Oops, thank you!

I mean movie night worked in Star Trek Enterprise to bring the crew together so I bet it would work in real life too!

This is a war make no mistake and we fight it when we can with joy.

That is why FinTech is such a lucrative business.

They are ostensibly focused on finding rare/specific editions or out of print books, but the network of independent book sellers they have is pretty huge so you can find almost any used book you want there, not just niche stuff, it is a great resource!

I have bought many ~$10 and under used paperbacks in good enough condition for me from them.

be the change you want to see in the world!

I have found Biblio is a great way to buy used books affordably, just make sure to search the ISBN of books you want (I use amazon for that usually lol).

Biblio is NOT owned by Amazon unlike many of these “independent” companies that were bought up by Amazon.

https://www.biblio.com/

See this open access study Wildlife overpass structure size, distribution, effectiveness, and adherence to expert design recommendations.

We conclude that wide overpasses (~50 m) continue to present important, cost-effective solutions in decreasing the barrier effective of the road (especially when targeting width sensitive species and large assemblages of mammals) but encourage future studies to further explore the specific instances when multiple underpasses and narrower overpasses present more cost-effective solutions.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9753749/

I actually think the ecosystem benefit here will quickly payback even that large of an investment, an open air, safe feeling wildlife transit corridor for wildlife can easily be a keystone piece of architecture in maintaining a regional ecosystem and flow of nutrients/migration of animals. That isn’t even bringing into the picture the MASSIVE cost savings that a reduction in wildlife-vehicle collisions inherently provides.

Benefits of crossings

The U.S. records more than 1 million wildlife–vehicle collisions each year, and that is probably an undercount because of unreported incidents.3 These crashes cost more than $10 billion annually in repairs, medical care, and lost productivity, and they cause about 200 deaths and 26,000 injuries annually.4 According to the Federal Highway Administration, wildlife crossings can deliver key benefits for drivers and wildlife, including:

Crash prevention: Wildlife crossings with fencing can cut large-mammal collisions by more than 80%—and up to 97% for certain species, including deer and elk—making them among the most effective ways to improve driver safety and wildlife connectivity.5

Cost savings: Each prevented wildlife–vehicle collision can save thousands of dollars—more than $19,000 per deer crash, $73,000 per elk, and $110,000 per moose—in vehicle, injury, and wildlife costs, making well-placed crossings a strong investment.6

Habitat connectivity: Roads, fences, and development break up landscapes and block wildlife migration, limiting animals’ access to food, water, and mates, which can cause population declines and reduce biodiversity by up to 75%.7

Communities throughout the country are investing in a range of wildlife crossings to improve public safety and protect vulnerable species. (See Figure 2.)

https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2026/01/wildlife-crossings-save-lives-cut-costs-and-protect-animals

Relevant article

https://y2y.net/blog/how-wildlife-crossings-revolutionized-conservation/

Another relevant study that looks interesting

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9753749/

Also see this related article on why the health of Indigenous peoples is tied to the health of the landscape.

https://grist.org/indigenous/indigenous-health-cant-be-separated-from-environmental-health-leaders-tell-un/

Sorry I agree I really dislike the title, it doesn’t do the article justice at all.

Disaster Response Preparedness = Localized training that centers the establishment of a practical working trust as the first critical step to protecting people.

It isn’t just about the knowledge it is about a pre-existing practical local network that is in place with a local reputation BEFORE the emergency ever happens.

Same lesson as the vaccine story I shared basically.

I think capitalism can solve this by marketing laundry microplastic filters as a way to get free 3D printer plastic filament to 3D print kids toys as an affordable way to entertain your family!

I can see the commercial in my head already.

Nature does not have to be a shared experience to be valid

Yes it does, otherwise you are just moving around a living landscape remaining isolated from it. Going into nature is inherently a shared experience, that is my point.

No I am not impressed you don’t examine the world around you with a curious and analytical mind.

Witnessing is an experience. That’s your experience. You are conquoring the desire to interact with nature, fulfilling your ego goal of passive acceptance.

What a tortured twisting of my words, of course witnessing is an experience, it is an experience that brings you outside yourself unlike a physical battle with the limits of your body that draws you inward.

I joke - but really, go to a hiking trail sometime and tell all the people who show up to hike they are all selfish and egotistical for wanting to hike the whole trail instead of just stopping whenever the mood strikes them and going home.

Why would I do that?

Claiming the way an entire subset of other people experience nature is inferior and shallow compared to yours is kinda the definition of a sense of superiority, yeah

I am arguing our cultural framing around outdoor culture is inferior and shallow compared to a deeper more thoughtful relationship with the natural world and and an awareness of the living history of colonialism as it bends and warps our perspective our relationship with nature.

If you do not allow me this without labelling me as attempting to claim I am superior than you simply do not allow any kind of criticism of your beliefs/actions in this area. How else am I supposed to interpet this?

An invasive species introduced by someone with a vision about what nature should be not what it was.

I just think they’re neat

So… you like the aesthetic of them and you aren’t interested in examining it any deeper?

What are you actually trying to say here other than attempting to shame me for daring to critically question your relationship to nature?

By saying jogging through nature is inherently selfish compared to walking through it. I’d also say you pretty clearly look down upon those who like to exercise in nature based on your other comments here, and your framing of people doing it for ‘the drug chemicals’.

I like drugs, I have no problem with taking drugs I just don’t like when people pretend they aren’t taking drugs when they are.

You say you’re not bashing them, but I’m not sure that defense works since you’re kind’ve framing a different way of experiencing nature as inherently inferior and ‘selfish’ compared to your preferred way, instead of framing it as two equally valid ways to experience it (as long as it doesn’t hurt the local ecology, or leave any litter).

Yes and you are framing this conversation in a way that if I criticize a broad cultural movement centered around the outdoors for being shallow this necessarily means I think I am superior. You allow no other perspective other than one that agrees with your own unless that perspective is relativistic about everything with no judgements possible at all.

I can criticize outdoor culture without being selfish or adopting a position of assumed superiority and even if I was those things it doesn’t actually negate the points I am making since I am arguing the overall selfishness of outdoor culture is even greater? We are all a part of this problem as we are all part of the same society.