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https://twitter.com/DanDanTransient/status/1174738599755096065
robertogreco@loisdum I’m convinced it’s a buzz word now with roots in something honorable but has lost its way. Wanting “decolonization” but utilizing the wheel, western technology, doesn’t make sense to me…
My ancestors didn’t see steel and think, “how nice but that’s not traditional.”
No they traded for and adapted it to their needs. The took the improved material and formed it into their traditional (and better) shape (the ulu).
I have any old ulu made out of a food lid that an ancestor made when Russians gave them canned foods.
Natives were often better armed then the US Army, with plains NAtives going from bows to repeater rifles while the cavalry still often used black powder.
(Note in most situations a good bow is better then black powder).
From methodology to material when most tribes found something useful they traded for it and found a way to impRove it for their use.
Adaption, ingenuity, and cleverness are traditional values.
That is why the majority of modern foods (like 87% from one article) originated from precontact Native food science.
Medicine, architecture, leadership, governmental systems, pragmatism, the list goes on, all because we experimented, discovered, and improved.
All that said, the wheel was known by most tribes before contact, and it was surely seen and understood not soon after.
It was deemed for the most part not very useful when we had canoes that could go farther, faster, and with less work.
The wheel requires roads to not only be built, but maintained. Don’t believe me, ask why the military has been trying to develop mechanical legged gear haulers since WW2. Or why hikers aren’t taking trailers on thru hikes.
And tracked vehicles are extremely damaging.
The wheel is great if you want to build and maintain an infrastructure, something pre industrial societies needed cheap or free labor to do the building and maintaining.
Laborers weren’t considered disposable to most Native cultures.
And why even go to that work when a river gets you there twice as fast and a fraction of the work?
Why struggle with a wagon up a mountain pass when a travois will glide along? I know which I’d rather have to repair on the fly.
A better question than “why didn’t Natives build wheels?” is “why did Europeans spend decades blocking, damming, and covering their natural roadways instead of just discovering kayaks and canoes?”
But now we have roads so not taking advantage of that with the wheel would be silly and untraditional.
The environment has been changed and we adapt as we always have.
A lot of folks bringing up “no domesticated beasts of burden” so let me remind you llama, dogs, and horses.
Just cause colonial history taught y’all an entire continent was filled with horses in 30 years from 8 escaped Spanish mounts don’t make it true.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y815zgfbox6wknk/Collin.Horse.Dissertation.pdf?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR1lLBDf6SD9hl9ivIpGnuN_z7G-mlhtx54wKMpD3QJVqKq1yEptAGDuNI8
Add to your knowledge even European history (though untrustworthy compared to Indigenous history) records that at least 3 Inuit at different times crossed over to England, one of them kayaking into London on a rainy day, all preColombus
We discovered you [quoting @DanDanTransient:]
And Inuit in kayaks crossed into England and back as is recorded in history and story so I mean, there ya go
I guess I should connect these two as one does [quoting @DanDanTransient:]
Ok so I love the positive and informative comments on my wheel thread, but I want to address my favorite flavor of statement that I just couldn’t believe anyone like believed.
Summing them all up “Natives didn’t use the wheel because we didn’t have agricultural societies.”
Ok once I got done laughing at this wrong statement I doubled down on any of them in that I believe pre industrial societies require a system of forced labor to build and maintain roads. Few tribes had that here, laborers weren’t widely accepted as disposable.
I mean like Europeans may have tried for an agricultural society but I think it’s pretty verifiable that the rest of the world was doing it better.
dandan the transient
Like 87% of the world’s food today comes from pre contact American food science, and the majority of the rest came from outside europe.
Now that’s based on articles cause the closest I’ve came to being a scientist is wearing a lab coat and waving a microscope at climate change deniers.
So my numbers may be off, but we still gave the world most of its modern food.
But what I’m not off about is many tribes had flourishing agriculture both in the generally accepted method and in what I would consider non standard.
First in the generally accepted category those dudes in central America like created corn from grass, they weren’t just kinda playing around, they like made something.
Tomatoes are another example of “hey look at this little berry I’m gonna create something the size of an apple.”
Not too mention quinoa, rices, grains, and orchids that covered the land. Just cause Europeans burned a lot of it doesn’t mean it didn’t exist.
But let’s go beyond the standard accepted forms because innovation is traditional in both method and thought.
The spread of bear poop filled with huckleberry seeds to increase the amount of plants, clearing one style of tree to make room for more useful trees, clearing brush to prevent damaging fires, or carrying seeds to easier each locations for medicines and craftable plants.
When settlers arrived here they were shocked at the “wild” paradise filled with useful things, it was like forests were engineered to suit the tribes’ needs.
Spoiler it was like that because we engineered it that way.
We did the work.
Their inability to see terraforming for what is was doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. They benefited and continue to benefit from thousands of years of planning and labor.
The fact that we didn’t clear cut trees or make long straight rows to labor over doesn’t mean we weren’t planning out and caring for our lands, it means we were working smarter not harder.
Clearing wide spaces opens the door for erosion and a lack of diversity ruins the soil, increasing salt content and sapping nutrients.
Sure you can rotate crops or haul fertilizer to combat this, but why add that labor when animals and other plants will do it for you?
And let’s remember when thinking about both our ancestors and our place in modern society that: [quoting @DanDanTransient:
Adaption, ingenuity, and cleverness are traditional values.
And I think the environment will agree with me, if your definition of agriculture is limited to back breaking labor that destroys the land than agriculture needs 🚮.
