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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Apr 2019
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      In the past decade, beaver reintroduction projects have demonstrated large economic benefits, from flood control, water storage, aquifer replenishment, and desertification reversal. Not yet well-quantified, but even many cattle ranchers, traditional beaver enemies, are on board.pic.twitter.com/o0nAx0KfIy

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      That is in addition, of course, to environmental benefits of beavers—they create wetlands that are about the most biodiverse habitats in the temperate northern hemisphere—and their likely (but as yet unquantified) carbon sequestration effects.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/598624676290568192 …

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      My first check on the local beaver dam this year. Looks like they're due for a bit of Spring maintenance. pic.twitter.com/xeeKpEJy9z
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      Beavers can be destructive nuisances, and some hostility is natural, but many people apparently regard them as inherently vermin. I often find recently-destroyed dams in the Tahoe backcountry, where they couldn’t cause any problem for humans.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/991095353364561920 …

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      This was a beaver pond three years ago. Humans decided they didn’t want that—I can’t see why. Result: big ugly mess, and uncontrolled erosion. Response: riprap the bank (foreground). Stream is undercutting the riprap, which is starting to collapse. pic.twitter.com/JdXjIMJwLG
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      I suspect it’s loathing of unconstrained agency: beavers visibly do what they want. Maybe beaver haters are the same people who can’t stand humans being allowed to just have sex with each other, without getting specific permission from some authority.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/602547979224907776 …

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      "Improved " beaver dam. pic.twitter.com/DUmnsFQRpL
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      I wanted to love this new book. There’s a lot of good in it, but it’s written in that horrible New Yorker style in which two thirds of the text is about what the scientists are wearing today. I WANT TO READ ABOUT BEAVERS, NOT ABOUT MONKEYS’ HAIRSTYLES https://amzn.to/2TNCu9l 

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      This is a wonderful book about beavers, although—written in 1989—it doesn’t cover the extensive recent understanding of their landscape and ecosystem maintenance before they were mostly eliminated from the U.S. Highly recommended! ♻️@_awbery_ https://amzn.to/2I4TWUv 

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