We need to celebrate Earth Day

I’ve told many about my existential crisis, as I try to escape nihilism and embrace life. Studying philosophy, I wonder what am I sacrificing my time and energy for? Thanks to my upbringing I’ve always been an environmentalist, being taught to respect the land, animals and plants. Reading Friedrich Nietzsche, I’ve come to realize that we need to do more than simply conserve what we have now but improve this world for the Overman and the future generations of this planet. Even if you don’t subscribe to Eternal Return, perhaps you are a Christian, I don’t see how someone can be satisfied with humanity receiving such a great gift from a god and trashing it.

 

It hit me that more needed to be done in Kotzebue’s City Council meeting on February 6^th, where we approved a holiday schedule. You could probably guess that Earth Day was missing from the agenda. I voted to pass the resolution without Earth Day because I know we haven’t done enough work to make it a big deal to the people of Kotzebue. Culture requires investment, and I’ve done plenty for days like Independence Day and Christmas but unfortunately leaving Earth Day out in the cold. Sure, I should have done more in the past, but the second-best time to do something is right now!

 

The Alliance for Knowledge and Reason (ARK) is hosting their 7^th Annual Regenerative Summit, coordinating a full week of events from April 20^th to the 26^th. The summit is driven by the principles of Permaculture, where ARK will present examples of how we can adopt to climate devastation through economic solutions, getting to the core issues of energy independence, zero waste, and food sovereignty. It’s exciting that this summit is sponsored by organizations like The Green Party of Alaska and The Alaska Forward Party. This year Kotzebue will be involved, with viewing parties being set up, along with other events for Earth Day itself.

 

We are in a climate crisis, with humans driving this ongoing sixth extinction event. The question is will humanity rise to occasion and make Earth a great home for the Overman; or will we parish to let another species have a go at this in the next few million years? There is reason to be optimistic, looking in the past when we almost wiped out the whales, but we were able to slow down our hunts for them when we discovered oil in the ground and innovated ways of extracting it. We have stopped ecological disasters before, and we can do it again!

 

Earth is our home, and we should celebrate it. Often when talking about our solar system it seems like people forget that the coolest planet is The Earth. When we look out at the stars where else do we see green patches of life? Philosophy has taught me to ask myself what my sacrifice is, as the fact is none of us are immortal. Why else should you be given money for your time, as we understand we don’t have an unlimited supply. The Earth, like any home, is worth that sacrifice. If we can’t come to terms with that, we can make the path for the next species to give it a go.

Trekking the Future: Children of the Comet

 

Bentley Bear's Crystal Quest stream highlights

 Switched to playing with OGHUGO's joystick controller. Even though there are phantom jumps I feel much more comfortable using his controller.

Bentley Bear's Crystal Quest stream highlights

 My puppy Malik interfered my stream!

 

I still got a new high score on Bentley Bear's Crystal Quest for the Atari 7800, getting 198,000 points.

Trekking the Future - Strange New Worlds (Season 1 episode 1)

 I join Justin in talking about the Star Trek show Strange New Worlds.

Combating imperialism

 

We need to prioritize what we're teaching in history if we're going to combat imperialism. Changing maps isn't what makes a person great.

The Democrats want to shut The GPAK down

 

I'm grateful Robert Shields is heading The Green Party of Alaska's effort to collaborate with other the other parties. Unfortunately, our experience with The Democrats is that they want to prioritize shutting us down.