 'much the same'. (Only that from preceding the Atlantic 'cane sugar economies', and of that thenafter around from the midst/late 1700's still more keenly become connected to the 'invented' discrimative racial prejudice, also w. the invention by that 'whiteness' - as a normative, in other words – the Indian slavery history has become somewhat 'declined' in memory, from 'forgotten' under the more later histories and times.)

As I read by recent several few 'chapters' on that indian slavery from Newell's book (that, Brethren by nature, 2015) – There is a few passages from it (the book) also on a 'left-margin' here. (Ie, on amongst those plentiest selections that 'decorating' the flow by this main content in blog's posts.)

; ...Newell, fx, among the other details told from a N.American Indian slavery, describes as well it's social and economic 'motives'. It's nature in related to the early juridistical and colonial practices. Or, also form w. the then prevailed christian religion. (In that colonial context, sort of...) ; So, on a below is some compact passage, for some example of. (Not for too carefully selected, though. As I just by the recent even read that book.) ;

“Desire for Indian labor generated demand in the 1640s far beyond what the Pequot captives could provide. European in-migration to New England slowed to tiny trickle after 1640. The calling of Parliament in 1642 and Puritan successes there and in the English Civil War not only removed the reason for leaving England in the first place, but also drew many New Englanders back to England to participate. The region's worsening reputation for religious intolerance and tough treatment of servants and non-Congregationalists further discouraged servant migration. A small number of Scots prisoners of war and convict laborers arrived in the 1640s, but, with a few exceptions, New England's ongoing labor pool would have to be generated from within, or from the ranks of the involuntary: slaves.” (;on p. 119.)

; The topic itself indeed, also, might've only by more recently become under some comprihensive studies from. That meaning, by the latest decades. After the turn for 2000s, maybe. Or so now from supposin'...

Which, in fact, neither appears much surprising.

- Despite that, one of course cannot quite complete avoid for having noticed the occasional mentionings for the issue on my previous reads (Of the 1800ian 'texts'). I've myself perhaps not 'come by' to so many from...but it still often apparent in the context. From via the later studies, sometimes 'non-direct' in the mention. (And also via some material I earlier happen of taken to my reads, by during the few latest years.) ; William Apess, for a just one example, at his renown speeches by that 1830s naturally makes the more of a mention. – At least in the mention from about the captives' fates on after “Pequot” war – of whom the numbers were enshipped and enslaved to the Barbados-isle. Where, also, the slavery already by then (the 1600s) was for lot harshes and from punitive sort than at continental 'mainland' (/the 'New England' towns.) And indeed, there's prob. plentiest more references to it in other 1800ian texts too...

; In overall, can't but notice there for from a 'more about' it all - At that Newell (2015), among others perhaps. Which also was then our main reasons for this (briefer) mentioning. On this instance, here place. -------

“['that']...what Bostrom calls 'posthumanity' and others often call 'transhumanism' – the possibility that technology may quickly carry us across a threshold into a new state of being, so divergent from the one we know today that we would be forced to consider it a true rapture in the evolutionary lilne. For some, this is simply a vision of nanobots swimming through our bloodstreams, filtering toxins and screening for tumors; for others it is a vision of human life extracted from tangible reality and uploaded entirely to computers. ...

It is hard to know just how serioously to take these visions, though they are close to universal among the Bay Area's futurist vanguard, who have succeeded the NASAs and the Bell Labs of the last century as architects of our imagined future - ...”

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“For Bostrom, the very purpose of 'humanity' is so transparently to engineer a 'posthumanity' that he can use the second term as a synonym for the first. This is not an oversight but the key to his appeal in Silicon Valley: the belief that the grandest task before technology is not to engineer prosperity and well-being for humanity but to build a kind of portal through which we might pass into another, possibly eternal kind of existence, a technological rapture in which conceivably many – the billions lacking access to broadband, to begin with – would be left behind. It would be very hard, after all, to upload your brain to the cloud when you're buying pay-as-you-go data by the SIM card.

The world that would left behind is the one being presently pummeled by the climate change. And Bostrom isn't alone, ... ...yet it is perhaps a sign of our culture's heliotropism toward technology that aside perhaps from proposals to colonize other planets, and visions of technology liberating humans from most biological or environmental needs, we have not yet developed anything close to a religion of meaning around climate change that might comfort us, or give us purpose, in the face of possible annihilation.” (Wallace-Wells; p. 174; 175)

; ...'heliotropism?...toward technology ?' ; ...Unfortunate that I didn't pay more attentions on how this referred passage – those sentences cited from their 'middle' actually does begin. Not the book on my hands also, anymore. So can't now check for, by afterwards. (Some good point more from concerning the points of view; Of the people's general 'distrustability' - It sometimes can take places, 'almost', from accidentally.)

Let us guess, that it not would've changed anything meaningful on that. (And again - only for my words of the 'good intention', that the said 'cutting' of the those sentences was by no other means carried.) ; ..The above actually for the mentioned, as I'm this Summer now growing some heliotropes for my gardens – Somehow it then feels like a peculiar 'coincidence', that word. Well...we have no needs for to stick on any words.

- Thought for that 'example' on capital limits in the Bostrom's envisioned 'ideal' to the mankind's next stage; that about an 'evolved' tomorrow's 'super-humans'. Indeed, looks it lot more like (a “future”) that'd leave no place among the “chosen ones” to some/any who'd only by now entering this digital-era/the global networked world via means of some 'pay-as-you-go data'... ; Brings also for the mind, fx, those some '144,000' first-born 'lucky' whom allowed to enter an authentic 'heavenly paradises', in after-life, acc the teachings by the church from Jehova's Witnesses. Or, also the Dianetics – As it too some “church” acc the 'believers'. In essence, more like from a pyramid scheme. (And not a some authentic religion.) ; There is a bit of the same on all that (Bostrom's) view, or the so called 'transhumisms' in more generally...

(a) moral disaster...in the multitudes, at it's 'multinational making'..? ; ...THOUGHT then also by some amount for a fewsome more pages devoted on Climate – that what usually has become 'equipped' , for automatically must begin w. that "big C." On most/any of writings from 'bout, suppose - Such a big issue, by nowadays. ; And also thought then for at least as much, plentysome of the environment(s).

From 'foremost' – as I came happened as well consider for some number other aspects that'd appeared necessary discussed from within that (the 'Climate'). All actually the worth from even more of a thought, I'd actually to think. After all we live on, acc Wallace-Wells's termings, period of the 'residual climate rage'. (In other words, I guess, it would also translate for the century's foreseen - global - climatic disasters. A period of uncontrollable, and 'uncalculable' global weathers, already in the realisation...And not for just some 'local', or by otherways, the more limited environmental setbacks and minor problems. So, what then could be for a amore important topic...?

I repeat: The period of changed global climates already seems for be here. Or so about it nowadays the usual to how that seems told. The more unstable conditions generated w. the humanity's longterm past burning of the fossil fuels. Realised and compromised by 'our' long years in the arrogant, indifferent cultures on the Nature's part. (That of course meaning the coals, oils and petroleums foremost – But also are fx the cultures by 'endless' constructions, in the humankind's making; the over-expanded meats and poultries 'sectors'; all the wrong methods in an agricultural overuses for a many from said areas. Incl. several 'ranges' that appear often thought to a humanity's 'bread baskets'.)

Doesn't probably matter whether or not we now take all from ('given') future views to their more optimistic estimate from - or stress more for the major parts negative. (As the most expectable – or to smght like – to a 'worst prospects'- scenario. Alternatively, if thinkin' to the more likehood smght nearer to the more 'limited' a climatic scenario.) ; I also think, in spite all the lot climatic 'informations' – it's also increasingly more talked 'bout, as well, from animal extinctions, the erosion, that 'more unpredictable' (than before) weatheric phenomena, the droughts, the heats...Indeed, I think there does appears a very keen connection in all of that for the 'overall' alienation from the Nature's part. In this capital-devoted cultural age. In a threat by it evermore increased having become apart of the cultural 'way-of-life' to ever more increased numbers of peoples. As some significant reason why we're apparently living in a period where the climatic disaster already seems progressed a way too far. (So far. By the presently, for a 3^rd decade in the 21^st cent from it's beginning.) ; In essence a some 'Ecocide and genocide' in the making - If I'd for a litte remind the expression on mind, of the citates on the begins from this posting.

So it would seem also us for (be) much past a 'point' where most (,by 'us') would've still for found themselves capable too to recognizing some – say, the sort of – Nature's signs from all it's forewarned deteriorations. (Which found gone beyond some 'critical point'.) That 'point' is probably is on the past now. And hence – We're then also relying for quite much on an information constant provided by any 'professionals'. The climatic knowledges that the scientists and environmentalists tell us. (At this connection, previous that said w. "all the respect", obviously...) Gradually the more alarming findings – If one would only look at the data from the timeline by a few most previous decades lenght. ---------

'...(some) moral capital' ; ...As a citizen for these advanced, developed Northern regions; 'child' to these 'progressive' economies, with all the benefits and “privileges” of that - I've perhaps until recent happened pay the relative little concern on the ongoin' climate deterioration. (; Though', one could think the opposite basis the some number written post, if to 'glancin' on their contents.)

; In short, it not for taken to some 'moral betrayals'; not, of course, to express from some defends behalf (any sort) moral denials from. (The preceded little 'carelessnesses' and 'lack of concern' on the topic, that meant for say...)

(photo, on beside) ; ...A piece of, apparently, plastic litter that this culture of pollution seems find itself to so hopelessly 'stuck on to'. (A lid for some soft drink or maybe cup-a-coffee.) Thrown/flown on aside to 'blemish' the surroundings, in midst the 'rubble' and dirt of some parking mall. I think there read PET on it (the lid), so I guess it's basically recyclable plastic - But that case not decomposing. ; ...They nowadays also talk much 'bout various 'naturally' decaying substitutes on materials used at this culture of life-style-littering (for that is what that essentially represents...) - Remains to be seen if that is to lead for an actually meaningful change for the better. - And, admitted said, that I'm not anyhow against the fast food-sales firms having still more started use the more compostable packaging materials on their "meals" ('Though, I wouldn't call such foods as meals...) - On some history by, say, 30-years time, that reduction on a non-ecologic packaging seems the sole really important "advance" those firms having achieved make. (Let us hope that 'change' at least does continue...)

And for a one example – considered as well in the accompaniment from to this writing...was by the recent reading of a one newssing; As acc to that: Only '3 percent' from Earth's (vast) surface remains on it's ecologically undisturbed, “safe and sound”, condition. In how . Most else having become more or less human-'compromised' 'till this day. (Resultantly all else, or much part, for long since even been on at it's 'original state' - Whatever the criteria used from defining that.) All else – at some point or time having gotten under the human disturbances. ; No wonder the climates then won't feel like it perhaps 'used from be', should be – For one thing - the ground hasn't been for long time, either! ------

One could of course make a number of good pointed arguments how the present deterioration was reached. Rich's past years book (...by 2018?; Losing Earth) combines some issues from the multinationels, fossil-fuel companies years long climatic denials on the followed few passages, 'nicely'. Soforth, we're citing that for these 'endings' – or for to cut this passage now in brief:

“...The rot extends, however, beyond the most cartoonish forms of denialism – the snowball brandished on the Senate floor, the 'educational' videos sent to elementary schools, the actors hired by the local utility to pledge support for a new power plant [...a p-ow: replace that 'idea' w. the word 'Nuclear energy plant' – and think from whether from the any essentials, of this sentence, at all, would change...(For a view-point - W-G.)] at city council meetings. The failure to acknowledge the problem is itself a form of denialism: a gaslighting by omission. The moderator of a presidential debate who neglects to pose a single question about climate change [...read/consider that, instead from as the word for: 'global warming' ; (W-G.)] ; the editor who declines to devote regular coverage to the issue because there is no immediate 'peg,' believing that a perpetual existential threat is not sufficiently newsy; the school board that skirts the topic because it seems too political or scientific – all make their own humble contributions to the thickening of the public ignorance.”

