frezned

Feb 2

colony-drop:

nacly:noxi:

oeste:

honest nightmares

frezned:

gauntjaws:

frezned:

I just read basically the most interesting article ever.
Some amazing guy reckons we should introduce elephants into Australia’s bush ecosystem to control bushfires.
Just… incredible.

Yes, because introducing animals into Australia has always worked in the past!

When it was rabbits it was toffs who wanted to hunt, but this proposal is from a professor of environmental change biology. Like… presumably he knows what he’s talking about more than anyone in the world (except for other professors of environmental change biology).

A bunch of people are reblogging this with really obvious criticisms of the idea. Like, “don’t they know eucalyptus needs bushfires?”, “yeah but it’s really unpredictable introducing new species into an ecosystem” etc.
I’m not saying the idea is flawless, but… the guy proposing it is a professor of environmental change biology. If there’s a flaw in the idea that you - someone with presumably zero serious education in the field - can spot, he has probably thought of it. Because he is a professor of this exact subject. Who is from the country that he is proposing it takes place in.
I don’t know him personally, but I feel pretty safe assuming that he knows what eucalyptus is. And that he’s aware of rabbits and cane toads. And that he wouldn’t propose something like this if it was genuinely weak enough to be picked apart in five minutes by armchair experts!

gauntjaws:

frezned:

I just read basically the most interesting article ever.

Some amazing guy reckons we should introduce elephants into Australia’s bush ecosystem to control bushfires.

Just… incredible.

Yes, because introducing animals into Australia has always worked in the past!

When it was rabbits it was toffs who wanted to hunt, but this proposal is from a professor of environmental change biology. Like… presumably he knows what he’s talking about more than anyone in the world (except for other professors of environmental change biology).

A bunch of people are reblogging this with really obvious criticisms of the idea. Like, “don’t they know eucalyptus needs bushfires?”, “yeah but it’s really unpredictable introducing new species into an ecosystem” etc.

I’m not saying the idea is flawless, but… the guy proposing it is a professor of environmental change biology. If there’s a flaw in the idea that you - someone with presumably zero serious education in the field - can spot, he has probably thought of it. Because he is a professor of this exact subject. Who is from the country that he is proposing it takes place in.

I don’t know him personally, but I feel pretty safe assuming that he knows what eucalyptus is. And that he’s aware of rabbits and cane toads. And that he wouldn’t propose something like this if it was genuinely weak enough to be picked apart in five minutes by armchair experts!

enderbat:

futuresushi:

rendigo:

allbearsallthetime:

beatonna:

I want you all to go read this comic, because it’s amazing, and if you haven’t heard of Boulet, now is your chance to make it right. He’s the greatest, this comic is the best.

oh my god this was a 24 hour comic

jesus this is fantastic

holy crap this owns

holy fuck

this is

really

really

good…

everyone read it immediately

whoa ;u;

(via holypeaches)

gauntjaws:

frezned:

I just read basically the most interesting article ever.

Some amazing guy reckons we should introduce elephants into Australia’s bush ecosystem to control bushfires.

Just… incredible.

Yes, because introducing animals into Australia has always worked in the past!

When it was rabbits it was toffs who wanted to hunt, but this proposal is from a professor of environmental change biology. Like… presumably he knows what he’s talking about more than anyone in the world (except for other professors of environmental change biology).

I just read basically the most interesting article ever.

Some amazing guy reckons we should introduce elephants into Australia’s bush ecosystem to control bushfires.

Just… incredible.

vondell-swain:

oliphillips:

‘What if…’ Movies re-imagined for another time & place.

by Peter Stults

HOT DAMN THESE ARE GOOD

(via bekn)

kimjongunlookingatthings:

looking at a guitar

holypeaches:

hey have I ever mentioned how much I hate my history teacher jesus christ we had to read The White Man’s Burden and circle ten words we didn’t know but being not entirely brain dead I knew all of the words but she said ‘well just define ten words anyway’ and I sighed and she said ‘I know life is hard and then you die’ oh my god so I just defined the first ten words of the poem oh and she made us use paper dictionaries like the big books from 1993 because let’s make this stupid menial task as difficult and tedious as possible I will vomit all over her see if I don’t

that “words you don’t know” thing has exactly happened to me

it is the dumbest task

Feb 1

vondell-swain:

valentines,

erinvision:

I decorated this really shitty cookie :)