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modulusshift
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trees seed clouds! they want some rain or shade, they release a bunch of stinky compounds, it wafts up and brings some water together! today's article is about a new class of compounds they're testing the cloud seeding ability of, and apparently it wafts up and reacts with ozone in the atmosphere in order to become a very potent cloud seed.

so like, tell me again, why did we cut down all the trees

spoilers: The Giver after the break


like, obviously a lot of freaky shit was happening in The Giver, but the aspect that hit me probably out-of-proportion was that they de-terraformed their environment. literally removed all the aspects of it that reflected a living, breathing Earth. nobody knew what snow was because it had never happened there. or rain, even, I think? and like, it sounds ridiculous, humans would never do that, right? but like...you killed all the trees. you create microclimates out of asphalt. you have deterraformed your environment, not deliberately, not thoroughly, even worse, you did it haphazardly, never asking what the full consequences of your actions might be. you just didn't want trees taking up space but you changed the very flow of water in your vicinity when you killed them


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in reply to @modulusshift's post:

god also, can I just say I'm a huge fucking fan of how the Ars author went out of their way to be like "this is what this compound smells like! maybe you already know it!" it's not like these were undetectable chemicals, unknowable before modern science. we can measure them in very different and exacting ways now, but humans everywhere from the dawn of our species could tell you that trees have strong scents. maybe they were doing things, huh? maybe the trees had a point to being stinky! maybe it wasn't nuisance for nuisance's sake! fuck

edit: sorry, Max Levy of Wired. since Condé Nast kinda just smears all their publications together at this point. at least they have them I guess lmao, fuck Gannet