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An ecosystems services approach for governance of the ecosphere does seem somewhat reductionist missing out on conservation of wilderness values. Erosion of wilderness brings irrecoverable damage to the ecosphere. It… Read more

Stocking shelves of poems with thoughtsalads of furieslevely nomedwith metaphors boughtassuring unknownwrangled misty cereal aislesone crunch miffs another one’s style Ice cream sailing ship root beer floatsinflated bread of yeasty… Read more

My course on ecosystem services leads to some interesting urls , for instance, integrated farming of livestock and fish. https://www.coursera.org/learn/ecosystem-services/home/welcome https://www.fao.org/3/AC155E/AC155E04.htm https://thefishsite.com/articles/shrimp-and-salmon-farmers-are-set-for-a-year-of-profits-and-plenty https://www.worldwildlife.org/industries/farmed-shrimp a comparison of India and Equador’s farmed… Read more

Why be primitive or last place in trying to map the ecosystem services of the state or nation one lives in? Alaska could probably have the entire state’s ecosystem services… Read more

I played black in this game. https://lichess.org/lfJ7gNll/black [Event “Rated Blitz game”][Site “https://lichess.org/lfJ7gNll”%5D%5BDate “2023.01.31”][White “BibhutiKagyung”][Black “Tempofswoop”][Result “0-1”][UTCDate “2023.01.31”][UTCTime “20:01:48”][WhiteElo “1463”][BlackElo “1451”][WhiteRatingDiff “-6”][BlackRatingDiff “+6”][Variant “Standard”][TimeControl “180+0”][ECO “B01”][Opening “Scandinavian Defense”][Termination “Normal”][Annotator “lichess.org”] Read more

Plainly monetizing and commodifying ecosystem services with neo-liberal market criteria should be used as an advisory evaluation for government planners rather than as fungible things-for-themselves. In a way money itself-… Read more

Ecosystem services are a way to evaluate (find value) of natural ecosystem services like providing air to breathe, clean water, etc. In the course I am taking on line one… Read more

Police reform in the U.S.A. is a hot topic for Democrats and particulary blacks. Federal reforms tend to be universal fixes that break a lot of eggs to make minority… Read more

This is something of a placeholder for more on the topic later. The subject was occasioned by my online encounter with a wikipedia article on the relation between science and… Read more

Capitalism needs to be reformed with the global ecosphere becoming an element. Ecosystem services that find a value for environmental services have the problem of being too local and lacking… Read more