Funny thing is as I opened the keyboard my app crashed. The joke will not let anybody else write itself.

And that, is why we must accept Ludditism where we can, as a way to oppose misguided tech development.

I don’t think individual action can amount to much. Hence now I am seriously considering working with an organisation that works on ground in the environmental sector.

Organic farms, communitarian organisations, animal rescue centres, citizens’ fora all seem to be places where you can make a genuine organised effort, while feeling more connected to nature. Bonus points if they are socialist. In fact, I’d only go if they were at least socialistic about their praxis.

During COVID, I learnt by observation that such on ground organisations are the ones that determine a neighbourhood’s resilience to a natural disaster. Hence volunteering to socialistic organisations made me feel less like I am sitting by watching the climate crisis unfold.

The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

Regulation, comrade.

It’s not illegal to medicate against the pathogens in industrialised animal rearing because in those places it is easier to contain the spread due to the implication of an industry, that has it’s own enforcement mechanisms, and often times, is based on the scaling up of scientific practices itself, but with wet markets that have to be cracked down upon, the issue is there are many people eating from what has been scientifically discovered to be likely to give you a contagious disease. Something that I also find has it’s own literature in international law, and for good reason.

If it’s risky enough to demand border controls since ages (see history of epidemics), the inherent problem doesn’t become the industrialisation of race-specific preferences (if you may argue that wet markets are an industry), but the common good of humanity.

Okay, sorry, I just thought the “wet markets” shutting down shops and being admitted by the Chinese government was enough proof for me. But sorry if I hurt your sentiments. News of the Chinese government crackdown AFTER the COVID-19 infection, including official Chinese media sources

Will scientific government not be a part of scientific socialism, comrades? CITES Convention names many of the species named to be consumed there, per the scientific community’s understanding of what animals can be traded and to which establishments (mostly zoos, sanctuaries, etc.).

It is what inspired the crackdown that the Chinese sources have reported on.

I don’t have a narrative to peddle here, but not consuming wild animals is something Chinese law enforcement should have worked on better.

I really like the idea of taking a public domain design and just modifying it with GIMP or the like, getting it embroidered/engraved locally, wherever possible.