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judgingbooksbycovers · 4 months
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Orbital: A Novel
By Samantha Harvey.
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@sebsxphia pinterest really had it out for me this morning lmmaaooooo
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salt-apple · 1 year
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Pipe Dreams
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mostlyghostie · 2 years
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Little book haul, got them all for £6 at the very well stocked charity shop nearby 👌
I’ve read The Western Wind before but it’s so great I wanted to own a copy- it’s kind of a mystery but set in a 15th century village. So well researched, there’s no feeling of getting a history lesson, you just live the story through the villagers and end up understanding so much about what it might have been like to be alive then.
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contedivaldoca · 2 years
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“Vento dell’Ovest”, S. Harvey
È nella nostra natura negare ciò che ci spaventa,
e non per ottusità o cattiveria.
Forse che non alberga in ognuno di noi la ferma volontà di sperare anche contro ogni speranza?
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lunarlesbianlove · 2 years
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mmwm · 2 months
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WRITE 28 DAYS: DREAM POEMS - Day 8
Part of my Feb 2024 Dream Poems project. For days when I’m not inclined to write a poem, I’m offering other people’s dreamy thoughts. “Writing is dreaming. I only discovered that a couple of years ago. It is lucid dreaming — the work of the subconscious that has a toe in the conscious, just enough to harness the dream’s waywardness. I always heard it said that writing draws on the subconscious,…
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amorphousbl0b · 2 months
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Orbital by Samantha Harvey
“Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the earth. They are there to collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.”
This little book is what the written word was meant to do. It could not be told, it would be unfathomably dull in any other medium. Its message is in thoughts and hopes. Its thesis would be lost in silence. But in these pages its message is bright, invigorating, saddening, soothing.
There's something special in a book about the contemporary space program. I've not seen many of those, they're all about last century, things that are already over. This story could happen tomorrow, or when Artemis 3 launches in 2026 I suppose. It's almost science fiction and yet we will achieve it. This is real. Impossible and real.
This is not a novel that marches its story steadily along to a conclusion you can see coming. It is the passage of time. It is a single day. It is the tragedies and musings of a single day. It is the feeling of looking up at the stars and wanting to jump into them, wanting to rise (or maybe fall) so far that you can look back at the ground and begin for the first time to appreciate that such a tiny thing as you can dream something so enormous as any dream at all.
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noxaeternaetc · 3 months
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"From the space station's distance mankind is a creature that comes out only at night. Mankind is the light of cities and the illuminated filament of roads. By day, it's gone. It hides in plain sight."
Samantha Harvey, Orbital, 2023.
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preacheroftruthblog · 3 months
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Ruth: How God Works When He Is Silent -- Samantha Harvey
Do you ever wonder if God will do anything with all those prayers you keep sending up? You aim to do God’s will…but sometimes it seems impossible to know what His will is. Should my husband take the job in another state? Should we keep our kids in a subpar public school, spend a bunch of money on private school, or homeschool? Should I see yet another doctor in order solve this health crisis I am…
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shallowbreaths · 4 months
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One of my all time favorite covers. I always felt it so deeply. I convinced myself that when we ended that I would walk away and not look back. This WAS true, but when you meet the right kind of person “goodbye” is the hardest thing a human can say.
I finally understand Rachel:
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ashleyheyneblog · 6 months
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The perfect father/daughter dance song ❤️🥲 I Loved Her First - Heartland ❤️ #fatherdaughterdance #heartland #ilovedherfirst #cover
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taste-this-blog · 1 year
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Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me | Cover
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salt-apple · 9 months
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fumpkins · 5 years
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Climate activists may have a surprising ally: France’s Yellow Vests
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Samantha Harvey is a author and fellow with EDGE Funders Alliance, a company that works to raise awareness of the connections in between social, financial, and environmental issues.
When travelers started their yearly flock to Paris for vin rouge and vacation shopping last month, a rag-tag, politically unaffiliated group wearing yellow security vests appeared with various strategies. A proposed fuel tax, viewed as another blow versus employees by a federal government in thrall to elites, triggered a rampage in the most classy streets of Paris. The “Yellow Vests” demonstrations ( gillets jaunes) continued for weeks and triggered uniformity marches throughout Europe, even after President Emmanuel Macron assured to stop the tax.
