pablo … don’t always try and get into a fight

You’re not always right

When you write

Think something of delight/something “out of sight!”

Before you go to bed this night

There’s really no dearth

Of mirth

On this Eaarth

And some say late in the year is the time of Jesus of Nazareth’s birth

A time to enjoy much quite merrily and even increase your girth

Well … Okay … I should not forever be crappy

(But I can’t be too extremely sappy)

Many on Eaarth are quite satisfactorily happy …

And that makes me very truly happy and slappy snappy

Now I’m off to bed for my nightly nappy

Deathly crazy!

We are all more or less deathly crazy

Some and sometimes much more than others

But always deathly crazy

(This COULD change???)

Lack of sharing

Too little caring …

Too much complacency, apathy, self-induced ignorance, de facto rotten immorality

Poverty; slums, favelas, ghettos, shanty towns; starvation, death???

Out of sight, out of mind

Deathly crazy

(This could be changed)

Nazi extermination camps and Soviet Gulags

Khmer Rouge mass killings, Rwandan Tutsi killings, Congo killing fields

Bosnia’s Srebrenica ethnic cleansing

Bear River Massacre, Sand Creek, Marias, Wounded Knee

U.S./Saudi killings in Yemen; many U.S. military killings elsewhere

And on … and on … and on …

So very deathly crazy

(But this could be changed)

Plowing out prairies, clear-cutting forests, damming rivers & streams

Constant biocide spraying to date of fields across the world after WW II

Over-grazing, over-browsing; so many dogs, cats

So many shrimp, carp, tilapia (and people)

So many individuals of domesticated species–crop species; fowl, swine, bovine

Artificialization-desertification

Cars, cars, cars; semis, semis, semis; pick-em-up trucks; recreationals …

Concrete, asphalt

McMansions and true mansions, excessive air-conditioning

So many mowers and blowers

Exotic artificial landscapes

Exotic and synthetic foods

Stuff, plastic … stuff, stuff, stuff

Fossil energy and materials, mining/mining/mining, Haber-Bosch, MANufacturing

Rampant energy transformations, anthropomorphic global-climate change

So very, very deathly crazy for all of humanity

(But this could change???)

Science/SARS-CoV-2/need to manage COVID-19 is a hoax

MY freedom is my sole soul desire

Masking?  Hell no!

And I’ll get as close to people as I (selfishly)desire

Vaccination!

Not in MY bless(ed) body

No matter the clearance, & recognition of ecological-community need

From morally ethical scientists, intellectuals, statespersons, expert bureaucrats

No matter a desperate need for positively ethical applied community ecologists/PEACEmakers

Why, why, why are we deathly crazy

(This COULD be changed)

Guns, AR-15s, nuclear arms, death drones

And more and more arms

Suicides, domestic violence and homicides, school shootings and DEATH, gun accidents

War … wars …

Human stupidity

Lack of critical thinking and decision-making

Deathly crazy

(But this could change)

Trophy hunting, hunting for sport

Rather than “hunting-and-gathering”

And instead of working toward regeneration

Of dynamic homeostatic symbioses

For all including all species

Deathly crazy

(This could change!)

More, more, more

For the blessed Haves

For the arrogant chosen ones

For GOD’s children

Disparity, overshoot, biocapacity drawdown

Who cares as long as I have my sheltering walls and artificial go(o)dness

As long as I can fly

To a fenced-in, walled-in, protected artificially-built space

Of cars, concrete, asphalt, plastics, stuff, stuff, stuff

A place of super-environmentally, super-genetically modified Nature

Perhaps with trophy-bucks with a gillion points

Deathly crazy

(But this could change?)

Neil’s “Look at Mother Nature on the run …”

Roberto Carlos’ “As Beleias”

Dylan’s “License to Kill”

Walsh’s “We’re killing everything that’s alive

And anyone who tries to deny it

Wears a tie

And gets paid to lie.”

Joni’s “Big Yellow Taxi”

McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction”

The man in black’s “Don’t Go Near the Water”

Journalist, scholar Robert Jensen’s thoughts on a dying? … or dead??? world

Adam Wright’s lamenting verse piercingly, hauntingly says it all

“I don’t doubt for a minute …

We’ll get right to rightin’ all these wrongs

Someday we will

But I wonder if the world can wait that long”

And much more by the better and best poets

Truthfully spoken in many languages

“I said come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now
Right now
Right now”

(“Everybody” means love, respect, admiration, & wisdom for all biota

This includes other species, ethnicities, tribes, cultures, religions

With particular histories, education backgrounds, socio-economic statuses

Behaviors, languages spoken, skin colors, smells

Sexual orientations and persuasions, types of dress and ornamentation

Etc., etc., etc.)

