Nate Hagens interviews Robin Wall Kimmerer, plant ecologist and Citizen Potawatomi author of Braiding Sweetgrass, about what plants and Indigenous knowledge can teach a civilization in crisis. She presents plants as teachers...the Three Sisters model cooperation, and mosses show that lasting success comes from staying small and living within natural limits ... and argues the polycrisis stems from human exceptionalism, offering instead a kinship worldview, the Honorable Harvest ethic of restraint and reciprocity, and abundance as “enoughness.” Invoking the Potawatomi Seventh Fire prophecy, she calls this an “age of remembering” and urges listeners to answer despair with action in community, because “it matters where I stand.”

cross-posted from: https://dboft.com/post/14389/nate-hagens-and-indy-johar

In this conversation with Nate Hagens, Indy Johar argues that money is a claim on a future that’s being withdrawn. Climate, food, AI and conflict are now feeding each other in ways no market prices. His message to wealth holders isn’t “be kind” but “be smart” put some of your capital toward financing stability itself, the way you’d buy fire insurance. He also asks what it means to be human once machines can work and think, and points, tentatively, toward consciousness, our ability to know what we don’t know, and courage. Watch it to see the whole system at once, and to swap passive hope for ....agency.

Anyone watch/listen yet?

Unleaded fuel sold since the mayor declared “mission accomplished”: about two dozen gallons. Leaded: over a million. Schools under the training loops: 30-plus. Children tested by the county: zero.

Private aviation, stripped of the romance, is paying for the privilege of dripping a neurotoxin on the people beneath you. The damage is permanent. The volume is up. The deadline is sliding. The unleaded tank is right there, and if a plane can’t use it, hangars exist.

Heading out to the garden to listen to the Indy Johar interview again. Second time through. The first time I was just experiencing it ... like being at a concert, where you feel it before you can say what it is. This time I want it to land intellectually: break it into pieces, test, and challenge what I think I understood. We'll see if that actually happens. Incredible interview.

Anyone watch/listen yet?

Hi all. I've been building my own little fediverse setup at dboft.com to fit how I like to read, and I'm grateful for all the work and community that makes something like this possible. Looking forward to being here with you all!

Record global heat will kill a lot of people. I get so upset with people calling this climate change as this is climate heating. Sweltering extreme heat. We needed as much time as we could get ... but no, we decided to argue and stick our heads in the sand.