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Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved


Indulge me for the coming delusion, but if we ignore who this is, forget all the reasons we know that we can't trust him, and allow ourselves just a few moments to hope that we could live in such a world.

A world where manual labor is no longer needed, where people can just exist as large mammals are meant to exist. Robots will handle it all and we can just do as we please... and the robots are going to be plentiful because once enough of the process of making a robot becomes automated, the cost of it will go to zero. But to get there it is going to require a ton of money... these robots are going to be way too expensive for people to actually buy them, so investors and governments will help out. The investors will eventually lose everything, but that will put us on the way to having everything we need to be created through completely automated systems.

Of course, there will still be jobs for those who really want them - or more likely, who want them and are good at them - or even more likely, who knows the right people... but if we can get our basic needs taken care of it night not fully end poverty but it would be a step in the right direction.

But, alas... It's Musk saying it so it's only to further enrich himself and won't actually happen.




in reply to silence7

Weird they would go through with spending a billion on this after banning "fossil fuel equipment" in all new construction recently. I wonder if the old pipelines were in bad shape or something?
in reply to James R Kirk

No, its about being unwilling to build electric transmission to bring wind and solar power into NYC. This would avoid the need for gas-burning power plants to handle increased peak electric use as home heating shifts to heat pumps

Part of the plan was also offshore wind near NYC, but Trump blocked that for now

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in reply to Symphonic

I take cold showers, so I am doing everything in my power to get in and out in 2 minutes or less. I would absolutely not add teeth brushing to my routine in there.







They Will Put Us All Out of Business!" Ford CEO Issues Bankruptcy Warning. Chinese EV makers are dominating global markets.


Ford’s CEO has issued a shocking bankruptcy warning, admitting that new EV competition could put legacy automakers out of business! With Chinese EV makers, Tesla, and BYD dominating global markets, traditional car companies like Ford are struggling to keep up with rapid electric vehicle innovation and falling prices. This video breaks down how the EV revolution, battery tech, and production costs are reshaping the future of the automotive industry.


What's a rule that you follow that has improved your personal life?


I've designated one room in my house to be an Airplane Mode room. Technically it has WiFi but whenever I'm in it I behave as if my phone didn't have any reception. Believe it or not, actively pretending that your phone has no WiFi works better than just passively putting on airplane mode. I always get a sense of calmness when I enter.

What artificial limits do you impose on yourself that ultimately enrich your life?

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in reply to Oaksey

One unlimited day. I already don’t drink most nights and I rarely ever use the unlimited day.


The extension to hide Trump and Musk's faces is live!


This extension replaces images of Trump and Musk with a placeholder. Soon I will add a configuration screen to it so you can put in any names you like. [url=https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uglymug/]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

This extension replaces images of Trump and Musk with a placeholder.

Soon I will add a configuration screen to it so you can put in any names you like.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…


in reply to silence7

Just keep in mind these kinds of investments nearly always underperform the market. So it'll be a hit to your portfolio. It's up to you if you're willing to make that tradee off.
in reply to Steve

Are you talking about sustainable/ethical investments? Because that's straight up incorrect, on average sustainable funds (often called ESG for "ethical, social, governance") outperform the market. Commonwealth bank, one of Australia's big four banks would not be making this move to end loans to the fossil fuel industry if it was genuinely going to impact their bottom line.
in reply to Mitchie151

Their bottom line might improve with the publicity they get for cutting off the fossil fuel companies. We don't even know how much they got from those anyway. They might not be giving up much.

And ESGs can outperform in some years. But over the long term (10+ years), and with the increased management fees, they don't.

in reply to Steve

The vanguard ESGV fund is, I think, similar to a total-market index fund but with fossil fuels removed, and it only has a very slight increase in management fees compared to their standard index funds (I think it's expense ratio is 0.09).

However, like many index funds, it's invested heavily into Nvidia, Google, Meta, Amazon, Tesla, Microsoft, Apple, etc. So a lot of that investment money isn't going to ethical companies, and if the AI bubble pops, those funds will be hit fairly hard (along with the whole market).

in reply to silence7

A relevant post by me:
How much of your money is invested in evil corporations? Some advice for ethical investing
feddit.uk/post/24222258
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New York State Approves Trump-Backed Gas Pipeline


in reply to silence7

ring ring

"Hello?... Sure .. Hey NY! It's 1965! They want their gas infrastructure back!"




