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April 11 2021
Happy Spring! It really felt like a long Winter and the bright
green of the emerging foliage is a welcome sight.
Books:
I'm currently reading 'Bright Green Lies', just out last month.
Derrick Jensen is the primary author but with contributions from
Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert. It basically a critique of the
mainstream environmental movement, it's abandonment of basic
conservation principles and it's embrace of the various "green"
techno-fixes, essentially its co-option by the dominant culture.
So far it's engaging however the tone makes it clear that it had
multiple authors. Feels it could have benefited from additional
editing. Seems there is a companion film as well; more at
https://www.brightgreenlies.com .
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Gemini:
Portions of this site are now available over Gemini [0]. Gemini
is (currently) an experimental protocol intended to occupy the
space between Gopher and HTTP. Mainly it just serves up text-based
documents, supporting a sparse version of Markdown for improved
formatting of things like section headers. It also supports TLS
so transfers are encrypted. It can also serve binaries such as
images however it seems there is currently some sort of size cap
in place such that only very tiny pictures will fully display or
download successfully.
For those curious enough to check it out there are several clients
available including a couple for Android that make it fairly easy
to explore Geminispace. I've been using Deedum which is easy to
use and renders the Markdown well.
gemini://sdf.org/mmeta4/
I'll try to keep it current as long as the hosting is in place.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Gemini_(protocol)
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Presentation:
Meant to post this a while ago; quite a concise summation of our
multifaceted predicament.
William E. Rees - Climate change isn't the problem, so what is?
https://youtu.be/9oVTHKzC7TM (YT; 1:14:00)
This was the keynote speech for a virtual 2021 climate change
conference at Tel Aviv University's Center for Global Climate
Change. Ree's presentation starts 6 minutes in.