A small but great example of this is how there’s was this huge freak out out the bee population declining but then next to no one heard about the new population recovery. 1/4
The reason this example is on my mind is I was at a housing policy meeting recently and there was this environmentalist citing bees as why we can’t allow new neighborhoods and so I showed her charts about the bee pop recovering. You’d think she’d have loved that news but… 2/4
She was actually mad about it. And I think it was because I was implicitly arguing against her worldview.
That’s where I think there’s a bigger lesson. Negativity bias breeds NIMBYism. If every change is bad, why allow change?
If modernity sucks, why lean into the future? 3/4
If you want to encourage a culture of progress, you have to point out over and over again that we have it great today compared to the past (and there are hundreds, if not thousands of examples of that).
And people in 2070 will have it even better than we do. @jasoncrawford 4/4
https://x.com/GaryWinslett/status/1852509596256006156?t=7jzYo3BudIEuwD5vxvJqkQ&s=19
🐝There are over 20,700 species of bees around the world.
🍯But only less than 4% produce honey
🟥What types of bees exist? Out of the 20,000 different species of bees, 250 are bumblebees, 500-600 are stingless bees, and 7 are honeybees. The remainder are the solitary bees.
(Check this link)
https://x.com/BeeAsMarine/status/1632800090023686144?t=RzW9I3hHqemgbLaPjSU_cg&s=19
Basashi is the term for horse sashimi. The overwhelming majority of sashimi is fish.
ANOTHER SHIPMENT 💔🐴 At 4:05 AM, another export flight of horses left the Winnipeg airport & is now en route to Japan for slaughter. With the windchill, it was -30°C, yet horses were left in crates on the tarmac for hours. Canada must END this now! #CdnPoli
📷 @mbanimalsave
My battery is low and it's getting dark." These haunting words, sent from 225 million miles across the void, became the poignant farewell of NASA's Opportunity rover—affectionately known as Oppy—before it fell silent forever. Launched in 2003 and landing on Mars on January 25, 2004, Opportunity was designed for a modest 90-day (90-sol) mission to search for signs of ancient water. Instead, this plucky little solar-powered explorer defied every expectation, outlasting its warranty by a staggering factor of 55, roaming the Red Planet for nearly 15 Earth years (5,498 days / 5,352 sols). It traversed over 45 kilometers (28 miles), survived brutal dust storms, climbed crater rims, and delivered groundbreaking discoveries: definitive evidence of past liquid water, minerals formed in water, and hints that parts of ancient Mars could have supported microbial life.But in June 2018, a massive planet-encircling dust storm engulfed Mars, blocking sunlight for months and starving Oppy's solar ...
RFK Jr: Food is affecting everything that we do...if a foreign enemy or adversary did this to our country, poisoned us at mass scale, we'd consider it an act of war...
https://x.com/i/status/2023117209036312732