Prof. Sam Lawler
(I am not making excuses, just trying to understand the perspectives)
The #ShowYourStripes thing almost doesn't work here. You can definitely see the warming trend, but it's almost drowned out by wild temperature swings in the 1870s/80s.
Always amazes me that people have lived here for thousands of years, and gives me a tiny bit of hope that there's a lot of resilience built in to the ecosystem here.
Prof. Sam Lawler
Last week at this time it was below -30C with windchills, and had been for about a week straight. Now I see a +8C in the forecast! What a slingshot.
What's really wild though is that that kind of wild temperature swing is normal here! (Likely exaggerated by climate change, but well within historical temperature swings.) This is one reason it's hard for random farmers here to believe in climate change - the climate here is already wacky.
Santiago Lema :amiga:
@thomasfuchs @sundogplanets That’s a question that always intrigued me. How did people arrive there and most of all… why did they stay.
I mean it hit me personally when I moved to Rio de Janeiro from Switzerland. There are obviously dozens of other considerations as Brazil is a very cruel country in terms of society / humanity but in terms of nature / weather I can’t imagine anyone would prefer to live in cold and dark for 8 months a year. I know many say they do 🤷🏻♂️
Prof. Sam Lawler
@santiago @thomasfuchs Yeah, it was a planned genocide :(
"Clearing the Plains" and "A Geography of Blood" are both super depressing but important books that go way more in-depth on this, specifically on what happened in what's now called Canada.
Prof. Sam Lawler
@thomasfuchs @santiago Millions of buffalo made it a lot easier to live here: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/radio-series-explores-revered-relationship-between-indigenous-peoples-and-the-buffalo-1.5735457
Santiago Lema :amiga:
@sundogplanets @thomasfuchs That’s quite an interesting read on a subject I wouldn’t have expected.
Notably the following excerpt can mean a lot today, especially to readers in Brazil. Things are less random and organic than they may seem:
“In the days of the buffalo hunt frenzy, U.S. Army Colonel Richard Irving Dodge said, "kill every buffalo you can. Every Buffalo Dead is an Indian gone literally overnight." “
Nathan Anti Fascist
@thomasfuchs @sundogplanets Particularly pre-agricultural, I think
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