book suggestions for dendrophiles and a glimpse of a brief encounter I had when I crossed paths with someone choosing to embody modern western civilization's wendigo mentality
Hi Gavin, Well, you know how deep my love of Trees runs. I can barely stand to look at images of the old growth Trees being felled. It takes me forever to walk through the woods, trying not to step on all the saplings. I have been getting to know the Trees here on a level I never have before. These days, I'd rather spend my time with them than with humans. The comments of the two people you mentioned are the comments of humans so stuck in a 3D reality that I can only feel sadness for them. They have no idea of the joy and healing that Trees can bring us. And that we should try and do the same for them. They are sentient beings, just like us. But then, you surely know that.🌲🌲🌲💚
I do know how deep your love for our rooted kin runs my friend.
I apologize for evoking this pain for our kin in your heart, I feel that in order to heal these gaping wounds in the relationship between humans and the living Earth the light and air of day must shine upon what is really going on. It is not easy for me sometimes, I collapse into a pile and tears pour down, as I look to research what is really happening in the places out of view of the cities and the social media. However, I feel the call of our Great Mother asking me to be her voice now, and so I will answer that call.
Thank you for embodying your love for our kin in your writing, photography and energy, you provide a most precious medicine to our world.
Way back at the top - photos of book pages, third or fourth down -- "root tips can recognize each other genetically, related tree root tips - but they don't know how.
Exosomes with matching surface markers I would guess are sent out and it might promote some action between the receiving root with the sending root. Mother older trees help support saplings grow I've read.
I am certainly not as learned as many of your readers or you on matters. I recently listened to an Ayn Rand talk on Laissez-faire capitalism. She defined it in a way I had never considered before. It seemed to have the potential to benefit society and if approached in a manner not encouraged by the scarcity mindset could potentially be an infinite improvement over what we have now. The system is totally out of control. I honestly don't really know enough about it to carry on a productive conversation. I'm just wondering if all capitalism is always bad? Corbett has also referenced the work of someone who addresses the theory of a fixed carrying capacity of the earth's natural resources in relation to population control. This gentleman makes a compelling argument these theories fail to consider the ingenuity of man to create technologies and inventions to increase the production of some resources. I wonder if you are familiar with who I'm talking about and how you feel about this opinion? I loved this article and have added a couple books to my wish list. As an arborist, touching those beings has an effect on me. With a change of job function and touching trees less, I feel there is an effect of not being surrounded by their energy, as I was for 25 years. I believe the change is actually having a negative effect on my body and spirit. It's a much deeper conversation than I should get into on here, but I wanted to say, this resonates with me. Thank you.
I am grateful you addressed the topic of "capitalism" and shared regarding JC's past referencing on the subject.
I am not familiar with "Laissez-faire capitalism" (though I do not claim to be any kind of expert on "isms", but rather I have shared my own observations on what I describe as "capitalism" based on my observations of the behaviors and activities of individuals and institutions that champion the word "capitalism").
You said "it seemed to have the potential to benefit society" but what about the communities of beings that we share this world with that are not human? Based on what you understand, would the ideal implementation of this more friendly form of capitalism you referenced also benefit the forests, the oceans, the rivers, the lakes and all the four legged, winged, scaled and finned beings that dwell within those realms as well?
"i'm just wondering if all capitalism is always bad?"
Well that all depends on how one defines "bad" and "good". If "good" is anything that benefits the growth and stability of the fiat currency economy and anything that facilitates our industrial civilization being able to continue to convert that which is living into that which is dead, uniform and can be sold for money, clearcuts are "good", deep ocean mining is "good", lithium mines in the boreal forest are "good", suffocating the earth with endless solar panel farms and hydroponic greenhouses growing gmo "food" is "good".
I am not familiar with the gentleman you are speaking about with regards to Corbett's referencing of the carrying capacity of the Earth, but I did come across this Episode https://www.corbettreport.com/limitstogrowth/ of his recently and dropped a few comments in there.
"This gentleman makes a compelling argument these theories fail to consider the ingenuity of man to create technologies and inventions to increase the production of some resources."
What were the man's thoughts on protecting intact wilderness places from becoming the targets of industrial extraction of "resources" and urban development?
The reason I ask is that, lets say that someone gets one of the many clean over unity (zero point energy) technologies (which have been suppressed for decades) out of the corporate black boxes and government classified projects and into the public domain. If humans gained access to so called "free energy" in a time when many humans covet technology and money and fear nature (seeing wilderness as a 'dirty dangerous place' that needs to be 'tamed' and 'civilized') we could live to see a time when we end pollution but also simultaneously accelerate ecological devastation, deforestation, mass extinction of all non human species and the converting of the last few remaining intact mature ecosystems on Earth, into cold, dead, uniform concrete jungles (filled with cyborg people wandering around with VR goggles and elon musk brain chips).
Earlier today I shared some excerpts from a book that I feel addresses one of the key aspects of what I consider to be "capitalism" and how it is inherently degenerative.
In the comment linked below, part of that is explored.
RE: "With a change of job function and touching trees less, I feel there is an effect of not being surrounded by their energy"
I feel the same way about touching photosynthetic beings, I notice the effect of not being around and communing with the trees as much in the winter myself. I try to get out when its not super cold and wet to go into the dormant forest and connect when I can, which helps, but spring, summer and fall the connection is daily and intimate so it is not the same.
One thing that I find helps is spending time planting seeds (to naturally stratify and germinate in spring) during the winter. Sensing the living energy in the seeds and helping them on their way serves as a medicine for my heart and soul.
