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Time out called.
After four years of negotiations and 12 years since the last biodiversity targets were agreed in Japan, governments appeared to have signed a once-in-a-decade deal to halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems after two weeks of intense negotiations at the UN biodiversity summit in Canada.
The potentially transformational agreement for nature could bring better protection for the planet’s vital ecosystems such as the Amazon and Congo basin rainforests, big reforms to agriculture, and better protection of indigenous territories and rights.But there were concerns that key issues had been overlooked and that objections from some African states were ignored.
Talks went into the night on Sunday in Montreal until finally nearly 200 countries – but not the US or the Vatican – signed an agreement to put humanity on a path to living in harmony with nature by the middle of the century.
Negotiators from Cameroon, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo expressed incredulity that the agreement had been put through. The DRC said it had formally objected to the agreement, but a UN lawyer said it had not. The negotiator from Cameroon called it “a fraud”, while Uganda said there had been a “coup d’état” against the Cop15.
My Fav Bees, Emerald Orchid Bees
Mississippi John Hurt Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor 1928
Family catching some vitamin D.
Augmented Reality is transforming the Arts
Ice ice baby.
View of the Matterhorn from Zermatt in Winter
Sea of clouds
♫ Try not to be a cunt ♫
Lawful.
Aliens on vacation.
Mary Smith, a “knocker-upper” who earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at windows to wake people for work (East London, 1930s) Check this blog!
Napoleon Sarony Walt Whitman, New York City 1878
“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body…” Walt Whitman, from the Preface to the 1855 edition of “Leaves of Grass”
Uncredited Photographer Tom Waits 1973
“The things you can’t remember tell the things you can forget, that history puts a saint in every dream.” Tom Waits, “Time” 1985
A failure to communicate.
Enchanted Forest Queensland, Australia Photograph: Kevin De Vree
The raised eyebrow at the end is a nice touch.
“Recently, a friend of mine told me that she felt guilty that she hadn’t accomplished more during the last year of the pandemic. Now, I’ve heard that a few times. And I have a feeling we’re gonna be hearing that more and more.”
The Amber Ruffin Show (May 21, 2021)
"This is my brother Darryl, and my other brother Darryl."