We are deathly crazy

But this could be changed

This must be changed

Now!

……………..

pbm

7 S’s / VV->^^

16h45 13 de janeiro Chegada RIO (Viagem a Ouro Preto por um dia)

13-19 (Visite amigos no Rio)

19 de janeiro para São Paulo

20-22 (Visite os Mustafas)

[23 de janeiro Betsy volta ao Rio e deixará o Rio às 22h25, 26 de janeiro]

23 de janeiro paul para Novo Hamburgo 

24-25 (Visite Alvaro Kessler, Camilo, et al.)

26 de janeiro para Foz Iguaçu  

27 (Foz Iguaçu)

28 de janeiro para Campo Grande

29-fevereiro 2 (Visita Campo Grande, Bonito ?, Pantanal ?? – Zé Raul, Lelia, Koller, Marlene, Preto, Toti, Julia Boock, et al.)

3 e 4 de fevereiro para Barra do Cordo

5-7 (Visitar Anchieta, São Luís?)

8 e 9 de fevereiro para o Rio

22:25 10 de fevereiro Saia do RIO

[Esses planos são para viagens de ônibus após a chegada ao Rio. O Brasil é maior do que os EUA continentais e posso fazer alguns voos dentro, e posso tentar também ir para Recife e ver alguns amigos ???.]

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16:45 January 13 Arrive RIO (Travel to Ouro Preto one day)

13-19 (Visit friends in Rio)

January 19 to Sao Paulo

20-22 (Visit the Mustafas)

[January 23 Betsy back to Rio and will leave Rio at 22:25 January 26]

January 23 Paul to Novo Hamburgo & Santa Maria

24-25 (Visit Alvaro Kessler, Camilo, et al.)

January 26 to Foz Iguacu  (Probably not!)

27 (Foz Iguacu)

January 28 to Campo Grande

29-February 2 (Visit Campo Grande, Bonito?, the Pantanal??-Ze Raul, Lelia, Koller, Marlene, Preto, Toti, Julia Boock, et al. )

February 3 & 4 to Barra do Cordo

5-7  (Visit Anchieta, Sao Luis??)

February 8 & 9 to (Recife??? &) Rio

22:25 February 10 Leave RIO

[These plans are for travel using buses after arrival in Rio.  Brasil is larger than the continental U.S. and I might do some flying within, and may try to squeeze in Recife & see some friends???.]

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16:45 13 de enero Llegada a RIO (viaje a Ouro Preto por un día)

13-19 (visita amigos en Rio)

19 de enero a Sao Paulo

20-22 (visita las Mustafas)

[23 de enero Betsy volverá a Río y saldrá de Río a las 22:25 el 26 de enero]

23 de enero Paul a Novo Hamburgo

24-25 (visita a Alvaro Kessler, Camilo, et al.)

26 de enero a Foz Iguacu

27 (Foz Iguazú)

28 de enero a Campo Grande

29-2 de febrero (¿Visita Campo Grande, Bonito ?, ¿el Pantanal? – Ze Raul, Lelia, Koller, Marlene, Preto, Toti, Julia Boock, et al.)

3 y 4 de febrero a Barra do Cordo

5-7 (visita Anchieta, Sao Luis?)

8 y 9 de febrero a Rio

22:25 10 de febrero Salida de RIO

[Estos planes son para viajar en autobús después de la llegada a Río. Brasil es más grande que los EE. UU. Continentales y podría volar un poco dentro, y podría intentar pasar un tiempo en Recife y ver a algunos amigos.]

we humans are all so very hypocritical (including, especially, … me, myself, & i)

the plethora of ads for MORE, MORE, MORE

tell me we are entering into the season of peace on eaarth and good will …

while we allow a lion’s share of resources to go to War and/or preparation for War

and, ooohhhh, we all love Nature so very much

while we readily traverse the eaarth in so many damn cars

over a transport infrastructure of tremendously-CO2-generating concrete & polluting asphalt, etc., etc., etc. … which wipes out natural habitat & species

exotic foods from who knows where, more clothes than we know what to do with, large air-conditioned homes

disposable plastic bags; plastic cars, plasticized food, plastic clothes, plastic homes; plastic this and plastic that

this all takes huge amounts of socio-ecological destructive fossil material & energy