Wow yeah well I am way under equipped to even be participating in this comment thread. Your knowledge and that of your readers surpasses mine by leaps and bounds. That Corbett thread is also so above my level of knowledge and understanding. What I will say is I am on my journey of trying to understand and decide where I currently place myself in the big picture of the infinite everything. Like many, the last few years has changed everything I knew to be true. I am finding myself with the "wait........what.......really.....how......can you explain it" reaction to so very much. I was cruising along just fine until they overplayed their cards and I sort of stopped in my tracks. I can't answer any of the questions you asked me. The individuals I referenced from James were likely in that podcast but the information was not presented in a context considering anything more than our consumption. With the Ayn Rand comment and the Corbett comment, it seems the context only comes from the place where one considers the resources of our planet to be in placed specifically for our use. Like the entire earth is our own market to pick and choose from because it's there for us. I supposed this is the disgusting selfishness of our kind. To think this is all here for us and everything serves the human race. Totally not my position. I feel there has to be some kind of symbiotic relationship like the lichen and fungus you wrote about but who can define that? It seems like people and philosophers much smarter than I have been debating this for many years. Some of the stories you share of the 7th fire seem to discuss this argument a little bit. I might even be getting the number for the fire incorrect. I can say I have my opinions where the line is between use and misuse of our resources lies. I guess this is where science comes in. Scientists discuss these very items and are on either side of a heated debate. The science of the users justifies the use and the science of the preservers justifies the preservation. What Steve thinks is shadowed by the learned scholars who claim to know all the answers. I hate to cop out on your questions but I have to wonder, is there even an answer we are able to conceive? Is climate change real, is it BS? Why do they want us to believe either side? Who does the belief benefit and who sells the better story. Who can control the masses. As a kid I loved the book The Wump World by Bill Peet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wump_World It seems to really explain our species use of the earth. I say that as being a consumer and someone who appreciates the earth more than some and not as much as others. I don't have the answers to the questions you asked me. I don't know who does. I try to do my best and be a good man. It's certainly not enough and maybe too late but it's better than some who do nothing. I have read a little about the free energy, the work of Tesla, the work of others out there producing technology that may be at little cost to the planet. I don't understand it, can't explain it but do believe, if it costs a major industry a penny of profit they'll ruin it and the people behind it. I try not to be black pilled. I try not to be those beings on the ships in the Wump World. I try to understand where you and your readership are coming from. You've been at this game so much longer than I have. I'm so young in my awakening and trying to find my way. I appreciate so much the above replay and am sorry I can't carry on an informed conversation with you as I just can't answer the questions with anything more than my own metrics and answers. I think all these questions are so much bigger than I am and I'm left to wonder...........my belief in a middle ground of use and abuse..........is that just my own justification of my own use to make myself feel better? I just don't know and at times feel like I don't know anything at all. Some days I am totally lost and don't know what anything means. Guess you just caught me on one of those days. Rest assured I do hear you!
Thanks so much for the thoughtful and in depth reply brother.
Charles offers another glimpse into the potential I was trying to depict in my comment above regarding how if humans get our hands on super advanced clean energy tech that will not necessarily solve environmental degradation since many see the Earth as a dead pile of resources just waiting to be extracted and made into more technology and cities etc in this excerpt:
RE: " is there even an answer we are able to conceive? Is climate change real, is it BS? Why do they want us to believe either side?"
I am a firm believer in trusting our own hands on experience and direct observations locally as being more reliable than generalizations proffered by "experts" in far away places that tell us what we should conceive as true and false. For me personally, I am not convinced that the entire climate is warming, and I am certainly not convinced that if it is in fact warming, that we can accurately blame CO-2 emissions/methane as the culprit. I have witnessed changes in climate locally, though, they are more related to the hydrological cycle than they are to temperatures (so again, not the kind of "climate change" that they talk about on tv and in most universities). Based on what I have observed of deforestation and intensive chemical dependent agriculture in our immediate area over a decade I have seen clearly discernable patterns when people remove the canopy trees, expose the soil, rip into the soil, soak it in biocide chemicals and then leave it exposed between monocropping it. I have observed the creation of microclimates of aridity in those deforested zones, changes in rainfall patterns and the beginning of desertification (and considering we are near a great lake, that is saying something). So, do I think the climate is changing? Well, it certainly is here, but it has less to do with warming and more to do with soil erosion and the destabilization of the processes that form rain clouds and initiate rain drops to start falling. In short, less forests and more tilled fields equals less rain and more soil washing out into the ocean. That change in climate is also being observed by people in other places (which people describe as also coinciding with deforestation/clearcutting, destruction of wetlands, draining of lakes, rivers for mining and monocrop chemical/tilling agriculture) which lends more credence to my own personal observations and leads me to feel confidence that humans are changing the climate, though it has less to do with CO-2 emissions and more to do with how we are decimating biodiversity and the ripple effects of that on the hydrological cycles in the sky and the mineral cycles in the soil.
I appreciate your candor and I am glad you are here on this path as we all learn together, looking for clarity, actionable intelligence and collaborative pathways to co-create a better future.
Thanks Gavin, always! Please know there was no pushback, just thinking out loud. There is a massive issue......I'm just searching for clarity and understanding.
I stumbled across this video and thought of our discussion RE "Capitalism".
This video helps to illuminate the fallacy of the so called "selfish gene" theory and the equally fallacious and artificially imposed "every man for himself" story of capitalism.
Thanks Gavin. That was a good video. Over dinner we were discussing ethical theories of investing money based on a statement my son's teacher made today. We also discussed the age old argument of needing medicine and not having any money. Is it ok to steal it. We discussed this from a viewpoint of your last article. In a just and ethical society we would make sure everyone had what they needed but not in a government nanny state kind of way. I think you probably know what I mean even if I'm not explaining it well. I'm tired and not finding my words well. Point taken with the video. Makes great good sense to me. I don't have the answers but I try to be a good man. I hope thats my legacy when I've moved on.
No worries my friend, even in a case where "push back" is expressed I value hearing from different points of view from my own and see that "friction" as an opportunity to sharpen the blade of my mind. Thanks for engaging.
I stumble from one failed attempt at ecologically-sound behavior to another. I keep waiting for a second wind, or a clear path forward for activism, or some clue as to how to fund the ideas I have. Kicking the frackers out of NB is ten years in the rear-view mirror now, and I am amazed nothing more has found me. So I am a half-ass organic farmhand at sixty, piling up injuries, no longer a very nice person, trying to learn to tune into nature without cannabis use, which has gotten very detrimental for me. My qigong practice has faded badly. I still love trees.
I can hardly think anymore with Gazan genocide following upon mRNA mind control following twenty years of Iraqi genocide following the 9/11 psyop, following on the BS before that. I have a lot of rage. I think humanity missed its window for waking up from reductionist thinking. Beneath the rage, deep grief at watching it all unravel, while so many of us know better but are helpless to stop the train wreck. The money system is filthy beyond words. Corporate profits up 50% last year tho! Meanwhile, I need to take a second job to cover credit card debt which paid for living expenses this past injury-plagued year. My car won't get me but around town, so it looks like it'll be at the very standard mediocre grocery store here where I don't fit. The Truth & Reconciliation work will have to wait I guess. What do you think of John Liu's idea to green the Sinai? https://www.greenthesinai.com/home
I feel your pain brother and I understand the struggle to feel confident that one is gaining traction towards a noble goal when there are so many tragedies, worthy causes and important topics that call for our attention.
I was recently re-reading Charles Eisenstein's book called "Climate - A New Story" and came across a few very poignant and illuminating ideas and perspectives which I feel speak to this conundrum you are shining a light on.