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The greatest trick of the professional denialists is not to convince the world that global warming is a hoax. The world remains unconvinced; even three-quarters of U.S. voters are unconvinced. The denialists' greatest trick is to convince us that they are convinced - that they believe what they say. ...”(; 194-5.)

(...So I've thought too. Never thought for all these seen hoaxes to too much convincing...)

(A 'moral decline'...) ; Yet - on from anything more on the Climates said, by us...Perhaps it best admit that any too 'specific' coverage at this point wouldn't even had from turned too good in the making – Or for from too 'fruitful'.

And therefore, a reader having to do, by the latest, with those several quots from that Wallace-Wells at this post. Which, I think, might serve actually that purpose far better than my own few efforts would've had in any case.

(I also had a number detailed view-points planned said on the atomic energies, the uranium and plutonium pollutions - Those very histories w. all their very similarity from with that I think for – Some lot of a referred human alienation and rapid advanced further exclusion from the Natures very essential 'mechanisms' from. ; But, I guess'll from said the much of any that already before. Already in our previous posts.)

(photo, on beside) ; A New Series ! (...of the graffiti, or from painting, drawings, 'posters' - And perhaps of an else sort street art, and -'decorations'.) ; ...This particular one I seemed, not of had to this had for cropped, from very well - It would look more 'captivating', had I left aside the all but the pic itself. (For it was winter afternoon, the photo taken; Sky was largely cloudy, and the depiction not so much 'catches the gaze', than it does captivate passerby'es attention. ie, how it does on an actual place it from.) - But this pic still makes it's p-o-w for quite apparent. Also is very plain w. it's message presented, clearly expressed smght what more rarely does reach the usual 'news-standard'. ; ...The idea to (this series) also from that by some 'lucky coincidence' - would be some coincidence indeed - any reader might walk by the(se) same spots wherever I've walked by, photographed any for these...

Although, it probably would appear a correct guessin' if much in addit from those – devastating - pasts in nuclear histories (...on by the 1950s, 60s, -70s, 90s, 2000s...) still having been in the more lately brought for a 'surface'. ; My few notices, prior writings here on it, mainly (,or for their 'largest part') were basis to reads of those few books by Brown (from 2013, and 2015.) ----------

; But, here onwards from, then only follows next the 'final section' of this text. Or – let us alleviate – possibly not so much else more 'dumped' here, fromafter that part.

(Supposin' our 'scheduel' now so...)

(pic, beside - below) ; ...apparently some "fatal attractions" ; ...w. slight modifications in the txt-bubble (words at). the source for; no to the orig. vampy-mag, by earlier we must'd already mentioned...

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; That 'Final Section' - ie now continues... ; w. the, ['2nd part']

“But carbon is, more or less, the least of it. Going forward, the planet's air won't just be warmer; it will likely also be dirtier, more oppressive, and more sickening. Droughts have a direct impact on air quality, ...By the 2090s, as many as 2 billion people globally will be breathing air above the WHO 'safe level'. Already, more than 10,000 people die from air pollution daily. ...“ ; Wallace-Wells, (on) The Uninhabitable Earth. A Story of the Future. (...at page 76. ; ...I think, that was.)

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“...In the nineteenth century, the built environment of the most advanced countries reflected the prerogatives of industry – think of railroad tracks laid across whole continents to move coal. In the twentieth century, those same environments were made to reflect the needs of capital – think of global urbanization agglomerating labor supply for a new service economy. In the twenty-first century, they will reflect the demands of the climate crisis : seawalls, carbon-capture plantations, state-sized solar arrays. ... - even in a time of climate crisis, progressives will find ways to look out for number one.

We are already living within a deformed environment – indeed, quite deformated. In its swaggering twentieth century, the United States built two states of paradise: Florida, out of dismal swamp, and Southern California, out of desert. By 2100, neither will endure as Edenic postcards.

...We have simply crowded – or bullied, or brutalized – every other species into retreat, near-extinction, or worse. E.O.Wilson thinks the era might be better called the Eremocine – the age of loneliness.”(; Wallace-Wells; 128-9.)

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“When my mother was born, in the early 1960s, in the nomadic indigenous communities, Lake Chad – which gave its name to my country – was covering 25,000 square kilometres between Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria. This is the equivalent of the size of a small country in Africa, like Rwanda. Today, this lake, which is the heart and soul of the Sahel region, covers only about 2,500 square kilometres. In fifty years, we have lost 90 per cent of this resource so essential for the life of one of the poorest regions of the world.

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Everywhere on the planet, more than 370 million indigenous people who live according to the rhythm of nature, in symbiosis with their environment, tell the same stories. These stories tell a tale about the end of the world.

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Water is not the only problem. Because with it, plants and animals essential for ecosystems and biological diversity disappear too. Women see their traditional medicines evaporate, preventing grandmothers from passing on to their daughters and granddaughters the names of plants than can cure diseases.

With this knowledge disappearing, it is part of the memory of humanity that is threatened with extinction. All knowledge that is lost, every ancestor that goes out, is a book that burns, or a library that disappears,... [...]

If tropical forests continue to be replaced by crops, if we are excluded from our lands, if the oceans are filled with plastics, if the chemical pollution that goes with industrial agriculture does not cease quickly, then our peoples will disappear, and with them millennia of knowledge of listening to nature.” ; (Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim) 'Indigenous peoples and the fight for survival'

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“...Digital platforms have turned an already exploitative and extractive matketplace (think Walmart) into an even more dehumanizing successor (think Amazon). Most of us became aware of these downsides in the form of automated jobs, the gig economy and the demise of local retail.

But the more devastating impacts of pedal-to-the-metal digital capitalism fall on the environment and the global poor. The manufacture of some of our computers and smartphones still uses networks of slave labour. These practices are so deeply entrenched that a company called Fairphone, founded from the ground up to make and market ethical phones, learned it was impossible. (The company's founder now sadly refers to their products as 'fairer' phones. [...]

...If anything, the longer we ignore the social, economic and environmental repercussions, the more of a problem they become. ... [...]

When the hedge-funders asked me the best way to maintain authority over their security forces after the 'event', I suggested that their best bet would be to treat those people really well, right now. ... ” (Douglas Rushkoff) , 'Survival of the richest'

- (On...) that Extinction Rebellion Hand-book. (p, 54-5, 56, 57. ; 67.) Also cited on begins for to this post.

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“What Silicon Valley technology giants share with fascism is an insistence on fixing problems immediately and not bothering to debate them first. That is mentality with popular appeal now.” (Davies; p. 203)

'Some omissions...' ; ...Doesn't probably do bad if prior to these following topic/the few quotates provided these circumstances somewhat explained: I chose at this place, by the first at least, devote the mains on this paragraph for Orwell – As for given his always remarkable actuality, the political importance, and everything else concerning – these seemed appear still, the 'spectacularly' useful readings by the present day. 'Still', as ever.

From the particulars; Reasons for the above told decision are actually 'two-fold'. ; First for the mentioning, may be that in during this “meanwhile” I took some 'flee', or a small trip (biking) for the elsewhere at country. And as from it's direct followings, my 'precious time' (...hah!) then somewhat passed on – on that and on few other tasks (, like the gardening...) Soforth – By now we're already closely approaching of the June. The intermission had a 'double-fold' consequences for my writing devoted about the garden-part: What I'd wrote already by the April now is already gotten quite hopelessly 'aged' – also in terms from the Nature's, and natural gardens summery 'growth-cycle' – As we're almost in the warmer Months here. A complete different tasks for do, the complete different plants emergin' on the flower, fx...

And so I suppose' can't too well return for to those thoughts, easily, without doing some insidious violence om the manner how them were wrote in a first place. How them, sort of, originally were meant appear for 'intertwined' – the climatic p-o-w's (point-of-view's) and the soon after represented garden-observations and discoveries in during that Spring.

The Second reason: ...relates partly for that same aspect. It merely being from, or foremost as I should of course admit, w. all the justifications – that the said much of the various hazzle-dazzle in that 'meanwhile', and before, made me then from so exhausted that at the moment. I'm not really finding the 'interest' for anything to so much considered and represented. Hence any 'lot' here in the followed, largely avoids most part my own estimatings and 'judgings' given on anything much.

Well, not from the completely of course...

Soforth; those merely for the explanations why I've not gathered on this much anything specifically for the Climate's-part.

(Said, maybe as I also feel, somewhat, the amount 'climatic' - or call that a 'moral'-, guilt from that 'choice' – We should, could've perhaps made still some mentions on that the far lasted, devasting left-afters of the present consumeristic 'life-standards' in the same. From the all'bout that long lasted greed – and how it, somewhat, still seems of continue – all from what seems still falling on a bearing by the many 'poorer' parts of this world.

; Or for from those most forewarned from Climate's 'random' alterations, also, it would've been in place at to have some 'discuss' of the aspects economically, environmentally, or, ao, fx for the socially considered.

; Nevertheless, these for to relieve the conscience...my own, or yours from. There of course would've as well been, apparent, then present seen number for as the 'more positive' signs - More than maybe just on a fewsome years past was. ; Such as what seems made the mains at this one Guardian-article. (Just as a one example, on the various seen.) New innovations, the renewals development... -------------

(Photo, beside) ; ...an early bee (bumble), seen on 'harvesting' from Willows blossoms. The Willow an important nectar-source for 'em - and to many others - for due from it's early flowering-time. Occasionally on the March, already. ; ...But this I photographed on after the first week from April's begins. Was perhaps some for the very first bumble I'd from seen, at this Spring.

But, for these considerations, what here to the next - shortly - is merely a collection from some Orwells' political anecdotes.

History's 'lessons', if for some 'category', given/needed on the said examples.

...And if you'd then to think that idea to well cover (that) history for all the now renown centuries from a lasted capitalistic expansion, and – indeed - from it's more brutal, rapid latest growth-period, by the recent. If to think can learn also some lot of the past from how to the usual (present) 'co-followings', in many places, the said sort more 'unpleasant' co-histories apparent often tend get from, 'intentioned', a some wiping out by some 'regularity. (What now in the more usual treatment, often cons even these 'chapters' of the world wars part...Or, call that as for the formerly common 'asiding' - in words, w. one word.) ; Nevertheless, in the present-day webbed world', some lot that formerly wasn't so much recognized probably more better gains, seems achieve a more 'visibility' at least. (Fx in all these many recent movements and also the elsemuch often seems brought 'alight' from that longlasted colonial - or a postcolonial - past. Of it's many 'pasts', often from still continued. And from it's simultaneous 'exploitation' history, in particularly...)

; Soforth, I then also 'by the recent' read this another article. (Or a sequel in the former mentioned series' at the Guardian.) ; So can you, fx...'Although I not myself quite felt to had had, at the moment, the decent time to read through all that – But from the most parts. -----

...And then for the slight return to what was for the 'promised' 'bout - the Orwellian writings. (As those always tend, do feel from so actuelt.)

