I believe it’s a naive belief at best that the climate is merely a problem of land use. Personally, I think it’s a double whammy of end-stage capitalism and population.

I don’t think there are solutions to overpopulation. It’s just a game that will play out as it does.

Capitalism, the incredible food waste of the culinary industry and markets, fossil fuels, etc, are obviously our big problems.

Land use can be better, but ALL of these things are problems. ALL of them are contributing.

Muting threads that keep telling me that population is a “land use” problem since I’m sure they’re the first to voluntarily move to the far north or super-rural, and not just established urban zones already.

Just because someone (hi!) believes overpopulation is a problem doesn’t mean we’re pushing “solutions” to the problem.

Overpopulation happened because of advances in science. People are having fewer children. Populations will fall and it will correct itself. Whether the climate does, oof.

nostr:npub1tnz7xtrsvkf036v5whhk9z6df27zlyup792kxjmp3nkdsa3dc45s4ypnpc If rain comes, I think it’ll be at dinner. This fella is moseying towards us.

nostr:npub1tnz7xtrsvkf036v5whhk9z6df27zlyup792kxjmp3nkdsa3dc45s4ypnpc yeah! Was supposed to be 29 today so what a treat.

nostr:npub1tnz7xtrsvkf036v5whhk9z6df27zlyup792kxjmp3nkdsa3dc45s4ypnpc gonna be scary for spawning.

Pleasantly surprised to see a rain cloud headed toward Victoria for a surprise rain today. Fingers crossed.

nostr:npub1luxhuf9pa2vy3m3tes3y5cwvkdvt53sehu6xm62pl307uhxeez3san07kk I know of people who use it for phyllo pastry too, so it’s definitely possible.

nostr:npub1luxhuf9pa2vy3m3tes3y5cwvkdvt53sehu6xm62pl307uhxeez3san07kk I missed this. With a lot of pain in the ass! Next time I am gonna try leaving the seeds out and rolling through the pasta machine, then using a rolling pin to push the seeds into cracker sheets manually after, before I cut them, if that makes sense. It’s definitely exhausting. I need a better way.

I had a big platter lunch so I’m having a lighter dinner — panzanella. Why do I never make this with my stale homemade bread? Silly me. So yummy. Perfect for a hot night. #food #cooking #sourdough

Some woman on Facebook called a city councillor a “race-baiter” for mentioning Vancouver has embraced “emancipation day” now in honour of the Canadian history of slavery, etc. (Good!)

I trudged out a link about Canada’s known past and, holy shit, did she go up and down on me.

Checked her page and of course there’s climate denialism AND “globalist” (but really anti-Semitic) cliches all over her page.

People who deny history are simply not living in reality land.

https://humanrights.ca/story/story-black-slavery-canadian-history

nostr:npub1wl670t4kkenw7wdy5lya2rh6qmexw6rj7uzt6m8eey2n0alh89mqr25hu7 it’s exhausting just from the wardrobe choices alone! We have had the strangest year here in Victoria.

We’re over a year into drought. North of me, just by a kilometre or two, it’s warm a lot. But me, I’m wearing pants and sweaters for the sunset like it’s April. So weird.

But we are very alike San Fran with all the micro climates. Just a little cooler and probably more wind. :)

nostr:npub1wl670t4kkenw7wdy5lya2rh6qmexw6rj7uzt6m8eey2n0alh89mqr25hu7 I experience that a lot where I am, but the weather beacon nearest to me is at a Coast Guard base and it’s prone to sea channel fog, and there the temperature can be significantly cooler than me — just a kilometre down the road!

Micro-climates are huge by the ocean. Everything can change by several degrees depending on ocean moisture and wind patterns.

nostr:npub1f2mfmw6zqxfcka6kla7px7q8a6cg9d0q4fvhxtj6vtlu5cu7xmaqt7h630 yeah, I had a pair like that too. So great.

Psst… the secret to getting a fitted sheet right-way-around on a bed the first try?

Always put the tag on the bottom-right or right side of the foot of the bed.

nostr:npub16a3wq0x5ky070sp36ekmz3jwjqj7r2csgd0s97ym58tlvtfnshds6k9dah yeah, exactly. Like climate doesn’t account for how entire affected regions shift east like that. But Inuit elders have said it for literally decades, as a 2010 documentary stated. If only they’d been listened to sooner. 🙄

Sarcasmomode: Whodathunk building cities like Dubai and Las Vegas, the latter of which sees 30 mill tourists a year, would throw the planet off kilter as aquifers are drained. Yeesh. (A single gallon of h20 weighs 9 lbs.)

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/arts/film/new-documentary-recounts-bizarre-climate-changes-seen-by-inuit-elders/article1215305/

nostr:npub16a3wq0x5ky070sp36ekmz3jwjqj7r2csgd0s97ym58tlvtfnshds6k9dah I feel like this is one of the things that’s probably the result of what Inuit elders have said for decades and recent reports finally confirm: the earth’s axis has tilted.

So it seems like what was once in the Midwest is now shifting a bit to include your region. Climate change too of course, but it feels like that.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/06/26/world/pumping-groundwater-earth-axis-shifting-scn/index.html

nostr:npub1d6z9up6548e986jxnnl47c66hujgnztxeqf7z8dk8rnjl6xcpukqz3jn6l says a lot about America.

The laziest pasta sauce: Olive oil, lots of garlic — sauté — then add tomato sauce, drop in little meatballs of raw Italian sausage and simmer until cooked. Add torn basil leaves and enjoy. The sausage fat gives great flavour to the sauce but season with salt and pepper, or chilli crunch.

Homemade cavatelli pasta. #cooking #food

Tonight’s healthy platter. A handful of my homemade crackers, roasted broccoli with a lemony tahina sauce, carrots roasted with Moroccan spices (“ras el hanout”), hummus, labneh, zhug.

I love the challenge of making leftovers interesting on the fourth day.

I rubbed my corn tortillas in carnitas fat and then crisped them up for tostada bases, then topped it with carnitas and a funky mix of leftover tomatoes, avocado, pickled red onions, cilantro, salsa verde.

#food #cooking