Charles makes the assertion that it is Love that compels us to make meaningful changes in our lives, and that history has shown us that no amount of self-interest based fear messaging, institutional guilt tripping, threats from governments/religions or promises of bribes from governments/religions are going to get humans to change course and stop the environmental or genocidal destruction. He wisely states that we are not going to be forced into love.
Sometimes a sense of loss can reawaken an innate love within us and call us into service in the name of that love. When I think of the clearcut 1000 year old trees in the west that I used to spend time with as a child and tears start flowing down my face, I choose to re-direct and transmute that sense of loss and mourning into taking decisive action to appreciate and nurture that which I do still have in my life which I feel great love for.
If each of us chose to really engage with the place and/or being(s) we love most locally, giving our unique gifts as humans beings to cherish, protect and nurture those places and/or being(s), perhaps that outpouring of love would lead the lost ones by example, pouring over the edges of our community to begin to regenerate entire regions.
I will now share a section of the book i mentioned above that speaks to this:
"To respond to any is to respond to all. I imagine myself talking to a rhino in a cage. She asks me, “What were you doing with your life, while I was going extinct?” If I answer her, “I was working to save the coral reefs,” or “I was helping to stop the navy from using whale-deafening sonar,” or “I spent my life trying to free men from death row,” then she is satisfied, and so am I. We both know that, somehow, all of these endeavors are in service to the rhinos too. I can meet her gaze without shame.."
..We are free then to listen to what calls forth our passion, our care, and our gifts, whether the need that calls them seems large or small, consequential or invisible. Because each contains all, we can be peaceful in our fervor and patient in our urgency."
Thus, I am striving to give my passion, care and focus my gifts on what which calls my heart into action, and doing my best to trust that all the many other worthy causes in the world which also deserve attention, will be addressed by those who have been given gifts that are custom tailored by the Creator to be capable of initiating healing and regeneration in those areas.
I try to find balance by speaking truth, asking the hard quesitons and sharing facts on a range of subjects (so that those who still sleep can wake up, discover their gifts and put them to service in the interest of what calls their heart to action) while also using my hands to be of service in my own neck of the woods.
I appreciate you speaking from the heart and shining a light on the subject matter covered in your comment. In doing so, you invite the possibility of healing.
I will check out the John Liu video/project you linked and get back to you when I have more time.
Humans, in truth, know so little about the natural world we live in. How can anyone decide that it is not an issue to clear-cut forested mountain sides of BC or to deforest in South America and Canada (to name just two). How do we know what the results will be? After all, it was only "two decades ago, while researching her doctoral thesis, ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered that trees communicate their needs and send each other nutrients via a network of latticed fungi buried in the soil — in other words, she found, they “talk” to each other. " While, that is important, there is so much more to learn about trees. We have only begun to understand.
Perhaps i have this perspective bcuz i believe that we are only a small part of this planet and that if every human were gone from this planet the natural world would not only survive, it would thrive. It doesn't need humanity but humanity does need it. This is something i have always known. Just recently, i put that into words for the first time when i was asked if i consider myself an environmentalist and if i do, what the catalyst would have been. My response was there wasn't a catalyst. I always knew that all beings were created by God with Mother Earth and as such just by being, they deserve as much respect, kindness and compassion as any human. To me, those who see humans as superior beings with the right to do as they please with regards other life on the planet have not, yet taken off their blinders and therefore have yet to see the truth of the earth and the universe. This planet is not a human's playground and it is not "ours to do with as we wish" without natural consequences.
As an example of the perspective that speaks to the self-importance and superiority complex of some humans one has simply to look at one of Elizabeth Nickson's comments in which she says, "Like thousands in BC, Gavin, I own 20,000 trees, and more than two dozen old growth." This makes me wonder how someone owns a being that was here before she even took her first breath. Is that not arrogance? Just bcuz the being is not human doesn't give us the right to ownership. Stewardship? Yes! Ownership, no!
If we are to care about the future of this planet, should we not be developing a relationship with the trees (and in fact all beings) that is symbiotic where both parties involved benefit from the interaction rather than the parasitic relationship that is more often now engaged in where one party benefits while the other is harmed?
I believe that trees bring so much more to this world than most can even imagine. If one has ever been in a forest and has taken the time to be present, it would not be long before one would realize the impact trees have on us. They calm us and lift our spirits at the same time. How does a being that not only helps us to rebalance ourselves with their energy, but is greatly responsible for our ability to take our next breath, not deserve our respect, kindness and compassion? ❤
Thank you for speaking from the heart and with such vivid clarity.
The way you invite the reader to ask themselves questions, the way you see our fellow beings with humility and the anecdotes you share serve to illuminate the truth of these matters clearly.
Thank you for speaking the truth and doing so from a place of love.
This world is a more beautiful place because you are on her.
Interesting, Gavin. I thought about doing a post on Elizabeth Nickson based on her very pro-Israel writings. She had subbed me and I subbed her back, intrigued by her stance for local sovereignty. She posted a comment on one of my pedo-sadist episodes, asking what I thought about someone speaking out, who she thought was a fake. I bought her book, The Monkey-Puzzle Tree, about her mother being a victim of the CIA psychological torture program. It was well-written and horrifying.
It's curious that her Substack description says "A political shift similar to the Glorious Revolution is underway and I am here for it." A Reddit discussion asks, "Should the Glorious Revolution be seen more as a Dutch invasion or an English coup d’etat?"
I think this is the last one before I unsubbed: https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/obama-inc-is-running-out-of-brown [people to kill]. From her perspective, Oct 7th was planned by Obama, Inc, because "he hates Israel" and needs a war to win the next election: "a color revolution to take down Bibi, and break Israel’s legerdemain in science, business and near everything else. Swamp the country with guilt and brutalize its people." I don't think I need to editorialize that. This was on Oct 28.
Elizabeth begins by saying how she was raised with "a reverence for Jewish people because my father had been put in charge of a concentration camp – “a work camp, not a death camp”, he would say – after the war." When he would say, "I saw things ..." and trail off, Elizabeth inserts a photo of a pit filled with naked, emaciated dead bodies to show us what he 'probably' saw.
This is my comment, which no one responded to: "First, I can't put your book down, Elizabeth. I'm a little more than halfway through and it's such a well told story. Very compelling.
"Second, tell me more about your dad. My dad fought in WWII but he would have been over 100 now. I don't think your dad was lying when he called them work camps. Something happened that isn't what we've been told. I don't know what that was, but I know we haven't been told the truth.
"Fourth, Obama is a puppet of Israel. Operation Cast Lead, the 22 day assault killing 1400 Palestinians, happened just before he took office. He said he couldn't intervene because he wasn't yet President but that didn't stop him from bailing out the bankers. So Obama golfed while Gaza burned. And it ended on the day of his inauguration. Does that seem coincidental to you?"