Free State Project Launches New Website


[strong]Launching a New Era for the Free State Project[/strong] As torches of liberty dim all around us, our flame in New Hampshire grows brighter every election cycle. With so many losing hope for liberty in their states on November 4th, November 5th

Launching a New Era for the Free State Project

As torches of liberty dim all around us, our flame in New Hampshire grows brighter every election cycle.

With so many losing hope for liberty in their states on November 4th, November 5th was the perfect time to launch our new website (details below) and welcome video — inviting liberty seekers to come home and join us in the birthplace of American liberty.

Watch our newly launched Free State Project promotion video — introducing new people to a better way to build liberty.

Thank you to our FSP Video Strategist, Reinita Susman, for producing this new video — utilizing footage and interviews from her upcoming documentary on the Free State Project.

Free State Project Website FSP.org



Free State Project Launches Launches New Website


[strong]Launching a New Era for the Free State Project[/strong] As torches of liberty dim all around us, our flame in New Hampshire grows brighter every election cycle. With so many losing hope for liberty in their states on November 4th, November 5th

Launching a New Era for the Free State Project

As torches of liberty dim all around us, our flame in New Hampshire grows brighter every election cycle.

With so many losing hope for liberty in their states on November 4th, November 5th was the perfect time to launch our new website (details below) and welcome video — inviting liberty seekers to come home and join us in the birthplace of American liberty.

Watch our newly launched Free State Project promotion video — introducing new people to a better way to build liberty.

Thank you to our FSP Video Strategist, Reinita Susman, for producing this new video — utilizing footage and interviews from her upcoming documentary on the Free State Project.

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Free State Project Website FSP.org




in reply to silence7

I've always said, energy independence is a winning strategy. It's a national security win, a finance win for the citizens and for the renewable energy companies, but because fossil capitalism is so entrenched in our dumb society it never goes anywhere.

Here are the people responsible for fucking over the climate



New Hampshire's Free State Project Launches New Website


[strong]Launching a New Era for the Free State Project[/strong] As torches of liberty dim all around us, our flame in New Hampshire grows brighter every election cycle. With so many losing hope for liberty in their states on November 4th, November 5th

Launching a New Era for the Free State Project

As torches of liberty dim all around us, our flame in New Hampshire grows brighter every election cycle.

With so many losing hope for liberty in their states on November 4th, November 5th was the perfect time to launch our new website (details below) and welcome video — inviting liberty seekers to come home and join us in the birthplace of American liberty.

Watch our newly launched Free State Project promotion video — introducing new people to a better way to build liberty.

Thank you to our FSP Video Strategist, Reinita Susman, for producing this new video — utilizing footage and interviews from her upcoming documentary on the Free State Project.

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Free State Project Website FSP.org






The whitehouse website in 2025


This is not a shitpost, it is live on .gov. [url=www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/]www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/[/url]

This is not a shitpost, it is live on .gov.

www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/



The Simulation Is Collapsing


This runs roughly 100% too long and really could have benefited from an editor (yeah, we got those early points the first time and didn't need to be reminded), but the points are largely sound.

Tuesday, Republicans got crushed in elections across New Jersey, Virginia, and New York. Not close races. Not razor-thin margins. Massive defeats in states they’d convinced themselves were winnable after Trump’s 2024 victory.

Bret Baier—on Fox News, to Fox & Friends—had to explain to his audience how bad it was. “It’s a big loss,” he said. Not just the results, but “the spreads are surprising.” Young women “overwhelmingly” supported Democrats based on the economy and “those ICE images.” Based on how they “feel about the economy” versus “how Wall Street’s doing.”

Trump posted cryptically: “AND SO IT BEGINS.”

He’s right. Something has begun. Just not what he thinks.

The simulation is collapsing.

Not literal Matrix-style unreality. Something more precise and insidious: the manufactured consensus that authoritarianism was inevitable, that resistance was futile, that most people had become—or would become—what the sociopaths are.



It was a very good election for the climate


Tuesday was a great day at the ballot box for the planet, with climate-friendly initiatives and candidates winning nationwide.

In races from New York to Georgia to Washington, voters backed funding renewables, reining in energy costs, and building out mass transit — and the people promising to deliver those policies. On the whole, the results suggest Americans are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s efforts to roll back climate action.

“This election was a decisive rejection of the Trump Administration’s ban on clean energy, multi-million dollar taxpayer bailouts for expensive dirtier energy sources like coal, and other ineffective proposals that will make costs go even higher,” Sara Schreiber of the League of Conservation Voters said in a statement.



