Admins please freely move this post about the cabin as you see fit. Do any of you find yourself to be at times, losing steam, or becoming disheartened by your increased exposure to the natural world? if so, how do you keep your head up? how do you stay on the brighter side, when for all intents and…

Two years ago our neighborhood had a tornado and we’ve been busy restoring and improving our neighborhood after the damage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcXurL0YUoo&t=5s

Maybe this will cheer this thread up a bit. [Screenshot_20220805-110514_Brave] (from: https://www.gocomics.com/speedbump )

I was watching a documentary about Greta Thunberg today, and one thing she said toward the end really stood out: “You don’t have to feel hopeful to act.” She went on to explain that action without hope is possible, but hope without action is impossible.

The thing with pessimism is that it’s not hopeless. I believe that a lot of the trouble we have dug ourselves into is the result of being too optimistic to acknowledge what’s really happening. “Oh, we’ll deal with that problem when we get to it.” “We’re a smart species. We’ll just invent somethin…

I disagree with her there. Most people have hope without action. They hope someone else will fix the problem.

I’m sorry, but her figure just shows the state of current Western politics, instead of doing something they choose a child ready to scream some obvious or wrong stuff and people feel good about it, everything hypocritical to not actually help those nations that they exploit for centuries.

[image] lordcaravan: and obviously havent spent a day in the bush (ignorant, or in your words, “an idiot”.) Then how, pray tell, did he get 490 observations of 370 species? That’s only 44% of the number of your observations, yet approximately half-again as many species, and in a less biodiver…

No shade on @broacher from myself, but I doubt it takes a whole day anywhere to find 400 species if it’s needed, especially if we talk through the summer as those are not observations from one day. I’m sure, we all know, why many countries have the amount of observations they have, you wouldn’t ask …

[image] marina_gorbunova: I’m sure, we all know, why many countries have the amount of observations they have, you wouldn’t ask why a tropical country has less observations than a wealthy European one? (try Kenya vs. Germany) Where wealth comes mainly from modern economical colonialism that make…

For sure observing everything around you is one of the best ways of action if you have that possibility! I think it fits the topic, that’s what helps people staying optimistic, as we see not only bad changes, but how something is still there, how it’s saved from all the pressure! And making underobs…

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