This is all to say there's a consistency in Elizabeth's writing and I think you're tapping into it.
Thanks for sharing those fascinating interactions you had with and writings of Elizabeth here.
The way that she swooped in to censor me on her page kind of reminded me of how the facebook thought police algorithms would swoop in and "fact check" (or flat out censor/remove) posts I shared that shone an unflattering light on the nefarious aspects of corporate propaganda and activities. I get the feeling that when she saw how Substack was becoming a platform where dissidents (of various things from covid/injection scams to global warming/CO-2 scams) could make an income via attracting subscribers she decided to play the role of a rebel (in as many ways as she was comfortable pretending to be one) and speak on hot topic issues from that place of an actor playing a custom tailored role to appease a specific audience in order to attract paying subscribers. Her behavior in censoring and cheering for various corrupt institutions and corporations that engage in pillaging and profiteering illuminates her true nature however. She seems like someone that enjoyed the inconvenient fact censoring and mob mentality propagating nature of the mainstream media institutions she used to roll with a little bit too much. I could be way off, but that is a vibe I get from her.
I personally said all that I want to say about War at this point and time (whether it is the genocide of the week in the middle east or any other number of manufactured wars for profit/eugenics operations) in this post:
Gavin, we have a lot in common! My most favorite "Tree" book is, "The Hidden Life of Trees...What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben. I'll be looking at the one's you posted too.
Glad to hear it! For a really solid deep dive into the scientific nitty gritty details of what is going on in the hidden life of trees I suggest a book called The Rhizosphere: Biochemistry and Organic Substances at the Soil-Plant Interface.
Matt Power's "Regenerative Soil - The Science and Solutions" also offers some powerful insights into the hidden realms where the roots of ancient beings meet the Earth (and how those ancient beings connect and communicate with each other and myriad other beings that are part of their "microbiome).
Scratch a climate change denier and you will always encounter an apologist for Capitalism. All of them realize, consciously or not, that once one acknowledges climate destabilization it always points to its source in our world, the Capitalist mode of production which you ably describe in this essay.
"Scratch a climate change denier and you will always encounter an apologist for Capitalism."
That is an interesting supposition. I will say that I have observed that a solid chunk of those people who reject the conventional "climate change" (global warming caused mostly by CO-2 emissions) narrative are as you say 'apologists for Capitalism', but not all.
For instance, James Corbett overtly rejects the conventional climate change models https://www.corbettreport.com/climatequestions/ but I would hardly describe him as an apologist for capitalism. He describes himself as a proponent of Voluntaryism (which seems to be an ideological standpoint that is diametrically opposed to capitalism, if I am not mistaken).
Perhaps I am way off and you could show me how he is actually an "apologist for Capitalism" and if so, I would be intrigued to hear your argument for why you see that to be the case.
I will now relay a question to you that I asked of a prominent climate change activist and self described 'deep green' environmentalist recently in the hopes it can spark a productive discussion on this important topic:
What are your thoughts regarding the potential that some of the change in climate we can observe could be due to 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 anthropogenic climate changes (as in geoengineering or stratospheric aerosol injection programs)?
I realize that the publicly stated goals of SRM ("solar radiation management") programs involving stratospheric aerosol injection operations are to slow or reverse global warming but have you considered the potential that these types of operations could in fact be having the opposite effect?
I do not dismiss the facts regarding the damage that pollution (generated by industrial activity) does to the biosphere (via unbalancing the carbon cycle among other things) but what I am hoping to ask you is have you considered the potential that weather modification operations are also playing a significant role in the equation?
This person disappeared (or maybe was "disappeared") about 5 years ago.
His focus was on the effect that thousands of Wet Surface Air Cooled (WSAC) power plants had on weather patterns and were being used to inject millions of gallons of steam (and god knows how much heat!) into the atmosphere thus generating extreme precipitation events without which persistent drought would ensue and that this was being done at an industrial scale. globally. I could go on but please access the video and the many others he offered to detail this process.
He was attacked ruthlessly by many of the "stars of geoengineering 'conspiracy';"including Dale Wigington.
I had a bit of personal email correspondence with him (all I know was that his name was Jim and I think he lived somewhere in NYC and operated on a shoestring and was retired IT person, as am I) and he did mention he had health issues so he might have just expired "naturally". He was not young. His video skills were exemplary and I would been eager to see what he would have made of the COVID psy-op.
His loss is incalculable.
And I would say that James Corbett is an apologist for Capitalism from a sort of anarchist perspective and at the same time his many researches and exposes are of great value.
THANK YOU! I was looking for book recommendations. Trees are among my favorite subjects. I just got Rooted on Audible. Here's to you and your excellent taste !
You will also find a bunch of additional books that focus on trees (and a wide spectrum of other soul/mind/body enriching subjects) which I also recommend, listed in this post:
Oh, I will be reading many of your recommendations! I love rooted. I listened for a n hour and a half last night while I did other work. I will be going to this other post today. Thanks, Gavin.
Hi Gavin, Well, you know how deep my love of Trees runs. I can barely stand to look at images of the old growth Trees being felled. It takes me forever to walk through the woods, trying not to step on all the saplings. I have been getting to know the Trees here on a level I never have before. These days, I'd rather spend my time with them than with humans. The comments of the two people you mentioned are the comments of humans so stuck in a 3D reality that I can only feel sadness for them. They have no idea of the joy and healing that Trees can bring us. And that we should try and do the same for them. They are sentient beings, just like us. But then, you surely know that.🌲🌲🌲💚
I do know how deep your love for our rooted kin runs my friend.
I apologize for evoking this pain for our kin in your heart, I feel that in order to heal these gaping wounds in the relationship between humans and the living Earth the light and air of day must shine upon what is really going on. It is not easy for me sometimes, I collapse into a pile and tears pour down, as I look to research what is really happening in the places out of view of the cities and the social media. However, I feel the call of our Great Mother asking me to be her voice now, and so I will answer that call.
Thank you for embodying your love for our kin in your writing, photography and energy, you provide a most precious medicine to our world.
Aww, thank you dear friend. As do you. We all have our roles to play and one is not more important than the other. Trying to write about that now. 🌲🌲💚
Way back at the top - photos of book pages, third or fourth down -- "root tips can recognize each other genetically, related tree root tips - but they don't know how.
Exosomes with matching surface markers I would guess are sent out and it might promote some action between the receiving root with the sending root. Mother older trees help support saplings grow I've read.