Zohran Won Main Street—Now He Must Face Wall Street


Mamdani, just like Johnson, and other popular leftist mayoral candidates like Katie Wilson in Seattle, will all face a common threat: debt from Wall Street and the strings that come with it. This structural challenge, addressed head on by campaigns like #CancelWallStreet, could prove to be even more difficult than winning an unthinkable race.

Take this example: the New York City public school district is in massive debt because of neoliberal policies from previous administrations. The district isn’t properly funded, and thus must rely on loans from creditors to make up for gaps. Mayor-Elect Mamdani is inheriting this situation — he didn’t create it. To put it bluntly, the debt service payments owed to Wall Street is a form of racialized extraction. Money that should be spent on New York City schools, students, and teachers is instead sent to Wall Street lenders and creditors. Creditors and credit ratings agencies will apply pressure on Mamdani to “reign in costs” and be “fiscally responsible” by making austerity-based cuts or being conservative with school funding at a time of broad right-wing attacks on education.

What we must do now is help Mamdani in his fight to generate more revenue for New York City schools and against the forces that will call for brutal austerity. It would be wise for him to work alongside a debtor’s movement powerful enough to challenge Wall Street directly, to demand that it loosen its grip on our cities, our public institutions, and our collective future. In fact, this is an opportunity for all mayors exhausted with the false choices Wall Street has “provided” to us to join forces in illuminating the capitalist grip on our cities — especially in advance of centrist and right-wing attacks against progressive policy agendas.



Space dust reveals Arctic ice conditions before satellite imaging


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Comprehensive Summary: Space Dust Reveals Arctic Ice Conditions Before Satellite Imaging

Core Discovery


University of Washington researchers have developed an innovative method to reconstruct Arctic sea ice coverage spanning 30,000 years by tracking cosmic dust accumulation in ocean sediments. This technique provides crucial historical data predating satellite monitoring, which only began in 1979.

The Problem


Arctic sea ice has declined by more than 42% since 1979, creating an accelerating feedback loop: as ice melts, dark water absorbs more sunlight than reflective ice, causing further warming and additional ice loss. Climate models predict ice-free Arctic summers within coming decades, but scientists lack comprehensive historical context to understand the full implications for Earth's ecosystems.

The Method


Cosmic Dust as a Proxy:
- Fine-grained dust from exploded stars and colliding comets continuously falls to Earth at a constant rate
- As this dust passes the sun, it becomes implanted with helium-3, a rare isotope that distinguishes cosmic particles from terrestrial sediments
- Sea ice physically blocks cosmic dust from reaching the seafloor
- Open water allows cosmic dust to settle into ocean sediments
- By measuring helium-3 levels in sediment cores, researchers can determine when and where ice coverage existed

Research Design:
The team analyzed sediment cores from three strategically selected Arctic sites representing different ice coverage patterns:
1. Near the North Pole (year-round ice coverage)
2. At the September ice edge (seasonal ice boundary)
3. A location that was ice-covered in 1980 but is now seasonally ice-free

Key Findings


Historical Ice Patterns:
- During the last ice age (~20,000 years ago), Arctic sediments contained almost no cosmic dust, indicating extensive ice coverage
- As Earth began warming, cosmic dust reappeared in samples, tracking ice retreat
- The 30,000-year reconstruction reveals long-term patterns of ice advance and retreat

Nutrient Cycling Connection:
- Ice coverage directly correlates with nutrient availability and consumption
- Nutrient consumption peaked when sea ice was low
- Nutrient usage decreased as ice built up
- This data came from analyzing shells of foraminifera (nitrogen-digesting microorganisms), which reveal what percentage of available nutrients were consumed during their lifetimes

Future Implications


Projected Changes:
- As Arctic ice continues declining, researchers expect increased nutrient consumption by phytoplankton
- This will have cascading effects throughout the Arctic food web

Competing Hypotheses:
Two theories explain changing nutrient patterns:
1. Increased productivity hypothesis: Less ice allows more photosynthesis, increasing nutrient consumption by surface organisms
2. Dilution hypothesis: Melting ice dilutes nutrients, but organisms consume a higher percentage of the reduced total

Both scenarios show increased consumption, but only the first indicates genuine increases in marine productivity. Additional research is needed to determine which mechanism dominates.

