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Super niche non-fiction book from a novelist who is writing/reflecting about writing and the influences to her thinking. I cannot recall how I came across this or why I picked up other than the first section on “Plants” touched on ecology and the landscape with big mentions of Jeff Vandermeer’s Southern Reach books and Timothy Morton’s concepts of Dark Ecology and Hyperobjects. There are some distinctly female oriented views on the books topics (‘Plants’, ‘Planets’, and ‘Bleed’) and that offered up some powerful, persuasive notions of women as receptors — of the good and bad — and the body becomes the site for dealing with these issues. As the husband of a breast-cancer survivor, I’m very sensitive to this notion that the civilization’s literally high toxicity writ itself large within women’s bodies. Those observations by Wilk spurred me to purchase my next three reading projects, so we’ll see where that rabbit hole takes me!
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#deathbylandscape #elviawilk #margaretatwood #jeffvandermeer #southernreachtrilogy #timothymorton #ecology #hyperobjects #plants #sciencefiction #ex_libris_jz

It's super annoying how hard it is to point out #hyperobjects

"Averting wildlife-borne infectious disease epidemics requires a focus on socio-ecological drivers and a redesign of the global food system"

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(22)00116-X/fulltext

Figure 2 Tropical deforestation and overhunting as drivers of wildlife-origin zoonotic disease transmission

The figure is too complex to summarize, but it shows a type of spectrum (from left to right) of mixing with wild on one side and dense urban on the other.

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A global shift to predominantly plant-based diets has therefore been identified as crucial to reduce GHG emissions129,136,137 and biodiversity loss.138,140 These diets, sometimes referred to as ‘flexitarian diets’, are informed by current evidence on healthy eating and characterised by large amounts of plant foods (fruit, vegetables, plant source proteins like pulses, nuts and seeds, wholegrains and unsaturated plant oils), modest amounts of animal source proteins (fish, poultry, eggs, dairy), low amounts of red meat (beef, lamb, goat, pork) and processed meat, limited amounts of saturated fats, added sugar, refined grains and highly processed foods, and a balanced energy intake.156 As discussed in the previous section, such a dietary shift may contribute to also reducing the risk of wildlife-origin zoonotic disease outbreaks and EID events.76,106 In addition, a transition to more plant-based diets characterised by low shares of livestock source products would generate other important human health,22,156,163,178–182 agronomic and food security183–185 benefits (Figure 3) (see Webappendix 5. The human health, agronomic and food security benefits of predominantly plant-based (flexitarian) diets).
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"H5N1 is adapting to new mammalian hosts, raising the possibility of the virus spreading between humans."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00245-6

In case it's not clear by now, biosecurity measures either aren't being taken seriously or are useless. Considering the various responses that I've seen over the last year, with my confirmation bias of course, serious biosecurity is bad for the animal farming business short-term profit goals.

#h5n1 #birdFlu #avianInfluenza #mooFlu #zoonosis #birdFarming #eggFarming #cowFarming #goVegan #fluHyperobject #hyperobjects

I thought it might be interesting to compare the REAL monsters represented by Godzilla and Cloverfield.
https://lateboomersden.blog/2024/01/26/godzilla-minus-one-and-more-thoughts-on-hyperobjects/
#9-11, #America, #atomicbomb, #BlueOysterCult, #Cloverfield, #Godzilla, #Godzilla Minus One, #hyperobjects, #Japan, #Movies, #Nuclear, #Philosophy, #GodzillaMinusOne, #kaiju

@cognacore I bumped into your account in my hashtag search for #timothymorton . Thought I’d reach out and say hi because your profile and some of your posts resonate with me. Also #hyperobjects and #deschooling !

When governments fail the planet, we have to make our voices heard: join artist Joanie Lemercier, Samaneh Moafi, artists Matthew Plummer-Fernández, Theresa Schubert and activist Kathia von Roth for a discussion on taking (drastic) action. ⏰ Oct 5 – 7pm CEST ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/y3agtbv4

#NODE20 #SecondNature #panel #hyperobjects #environmentalactivist #postcolonialsm #contemporarydance #geopolitics #Biopolitics #soundecology #coexistence #sustainability #activism

Oh boy. #RoyScranton is good.

http://mustarinda.fi/magazine/post-fossil-fuel-culture/anthropocene-city

This article is a stunner. Not only is it superbly written, dense with facts about the toxic industries surrounding the Houston Ship Canal, clear about the political incompetence dealing with storm flooding on Texas coastlines, and a focus on #DarkEcology and #hyperobjects via a discussion with #TimothyMorton (another dark ecologist and complex thinker, but...

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