Countless miles above the presentations, world leaders flew to the U.N. climate talks called POLICE 24 in Katowice, Poland to strengthen the 2015 Paris Accord. President Trump got on the chance to scapegoat efforts to take on climate modification as the Yellow Vests’ inspiration, tweeting, “Maybe it’s time to end the ridiculous and extremely expensive Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement isn’t working out so well for Paris.”
The Yellow Vests, nevertheless, are worried about the climate, regardless of their demonstration of a fuel tax, and their list of 42 requires require a fairer shift to a low-carbon economy for employees. Their problem is with how it’s done, while Trump’s view casts climate modification as a fixation of the fortunate, an either-or battle in between the environment and the economy.
The reality is, worldwide climate justice activists push for both– a shift to a green economy that likewise requires reasonable pay, localized ownership and take care of neighborhoods as essential parts of a cleaner world– all propositions in line with the Yellow Vests’ needs. A much healthier world needs an overhaul of our financial system, and employees working together with climate justice motions would be twice as effective. However the connections in between them aren’t extensively understood.
This might be due to the reality that the prominent decision-makers fulfilling in Poland do not represent the whole of the climate motion. Just weeks after the most worrying Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Modification (IPCC) report yet (requiring emissions cuts of 45 percent listed below 2010 levels in the next 10 years), world leaders appeared not able to believe beyond business-as-usual propositions that permit us to keep pumping carbon into the environment, like carbon trading and geoengineering.
To climate justice activists, who draw from bottom-up services rooted in neighborhoods hardest struck by climate modification, these propositions are non-starters, since they prevent dealing with underlying reasons for the crisis: Unconfined commercialism constructed on resource extraction and manifest destiny, and an addicting, globalized culture of intake that supports the really leaders of federal government and organisation running the U.N. climate settlements.
The big and growing motion for climate justice concentrates on these source and promotes worker-friendly, fair services in climate settlements worldwide. Take the Global Climate Action Top last September in San Francisco. Simply outside that top was the parallel “People’s Summit,” hung on a marvelous day prior to ash from wildfires blanketed the state. Leaders from Climate Justice Alliance, Grassroots Global Justice, Indigenous Environmental Network and Right to the City Alliance shared stories of displacement as the outcome of international business land-grabs, of communities strained by contamination from power plants, and of significantly violent consequences versus those who attempt to secure their ancestral homelands.
However those at the top just benefit when populist groups like the Yellow Vests do not see simply how aligned they are with climate justice. This is why it’s still unusual to hear the economy and the environment talked about as interconnected issues with synergistic services, and why top-level climate conferences continue to produce lax dedications that keep the status quo.
Can we envision a green world in which employees make choices for how they live? As earnings spaces increase, as tasks are lost to automation and oil and gas centers are closed down, it appears apparent that federal governments and neighborhoods must train and release legions of competent employees to develop a brand-new, green facilities. This might be anything from emissions-free light rail lines that stumble upon The United States and Canada to regional microgrids and city farming. Separating the monolithic worldwide corporations that manage our fuel and food would alter the system; a shift to a brand-new economy would put power back into the hands of individuals.
These concepts have lived in the Simply Shift motion in the United States for years, and they’re gaining ground thanks to the Green New Offer just recently proposed by Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York City. This simply shift would cut greenhouse gases while bringing tasks, security and autonomy back to neighborhoods, making sure everybody has access to a great education, tidy water, healthy food and safe living conditions.
At the time of this writing, the Yellow Vests are splintering, with demonstrations spreading out throughout Europe and more extreme factions acting out with violence. We have actually seen increasing populism all over the world degenerate into outlets for rage, frequently taking unsafe racist and nationalist tones. To stop that damaging cycle, Yellow Vests and climate justice activists need to make typical cause.
Business interests may overshadow them now, however envision if these 2 motions came together. They ‘d be unstoppable.
Samantha Harvey is a author and fellow with EDGE Funders Alliance, a company that works to raise awareness of the connections in between social, financial and environmental issues and supporters for worldwide climate justice.
New post published on: https://livescience.tech/2018/12/13/climate-activists-may-have-a-surprising-ally-frances-yellow-vests/
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contedivaldoca · 2 years
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È impossibile comprendere gli uomini fino in fondo, hanno troppe facce
“Vento dell’Ovest”, S.Harvey
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