Thanks for noticing that, I appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
Perhaps Mother Trees would also decide to teach non-photosynthetic beings, if we took the time to slow down and align with their rhythms of life.
Thanks for the comment.
I am certainly not as learned as many of your readers or you on matters. I recently listened to an Ayn Rand talk on Laissez-faire capitalism. She defined it in a way I had never considered before. It seemed to have the potential to benefit society and if approached in a manner not encouraged by the scarcity mindset could potentially be an infinite improvement over what we have now. The system is totally out of control. I honestly don't really know enough about it to carry on a productive conversation. I'm just wondering if all capitalism is always bad? Corbett has also referenced the work of someone who addresses the theory of a fixed carrying capacity of the earth's natural resources in relation to population control. This gentleman makes a compelling argument these theories fail to consider the ingenuity of man to create technologies and inventions to increase the production of some resources. I wonder if you are familiar with who I'm talking about and how you feel about this opinion? I loved this article and have added a couple books to my wish list. As an arborist, touching those beings has an effect on me. With a change of job function and touching trees less, I feel there is an effect of not being surrounded by their energy, as I was for 25 years. I believe the change is actually having a negative effect on my body and spirit. It's a much deeper conversation than I should get into on here, but I wanted to say, this resonates with me. Thank you.
Hey Steve!
I am grateful you addressed the topic of "capitalism" and shared regarding JC's past referencing on the subject.
I am not familiar with "Laissez-faire capitalism" (though I do not claim to be any kind of expert on "isms", but rather I have shared my own observations on what I describe as "capitalism" based on my observations of the behaviors and activities of individuals and institutions that champion the word "capitalism").
You said "it seemed to have the potential to benefit society" but what about the communities of beings that we share this world with that are not human? Based on what you understand, would the ideal implementation of this more friendly form of capitalism you referenced also benefit the forests, the oceans, the rivers, the lakes and all the four legged, winged, scaled and finned beings that dwell within those realms as well?
"i'm just wondering if all capitalism is always bad?"
Well that all depends on how one defines "bad" and "good". If "good" is anything that benefits the growth and stability of the fiat currency economy and anything that facilitates our industrial civilization being able to continue to convert that which is living into that which is dead, uniform and can be sold for money, clearcuts are "good", deep ocean mining is "good", lithium mines in the boreal forest are "good", suffocating the earth with endless solar panel farms and hydroponic greenhouses growing gmo "food" is "good".
I am not familiar with the gentleman you are speaking about with regards to Corbett's referencing of the carrying capacity of the Earth, but I did come across this Episode https://www.corbettreport.com/limitstogrowth/ of his recently and dropped a few comments in there.
"This gentleman makes a compelling argument these theories fail to consider the ingenuity of man to create technologies and inventions to increase the production of some resources."
What were the man's thoughts on protecting intact wilderness places from becoming the targets of industrial extraction of "resources" and urban development?
The reason I ask is that, lets say that someone gets one of the many clean over unity (zero point energy) technologies (which have been suppressed for decades) out of the corporate black boxes and government classified projects and into the public domain. If humans gained access to so called "free energy" in a time when many humans covet technology and money and fear nature (seeing wilderness as a 'dirty dangerous place' that needs to be 'tamed' and 'civilized') we could live to see a time when we end pollution but also simultaneously accelerate ecological devastation, deforestation, mass extinction of all non human species and the converting of the last few remaining intact mature ecosystems on Earth, into cold, dead, uniform concrete jungles (filled with cyborg people wandering around with VR goggles and elon musk brain chips).
Earlier today I shared some excerpts from a book that I feel addresses one of the key aspects of what I consider to be "capitalism" and how it is inherently degenerative.
In the comment linked below, part of that is explored.
https://www.corbettreport.com/new-year-open-thread-2024/#comment-159790
RE: "With a change of job function and touching trees less, I feel there is an effect of not being surrounded by their energy"
I feel the same way about touching photosynthetic beings, I notice the effect of not being around and communing with the trees as much in the winter myself. I try to get out when its not super cold and wet to go into the dormant forest and connect when I can, which helps, but spring, summer and fall the connection is daily and intimate so it is not the same.
One thing that I find helps is spending time planting seeds (to naturally stratify and germinate in spring) during the winter. Sensing the living energy in the seeds and helping them on their way serves as a medicine for my heart and soul.
Thanks for taking the time to comment brother.
Wow yeah well I am way under equipped to even be participating in this comment thread. Your knowledge and that of your readers surpasses mine by leaps and bounds. That Corbett thread is also so above my level of knowledge and understanding. What I will say is I am on my journey of trying to understand and decide where I currently place myself in the big picture of the infinite everything. Like many, the last few years has changed everything I knew to be true. I am finding myself with the "wait........what.......really.....how......can you explain it" reaction to so very much. I was cruising along just fine until they overplayed their cards and I sort of stopped in my tracks. I can't answer any of the questions you asked me. The individuals I referenced from James were likely in that podcast but the information was not presented in a context considering anything more than our consumption. With the Ayn Rand comment and the Corbett comment, it seems the context only comes from the place where one considers the resources of our planet to be in placed specifically for our use. Like the entire earth is our own market to pick and choose from because it's there for us. I supposed this is the disgusting selfishness of our kind. To think this is all here for us and everything serves the human race. Totally not my position. I feel there has to be some kind of symbiotic relationship like the lichen and fungus you wrote about but who can define that? It seems like people and philosophers much smarter than I have been debating this for many years. Some of the stories you share of the 7th fire seem to discuss this argument a little bit. I might even be getting the number for the fire incorrect. I can say I have my opinions where the line is between use and misuse of our resources lies. I guess this is where science comes in. Scientists discuss these very items and are on either side of a heated debate. The science of the users justifies the use and the science of the preservers justifies the preservation. What Steve thinks is shadowed by the learned scholars who claim to know all the answers. I hate to cop out on your questions but I have to wonder, is there even an answer we are able to conceive? Is climate change real, is it BS? Why do they want us to believe either side? Who does the belief benefit and who sells the better story. Who can control the masses. As a kid I loved the book The Wump World by Bill Peet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wump_World It seems to really explain our species use of the earth. I say that as being a consumer and someone who appreciates the earth more than some and not as much as others. I don't have the answers to the questions you asked me. I don't know who does. I try to do my best and be a good man. It's certainly not enough and maybe too late but it's better than some who do nothing. I have read a little about the free energy, the work of Tesla, the work of others out there producing technology that may be at little cost to the planet. I don't understand it, can't explain it but do believe, if it costs a major industry a penny of profit they'll ruin it and the people behind it. I try not to be black pilled. I try not to be those beings on the ships in the Wump World. I try to understand where you and your readership are coming from. You've been at this game so much longer than I have. I'm so young in my awakening and trying to find my way. I appreciate so much the above replay and am sorry I can't carry on an informed conversation with you as I just can't answer the questions with anything more than my own metrics and answers. I think all these questions are so much bigger than I am and I'm left to wonder...........my belief in a middle ground of use and abuse..........is that just my own justification of my own use to make myself feel better? I just don't know and at times feel like I don't know anything at all. Some days I am totally lost and don't know what anything means. Guess you just caught me on one of those days. Rest assured I do hear you!
