Arctic Circle Cartoon - More Wishful Thinking About Social Media

Will there be historians who look back at what went wrong who hold Facebook responsible as a major mouthpiece for misinformation put out by the fossil fuel industry? Will there be any historians?

And yes, putting these in a blog post gets less eyeballs than Facebook, but…

My mum doesn’t, but I know people whose mums do.

If we lose all computer records and historians dig down, what will they think of all the selfie sticks?

Arctic Circle Cartoons - We Need to Stop Bombarding Bees With Pesticides

Even in New Zealand bees are dying at alarming rates. But pesticide use here is high. Bees and other insects cannot endure the onslaught of neonicotinoids, fungicides and other chemicals that are used to coat seeds (the ones that are bright blue when you open the packet), or are sprayed onto plants to control pests (only the biological controls have any specificity. Even natural pyrethrin kills a broad spectrum of insects).

Instead let’s make the soil healthier so that plants can look after themselves better. No dig, regenerative farming builds soil, fixes carbon and is better for bees and all of us.

Can You Tell How Much I Hate Social Media?

I wish I could leave Facebook, Instagram and Twitter completely, but they have become almost mandatory to be able to do certain things (following local events for example).

Arctic Circle Cartoon - What Plastic Recycling Numbers Mean (Mostly That You Can't Recycle)

Plastic recycling is complicated. Much of it isn’t recycled locally and has to be shipped overseas to process it. Even when it is processed, it has to be clean for it to be recycled.

All of which means that a tiny percentage of plastic is recycled and the rest is landfilled, or littered, or drifting around in our waterways.