Save The World - Tumblr Posts
just a reminder to check out some information (carrds) about all the issues in the world!
"Businesses like to talk about the concept of a closed loop or circular economy, but often they’re trying to close small loops. Releaf Paper takes dead leaves from city trees and turns them into paper for bags, office supplies, and more—which is to say they are striving to close one heck of a big loop.
How big? Six billion trees are cut down every year for paper products according to the WWF, producing everything from toilet paper to Amazon boxes to the latest best-selling novels. Meanwhile, the average city produces 8,000 metric tons of leaves every year which clog gutters and sewers, and have to be collected, composted, burned, or dumped in landfills.
In other words, huge supply and huge demand, but Releaf Paper is making cracking progress. They already produce 3 million paper carrier bags per year from 5,000 metric tons of leaves from their headquarters in Paris.
Joining forces with landscapers in sites across Europe, thousands of tonnes of leaves arrive at their facility where a low-water, zero-sulfur/chlorine production process sees the company create paper with much smaller water and carbon footprints...
“In a city, it’s a green waste that should be collected. Really, it’s a good solution because we are keeping the balance—we get fiber for making paper and return lignin as a semi-fertilizer for the cities to fertilize the gardens or the trees. So it’s like a win-win model,” [Valentyn] Frechka, co-founder and CTO of Releaf Paper, told Euronews.
Releaf is already selling products to LVMH, BNP Paribas, Logitech, Samsung, and various other big companies. In the coming years, Frechka and Sobolenka also plan to further increase their production capacity by opening more plants in other countries. If the process is cost-efficient, there’s no reason there shouldn’t be a paper mill of this kind in every city.
“We want to expand this idea all around the world. At the end, our vision is that the technology of making paper from fallen leaves should be accessible on all continents,” Sobolenka notes, according to ZME Science."
-via Goodd News Network, August 15, 2024
How can you save the world on a voluntary basis when others are destroying it full-time?
By organizing all of us and building a new utopia.
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How did the general brutalisation come about in the present time?
Are we humans really incapable of learning from history?
Is our fate the eternal repetition of the same mistakes based on ignorance and territorial claims to power or social claims to exclusive power?
Just posting pictures and liking something for a better world may make you feel good, but it is pointless and ineffective.
You like the great beach with the super cool sunshine but you're not interested in the ocean conservation or sea level rise.
You love the images of a supposedly perfect world and are happy about this perception even though there is not a single area that is not affected by the effects of climate change.
You can all just like and watch but don't complain when the effects show you that the reality is different. As the nice pictures with the dreamlike locations.
Privatisation is an option but not an alternative.
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The realisation that we really have to change all areas of life is a difficult cost to bear.
So keep it up! And always remember not to cry when things get really fucked up.
When you wear a T-Shirt or make one that questions the state of the world. In the end, it's just a T-Shirt as an expression of fashion!
Sad....and meaningless
The whole thing can only be improved through individual participation.
So, to paraphrase Monty Python: be nice to your neighbours and don't hit your children.
Every day on this planet is a day in paradise - that's how we should actually think about our situation. Because the planet gave us everything we need as living beings to live well, but there is one factor, and that is us as humanity itself, which is massively changing the conditions of life.
We are aiming for the stars and have somehow not fully realised that even the nearest planets we can reach are not habitable without technical support.
Even if we intervene technically, these planets or satellites will not be able to offer us the same quality of life.
So why do we value our earth so little that we just exploit it with no tomorrow?
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This year, as every year, there was the World Ocean Day with an online conference in which everyone could participate.
What was presented there was thought-provoking and full of potential. Scientists described what humanity will face if certain tipping points are reached, and they also presented measures on how the political systems and society can be transformed to avoid reaching these tipping points and triggering a cascade that can be reversed. This would have a positive impact on life on the entire planet!
But what can we say? It doesn't seem to be particularly important for those currently responsible in politics and business.
So no matter what we do ourselves for personal reasons, just cycling, shopping sustainably or supporting small projects that are sustainable in action or by helping out, it's just a drop in the ocean.
We do what we can here and annoy our leaders with emails, petitions, elections and whatever else is in our power.
But creatures that are only around eighty years old are probably not in a position to think ahead into the future to understand what really needs to be done to preserve a species and indeed itself.
As long as we believe that we are the crown of creation and do not want to recognise that we are only a small particle in a mega complex system, we will unfortunately fail completely in the long term. But there is hope! We can change our perspective and start thinking about the bigger picture.
It is so important to remember that the more pieces of the puzzle we remove from the whole system, the more we will affect it when the puzzle stops working.
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If you're affected by extreme weather, don't cry!
It's just Mother Nature doing her thing.
If you're feeling the effects of climate change, don't fret! It's just God's way of testing us.