Broader Significance


Lead researcher Frankie Pavia (UW Assistant Professor of Oceanography) emphasizes that projecting future ice decline timing and spatial patterns will help scientists:
- Understand warming mechanisms
- Predict changes to food webs and fishing industries
- Prepare for geopolitical shifts in the Arctic region

Research Details


Lead Institution: University of Washington
Lead Author: Frankie Pavia
Co-authors: Jesse R. Farmer (UMass Boston), Laura Gemery and Thomas M. Cronin (U.S. Geological Survey), Jonathan Treffkorn and Kenneth A. Farley (Caltech)
Funding: National Science Foundation and Foster and Coco Stanback Postdoctoral Fellowship
Publication: Science, November 6, 2025

Methodological Innovation


The study demonstrates how seemingly paradoxical evidence—the absence of cosmic dust—can provide powerful insights. Pavia noted that while searching for trace amounts of cosmic dust is "like looking for a needle in a haystack," the complete absence during ice ages provides clear evidence of extensive ice coverage blocking dust accumulation.

This technique opens new possibilities for understanding not just recent climate change, but how ice coverage has varied over tens of thousands of years, providing essential context for predicting future Arctic conditions and their global consequences.





GNOME 50 Ends the X11 Era After Decades


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Although Wayland has been GNOME’s default session since 2016, X11 has continued to linger in the codebase—until now. That changed with the recent merging of two PRs (here and here), which completely removed the X11 codebase from both Mutter, GNOME’s default window manager and compositor, as well as the GNOME Shell itself.

In other words, the GNOME project is finally closing one of the longest chapters in Linux desktop history. With the upcoming GNOME 50 release, scheduled for mid-march 2026, the desktop environment will officially drop support for the native X11 session, making Wayland the sole display system moving forward.




how did COP30 go?


how do you even follow the actual broadcasts and read the actual protocol? i only pick up bits and pieces online.

anyone who has followed and wants to share the proceedings and conclusions?

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in reply to zd9

When I search google for obscure information, I usually get three kinds of answers: commercial slop, social media posts that people answered with a lot of effort, and social media posts that say "just google it" or some equivalent.

My praises go out to everyone over the past decades that has answered "easily answerable questions" on social media, thanks to who we have an easily accessible corpus of answers to simple but obscure questions.

Besides, in this case they're clearly hoping someone followed it closely enough to do a solarpunkish editorialization rather than the dense material these summits produce themselves.

in reply to Tiresia

Just ask Grok

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jk

edit: also they didn't specify they wanted an editorialization or anything, as I said in my response

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in reply to silence7

We will have to lead the way. We already are our own country.
in reply to silence7

California still has clear memories of smog days where it was not safe to walk outside.

in reply to silence7

I was one of the few Angelenos in a crowded public venue who didn't cheer when news broke of their victory. People are just comfortable to feel a simple hometown pride than take a stand against unethical behavior. Maybe they're ignorant of their offenses or are taking a blind eye. Regardless, it's discouraging to see this go on after seeing the team condone so many awful things over the years.


Biocentrismo e crisi ambientale: In difesa della natura selvaggia di Marco Sioli

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​In difesa della natura selvaggia di Marco Sioli è un saggio fondamentale e urgente, che traccia la storia del concetto di wilderness americana per riflettere sulla crisi ecologica contemporanea.​ Il libro analizza la nascita dell’ambientalismo attraverso figure chiave come John Muir, Aldo Leopold e Henry David Thoreau, mostrando il conflitto tra protezionismo biocentrico (la natura ha valore intrinseco) e antropocentrismo (la natura come risorsa).

L’evoluzione di un’idea selvaggia

L’etimologia del conflitto: dal deserto sacro alla minaccia


In difesa della natura selvaggia di Marco Sioli (Elèuthera) non è una semplice ricostruzione storica, ma un viaggio attraverso l’evoluzione della Wilderness: da spazio geografico a campo di battaglia culturale e politico. La tesi del libro è netta: la “natura selvaggia” non è una realtà fissa, ma un’idea in continuo mutamento, una costruzione culturale che ogni epoca ha interpretato secondo le proprie paure e le proprie visioni del mondo.

In origine, wilderness evocava il deserto sacro, un luogo ostile e caotico, spesso associato al male, all’ordine “selvaggio” da domare. L’antropocentrismo ne fece un territorio da conquistare, più che da comprendere. A dominare era la paura del non controllato.

Con il trascendentalismo questa percezione si ribalta. In Henry David Thoreau la wilderness diventa un santuario morale, la fonte di una verità più profonda. John Muir, padre del protezionismo americano, porta questa intuizione alle estreme conseguenze, affermando il valore intrinseco degli ecosistemi. Celebre la sua frase:

“Migliaia di persone stanche, nervose e troppo civilizzate stanno cominciando a scoprire che andare sui monti è tornare a casa… la natura selvaggia è una necessità.”


