any large group we make is deadly
This is basically our challenge, finding ways to organize large numbers of ourselves in ways that are far less exploitative of other humans, and other life, than the systems we have going now. Graeber & Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything suggests it's not quite as hopeless as many believe.
Yup. And it's not just white people! In a very international course I took with Bija Vidyapeeth about 20 years ago, at least one of the non-white participants shared the view that any human engagement with the rest of the natural world was going to be a negative. I knew less then, but did recall and share about research in the Amazon which documented an increase in local biodiversity where humans were, over ecologically similar areas which were left alone.
The elites of many countries have absorbed the same Western-dominated views that those of us living in the West are bombarded with.
A little confused by this, but maybe it was intended to respond to one of the comments?
Haha yeah in no way was I trying to say that, "humans are being good caretakers of the planet" because as an overall statement that would obviously be false. However, it is true that there are countless examples, even today, of people being good caretakers of specific ecosystems, or of social/political systems which can impact some ecosystems.
videos or documentaries…about specific conservation efforts that focus on the actual project and what it accomplishs
Yeah, that kind of stuff. Any you'd recommend?
The Nazis called it amtsspracht. (trigger warning, racial epithets) https://www.listeningway.com/marshall-yes-interview.html
You can skip it. Also, there's reader mode.
Literally one R Senator said publicly that he wouldn't vote for one of Trump's worse appointees, and the pick was withdrawn.
And he's in the news again lately, as it looks like Turkey may finally be ready to make a vaguely acceptable deal with Kurds in Turkey. https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/834470
Here are a couple of trackers for all these lawsuits:
https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/
Ding ding ding! Yeah, I was inspired to ask by this tweet: https://x.com/krishnanrohit/status/1940596143932768717