But if your definition can expand to land stewardship that improves the land for human and nonhuman people 👍
And link to the next stage I guess [quoting @DanDanTransient:]
Before someone comes at this with the same energy they did the wheel thread talking about population let’s hit that myth.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/climate-change-and-technology-make-rural-areas-vital/574447/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/science/plant-defenses.html
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https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/09/23/did-a-fig-tree-grow-out-of-the-remains-of-a-turkish-cypriot-man-missing-since-1974/
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/china-army-soldiers-plant-trees/
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https://la.curbed.com/2018/8/23/17720768/los-angeles-plants-trees-glossary-guide-jasmine-palm
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https://psmag.com/environment/the-planet-now-has-more-trees-than-it-did-35-years-ago
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http://www.lamag.com/jacaranda-trees-la/
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42595/a-color-of-the-sky
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csxgbg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMtXqTmfta0
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http://commonworlds.net/childrens-relations-with-other-species/
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/forced-rhubarb-makes-sound
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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/how-do-you-define-a-tree/557135/
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https://qz.com/804022/health-benefits-japanese-forest-bathing/
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https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-a-childhood-of-reading-and-wandering/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupe
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https://45minuteradiohour.libsyn.com/66-gordon-white-in-breaking-kayfabe-ursula-le-guin-dragons-the-story-shape-of-the-21st-century
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http://senseable.mit.edu/treepedia/
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http://atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world.com/
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https://kottke.org/17/06/an-atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world
robertogrecoComing almost 450 years after the world’s first Atlas, this Atlas for the End of the World audits the status of land use and urbanization in the most critically endangered bioregions on Earth. It does so, firstly, by measuring the quantity of protected area across the world’s 36 biodiversity hotspots in comparison to United Nation’s 2020 targets; and secondly, by identifying where future urban growth in these territories is on a collision course with endangered species.
There’s lots to see at the site: world and regional maps, data visualizations, key statistical data, photos of plants and animals that have been modified by humans, as well as several essays on a variety of topics.
And here’s a fun map: countries with national biodiversity strategies and action plans in place. Take a wild guess which country is one of the very few without such a plan in place!"
[See also:
http://atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world.com/
http://atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world.com/hotspots_main.html
http://atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world.com/hotspots/california_floristic_province.pdf
http://atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world.com/world_maps_main.html
http://atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world.com/flora_and_fauna.html
http://atlas-for-the-end-of-the-world.com/world_maps/world_maps_biodiversity_planning.html ]]]>anthropocene maps mapping atlases geography urbanization cities nature naturalhistory california classideas flora fauna plants animals wildlife multispecies morethanhuman human-animalrelations human-animalrelationships biodiversity ecology economics ecosystems endangersspecies visualization data statisticshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:522e24edeea7/The Fantastically Strange Origin of Most Coal on Earth – Phenomena: Curiously Krulwich2018-01-06T22:47:10+00:00
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/07/the-fantastically-strange-origin-of-most-coal-on-earth/
robertogreco430 million years before present, the first vascular plants emerged from early tide pools. In order to stay upright, these plants employed cellulose, a chain of simple sugars ... it was easy to make and offered rigid yet flexible support
This is from How Fungi Saved the World.
90 million years later, heralding the Carboniferous period,
plants developed a new kind of support material, called lignin. Lignin was an improvement development over cellulose in several ways: it was harder, more rigid, and, being more complex, almost impossible to digest, which made it ideal for protecting cellulose. With lignin, plants could make wood, and it lead to the first treelike growth form.
But lignin made the lycopod trees a little too successful. Because their leaves were lofted above many herbivores and their trunks were made inedible by lignin, lycopods were virtually impervious to harm.
Dead trees piled up without decomposing. Compacted by weight, they turned to peat and then to coal. 90% of all today's coal is from this period.
Wood pollution lasted 40 million years.
Finally, however, a fungus belonging to the class Agaricomycetes - making it a distant cousin of button mushrooms - did find a crude way to break down lignin. Rather than devise an enzyme to unstitch the lignin molecule, however, it was forced to adapt a more direct strategy. Using a class of enyzmes called peroxidases, the fungus bombarded the wood with highly reactive oxygen molecules, in much the same way one might untie a knot using a flamethrower. This strategy reduced the wood to a carbohydrate-rich slurry from which the fungus could slurp up the edible cellulose.
Which leads me to think:
There's a ton of plastic in the ocean. Why not engineer a fungus to rot it? Having this magical material that lasts forever is absurd. This is a controversial idea I admit. But although I agree that we need to reduce plastic pollution (via social change and by regulatory intervention), cybernetics tells me that's a fragile solution. Homeostasis is to be found in a ecosystem of checks and balances: instead of eternal plastic, we need plastic plus a plastic-rotting fungus plus an effective-but-hard-to-apply fungicide. Then balance can be found."]]>2016 coal plants trees fungi science evolution classideas decomposition srg naturalhistory plastichttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e446f16d2f44/Mount Sutro - FoundSF2017-12-29T21:34:36+00:00
http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Mount_Sutro
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https://twitter.com/mayli/status/945092932352188416
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http://finalbossform.com/post/168392142533/faeralyn-mets%C3%A4npeitto-is-a-phenomenon-found-in
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https://twitter.com/minibeastmayhem/status/941045712124555266
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https://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/library/
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http://www.cbc.ca/books/the-sun-and-her-flowers-1.4248016
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https://twitter.com/museummammy/status/932097854381813760
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