If you're feeling the effects of droughts, high water, and other climate-related challenges, don't worry! It's just God's way of showing us that we need to be more mindful of our impact on the planet.
Have fun with God's punishments and remember that if God does everything, he probably invented science to bring us closer to him.
As an addendum, we call him, her, it * God because we don't care what you call him exclusively.
It is human nature to love records, but perhaps we should proceed with a degree of caution in this case.
2024 is on track to break all records, with around 13,500 fires in the first half of the year alone. This is the highest number of fires in the Amazon for 20 years! And the dry season is only just beginning. There is no doubt that our green lung of the earth could die off over a wide area by 2030. We must act now to save the Amazon. If we don't, we will lose the Amazon and more than 400 mammal species, including the jaguar. Countless animals will die in the flames.
There is hope.
Protected areas and indigenous territories are real firewalls in the fight against deforestation. In these areas, the forest is in much better condition and therefore burns far less. It is a proven fact that almost 90% of deforestation in the entire Amazon region took place outside protected areas.
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We kindly request your assistance in making arrangements and donations to the WWF.
While five dollars or five euros may seem insignificant on an individual level, when considered collectively, it can make a significant impact.
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The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.
Henry A. Wallace
Lies are becoming the truth. This is the age of disinformation.
Populists and right-wingers use propaganda, misinformation, and distortion of facts. This is also used by dictators.
The world is flooded with lies to gain and hold power. And they don't compromise with anyone who disrupts them. Human rights and equality are a waste of time. Those who don't fit the world picture are deported, imprisoned, sentenced, and locked away. Based on the exceptions indicated by those in power, martial law can be imposed.
Power is seized,
the state is reorganized,
crises are created at home,
threats are made, and people are purged.
The seizure of power is consolidated through intolerance, and all state positions will be filled anew.
Wow, the Third Reich is back, didn't the Americans sacrifice their sons to get rid of it?
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Let us imagine God as a gigantic eternity that, according to Einstein, does not play dice. If he is eternal and greater than everything, can it be that he is everything? Let's say he is everything here, now, space and time, yesterday, tomorrow. Wouldn't we somehow be the greatest and the smallest in Him?
Let's say he doesn't need any proof that he exists, that he is existence and even non-existence. If we were not as insignificant as a blood vessel that has its purpose in our body and of which we are never aware.
God himself does not exist and yet he exists.
A whole universe with many galaxies, black holes, pulsars, black matter with curved space, hydrogen burning suns that light up the darkness, super novenas and all the matter that you hardly believe is evenly distributed cannot be God himself.
A concept that is far beyond our understanding and has nothing to do with the all too earthly perspective of a God.
We are stardust, iron, water, carbon, created from elements of the universe, so God is in us.
An eternity that expands and finally disappears into darkness when all the hydrogen is burned up. And finally collapsing to rise again.
In our view, the divine is an eternal everything that will eventually pass away to rise again.
No, the God you invoke does not hear us. We are made of Him and have the fantastic good fortune to be part of the whole.
But man is man's path to divinity or damnation, it is our responsibility.
God was never there and has never been absent, the divine lies within us and is called understanding, compassion and love.
Religions are not and will never be able to speak for eternity of the existence of all things through their claim to exclusivity.
Every night when we look up at the night sky we realise, through our knowledge of the stars, that we are looking into the past for a light whose source may no longer exist.
Here we feel divine in connection with the world and all that surrounds it.
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People have to be there for other people - that is the only thing that helps when times are hard.
Just had my nth conversation with someone about mask-wearing today - yet another well-intentioned moron who was like
‘But the virus is gone now’ (it isn’t)
‘But the mask is uncomfortable’ (ventilators are worse)
‘But you’re young, you won’t die’ (having this thing could impact my health for decades to come + it’s my responsability to protect those who’re more vulnerable than I am because that’s how society works)
‘But are you going to live in fear for the rest of your life’ (taking concrete safety measures actually helps me feel more in control and less worried)
‘But are you going to give up everything and stay inside like a rat’ (no, but I’m definitely going to decide what’s worth risking my health for, and shopping for bread rolls is not very high on my list of literally-to-die-for activities)
‘But what if they never find a vaccine’ (then we’ll get used to the situation just like we got used to a thousand other things like seat belts, bike helmets, and increasingly weird true crime podcasts).
I know it’s tiring to have people call you paranoid all the time - but you’re right and they’re wrong. Check the news, keep a safe distance from others whenever possible and keep wearing your mask!
(Btw that thread is full of interesting stuff.)
“During World War One, 10% of all casualties were civilians. During World War Two, the number of civilian deaths rose to 50%. During the Vietnam War, 70% of all casualties were civilians. In the war in Iraq, civilians account for up to 90% of all deaths.”
— The War You Don’t See by John Pilger. (via sandysays)
This is the fourth page of interior art from Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders #2, drawn by Alan Davis.