……………….

and now as i come to the end of this particular bicycle ride and pass by the “health-caring” guadalupe regional medical center

an army of health-destroying, fossil-fueled powered leaf blowers are attacking the landscape and spewing CO2 & hydrocarbons & and dust (& lots of noise) …

uselessly into the atmosphere

……………….

my far leftist friends are thumbs-down on joe & kamala (with good reasons)

nevertheless, i cannot help but “feel”

that trump, trumpians … and even trumpsters (most republicans???)

… are the epitome of hypocrisy

pbm

7 S’s / VV->^^

some have been,

are,

will be …

in

heaven or

hell.

most have been,

are,

will be …

in a limbo of sorts which is a sort … of hell!

pbm

7 S’s / VV->^^

after quasi-suffocation unto death with an avalanche of seven foot of cottonseed hulls

what if don lawrence had driven around the block several times in 1964

rather than having rushed me in devine town’s ambulance & “temporary hearse” to doc’ peters’ clinic and then Santa Rosa in SA?

after an accidently self-administered lethal dose

of the cholinesterase inhibiting-pesticide aldicarb on a hot day in usda’s field fourteen south of college station

what if the nuns and doctors at St. Joseph’s hadn’t gotten the atropine into me in time?

(what if i hadn’t accidently righted my inverted-stalled t-34 during a loop-aerobatic over the waters of pensacola in 1969

and during t-28 touch-&-goes near brewton, alabama, after a very, very hard “touch” (i should have aborted!!!) i almost crashed into a bunch of pines*

and after a late night/early morning of drinking with three aggie marine pilots … still inebriated, I climbed into & flew a downed t-28 for my early morning solo

what if i had slipped during a precarious crossing on a cliff’s small ledge high in the carpathian mountains with polish friends in ukraine in the 1990’s

etc.,

etc.)

…………………….

well … there would have been death after death

i’d have ceased to be paul bain martin

i would not be the “toxic” gadfly i am … pontificating, bs-ing, telling stories ad nauseam, or writing crude poetry and essays

my beautiful wife betsy would have had a good possibility of a peaceful … or tormented … or maybe bland … or maybe absolutely marveleous life of love with another

in the case of possible deaths except in the carpathians there would be none of the pbm-gened grandkids and kids that i now see and love immensely

similarly there would be none of pbm-gened grandkids which i’ve been barred from seeing … and love immensely

sure! i/my potentially inherited matter/bonds of energy, would still be in some sort of part of dynamic homeostatic symbioses … or chaos

but in the sense of a paul bain martin?  no!

paul bain martin, somewhat consciousness of truth and justice and love, would be no more

but death after death–a recycling of matter and dramatic transformation of energy–is ok

for some period and in some places “life” or some kinds of energy plus matter will continue

the seeking of truth and justice and love and happiness will carry on

“Truth” will endure for all “time”

and in some sort of “space” …

whatever these dimensions might “truly” or “truthfully” be???

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*Some of my Naval Air buddies and I saw on Naval Air Station Whiting Field the burned T-28 in which a young student pilot perished at the Brewton landing strip.  Also, during this period in which I was involved in Naval Aviation in 1969-70, we heard of a jet trainer and his student flying too low over the gulf, and after becoming disoriented, plunging to their deaths in the salty waters.

pbm

7 S’s / VV->^^

SPC Science & Technology Institute Present “Enough for Everyone” Webinar – YouTube

SPC : Earth Day | Alamo Colleges

pbm

7 S’s / VV->^^

Opinion | The Climate Summit Has Me Very Energized, and Very Afraid – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

1.  Thanks so much Marvel!!!  I had not seen this Friedman article re COP26!  …

I do cherish our friendship, your love, & our collaborations … Siempre!  And rolling through my mind now are:

a. a possible letter to the local editors about a need … a call … for young HEB workers in Seguin to strike toward banning the SENSELESS use of all these damn disposable, polluting, fossil material/energy-generated disposable plastic bags (It would be one start–if a very small one!),

………….

b. a statement to the SISD school board next week about the good they are doing, but also … how much more the schools could do re curbing ecological destruction,

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c.  what I need to do concerning the support & realization of PEACE art/poster efforts in collaboration with the Seguin Art League & the Lions … which we discussed recently (i.e., work on a facilitating grant proposal),

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d.  the making locally with locally-grown fibers & distributed locally of some T-shirts which advocate a journey toward regeneration & conservation of resilient, sustainable ecological community.

