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IDEA!
I think it would be so cool if someone made an animation based off of the Disney song "Colors of the Wind" (if anyone ever feels the need to make this come to life by all means PLEASE 🙏)
Like there is a person that the scene is following and they're singing the song but in like modern times showing off like cities and people just interacting and LIVING
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🎶"You think I'm an ignorant savage" 🎶
The speaker (for the sake of this I'm going to call them "C" for citizens or something or like the people) is singing towards the camera or another idea is is that there is another person (I'm going to call this figure G) that is kind of just like a blank slate or like a shadow figure so like there's no identifiable features just that it's a being that is there and present and they are the one being addressed
-maybe there's a foggy blurry distant perception of an angry mob behind C that's kind of like a mirage
🎶"And you've been so many places"🎶
Pan rich people stuff, like boats and planes and maybe high class parties with suits and dresses and champagne or whatnot
🎶"I guess it must be so"🎶
🎶"But still, I cannot see"🎶
Maybe there's a close up of C and in their eyes you can see different scenes of people crying over bills in their hand well at the hospital, and then maybe it pans to some rich higher up connected to the hospital and they're laughing having fun over fancy dinner in a suit at some party
🎶"If the savage one is me"🎶
could be kind of cool if the poor side was reflected in one eye and the rich was reflected in the other at the same time so you could see the contrast
🎶"How can there be so much that you don't know?"🎶
Maybe it pans two other unfortunate scenes filtering in C's eyes that show the wide contrast between the rich and the poor
🎶"You don't know"🎶
...No longer a close-up of C...
🎶"You think you own whatever land you land on"🎶
C is singing at them and pokes G's chest and then gestures around them with their arms open
🎶"The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim"🎶
maybe pan to scenes that go on in the background like a one of those old photo tapes that are like long strips of different photos of places being conquered/ taken over/ claimed, or natural resources being picked dry like a scene of trees being cut down, or they're digging up dirt for oil or something
🎶"But I know every rock and tree and creature"🎶
I think would be cool if the scene blurs and it looks like it's spinning and then suddenly it looks like C and G a walking down a path and C is greeting people and saying hi or like giving brief hugs before they keep walking down the path
🎶"Has a life, has a spirit, has a name"🎶
C looks back at G and gestures one arm out then there's like scenes of the people he just greeted or said hi to just living life, interacting with other people, smiling, talking doing things maybe playing with kids or walking a dog or going in a coffee shop or something
🎶"You think the only people who are people"🎶
And then maybe it shows a whole bunch of different people from all over the world and different cultures with all different features and looks and languages from all kinds of different backgrounds just showing them having small interactions and day to day life (including different genders and sexualities)
🎶"Are the people who look and think like you"🎶
Maybe pan to rich people doing rich people things?
🎶"But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger"🎶
It continues to pan between the different scenes, maybe some showing different kinds of cultural celebrations
🎶"You'll learn things you never knew, you never knew"🎶
Meanwhile all these scenes are going by, maybe it looks like they're invisible but in the room where all these different people just watching it happen. But it also shows other scenes like the poor and the hungry and the homeless and all the others that society tends to forget about, that they are people too, and that they're hurting, maybe it shows scenes like a mother going hungry just so she can give her kids the meager scraps of food, for a father working himself to the bone to try to provide, or younger person having to put up with other people tormenting them at work because they need the job to be able to put food on the table and pay their rent
🎶"Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?"🎶
Maybe pan to a street artist playing guitar and singing something and has a hat out for cash, maybe pans too something to show money problems, maybe an eviction notice
🎶"Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?"🎶
Maybe a scene of a clearly overworked and exhausted father that puts a smile on for his kid but then turns around and looks at his empty wallet and loses his smile making sure his kids can't see
Then it pans to other similar scenes where people are struggling and hurting while C keeps singing
🎶"Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?"🎶
🎶"Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"🎶
🎶"Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"🎶
🎶"Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest"🎶
Maybe show something where the scene is weaving down streets and corners and it comes upon a a family who is struggling but is just happy to have each other
🎶"Come taste the sun sweet berries of the Earth"🎶
Maybe a scene of poor kids running through the forest barefoot or something and stumbling upon a berry bush and they just present great joy as they start stuffing handfuls in their folded shirts
🎶"Come roll in all the riches all around you"🎶
Maybe the camera starts pointing towards the sky from in the forest so you can see beautiful gigantic trees reaching towards the heavens and maybe birds play together as they fly by, and the camera is spinning in a circle? And/or C has their face towards the sky and their arms wide open as they spin in circles in a small clearing
🎶"And for once, never wonder what they're worth"🎶
Maybe one of the playful birds comes down and perches on C's arm/hand
.... Scene change, maybe in a city again
🎶"The rainstorm and the river are my brothers"🎶
Pan to different people, maybe people of different cultures and genders
🎶"The heron and the otter are my friends"🎶
🎶"And we are all connected to each other"🎶
Maybe a scene where it shows that things are all connected to each other like sunlight to plants and deer to wolves and bodies to mushrooms and stuff like that?