; ...I by the recent also paged some amount this following quoted collection. (From comprising of the Orwell's political writes, essay, ao's...) Noticed that the 'compile' been published by the 2001, while my readings only from it's – apparently – recent re-issued printing. (By the last year, perhaps...)

Finding then not any too much for complaining to it's contents. Combines in same volume some number the essays I'd read on that older collections I sometime a lot paged. (The one edited by Sonia Orwell, around by that (early?, was that...) 1960s.) ; Yet, what comes soon clear of what shall follow, this new 'edition' concerning – Don't expect any whole-hearted' acceptance for that of my part, my any finding. - As I don't, either, like to 'play' some 'cheap'. (...More like a few “kills” here given – As the view-point on around what the said 'compile', seems, mostly, aimed from having 'memorized' of about the Orwellian “past”. That from noting on what was 'lacking'. 'Cause from that reason...it merely feels like aimed like published to 'shift' – or enstrenghten – an image where all that best seen as only for some 'lived up' 'pasts'...)

; That what meant, sort of, by the above given words, 'fatal attractions'.

(Apparently) the man (George Orwell) a too fatal for except a, somewhat, impartial readings of. The same seems fit on the 'idea' given on that particular historical period (1950s-). - And hence it too actually seems somehow like been 'tied down' to some of the interpretations already made of, about the man (George Orwell.) But there is of course always more into that.

...Hence I then offer here these fewsome selections by myself - for the antidote. Mainly are those few cites of what Orwell's remarks cons the fascism – and for about it's reception. (Before the war, and fromafter that 1939.) -----------

Some examples; (The books cover, ie the 2020-Penguin edition...It seems use a some 'paste and stick' method; Has a bit of the English flag on the background - and then is a photo-illustration in a foreground of an East-Asian, 'dimly' lit personnel, a peasant prob. from of the stray-hat concluding walking beside some 'archaically' built bamboo-stick construction. Apparently it carrying some camera, perhaps?. ; ...Suppose that must appear a (recent, relative) famous a historical picture – perhaps having accompanied a some journalistic reportage, assumedly. But, as I can't quite recall for which the circumstances, nor can't recall for which years exactly, which the country...Even if I'd by some guesses, likehood for the 'origin' for it. So, I'm not making any conclusions for that basis.)

Finding therefore, at this case it more practical consideration that, that thinkin' bout an 'Orwellian present', this photo could here symbolize – almost – any corner of the world. ; ...The same cover seems also shows us then words 'Liberalism, Socialism' ... and a detail of some other -ism. (As much else but that first word in the list not is included at the picture.)

(Photo, beside) ; Don't remember if I'd already mentioned, before - But decided to plant the Tagetes this Spring. (ie the Mexican Marigold.) ; But...as I noticed from ran out of the containers for an early growing - I took the yoghurt-cans for replacing ones that I was lacking in number.

(Works for quite perfectly - with these, as w. some others too.)

; That picture, the stick'n'paste creation, very obviously is meant for offer, reflect an amount some 'clues' - But we're not interested to follow those...At least on this context – Say, it feels all too typical sort. All too worn-out by itself. ------

Fromafter a short look for the (compile's) context it soon seems show – on my finding – to a quite a massive failure that there ain't not from provided several such important pieces. - Such as, fx, the article 'Not counting the niggers' (by, from -48? if I would guess, remembering that y. of publication...)

; And, then it seems also completely omit (Orwell's) that very political statement, essay/piece of writing, named as 'You and the Atomic Bomb'. – Written for some “first-hand impression” on after the Hiroshima, and relative soon after a discovery 'bout the begins for the - so called - 'atomic age'. So it's omission too, a major disappointment in the selections by first impression.

; Obviously there wouldn't been any lack of these sort materials...Number other 'essays' anyone who ever read Orwell, could've, no doubt, find for the recommending. ...That not the most significant p-o-w, leading us for these few “advices”.

It seems to me not a near so 'problematic' that the Animal Farm gains a place in these selections - but there's then not a single 'selection' of the Homage to Catalonia, fx. ; Some ways that, of course, maybe, appears the more easily defendable – being a briefer book, the first said might more 'easy fit' within all otherways briefer texts. Yet, it's quite obvious that just the Orwellian 'fable' remains still for so frustratingly “over-represented” in the 'most places', bookshops by that meant... It also quite unimaginable that the text wouldn't appear be available on some other print, in any shops, where this collection might also be found. Most usually there, in fact, often are just that Animal farm, and, the 1984 (1948).

; But, for the record: I've personally never felt any need of to buy that first said. (Having read the book maybe once, or perhaps second time at begins from my more serious Orwellian reads around by the some 10 y. ago.) Still more unfortunately to the editors selections, almost anybody – if living on our 'late capitalistic' “West” – also might recall having from seen that, at least once or twice, as a tv-cartoon. (Was popularly presented in some now long ago backyears. Maybe around those 1980s years when also Pink Floyd's “The Wall” was quite similarly, 'irregularly but regularly' presented on a TV – While that, perhaps, from somewhat less often, ...supposed'.)

; Also, in the collection is then some passages from the war years (-41) 'The Lion and the Unicorn' - But as them happen comprise only of the most usual seen 'first section' from book (Or, 'pamphlet', as that could also has been 'termed' for to. Besides, those parts in all bear the name: 'England Your England', so one almost automatically is lead for think – that flag in the front-cover of the collection – If from, maybe, this 'compile' then was put together especially the English reader-ship in mind...

...But like said – besides these few major flaws pointed-out - I'd from not so much any additional complains to offer from. - Obviously, would've made a several differing 'choices' by myself. But it feels me too, at these days from ours (some 60-70 y. later...) – Maybe it's still at least good that some 'combined version' of the Orwell's essayist-writing would then deserve it's place in being available. To 'common readers', meaning. On “cheap” prices, as some 'pocket'-edition. (The editorials make a mention that selections are of the larger 'semi-volume' Collected Works from...)

[Addit ;] For an afterthought might add, say that...'No doubt', the politics ; Or from still better said: the political writing(s) - often are a somewhat 'flexible' issue. (The opinions typically tend differ, a lot.) BUT, unfortunately for the compilers, editors of this present collection, Orwell - in brief - isn't.

There are, of course, also many alternative 'compiles' available...While my very limited familiarity, indeed, w. those doesn't either lead me necessary from think that any 'selective' would so well having 'outplayed' that 4-volume collections I mostly read Orwell's essays from. (Above mentioned. That 'Essays, journalism, letters...'.) ; But it naturally depends for about how far your/anyone's interest might lead him/her at this “horn of plenty”... ---------

However, then – We still have to reject that 'Introduction' (,by Timothy Garton Ash, in the discussed modern 'edition', 2001/-20.)

For, w. that in mind, thought from...the book seems succeed to leave me w. somewhat less elevated feelings (Than it from otherways would, maybe.)

Mostly, the introduction contains some lot 'dwelling' built around that already (enough) addressed text (ie, so boring to repeat, that Animal Farm). Of course such not of so much does surprise. ; Yet, I raise aforth a one sentence, most repellent in my any finding. Almost at begins, that (from) '... Yet the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four ended in 1989.' - And then it continues, ao with followings said; 'Orwellian regimes persisted in a few remote countries, such as North Korea, ...But the three dragons against which George Orwell fought his good fight – European and especially British Imperialism, Fascism, ...; and Communism... were all either dead or mortally weakened. ...'

...Quite possible that those above said 'historical monstrosities' (my terming...) were the majorest evils that Orwell opposed, in during those days prior to his death, the 'most'. And wrote the large part his words to object those. Probably, could've considered the said totalitarisms for the most 'gnawing' things that threatened world peace, by his late years. (Doesn't really matter cons at this argument.)

In a present view – by 2001 or 2020s – it being a complete untruth to claim that the totalitarism in (any) state politics would've ended for 'till that said particular year. Such as we fx, from the 1990s, and, the followed decade('s) capitalistic- and say, post-colonialistic, wars easily may already – and well adequate – learned for, about.

(; Quite as well, I could myself – w. similarly argumentatively, the 'proofs' given - while that would demand too much effort in the lenght and limits of this text - for express that in a year 1986 began a new period in a totalitarism. In that modern era which we're apparently nowadays living – An 'era' from a climate-totalitarianism. And most everyone would automatically know what I'd mean by that year given. ; Obviously, as some 'time-post' - it's almost as arbitrary and from little 'enlightening' to some year chosen - as the timing for the ends of the 'global' communism given for some 'timing' for the ends by the totalitarism', in the world. Or even in the, so called, “West”.)

; Let us close these 'remarks' in short – In the mention that by this saying you are also lead subsequent, as the 'main idea', for from comprehend that I not bothered to read the books Introduction for it's ends. Not any further fromafter these recognitions of mine. As the above said finding(s), proved already what it would been the worth. – For the record, therefore didn't think that of to any 'my worth'.

– And I'm even not saying that any reader wouldn't be (relative) happy from to spend some arm-chair hours w. these 'offerings' at the said 'compilation'.

; ...Only saying that anyone interested on might do good if they'd to bother about even this much to some personal estimating – of 'this sort' – by their own. Bother for some considerations about what comes to these apparent limitations and omission in the said 'edition'. (From Orwell's 'essayist'-writings.) ; And besides, a more comprihensive understanding is this case by relative easily achieved – read alongside a fewsome 'Orwellian' biographies, or, some impartial histories on the post-war years. (One then obviously needs to know which would appear good choices, of course...)

; Better yet, some fiction by Orwell's own wouldn't do any bad either: Actually his novels seem to me the very best place for to start – for this aspect in mind.

And...well I guess that point already made clear.) ---------

(Photo - beside) ; ...the roots shown, from that preceding pics tagetes-seedling, grown on a former yoghurt-container. ; ...As you can see of that photo, it's roots aren't for near completely developed. (The idea in pregrowin' of plants 'indoors' being, mostly, that the roots reach enough growth prior from brought outdoors and planted.) ; But as the Tagetes are indeed very rapid to grow - in compared to most/many garden seasonals, even - I not often care to await their 'full growth', but was planting those already a week before (Now the 31st May.)

; Acc. my some experience that 'haste' may somewhat enslow their emergence for the flowering - But not so much that'd it would for too much matter - this case. (As it grown by now, about 1 and half Months. Some perennial flowers - in some difference - may need even a mere 4 Months pregrowing for good results.)

(...and now), 'finally', some selections. (...on those 'bestial' back-pages...) ; Or say – these to fewsome 'Appetizers' - If the previous got you thinkin for some 'Orwellian' repast. Or, a “meal”. ;

“On the face of it, Mussolini's collapse was a story straight out of Victorian melodrama. At long last Righteousness had triumphed, the wicked man was disconfited, the mills of God were doing their stuff. On second thoughts, however, this moral tale is less simple and less edifying. To begin with, ...

... The list of charges is an impressive one, and the main facts - ...are not denied. Concentration camps, broken treaties, rubber truncheons, castor oil – everything is admitted. The only troublesome question is: How can something that was praiseworthy... ten years ago, say – suddenly become reprehensible now ? Mussolini is allowed to call witnesses, both living and dead, and to show by their own printed words that from the very first the responsible leaders of British opinion have encouraged him in everything he did. For instance, ...

[...a full list has many as a five singular examples, that are quoted into that – we are satisfied here, for only to some 'gimmicks' from, w. a two – and them aren't by no means, are not selectively chosen, of course... ; ]

Here is Winston Churchill in 1927:

If I had been an Italian I am sure I should have been wholeheartedly with you in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism... Italy [– 'abbrevit' is as on the compile the text for here 'reprinted' – Ie; those 'three dots' – on this place, not added by us...] has provided the necessary antidote to the Russian poison. Hereafter a great nation will be unprovided with an ultimate means of protection against the cancerous growth of Bolshevism.

