The Post-Partisan Emporium

  An Anthropocene Worth Having John Michael Greer For more than two years now I’ve been trying to figure out how to introduce a way of thinking about humanity’s relationship to nature that cuts straight across nearly all of the conventional thinking on that subject. It’s been a challenge. I’m glad to say, though, that a project now being lauded by the corporate-enabler end of the environmental movement offers a very good way to talk about the way of thinking I have in mind. That’s not because the project in question embodies that way of thinking. It’s because the project goes so far in the other direction that it offers the perfect contrast to the way of approaching nature I want to discuss. Nature, as envisioned by the 30 by 30 Project. The project in question is called “30 by 30.” Its ostensible goal is to have 30 per cent of the Earth’s surface defined as protected areas by 2030. What that label “protected areas” means is very hard to figure out from the websites and press relea...

EU President Ursula von der Leyen Announces Review of Protected Status for All European Wolves After a Wolf Kills Her Pony The European Union is a stupid organisation governed by stupid people. eugyppius In September, a thirty year-old pony named Dolly, who happened to belong to loathsome EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, was found dead with grievous injuries. Today,  we learn that genetic tests have established that Dolly’s killer was a wolf  – and not just any wolf, but the notorious livestock hunter known as GW 950m, a member of the so-called Burgdorf Pack. Von der Leyen’s party, the EPP, had already taken up the question of whether limits should be imposed on the growing European wolf population. Upon receiving this news, though, she announced that her commission will review the protected status that wolves enjoy in EU member states. It’s very hard to find good statistics, but  superficial internet research  confirms the proverbial assumption that wol...

The Animals Speak: The Plandemonium Was Overblown Mathew Crawford "Well, amongst my apes and my primates, definitely there was none [COVID-19]...my colleagues were self-reporting to me that there was none among theirs, either." -Leo Biddle We are all looking for good data and information from which to assess exactly what took place during the pandemic. Sometimes, the best way to build a Big Picture from which to understand the world is to find unique vectors of approach to gathering information. Your "knowledge scaffolding" determines your resistance to information games (mind manipulation), so it's best to engineer that scaffolding with as many tools as possible. Great Ape conservationist Leo Biddle brushed back personal attacks and cancellation in his community to share his unique vantage point that will provide many with a more secure framework for understanding the plandemonium. Clearly I'm not self-censoring in these discussions, and I think we poked th...