🎶"In a circle, in a hoop that never ends"🎶
🎶"How high does the sycamore grow?"🎶
Maybe show a massive gigantic tree that C stands at the base of and opens its arms wide upwards towards its leaves
🎶"If you cut it down, then you'll never know"🎶
🎶"And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon"🎶
Maybe show a street view of the place where the street performer used to sing/play and just show a dirty ruined trampled on hat that's just abandoned on the sidewalk
🎶"For whether we are white or copper skinned"🎶
C is facing towards the camera and has arms wide, on one side it shows the average in poor people in their plane worn clothes and the other it shows rich people with fancy suits or expensive stuff or whatever
🎶"We need to sing with all the voices of the mountain"🎶
Maybe show C with the mob behind them like the beginning but this time they're happy and holding hands and stuff
🎶"We need to paint with all the colors of the wind"🎶
🎶"You can own the Earth and still"🎶
Maybe show something where people are farming or gathering but still tending to the Earth
🎶"All you'll own is Earth until"🎶
Show people shopping down trees and digging for oil
🎶"You can paint with all the colors of the wind"🎶
Have C bring their arms in close to their chest and cover their heart
*Echoes of the End*
The earth once sang in hues of green,
Now silenced by the scars unseen.
The forests fall, the deserts grow,
As endless winds of sorrow blow.
The air is thick with silent cries,
While fading suns paint fractured skies.
The oceans choke on plastic breath,
And creatures flee from certain death.
Mountains crumble, rivers dry,
As we stand still and wonder why.
A fleeting moment, lost in time,
The rhythm of the world’s last rhyme.
We’ve sown the seeds, now bear the cost,
As futures fade and dreams are lost.
A dying world, a dying call,
Can we still rise before we fall?
It’s snowing and I’m not gonna lie, I thought they were lying. It was like almost 50° yesterday. This morning it was 45°. I thought they were lying. And now there’s snow all over the place. Fuck.
I've recently been seeing this article making rounds around this website and particularly people misusing this very cool advancement to imply that modern nuclear reactors are "unsafe" or "dangerous", which is partially due to the just blatantly bad journalism on display here.
The accomplishment of this new reactor is definitely exceptionally impressive but I think that news websites (Even ones specializing in science) have been mischaracterizing the reactor as "meltdown-proof" which is just - wrong? and implies that current reactors are just begging to meltdown.
The cool thing about this new reactor is that its passively cooled, but that doesn't mean its INVULNERABLE to nuclear meltdowns, for example the Chernobyl meltdown happened completely independently of whether it was cooled passively or not.
In fact, passive cooling would only pose an advantage in situations where ALL pumps and backup pumps break and the core doesn't get coolant pumped to it. That's happened exactly once: in Fukushima and only after a literal tsunami hit it, and there's no reason to think that the passive Helium coolant in this new reactor wouldn't also just break. Fukushima happened because of corruption in regulation, preventing suitable defenses against this exact thing from getting built, not because of unsafe reactor design.
There's also some articles like this one which talk about the new reactor being "self-regulating" which is true, but misses the point that the vast majority of nuclear reactors in service today are also stable in the exact same way. Negative feedback loops are a HUGE part of reactor design, the most popular reactor design today is the Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) which is incredibly stable - PWRs just truly hate increasing (or decreasing) energy output.
Most nuclear reactors today are already incredibly safe, even if you had complete control over a nuclear reactor it would be effectively impossible to cause a meltdown on purpose - both the physics of the system and the thousands of automated components would beat the ever loving shit out of any hope of trying to do so.
Articles like these just turn this impressive achievements into a kind of fearmongering over the "dangerous" nuclear reactors currently being used. The fact is that nuclear reactors are incredibly safe, PWRs are an incredible feat of engineering genius and its a genuine shame that the general public isn't aware of how much care goes into their design and safety, let alone how useful and essential they are in our electrical systems.
Modern nuclear reactors are clean, they are safe, and they are vital to a healthy energy grid in the post-fossil-fuel future.
A really good read I highly recommend is Colin Tucker's How To Drive A Nuclear Reactor. He's very clear and very frank with the workings and reality of nuclear power today.
If you write a book on the problems of deforestation and then you publish that book doesn't that make you part of the problem for deforestation?
This is a genuine question.
get this to 50 notes
the urge to make to blogs for all of my OCs even tho nobody will understand who tf they are >>>
I think about this post so often. Here it is again for the few of you that see my reblogs. Remember that there's always one thing you can do, even if it's planning for the future:)
i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)
go do it!
I know it’s too late but please
Just sign it
This is so wild because I literally had situations like this with my own therapist!
I mean she really tried to shift the focus on what I personally can do for my own personal future and what I want from and for my own future. Which is probably the only way you can really tackle this problem because there is just no way I can change the current political reality of our world in a therapy session.
However I am still left with the knowledge that in the grand scheme of things my future will probably be very difficult to fulfill or even exists in.