Thanks so much for the thoughtful and in depth reply brother.
Charles offers another glimpse into the potential I was trying to depict in my comment above regarding how if humans get our hands on super advanced clean energy tech that will not necessarily solve environmental degradation since many see the Earth as a dead pile of resources just waiting to be extracted and made into more technology and cities etc in this excerpt:
https://charleseisenstein.org/books/climate-a-new-story/eng/the-concrete-world/
RE: " is there even an answer we are able to conceive? Is climate change real, is it BS? Why do they want us to believe either side?"
I am a firm believer in trusting our own hands on experience and direct observations locally as being more reliable than generalizations proffered by "experts" in far away places that tell us what we should conceive as true and false. For me personally, I am not convinced that the entire climate is warming, and I am certainly not convinced that if it is in fact warming, that we can accurately blame CO-2 emissions/methane as the culprit. I have witnessed changes in climate locally, though, they are more related to the hydrological cycle than they are to temperatures (so again, not the kind of "climate change" that they talk about on tv and in most universities). Based on what I have observed of deforestation and intensive chemical dependent agriculture in our immediate area over a decade I have seen clearly discernable patterns when people remove the canopy trees, expose the soil, rip into the soil, soak it in biocide chemicals and then leave it exposed between monocropping it. I have observed the creation of microclimates of aridity in those deforested zones, changes in rainfall patterns and the beginning of desertification (and considering we are near a great lake, that is saying something). So, do I think the climate is changing? Well, it certainly is here, but it has less to do with warming and more to do with soil erosion and the destabilization of the processes that form rain clouds and initiate rain drops to start falling. In short, less forests and more tilled fields equals less rain and more soil washing out into the ocean. That change in climate is also being observed by people in other places (which people describe as also coinciding with deforestation/clearcutting, destruction of wetlands, draining of lakes, rivers for mining and monocrop chemical/tilling agriculture) which lends more credence to my own personal observations and leads me to feel confidence that humans are changing the climate, though it has less to do with CO-2 emissions and more to do with how we are decimating biodiversity and the ripple effects of that on the hydrological cycles in the sky and the mineral cycles in the soil.
I appreciate your candor and I am glad you are here on this path as we all learn together, looking for clarity, actionable intelligence and collaborative pathways to co-create a better future.
Thanks Gavin, always! Please know there was no pushback, just thinking out loud. There is a massive issue......I'm just searching for clarity and understanding.
I stumbled across this video and thought of our discussion RE "Capitalism".
This video helps to illuminate the fallacy of the so called "selfish gene" theory and the equally fallacious and artificially imposed "every man for himself" story of capitalism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7-DT5fqutQ
Thanks Gavin. That was a good video. Over dinner we were discussing ethical theories of investing money based on a statement my son's teacher made today. We also discussed the age old argument of needing medicine and not having any money. Is it ok to steal it. We discussed this from a viewpoint of your last article. In a just and ethical society we would make sure everyone had what they needed but not in a government nanny state kind of way. I think you probably know what I mean even if I'm not explaining it well. I'm tired and not finding my words well. Point taken with the video. Makes great good sense to me. I don't have the answers but I try to be a good man. I hope thats my legacy when I've moved on.
No worries my friend, even in a case where "push back" is expressed I value hearing from different points of view from my own and see that "friction" as an opportunity to sharpen the blade of my mind. Thanks for engaging.
I stumble from one failed attempt at ecologically-sound behavior to another. I keep waiting for a second wind, or a clear path forward for activism, or some clue as to how to fund the ideas I have. Kicking the frackers out of NB is ten years in the rear-view mirror now, and I am amazed nothing more has found me. So I am a half-ass organic farmhand at sixty, piling up injuries, no longer a very nice person, trying to learn to tune into nature without cannabis use, which has gotten very detrimental for me. My qigong practice has faded badly. I still love trees.
I can hardly think anymore with Gazan genocide following upon mRNA mind control following twenty years of Iraqi genocide following the 9/11 psyop, following on the BS before that. I have a lot of rage. I think humanity missed its window for waking up from reductionist thinking. Beneath the rage, deep grief at watching it all unravel, while so many of us know better but are helpless to stop the train wreck. The money system is filthy beyond words. Corporate profits up 50% last year tho! Meanwhile, I need to take a second job to cover credit card debt which paid for living expenses this past injury-plagued year. My car won't get me but around town, so it looks like it'll be at the very standard mediocre grocery store here where I don't fit. The Truth & Reconciliation work will have to wait I guess. What do you think of John Liu's idea to green the Sinai? https://www.greenthesinai.com/home
I feel your pain brother and I understand the struggle to feel confident that one is gaining traction towards a noble goal when there are so many tragedies, worthy causes and important topics that call for our attention.
I was recently re-reading Charles Eisenstein's book called "Climate - A New Story" and came across a few very poignant and illuminating ideas and perspectives which I feel speak to this conundrum you are shining a light on.
Charles makes the assertion that it is Love that compels us to make meaningful changes in our lives, and that history has shown us that no amount of self-interest based fear messaging, institutional guilt tripping, threats from governments/religions or promises of bribes from governments/religions are going to get humans to change course and stop the environmental or genocidal destruction. He wisely states that we are not going to be forced into love.
Sometimes a sense of loss can reawaken an innate love within us and call us into service in the name of that love. When I think of the clearcut 1000 year old trees in the west that I used to spend time with as a child and tears start flowing down my face, I choose to re-direct and transmute that sense of loss and mourning into taking decisive action to appreciate and nurture that which I do still have in my life which I feel great love for.
If each of us chose to really engage with the place and/or being(s) we love most locally, giving our unique gifts as humans beings to cherish, protect and nurture those places and/or being(s), perhaps that outpouring of love would lead the lost ones by example, pouring over the edges of our community to begin to regenerate entire regions.
