No Excuses - Blog Posts
A quick aged up Wednesday & Parker from the Addams family movie.
(It's like 2am rn, so I'll try to make a better picture later if I can)
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Via Bryan Hunsaker
Wakfuâs âShort for My Age Clubâ
It was worth the wait, Yugo.
When it's too Late.. Sometime, An Excuse become just an 'X' in your life !
Okay, as an American studying to become a botanist Iâm about to fire shots in every direction. None of you are safe, not even myself, but there are things about this post that have pissed me off to the point of righteous anger.
American chestnut is functionally extinct yes, except for a few remaining colonies, however, thatâs not because of most Americans, just as you, previous person, said your issues are not because of most of the British- as Americans relied on chestnuts as a cultural symbol and a food source as they taste arguably better (or so Iâm told) than the European chestnuts that were exported to us carrying chestnut blight that killed our chestnuts. Those same stumps ARE STILL TRYING TO SEND OUT SUCKERS, and are STILL DYING BECAUSE OF AN INTRODUCED BLIGHT BY EUROPEAN NEGLIGENCE.
I understand youâre mad at the lack of education on our side, I am as well- the American education system FAILS at teaching botany on a MULTITUDE of ENORMOUS levels, and you and I both know that plant life is the basis of an ecosystem, but donât you dare think that this means Iâm not infuriated by the same from you- I am. I KNOW FOR A FACT that Europe is no better in its failure to find value in botanical studies, and Iâm still pissed about it, but Iâve at least seen a few papers about the subject and written a few essays myself, and at least Europe isnât the near-dead-static radio silence about botany the way America seems to be. But at least know that this is a two way street, and donât deflect about that shortcoming when weâre both at fault.
The prairies??? That was misguided science and capitalism instilling laziness. We had rules and laws about rewilding areas post mining expeditions and construction, but those were ignored by greedy corps who figured slapping some trees on an area that didnât have trees before would solve their problem. And the people in charge werenât ecologists, but government officials who heard in school that trees give us oxygen and are therefore better than grass, and so with being slid a little extra cash, shrugged their shoulders about it and turned a blind eye to the issue because âwell itâs just treesâ and BOY, AM I MAD ABOUT THAT TOO, but being MAD, and BEING ABLE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT are two very different ball parks, babe.
Then there was climate crisis attention in the nineties, and although the intentions of the campaigns were pure-hearted, they were misleading in the idea that planting trees Willy-nilly would solve our problems, and while yes, trees are larger organisms that need more co2 to grow to max size, and therefore absorb more carbon, not all trees are created equal, and while some non-natives might absorb more CO2 or do better in certain regions, more of the people supplying and planting those invasive trees have no ability, much less a concept of even recognizing the potential for something to become invasive. Another failure of our shitty education system, but we already know itâs shit, so thatâs besides the point.
The grasses and monocultures of lawns we have are a direct spawn of English colonialism. Lawns were managed by slaves and considered a sign of wealth- and non-natural ornamental landscapes were seen as a sign of knowledge and skill to tend.
American pioneers and natives didnât give two shits about those things, and though we arenât blameless for the slew of invasive ravaging our ecosystems, Britain is no saint in this either. Yâall have a government that fears and respects Its people and their voices; do not squander your opportunity, when here in America, trying to get through to a politician bought out by lobbyists to get off their asses and do something is clearly MUCH HARDER than you all seem to think it is because capitalism is unchecked over here.
You have the science. You have the opportunity. Fight the status quo and take a risk while you have a chance to. Right your wrongs. Thereâs no excuse to not. At least we make an effort and fight, even though every step forward feels like a step backwards because politicians and public figures here usually have their pockets and offices lined so thick with wads of cash they canât seem to hear us screaming in the streets. So many organizations out here are all desperately scrounging for donations and support individually to step up where our governing bodies ran like cowardly father figures going out for milk and cigarettes and then simply ignoring the issues weâve being screeching about like itâs not something young people are mad about on the daily. Also, you lost lynxes??? Reintroduce them. Yes youâre on an island, that doesnât stop animals, and it hasnât before. They will adapt so long as you let them. You can fix the damage thatâs been done, all it takes is effort and time, and a willingness to take a chance to make a change.
Moreover. You ALSO EAT THOSE STOLEN CROPS.
TOMATOES. CORN. SQUASH. BEANS. TOMATILLOS.
YOU EAT THOSE TOO!
And what about the Cinnamon? The Mace? The nutmeg? The British stole those from the people of India. The tea youâve monopolized as your own? Thatâs from China and Japan. You donât even drink it right. Youâre suppose to pour out the first steep according to Chinese tea practices. And they sold it for far cheaper to the British at the time. The wheat? Grains? Ethiopia, thatâs from the Fertile Crescent. Your very bread is made of a stolen crop.
Your fruits? All of it, stolen. The Mediterranean originally grew mint, oregano, rosemary, olives, and cabbage.
Do you indulge in chocolate? That was stolen by your Spanish neighbors from the Aztecs and Mayans darling. Chewing gum too.
We didnât even steal half the crops we grow, imperialism did, so donât even start there. Many of the natives crops are viable solutions to local food, but guess what? WE DONT FREAKING USE THEM!
You wanna get mad at us for something? Get mad that we donât use acorn and coontie flour instead of wheat. Get mad that we donât use elderberries and American cherries in jams as much as we should. Get mad that we havenât cultivated the pawpaw or Florida plum as much as we should. Get mad that we donât use sumac, or Kentucky coffee. Get mad that blueberries and cranberries arenât a main staple in our diets, and because of capitalism-caused food deserts and absurd prices. Get mad that we donât eat local meats, but farm instead of forage when thereâs so much we could be eating to cut back on our waste, but we donât because humans are prissy and donât want to put the effort into making things taste good by selective breeding like we did when we were nomadic and still figuring out agriculture. Get mad that we could be eating our way through our kudzu problem in the south, but we arenât because itâs just not something we do culturally.
Get mad about the things we can be faulted for, because at least we can actually try and control those.
The moral of the story here is we should be fucking mad at the GREED OF THE FEW. At the end of the day, thatâs whatâs caused us the most problems isnât it? Instead we sit here and we bicker about whoâs worse, instead of making each other better. Like you said, letâs not throw stones at each other from our stupid glass houses, and burn down the people who are actually responsible and have the means to do something but instead choose to do nothing.
Actually your society is the freaks for shooting everything that moves and burning half your "nature reserves" every year so that upperclass dandies can eat leaded pheasant. North Americans are the well adjusted ones here, your country has become a desolate suburban lawn in island form
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