What I find very interesting about looking at how other generation have looked at the future is that climate change isn't a new problem. This shit has been going on for a while now and people have been worrying and trying to do their best to raise awareness for decades already. The only difference to young people in the 90s being concerned about this and people in the new 20s (2020) being concerned about this is that now there is enough awareness and knowledge about what will happen and that shit will go down soon. If we assume someone lives 80 years then someone who was 20 in 1990 will die in 2050 and therefore care mainly about what happens till then. People who are 20 in 2020 however will live till 2080 and care for what happens until then. And 30 years should probably not make such a difference yet here we are knowing that if experts say the sea levels will rise and things will get even more shit by 2050 that this affects nearly half of our live span. Our future of when we are 50 will just be dealing with a society that looked away so long that now they have to do damage control of situation that are too big to be able to just keep brushing off.
This is just a small piece of why I hate capitalism so much, because it has become a world view and not just an economic system. We live in capitalism that promotes that the economy is more important than human lives. And not just human lives of the future or human lives of places that are "far far" away but human lives right now, in this place! Ever since the pandemic has been going on the focus has shifted towards the economy and away from people. It is more important that we keep the economy on good course than that we make sure as little lives as possible are ended by this virus.
This shows that people in charge are not only more interested that the economy runs well for the cost of human lives that might seem more abstract (because it's easier to not care about things that happened into the future or far away (which is very shitty)) but that it has come to a point where it doesn't care what human might die as long as the economy is doing well.
On a very morbid level of mine I would like to see how it comes to a point where capitalism as it is established right now takes so many lives that the system doesn't work anymore. Because all the rich people suddenly don't have any work force to keep their factories running. To keep their wealth coming. Because suddenly people can't buy the expensive shit anymore because the gap got so big that there is only stinking rich or dying poor and no in between. Because I want to see their faces when they realize that they can not maintain power if there is noone left to have power over.
This kinda got off rails of what I was talking about but welp. Still bad at ending Tumblr posts XD
But then all the bitches wanna say is “ohhh but global warming its right there in the name!!! Shouldn’t it be getting hotteer!!!?” LIKE SHUT UP GO PICK UP A SCIENCE TEXTBOOK FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE AND READ FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY
So many people don’t even know the difference between climate change and the fucking weather
So many people do not understand the relationship between climate change and cold weather.
"Hey so it turns out that the people of earth accidentally did a global experiment to see if every individual could course correct climate change through mass personal change of habits, and it turns out, no! We can't! It was massive corporate activity all along!"
Source
Waking up everyday to learn that, yes, things did get worse
today my wisdom is: the ecological crisis of our planet is not a thing that will Suddenly destroy us sometime in the next century—it has taken decades of continuous work for our biosphere to be preserved thus far, and it will take decades more of continuous work to continue preserving it.
The apocalypse is not a single event hovering in the future bearing down on us while we sit helplessly. We are at least 150 years into an ongoing "apocalypse."
Things will continue to steadily get worse without steady action, but "augh! it's already too late to stop climate change and mass extinctions!" is specifically the worst response
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So was no one going to tell that it was 50 degrees farenheit higher than normal in the artic last year? Why arent we still talking about that?
horses have been made into the ideal worker over thousands of years of breeding and domestication and yet now are made to race to the point of exhaustion and injury and sometimes death to entertain the rich if they fail they are killed and if they succeed they are spared until they stop succeeding and then they are killed
even the most successful racehorses often end up beaten and starving in kill pens despite spending their lives earning millions of dollars for their stables their owners and thousands of sports betters
humans and horses are alike in our struggle under the boot of uncaring aristocracy
do not forget the love that fuels you in your anger do not let them break you and make you into their idea of animals they do not know that animals too have love and courage and reason and camaraderie they do not know that we have always been animals and animals feel so much more than their beloved hate and fear
So many people do not understand the relationship between climate change and cold weather.
Maybe I am just overreacting. Maybe it is just British weather. But I just can't shake this feeling of doubt and concern. The weather has been getting more and more extreme each year too. Sure, I've always known it was important and dangerous, but I've never felt this way about climate change before, and it's starting to concern me.
Originally from Instagram but JUST LOOK AT THESE STATISTICS
Reminder that the climate crisis is NOT your fault.
Not your litter or lack of recycling
Not your emissions
It is not your fault that you are embedded in a system and forces you to drive a car
Its not your fault that massive corporations are destroying the world and blaming you
being a disabled environmentalist is hard.
i care so much and i wish i could aim for things like zero waste. but i just cant, doing something like that would be ignoring my health needs.
its quite isolating, because i try to find tips and environmental swaps but often they just arent possible for me to use/do and then i feel guilty for that.
even though i know its not my fault and i cant help it, it just triggers my inner ableism and i blame myself for being this way.
Also it sounds like sci-fi but one day (possibly very long one day) with genetic technology even extinct creatures may eventually be brought back.
every year I post this meme and every year people get more mad at me than they did the previous year