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https://asiagarmenthub.net/resource.....tepaper_a4.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5wrcMiT2jM
https://philpapers.org/archive/PALAHL.pdf

The Government’s own data reveal high public concern for climate change (84%), and
polls have shown that over half of Brits think that 2050 is too late for Net Zero. adults want government and business to show stronger leadership on this issue.

The arts, like the sciences, start in the real world. They then reach out to all possible worlds, and finally to all conceivable worlds. Throughout they project the human presence on everything in the universe. Given the power of metaphor, perhaps the arts began with what may be called the “Picasso effect.” The artist is reported by his photographer and choronicler brassai to have said in 1943: “if it occurred to man to create his own images, it’s because he discovered them all around him, almost formed, already within his grasp. He saw them in a bone, in the irregular surfaces of cavern walls, in a piece of wood. One form might suggest a woman, another a bison, and still another the head of a demon.” They may have come that route by perception of what gregory bateson and tyler volk have called metapatterns, those circles, spheres, borders and centers, binaries, layers, cycles, breaks, and other geometric configurations that occur repeatedly in nature and provide easily recognized clues to the identity of more complicated objects.
It was a short step not just to see but to re-create images on rock walls with charcoal lines or by etching on stone, bone, and wood. The first faltering steps were attempts to stimulate and thereby humanize external Nature. THe art historian vincent scully has observed that in early historical times, people constructed sacred buildings to resemble mountains, rivers, and animals. By so doing they hoped to draw upon the powers of the environment. The greatest ceremonial site of pre-columbian amercia, in scully’s opinion, is teotihucan in central mexico. “There the avenue of the Dead runs directly to the base of the Temple of the moon, Behind which rises the mountain that is called tenan (“our lady of stone”). That mountains, running with springs, is basically pyramidal and shaped and notched in the center. And the temple imitates the mountain’s shape, Intensifies it, clarifies it, geometricizes it, and therefore make it more potent, as if to draw water down from the mountain to the fields below.”
Imitate, make it geometrical, intensify: that is not a bad three-part formula for the driving pulse of the arts as a whole. Somehow innovators know how it all is to be done. They select images from nature that are emotionally and aesthetically potent. In the course of history, as techniques grew more sophisticated, the artists projected feelings back out to nature. Those in archtecture and the visual arts created designs based on the idealized features of the human body and what they imagined to be gods modeled from the human body. Supplication, reverence, love, greif, triumph, and majesty, all emotion-charged constructions of the human mind, were captured as abstract images and forced onto both living and inanimate landscapes. -consilience

in canada most of our trees are unable to be logged because of this beetle its still on the run everywhere, thinking of the problem id rather have a half dead forest than a nothing at all; if anything we might get agar wood again. My idea was to put a viable native mushroom over the entry holes of these beetles so they have a chance to travel the spores needed to inoculated so oneday- it might seal up the wound and pervent further damage, at worst? he create a hollow which is healthy for the community. I sent a couple emails to UBC to further on the idea so they may have it for discussion. I believe in the trees and the mycelium that shares thought.