What if magic is real?🪄
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🪄 Dear Wizards,
What if magic is real? Wouldn’t you want to know? Wouldn’t everything simply become…more magical? Our logical minds convince us that it’s coincidences, just chance. So instead I invite you to close your eyes, and open your mind…and trust me the world will shine back at you with pure magic.
If we look up the definition of magic you will get: the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces.
If you start believing in magic and get rid of doubt then it would read: the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces.
Which definition do you choose to believe in?
🗞️This Week in Climate News:
🖼️ ‘Just Stop Oil’ activists spray painted Harrods and threw canned tomato soup at Van Gogh painting at the National Gallery. (that has a protective glass, so no damage was done).
🇫🇷 French state to pay €20M fine for failing to tackle air pollution in France, court rules.
🌀 Storm Noru, most powerful typhoon in 20 years, hit Vietnam and Thailand.
📈 Cool Trends
🪄 More belief in magic.
🧠 Plant Intelligence
What is intelligence really? Is it the understanding of concepts? Is it sharing knowledge? Through mycelium trees talk to each other and transfer knowledge and resources to other trees in need, showing intelligence. This network of knowledge has gotten stronger and wiser throughout millennia, and that knowledge is stored deep in their roots, fungus and ecosystems. Plants are wise, sentient beings. Human arrogance doesn’t let us open our eyes to a wisdom that is staring right at us. Deforestation will stop the day we culturally acknowledge plants as our equals.
🌾 Milpa: The Mayan Forest Gardens
The Mayan forest spans the lush Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. Similarly to the Amazon Rainforest, it was historically thought of as an untouched pristine jungle, when in reality it has been the Mayans’ agroforestry project for millennia.
The Milpa is an advanced agroforestry practice developed by the Mayans, it works in 20-year cycles: first the land is cleared, then seeds are sown by hand and edible species are planted, eventually the area is returned to a closed canopy forest.
💩 WTF? news
🧊 Microphones dropped into ocean to record sound of melting icebergs.
🌻“Do we really care more about Van Gogh’s sunflowers than real ones?”—George Monbiot
🌏 The Culture Club
📺 What we’re watching: Water Get No Enemy
📸 Profile of the week: @lalodealmeida
📖 What we’re reading: Only Love is Real, by Brian Weiss
🤯 Fun fact we learnt this week: A Flamingo's head has to be upside down when it eats.