Rainforests are Critical Biotic Pumps in a Decaying Ecosphere

 The planet’s ecosphere is somewhat endangered. In fact an algorithm designed to measure it’s condition found that 60% of the world’s ecosphere is in critical condition. Some people believe that restoration of carbon sinks would stabilize the global warming issue bu capturing and sequestering greenhouse gases such as CO2. There are additional challenges to the ecosphere and like on Earth though; such as the pervasive microplastics accumulated in the environment and human brains through ingestion with food and other vectors.

Some scientists have found that rain forests such as those of the tropics and the Pacific Northwest are transpire a vast amount of moisture into a thirsty sky may that provide precipitation downwind. 

The scale of the biotic pumps is immense.  Pacific Northwest forests may release twenty times the daily flow of the Mississippi River. Water is drawn upward in a tree by vacuum created when the moisture is transpired during photosynthesis and evaporation. Forests, and old growth forests in particular release H2O and various particles into the atmosphere that may catalyze condensation and rainfall and protect the surface from direct sunshine and heat absorption.

Old growth forests shade the ground and moisture in the soil reducing the effects of desiccation. Logging on a large scale for industrial and building purposes, much less for making paper, is devastating to the ecosphere and human prospects on Earth. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXMBrauUonA

There are innumerable anthropogenic insults to the ecosphere and human health, as humans are part of the ecosphere, and intelligent political leadership would recognize and address the challenges meaningful. Unfortunately there aren't any responsible parties at the national level with competence in the field. There are no Mo Udalls running in primaries, and if there were they would through in moral poison pills such as homosexuality and abortion besides failing to secure the nations boundaries and the integrity of political self-determination in a meaningful democracy. They would create additional vast public debt and ineffective plans designed primarily to get themselves elected and enrich their constituency with conventional economics. Neither would national politicians have a rational plan to transition the U.S. economy to an effective contemporary ecospheric and economic synergy in a decade or less.

https://suno.com/s/VJ5Hy1zcDe18wkXc The Lost of Lillyput (a song)

I should note that there is a substantial percent of Christians that sometimes entertain and antipathetic eschatological viewpoint leading some to devalue the planet, in the belief that a new Earth will be created if and when the present Earth is destroyed with most of the population in a battle known as Armageddon. The percent may be as high as 35% of believers with the pre-tribulation point of view. They also tend to be more fundamentalist and conservative and somewhat reliable Republican voters.

I am Christian yet am not a pre-tribulationist. I believe that the tribulation of the Bible mostly applied to the destruction of Jerusalem with a million dead Jews in 70 A.D. So I am a post-tribulationist. My viewpoint is called partial preterism. That point of view is that some of the events regarded as end times have already occured.

So rather than abandoning concern for the world in expectation of a new one, many Christians believe that stewardship of the ecosphere is a responsibility like any other Christians may have regarding worldly affairs; do as best as one knows to do no harm and pursue God's will and the good so far as possible. The semi-sophistry of the pre-tribber's viewpoint may be regarded as a form of modern gnosticism enabling resource exploitation for profit in disregard of the harm to the ecosphere and the general well being of mankind. There is a book by Rev Kenneth Gentry titled 'He Shall Have Dominion' explaining the post-tribulationist interpretation of scripture.

Internet Dating, Epistemology and the Cartesian Metaphysical Doubt

I imagine developing a relationship for three months with someone on the Internet. I thought about that this morning. One just writes without talking on the phone or doing video chat. This may be a circumstance that develops on internet dating sites occasionally. What would it be like if the relationship suddenly was enfiladed as an unreal one? One might experience a feeling of deep loss, as if grieving, if one had loved the person. 

https://suno.com/s/9EsHWbHqPJ8S3PFo Love as a Phenomenal Field Strength v1

That scenario is a paradigm for considering in one of my philosophical areas of interest named epistemology; knowing what and how one knows. The emotional attachment one may develop over time may form a strong bond and could overcome subjective logic and judgment concerning the certainty one may have of it being actual rather than false via deceit. Credulity must be a function or derivative of love to a significant extent, for remote relationships. One may ask how it is possible that someone can love another whom they cannot even verify as being real, rather than an imposter? 

It brings up the point about certainty and the odds for certainty and belief; if one is less than 100% certain they aren’t being deceived in a relationship regarding the real identity of the other, how can a subject have love for another, yet they do?  Does a cold percentile evaluation calculating the probability of the other being genuine, with logical analysis, stand a chance against emotion? Additionally, if one is 90% sure (or of the opinion) that the identity of the other is genuine is that even meaningful when it seems as if 100% certainty (or 99% more properly) should be requisite for love? 

Entertaining probabilities about something being the actual state of affairs is different than love of someone regardless of the improbability of it being a valid, assumption about the reality of a state of affairs, being the actual state of affairs. A relationship and uncertainty of identity of another may bring one to that position that is analogous to the Cartesian metaphysical doubt. I think, therefore I am, was all Descartes could be certain of. In the case I have illustrated one can only be certain of personal existence, and the others, partially- if one knows the other isn’t an artificial intelligence, yet one can't be certainty of anything else about the other. Sometimes things that are probable yet aren't empirically verifiable need to be taken on faith, even if one may be wrong. 

One could not exist in ordinary life in a reasonable way if one insisted on verifying the certainty of everything that exists before acting. Instead on has implicit assumptions about reality and acts on the probabilities of empirical concerns being valid unless proven otherwise, or at least given reason to have substantial doubt about the reality of a select portion of experience. 