I will now share a section of the book i mentioned above that speaks to this:
https://charleseisenstein.org/books/climate-a-new-story/eng/in-a-rhino-everything/
"To respond to any is to respond to all. I imagine myself talking to a rhino in a cage. She asks me, “What were you doing with your life, while I was going extinct?” If I answer her, “I was working to save the coral reefs,” or “I was helping to stop the navy from using whale-deafening sonar,” or “I spent my life trying to free men from death row,” then she is satisfied, and so am I. We both know that, somehow, all of these endeavors are in service to the rhinos too. I can meet her gaze without shame.."
..We are free then to listen to what calls forth our passion, our care, and our gifts, whether the need that calls them seems large or small, consequential or invisible. Because each contains all, we can be peaceful in our fervor and patient in our urgency."
Thus, I am striving to give my passion, care and focus my gifts on what which calls my heart into action, and doing my best to trust that all the many other worthy causes in the world which also deserve attention, will be addressed by those who have been given gifts that are custom tailored by the Creator to be capable of initiating healing and regeneration in those areas.
I try to find balance by speaking truth, asking the hard quesitons and sharing facts on a range of subjects (so that those who still sleep can wake up, discover their gifts and put them to service in the interest of what calls their heart to action) while also using my hands to be of service in my own neck of the woods.
I appreciate you speaking from the heart and shining a light on the subject matter covered in your comment. In doing so, you invite the possibility of healing.
I will check out the John Liu video/project you linked and get back to you when I have more time.
Humans, in truth, know so little about the natural world we live in. How can anyone decide that it is not an issue to clear-cut forested mountain sides of BC or to deforest in South America and Canada (to name just two). How do we know what the results will be? After all, it was only "two decades ago, while researching her doctoral thesis, ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered that trees communicate their needs and send each other nutrients via a network of latticed fungi buried in the soil — in other words, she found, they “talk” to each other. " While, that is important, there is so much more to learn about trees. We have only begun to understand.
Perhaps i have this perspective bcuz i believe that we are only a small part of this planet and that if every human were gone from this planet the natural world would not only survive, it would thrive. It doesn't need humanity but humanity does need it. This is something i have always known. Just recently, i put that into words for the first time when i was asked if i consider myself an environmentalist and if i do, what the catalyst would have been. My response was there wasn't a catalyst. I always knew that all beings were created by God with Mother Earth and as such just by being, they deserve as much respect, kindness and compassion as any human. To me, those who see humans as superior beings with the right to do as they please with regards other life on the planet have not, yet taken off their blinders and therefore have yet to see the truth of the earth and the universe. This planet is not a human's playground and it is not "ours to do with as we wish" without natural consequences.
As an example of the perspective that speaks to the self-importance and superiority complex of some humans one has simply to look at one of Elizabeth Nickson's comments in which she says, "Like thousands in BC, Gavin, I own 20,000 trees, and more than two dozen old growth." This makes me wonder how someone owns a being that was here before she even took her first breath. Is that not arrogance? Just bcuz the being is not human doesn't give us the right to ownership. Stewardship? Yes! Ownership, no!
If we are to care about the future of this planet, should we not be developing a relationship with the trees (and in fact all beings) that is symbiotic where both parties involved benefit from the interaction rather than the parasitic relationship that is more often now engaged in where one party benefits while the other is harmed?
I believe that trees bring so much more to this world than most can even imagine. If one has ever been in a forest and has taken the time to be present, it would not be long before one would realize the impact trees have on us. They calm us and lift our spirits at the same time. How does a being that not only helps us to rebalance ourselves with their energy, but is greatly responsible for our ability to take our next breath, not deserve our respect, kindness and compassion? ❤
Thank you for speaking from the heart and with such vivid clarity.
The way you invite the reader to ask themselves questions, the way you see our fellow beings with humility and the anecdotes you share serve to illuminate the truth of these matters clearly.
Thank you for speaking the truth and doing so from a place of love.
This world is a more beautiful place because you are on her.
Interesting, Gavin. I thought about doing a post on Elizabeth Nickson based on her very pro-Israel writings. She had subbed me and I subbed her back, intrigued by her stance for local sovereignty. She posted a comment on one of my pedo-sadist episodes, asking what I thought about someone speaking out, who she thought was a fake. I bought her book, The Monkey-Puzzle Tree, about her mother being a victim of the CIA psychological torture program. It was well-written and horrifying.
It's curious that her Substack description says "A political shift similar to the Glorious Revolution is underway and I am here for it." A Reddit discussion asks, "Should the Glorious Revolution be seen more as a Dutch invasion or an English coup d’etat?"
I think this is the last one before I unsubbed: https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/obama-inc-is-running-out-of-brown [people to kill]. From her perspective, Oct 7th was planned by Obama, Inc, because "he hates Israel" and needs a war to win the next election: "a color revolution to take down Bibi, and break Israel’s legerdemain in science, business and near everything else. Swamp the country with guilt and brutalize its people." I don't think I need to editorialize that. This was on Oct 28.
Elizabeth begins by saying how she was raised with "a reverence for Jewish people because my father had been put in charge of a concentration camp – “a work camp, not a death camp”, he would say – after the war." When he would say, "I saw things ..." and trail off, Elizabeth inserts a photo of a pit filled with naked, emaciated dead bodies to show us what he 'probably' saw.
This is my comment, which no one responded to: "First, I can't put your book down, Elizabeth. I'm a little more than halfway through and it's such a well told story. Very compelling.
"Second, tell me more about your dad. My dad fought in WWII but he would have been over 100 now. I don't think your dad was lying when he called them work camps. Something happened that isn't what we've been told. I don't know what that was, but I know we haven't been told the truth.
"Speaking of which, third, there were no beheaded babies. This one of mine quotes Max Blumenthal debunking that: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/profiteering-and-propaganda-israelhamas and on the old ladies as hostages, my recent one has a link to the one released who talked about how nice they were to the hostages: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/authority-palestine-and-gabor-mate. The footage of kids in cages were Palestinians from 3 yrs ago, it's Israeli soldiers who are laughing at them. Vanessa Beeley has a lot of evidence on this.
"Fourth, Obama is a puppet of Israel. Operation Cast Lead, the 22 day assault killing 1400 Palestinians, happened just before he took office. He said he couldn't intervene because he wasn't yet President but that didn't stop him from bailing out the bankers. So Obama golfed while Gaza burned. And it ended on the day of his inauguration. Does that seem coincidental to you?"
This is all to say there's a consistency in Elizabeth's writing and I think you're tapping into it.
Hey Tereza!
Thanks for sharing those fascinating interactions you had with and writings of Elizabeth here.
