#Greenland #Venezuela

#CriticalMinerals #RareEarthMetals #REE

Critical thinking.

Heard of Ada Gobetti? I think she is an icon of thought, via her direct experience resisting Mussolini and influencing post war "critical" pedagogy, often referred as "partisan" in Italy. A Life of Resistance: Ada Prospero Marchesini Gobetti (1902-1968) on JSTOR share.google/Wz8Q0zKV4SCJ...

Mussolini infamously sold his particular brand of violence through radio, "shouting" to the masses. His "might being right" simplified problems to an audience already deprived of an education in critical thinking.

Questions. "Free" speech under a legislative Constitution? But... Why do good people "tolerate" this kind of vicious sociopathic rhetoric from a personal moral point of view? Arendt's Benality of Evil playing out via millions across mass media ~ a moral failure in obeyance of a popular dictat?

Press statement by Freedom for Immigrants, USA. Please share. www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...

When hydrogen levels in the atmosphere are high, climate-warming methane doesn't break down as fast so its global heating effects remain intense for longer. So, microbes that lower hydrogen in the atmosphere could be slightly slowing climate change. 2/5 www.carbonbrief.org/hydrogen-emi...

Bark is home to communities of microbes that consume different gases from air, new research finds. The types of microbe & the gases they consume vary between tree species & location, but the study found all absorbed hydrogen. 🧵 1/5 share.google/gjuaPAfwdwlV...

United States 2026 and priests are preparing themselves for martyrdom. Do something positive today, be kind to yourself, draw a picture, take a walk, inject some tiny fraction of positivity into the world. We sure need it. #bekind

On the language/thought theme...

🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Agreed, however Environmental Ethicists, particularly Ecofeminists, have been writing about these matters for some time.

Questions. "Free" speech under a legislative Constitution? But... Why do good people "tolerate" this kind of vicious sociopathic rhetoric from a personal moral point of view? Arendt's Benality of Evil playing out via millions across mass media ~ a moral failure in obeyance of a popular dictat?

Critical thinking.

Yes, but also a distraction! Follow the money, the rare earths, the machine of laissez-fake "economics" benefitting the few in power. Resist BillyTech. Resist the stinking trade in conflict resources.

That is, UNTIL voters actually realise WHY LIFE on Earth is non-negotiable!

The Great Distraction continues... #RareEarthMinerals are crucial to anthropocentric "solutions" to the narrower "emissions" /energy security crisis, because the idea of going against the US model of laissez faire economics is political "suicide".

And how many sons of the working classes were recruited by The King's Shilling only to be killed or severely injured to enforce this miserable drain of wealth? The rich get richer. The full price is catastrophic.

My general complaint about narrowing the complex planetary crisis down to human-tech C02 emissions.

I hope that everyone can now understand that the primary function of Government is to protect GDP Growth, property & capital, NOT LIFE. Tory or Labour? Hardly the thickness of one page of this report between them. A complete reversal of normative priorities must now happen.

Rare earth's are so difficult to separate out in the rock matrix. Like associated heavy metals, they also exist in coal, fly ash, and phosphate rock added to soils. There is little to no research on long term impacts to the food chain! Innert in freshwater? Oceanic geochemistry has impacts.

Nature is not simply something to admire at a distance, enjoy during a break, or commodify and trade. NATURE is the process of EXISTENCE!

Cc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social #RareEarthElements #BillyTech #CriticalMinerals #EarthCrisis Ed Milliband et al, still pushing the technical solution (inc REE demand) to the emmissions problem, because ... Capitalism/GDPGrowth.

Billytech IS tatooed on Trump's rump, yes, and this "neo-Monroe doctrine" will control Rare Earth Elements and minerals essential for their stronghold against China and its vast reserves. Venezuela is RICH in REE & catastrophic exploitation (in all senses) will also open up beyond those borders.

Cc Kier Starmer

The Great Distraction continues... #RareEarthMinerals are crucial to anthropocentric "solutions" to the narrower "emissions" /energy security crisis, because the idea of going against the US model of laissez faire economics is political "suicide".

#Democracy #BillyTech #Resist #RareEarthMinerals #ClimateIsNOTSeparateFromLifeOnEarth

"Urban mining" is also a factor now, because salvaging electronic waste means fewer ecologically devastating extraction licenses for high demand of rare Earth minerals, and the creation of construction materials from reused plastics, etc (depending on toxicity/energy use).

Rare Earths! Trump has it stamped across his BillyTech bought rump.

Yes, but also a distraction! Follow the money, the rare earths, the machine of laissez-fake "economics" benefitting the few in power. Resist BillyTech. Resist the stinking trade in conflict resources.

BillyTech tatooed REM (Rare Earth Minerals) on Trump's rump. All life will pay the "price." cc @jonathan-watts.bsky.social thehill.com/opinion/inte...

Happy New Year!

Billytech (billionaire tech CEOs) underestimates this global, voluntary tribe. Wiki elves are vigilant and pernickety. They could teach us a few things about community and resistance.

Killing the messenger:

From the 'Shared Sky' exhibition by Indigenous #Australian painter Barbara Merritt #WomensArt #December14th #Peace🕯

Resistance rather than influence to bring about change? Influence, after all, is more about patriarchal power, money, and "hero-worship" All very ... Peak Trump.

Surely, the priority is to prang the algorithms. Algorithms are demanding individualistic, polarised, selfie videos. The drama! #DickAlgorithmsCodedByDicks

If there is anyone left in the US who still believes in their spray tan premiere, they too must suffer from those severe disorder(s) so difficult to treat. #DarkTriadPersonality #BrokenMoralCompass #DelusionsOfTrumpDilusionalDisorder #DOTDD

PS when will the current chair of the White House Correspondents Association (a woman) openly rally the union over Trump's verbal abuse of women press pool journalists in their daily workplaces?

Riverkeepers designated to their particular stretch of water course/catchment would work to protect river life in natural-co-operations "along" the ecological river continuum.

Baroness Anne Longford may well be long dedicated to the protection of children. But her skills are in the business of CEO - running a children's charity - and, clearly, political networking.

#BBC News Homepage. On most channels, Trump Regime's latest National (international) "security" plans are leading - clearly a threat against a Europe that does not comply with MAGA ideology. BBC? No. A direct impact of Trump's vacuous "legal" defamation case filed in Florida?

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social Eng/Wal criminal courts were undergoing a severe backlog BEFORE Covid. I was a Witness Volunteer at Cardiff CC and case volume/delays were THE conversation at the time, particularly in relation to downstream impacts of Conservative "austerity". #SarahSackmanMP

Assessing public support for degrowth - The Lancet Planetary Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... OK, interesting, though why continue to emphasise a word that is in the negative, and, at the very least, politically "difficult"? @jasonhickel.bsky.social?

Yes! Though economic systems emerge from the values of the powerful. Critical mass of value-shift is clearly necessary if we are to do this democratically (see the (tragic) rise of Reform).

Nutrient Boards are working in good faith, but they exclusively represent direct human interest from various demanding orgs/Councils/Industries. Representation of all freshwater/estuarine river LiFE is generally absent. LiFE = human & teresapien.

I have written about a national co-op of locally ecoliterate and independent RIVERKEEPERS, with powers to range, record, and regulate designated stretches of channel/catchment areas. Meetings in public.

Genuine gratitude. Mapping legal and illegal dumps is the start of an important , comprehensive review of historic waste.

Truth and accountability are crucial for public trust in politics; that's why I'm backing @compinpolitics.bsky.social's campaign for a targeted legal measure that would make it an offence for any politician or candidate to deliberately mislead the public on a matter of verifiable fact.