I’ve been waiting a whole damn year to post these…. :D
if you had asked me as a child what colour the sky was, i would have confidently said blue and yellow. because i grew up on the baltic coast next to one of the most travelled ship routes of the world, and the unfiltered sulfur pouring out of the exhausts of nearly a hundred cargo ships every day turned into a thick layer of sickly yellow laying over the horizon. especially on sunny summer days, it settled of the sea like the cheap imitation of a sunset, out of place during the bright daylight.
then, from one summer to the next, the yellow slowly but surely faded away. because a new legislation passed - one which heavily penalised airborne ship emissions in the area. and while the silhouettes of ships across the passage never became less frequent, their backdrop was now such a pure blue that its hard to imagine that it was ever different.
i think about this everytime someone tells me that climate legislation doesn’t work, everytime a new media story declaring our helplessness in the face of certain environmental doom makes the rounds. don’t get me wrong - the situation we are facing in terms of climate change and environmental destruction is certainly terrifying. but everyday, people are working tirelessly to implement law and policy that could change that fact. and because of those people, a newly bright blue sky touches down over the baltic sea. and that has to count for something, i think.
Anonymous said:
Hello, If you have time, could you explain the differences and definitions between animal welfare vs. animal rights? I (think) I’m anti-animal rights but pro-welfare but I’m not as educated on the meanings yet. I would like to hear from someone more knowledgeable. Thanks :-)
Animal rights is a movement that seeks to give animals rights and end all human-animal interaction they deem as “exploitation.” This includes but is not limited to ending all animal agriculture, hunting and fishing, zoos, animal sports, and working animals
Animal welfare is an idea that animals in human care deserve the five basic freedoms: freedom from hunger and thirst, freedom from discomfort, freedom from fear and distress, freedom to express natural behaviors, and freedom from pain, injury and disease. Animal welfare supports the human-animal relationships that animal rights does not, and instead focuses on improvement and reform
when Taylor swift breaks her silence about this private jet thing I bet she’s going to say “people are only mad bc I’m a WOMAN. If a MAN had the most CO2 emissions no one would care” like I have never been more certain of something in my life. If she doesn’t say this she’s for sure thinking it
“animals should be treated well before they’re eaten but eating them isn’t wrong” really isn’t a hard belief to understand
how did we all just casually listen to Take Me To Church on the radio in 2014??
you’re telling me we really heard lyrics like “there is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin” and “if i’m a pagan of the good times, my lover’s the sunlight” and didn’t go absolutely buck wild???
bold of you to assume i can comprehend the words that are said even to this day
as soon as hozier says “she’s the giggle at a funeral” my vision greys out and i wake up 4 hours later in a church garden, shovelling handfuls of dirt into my mouth
god i love reading about stupid drama in ancient greece. like there was an athlete named theagenes who was so good at every kind of athletic contest that when he died, one of his opponents would go to beat the shit out of a statue of him out of spite, but then one day the statue fell on the guy and killed him so the greeks took the statue to court for murder, convicted it, and threw it into the sea
actually i left out the best part of this story which is that a plague then struck and when people consulted the oracle at delphi she was like “well you’ve pissed of theagenes” so they had to go dig the statue back up out of the fucking water