decided to stretch my limits with character designs, and I'm thinking of bringing back prof. I miss prof. i want more prof I need her in my life again that was in 2020 jesus christ

would it be fine if I go ahead and write a long ass speech on why prof geto is so attractive to me?

I'm hoping it is. And hence (feel free to ignore this, please) --

Look. In a world full of "high value men" (by that I mean rich and smart basically) who are seeking a feminine women who'd cook for them and do all the household task for them without a second thought or complain, professor geto helped me revive my trust. How?

So look. As a woman myself, I'm a hustler. I have big dreams. I have a long term vision. And the kind of men I'm attracted to are the ones who can keep up with me and my mental and emotional frequency (basically prof geto - fit ✅ mature ✅ rich ✅ don't come at me for being materialistic, I hold myself to these standards so it's only fair to do for that one person I'll be spending the most time of my life with) but apparently, such men (atleast that I know of irl and on social media) are into more "gender roles" saturated relationships.

I literally had one of my friends telling me "I don't care if she earns, as a male it's my job to provide so I don't care. If she does then good for her, but I don't want that interrupting all the household works. I need her to be feminine." "She needs to do the cooking, it's more women suited." And it kinda hurts? Specially if it's coming from someone i actually find inspiring?! Like do you think being feminine is all about cooking and birthing? Imagine working all your teenage and twenties to build and empire and your life partner just doesn't respect or care about it? Imagine earning as much as him but when you come home you gotta cook while he can chill because "gender roles". Huh? Not acceptable to me.

But it's fine I suppose, everyone has different needs. And the way they assign their ideal types fits into those needs, besides it's only meant for 1 person out of the 8 billion, but it can become concerning when the kind of men you are into expect you to be a certain way (which is suppressing for you. I mean sure, if that's what you want I can do it to make you happy but it'd make me miserable. Absolutely miserable. And I was trying to think of contradictions and convincing arguments on why women who are independent and more "masculine" ; because being a hustler and "too" career oriented is that apparently, still attractive.) And then I opened Tumblr and saw your posts.

🧍🏻‍♀️well.

*sobs* prof geto would neverrrr

And then I got my assurance that there still are men out there who'd appreciate it and find my (context : materialistic) success inspiring! Who'd be attracted to my brains basically ( ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠☞

For whom, having the quality of a traditional wives isn't one of the top priority, they'd build relationships on something as core of a value as love. That not all men are stupid and realise the "duties division" in a relationship isn't as crucial as finding "love" in itself is. That finding love and someone compatible is more important and then other issues such as who does what can be divided as per convenience later on.

So yes. In conclusion. Thank you for blessing my life with this assurance and prof geto, Sabina. I was so disturbed and seeing your blog on my feed and getting reminded of prof geto did calm me down in the click of a finger. Pardon me if this was too long, not something you like to talk about, too vague (which I suppose it was, because the conversation with my colleague that I'm talking about was 2.5 hours long lol 😭). Feel free to not reply to this.

🤩 anon.

ahhh no I completely feel this — I’m so glad prof geto could give you some hope!! I wanna say there’s someone like this out there — and even if not, we can be as kind as prof geto is to ourselves 💕🥹

there shouldn’t be any duties division based on gender when it comes to love — it should be on the person’s capabilities and strengths and convenience like you said!! I’m glad this silly story could be a source of hope for you!! 💕😭 it means so much

Blog No. 3

This week’s readings focused on how ecosystems and their goods and services work. Rooted in this is the concept of natural capital of which there are three kinds all existing in nature. The first is solar energy which is produced through a process called nuclear fusion where “nuclei of light such as hydrogen are forced together at extremely high temperatures until they fuse to form a heavier nucleus,” the resulting energy then radiates out towards the earth, making it hospitable for life (Miller 2012, 46). Miller furthers in Chapter 2 that approximately “99% of the energy that heats the earth and our buildings, and that supports plants (through a process called photosynthesis) that provides us and other organisms with food, comes from the sun.” Without solar energy, the average temperature of the earth would be –400°F. (Miller 2010, 45). Solar energy flows unidirectionally, meaning that it radiates from the sun as high-quality energy, enters the environment as low-quality infrared radiation as it makes contact with water, air, etc and eventually gets reflected back into space. There is no recycling of this high-quality energy (Miller 2010, 56).