[...the “daily” - 'talks again'(?) ; W-G.]

Here is Mr. Ward Price, of the Daily Mail, in 1932:

Ignorant and prejudiced people talk of Italian affairs as if that nation were subject to some tyranny which it would willingly throw off. With that rather morbid commiseration for fanatical minorities which is the rule with certain imperfectly informed sections of British public opinion, this country long shut its eyes to the magnificient work that the fascist regime was doing. I have several times heard Mussolini himself express his gratitude to the Daily Mail as having been the first British newspaper to put his aims fairly before the world.

And so on, and so on, and so on. Hoare, [Sir John] Simon, Halifax, Neville Chamberlain, Austen Chamberlain, Hore-Belisha, Amery, Lord Lloyd and various others enter the witness-box, all of them ready to testify that, whether Mussolini was crushing the Italian trade unions, non-intervening in Spain, pouring mustard gas on the Abyssinians, throwing Arabs out of aeroplanes or building up a navy for use against Britain, British government and it's official spokesmen supported him through thick and thin. ...

Now the book is a fanciful one, but this conclusion is realistic. [...at the omitted part, expression above, ao says: 'The net impression left by this part is of the trial is quite simply that Mussolini is not guilty.'] It is immensely unlike that the British Tories will ever put Mussolini on trial. There is nothing that they could accuse him of except his declaration of war in 1940. ...

The history of British relations with Mussolini illustrates the structural weakness of a capitalist state. ...

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When one thinks of the lies and betrayals of those years [meaning, onwards from a y. 1934-], the cynical abandonment of one ally after another, the imbecile optimism of the Tory press, the flat refusal to believe that the Dictators meant war, even when they shouted it from the housetops, the inability of the moneyed class to see anything wrong whatever in concentration camps, ghettoes, massacres and undeclared wars, one is driven to feel that moral decadence played its part as well as mere stupidity. By 1937 or thereabouts it was not possible to be in doubt about the nature of the Fascist régimes. But the lords of property had decided that Fascism was on their side and they were willing to swallow the most stinking evils so long as their property remained secure. In their clumsy way they were playing the game of Macchiavelli, of 'political realism', of 'anything is right which advances the cause of the Party' – the Party in this case, of course, being the Conservative Party.

...“ ; (Orwell) - on (Review of) 'The Trial of Mussolini by 'Cassius' - (Orig. appeared on Tribune, 22 Oct 1943) ; The quotates here – means this and the following one – are via Orwell and Politics (Penguin Classics, reissued ed. - Originally, seems that, was published on 2001.)

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“It is a sign of the speed at which events are moving that Hurst and Blackett's unexpurgated edition of Mein Kampf, published only a year ago, is edited from a pro-Hitler angle. The obvious intention of the translator's preface and notes is to tone down the book's ferocity and present Hitler in as kindly a light as possible. For at that date Hitler was still respectable. He had crushed the German labour movement, and for that the property-owning classes were willing to forgive him almost anything. Both Left and Right [...noticeable (, that) both are written beginning w. the big Initial...] concurred in the very shallow notion that National Socialism was merely a version of Conservatism.

Then suddenly it turned out that Hitler was not respectable after all. As one result of this, Hurst and Blackett's edition was reissued in a new jacket explaining that all profits would be devoted to the Red Cross. ...

... But Hitler could not have succeeded against his many rivals if it had not been for the attraction of his own personality, which one can feel even in the clumsy writing of Mein Kampf, and which is no doubt overwhelming when one hears his speeches. I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler. Ever since he came to power – till then, like nearly everyone, I had been deceived into thinking that he did not matter – I have reflected that I would certainly kill him if could get within reach of him, but that I could feel no personal animosity. The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him. ... The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is there. He is the martyr, the victim. Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, that he is fighting against destiny, the he can't win, and yet that he somehow deserves to. The attraction of such a pose is of course enormous; half the films that one sees turn upon some such theme.

...” - on (Review of) 'Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, unabridged translation' (Orig. on New English Weekly, 21 March 1940 (; Ibid)

...And then, suppose we can as well 'nail down' this argument, via from having still a fewsome more examples here for 'offered'. From Orwell's written, penned examples during those war-years...

(One of course needs remember that the followed too having been written by some 75 y. ago.) ;

“Of all the unanswered question of our time, perhaps the most important is: 'What is Fascism?'

[...such as, by our days, one could well for outline, instead to 'express' (Comparably, use as the words) : '...what (exactly) is the Global warming ?' ; Or, 'What is...the Climate Change' - If you'd rather allow yourself, at this view, a similar sort play w. the words. ...Or, I say so, since w. the words, that's some allowance never free of charge. ; Yet, for the sake from my own admittin', anything – here merely just leads us to the last section, on this post - that moral ground...) ]

[...]

Here I am not speaking of the verbal use of the term 'Fascist'. I am speaking of what I have seen in print. I have seen the words 'Fascist in sympathy', or 'of Fascist tendency', or just plain 'Fascist', applied in all seriousness to the following bodies of people:

Conservatives: All Conservatives, appeasers or anti-appeasers, are held to be subjectively pro-Fascist. British rule in India and the Colonies is held to be indistinguishable from Nazism. ...

Socialists: Defenders of the old-style capitalism (example, Sir Ernest Benn) maintain that Socialism and Fascism are the same thing. Some Catholic journalists maintain that Socialists have been the principal collaborators in the Nazi-occupied countries. ...

Communists: A considerable school of thought (examples, Rausching, Peter Drucker, James Burnham, F.A.Voigt) refuses to recognize a difference between the Nazi and Soviet régimes; and holds that all Fascists and Communists are aiming at approximately the same thing and are even to some extent the same people. ...

Trostkyists: Communists charge the Trotskyists proper, i.e., Trotsky's own organisation, with being crypto-Fascist organisation in Nazi pay. This was widely believed on the Left during the Popular Front period. ...

Catholics: Outside its own ranks, the Catholic Church is almost universally regarded as pro-Fascist, both objectively and subjectively.

[...for Orwell's limits – and also if to say smght about on his own backgrounds (the 'religious', or 'national' background) – this is being the only section that I didn't needed be enshortened at it's 'reprinting' here. (Due from) - he puts the whole argument in one sentence, without finding any need of the further explains...]

War-resisters: Pacifists and others who are anti-war are frequently accused not only of making things easier for the Axis, but of becoming tinged with pro-fascist feeling. [...No, dis-remembered 'bout that : This one too avoids any further 'comments', even of other some sentences lenght from.]

Supporters of the war: War-resisters usually base their case on the claim that British Imperialism is worse than Nazism, and tend to apply the term 'Fascist' to anyone who wished for a military victory. The supporters of the People's Convention came near to claiming that willingness to resist a Nazi invasion was a sign of Fascist sympathies. The Home Guard was denounced as a Fascist organisation as soon as it appeared. ...

Nationalists: Nationalism is universally regarded as inherently Fascist, but this is held only to apply to such national movements as the speaker happens to disapprove of. Arab nationalism, Polish nationalism, Finnish nationalism, the Indian Congress Party, the Muslim League, Zionism, and the I.R.A. Are all described as Fascist – but not by the same people.

[...On this point, I...can't avoid to make a reference 'bout the Orwell's better known (1945-)article, 'Notes on Nationalism' – For, it happens contain fx this one sentence (among others): “By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled 'good' or 'bad'.” (...In a one sentence after, Orwell also ads the more common-place notion: 'Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism' ; ...Which for some aid at his modern reading.– On cons his character... or from the more conveniently said, to some 'clues', understandings on about his own times.]

(...And then rest for what we still chose for this quotation:)

It will be seen that as used, the word 'Fascism' is almost entirely meaningless. ...

Yet underneath all this mess there does lie a kind of buried meaning. ...

[...]

But Fascism is also a political and economic system. Why, then, cannot we have a clear and generally accepted definition of it? Alas! We shall not get one – not yet, anyway. To say why would take too long, but basically it is because it is impossible to define fascism satisfactorily without making admissions which neither the Fascists themselves, nor the Conservatives, nor Socialists of any colour, are willing to make. All one can do for the moment is to use the word with a certain amount of circumspection and not, as is usually done, degrade it to the level of a swearword.” ; (Orig., ...seems said for published on his famous war-time column, 'As I Please', as the seq. named 'What is Fascism?' ; Tribune, 25 March 1944) ; ...On this 2001[ie; 2020]-collection, of p.: 321, 322-3, 324.)

(And here, at this point 'the case closed'.) ------

Or, as for in addition a little, 'accomp.' climatic 'co-argument'... ; On which we may then express that on moral grounds any words appear be also rather costly.

Hence from, they often seem say nowadays, that 'big polluters' and -companies increasingly by the more recent having advanced favoring an alternative 'tactique' for the 'climatic denial' – that often noted as for an 'easy adjustment'. Or in still other 'terming' – since for that seem indeed lately become to evermore popular in uses – meaning by that a now constant increased seen greenwashing. In the adverts, stories, 'reports', cons often how any histories now seem from increasingly often wished seen.

(Anyone, of course, might feel there a place from developing that idea a some bit further...From thought basis those above given Orwellian definings on chacracteristic uses for the word, fascism, on his times.)

And, certainly the totalitarism (, in thesocieties, at the 'modern states'), certainly not died out w. the fall of the most communistic 'systems'. By around the 1990s, in that decades, during those 'back-years'.

...Otherways, fx, you wouldn't had had the two-Iraq wars – at least not in the manner those were executed – and neither all the now so apparent climatic stealths. (That what'd often now been recognized taken from the peoples and Natures any 'reserve', on a that period, now seen most negatively in it's still after continued fossil-fuel pollution. All the capitalistic and anti-ecologic stealth through the Bush's two periods. Stealth from the future generations mostly. And from ourselves, in the present already evermore aware of, from - forewarned and increasingly more often alarmed from these climatic followings.)

...Otherways, 'anything like', it wouldn't so outright have continued to this far. Until “this day”, 'till yesterday – Or however, 'bout that timing, it's some timing by the specifically - the year, decade, doesn't really by now of to that much matter. Of cons this present climatic problem.

; Whether of the latter 'all the blame' could be laid for against the 'western powers', and our developed 'capitalistic world' - I don't exactly think possible, or needs of the contemplating w. any further words. Not at this point. – But thinkin there every reason for say that the whole lots of it – it's totalitarism, that climatic fascism, and even what can be still found for the very apparent failings at this present technological 'fixation' for to always seek some 'countermeasures' – All that totality there was, it wouldn't elseways lasted so far. Obviously there was not any practical 'end' to the guarded, 'Orwellian' social oppression in societies by the early 1990s. Or, an end from such 'organization' of the 'state', countries in a so called "West" also. – Fromafter that loosely given timing (,'year 1990'.)

Not even if we'd for to think the (so called) cold war from had ended at that time.

More so, there was a notable continuence. In all (much) on that said're-invented' imperialistical totalitarianism. Climatic neglect and undervelopment in a common 'global scaling'. (It's 'global' scaling, realised in a seen 'new level' of a bestiality' in form some capital greed.)

; So – for to prevent any chance from mis-interpreting the above said, or it for the recollectings sake; Was a (some) period of the (climatic) totalitarianism, ...capitalism, ...fasc... ; [W-G.] ------------------------------------

Simple subjects, ...'mostly' ;

[ the '3rd part', section...]

