Month: September 2018

‘We’re moving to higher ground’: America’s era of climate mass migration is here

rjzimmerman:

Excerpt:

“I was sloshing through the water [in Charleston SC] with my puppy dog, debris was everywhere,” she said. “I feel completely sunken. It would cost me around $500,000 to raise the house, demolish the first floor. I’m going to rent a place instead, on higher ground.”

Millions of Americans will confront similarly hard choices as climate change conjures up brutal storms, flooding rains, receding coastlines and punishing heat. Many are already opting to shift to less perilous areas of the same city, or to havens in other states. Whole towns from Alaska to Louisiana are looking to relocate, in their entirety, to safer ground.

The era of climate migration is, virtually unheralded, already upon America.

The population shift gathering pace is so sprawling that it may rival anything in US history. “Including all climate impacts it isn’t too far-fetched to imagine something twice as large as the Dustbowl,” said Jesse Keenan, a climate adaptation expert at Harvard University, referencing the 1930s upheaval in which 2.5 million people moved from the dusty, drought-ridden plains to California.

This enormous migration will probably take place over a longer period than the Dustbowl but its implications are both profound and opaque. It will plunge the US into an utterly alien reality. “It is very difficult to model human behaviour under such extreme and historically unprecedented circumstances,” Keenan admits.

By the end of this century, sea level rise alone could displace 13 million people, according to one study, including 6 million in Florida. States including Louisiana, California, New York and New Jersey will also have to grapple with hordes of residents seeking dry ground.

“There’s not a state unaffected by this,” said demographer Mat Hauer, lead author of the research, which is predicated on a severe 6ft sea level increase. There are established migration preferences for some places – south Florida to Georgia, New York to Colorado – but in many cases people would uproot to the closest inland city, if they have the means.

‘We’re moving to higher ground’: America’s era of climate mass migration is here

sartorialadventure:

cestriankiwi:

josef-tribbiani:

bigwordsandsharpedges:

The native Maori people of New Zealand have tattooed their faces for centuries. They had a complex warrior culture before the arrival of Europeans, and suffered under early colonialism, but have experienced a cultural revival since the 60′s. 

The marks are called moko, and are etched with chisels instead of needles to leave grooves along with the ink. The true form is sacred, unique to each person, and distinct from European tattoos that mimic that traditional style.

There arent many pictures non combat related that look this badass

Actually most
Tā moko are done with modern tattoo equipment these days, but some people get them done the traditional way. And, as others have said, they’re not for Non-
Māori, as they have specific meanings and significance. If you want a tattoo with Māori

style, you can get a
kirituhi. These avoid any designs associated with particular tribes or famous people you’re not related to.

Kirituhi is a Māori style tattoo either made by a non-Māori tattooer, or made for a non-Māori wearer. Kirituhi has mana of it’s own and is a design telling the unique story of the wearer in the visual language of Māori art and design. Kiri means ‘skin’, and tuhi means ‘to write, draw, record, adorn or decorate with painting’.

Kirituhi is not restricted to only Māori people, and it is a way for Māori to share our cultural arts with people from around the world in a respectful manner, and for non-Māori artists to enjoy our beautiful art form as well. I happily do kirituhi for my clients around the world and it is a privilege to do such work for them.

Kirituhi is no lesser an artform than moko, however it is different and I believe these differences must be acknowledged and respected, so that the integrity of our taonga Māori – moko, is maintained around the world.

Moko is uniquely Māori and it is strictly reserved to be done by Māori, for Māori.

If either the recipient or tattooer do not have Māori whakapapa, then the resulting design is a Māori Style tattoo or kirituhi, NOT moko. The word moko originated from the Māori atua (god) of volcanic activity and earthquakes, Rūaumoko – therefore the origin of tā moko is divine and sacred – to me this is no small thing, nor should it be dismissed.

As my mentor once told me, ‘moko is about 99% culture, and 1% tattoo’.

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animatedamerican:

ncfan-1:

gehayi:

cudleychannons:

JKR what are you doing??? How the hell could something called the Congress of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA be formed BEFORE they declared independence and named the country that?? jfc and the salem witch trials information directly contradicts her own canon that the witches didn’t actually die because they had magic??? sigh. I’m not even touching the first of the series. Nope.

And there’s no mention of the American Revolution being fought earlier or not being fought at all. Just–bam!–“United States.” While the country was still composed of colonies. Because that makes sense, right?

Honestly, the only way that “History of Magic in North America” makes sense in-universe is if it’s a series of students’ fucked-up history essays that someone published to make American witches and wizards laugh. And it even fails at that.

To me, the only way it makes sense in-universe is if it’s propaganda, but even then, I’m not sure who the writer would be.

Wizarding England propaganda about Wizarding America is actually astonishingly likely, now that I think of it.

argumate:

collapsedsquid:

argumate:

collapsedsquid:

The Thirty-sixth Spirit is Stolas, or Stolas. He is a Great and Powerful
Prince, appearing in the Shape of a Mighty Raven at first before the
Exorcist; but after he taketh the image of a Man. He teacheth the Art of
Astronomy, and the Virtues of Herbs and Precious Stones. He governeth
26 Legions of Spirits; and his Seal is this, which is, etc.

Hey @argumate,you’ve been banging the anti-organized religion drum, there wouldn’t happen to be anything about the Virtues of Herbs you could share? For purely medical purposes, of course.

that owl looks like it’s petrified someone is going to ask why its legs are too big for its goddamn wings because it knows it has no reasonable answer

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Do you prefer Andras who’s “Hold on, where did my clothes go?“

that wolf looks suspiciously smug