The way that she swooped in to censor me on her page kind of reminded me of how the facebook thought police algorithms would swoop in and "fact check" (or flat out censor/remove) posts I shared that shone an unflattering light on the nefarious aspects of corporate propaganda and activities. I get the feeling that when she saw how Substack was becoming a platform where dissidents (of various things from covid/injection scams to global warming/CO-2 scams) could make an income via attracting subscribers she decided to play the role of a rebel (in as many ways as she was comfortable pretending to be one) and speak on hot topic issues from that place of an actor playing a custom tailored role to appease a specific audience in order to attract paying subscribers. Her behavior in censoring and cheering for various corrupt institutions and corporations that engage in pillaging and profiteering illuminates her true nature however. She seems like someone that enjoyed the inconvenient fact censoring and mob mentality propagating nature of the mainstream media institutions she used to roll with a little bit too much. I could be way off, but that is a vibe I get from her.
Frances Leader (who I think you have said you follow/subscribe to) has this to say about her: https://substack.com/@francesleader/note/c-45563731
I personally said all that I want to say about War at this point and time (whether it is the genocide of the week in the middle east or any other number of manufactured wars for profit/eugenics operations) in this post:
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/lest-we-forget-war-is-still-a-racket?
I appreciate you taking the time to comment and offer your two cents.
Please do! I starter to follow her after a blog I enjoyed then unfollowed her. Something is not right with her!
Gavin, we have a lot in common! My most favorite "Tree" book is, "The Hidden Life of Trees...What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben. I'll be looking at the one's you posted too.
Glad to hear it! For a really solid deep dive into the scientific nitty gritty details of what is going on in the hidden life of trees I suggest a book called The Rhizosphere: Biochemistry and Organic Substances at the Soil-Plant Interface.
Matt Power's "Regenerative Soil - The Science and Solutions" also offers some powerful insights into the hidden realms where the roots of ancient beings meet the Earth (and how those ancient beings connect and communicate with each other and myriad other beings that are part of their "microbiome).
Thanks for the comment.
Scratch a climate change denier and you will always encounter an apologist for Capitalism. All of them realize, consciously or not, that once one acknowledges climate destabilization it always points to its source in our world, the Capitalist mode of production which you ably describe in this essay.
"Scratch a climate change denier and you will always encounter an apologist for Capitalism."
That is an interesting supposition. I will say that I have observed that a solid chunk of those people who reject the conventional "climate change" (global warming caused mostly by CO-2 emissions) narrative are as you say 'apologists for Capitalism', but not all.
For instance, James Corbett overtly rejects the conventional climate change models https://www.corbettreport.com/climatequestions/ but I would hardly describe him as an apologist for capitalism. He describes himself as a proponent of Voluntaryism (which seems to be an ideological standpoint that is diametrically opposed to capitalism, if I am not mistaken).
Perhaps I am way off and you could show me how he is actually an "apologist for Capitalism" and if so, I would be intrigued to hear your argument for why you see that to be the case.
I will now relay a question to you that I asked of a prominent climate change activist and self described 'deep green' environmentalist recently in the hopes it can spark a productive discussion on this important topic:
What are your thoughts regarding the potential that some of the change in climate we can observe could be due to 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 anthropogenic climate changes (as in geoengineering or stratospheric aerosol injection programs)?
For more info on what I am talking about if you are unfamiliar: https://web.archive.org/web/20200921065139/https://www.beeheroic.com/geoengineering-and-environment
I realize that the publicly stated goals of SRM ("solar radiation management") programs involving stratospheric aerosol injection operations are to slow or reverse global warming but have you considered the potential that these types of operations could in fact be having the opposite effect?
Links to pertinent data and information:
- https://kenshohomestead.org/geoengineering-resources/
- https://ia802603.us.archive.org/1/items/WeatherAsAForceMultiplier/WeatherAsAForceMultiplier.pdf
- http://nuclearplanet.com/2173.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1gfMQcPQAks7c9Lb5_AAriVqZtCC4pa3A0OuX20KWqjVX5Olphh8EWNWY
- https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/docs/Svoboda_2011.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1iXxlldVyBuMIFAgtfCOAzYAGDhvYr4151CLHGpb2GMJBCvxinDuwNBg8
- http://www.weathermodification.com/index.php?fbclid=IwAR2ju5U0cxxZlFZLcS2Tc3Ye-eMN860QeBFfd_MeWgKGdiFFzOYJz8uePL0
- https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/htm/tests.html?fbclid=IwAR1-KrHJEIEldg7XsH2xS3YwYcbkC34QXobQVOG8wd2GIwGJQSE5bWE_cr0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK9nVR9H34g&fbclid=IwAR36NgGs7ReV0Y_uQbnfZBOwqWpiq9U6hUs3JlOLyHRoRmXdykfT-P3CaGg
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=--M4UXgcf_o&fbclid=IwAR0doOSzdfHHVrg6x5X1NKG19s9F3-R9yvy3lMbjHcsshVAOFoUh1xgE8yA
I do not dismiss the facts regarding the damage that pollution (generated by industrial activity) does to the biosphere (via unbalancing the carbon cycle among other things) but what I am hoping to ask you is have you considered the potential that weather modification operations are also playing a significant role in the equation?
Yes,please listen to this:
https://youtu.be/sZyVnrmcZSY
This person disappeared (or maybe was "disappeared") about 5 years ago.
His focus was on the effect that thousands of Wet Surface Air Cooled (WSAC) power plants had on weather patterns and were being used to inject millions of gallons of steam (and god knows how much heat!) into the atmosphere thus generating extreme precipitation events without which persistent drought would ensue and that this was being done at an industrial scale. globally. I could go on but please access the video and the many others he offered to detail this process.
He was attacked ruthlessly by many of the "stars of geoengineering 'conspiracy';"including Dale Wigington.
I had a bit of personal email correspondence with him (all I know was that his name was Jim and I think he lived somewhere in NYC and operated on a shoestring and was retired IT person, as am I) and he did mention he had health issues so he might have just expired "naturally". He was not young. His video skills were exemplary and I would been eager to see what he would have made of the COVID psy-op.
His loss is incalculable.
And I would say that James Corbett is an apologist for Capitalism from a sort of anarchist perspective and at the same time his many researches and exposes are of great value.
Best,
-stu
THANK YOU! I was looking for book recommendations. Trees are among my favorite subjects. I just got Rooted on Audible. Here's to you and your excellent taste !
You are most welcome.
You will also find a bunch of additional books that focus on trees (and a wide spectrum of other soul/mind/body enriching subjects) which I also recommend, listed in this post:
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/regenerative-resources-a-recommended
Thanks for the kind words and thanks for taking the time to comment.
Oh, I will be reading many of your recommendations! I love rooted. I listened for a n hour and a half last night while I did other work. I will be going to this other post today. Thanks, Gavin.