tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post8532130663281949886..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: The Last GaspGail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-68303427081945436352014-06-10T16:42:26.637-04:002014-06-10T16:42:26.637-04:00https://autos.yahoo.com/news/tree-crushes-million-...https://autos.yahoo.com/news/tree-crushes-million-dollar-toyota-2000-gt-170015625.html<br /><br />Tree Crushes Million-Dollar Toyota 2000 GT<br /><br />If a tree falls in the forest—and hits a Toyota 2000 GT—you can bet you'll hear the owner make a sound.<br /><br />In a freak accident, a rotting tree fell on one of these million-dollar sports cars, the NHK (via Car and Driver) reports. While the accident in the Gokayama area of Nanto in Japan's Toyama prefecture left the car crushed beyond recognition, the driver reportedly escaped with only scrapes and bruises.<br /><br />Estimated to be 6.2 feet wide at its thickest point, the tree destroyed one of the most valuable Japanese cars in existence. Just 351 copies of the 2000 GT were reportedly built, between 1967 and 1970. One sold last year at auction for $1.15 million.<br /><br />http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2014/06/tree-killing-beetles-attacking.html<br /><br />Tree-killing beetles attacking California's forests – ‘We have no known treatment. We have no capacity to fend it off.’<br /><br /><br />California is already plagued by a crippling drought and wildfires. <br /><br /><br />Now you can add a legion of seemingly unstoppable beetles to the list of threats facing the region's forests.<br /><br />They've already invaded hundreds of tree species, and they are showing no signs of slowing down.<br /><br /><br />Tom<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-43334484925714662532014-06-04T21:55:23.829-04:002014-06-04T21:55:23.829-04:00Good to hear from you Catman!Good to hear from you Catman!Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-63084789391210428812014-06-04T13:33:55.027-04:002014-06-04T13:33:55.027-04:00Send me an email if you can. ~Survival Acres~Send me an email if you can. ~Survival Acres~Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-36061068647735179432014-06-04T09:20:37.172-04:002014-06-04T09:20:37.172-04:00Oh no! Did the fossil fuel tyrants and the Billi...Oh no! Did the fossil fuel tyrants and the Billionaires delete the entire biosphere? It's always been a great resource for me and my fellow humans, an amazing eye-opener. Thanks Nature, for all the countless aeons devoted to creating it. Nature will come up with a new plan, but I doubt it will include us or much of what we see around us (unless Earth goes Venus without a plan).<br />You said it all: (to paraphrase) If it moves, people will eat it, if it burns people will burn it for fuel. <br />My only question is whether at 67 years old, will I live to see the end? I hope not.catman306https://www.blogger.com/profile/04670081770711560337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-17609924837670734302014-06-01T14:06:15.925-04:002014-06-01T14:06:15.925-04:00Oh no! Did you delete the entire archive, so it&#...Oh no! Did you delete the entire archive, so it's all gone forever?? It was such a great resource for me, an amazing eye-opener. Thank you for all the countless hours you must have devoted to writing it.Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-82711661443626272022014-06-01T13:22:28.017-04:002014-06-01T13:22:28.017-04:00There is a Facebook page, but I personally never r...There is a Facebook page, but I personally never read it or post there, I let someone else handle that. It's just a page for promotion and any site announcements. I deleted the blog today, so that is now gone.<br /><br />"Normal" isn't being well adjusted (comfortable) with a terribly sick society. It's being outraged at the sheer stupidity, arrogance and indifference to what is happening to the world that we're supposed to be sharing with other lifeforms. Nobody gave humans "license" to act irrationally and irresponsibly.<br /><br />The real-normal of the (very) few is now being punished, the societal "price" of having a conscience and speaking the truth. This is why you will be attacked and denigrated - whenever anyone speaks the whole truth, it's a threat to their (false) paradigm and their sphere of control at every level.<br /><br />The real world isn't online and never was. I think Americans need to remember that. The placebo effect of the Net isn't changing anything and never will. It's not activism - it's delusion. There will be those who will continue to self-promote online, but they're as phony as the plastic toys they drive around in.