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Beautiful video, sobering message. We could all feel the effects of climate change first hand across Europe these past months, but it doesn't feel like people will change the way the think or live their lives.

Love those ponies and Highland Cattle watching from behind a tress - how cool is that. Thank you for sharing and I hope a lot of people hear your message.

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I remember reading years ago about the frightening predictions for extreme heatwaves in the Mediterranean. I fear the scientists were again spot-on (actually, hell broke loose even earlier than expected).

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Aug 11, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

A beautiful montage of scenes from your incredible island underscores the important words in your message of the state of climate change & the critical juncture we’ve reached. You’ve dedicated yourself to this impending menace that’s now reached code red. Delivered with earnest gravity & sincerity, you illustrate with these beautiful dunes, nature & animals what we stand to lose without drastic changes as proven by the IPCC report. Very well done, thank you!

The watcher in the woods seems to want to add his thanks as well.

I hope you earn many cups of coffee for this commendable effort as well as your many other tireless efforts for protecting our planet.

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I hope so too. And someday I hope to find time to write about coffee, perhaps this winter. Perhaps when we lose our coffee we get really alarmed about climate, and perhaps we will lose the coffee we love.

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Aug 11, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

👍 for your presentation, we must all be listening including the ponies (-:

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haha, they didn't pay much attention and enjoyed those open spaces their own way by taking a sand bath

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Aug 11, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

yup, that pony taking a sand bath is a sign of comfort in that environment, nice capture (-

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Aug 11, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

I hikeea lot in Arizona and enjoy the wrong nature and open spaces. Unfortunately a lot of people have brought plants and foliage from non-desert areas and along with those plants they brought lots of allergens. They don’t bother me but people used to come to Arizona to deal with lung problems etc. Now none indigenous plants have ruined it a bit

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People need to be educated about invasive species. A crazy idea that people go out to enjoy Arizona's beautiful desserts and then believe they can improve it by planting non-native flowers there.

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Aug 11, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

I haven’t been for a while because of Covid but I plan to get to the botanical garden sometime soon you can’t even imagine the vast number of species of succulents and cacti it’s astounding and so stupid for people to plant deciduous trees palm trees and other things that just do not belong in the desert

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Aug 12, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

I agree, we have a rediculous amount of palm trees. Desert Botanical Gardens is amazing.

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Nov 7, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

👍👏👍

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Aug 12, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

Excellent work. A voice of coherence and simplicity, surrounded by the beauty of a unique place. The reality we have confronted with touches the space around us in a different way, questioning challenges, objectives and opportunities. Each generation prepares the future of another and life give us all the tools to open the way. Tomorrow is definitely in our hands.

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Well said: tomorrow is definitely in our hands.

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Aug 11, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

Thank you for a beautiful video and an important and thoughtful message. We have been fighting invasive species on our island too. Heat waves are now striking both coasts and the middle of America. Perhaps that will get people to demand action on the climate from their legislators. The wildfires in the Mediterranean and Western US are also terrifying. Our planet is truly burning and it affects every living creature.

Seeing those ponies and cattle help to remind that if we want the beauty of this planet to remain, action on the climate must be a priority.

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Thank you, Lilly. When following social media, I see so many negative messages, and when I work on climate change issues I also feel it is easy to get depressed by all the destruction to our living conditions. I try to counterbalance that negativity by showing the beauty that is at stake. Not always, the stories of climate change, biodiversity loss, or pollution need to be told, but during the summer (and around Christmas), and on the weekends, I try to focus on the beauty around us.

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Aug 12, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

Thank you for showing the beauty of your country. It is true we need balance and too much negativity is not good for the psyche and nature helps in that balance.

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Aug 11, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

Hello Alex, I enjoyed watching the very beautiful environment while listening to your very sobering thoughts. We all must be active to resolve our climate crisis. I’m grateful for your voice.

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Thank you Dawna

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Aug 11, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

Hello Alex. @buppadc here from Twitter. This is a great post, and a beautiful video. Excellent work, and I applaud you!!

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Hi Dave, that is so nice to hear. I will try to make these more often. Just found you back on Twitter (but won't DM ;-)

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Aug 11, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

Wonderful... I think you need a TV series of your own.

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That would be fun. Actually, I was on television today, an interview on ANEWS, I will see if it is on youtube and then share it here. (It was, as you would expect, an interview about the IPCC report)

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Aug 11, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

On BBC Science or BBC Future or something like that.

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Aug 11, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

I'm with you!

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Aug 11, 2021Liked by Alexander Verbeek 🌍

Dartmoor, England, a historic and wonderful area depends on the animals, indigenous ponies and cattle which graze there and have made it flourish. I hear that there is an amendment in the House Of Lords which is ominous. Apparently there may be changes to the common law grazing rights. It is a worry. The Dutch dunes look wonderful.

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Thank you, and so does Dartmoor!

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