@Jezibaba
How do you think this is going over in Alaska? I'm curious. Alaska has very unique politics.
@rokkinbobokkin I am curious myself to see how large the crowd gets in Atown. I'm also very much waiting to see how Murkowski fares in November. The right detests her as much as the left. How she maintains her position this year will be an event to watch.
@Jezibaba
I lived with natives when I lived there, so the political needs aren't the same. They usually want better infrastructure in their villages, more or better or better staffed clinics. That's the big one their. More native teachers.
The few times I've talked to a lot of white Alaskans, they are more conservative, but a very strong "mind my own business" mentality.
Those are just general takes from my time there.
@rokkinbobokkin you are not wrong and that dynamic may be what keeps her in office despite what happens nationally. Juneau matters, not DC.
@Jezibaba
It's a strange thing, because white Alaskans consider themselves, usually, as Conservative to Libertarian.... But it's really liberal and Socialist there.
It's one of the oddest paradoxes I've seen.
@rokkinbobokkin I am relying on Alaska Landmine to help me navigate wth is going on. We are battling over the pfd atm and it's been odd...? We are an anomaly.
@Jezibaba
Are they still trying to get that Keystone mine up?
That'll be a disaster if they let it happen.
@Jezibaba
Weren't you already following me?
Did I rub you the wrong way?
@rokkinbobokkin I don't think so. I haven't unfollowed anyone. Maybe we just kept running into each other.
@Jezibaba
Probably. I have zero memory of anything that relates to that.
@rokkinbobokkin well, alrighty then 😂
@Jezibaba
Pebble, I always get it confuddled with Keystone because it's native land use and environmental disaster on the line.
@rokkinbobokkin understood. I feel like I could spend all day posting links to disasters and create my own doomscroll.
@Jezibaba
I'm partial to salmon myself, and I think there's more long term value in Chinook runs than an open pit mine in tundra.
@rokkinbobokkin friends working for F&G have a very dim view on the survival of salmon at this rate. 😢But yes, above all No Pebble.
@Jezibaba
I hate that. It's so depressing. More people should know how important these fish are for continental wildlife on the whole. They provide so much for so many.
Uggh. I get feels on this topic.
@Jezibaba
In the 48, we get ranchers bitching about wolves and bears taking livestock...but if salmon returned in abundance, by removal of dams, they'd have no problem, because salmon spawning is a free meal for predators that puts large amounts of fat in their bodies. It's an easy meal, livestock kick. They are dangerous to take a chance on.
@rokkinbobokkin there doesn't seem to be a fine line with commercial fishing up here until there's a total emergency and it's already too late.
@Jezibaba
I know it. Been keeping up with my Nunam peeps for years, and the catches are fewer and smaller. It's getting closer and closer to the bone.
@rokkinbobokkin yes, it is. Alaska is the canary, I feel. The problem is we're gripped by the oil companies, timber, and fishing. When we fall...
I could list the doom. But I'm not.
@Jezibaba as important as scaling back hydrocarbons and deforestation are, not enough people are focusing on creating more biomass in the oceans through myriads of ways. Salmon is a perfect example. So is kelp.
We can be fighting climate disaster with harnessing and fostering new life, in a double pronged effort to help ourselves.
@rokkinbobokkin so why aren't we????
@Jezibaba
It's nearly impossible to reign in the Chinese fishing fleets. They respect no laws, and they will overfish an area on purpose just to starve the locals of resources and capital. It's nearly impossible to understand their number, the reach, and the amount of human trafficking involved.
And so far it is difficult to convince non-japanese how nutritious kelp is. There are few people out there in the field trying to raise the awareness of the uses of kelp farming.
@rokkinbobokkin the first sentence. That's what we're up against for a lot of problems. Unrestrained.
@Jezibaba
They purposely overfish seas off the coast of South America and New Guinea (only examples I've read into closely) even for non-food catch, even destroying catch, just to keep it from market, in order to force trade reliance upon themselves. It's sickening.
@rokkinbobokkin what can be done about it? What would some viable solutions be?
@Jezibaba
1000 words
@Jezibaba
I have none. Nothing reasonable or meant for polite company.