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Bhutan’s forests cover over seventy percent of the country, far exceeding its constitutional mandate. Those trees absorb several times more carbon than the nation emits, locking carbon negativity into law, landscape, and everyday life. #facebookrepost

Leaving out milk and cookies for Santa is literally just making an offering to a deity and we all collectively agreed not to talk about it and just let the Christians claim it. We decorate the house. We light things. We sing ritual songs. We leave food out overnight for a powerful being who judges us and may reward us accordingly. That’s literally folk magic. And before anyone clutches their pearls, let’s remember: Christmas didn’t start as a Hallmark movie or in a church. It’s a mashup of pagan winter festivals like Yule (celebrating the return of the sun), Saturnalia (feasting, gifts, chaos), and old European traditions where people left offerings for spirits, gods, or visitors passing through the dark of winter. So yeah. Milk and cookies for Santa? Offerings. The tree? Sacred symbolism. The lights? Literally “please come back, sun.” Congrats to all of us for accidentally teaching our kids ritual work, seasonal magic, and how to appease higher powers before bedtime. (CTTO) - owner @Brittany Elkins #PaganTraditions #facebookrepost

In 1945, General Eisenhower made a decision that would preserve truth for generations. While touring the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, he witnessed horrors so unimaginable that he immediately understood something chilling about human nature. He knew that one day, people would claim none of it ever happened. What he did next became one of the most important acts of historical preservation in modern history. #facebookrepost #HumanHistory #HistoricPreservation #

Field data show weather, disease, and other predators cause nearly all livestock losses. Where wolves return, ecosystems stabilize, vegetation rebounds, and damage drops, exposing a predator blamed far more than it harms. #facebookrepost

Indeed - Václav Havel is saying something simple and very true about human nature. He thought that inside every person, there is a quiet, good heart. It is a natural instinct to be fair, to help, and to cooperate. But life often teaches us to ignore that instinct. We get tired, we become cynical, or we are told that being good is for fools. That good heart doesn't disappear. It just goes to sleep. It becomes dormant, waiting for someone to remind it that it is okay to wake up. That is exactly what Havel is doing with this quote. He is giving that quiet heart permission to beat loudly again. He is telling people, plainly, that being decent is not naive. Helping your neighbor, telling the truth, and playing by the fair rules are not silly ideas. They are the most sensible and practical things we can do. They are the basic glue that holds a family, a town, or a country together. Without that glue of simple goodwill, everything else falls apart. He is not dreaming of a perfect world. He is giving us the instruction manual for building a real one. #humanityandpeace #facebook #facebookrepost

Known as embryonic diapause, the fertilized embryo pauses at a microscopic stage until conditions improve. This strategy appears in over 130 mammal species and sharply increases survival by timing birth to opportunity. #strangefacts #facebookrepost