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e.  pursuit of realizing another little book, before I pass, … dealing with the life of young friend Deyling Rizo,  Nicaragua, & the influences of the imperialistic power of the U.S.  … with a bit on the detrimental influences of global climate change (changes brought about largely by relatively neoliberal capitalism) on coffee production & other agriculture … and immigration.

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(I’ll try to use the wealth of knowledge of Nicaragua at UT-Austin, the connections of friends in the Somoza family, agroecologist Miguel Altieri, a priest friend in Leon, Dos Pueblos of NYC & Nicaragua, and of course the family of Deyling, etc.  …

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And I do hope to discuss this book idea with a retired UT professor & successful author in New Mexico during travels there in the next two weeks.)  …

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Yes, as Haitian (roots) artist Marika Bordes once emphazized … I do dream too much … vs. taking real action.

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2.  I DREAM big dreams of activism & action, but also realize that I am for the most part a relatively uneducated, not overly bright, lazy, inarticulate son of a relatively poor hog farmer from South Central, ” backwards” Texas, and that the reality is that I will accomplish very little. … Still, I plan to continue dreaming and trying..

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3.  Like Friedman, I too fear GREATLY for the TERRIBLE challenges we, but especially our kids and grandkids and their progeny, and even more particularly, the 3+ billion have-nots on Eaarth … will face.

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The threat they face are of course because of the ecologically-destructive actions/habits/ethos that WE of recent generations, especially after WWII, have lived, including growth of our “conspicuous consumption, (but also human & domesticated species population numbers), our global-industrial exotic, energetically unsound food & fiber-agricultural systems; large, air-conditioned homes & other built structures; crazy use of automobiles, including hybrids & electric ones (& especially big pick-’em-up trucks)  …  .

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I have to add here that I am as guilty as most … but that some of those close to me, daughter Angie & her family and brother Kenny & his family, do a pretty good job of living through a light ecological footprint … compared to say, paul bain martin.

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4.  I understand the (what I think is LIMITED) power of “prayer,” meditation, & religious communication as well as employment of APPROPRIATE technologies.

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Nevertheless, I was NOT very pleased with the emphasis Friedman gave in his piece to prayer and technological fixes.  Moreover, nuclear energy, which Friedman at least suggested as a transitional fix, costs tremendous amounts of fossil energy inputs for development, building, and security of reactors & associated structures for generation & delivery … before any net energy is realized.  And we need LESS artificial input/throughput/output involving energy transformation, not MORE!

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(I try to deal with this in my little piece in:  PabloEco3500K – Tales of PEACE: Positively Ethical Applied Community Ecology (paulpeaceparables.com) , which was edited and hopefully improved a bit in our little book on applied ecology, Games We Play (kite.pub)  Renewable Energy as THE Key Asset of Commonwealth in Community by paul bain martin 1 – PabloEco3500K (paulpeaceparables.com)  Games We Play (kite.pub)  )

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5.  Finally (almost), the most important things we can do for immediate & more distant generations of humans are:

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a.  Live lives of “Less Is More,” Steady-State economics, “Small Is Beautiful,” ” A Prosperous Way Down” proposed by Jason Hickel, Rice U. graduate Herman Daly, E.F. Schumacher, H.T Odum and various ecological economists et al.

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b.  Set aside 50% of Eaarth to Nature & dynamic homeostatic symbioses as proposed by E.O. Wilson of Harvard U.

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c.  Begin reducing the War- and military-  ( and “policing-“) budget/actions of the U.S., & that of the world, toward zero.

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d.  a long- term dream/goal should be realization of a profound & holistic applied agroecology, which probably means a matriarchal agrarian society of local production, processing, & distribution … including appropriate technologies and in concert with dynamic homeostatic symbioses/”nature.”

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6.  I’m sorry for the length and continuation of my redundancy in this.  Nevertheless, I suppose I’ll pass or my mind will totally fizzle out before I stop.

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Love,

paul

7 S’s / VV->^^

11/10/2021