Swiss limit tourist access in bid to bring back Edelweiss – Stigmatis News

Riffelsee has become a magnet for tourists in search of the perfect picture. Andia/Universal Images Group

Edelweiss has not been seen around the Riffelsee for some years.

The Zermatt authorities have decided enough is enough.

Tourists can still come, but now they are shepherded towards the lake on marked paths, with the pastures fenced off.

The aim is not to deter visitors – after all Zermatt’s tourist office advertises the Riffelsee as a photo opportunity on its website – but to educate them about the alpine environment.

Inside the fences an alpine garden – Europe’s highest – has been created; narrow walkways allow visitors to take a closer look at the flowers, with QR codes explaining what they are.

It’s a fascinating glimpse of the biodiversity of the high Alps. Planning the garden, botanists found 148 different plant species.

Many tourists clearly appreciate it, taking time to examine the garden. Others though stream on by towards the lake, their selfie sticks aloft.

Zermatt’s problem is shared by other famous, or uniquely beautiful, parts of Europe.

In Florence there was fury after a tourist posted pictures of herself miming a lewd act with the Roman statue of Bacchus.

The beautiful southern Swiss village of Lavertezzo, famous for the emerald waters of the Verzasca river running through it, was overrun with cars, visitors, and litter after a video comparing it to the Maldives was posted on Facebook.

Meanwhile in the east of the country, Canton Glarus has witnessed a surge of wild campers, driven by Instagram, looking for clickable high mountain shots.

Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group

It’s dangerous for them, because many are not experienced hikers or climbers, but it’s worse for the alpine flora and fauna. The tents crush the pastures, the campers leave rubbish and human waste behind them.

 

Source: Swiss limit tourist access in bid to bring back Edelweiss – Stigmatis News

This is a misogyny emergency. A huge outpouring is coming in the runup to the US election – Stigmatis

US vice president Kamala Harris speaks with former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as they endorse her as the Democratic presidential candidate, on 26 July. Photograph: Harris for President campaign/Reuters

 

…Because misogyny isn’t bad people saying bad things that may hurt your feelings. (Though it might.) And misogyny isn’t about silencing women. (Though it does.)

Misogyny is now one of the deadliest weapons on Earth. Misogyny is a dirty bomb in the heart of our information system. Misogyny is electoral interference. Misogyny is a national security threat so lethal we can’t even see it.

Because misogyny is invisible. It’s never about all women, it’s always just about one particular, disagreeable woman who just happens to not be very likeable. Or competent. Who is loud or “shrill” or annoying or who got the job because she slept with a man. Or because she was a diversity hire. A woman who can’t even run her own house let alone a country. A woman who is “nasty”. A woman who isn’t and cannot be the strong leader a nation needs.

Enjoy the sunshine of the Kamala moment. Breathe in the clean fresh air of facts, of evidence, of information. Of hope. Before the toxic social media chimneys crank up the content. Because shortly, the particulates will arrive, will silently and stealthily and invisibly start clogging our bronchial pathways even as the billionaire bros who own the platforms rake in record profits. It’s not so much surveillance capitalism as disaster capitalism.

It took years for us to learn some of the basic facts of what happened in 2016 and it’s still just a partial view. But we now know: Russia attacked Clinton in exactly the same way that Trumpworld attacked Clinton, in exactly the same way that they are attacking Kamala.

We now know how the Kremlin actually paid in roubles for Facebook to pump those messages out across US social media. We now know that Cambridge Analytica, on behalf of the Trump campaign, created an anonymous Crooked Hillary campaign that it fed into the “bloodstream of the internet”.

But neither invented misogyny. They just used it. These were narratives the bros of the broverse were already spreading, which the invisible hand of the social media algorithms were pumping into people’s feeds. The same zombie narratives that have risen again for Kamala and are already being stoked not just by YouTube edgelords and JD Vance fanboys but Russia and China too.

Soon, we won’t even notice. It’ll just be part of the air that we breathe. A choking toxic misogynistic stew that will silently pour over the culture war trenches like mustard gas. Darkness is coming. This is the world social media created. And we’re much further out than we thought.

Source: This is a misogyny emergency. A huge outpouring is coming in the runup to the US election – Stigmatis

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