“... In a 2018 paper, forty-two scientists from around the world warned that, in a business-as-usual scenario, no ecosystem on Earth was safe, with transformation 'ubiquituous and dramatic,' exceeding to just one or two centuries the amount of change that unfolded in the most dramatic periods of transformation in the earth's history over tens of thousands of years. Half of the Great Barrier Reef has already died, ...” ; (Wallace-Wells; p. 226)

; “...Supreme symbol of the Southwest, the saguaro is a giant among cacti, a 20- to 50-foot-high fluted columns of chlorophylled plant flesh that comes in as many different shapes and sizes as human beings do. Like planted people, no two alike, individual and idiosyncratic, each saguaro has its own form, its own character, its own personality. Or so it seemed to me then; and now, more than 25 years later, it still does. When nobody else is around, I talk to them. On simple subjects, of course.” ; (Edward Abbey), from the Cactus Country (by 1973; p. 22.)

(Photo, beside right) ; ...While I've no cacti/cactuses grown in the garden, I've a one 'shrub' that quite (, well...a little) resembles those in looks: the 'Oregon Grape' (Mahonia aquifolium). ; ...It would be, perhaps, quite possible to grow cacti in that garden greenhouse - now that whole construction 'bathes' in a most direct sunshine, and the day-time temperatures on it's hottest corner seem to vary btw 30-60 degrees C. - during the warmest summery Months. (So you get the idea that there's not so often much use keepin there grown flowers or staples postward from mid-June. Depending of the summers, though.)

; Then, of the mention, that my Mahonia (.aquifolium), on above pic, not grows at greenhouse - For its a completely over-wintering garden plant here too. I keep the 'bush' mainly due because of it's very lovely flowers. (Another good p-o-w is that the shrub can be kept, almost as well, in the darker enshaded part at garden.) It grows rather slow - Of that part too is, 'almost', like the cacti. ; Wikip., seems offer us fx the following few details more; "...evergreen shrub growing 1 m (3 ft) to 3 m (10 ft) tall by 1.5 m (ft) wide, with pinnate leaves of spiny leaflets , and dense clusters of yellow flowers in early spring, ..." - At the time, decided to acquire this as I liked it much better to here nowadays much more common cultivated Rhododendrons. Well...those maybe the most parts on it's 'story' - so far. ---------

'My garden left to fight' (,from the Left and from the Right...)

Or, maybe we'll prefer – as the 'subtitle', to this 'last round' - (On the,) 'Moral Grounds'...

A some point of notice... : As I took the former remarked brief pause from these writes, during our 'meanwhile', anything from the following said still was consisting mostly to what I'd written around, before the early from May. – And now we're already almost at the June. (Approaching pretty rapidly are Summery seasons and from the more warm Months here....)

; So, of that reason, at what shall follow you usually find me for having added the few sentences to that what had been written already by the April/May. As much on those aspects doesn't so much anymore have to do w. the present main concerns – For, fx, the vegetation is having already advanced to a slight different 'period' from the year. The slight different flowers are emergin, the general greenery for most energetically, at the moment - was of conquering ground.

(Photo, beside/above left) ; (Common) Dandelion (T.officinalis) - a most typical 'weedy-some' flower that numbers of bees visit. Here ones sees those, maybe, ca from by the midst of a May. The insect looks little like a small 'bumble' - But more likely it must appear a some solitary bee. (Don't know which. But one sees those to relative often, by the occasional, around fromafter the said timing. Which must be - like a very good thing. )

...It also has so far been generally relative cold, still to this far of the Spring. Since it been promised now to follow a more warming in the local weathers - there appears then also the most rapid growth of the plants, right now most visible, apparent. Actually, as just previous was some very rainy days, and also was the occasional rains even for prior that, the growth by that vegetation seems make everything to turn for the very 'lush', by the looks. (At this moment, on a 29^th of May.) Which is good – from thinkin' it does feel rather more unlike that any longer Spring-period 'dry spell' could now make it's stay, by this year. ; On the other hand, it of course still not a complete impossibility that the June – most often formerly used to be/was a best favourable Month in that overall 'greenery' – wouldn't still turn for show the sort too heated weathers from.

By anycases, as those rains often now seem also from pouring by some notable 'force' – which seems, to quite much, in accordance to what it for now been 'forecasted' - the usual said prediction – that's assumedly quite in similarity w. what seem now believed to occasional for happen, along the said climatic 'extremes' now becoming more common. ; (So, whatever that outcome by this year; Indeed also this present year's conditions, even while so far it of bit colder been, seems for quite 'fit' in anything former said cons for that criteria.)

It perhaps still needs be recognized that despite those general cold(s), there was not much any real frosts in during the 'late Spring' here, either.

From the plants observed, all in all it seems as well been rather favorable now. (In particular as my most cultivations are of the more warmth-demanding garden species. ; Both for concerning the 'domestic' and “foreign” perennials, or some for the 'groceries' - in generall all the lot I've planned for cultivated this year.)

; From my part (also) the good thing is that (likely) these bit colder conditions seem of permitting the growth at the greenhouse to remain a more favorable for the plants. (At least a bit longer. ;...For the too much of a direct heat tends affect negatively, and the place ain't now similarly 'enshadowed' than how it formerly used for be.)

Recently I was already also gathering the Summers first salads there, from this timing.

...On 'outdoors' you by now find, to the much part/most of the 'Springly'-blooming trees, as well as some early ground-plants, already well in flowering.

Supposing, or I think, it perhaps largely due that of the former colds them at first were little 'delayed' for, to. – And then those occasional heated days taken places, the general temperatures already got warmer in during nights (over the former 'average', say) – then some 'late Spring' flowerers also seem already got from emergin in bloom. Hence also the said early 'lush' in vegetation by this timing. Matter a fact, the similar sort weathers seems become typical, or to the more regularity, already from a few most recent, previous years here. -------

(Photo, beside) ; Oregon grape-/Mahonia -flower. ; Such as one sees them are very enchanting watched in at May-morning/evening sunlight. Bees visit too; 'Though, apparently, not by so many. At least I've seen not those in any 'vast' numbers to. Among other reasons why - When it blooms it being still quite early, not so many from around...

; Yet, acc my any previous estimates it now seems perhaps still more probable the weathers realised would also show a bit similar variance between some shinier days, or 'periods' and – then also those rains. (Which might then also appear to quite favoring my plans at gardening – As I'm also planning to be away a few weeks by that June.) Nevertheless, that late Spring can still turn for the less favoring from the weather condition. Only now it looks we'll finally having some warmer weeks...

Of the last Winters part – It seemed that my any older, well-rooted garden perennials very well enjoyed those now better snows we had. By the timing for begins of this post – Which was, already by the 18^th April - Them seemed only for a bit too fast on their starting from emerge in growth. (As we had after that somewhat warmer 'phase' around that Months turning, but after – say - that 1^st by May it then soon got generally from the slight more colder weeks again...) ; Like said, in general nothing was very unusual on Spring-weathers, either. (But the slight divergences still – Actually perhaps more noticeably than now on these summer Months.)

A few good 'benefits', of the gardening considered, are that despite the some 'slowness' in any growth at these 'latitudes' (meaning, on an early season, during Spring-time until, ca, the 'midst by May'...) - on a natural garden you still find already plenty nice flowers from earliest to those Spring Months. – I-o-w; you already can feel pretty assured that there shall appear for more continuous flowering soon after the bit more warmer weeks have arrived, the soil having from warmed-up enough. (As I've also have been caring this garden of some years now, planting and relocating, weeding and 're-arraging' - I've gotten quite used of noticing which timing any plant will 'start' it's period. And there is always some plants in flowers allthrough the warmer seasons.)

; And the best part, definitely, at this gardening seems (that) by selecting some proper ones – also some that appearing here native growing species - Or, at least some that maybe from longer pasts have got here on 'naturalized' from...You can also then be quite sure for during the Summer Months there being seen some plenty of insects coming for visits to them.

For, if there are at least a some natural plants on your garden their good 'arrivals' become almost 100 percent sure. ; For the other good reasons, to those also belongs that the native flowers, at their proper environments, almost never miss from flowering. No matter what the weather in generally. So one tends always see some insect even during this 'earlier part the year'. When there's still less of the insects at air, in general. (Matter a fact, by the first 'real' warm period one usually notices how the numbers of the insect seen quite soon, 'quickly', from increase. In any regular year, of the weathers - And then that usually keeps to an araise until by the most warm weeks of the late Summer.)

Also - like the increasing evidence seems now having for proved – the numbers by many insect are often found for declined. (Esp. apparent said for many similar sort 'urbanhoods' as mine.)

(...We're possibly, though, having an enough 'wildsides' and everything 'relative' natural lands still for to maintain them in good numbers. ; My garden wouldn't actually populate quite so good numbers, unless the forest wasn't so close. Still, some 'relative scarcities' are quite apparent, easily noticed – Like I've noted before, fx the number day-time butterflies one tend see here is quite limited – In fact, very much indeed, consisting of the 'typical' ones. Practically the commonest, and nothing much exceptional else I would've seen...on these gardens.)

Here as elsewhere, there are (,no doubt) several that once were very common – But nowadays there numberfor that'd become the more or less threatened. (Usually that to originating for the various reasons. Let us not go for any details of that, now...) ; ...For, who's ever to say, who's to know too sure, by any moment, from followed decades on that?

; ...So, even for the more 'commoners' it's good to cultivate some good nectar-sources that them are more familiar with. (The usual urban sprawl and an accompanying more common human 'neglect' about such things surely to affect for the negative, for that part thinkin...)

Yet, hence reasons, or often from, much at my recent planting and of 'selections' to the garden. (Like said, often the funniest part in this natural gardening.) It not nears any multivariety that could, in a good day, be found at an old meadow, in plentyful from feeding on good natural flowers...But then, often those become easily observable w. less trouble on a this sort flower-garden. – And you tend surprise a lot, of whatever new 'once a while' seems from to 'come around', in form ofany new insect arrivals seen... -------

...I've also sometimes thought it could be nice for have some flowers at bloom already by this early Spring (ie: it when still was the early Spring, now almost 1.5 Months ago...) - I've then tried for think some good selections to be grown of the particular timing in mind. ; ...At this season, or maybe even little earlier, when snows were from 'almost gone'. - Yet, it actually tends proven for quite (which is actually, somwhat surprising) – a difficulty to finding for some suitable choices for grown. The flowerings to this period in mind (March/April)

Or, at least my any successes on that part haven't been the very great.

(Photo, beside) ; Crocus-flowers, on an early Spring. The ground was still almost devoid of the grasses (or from other visible, constant vegetations). The bumble must've been some earliest seen in garden. The Crocuses tend usual increase in dividing from their bulbs (I think) - So they form small 'clusters' on various place around the lawn - and are indeed the very first to flower, usually. (Of late March/April, oftenmost.)

; Yet, I'm fx having now some Corydalis (.cava) of planted just to that 'task' in mind. - The early June coming, I'm still to see from whether there had been any successes cons from those. Sowed already at the last Autumn. (I'm not actually too in knowing 'bout why so. Maybe I've not just 'identified' any those in midst by my somewhat...messy “growin box” on where them were sown. As it being 'populated' by, also by some regular weeds and random other 'self-sowing' species of the garden. Or maybe the said only would just take the more time...) ; Anyway, once for identified, I plan for relocate them in the garden. Most likely under some treecovers, perhaps in 'midst' the grass-yard.

