Notices by Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social), page 17

@muffinista Gah, now it happened to me as well. I signed up for an invite and forgot to provide a reason because this laptop's screen has just the right size to cut it off...
Anyway: I wanted to create @gridmapper@botsin.space in order to post weekly maps from https://campaignwiki.org/text-mapper/gridmapper/random much like my other bots @textmapper, @hexdescribe, and @traveller.

@applecandy nah, just potted plants all over the place… do you think it makes a big difference? I mean, farmers don’t throw away the soil either. But you can always use fertilizer of course.

@applecandy I don't think I ever threw away soil, ever.

@xj9 no. The images are inside, but there are originals, and edited ones, and albums, events, labels, and a lot more. Moving all the images from an album into one actual folder requires work.

@cj https://www.jassverzeichnis.ch/index.php/component/tags/tag/jassregel

@Shufei In all the countries accountability is a problem. We just fail at different points. As for reforestation, a hundred and fifty years ago there was a lot of deforestation in Switzerland. They regrew it with mono cultures. Then they converted some of it into “more natural” green zones. But the original forests are all gone and when a big storm blows, or some bug spreads, everybody gets to cry and moan. There is no good solution I know of. 😔

@Shufei Hah, I sure understand being a downer. I keep thinking back all the dubious regulation I’ve seen. Carbon trading, for example: I never heard about it reducing consumption; I haven’t heard of any great conservation projects; all the news I heard was about dubious project, corruption, wrong incentives (people illegally cutting down a forest and then reforesting it for money), stuff like that. If it were easy the problem would have been solved. But it isn’t and we haven’t.

@Shufei No question: bringing back the old forests would be a win – and everywhere in the world. It sure would beat reforestation, or planting anything at all in order to fight desertification.

@Shufei Totally. But you have to start somewhere and as times seem desperate to me I think we can start planting trees now and work on diversity and rich biomes as we go. We shouldn’t be skipping this step, obviously. But it also doesn’t have to be the first step.

@PresGas well, I mentioned you in my blog post for suggesting that word. 😀
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2019-08-25_Creating

“Food production in China and India has increased by over 35% since 2000 mostly owing to an increase in harvested area through multiple cropping facilitated by fertilizer use and surface- and/or groundwater irrigation.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-019-0220-7

“One of my Chinese friends told me that most of the work in the tree planting campaigns is done by prisoners. So, basically slave labour. An interesting moral dilemma, to say the least. ” – Joerg Fliege
https://pluspora.com/posts/1943085

“China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management … China alone accounts for 25% of the global net increase in leaf area with only 6.6% of global vegetated area. The greening in China is from forests (42%) and croplands (32%), but in India is mostly from croplands (82%) with minor contribution from forests (4.4%). China is engineering ambitious programmes to conserve and expand forests with the goal of mitigating land degradation, air pollution and climate change.” 1/2

@PresGas Good point. I’ve been thinking about this on today’s walk and I don’t know. At the end of your life, if you ask yourself whether you lived your life well – is the measure something that can be improved, thus: is this a productivity of sorts after all? I don’t know.

@ekaitz_zarraga thank you for the offer but not now. @gcupc