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Author: Yuval Langer <yuval.langer@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 13 Jan 2019 18:54:19 +0200

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+# Selfies In The Anthropocene
+
+"I am still missing a selfie with a newt," my friend remarked with an urgency to his voice, on our stroll one friday night.
+Newts are a kind of salamandre, an amphibian creature that breeds in water [1], and depends on it for its survival.
+"My time is running out. If I don't find one soon my collection would be forever incomplete."
+In our arid and industrious country rivers are threatened both ways: our thirst for water 
+Ever since he
+
+
+1. Talk about selfies with endangered wildlife.
+   * Urgency - they won’t be there 10 years from now.
+   * We are aware of the problem but all we do is selfies.
+      * Contributes to self fulfilment in absence of alternative, better acts that would actually contribute to wildlife survival?
+      * The only thing we can do right now is stamp collection before the stamps disappear?
+      * Citizen science - monitoring populations.
+         * Zooniverse. [2]
+         * ebird [3]
+1. The wetland habitat in israel
+   * Who lives there?
+   * Threats
+   * Solutions
+   * Conflicts
+1. Pokemon Go / Minecraft
+   * In absence of natural wildlife, create virtual wildlife.
+
+[1]: "Evolved in sweet water, one extand salt water species, the crab eating frog." <https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3isp06/why_are_there_no_saltwater_amphibians/>
+[2]: "Zooniverse - citizen astronomy" <https://www.zooniverse.org/>
+[3]: "ebird - bird monitoring." <https://ebird.org/>
+
+## TODO:
+* http://www.agamon-hula.co.il/
+   * Current threats to habitat.
+      * Industry?
+      * Agri?
+      * Water scarcity?
+      * Climate change?
+   * Solutions:
+      * Can grassroots work?
+      * State of nature reserves?
+         * Are they enough?
+         * Are they shrinking?
+         * Are Israeli standards comparable to civilized countries?
+* Did someone write this already?
+   * Obviously, they did, many times, but not for this batch of essays.
+   * Who wrote about this already?
+   * Anything good?