Oggi, nella crisi ecologica globale, la wilderness non è più percepita come minaccia, ma come ciò che rischia di scomparire sotto la pressione del capitalismo estrattivo. Sioli utilizza questa evoluzione semantica per mostrare come la wilderness sia un campo di tensione: tra chi la vede come comunità vivente e chi come deposito di risorse.

Le colonne dell’ambientalismo americano


Il saggio ruota attorno a quattro figure monumentali che hanno fondato l’ambientalismo statunitense, integrando filosofia, politica e paesaggio.

Henry David Thoreau è la radice filosofica. L’esperienza di Walden e la vita semplice diventano un esercizio morale: “in wildness is the preservation of the world”. La wilderness è soprattutto un luogo interiore.

Frederick Law Olmsted, celebre per Central Park, introduce la dimensione sociale: la natura come bene comune. Per lui, gli spazi verdi devono essere accessibili a tutti e svolgere una funzione democratica. Nel suo rapporto su Yosemite (1865) denuncia il rischio della privatizzazione e difende l’integrità degli ecosistemi come condizione per la salute collettiva.

John Muir, fondatore del Sierra Club, è la voce spirituale e radicale del protezionismo. Difende Yosemite e le aree selvagge non in nome dell’utilità, ma perché esistono. Un biocentrismo netto, che vede gli ecosistemi come comunità interdipendenti dotate di pari dignità.

Aldo Leopold, con A Sand County Almanac, porta questo pensiero a maturazione etica. La sua Land Ethic estende la nozione di comunità includendo suoli, acque, piante e animali. Non più uomo contro natura, ma uomo dentro la natura. È il ponte tra protezionismo e ecologia moderna.

Queste quattro visioni, pur diverse, costruiscono l’ossatura dell’ambientalismo contemporaneo.

Olmsted e il diritto al godimento popolare


Olmsted porta nella storia dell’ambientalismo un’idea rivoluzionaria: la natura come diritto sociale. Central Park non è un’opera estetica, ma un progetto politico. In una società industriale sempre più alienata, gli spazi verdi diventano luoghi di cura, uguaglianza, riequilibrio.

Nel suo rapporto su Yosemite, Olmsted non difende solo la bellezza del paesaggio, ma il suo ruolo ecologico: la tutela delle sorgenti, delle foreste, dei corsi d’acqua. Comprende che il paesaggio naturale è una struttura fragile e interdipendente. La sua visione anticipa l’idea della wilderness come bene comune: non un lusso, ma una forma di giustizia.

L’Orso e l’etica della coesistenza in Italia


La controversia italiana sugli orsi è la prova più immediata della distanza tra la visione biocentrica di Muir e Leopold e l’antropocentrismo politico attuale. Muir vedeva negli orsi creature da trattare con rispetto, “giardinieri” dei boschi; ricordava che l’uomo è spesso “il loro più grande nemico”.

Oggi, invece, la risposta istituzionale a incidenti con la fauna selvatica consiste spesso nell’abbattimento dell’animale, come se l’istinto naturale fosse un crimine. Si punisce la natura quando non si conforma alle regole umane. È il contrario della Land Ethic, che vede nell’interdipendenza il fondamento della convivenza.

Il problema non è la sicurezza, ma l’educazione ambientale. Senza consapevolezza dei diritti degli animali e dei limiti umani, la coesistenza è impossibile. Ci muoviamo nei boschi come se fossero parchi giochi, ignorando le responsabilità che comporta entrare nel territorio dell’altro. La politica, invece di educare, usa la paura come leva propagandistica.

La wilderness come specchio della crisi globale

Dalla foresta alla città: la wilderness interiore


Se i grandi parchi americani sono lontani o compromessi, la domanda è: dove si colloca oggi la wilderness? Sioli risponde seguendo Leopold: nella capacità di costruire una wilderness interiore e politica.

La Land Ethic diventa il ponte tra natura incontaminata e città. Significa estendere il concetto di comunità anche a suoli, acqua, animali urbani, micro-ecosistemi. Non proteggere per lasciare intatto, ma agire in armonia con ciò che resta.

La sfida è creare spazi di coesistenza: micro-riserve, corridoi ecologici, giardini “selvatici”, margini periurbani rinaturalizzati. Non potendo più andare nel bosco di Thoreau, dobbiamo portare il bosco nelle scelte quotidiane.