Of course, there are also some bulbs which regularly tend flower rather early (Crocus, for example. And the Snowdrop, ie G.nivalis – both tend be my first-at-Springs joys - of sighted for already earliest at April). And then there is the Cowslip (Primula vers). (While those only bloomin' from somewhat later. But them also flower lot longer time.) – Cowslips also seem of (very) capable to spread themselves at the every other 'spot' available, often are found also to grow nearby any larger perennials, bushes, etc plants. In fact, it a very practical natural flower. ('Though those 'cultivars' on garden are maybe of some 'hybrid' variety, as their so large ones.)

(Photo, beside) ; ...A Cowslip-flower. ; From formerly I thought not to seen any insects on those - But the reason may also been from that it's small 'tubulars' seem of easily hide their visitors when only w. a cursory sighting. (Had a photo of a bee on it - But unfortunately I seem not have that amongst these fewsomes...)

; ...That then seems bring on mind also the Pansies, by former mentioned, which also now (, the May/June) in blooming. ; And that, furthermore, also brought for the thought the Forget-me-nots (Myosotis-spec.) ...On which actually some very nice blooms by the moment (ie, that June again...) Those Forget-me-nots also were seen arrived at garden in a natural manner, ie 'by their own'. – But as them also tend to take places in any good soils for 'undersides' of the actual garden-perennials, I'm then often weeding a large part those off in time.)

And then; Like from former mentioned was, I'm also fx just for the early-of-Spring seasons sake having the Hepatica brought for a few spots in garden. (On the gardens, actually...) It too flowers sometimes, even early as late March - but more commonly on a some weeks after. At April. Usually when there still would remain a 'few heaps' of the snow on a most enshadowed 'corners' or spots from.

; So at a few occasions also having considered some other native species which could be brought for the good choices into this early-Spring. – No doubt, that could be arranged, if not so soon – Then in during some time in the further years. So far I've actually mostly not paid the much of attentions on that part...for I've always havin' had the more of other cultivations. That meaning, (those) grown for to flowering during the more 'favorable' Months. But you see some 'fly-byers' ever since when there earliest flowers. (Brimstone, fx, occasioned is seen even on March, on any very warm day by then.)

(Photo, beside right) ;...Almost forgot to add: One other 'bulb' that we early see at flower, appears that Muscari (or, Grape Hyacinth). Them seem orinated from Greece, and Near Asia. But the modern varieties, perhaps are hybridized ones. Anyways, surely among first bumbles there a few species that often seen on this.

; And - like typical to some bulbaceous 'garden escapees' can also be found at places that seen some (slight) human disturbance. Like here, for example, growin beside roadsise, next to the heavy 'granite stone'. (Luckily, it has no potential of to become any invasive harms from...)

Along from w. those... the aspect still brought for mind that now we're having some blooms of the Creeping Noverlwort (Omphalades verna) – A quite early flowerer too. (...on early May). Said also from easily of naturalising. Or, seems said it can spread for the some typical environments 'to the nearby' - Such as are the '...gardens, yards, wasteland'.

; Although, I think it from a quite rare I've seen any insects on those. Yet, it's 'sky blue' (or, some say 'navy blue') flowers indeed very nice of watch. (At this period, when there not to so many others even.)

; Actually, many to those earliest Months flowerers do appear represented blue in color – Don't know too exactly why...But that aspect has, prob., a some much to do w. the insects. (...Quite assured from that. Not even for 'supposin'...)

; ...And (,still to a mention...) - despite that I'm not particularly any favorer for the bulbs – The 'Snakehead Lilies' early too (on May). On a some post formerly described. Those also might appear almost the sole ones of bulbs I'd by myself planted for these garden(s). Of course, w. the bulbs one could very easily add some numbers at these early-Spring season cultivars, flowers of early Mmonths... ------------

Photo: Rowan (ie Sorbus aucuparia. A branch of it's flowers.) ...Found at most 'gregarious' infrom flowering - as the usual is by this period. Just about this timing, ca from an early June a few weeks, Rowan from flowering always seems begin our 'real' Summer season here. ; ...It no wonder that the tree in it's historical past, during the more 'agrarian way-of-life', had the so venerated, appreciated position here. - Of course it's vitamin-rich berries in late Summers, Autumn must've been the most direct 'cause' of that. But, one thinks, perhaps also was due an impressive sight that it's blooming makes. As the tree also grows around - here and 'thereabouts' - one can't avoid to noticing them at the moment. In particular, as Rowan being a smaller tree, it's lowest twigs often are visible just in a level from the human eyes. Indeed...!

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Soforth, like it was noted, the Winter seems had lasted 'till rather late in thepresent year.

I was, for examples, still skiing on a week before that timing I former said from this text already having begun. (on April the 18th. ie: ...was skiing still for a prior before that week, timing.) And, would I for had wished to, could've still gone on my tracks as late as on a week after, even. Although, the tracks and temperatures weren't then anymore any tolerable by the said time coming, and hence, I didn't. Not after for the said week.

; After that, the snows also were seen from more rapid melting (On during some more sunshiny early days...or weeks by. Can't quite recall too particularly, anymore.) But the (over) plus 10 Celsius was 'regular', during for some those days already in the April, I noticed. And any leftovers from the remained snows, in the open were prob. gone in fewsome days after that. Of the woods, at the most shady spots there, I guess them still remained a much bit longer – Well 'till the 'labour day', anyways. (That being on 1^st from the May.)

Basis all that, it seems actually been on this year – pretty much/near to the former regular. Even if from a bit colder than it usually tends been. Except: It now seems being very apparent that the snows seem from arrive some much later than during any former decades. And for some 'excepting also'; There certain was a more notable 'irregularity' in weathers, easily recognized, during by this Winter too. – Yet, indeed, the season seemed prove for a more cold than during some for previous years. It's still not too clear, or not so easy say from how the Summer then this after shall turn to. – That in mind, I also think for the little after this described fewsome new cultivations from. None for the very demanding ones, the most from at least are not. ---------

'Not just physical, but sensical...' (...or smght like that.) ; From my skiings 'part', as the few more reminders, them then next briefly mentioned: In that previous Winter my kilometers finally did reach to as much as 1478. (Congratulating[!] for myself, by myself..., 'Te Deum !') ; Or, as the afterthought we may think about (that) of just as merrily...Due because from; No bones broken, in during the period, neither did I get on any period of this winter from to complete exhausted. – Though I wasn't also much avoiding any potential 'threat' by that. (From liking so much of the said sport.) Yet - guess' we may think that too for a sort reason for some merriment. (Or, for to raise a 'toast'.)

; ...Well, in truth said at the (cross country) skiing there more rarely any accidents. If you only pay some regular attentions to. - Besides that, I'm also a pretty cautious on skis when of goin' the downhills.

...So, as for those skiing distances, this year, also that said figure (of km's) even then well exceeded my any former estimates to. (May appear be a bit 'artificial' sounding figure, of course. It not from too precise a counting. Not any distances too exact measured, w. fx on some runner's 'watch', or w. the anything similar. Only were my own overall estimatings from.) ; I didn't also by any intentional manner, fx, try of exceed that so 'close-but-not-quite' 1,500 kms “milestone” at my winter hobby. - One thinks it often even better leave smght for the targeted during by the oncoming year, or years from.

Hope we'd for to have any similar luck in the skiing conditions, for very subsequent years from follow too... ; But whatever about those conditions in the futures seen - I've actually also decided devote some amounts more a time for winters part and that cross-country. Here or at some places elsewhere for the more Northern regions. (And/or alternatively, perhaps, on some sort Holiday resorts there – 'by the occasion'. In any likehood the Winter period might not always turn out even as favorable as it by this lastest was.)

Guess' these plans also smght to do with the discovery by the previous year from about how deteriorated the Winter now can turn out – at some worst years now.

(...Said w. all my curses offered still for to the previous years 'flourished' petroleum-economics, along w. the all other climatic 'betrayal' that'd brought in effect. As it's obvious downside, having for brought us then these described sort inferior winter-weatheric 'conditions'...) ------------

'The New Batch...' (No. Not from the Gremlins...Of plants.) ; Unlike that Abbey (on an above quots, begins this last 'section' cited) - I can't take glory of talking for the cactuses. (Besides, such as noted, would be difficult as none species would survive the winters by this far North.) But that idea feels actually rather familiar. I by occasionally discovered myself to spoking some words for the animal variety, when those met on any my walks by the woods. Or in a garden-part. Due of some reason, perhaps it because that I generally devote more for my any 'hobbies', time to them, I not ever so often catching myself of talking to the plants. Anyway...

Of the garden plants I had to sowed and planted by the last year - and of the few now grown new 'varieties' from - should it for suffice say the following:

Mostly, my (common) Evening Primroses (O.biennis), by the latest year planted in various places of garden, seemed overwintered very successfully. Only in a fewsome spots I did notice that their 'rosettes' hadn't for survived. – Of those few there now is seen only dark “knots” that look like them might've gotten harmed by too much frosts, then died out in the winter. ; If them should've died (,and indeed that must be so, 'cause now by the turn for June there seems nothin' from emergin...) - Then a reason to that could've well been for my fertilizing of too much the plants nearby for those. (The vines, or some similar cultivars there...). Ie, their too late continued 'feeding' might've then negatively affected the Primroses. Or, maybe the place then just was on a too open spot and them got freezed some week. Or, alternately I'd perhaps forgotten for to cover those particular ones more better w. the leaves, 'litters', etcs... But, at least I'd actually from expected that the ones in a garden greenhouse would've survived? (...However, false hope, seems that them also died off.)

; But, from the 8 to 10 that were planted in the garden at least some 6-7 must've now well survived the Winter. And anyway, those being the biennials, we should then expect to some scenty flowerings from around – after the Mid-Summer? Maybe, can't recall around what the timing that seems promised for. ; But their stems are already in quite good growth – Apparently that telling my other seeked places for those having appear the proper ones. (A bit uncertain I'm still whether them might receive too much the fertilizes in result the some 'nearby', adjacent perennials needing those. - But hence from same reasons, I'm having a several 'groups' now, that'd been planted in the different parts of garden. ; Sometimes is difficult to find any good places to all the new flowers from the garden – As the most for any (very) 'good places' tend always appear be already reserved !

Since Primroses are also said look very lovely in the evening light. – I'm eagerly waitin' for see 'em to flower. (Whichever then was said the time given for that...)

By not more surprising that those Yellow Sweet Clovers (Melilotus officinalis) – also planted on the last year - seem survived the lot better. Some on the warmest 'spots' (and seen emerge already by that April) now are growing the new stems - And I'm therefore cuttin' any last year's remained stems off. Actually I've probably also having to seek some more proper places to those some too. As they proved to so large plants. (; Well...also proved for the more interesting that during by this turn-for-the June – that it was, then – and, as I was 'diggin' a place for plant one of my 'early grown' Squashes, closely of that 'spot' where in the greenhouse that one M.officinalis last year grew, I still discovered a one half-a-meter root still of remaining there. (Apparently) of that same Sweet Clover-specimen ! So not only the plant on overgrounds but also it's roots naturally seem to grow for pretty massive ones. For a Clover, I mean.

Not neither it being any surprises that of my other 'clovery' additions, the Lotus corniculatus, (ie the native 'Common birds-foot trefoil',) seemed all also very well lasted the Winter.