There was one subtle point that is a little elusive to capture concerning the analogy of the metaphysical doubt. It brought me to consider alternate points such as the comparison of the Cartesian metaphysical doubt to the uncertainty of the actual nature of being that is perceived with the senses, knowing that quantum mechanics are involved and that one is interacting with some sort of quantum fields that seem to make the appearance of a real world- a solid world, exist for one experiencing it.

https://suno.com/s/ixFPSFydR1BNgU1n God is Love

3I/ATLAS Will Be Closest to Earth on the December 19th

 The mysterious 28 mile rock approaching the sun at a speed making it the fast object in the solar system is also emitting a lock of CO2- an anomolously high 8 to 1 ratio of CO2 to H2O. That hasn't been observed before in comets. As it reaches it closest point to the sun in October it will also be invisible to the Earth on the far side as it will be just in a line on the other side of the star.

Though the object is not a danger to the Earth as its trajectory is nowhere close to one that would crash into the Earth, some have speculated that it could be some kind of vehicle for extra-terrestrials since it exhibits characteristics very uncommon for one of the more familiar kind of visitors to the inner solar system. 3I/ATLAS's origin and composition is so far unknown.

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-first-webb-telescope-observations-of-3i-atlas-8cd89e872870

A Harvard physicist has suggested the object could be nuclear powered, yet it seems to be more of a hyper-fossil fuel carbon super-Toronado with the copious gas it exhausts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pumFEmNnOSE

Police Come to Chicago or the Ukraine War Might Die (a poem)

 

The homeless life isn’t like a welcome home
to a good wife with a smile, dinner and fate
without a job or the numbers
to turn opportunity’s tumblers
they don’t know the right code to find home

   An alien land where being is illegal
there is no space for the race
made of Denisovans, and Neanderthal's strong gals
the humans were three part unplaced
on an uncharted world without homes

    Bedding down in silence
fires of time roaring
beasts outside prowling
turning primates into dark loamings
a gestalt of cave art brought homeless home

   Graffiti entreaties of turf marked up walls
doped, crazy socials saw nothing, no call
line-ups for cops, soup kitchens or billionaire fops
it all made the same sort of sense for insensible loam
hidden below asphalt now, nowhere is home.

https://suno.com/s/K9TzFZxX6I6F3URF  the poem as a song

National Guard in Chicago to Reduce Crime and Bully the Homeless as a Substitute for Peace in Ukraine

 President Trump plans to deploy the National Guard in Chicago in the near future in order to cut down on felony crime. He also plans to remove the homeless, yet the federal government should at least offer free relocation services with some legal place for the homeless to go if they want. The homeless may already be at their wit's end and don't know where else to go besides the mean, dirty, neo-toxic streets of an inner city. 

Politicians like to solve one problem while creating another. Politicians tend to triage problems and solve those most valuable to themselves first while discounting the problems they create as externalities. The superior politician (borrowing a Confucian term here lol) solves two problems simultaneously; creating none. 

The President may want a distraction from his flip flop on Ukraine peace policy to one supporting continuing Western expansion of N.A.T.O. toward Russia's borders. Securing the globe for the increase of the rich and plutonomy can begin at home though, if it isn't working so well in Ukraine.

It would be wrong for the nation to be too callous in its treatment of homeless U.S. citizens. The homeless lifestyle isn't as secure or comfortable as that which the President and his social mileau enjoy at Key Largo. The violent crimes reason for the deployment is sufficient. Twenty eight thousand violent crimes in 2024 was a lot for one year and one city and of course there are other felony crimes besides violent ones the deployment of National Guardsmen may be able to serve to reduce quantitatively.

Chicago has roughly a half a million illegal aliens living there. The National Guard may filter out some of those numbers of an internal proletariat and relocate them, yet it is the lawful homeless of concern. The poor shouldn't be trampled on by the advantaged yet neither should they foul the streets and security of those living there. If President Trump doesn't wish to be remembered as something like a cold-blooded billionaire mo'fo trying to bring plutonomy to a city near you, while bull-shipping about ending the Ukraine War and cutting taxes for the rich he will need to find a more compassionate conservatism in regard to the nation's homeless population. For a poor American to have no legal place to exist- even to breathe or sleep, in addition to being difficult, is a circumstance imposed by a state that is wicked and being upgraded for the benefit of AI, robots and those that own them; It is an existential threat to human existence.

Ukraine War is Less Than Shambala

 Shambala was perhaps a palace of Kubla Khan if I recall accurately, <I didn't- it is a mythical place>. The Ukraine War isn't Shambala; it would be great if politicians could rectify their blood-cash lust and skip to the Utopia now option instead of the grisly deaths and burials plan.

 Chinese scientists released a research paper Thursday that said that 900,000 years ago the entire forerunner of humans population was reduced to 1280 individuals. They analyzed D.N.A. from 80 cultures around the world and traced common genes back and applied statistical analysis- interesting time. The DNA tools used were released for other scientists to use to verify the study. Here is a song by the Stones with lyrics... not what people generally think they are...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmS3tQJ7Os

Trump Ukraine Peace Effort Failing; A Big Beautiful Sham

 President Trump's peace effort with the Ukraine war seems to be failing and instead is leading toward nuclear war. Reportedly the administration is working on security guarantees for Ukraine making them an informal ward of N.A.T.O. providing the full package of weapons, cash, foreign forces etc. President Putin has visited his country's strategic nuclear war development center and informal reports indicate that nuclear war may follow Ukrainian missile attacks on Russian cities and other targets deep inside the nation.

President Trump appears to be another stooge of those forces that control White House puppets of the Deep State. The threat of assassination may be what the President fears. That ear-marking shot may not have been an accident. Matthew Crook, like Lee Harvey Oswald and Jeffrey Epstein, was conveniently killed. Dead men tell no tales.