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samauma
🦋 Dear Warriors,
It’s time to break from institutional fear. We are warriors of light that can shine bright if we only see through the doubt and anxiety this system perpetuates. If we try, we can truly open our wings and fly. The future is here, and it is brighter and better, because we’re breaking free mental shackles, and finding our indigenous ancestral roots again by listening to the Mother Trees of the planet.
🗞️This Week in Climate News:
🥩 Dutch city becomes world’s first to ban meat adverts in public.
🇿🇦 South African court revokes Shell’s oil and gas exploration rights.
🌊 Western Georgia (USA) sees ‘one-in-1,000-year rainfall event’ as homes and businesses flood.
🧊 After extreme temperatures in Europe, Swiss glaciers are vanishing at an unprecedented rate.
🥵 Western coast of the USA faces record heatwave reaching 52°C.
📈 Cool Trends
🦋 Samaumas and Plant Intelligence
In the west we’ve lost touch with the ability to communicate with mother nature and to truly access her millennial knowledge. It almost feels as though we live in a state of constant fear within a framework of illusions that dupe us into misunderstanding the purpose of life on Earth. We are cosmic beings, full of light and joy. Don’t let fear and doubt pull you down. Live simply, humbly and pure joy will follow. That’s it, that’s all we need. Don’t let climate anxiety cloud your mind and your vision, we know how to build a better world, and we are all already doing it.
Samaumas, mother trees, have the answers. All we need to do is listen.
Hemp to the Rescue
Did you know that you can use hemp to clean polluted land?
In Limestone, a small town on the edge of the Maine-Canada border, the American indigenous tribe The Aroostook Band of Micmacs are using hemp to clean up 600 acres of polluted land.
The land, which was formerly Loring Air Force Base, was given back to the tribe by the US government in 2009. However, it was so polluted that it was deemed a federal Superfund site – a category given to polluted locations requiring long-term treatments to clean up hazardous contamination. The soil was found to be full of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). PFAS, also known as ‘forever chemicals’, are difficult to break down and research has suggested they could possibly be a human carcinogen.
💩 WTF? news
🌏 The Culture Club
📺 What we’re watching: The Territory
📖 What we’re reading: Gene Keys, by Richard Rudd
🤯 Crazy fact we learnt this week: Indigenous people comprise less than 5% of the world population, yet protect 80% of the Earth's biodiversity.