Dalle osservazioni di Olmsted alle alluvioni climatiche


La fragilità idrica di oggi ha radici antiche. Olmsted denunciava già nel XIX secolo come il disboscamento compromettesse le sorgenti e destabilizzasse i fiumi. Muir e Leopold parlavano dell’acqua come membro della comunità ecologica, non come semplice risorsa.

Oggi queste intuizioni risuonano nelle alluvioni italiane: consumo di suolo, cementificazione, canali artificiali, ignoranza delle dinamiche naturali. La crisi climatica amplifica problemi creati da decenni di gestione predatoria.

La difesa della wilderness, nel XXI secolo, è anche lotta per la rinaturalizzazione dei fiumi: restituire spazio all’acqua significa restituire equilibrio alle comunità che la abitano.

La Wilderness oggi in Italia: dove siamo davvero


1. Parchi nazionali sotto pressione
L’Italia ha zone di pregio straordinario (Gran Paradiso, Abruzzo-Lazio-Molise, Foreste Casentinesi), ma la pressione antropica è altissima: strade, seconde case, turismo intensivo, frammentazione degli habitat. La wilderness esiste, ma è spesso circondata o invasa.
2. Il caso degli orsi: la coesistenza mancata
Le tensioni sugli orsi trentini rivelano un problema culturale prima che gestionale: non conosciamo più gli animali che abitano i nostri territori. Educazione ecologica quasi assente, politica oscillante tra allarme e propaganda.
3. I fiumi canalizzati e la crisi idrica
Molti corsi d’acqua italiani sono stati rettificati, arginati o trasformati in canali. Questa perdita di naturalità aumenta il rischio di alluvioni e riduce la biodiversità. La “wilderness fluviale” è quasi scomparsa, ma progetti di rinaturazione (come sul Po o sul Tagliamento) mostrano una strada possibile.
4. Le micro-wilderness periurbane
Dove il paesaggio selvaggio è rarefatto, nascono isole di naturalità spontanea: ex cave, zone umide residuali, boschi periurbani, margini agricoli abbandonati. Non sono luoghi “puri”, ma possono diventare laboratori di Land Ethic applicata.
5. Il consumo di suolo: la minaccia invisibile
L’Italia perde ogni giorno nuovi ettari sotto asfalto e cemento. È la forma più silenziosa di distruzione della natura: non fa notizia, ma erode habitat, corridoi ecologici e possibilità future di protezione.

Ambientalismo radicale


Sioli affronta anche la risposta più estrema alla distruzione degli ecosistemi: l’eco-anarchismo di Edward Abbey e il movimento Earth First!. Se Muir difendeva la wilderness attraverso il valore intrinseco, questi gruppi trasformano quell’etica in azione diretta contro l’estrattivismo globale.

Le guerre, l’industrializzazione e gli esperimenti nucleari sono per Sioli i veri motori della devastazione. Abbey, con The Monkey Wrench Gang, propone il sabotaggio come forma di resistenza. Earth First! radicalizza: sette punti di eco-anarchismo che considerano la Terra un soggetto dotato di diritti inviolabili.

È la reazione disperata a un sistema che tratta la natura come un deposito infinito.

L’impegno “senza riserve”

Dal trascendentalismo all’azione


Il percorso tracciato da Sioli è un invito all’impegno. Dalla contemplazione di Thoreau al militante protezionismo di Muir, fino all’etica ecologica di Leopold, l’evoluzione dell’ambientalismo mostra che la filosofia non basta più: deve tradursi in prassi politica.

Se la Land Ethic non diventa azione, se l’interdipendenza resta teoria, l’etica si svuota. Come ricorda Sioli, citando Abbey: una filosofia che non agisce è “la rovina dell’anima”.

Perché leggere Sioli oggi


In difesa della natura selvaggia è un saggio essenziale per comprendere la crisi ecologica contemporanea. Offre gli strumenti per leggere fenomeni attuali — dagli orsi alle alluvioni — attraverso un’etica che supera l’antropocentrismo.

Sioli costruisce un ponte tra Yosemite e le nostre città: mostra che la wilderness non è un altrove, ma una condizione del nostro stesso essere.
Leggerlo significa ritrovare le radici profonde di un impegno senza riserve.

Difendere la natura non è proteggere un luogo lontano: è proteggere quello che siamo.


#ambientalismo #Biocentrismo #crisiClimatica #eleuthera #LandEthic #Wilderness

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Dutch Ready to Drop Nexperia Control If Chip Supply Resumes


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