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July 31, 2023

Wonderful.

Mother nature is indeed a beautiful thing…..
With the exception of how nature programmed us greedy, shortsighted humans.

July 29, 2023

I've been beating this drum for decades w/friends.

Some listened.

Only 1 friend has 2 children, the rest have only 1, like myself, and a couple have none.

My only offspring, my son, says it's too late for him to add a child to suffer the coming apocalypse. This makes me so angry & sad.

I'm sure there are many here who stopped reading this thread by now.

I do not think we can "conserve" our way back to safety & stability. We must stop our population growth or Mother Nature will do it for us.


July 28, 2023

The current board members listed on TVA website

Seem to lean Republican but at least, it now has some balance.

(Admittedly, I'm making assumptions based on what I read.)

July 28, 2023

CFS is hell.

I was finally diagnosed at Medical College of Virginia, Richmond in the late 80's after suffering with the malady for a decade.

The brain fog and night sweats lingered for decades. I even soaked bath towels at night...and went through a pregnancy and raised a hyperactive son without much help. Yep, I still describe it as hell.

July 26, 2023

Indeed! 👍

+1000

They've not seen all the evidence. The gov't has evidence, according to a trusted source, a former military officer who was also a NASA contractor. Why governments are not disclosing all we have/ know so far? The fact that it would alarm most ppl is only my best guess. Then, there's religious beliefs that would stumble to explain other intelligent life.

And why are we not reverse engineering more of the tech? We probably don't know how.


July 26, 2023

This is why I'll never have a grandchild.

My 36yo son, my only living offspring, thinks it would be too cruel.

It's most sad but I agree. 🥺



July 26, 2023

Very interesting.

IF we had known about this, we would've looked into this type of "containment."

Thanks for posting!

We just had our first underground fence installed this week. So far, it's working great & our nutty big girl, a 5mo old Lab, is adapting. It hasn't seemed to have deterred her spirit in the least.

And... speaking of dogs, , she is the first dog we've ever had to not seem to understand the concept of scratching on the front door to go out. We almost thought housetraining her was impossible until I ordered rope of bells** for the frontdoor & we taught her to ring them. Magic! No more accidents.
**https://www.chewy.com/mighty-paw-leather-tinkle-bells-dog/dp/137336

July 26, 2023

Bet that baby is part Siamese!

Had a Siamese who would talk to me all the time. Say anything, ask anything and she would answer you. Always had the last word. Just loved her. She made it to 18.

July 23, 2023

The US and EU are considering urgent interventions

In the climate red zone, the US and EU are considering urgent interventions



Brown skies over Europe and North America from Canadian wildfires and record “hot” North Atlantic seas are signs that we have reached a new level of climate risk — one that threatens the well-being of nearly everyone on Earth. Threats described in stark terms by the United Nations and by scientific and foreign affairs experts were underscored by global average surface temperatures briefly passing 1.5 degrees Celsius, a threshold for intensified danger, in early June.

In this context, both the European Union and the United States recently released official publications on the need for research on climate interventions with the potential to reduce global warming rapidly. This does not change imperatives and commitments for reducing emissions but is recognition from governments that evaluating options for improving climate safety is now too important to ignore.

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4110030-in-the-climate-red-zone-the-us-and-eu-are-considering-urgent-interventions/

July 23, 2023

I forgot to add: THANK YOU!

People need to read your post and to see more like this.

There are reasons for this heat and they're not going away without humans changing our ingrained patterns of behavior. It's not just about burning fossil fuels.

We've caused this.




Btw, I like, admire, and have met John Kerry.

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