An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
T. S. Eliot
It is often easier to let ourselves believe that some information is too hard to access or that numbers are irrelevant to our day to day lives. To ignore the ugly things and hide behind the mundane. But here we are, on a dangerous tipping point and we need to be paying attention.
Change is coming, whether we are ready or not.
And at this point you are probably wondering well who even is this guy and why is he yapping about all this anyways?
I am a biology student who is deeply passionate about Climat Change. I have taken paper on whats happeing and how it will be affecting us now, tomorrow, in 2050.
I have grown up all over Aotearoa, both North and South Island, with our rugged landscape on my back doorstep. Spending my childhood in the rock pools, in the hills behind our cities. I will never have the words to describe what having all of this in my own hands means to me. I see people living connected with the land they are on, in connection with those around them becuase of it. Things that only can be witnessed, spoken about in gentle reverance. There are big reports and documents and laws and policys and they all speak about this in quantities and qualities. But for us people? We can’t connect to that, make sense of it sometimes.
I have always felt that there are things I have access to, as a student, someone involved in the scientific and acdemic world, in the locations I have been in or conferences I have sat in, that other people need to be privy to. So how do I get that information out? How do I get people talking about all this? Well thats exactly why I am here. Because I worry, for what I will see in my lifetime, what my children will have to see in theirs. And maybe more importantly what is going to happen to our Earth, the animals that have lived here long before us, ice frozen before humanity existed, cycles that have been stable longer than we can conceptualize.
I am of course biased. I want you to know what is happening, but I also have very strong opinions on what I believe that answers are. I will always state when my opinion is coming through and when things are facts. But I also want to remind you in times like these to always always think about hte potential bias sources may have, me, other bloggers, influencers, news papers and news shows, politicians, even studies and scientists. Who is funding these things? What do they want you to think and why. Misinformation and disinformation run rampant and it hurts my heart to see people stuck in ideas given to them by people they thought were trsutworthy, that only hurt and harm.
Please don’t hesistate to contact me with questions, things you might want to hear about, opinions, anything. My door, metaphorically, is always open. Comments or emails are appreciated. (Email me at thesmokeblog@proton.me)
Lots of love and take care!
~ Fossil He/Him
The Smoke 