This analogy really helped me understand things better when I was just starting out learning how to prepare food!
Many people who are cynical about our future really feel depression and anxiety about a problem that they know exists, but cannot find an outlet to express this inner concern and are limited economically. If you are such a person, and if someone offered to pay expenses for your time off from your job, as well as lodging and transportation costs so that there could be a very large rally, would you join this?
Political action is inspired by large gatherings of people at governmental venues where legislation occurs. The March on Washington cited around 250,000 individuals gathered at Washington, DC to protest for equal rights for African Americans. If the resources were provided, do you think you would join such a movement for environmental issues in order to bring attention to the press and the rest of American society about humanities impending existential crisis?
mostly just curious as to how other people are utilizing/experiencing this aspect of the game (if at all).
for reference, there's a table of examples on pg 231 of the core rules, where things like being tortured, experiencing or seeing a gruesome injury, being held against your will for a time, or starvation are given some humanity loss that a character takes if/when they experience these things, generally 1d6 to 2d6 depending on severity and length of time involved. it's listed as a wholly GM fiat thing as well, so it's not something that is mandatory or always will happen.
for me personally, I find this to be a helpful GMing lever to pull at a reasonably consistent rate. not so common that the party is losing humanity instantly just for seeing a critical injury or killing someone of course, and no I'm not torturing my party on a session to session basis, but I think having the potential for this popping up reasonably commonly in some fashion has a lot of value in being a potential pressure valve for the GM and an interesting RP opportunity for invested players, creating a more compelling storytelling experience. someone going below 3 EMP mid-job and bringing out some cyberpsychotic tendencies has created a few really fun moments for my group, and the almost "sanity score" usage of the humanity/empathy stat to me has been a very helpful association of setting flavor to getting the players to actually RP.
so, GMs, do you use it? and players, have you experienced it?
I have been thinking a lot about the proposed epochal shift from Holocene to the Anthropocene and doing readings ranging from subterranean Anthropocene to planetary Anthropocene. Today I picked up Yusoff’s A Billion Black Anthropocene and deeply related to her critique of a lack of historical context, erasure of colonial and capitalist violence in the geological construction of the Anthropocene. Thoughts?
I think my description is best seen in the environment where I posted it first, in /r/ecology
https://www.reddit.com/r/ecology/comments/olfwq1/crazy_idea_would_a_global_atlas_of_conservation/
I hope some of the context carries over.
For those who don’t know, a GIS is a Geographic Information System. It can be used to display layer after layer after layer of geographic information all together on one visualization, and these layers can be embedded with information attributes.
My idea being that if we got everyone contributing to one system, of visualizing and describing problems in our environment, and methods we use to solve them, we could quite radically enhance the ability of everyone to learn more rapidly how to address these problems, to compile data on what works and what doesn’t, to learn what the problems are in the first place, to engage in dynamic discussions at the cutting edge of environmental issues, and to easily pitch or demonstrate solutions.
This kind of system, while being based on environmental problems, does not have to be limited to that. Natural disasters, refugee issues, urbanism and the design of city living, climate adaptation and transition, I feel that all these could be enhanced by this, admittedly radical approach which I describe.
I think it could carry over to how humans address risks (both existential and non-existential) of all forms.
But it’s really big, pretty crazy, and thus is probably pretty likely to fail. However, I really hope to find people to discuss the idea on the off chance that something in there is actually valuable and viable to help out our situation in the world at present.
Please read the original post and some of my comments there. Let me know if you have any thoughts or feedback, I’d be quite happy to hear from anyone.
Students who we’re excepted to these programs this year at McMaster what was your high school averages? Thank You
Dear all,
I need this article for my essay on ecocriticism in South Korean Cinema but Sci-hub can't get this and I'm from Vietnam where my university has no access for such academic databases as JSTOR or Project Muse.
Can anyone help me wih this request? Many thanks in advance.
Here is the link
Bong Joon-ho's Eternal Engine: Translation, Memory, and Ecological Collapse in Snowpiercer (2013)
Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities
Vol. 7, No. 1, Imagining Alternatives (Winter 2019), pp. 6-21 (16 pages)
