I still think this will have far bigger consequences than the Covid leak in the longer run.

Removing grazing livestock from grasslands and meadows increases surface level carbon storage but not soil carbon. Surface carbon decomposes quickly and have faster carbon cycles than how livestock grace and manure the same land, locking the carbon into far longer carbon cycles. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/918e20912349d0f8524f6b39987ba9c062a38f47bb317b8318030198ee666c83.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/acec51bc32f09ba3b2cd893e4145e6fa68de2d95d2cfceafeb13ee1d49c3854d.file

咲け！わたしたちの未来！ Bloom! Our future! Election poster on the commuter train in Tokyo. I hope the civil strife and unrest we see in the rest of the world never comes to us. Bloom indeed. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/7edc2094cd3342e97532ded3a2c571fb15261b098ae24908dc46ca31adcb75ae.file

In light of what has come in the open these last few hours, and what you can see with your own eyes when you step out onto the streets, surely you can figure out who the good guys and the bad guys are by now?

RT @VincentGGraham@twitter.com: Absolutely! The USA too! Regrettably, land use policies outlaw building these types of places while fiscal and transportation policies favor dehumanizing, automobile-scaled settlement patterns which, in addition to being incredibly costly, isolate, alienate and lead to a fear-thy-neighbor syndrome. As Pogo said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” https://hell.twtr.plus/media/97dcd847a6a2b63897e63a9561a2b6cd4ad8690dcdafc7c55146eaf62cd2ee17.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/21f28fd4402fbbc156eac90d54b76b62321b7625eadb556f5028f9462ee6b964.file

Chronic lower back pain cost the US $100 billion annually directly and two or three times that if you include indirect costs like loss of labour. However simple walking for about 1.5-2 hours daily reduced the risk of developing it by 23%. The cost reduction for society encouraging us to walk more and drive less are potentially huge (not even starting to count all the other health positives of walking). Why not start with encouraging the building of walkable mixed high density neighborhoods and towns that was the human norm for thousands of years? And make them walkable. We know from studies on campuses and theme parks that even Americans are happy to spend far more than 2 hours on their feet if they can be distracted by alluring or interesting surroundings. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/b1a4eb652e637f405b61228eed1a95f15e499196acfd0b2936ca62ca8aa7f8bc.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/6cb723466fc53b072af4fcd983df447faa077557d657a819b1967f66fb96aa87.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/51d7fc6b5f764b0e7ffc0f7a5dd774d7c67b54394dc1ef6ef7340460cd825ab3.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/515e2aec7920a5deba75c37b56241792335be79efec9ae27fbcd1a5a8a7493b3.file

In 2025 alone 1.16m acres burned in Western Australia and 30-50% of the over 1,000 fires are confirmed arson or suspected arson. A study confirms what police already knew about where arsonists attack: “Police and fire stations as well as proximity to waterways were all seen to act as deterrents, while access to petrol stations and main roads were facilitators to how arsonists choose locations to set fires.” A huge part of the rise in wildfires worldwide is merely a rise in arson. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/cc908da7725342d71b248869d495257054bbd4c2fac47fe3c776e6a862fc627f.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/5827900bfdc6eea1305f58a1c004378ed682b20cc73b41357ed270a6ca15d624.file