; Photo: ...And here beside also is then some yellowy bloomings of the mentioned, said (Common) Birds-foot trefoil. (These ones are growing on inner by the greenhouse windows,at the most direct heat and light, always tend develop bit earlier than ones on 'outdoors'. The underside is there very ideal to those also, mostly sandy layer w. little other sort dirt.) Won't take the very many days 'till others too shall for join them in blooming. It being so warm period just now. (During the early June.) The night temperatures already seen got over for/ about, around the 'strategic limit',plus 10 Celsius-degrees...

; Inspired by these successes – and thinkin' on some further arrangements in the garden for the bees in particulars. (And/or from the hymenoptera more generally...) – I'm then now planting also some Red Clover (T. pratense) there. Them are thought being for placed, 'here and there' – On edges of other plantings to a some decoration and 'temptations' to those bees. Since of them the pregrowing even wouldn't been anyhow necessary (, and could be planted directly at the soils, from May perhaps) – I Suppose we can find those at their places already as soon as prior midst from that June. I sowed some for pregrowing, ca, at begins the April. ; (Actually, by this timing I was already 'relocating' most those at the garden. It seemed as the somewhat best manner for those. Or a timing.; Of being the native plants – and, Clovers from - they seem to quite easy for 'adapt' in any decent open sunshiny planes.)

Another good view-point from those: Since they should attract several 'bumbles', also some that are not to the 'most regular' ones, we're by any likehood having many photos on 'em and hopefully of some 'new arrivals' in during warmer Months by this Summer...

Photo (beside left): Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi), flowers. ; ...From (my) smaller natural flowery-meadow. (ie, growing in the garden). ; ...Sometimes the native flowers, when sowed, take somewhat long time 'till germinated on a place where meant -– And I've noted this (one, few) flowers of a 'Robin' only during few most recentyears. ...Or, it just might instead appear so that I'd for brought that first one of somewhere as an already fulll-grown one – Can't recall that about too exactly, now anymore. ; Anyways, the Robin still regularly grows on some farther distances away (,but not too far...) Usually in some more damp, 'semi-wet' roadsides. And at other such places. The Summery rains may have now here enfastened my few plants.

(The "blue-eyed" flowers seen on a background are Forget-me-nots. The species - 'apparentliest', not 'obligatorily' - Myositis Sylvatica.) -----

; ...From cons my other last year's sowings anything on Hollyhocks (Alcea rose, var 'The Watchman') seems too early to say. – Or, I'm not quite sure from whether I'd figured out the places for them as some adequate protected ones. Maybe there's also smght else I've not happened of thought priorly carefully enough... ; Shouldn't appear to any demanding...But, they seemed not near so 'gregarious' for emerge in during their first season. (Last Summer, ie.) Apparently...I may (must have?), from kept those at first too much enshaded by the some other growths. ; The said Yellow Sweet Clovers actually proved for so rapid emergin' in front to them – Soforth, those I then relocated for elsewhere places. Maybe that too did affect the Hollyhocks. Or maybe they just don't flower here during by the first year.

Yet, as them are 'biennials' I'm now at least expecting some from, by this Summer.

From those few surviving, in their 'early begins' seemed at first to quite 'nurtured'. But 'suppose there been as a logical reasons on that 'Winter spell' kept remaining w. us now to several weeks longer. (At least during the nights it still recent was very cold...) So now I'm only awaitin' what should happen...

; Well, the actuality proved that I, perhaps, wasn't finding most ideal places to those –Only two plants seemed of survived Winter. But their now growin steadily. – It maybe that a too direct, too 'scorching' sunshine might now become the more of any 'hindrance' to their better successive blooms considering. (Than anything else, by this year.)

Photo (below) ; ...Matter-a-fact, it seems I might need to still seek some new places for the additional Yellow Cone-flowers (E.paradoxa) too. (As one can see of a pic below, the ones on this places tend begin from an earliest warm period very well - But then usually become enshadowed by other perennials at where their now. (Of where for these anymore open, shiny places left...that's the problem. If...I'd to gather all these ones...in a one 'lump' ?)

But we 'shall see' about that. That the best guess...I guess. ------------

Then - still having a fewsome more 'new additions' from flowers grown. (For which I've also already selected the some proper places left in beforehand.)

While any my new selections weren't too many by this year, I've already a bunch of my newly planted growin' at the small 8x8 'boxes'. (ie, again; That how the case was, did wrote so by around that early April...)

The first from these fewsome the Heliotropes (ie, Heliotropium, Boraginaceaea). I already sowed them on an early from March. Guess we'll provide those in several pics by around when a warmer season has arrived. – As them can't be planted on the garden but perhaps after by the Mid-June. (... 'cause are so vulnerable on colds, under the 5 C degrees can damage the plants.) But, from the weather for much warmer by now, I already actually planted a few in the 'bench'. (Thumbs up!)

; Then, I'm also growing this year again, some Tagetes - Simply because from the reason they're so easy and fast to grow. Also tolerate some amount drought, not anyhow demanding by otherways either. ; ...After from the late by May been changed for more large vases and kept in the greenhouse warmth. And I notice, that it doesn't even seem to very much matter whether them being on a more of the sunshine or in the (slight) shade. By both cases, seem from grow as 'steadily'.

In a few pics on above from this text, also, so no more for here said on...

; The most part from ones that I'm having this year are only for seasonal garden plants. None from meant to last longer than 'till by the ends from the Summer. Except from mentioned Red Clovers. (That are said to remain, the 'several years'.) ------------

Along w. the above mentioned, 'though, I also did sow some African Aloe (U.frutescens) – Which are then meant to be grown for the household plants. So far nothin much I've learnt cons to those. 'Expectably', maybe, them seem for prefer quite warm and are the lot of sunshines demanding. So, possibly(?) I'll also having to seek for 'em some particular practical more large vases. ; One also happens notice that in during a pregrowing period them seemed need be rather careful watched due because for the 'multi-directioning' stems. As (these) Aloes grow for rather delicate thin 'sticks' and them are really easily bend. (Ie as those apparently quite vulnerable, at first when only w. fewsome stems, one tried for particular avoid not so much moving the small seedlings...) ; But otherways I'm now just relocating them at bit larger vases, waitin how them shall adapt for that, etc...

Also, I had on plans, for to grow - Instead from the Tomatoes, and for once in a number of some years I'm not having any those grown, by this season... - Had instead some 'Tamarillos' of sowed. (...However, I also read that the plants, perhaps, are known from the actual name as the Tomatillo. Logically, as it a species belonging on the same family/group of plants as are regular Tomatoes. By anycase, them by the lat. name are Solanum betaceum.) Actually I don't now quite recall, not bothering from check, from which the correct name of those I sowed.

But anyhow, are called also to the 'Tree Tomatoes', simply.

Yet, that task of growing proved to somewhat more 'tricky' than I'd from the first expected – None to my Tomatillos, so far, seemed for germinate. As it now gettin' for relative late by this Spring, guess'll then only having from manage without any those this Summer. ...As I also find it not very enthusiasting an idea from to buying some one plant/tree of the shops instead. Would from spoil any interesting parts at this 'experience', or on an experiment. (That by sowing and growing the plants by oneself.) --------

Then I'm also of the herbs, fx, growing some Basils and Garden Parsleys. - Of the seeds already by the last year acquired.

; The best developed of the Basils (I regularly do pregrow those...) took a slight surprising turn during from my former noted 'short leave'; As had it moved to a quite large vase by the prior of that, when returning on a week after I discovered that a 'seedling' had from withered. Indoors kept, perhaps it was from been left in a too little of light, or...from smght else.

But my other Basils, replanted now on bit smaller vases, seem be doing from just fine. (Of course them not grow very rapidly, as yet. But I've learned that them are quite easy keep and grow in the vases too. – As long as one doesn't forget any from to outdoors for the nights. Not until the mid-summer day been passed.)

And that was the most part on what comes my garden plants this year. Not of very particularly, any 'exceptionals' from. – But at this time of year tends keep one from happily - 'buzy'.

...The Beans and fewsome additional Summery flowers are still waitin' to be sowed. Of the Squashes (C.pepo) I already, like was said, have a few plants waitin' to some better warm seasons now. Carrots I also sowed – Inside the greenhouse (In a same 'bench' that actually now has one already planted Squash too.) ; Probably I'm not for much any new 'arrangements' in the garden this Summer. – But there shall be a good amount of the flowers, so guess'll we would be returning on these subjects in form of a some 'coverage' for photos about all that. - By some timing next, in during/after the warmer Months at this season... -------

Yet to mention:

...Along those others, I've also thrown a fewsome seeds of couple native flower directly at any 'proper thought' places there in garden. Such as seeds of the S.pratense (The 'Devil's bit Scabious'). It seems, however, merely it a random likehood if anysome from those would by the first year be seen germinated. And whether any for those places were of any suitable to them, etc...

That brings on mind the interesting little remark on about those some. Or more in particular the nowadays slight more 'scarcer', native old-time flowers.

; (I think) that plant (.pratense) grows best in a somewhat more moisturic soil. It seemed also said for prefer a little 'loamed' parts for the best sort Natural spots. As well, also was said by some levels, for dependable of the human interaction w. environments. – Iow, isn't so usually found at the most 'untramped' forest-sides or more 'dense' meadows from. ; Anyway, formerly for some years now, I used from walk past some nearby where in a said sort meadowy-path that seemed to grow, in some numbers of the plant. One time, I then also noticed there a fewsome rather interesting lookin' bumble-bees (There were, of course, usually on a some variety insect and bees seen at the S.pratenses, when a June or July - Or during by it's time of the flowering.) Indeed, those were a more particular lookin' ones – and I always regretted that I had then not any camera w. me. So I had no photos from that walk, to compare, check about what those exactly were.

; Anyway - Happens that them by more recent decided of to build some biking-walking route which goes by the forest's edge, and just over my said particular, little more 'wetty spot' – And there were gone this nice and apparently very favorable one 'spot' where I know this one plant for used to still have it's small 'appearance' here. (Might well still exist in any 'remnants' by that a more moisturic place, or on besides from that 'bikeway', nearby by the place it goes over that path. I've not checked about, never using that built 'route' now across on that place.)

But that's not the main point-of-view on this, however.

...It may well be that the plant from being 'dependable' on just such sort, 'little human-affected' environment, might represented for some 'remnant' on here nearbye's. The point-of-view (that) even when such a small – in any typical scales, as from what comes to the more typical human 'activities' from – just a small 'intervention' - can cause an important changes for the environmental part. Even such a limited change can actually affect, easily, for the more scarcer natural species. (Of course, the said plants seem not for so particularly scarce – But I don't much see those here, at any places. In the more rural regions, there probably still are the more often seen.)

...Supposin' them might also remain w. the some specimen there some else places. Haven't checked. Well a possibility too the plants may well appear on besides that road, in any nearby the little similar places for this more wetted place. Or on othersome few parts of that path from still remaining. ; But interestingly, that natural 'spot' isn't anymore also from quite the same. ...Wasn't exactly any very 'pristine' part of the Natures, by formerly ; While at my walks past that place I used from little after it always offer some glances to some rusting wreck of a car on that forest edge. It'd from somehow gotten ended up in the place. Complete mystery to me how – Not any real road was to be sighted leading to where it'd ended up. There were all kinds of the hays and other plants that were growing in midst the steeling wheel and on through the car's passenger-benches. I sometimes thought that it had a quite 'homely' look. Like some old abandoned town or ruins found at the 'jungle'.

; The car was a rather small vehicle, maybe from 1970s/early 1980s. Some sort 'wreck in the Natures', in resemblance w. that one from Dori Seda's mini-modelled sculptures, I'd often thought. (The one named imaginatively for the 'Wreck in Heaven'.)