There is a common misconception that greenhouse gases (GHG) are entirely human caused when in fact GHGs are naturally occurring in the atmosphere and are essential to earth, it is only when these gases are too abundantdue to human-related activities that they become harmful. As infrared radiation is reflected back into space, “it encounters greenhouse gases such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone.” While some of the radiation ultimately reaches space as heat, the remaining causes GHG molecules it encounters to produce kinetic energy which is vital to the warming of the earth (Miller 2012, 57). The beauty of the environment and its ecosystems and natural capital is that it does exactly what it is supposed to do in order to sustain life, it is only the fault of humans that climate change is occurring. This is explicated in the “Evolution of Life on Earth” video that documents the timeline of how and why the earth and its ecosystems and species came to be, demonstrating that all of the planet’s processes serve an instrumental purpose and without them we would not be here (AsapSCIENCE 2017).  

The video on “How Wolves Change Rivers” is a good example of nature’s autonomy with the reappearance of wolves in Yellowstone in the 90’s, demonstrates a trophic cascade which is an ecological process that begins at the top of the food chain and works its way down (Sustainable Human 2014). Due to the absence of predators, the deer population in Yellowstone skyrocketed which caused the vegetation to almost completely vanish. When the wolves returned, they brought the deer population under control which caused the depleted vegetation to regenerate making Yellowstone a fertile and fruitful ecosystem again. Not to mention the other animal species that benefited once their habitat was hospitable again. Essentially, the wolf population in Yellowstone is what makes it a niche place for countless species and what makes the wolf species a keystone species, or, one that other species depend on for survival (Sustainable Human 2014). The main takeaway from this is that humans are not involved at all in this; in fact, it was our hunting of wolves as an attempt to control predator populations that caused the problem in the first place, the irony being that our attempt to control one population actually caused other populations to either spiral out of control or diminish considerably. This is an excellent example of the mass damage caused by human intervention.

This kind of consequence relates to Miller’s discussion in Chapter 7 about the total interconnectedness of every facet of nature and the urgency for scientists to gain a better understanding of the causes/effects of human activity versus the environment (Miller 2012, 165). One example of this cause/effect issue is ozone. Stratospheric ozone is naturally occurring and is responsible for blocking dangerous forms of UV radiation that cause health problem such as asthma and skin cancer. This is being depleted by substances such as coolants and aerosol containers. As more and more stratospheric ozone is being degraded, it allows for more UV radiation to pass through the stratosphere and into the troposphere, which is the closest atmospheric layer to the earth. Moreover, tropospheric ozone acts as a GHG which, as aforementioned, naturally traps heat which helps to maintain the earth’s temperature, again, an example of nature is so meticulously organized to sustain all forms of life and thus needs no intervening on. However, too much ozone caused by human activity means more heat is being trapped which then exacerbates climate change as well as pollution (pictured below).

                                                                                                              (NASA.gov)

Miller gives another cause/effect example in Chapter 8 about coral reefs and how completely vital they are to sustaining many forms of life as “the marine equivalents of tropical rainforests (168). Coral reefs serve as homes to many marine animals and are built by polyps that are in themselves homes to algae that supply food and oxygen to the polyps through photosynthesis and aid in the production of calcium carbonate that is the key material of reefs. Thus, the making and actual bodies of coral reefs involves several species that otherwise would lack shelter (Miller 2012, 168). Climate change poses a major threat to coral reefs, of which we have already lost a considerable amount and risk losing all together as reported by the IPCC’s latest Summary for Policymakers. In response to Critical Thinking Question #9 from Chapter 7 that reads “You are in charge of the world. What are the three most important features of your plan for helping to sustain the earth’s terrestrial biodiversity and the ecosystems it provides?” (Miller 2012, 166), I would implement first and foremost a ban on all hunting that is not done out of necessity such as for subsistence or population control, i.e. recreation. Secondly, I would allocate more funding to conservation biology and reservations to aid the protection of endangered species. Lastly, I would ban all trade that is contributing to habitat destruction, deforestation, and biodiversity loss such as the mahogany and ivory trade.

