In the movie True Lies, there is a fictional terrorist organization called Crimson Jihad. What if we took them and turned them into guerrilla gardeners and renamed them Crimson Rose?
In English at least, it's a bit of a play on words. "Rose" can be interpreted as a flower or as the past tense of the verb rise and ideas like rising or moving up are frequently used for organizations trying to erradicate poverty and various forms of inequality.
The book Diet for a Small Planet is remembered as a vegetarian cookbook but it's half political tome and was written as a study in how to stop war and famine. At the time it was written, no country on the planet was outright incapable of growing enough food to feed its people adequately with a traditional local diet. In all cases, famine had political roots.
Peatlands cover just 3 percent of the planet’s surface but they store about 30 percent of all land-based carbon, or twice as much as all of the world’s forests combined. Forests cover about 30 percent of the land and land is about 1/3 of the planet surface, so roughly 10 percent of the planet is covered with forests.
In order to restore the lost wetlands we had in the 1700s, we would need to multiply their coverage by 6.66. Mutiply the 30 percent of all land-based carbon peat currently stores by that figure and you get 200 percent. This should begin to make a difference in global warming.
Going to war undermines the ability to feed people. Feeding people adequately is an essential means to keep the peace.
Vitamin deficiencies can promote violent behavior and giving inmates vitamins has been posited as a potential means to actually rehabilitate prisoners.
The war between Russia and Ukraine has caused global food shortages and dramatic inflation, which makes it harder for the poorest people in the world to get enough to eat. War and terrorism do NOT make the world's problems better. They only compound them.
This world has enough problems. Adding to them because you are angry and hurt doesn't make you a Manly Man.
Food. Housing. Clothing. Education. Art. Human rights. Solutions that help us live lighter on the land and begin to reverse human-caused climate change.
Not more bloodshed.
Forests are about 10 percent of the surface of the earth, not 20 percent. Point still stands that wetlands have potential to store a great deal more carbon than forests.
These are quick and dirty "ballpark" figures anyway. You can follow my ongoing efforts to FIND the data I need and refine my numbers at https://www.reddit.com/r/8l8. See especially the tag Wetlands Restoration and the pinned post Initial Findings.
In English at least, it's a bit of a play on words. "Rose" can be interpreted as a flower or as the past tense of the verb rise and ideas like rising or moving up are frequently used for organizations trying to erradicate poverty and various forms of inequality.
It's easy to destroy. It's hard to create.I am imagining a group that decides "Damn it! Blowing stuff up may satisfy my rage but it doesn't fix the problems that pissed me off to begin with!" I am imagining someone deciding that restoring our lost wetlands is a cause worth killing over if necessary or at least doing some guerrilla gardening and might even become a reason to live.
-- My Mother, the most badass woman I ever met
Since the 1700s, we have lost 85 percent of our global wetlands. Wetlands store CO2 up to 55x better than forests.In practical terms, how do you take a violent terrorist organization and turn them into relatively peaceable guerrilla gardeners, breaking the rules to reverse human-caused climate change? Well, there is info out there on how you actually foster peace.
- Feed people.
- Help young men get married so they have a reason to live and ties to the community instead of being expendable cannon fodder.
- "A sound mind in a sound body."
The book Diet for a Small Planet is remembered as a vegetarian cookbook but it's half political tome and was written as a study in how to stop war and famine. At the time it was written, no country on the planet was outright incapable of growing enough food to feed its people adequately with a traditional local diet. In all cases, famine had political roots.
Peatlands cover just 3 percent of the planet’s surface but they store about 30 percent of all land-based carbon, or twice as much as all of the world’s forests combined. Forests cover about 30 percent of the land and land is about 1/3 of the planet surface, so roughly 10 percent of the planet is covered with forests.
In order to restore the lost wetlands we had in the 1700s, we would need to multiply their coverage by 6.66. Mutiply the 30 percent of all land-based carbon peat currently stores by that figure and you get 200 percent. This should begin to make a difference in global warming.
Going to war undermines the ability to feed people. Feeding people adequately is an essential means to keep the peace.
Vitamin deficiencies can promote violent behavior and giving inmates vitamins has been posited as a potential means to actually rehabilitate prisoners.
"If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being."I'm not a big fan of religion but one thing Christianity gets right: If you want peace, FEED PEOPLE. I even did a college paper on this fact. (TLDR: All the single soldiers who played DnD with my husband came to say a tearful goodbye to ME because I let them cook in my kitchen and made them Christmas dinner.)
- Kafka
The war between Russia and Ukraine has caused global food shortages and dramatic inflation, which makes it harder for the poorest people in the world to get enough to eat. War and terrorism do NOT make the world's problems better. They only compound them.
This world has enough problems. Adding to them because you are angry and hurt doesn't make you a Manly Man.
Dying ain't so hard for men like you and me. It's living that's hard when all you've ever cared about's been butchered or raped. -- Josey WalesThe antidote to the chaos the world is sinking into is to focus on creating civilization.
Food. Housing. Clothing. Education. Art. Human rights. Solutions that help us live lighter on the land and begin to reverse human-caused climate change.
Not more bloodshed.
Footnote
Math has been adjusted. Initial math erroneously used "earth is covered by 2/3s land." This flips the percentage of land and water.Forests are about 10 percent of the surface of the earth, not 20 percent. Point still stands that wetlands have potential to store a great deal more carbon than forests.
These are quick and dirty "ballpark" figures anyway. You can follow my ongoing efforts to FIND the data I need and refine my numbers at https://www.reddit.com/r/8l8. See especially the tag Wetlands Restoration and the pinned post Initial Findings.