When the Night Bells Ring - Jo Kaplan Audiobook

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  bretwhit
  August 29th, 2023
  

  1/2 of this really sucks

  When the Night Bells Ring - Jo Kaplan
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  apnea
  August 11th, 2024
  

  

  bretwhit, every other sentence of the first or second half?

  “In a future ravaged by fire and drought, two climate refugees….”

  That future arrived a decade ago and is getting worse every year. We, at the height of our tech, knowledge and capabilities, and we cannot prevent our towns from burning down. Towns weren’t burning down when I was a kids, nor in the 1980’s nor 1990’s nor the first decade of this century. They are now. Seems to me the world is in denial and not just the white-boy climate deniers - denial comes in many flavors.
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  “”One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on the land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.” ~ Aldo Leopold

  “The obsession over “solutions” never seems to go away. I’ve detailed many times over the past (almost 4 years now) precisely why what we face is a set of symptom predicaments under a root predicament. The root predicament (not problem) is ecological overshoot, and symptom predicaments are items such as climate change, pollution loading, energy and resource decline (aka peak oil), biodiversity loss, extinction, and all other environmental issues that are typically called “problems” but which in reality have no solutions because they aren’t actually problems. We like to think that we have solutions by applying science to utilize technology to solve problems; and for things that are, in actuality, problems, it is possible to solve them in a reductionistic manner by ignoring the environmental degradation that comes along with building such technology, operating it, maintaining the infrastructure supporting it, and decommissioning said technology at the end of its service life and either scrapping it or replacing it. But while the original problem may appear to have been solved, brand new problems or even predicaments spring up in its place as a result of this process. This is why so-called “solutions” are really nothing more than bargaining. More often than not, they are bargaining to maintain civilization.”
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  https://erikmichaels.substack.com/p/the-solution-obsession

  When the Night Bells Ring - Jo Kaplan

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