Which of course neither was the main p-o-w on this.

The example seems now look like some minor 'incident' in the fragmentation of the Nature's 'original' habitat(s). If described by some ecological term. Yet people, perhaps, not so much even tend think there much consequence in the sort construction - a biking road on a byside, to 'improve' an already limitedly human used 'thoroughfare' - No cars allowed, and the bikes generally ecological way of movement; Minor conseqeunces. Still, such things that aren't near to so usual recognized as for anything to problematic - as are the more often talked and warned 'bout extinctions of many other species. (In the tropics, and on many similarly exotic 'ranges', w. unique species there does exist.) – Yet, it seems increasingly by nowadays forewarned also for how in many human 'localities' also formerly relative common species may be on their way of decline, too. ; You also hear lot less of any plants cons that sort aspects – Especially if their not to anyhow very particularly, impressive lookin ones. Or among any to more seriously endangered.

But the said sort flourishing natural 'spots' are also often the most enjoyable parts in a wide Natures, I mean (for say.). Also are exactly the sort places where a human-Natures interaction most best takes it's place, 'functions'.

; For an additional mention, a park – or a garden neither – can never really achieve quite the same. Gardens, fx, are often called to the 'transitional environments'. At their best. Yet, them not ever can exactly 'replace' any actual natural range.

; ...Would of course continue my 'relapse' for these memories and some 'nostalgies' to much longer – But I guess there were already main details 'bout this incident. Merely I wonder from whether anyone else even happened even notice this one aspect. ; Yet, that also just for a few reasons, of why I'm now trying cultivating also the said Devil's Bit Scabiose on the garden. (Even that them, if succeeding to grow there, not would do for any 'substitute' on that 'semi-natural' spot where I discovered those - At least would permit the 'chances' if from see the same 'bumbles' I there one time noted. A very slim chance – given that this urban locality situates on some distance away of the said 'forest-edge'. Judging from their outer look weren't to much resemblant for any 'bumbles' more usual here seen, besides...) --------

Photo, beside right: ...This certainly seemed like one queen-bee. (It was so large.) Looked most like would've appeared the Early Bumble-bee (B.pratorum) - One for the most widespread, quite common species at whole from the European/Palearctic range. But the problem in it's identification, I noted, that it lacks the 'lower yellow belt' - And the queen on said species should look rather similar to workers by colouration. Maybe...

...Another good 'contender', 'though, if that - matter a fact, by most likehood was - apparently, the Bombus lapidarius. (...Albeit, that Wikip.-look, seems give as well a few other choices on it's identification...) ; Also a very common species for much part the S.Fennoscandian ranges, and found with presence for well past the 'middle' of the country.

; The flower is a Mountain cornflower/M.knapweed (Centaurea montane), seen growin' on a bank of the roadside ditch. (I have a few on gardens too - While I don't too much like plant. Reasons to that...Well, nevermind...)

And for now – Let's call this one post for 'quits' in any good time. The shovel and a pitchwork are awaiting. The 'hay-stack' and the plough as well. Well, only kidding from the fewsome last mentioned...'artefacts'? (Or whatever the good term on about those.

From returning on this blog...on after 'some timing'. Maybe a few weeks. Maybe more like a Month after. Maybe two weeks. (During by this Summer, anyway.) [; G.U.J.]

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(Addit, 'section', by 10.6.21) ;

'Even for desert rats, however, there are limits. ...At least in the Southwest, the Pinacate desert is the final test of desert rathood; it is here we learn who is a true rat and who is essentially only a desert mouse.' ; ...Yet, maybe, still here to a few more sentences. At this 'Spring'-post – from finally nearing it's end.

For some alternative 'ending', maybe – but let's just call this to a small 'Epilogue'.

Of this present posting. ...On which, we are only citing the few more passages more of that Abbey (Edward, 1927-1989), writing from the desert wildernesses.

(At that Cactus Country, publ. on back the years by -73.)

...(Kind of,) I'm having the impressions that Abbey would've – or could be for said, sort like – to had got his 'official acceptance' as a writer (/authority), maybe even to the more particularly as an environmentalist writer - via the said book. (The book also has very magnificient photographs of the 'sceneries'; From the desert landscapes, about the cactuses, the animals...etc. Book did belong to a serie in the Time/Life-books, by 1970s. Still, maybe more apparent that it having remained past the years to ever so popular reads of the many.)

But who knows on all for it, of the more particular...Not myself, as I didn't think here so necessary of goin' to much further on any aspects related that. Ie, I not fx read any biography on the man. Neither else much of his book I've for read. Not much any other 'materials' either. Except, for that in the prior chapters mentioned Desert Solitaire (, from...the 1968, I think to recall) The Cactus country, basically, finds Abbey on much the similar subjects -or 'ranges' at. Only that there's bit less 'philosophy 'of a wilderness (/deserts), perhaps – And, ao, perhaps bit more on those animals and plants. Cactuses, of course. And these particular 'ranges' and regions of the said area. The arid areas from the US South-West. ; Along w. his some other 'mentors', Abbey also on begins one chapter seems quote the Mary Austin too. (From that Land of the Little rain, 'desert classic'.)

For the long story short, and without too much explains; Of the many other good passages in the Abbey's writings, in the some that I've for read, selected then this followed just due because it well does 'mix' several elements of his 'style'. Same 'elements' that still feel from rather original, making it often enjoyable reads. Unusual even at it's times, and - of course – it to that way still remains. ; Some of the...'characteristics', maybe, ao, are those referees from the old 'classics', that nostalgy for the 'old times' (such as on below the 'anecdotal' mention for that 'Seldom Seen Slim'); and, it's plain sharp analysis/descriptions that always come 'alonside' – on here and there, as the additional 'bonuses' for anyone w. some environmental (or historical) interests for. (Such as what it says on those past century's major industrial 'sins', in practice all the environmental crimes then made against all sensical means. Often also for taken their places in under an 'open daylight'.)

Photo, beside right: ...Don't know if that was by 'pure coincidence' - more usually not - but one from my sowed African Aloes got for flowering after from writing the above 'sections' on plants. ; As it said for originating for the Cape, an arid region w. lots of quite unique or specific 'flora', feels like the pic needed a place from feat here.

; ...Perhaps even more so, as I by recent 'glanced' parts a documentary how the uranium-mining having polluted the environment(s), waters, livinghoods, there. ; Regions in the Cape-area, on S. Africa by renown of their heavy mining, to variety of resource extraction. (Since from it's begins during the early colonialistic period. The origins of the - so called - industrial 'wealth, and it's already a centuries long 'counterpart' in the Africa's impoverishment.) For the mining-pollution, from uranium esp., often seems noted permanent - At least that also always seems create areas that are difficult, very costly for cleaned-up.

Very familiar words those are by the present; Very rare materials – despite all the lot good we may learnt said on the less wasteful 'recycling economy' for developing – in the insatiable human demand thinkin'. (...very common mentioned materials, by the presently; the 'copper, zinc, molybdenum, titanium, uranium...'). Obviously there's by today even more increasingly a question 'bout how to best avoid all the piling negative consequences found brought w. the said continuous human 'grasp' from the resources. ------

(...On a one remark at begins this post, I think, there was mentioned the study/coverage for the actual remaining “pristine” lands on an Earth to calculated only 3 per cent from all. – As any lands that practically not at all 'tramped' by the man, totally unpopulated, seriously importantly to remain for 'unvisited'. In practice, that meaning. And for unvisited by man, obviously. Birds, cave bears, muskrats, squirrels, hedgehogs, not counting...) ; There's of course 'levels' in the human caused stress, 'uses' of the environments. As the typical example our Fennoscandian wood-cover is often noted for the best 'preserved' in an European range – ca the nearby 75 per cent of forested areas still remaining. (I think it indeed makes a big difference, in a climatic and environmental senses; For examples, in the British Isles seems mentioned only to little over the 13 per cent of the original forest cover to still remain, by today.)

; ...Yet, wouldn't do without mentioning, in the same, that any given figures also always somewhat lie on these aspect(s), the 'more or less'. In the climate-stressed world the quality of the woods also matters, indeed increasingly.

On the begins this post considered it to feature, smght, on the 'grim prospects' now predicted to the formerly widely cultivated Fennoscandian Spruce-woods. Within this century, they seem now lot predict that the majorest negative climatic impact (,such as dry up) and pests-effects would fall, precisely, on many former established one tree-species stands of the - Spruces. Already by any walks one can easily notice – and I've paid attentions on the many places - there Spruces that seem gotten the more harmed by a present change in climatic conditions. (Those more continuous heats and the now seen 'swashbuckling' rains.) ; For any it's particulars the mains for 'bout that “gloomy grin” by (only) the past decades economic forestry 'management' is, of course, the bit more complicated. ...You might fx notice that it near so much not of the tree species, by itself – I've paid attention also on 'spots' and places where them seem not near so easily harmed by that climate effect. But from the type of the environments created as well. For examples, in a proper sort soils – or say, at the proper 'conditions' – the old-growth Spruce woods seem not quite so vulnerable to all that. ; The most harmed 'parts' also often representing the some 'patches' established in a complete wrong manner – For the all one-tree species woods, or, as the other example from where the spruce-forest planted from all too dense. ...For a positive side they seem at least say that from the 'man-made' planting from the woods already been largely abandoned as some forest management practice (,as 'method').

; If I should've predict, or say, that been a one main causes found leading to the more severe vulnerabilities on the heat, drought, pests.

(Along w. the forests clear cut logging. Along with the 'one-tree' species patches creating. Add to that fertilizing of trees - either w. the by 'organic' manner, as it still by present seems continued - or , for the even more harming on them, w. the chemial products - And you get the pests-stricken stands.)

But on here no more spaces to us go on w. further remarks from. Maybe in some next posts, later timings, at any of the subseq. chapters to follow.

As the return for that Edward Abbey, then of his book the said little quotation. - It also must to serve for the brief example about all the else lot what Abbey might've written...As there, of course, the several more books by. Along w. these couple mentioned well interesting for the reads, too. Possibly, very prob. ;

“There was once a spell of fine romance attached to prospecting and mining, especially in the realm of gold, as anyone will testify who has read books as J.Frank Dobie's Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver, or that marvelous novel by B.Traven, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. But the romantic period in metal and mineral extraction has long since passed. The eccentric and fiercely individualistic types who worked alone, towing a burro over the hills, are mostly gone: the legendary Seldom Seen Slim of Death Valley, for example, will never be seen again – he died a few years ago.

Today almost all serious prospecting is carried out by teams of college-trained geologists on the payroll of giant world-girdling corporations such as Kennecott and Anaconda. Nor do they waste much time seeking out gold and silver; today's prospectors are after things more basic: copper, zinc, iron, manganese, coal, oil shale, sand tars, molybdenum, titanium, uranium. When they locate something salable they will butcher whole mountains to remove it from the earth.

... What these mountains really need from us is to be mostly left alone, neither exploited nor – perhaps equally dangerous in the long run – loved to death. That the sheep may safely graze. That the lion may lie down with the lamb. (In order to eat him.) That islands of relative peace, order and sanity may remain amidst the chaos of a mindless industrialism. Tranquillity, I reckon, like water or money or seed corn, can usefully be stored away in safe places.” (; p .125.)

- Added italics for that one sentence. (The one before last sentence. Unfortunately, quotations on italized, so that doesn't show, of separately. Underlined those words, therefore.) ; Tranquillity, indeed how true. (And how Thoreauvian the expression on that one sentence.) And the Tranquillity...

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