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RE: @anarchistmemedistro@mastodon.social

+1 for explicit political dadaism.

Art can hit harder than a brick

I just discovered @apreciabot@masto.es and I think it can't get much better from here on

With this bot you can send an anonymous 'you are a great person'- message.❤️

Just write a DM to @apreciabot@masto.es and include the handle of the recipient without the first @ (like rober@masto.es). As I understand, you shouldn't include other text or linebreaks, although by including special words, there seem to be other modes like 'cumple'=birthday or 'croquetas'=a fried traditional food (don't aske me, lol).

and voilá, the person receives a nice message in Spanish! 💕

Muchas gracias, @rober@masto.es esto es genial! De verdad.

#GoodNews #BeingKind #CaringForOthers #Care

@MrLee

When talking about land-use, it is, however, important to understand that land is not something that is used and then thrown away (ok, there are some heavily destructive uses, e.g. mining).

Land provides multiple services (biodiversity, carbon storage, water cycling, recreation, agricultural production, space for building stuff...). Some land-uses reduce the capacity of land to provide these services. The next issue is the order in which the services are priorized. Some services have a more or less evident price tag (agricultural production, or space for buildings), while other (ecosystem) services, like water purification, carbon storage or biodiversity, are usually not taken into account by the market, except by really motivated people(TM) or administrations treating these services as public goods that deserve protection.

So, to make a fair comparison, it is important to assess the capacity of the different land-uses to provide the land-related services. And here it gets somewhat messy because management comes into play. E.g. 'agriculture' can be an conventional, pesticide-based soil degrading extractive system with all the consequences for soil, water and biodiversity; however, you can also have an agroforestry system that provides its functions in the interest of society and nature.

And here comes into play that e.g. pastures, despite taking up a lot of land, can be quite well-managed and score high on ecosystem services (of course, capitalism promotes the opposite: land degradation an unnecessary suffering*). Just wanted to provide this context to the great map.

• of ccourse, reducing meat intake is a goal the whole society should work towards.

#LandUse #EcosystemServices #Biodiversity #Pastures #Agroforestry #LandManagement

@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green

I appreciate you as a person, scientist and activist. And the Greens UK until now are a quite interesting development.

I wanted to raise an issue from my city in Spain which has a progressive-led municipality. They promised a lot, and I don't even want to question their intentions (ok, some are insufferable liberals, but that's not the point here). But they don't get anything done. Like real incompetence. Their former allies are frustrated and their enemies are laughing.

We are learning from this experience the hard way that you need not only people with good ideas and the will to really do things (this is another thing, but at least, judging from the discourse, the Greens UK are refreshingly ambitious regarding the ecosocial transitiom), but after winning the elections, you need to have built also administrative/executive capacity. It's unfair, because it seems that when the right is in power, they just do and succeed. But even this is likely a misconception: think about the judges reversing Trump's tarriffs.

Anyway, this means that ecosocial policies require a real (not just performative) participatory process with the movements working with these topics in the street, often with decades of experience. But to succeed, also the boring boring knowledge of how administrations work is necessary. The biggest levers are frequently very hidden in budgets, paragraphs and on page #73.

It's true that politics need also some populist wins, but the neighbours want the basic services efficiently run and not having the city flooded with garbage.

The good side is that it is possible to have participatory processes (it might be necessary to leave one's comfort zone) that aren't only electoral strategy, and then, with administrative expertise, to translate these ideas into effective policies.

But political parties very often have let us down and abused our hope*

Anyway, I wish you the best!

• don't take the German Greens as an example. They are a now a full-fledged centrist party and don't even look at social movements anymore.