Barbara 🇺🇦 @babs_at_masto@qoto.org

I found this interesting estimate of the number of future deaths from global warming, something I'd always wondered about.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02323/full

They estimate (only) a billion deaths projected if we can stay under 2C of global warming (which is optimistic and would require becoming a more energy efficient society and diverting from our present path but not totally leaving civilization). Based on that scenario, they estimate that 1000 tons of emissions kills about one future person. That means the average Canadian, who burns about 20 tons per year, is killing about 1-2 people during their lives. From a slightly more positive stance, by not driving and living frugally I'm only killing about 1/4 to 1/2 of my future grandchildren, which is still pretty sad, but I'm also saving approximately one of their lives, which is pretty cool!

Of course these estimates are very inaccurate, as they say, but they're better than making random guesses and being off by orders of magnitude (such as thinking your lifestyle is only killing a tiny fraction of a person so is fine, or thinking that humans will all be wiped out by our lifestyles).

As of now, 256 wolves have been killed in Montana's controversial wolf hunt.

With snares, traps, and bait, people are killing these wolves for fun.

It's outrageous that in the 21st century, bloodlust continues to drive the wolf management policies in states like Montana, Idaho, & Wyoming.

Call on the US Interior to prioritize conservation over bloodsport by relisting wolves in the N. Rockies to protect them from this cruelty.

→ http://bit.ly/3XmkAwz

#RelistWolves #Wolf #WolvesOfMastodon

RT @AschbacherJosef: An ESA-led project processed billions of radar images over the entire Amazon basin and converted it into a data cube, finding that in a period of less than 4 years over 5.2 million hectares of forest were lost. That's about the size of Costa Rica. https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Using_a_data_cube_to_monitor_forest_loss_in_the_Amazon

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1635390670197379072

So cool! A map of every neuron in an insect brain https://www.sciencenews.org/article/brain-insect-fruit-fly-detail-nerve-cell

Deeply troubling story that I think should make it clearer at the top that this about a bunch of racist, snowflake goons terrorizing a bakery and its young employees because they did a nice thing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2023/03/10/red-truck-bakery-protests-warrenton/

This bobcat spent two hours hunting in our yard yesterday. Such a privilege to be in its presence for so long.

#bobcat #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #nature #NewHampshire

Much of the GOP doesn’t even agree with Tucker Carlson on Jan. 6.

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Here's Canada's most embarrassing citizen, Jordan Peterson, on Musk's hellsite actually telling the POPE that Christianity should mean that if they are hungry then cut benefits to programs that feed them, and if they are sick deny them health care.

🧵 Did you know that young Jimmy Carter heroically saved Canada from a nuclear meltdown when he was a naval officer?

It's true!

The world’s first nuclear reactor meltdown occurred right here in the Ottawa Valley — and a young U.S. naval officer (future U.S. president Jimmy Carter) was brought in and put in charge of the team containing the disaster — 70 years ago.)

#CanadaLovesCarter #JimmyCarter

Looks like someone got cold feet.

#MeanwhileInCanada

Great to see more cities adopting their code to promote biodiversity.

#biodiversity #Bangor

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/02/23/news/bangor/bangor-lawn-code-bee-conservation-joam40zk0w/

Bank Vole.

It was so funny to watch these voles scurrying off with the hazelnuts, as the voles themselves pretty much blended in with the woodland floor, but you could see this hazelnut zipping along through the undergrowth!

Canon R7 RF100-500mm, 500mm, f/7.1, 1/400th, ISO 8000.

#BankVole #vole #wildlife #nature

Happy #WildlifeWednesday!!

Can you ID this feathered friend?

📸: Maury Eldridge

“He made an unprecedented trip to a war zone, one where there are no U.S. troops to protect him. And, yes, he’s old. ”

Biden’s trip to Ukraine was a big deal. Here’s why. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/biden-trip-ukraine-kyiv/673134/