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Time well spent
The older I get the weirder I become, especially stuff I love to spend time on.
One example is this: Speaking Proto-Indo-European, discussion on professoral mega-nerds Crawford and Byrd.
(for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnZMuAHmmvo&t=2979s )
And Irving Finkel, with his stories on cuneiforme Stories. So brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfYYraMgiBA&pp=ygUKZmlua2VsIG9uIA%3D%3D
To link one.
Or Justin Sledge (who has the weirdest name for a scientific channel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdKst8zeh-U&t=5s
Science is amazing.
2019, 2020, ...
It's been a busy 1.5 years.
No time to blog, or write.
Work though.
Back at EFSTA in a managing role.
Fiscalisation Germany. Enough said.
Covid, Trump, Brexit, Turkey.
All the while we're collectively cooking to death our planet, eredicating our base of living by killing our biosphere.
I have stopped wondering whether we, as a race, are really this suicidal... but then, nothing that can be explained by stupidity should be explained by maliciousness, right?
Question is how to save us, the ecosphere, the planet.
Various answers, but they have to be put into action.
By everyone.
RND(thoughts, n+2)
The titles start to add up, i know.
However. November, and the expectation would have been that since July (I think) all those global things would have improved, and my rather bleak outlook would have been proven paranoid, unwarranted, and generally not worth remembering.
Not the case, and it looks like we, as a race, are actually facing our own demise by our own hands, unless we really get our proverbial shit together, as they say.
The main factors that I currently see are:
biodiversity loss (pollinating species!!!)
pollutant enrichment
monoculture genetics variation vs. bacterial/viral evolvement cycles race
water resource use
wildlife resource use
climate change
We have to solve all of them in a short time, or, well, face extinction, as I see it.
And thses are things that are global in level, but local in application. So it has to work locally everywhere, or, to cite myself, we're in the shitter.
The problems involved with this are legion of course, and that's only what I can see...
So I pose the question to everyone: How do we get that done within, say, twenty years?
What can we do locally?
What can we do on a beyond local scale?
We have to. Really.
Failing is not an option, or we are dead (and the ecoshpere probably better off, but never mind) :)
Family matters
Anyone interested in Marberger Family matters (pedigree, genealogy aso.): I recently got me the marberger.family TLD, which can be found here:
www.marberger.family
Enjoy.
Cheers, Jakob
Random Thoughts n+1
Last time I've written anything here, it was non-positive. In terms of outlook at the world, the planet.
Didn't improve much meanwhile. However. Where do we have to put the lever in, I wonder.
I think the ecological mess we're steering into (biodiversity + climate) is a urbanisation problem. Our cities are deserts, and they grow, an will continue to grow.
Since I don't think that we'll be, as a race, be able to change that, we have to change the cities.
And that means changing architecture. The whole glass and concrete wall concept, the designing buildings for maximum photo effect (which they are generally) has to give way to the creation of landscape which can be settled by nature. Skyscrapers have the become mountains of flowers, with mandatory bee colonies, and insect tribes.
Water has to be kept high, and soil has be get the chance to accumulate.
Humans have to start to become a positive ecological force to avoid dying.
if we don't, we probably deserve to be replaced.