<br /><br />~Survival Acres~Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-19642503568608818052014-05-31T17:12:34.173-04:002014-05-31T17:12:34.173-04:00Wise words Admin, thanks. I need to get of the ne...Wise words Admin, thanks. I need to get of the net more! I'm sure you're not on Facebook. It's like a giant sandbox with a bunch of 2 year olds throwing sand and feces at each other - what a horrifying microcosm of the world! However, I have actually met some "normal" people who are about as clued in as you to the propaganda and the inevitability of collapse - actually met in person! - so that's pretty cool in these days of pre-traumatic stress syndrome.<br /><br />Sorry to hear about your trees. It is breaking my heart - happening faster and faster - and very few birds here compared to last year. That is making me quite miserable.Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-19330580582326740782014-05-31T16:30:55.988-04:002014-05-31T16:30:55.988-04:00Thanks for another great post.
Humans aren't...Thanks for another great post. <br /><br />Humans aren't getting any better at taking care of the environment - as the evidence shows, worldwide. So is there any hope? No.<br /><br />Why? Because despite growing awareness of environmental depletion, destruction and collapse, we continue as before. Nothing has changed. Nothing can change (despite claims to the contrary - civilization is designed to deplete as fast as possible. Remove civilization and maybe there would be a chance for survival).<br /><br />Some trees are dying here (pine forest). I've never determined why. It's not bark beetles (in this case). The trees turn "rust" colored on their pine needles in just a few days. Once that happens, they should be cut down as they never recover. Normal healthy trees can suddenly die like this almost immediately (just a few days). I've been puzzled for a long time why. Most of them are Grand Fir trees.<br /><br />Regarding online "disputes". I find the Internet to be a near-waste of time. Virtually all sites and blogs and comments are now highly censored, making them virtually useless for real information or how people actually feel about any particular issue. The material being published is pure crap and near-useless. You've got to wade through 100 sites to find even 1 worth reading.<br /><br />I've noticed that this trend has worsened in recent months too. The "news" being reported is totally canned disinformation propaganda - terribly distorted and designed to appeal to a twelve-year old with raging hormones. Comments that do not fit the prescribed approval process are simply scrubbed from the Net, leaving readers with a totally false impression of "support" and "disagreement" that you would normally find in a fair world.<br /><br />The Net has become an incredibly successful propaganda tool. And that should <b><i>never</i></b> be forgotten. It's a "tool", spewing tons and tons of propaganda that would make George Orwell turn in his grave. It's morphed into the primary mouthpiece of disinformation and disinformation, exceeding even television.<br /><br />So whatever crap is being posted somewhere online - it's not even remotely relevant to day-to-day living and real life. Netizens fail to realize that life <b><i>resumes</i></b> only when you're offline - not online.<br /><br />~Survival Acres~Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-24037348402974747612014-05-30T09:08:57.834-04:002014-05-30T09:08:57.834-04:00I stopped visiting Orlov's site after he revea...I stopped visiting Orlov's site after he revealed how petty he is - anyone who disagrees with him is criticized and censored. I similarly gave up on Archdruid Greer (long ago), Fractal Planet's Scott Johnson (more recently), and others. There are too many truthful and scientific sites to visit to waste one's time caring about these people's opinions.<br /><br />As far as the 1% goes, practically everyone who isn't homeless in the U.S. is in the 1% of the globe's "wealthy" population (it's been said somewhere). I don't know - i'm not feeling very wealthy barely scraping by with food prices rising along with energy prices to demolish any income I happen to earn and struggling to pay property taxes every year. Might be time to live in a tent somewhere.<br /><br />Keep up the good work Gail - and don't be concerned about the goons out there trying to pick fights and spewing hate-filled rhetoric. You have a great blog and a gift for clearly illustrating the current demise of our habitat. Thanks.