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#rewilding

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An ambitious re-wilding plan is aiming to turn Europe’s peatlands into conflict buffers and climate shields.

Inspired by Ukraine’s flooding of the Irpin Valley, which stalled Russia’s 2022 assault on Kyiv, scientists and strategists are proposing a massive network of restored wetlands along eastern European borders.

The plan would create peatland-based 'area-denial zones' from Finland to Romania, combining military deterrence with re-wilding goals #environment #europe #rewilding #news #wetlands #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #world #biodiversity

e360.yale.edu/features/europe-

Yale e360How Restored Wetlands Can Protect Europe from Russian InvasionThe flooding of Ukraine’s Irpin valley thwarted Russia’s assault on Kyiv in 2022. Now, scientists are proposing Europe create a band of restored and protected wetlands along its eastern borders to deter future Russian aggression, and military strategists are taking notice.
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This other couple. They looked a bit more alty, some piercings, pink hair, but not too alty.

At one point the guy starts looking around the room. She pauses and she's like, What? He's like, "I'm looking for a bone." (I guess they have some bones around the house — like I said, alty.) Then he reaches under the camera and produces a wooden stick with some decorations. Turns out it's an African pipe. Unsure if it's for smoking or playing, but he tries to play it. As she starts the video again, he sort of just...... cradles it in his arms.

I'm serious y'all, Heilung is a mirror that just shows you all this stuff working in the deeply repressed collective unconscious of white people. These forbidden roots in us that are screaming to be heard, they just have no voice.

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I'm serious you could do a whole study on "white people first time reacting to Heilung on YouTube" that would completely expose everything about how whiteness works... and use these lessons to find the secret antidote.

A couple of notable moments today.

Two incredibly stereotypical middle class liberal white women watched Krigsgaldr, and the first words out of her mouth was: "Can you imagine if they work in an office during the day? Like 'hey Helga, what are you doing after work?' 'Oh I'm in a band, want to come see us?'"

She went immediately to the most familiar thing she knew and how harshly it contrasted with what she saw on screen. She had no other symbols or language to describe what she experienced. (Whereas I'd at least had some Wicca and Celtic lore under my belt for my first watching.)

Notably also is how they talked about the ancestral music of the "people of Norway and Europe," and I'm like THEY'RE YOUR ANCESTRAL PEOPLE TOO!!! (I left a comment to that effect, with fewer caps.)

It's like white Americans, we just sprung from nothing. No sense of connection to anything prior to 1776. That's part of the myth of whiteness. Yet still they *felt* their connection, even if they couldn't own it yet.

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