The second kind of natural capital is chemical nutrient cycling that cycles through ecosystems in an upward-downward fashion. Nutrients are taken up by producers (plants and microorganisms) which are consumed by primary consumers (herbivores), then by secondary consumers (omnivores, carnivores) and lastly by tertiary consumers (decomposers/detritivores). Nutrients then cycle downwards through the detritus food chains (Prof’s PowerPoint). In Chapter 3, Miller explains that part of the reason that nutrient cycling is so essential is because the earth does not easily accept extra-planetary matter inputs (Miller 2010, 56). To paraphrase Newton, matter cannot be created or destroyed; thus, it must cycle or change form. The last kind of natural capital is biodiversity which Miller defines as “the variety of earth’s species, the genes they contain, the ecosystems in which they live, and the ecosystem processes of energy flow and nutrient cycling that sustain all life” (Miller 2012, 93). There are three components to biodiversity, the first is species diversity which involves species richness or, the number of species, and species evenness, which compares the populations of each species (93). The second is genetic diversity which “enables life to the earth to adapt to and survive dramatic environmental changes.” Lastly, ecosystem diversity which houses species and genetic diversity and includes deserts, forests, oceans, etc (82). The reason why high biodiversity is so important, especially in today’s climate crisis that is affecting all walks of life, is because it helps to avoid a genetic bottleneck or, a drop in population size, or genetic drift, which is a shift in allele frequency of a gene pool. It is vital that there are strong individuals left with traits that are being selected for or that enable them to survive in their niche in order to maintain the species or bring it out of endangerment.

For example, white-nose syndrome is a disease that affects North American bats and causes a fungal growth near their faces (ENN 2018). This was severely threatening bats and just recently scientists gave us some good news that the species has revived itself considerably because there are some individuals who are likely immune to the disease and have slowly brought the species out of bottleneck through reproduction. The ENN article also discusses a possible treatment for the infection using UV light which “the fungus is highly sensitive to” and “can only infect bats during hibernation because it has a strict temperature growth” (ENN 2018). In other words, the fungus can only thrive in dark, cold places which is good on one hand; however, on the other, treatment will be difficult given that bats hibernate in these dark, cold places and it will be necessary to treat them while they are hibernating before the disease becomes fatal, meaning that scientists will have to find a way to access them without disturbing their hibernation. In any case, this is an example where, contrast to the disaster in Yellowstone, human intervention is necessary for the sake of the species as well as the control of certain pests which bats normally keep in check.

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Discussion Question: To what extent should credible people, i.e. scientists be allowed intervention on nature for reasons beyond the necessary protection of endangered species and biodiversity; for example, for research about animal behavior?

Work Cited

Miller, Tyler G., and Scott Spoolman. Edited by Scott Spoolman. In Living in the Environment. 17th ed. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning, 2012.

Van Buren, Edward. “Prof’s PowerPoint Notes.” https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzKbjVLpnX0RMjVGYUwwZlBXa28/view

"The Greenhouse Effect." NASA. Accessed January 24, 2019.https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/greenhouse/en/.

AsapSCIENCE. The Evolution of Life on Earth. April 28, 2017. Accessed January 24, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy7NzjCmUf0.

Human, Sustainable. How Wolves Change Rivers. February 13, 2014. Accessed January 24, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ysa5OBhXz-Q.

"Lethal Fungus That Causes White-nose Syndrome May Have an Achilles` Heel, New Study Reveals." Environmental News Network. January 03, 2018. Accessed January 24, 2019. https://www.enn.com/articles/53553-lethal-fungus-that-causes-white-nose-syndrome-may-have-an-achilles`-heel,-new-study-reveals.