<br /><br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-48178852378593071012014-05-30T06:26:02.329-04:002014-05-30T06:26:02.329-04:00Thanks for the head's up folks! Here is what ...Thanks for the head's up folks! Here is what I posted over at The Panic Room about this (you are welcome to join us on Facebook...only fellow members - and the NSA of course - will ever know!):<br /><br />Oh sheesh. It surprises me that Dmitry felt compelled to lash out after all this time. Maybe people at AOL brought up the little flame war he ignited and he felt the need to double down. What's sad is that whatever puny, twisted, spiteful impulse led him to come up with the word "odious", it also led him to lie. He has to know, for instance, that I am not in the 1%, as I could tell from my sitemeter last year that he obsessively - like, once an hour - checked comments piling up on my post for the week or so of fallout - and I made it very clear then that allegation was a grotesque distortion of my circumstances. I have no property, no savings, and the 11 year old car I drive has 137,000 miles on it. My income places me (I checked out of curiosity) just below average for the US. If Dmitry isn’t aware that the 1% have stock portfolios, private jets, multiple properties, and off-shore bank accounts he is even less qualified to write about economics than I thought. Too bad the NYPD didn't think I was in the 1%, maybe I wouldn't have been arrested at Occupy!<br /><br />The rest is lies, as well. I had no "entourage" - since I went to the conference alone, and had never met a single person there prior to attending. The only person I had any contact at all with prior to the event was the occasional email with Guy. I also can't think of a thing I did while there that could be construed as "disruptive". Furthermore, I find it highly dubious that, after Dmitry devoted more than one post on his own blog to attacking me personally, he can no longer remember my name...oh, if he can't remember my name, how can he be sure I wasn't there this year? So that, too, is a pathetic lie.<br /><br />What is wrong with him?<br /><br />Here is the link to my impressions of the conference last year that incited him to such vicious defamation - I still don't know what he was so agitated about: http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2013/05/our-revels-are-now-ended.htmlGail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-55822113255497254332014-05-29T23:31:17.262-04:002014-05-29T23:31:17.262-04:00From Dimitri Orlov's site about this years Age...From Dimitri Orlov's site about this years Age of Limits Conference he writes "Last year's attendees included one particularly odious 1%er whose name I forgot, together with her entourage, and they did their best to disrupt things. Needless to say, their absence this year was not missed by anyone." http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-age-of-limits-2014.html Is he talking about you?<br /><br />Nice pictures BTW.<br /><br />Remonsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06203215890997736214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-42185825689722684612014-05-29T20:20:03.200-04:002014-05-29T20:20:03.200-04:00Just read Orlov's remarks on the age of limits...Just read Orlov's remarks on the age of limits conference just concluded. He could not restrain himself from making a mean-spirited remark in your direction, even after all this time. Shaking me head... And when I tried to comment on Ukraine on his blog a couple of months ago, it got censored. The man gunnysacks and nurses his grudges far into the future. Poor man, such a sad and preventable way to damage his health! ;-)verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06823525858589365541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-88972129776875657002014-05-29T10:21:11.626-04:002014-05-29T10:21:11.626-04:00Gail - I too would like to tell you of my apprecia...Gail - I too would like to tell you of my appreciation of your documentation of the decline of our livable environment. I know how depressed I feel reading your posts, along with all other posts that depict wildfires, tornadoes, decline of ocean habitat, peak oil...the list goes on. I can only imagine what it feels like to write about it.<br /><br />Thank you for continuing to fight the good fight.<br /><br />AlexAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-79988022745063624222014-05-28T07:28:25.050-04:002014-05-28T07:28:25.050-04:00Around here it's been cool and nice, the rain ...Around here it's been cool and nice, the rain coming through to keep the water table up. Last week there was a hail storm that made it look like someone took a very large shotgun to the trees and plants (so long tomatoes, lettuce, etc) in near-by towns, but around here but there are leafy trees all around interspersed with the dead ones. i'm perplexed by the large oaks in my yard dropping leaves weekly (mostly in the form of a tiny clump on a small stem, as if chewed off by a squirrel) and small branches coming down with or without winds or rain. The trees look okay, but upon up-close inspection one can see lichen on the bark and the leaves don't feel right (little substance to them). I've stopped pointing it out to people ("don't be so depressing"). Thanks for up-dating the conditions Gail, I appreciate it.<br /><br />TomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com