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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q51FMbTOn_Q

More of everything

A film about Swedish Forestry

Subtitles are available in #English, #German, #Portuguese, #Finnish and #Swedish

Mankind has caused a two-fold global existential crisis. Interlinked threats of climate change and loss of biodiversity are now our most difficult challenges. The policy decisions made in the next few years will be critical. How we manage the world’s forests is central to maintaining biodiversity, protecting ecosystem functions and preserving the climate. Halting the destruction and fragmentation of natural forests as well as restoring, expanding and adapting the world’s forests to climate change is fundamental.

Scientists and the environmental movement have for decades warned about the negative effect that burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) has on climate and environment. There is no question - the fossil era is over. We must urgently phase out fossil energy, as quickly as possible. The focus, however, must be on reducing all combustion and decreasing energy use, not to replace one carbon-source with another.

At the international level and within the EU, various solutions and policies aim to regulate emissions and stimulate what is hoped to be sustainable solutions. Biofuels from forests are highlighted as a climate-friendly important piece of the puzzle by lobbyists from the biomass and forest industry. In the film, we ask whether burning trees really is a climate-smart alternative?

Decisions will be made, or have already been made, on climate and energy policies that affect the world’s forests. Policies on bio-economy and energy from biomass risk being in strong conflict with protecting biodiversity and mitigating climate change.

The Swedish forestry model is promoted as a success story, promising both climate change mitigation and safeguarding of biodiversity, but is this really true? In this film, a number of prominent independent scientists and experts are helping us examine the claims that the forest industry is spreading about the Swedish forestry model and the bio-economy.

The impact of the Swedish forestry model is not limited to Sweden but has implications for the rest of the world as well. Some of the world’s and EU’s largest forestry, hygiene, paper, furniture and wood companies such as SCA, Holmen, Stora Enso, Sveaskog, IKEA and Essity, all originate from or have their base in Sweden. Some of these companies source wood and pulp and operate in many parts of the world, thus spreading the Swedish forestry model around the globe.

In times of climate change, the forest industry claims to hold the magic wand: Wood. Wood is to be used for everything from energy, disposable articles in cardboard and paper, packaging and makeup, to fuel, for an ever-expanding transport sector. To push this narrative, the forest industry spends millions on advertising, public relations and lobbying in order to present their products and raw materials as the solution for a sustainable future. Representatives of the forest industry and members of Swedish parliament praise the Swedish forestry model which they claim has taken Sweden from ”a more or less deforested nation” hundred years ago to a rich forested nation today.

The forest industry portrays Sweden as a country with vast and increasing forests. The industry goes as far as to claim that: “The forest industry is making biodiversity possible” and that Swedish forestry is balancing the needs of the economy and the environment, and that 2 to 3 trees are being planted for each tree that is felled. Slogans like; for more than 100 years Sweden has been planting more trees than it cuts down, are being spread.

More of everything?

Can we really say that a planted monoculture of pine or spruce in straight lines is a forest? Or is a forest something more than just trees?

#MoreOfEverything #documentary #film #nature #environment #trees #forest #biodiversity #ecosystem #forestry #Sweden #ErikEriksson #ProtectTheForest #docu-films

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Manuel JF

Françoise Hardy - Première rencontre

Image/photoLate night notes wrote the following post Sat, 31 Jul 2021 16:45:59 +0200

[9] Première rencontre (First encounter)

In this beautiful characterization of the romantic vision of the first encounter, Françoise Hardy's voice, delicate and vulnerable, introduces the first verse alone, soon to be accompanied by cadenced chords of a nostalgic piano. In the second stanza, strings and bass appear next to the piano, amplifying the romantic aura. Despite the brevity of the music and lyrics, there is the idealization, the dream of a long-lasting happiness, the feeling that takes hold of the person, the immediate recognition. (Chanson written, composed and produced by Michel Berger).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbOQulidnvs

Lyrics (English version):

First encounter

Françoise Hardy

I stayed alone in my room

Dreaming of the one who would come

To take me out of childhood one day

And with whom I would go

Far away

If I had to describe him

Of course I would have been wrong

But I already loved his smile

Before I met him

Before the concert started

When all the musicians are in tune

A bit like the advancing sea

A bit like the heartache

When I saw him it was a bit like that

He was nothing more than any other

But I knew it was this one

And not another one

Original French Lyrics:

Première rencontre

Françoise Hardy

Je restais seule dans ma chambre

Rêvant de celui qui viendrait

Me sortir un jour de l'enfance

Et avec qui je partirais

Loin

S'il m'avait fallu le décrire

Bien sûr je me serais trompée

Mais j'aimais déjà son sourire

Avant de l'avoir rencontré

Avant que le concert commence

Quand tous les musiciens s'accordent

Un peu comme la mer qui avance

Un peu comme le mal au coeur

Quand je l'ai vu c'était un peu ça

Il n'avait rien de plus qu'un autre

Mais j'ai su que c'était celui-là

Et pas un autre

https://genius.com/Francoise-hardy-premiere-rencontre-lyrics

Lyrics (Portuguese version) - https://write.as/latenightnotes/9-primeiro-encontro

#FrançoiseHardy #MichelBerger #music #chanson #song #lyrics #English #Portuguese #French #música #canção #letra #inglês #português #francês

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manuel-jf@zotum.net
Manuel JF

Image/photoLate night notes wrote the following post Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:09:16 +0200

[5a] Everything Is Free

Gillian Welch's voice, Welch and David Rawlings' acoustic guitar arrangement, the melancholy tone of Everything Is Free - whose lyrics reflect the perceived threat at the time (2001) of the free sharing of music files on the Internet - and, the uncompromising affirmation of the independent artist's lifestyle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy6VMDXB2SQ

Everything Is Free

Gillian Welch

Everything is free now

That's what they say

Everything I ever done

Gonna give it away

Someone hit the big score

They figured it out

That we're gonna do it anyway

Even if doesn't pay

I can get a tip jar

Gas up the car

And try to make a little change

Down at the bar

Or I can get a straight job

I done it before

Never minded working hard

It's who I'm working for

And everything is free now

That's what they say

Everything I ever done

Gotta give it away

Someone hit the big score

They figured it out

That we're gonna do it anyway

Even if doesn't pay

[Instrumental Break]

Every day I wake up

Hummin' a song

But I don't need to run around

I'll just stay at home

And sing a little love song

My love and myself

If there's something that you wanna hear

You can sing it yourself

'Cause everything is free now

That's what I said

No one's gotta listen to

The words in my head

Someone hit the big score

And I figured it out

And I'm gonna do it anyway

Even if doesn't pay

https://genius.com/Gillian-welch-everything-is-free-lyrics

Lyrics (Portuguese version): https://write.as/latenightnotes/5a-tudo-e-de-graca

#GillianWelch #DavidRawlings #música #canção #letra #inglês #português #music #song #lyrics #English #Portuguese

Everything Is Free
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