Category: Decolonizing

Warming up to Death

Is our imminent global ecological collapse inevitable, or can we live within natural limitations?

“…all of the central features of life from gestation and growth to mortality are exponentially sensitive to temperature.”

“…a modest 2C change in ambient temperature leads to a 20 percent to 30 percent change in growth and mortality rates. This is huge and therein lies our problem. If global warming induces a temperature increase of around 2C, which it is on track to do, then the pace of almost all biological life across all scales will increase by a whopping 20 percent to 30 percent.“

Geoffrey West, Scale
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Psychology of Time

What do you think of clocks, weekdays, months, years, seasons, moons?\

Or, more precisely, how do you think of time?

time space synaesthesia

Examples of time-space synaesthesia

Time-space synaesthesia describes a visual mental image people have of the year. I’ve long considered synaesthesia to be a product of how our imagination works to interrelate our knowledge. The more knowledge you develop, the more it informs our mental image of the world, and time.

Here’s the time-space image I’ve had in my head since I was a wee child:

theAbysmal Calendar as time-space synaesthesia
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Render the Calendar unto Caesar

the Roman-Julian-Gregorian Calendar’s best days are behind them.

April  21st 2019 CE marks the start of the 2,772nd Year since the founding of Rome, and despite reforms in 46 BC by Julius Caesar and 1582 AD by Pope Gregory XIII, it has changed very little over the centuries, although our understanding of our place in the world, and how we think about time, has changed considerably.

“Don’t blame me! I didn’t design the stupid thing!”

–Pope Gregory XIII

The Gregorian Calendar, the one we use to schedule ourselves globally, is the absolute worst tool for the job. Change my mind.

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Canada’s “Laissez-faire Génocidaires”

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: the final report repeats the same message: Canadians remain indifferent to the genocide their policies and behaviour continue to perpetuate.

Reclaiming Power and Place: The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Volume 1a
Volume 1b
Volume 2