Interesting Links for 28-12-2024

[andrewducker]

1. What the Most Famous Book About Trauma Gets Wrong

(tags:trauma mentalhealth fraud ptsd )

2. Finland boards oil tanker suspected of causing internet, power cable outages (tied to Russia)

(tags:Russia Finland sabotage ships )

3. Inside the battle to save HS2

(tags:hs2 )

4. The Incredible Results of Pairing Solar Panels With Agriculture: 'Getting more from the land'

(tags:farming solarpower )

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

In France, people (not agriculteurs) already protest it.

[conuly]

Protest what?

[juan_gandhi]

Protest the solar panels. They are destructive, they say.

They also protest large ponds where farmers keep water for watering the fields. France is complicated.

[bens_dad]

Those panels look to me as if they were not built in a manner that best preserves the existing biodiversity.
Cutting down trees in a UNESCO “biosphere reserve” is not smart.

Over the hill from me there is a field with solar panels (OK, only a few) high enough for the sheep to graze the grass underneath.

[juan_gandhi]

I'm not saying I support all these panels in the fields; so far I have not decided yet whether I want any in my backyard. Although, when there's no power, it would be good if it could pump water from the well.

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[channelpenguin]

Great to see that yet again backed up.

Not hugely useful to me personally, sadly. It's too dry (usually) in summer for rain, and we need all the sun we can get, usually, to get my veg to ripen. Maybe panels could help block the incessant wind though... But the shading would not be worth it.(Prevailing wind... SW. My major shade issue in half of the main growing area is to the SE, though I have a smaller area open to the E)

I guess the local farmers might find some uses!

HS2

[dewline]

So there are still people trying to keep that project going, huh?

Re: HS2

[andrewducker]

Half of it still is.

Re: HS2

[bens_dad]

The problem it was supposed to solve still needs to be solved*.

The west coast line is full and getting fuller.

* for a value of "need" related to that for "growth".

[mountainkiss]

(1) I do struggle a bit with "the problem is social inequity and institutionalised cultural abuse and any individual-oriented model is victim-blaming". That's not because I disagree with it per se but because it takes agency out of the hands of the individual, which I think reduces access to healing modalities. Not every pathway will work for everyone and I know there are people for whom that book isn't a good fit, but there are also large numbers of people for whom it's been inordinately helpful, which is why it's a "cult classic".

[andrewducker]

I would tend to agree - there are things that we don't have control over and things that we do, and if we focus entirely on "bad things happened to you that weren't your fault" then, true as it might be, it can remove any sense of agency that might help some people to process and deal with their issues better.

[mountainkiss]

Yes exactly this.

[mountainkiss]

Put differently: this is a both-and, not an either-or.