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eco mindful Earthling 🌏 in the land Down Under “Famine is coming… “ 😱 The Great Acceleration 📈 Ecological Overshoot 📉 Limits to Growth 🌏 Future Shocked 😳 Restore Nature 🌱 Light Triad ❤️ Degrowth 😎
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eco mindful @ecomindful.bsky.social · 15d
Urgent time to screen politicians, CEO’s, board members, religious leaders and any wealth, fame and power seeking adults, against the anti-social “Dark Tetrad”!

And… screen against Scott Barry Kaufman’s “Light Triad”, pro-social characteristics.

#DarkTetrad
#DarkTriad

#LightTriad

#auspol
How Psychopathy, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism Impact Our Cultures & Social Systems | RR 19
YouTube video by Nate Hagens
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Comms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 2h
A big thanks to those that dug into the Nationals decision to drop net zero and discovered it was based on “research” from the Coal Australia lobby group.

#auspol

www.aemo.com.au/-/media/file...
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 3h
Trump promises not to starve one group of Americans if the Dems agree to let an overlapping swathe of Americans die younger, bankrupt, stripped of healthcare.

See the new King at work, Americans.

Avoid the American political economy at all costs, #Auspol #NZpol
Donald J. Trump & © @realDonaldTrump • 23m SNAP BENEFITS, which increased by Billions and Billions of Dollars (MANY FOLD!) during Crooked Joe Biden's disastrous term in office (Due to the fact that they were haphazardly "handed" to anyone for the asking, as opposed to just those in need, which is the purpose of SNAP!), will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 3h
60 yrs ago today (Nov 5, 1965), the 1st US government report to warn about climate change was published.
"Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included warning of C02 build-up and sea-level rise/melting ice-caps.

allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/04/6...

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eco mindful @ecomindful.bsky.social · 2h
Paul Budde’s other article also on point:

The new authoritarianism: AI turns convenience into control

#AI
#Authoritarianism

#auspol
The new authoritarianism: AI turns convenience into control
From Facebook’s data scandal to AI-driven surveillance, technology is reshaping democracy by quietly trading freedom for convenience.
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Independent Australia @independentaus.bsky.social · 4h
AI is reshaping Australia’s digital and energy foundations, demanding a bold rethink of how the nation powers and connects its future.

AI is re-wiring the network: why Australia must rethink its digital and energy future
~ Paul Budde
AI is re-wiring the network: why Australia must rethink its digital and energy future
AI is reshaping Australia’s digital and energy foundations, demanding a bold rethink of how the nation powers and connects its future.
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CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 4h
A report from !Do Not Panic! has exposed how the US' largest drone manufacturer, Skydio, have armed Israel's genocide, tested their surveillance drones on Gaza, and sold them on to US federal agencies and companies for surveillance.
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The Collapse Chronicle @collapsechronicle.bsky.social · 12h
A glacier on Antarctica's Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50% of the glacier disintegrated.
Antarctic glacier retreats faster than any other in modern history, findings show
A glacier on Antarctica's Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50% of the glacier disintegrated.
phys.org
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eco mindful @ecomindful.bsky.social · 3h
Make it hurt to hoard wealth.

Tax the rich! 🤑
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Global Markets Investor @globalinvestor.bsky.social · 2d
‼️The US stock market ownership is concentrated among the WEALTHIEST:

The top 1% of US households own 50% of all Americans’ stock holdings.

The top 10% collectively own 87% of total household equities.

At the same time, the bottom 50% own just 1%.

Rich has never been richer
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 14h
China

'Extreme weather is hurting its economy and worrying its leaders... Grassroots capacity for climate adaptation was “generally weak” and some regions lacked “professional expertise”, it said. In some cities policies and funding were inadequate.'

www.economist.com/special-repo...
Why climate change now threatens China’s future
Extreme weather is hurting its economy and worrying its leaders
www.economist.com
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 11h
Here are the daily color stripes for 1940-2025, with 2025 now updated through November 1.

What will the future bring? The Climate 8-ball sings: "It's not easy being green."
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 12h
Honestly not trying to boost sales here: I just think this is really important to understand — and the thing my critics *really* don't want you to know.

Hit me up for a PDF if you're curious. Happy to send one. Don't tell my agent.

Genevieve @ genevieveguenther.com

/fin
The Language of Climate Politics - Genevieve Guenther
Genevieve Guenther is an expert in climate communication, the founding director of End Climate Silence, and affiliate faculty at The New School.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 12h
Anyway, all this is complicated and perhaps hard to see clearly just in a quick, during-coffee morning thread.

I explain all this in detail (in order to dismantle the fossil-fuel propaganda that we can expect continued economic growth, despite climate change) in Chp 3 of my last book.

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A picture of The Language of Climate Politics, by Genevieve Guenther
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LisaZed 👩🏻‍🎨 🌏 🐨🌳 @lisazed.bsky.social · 12h
Teachers shocked by #National’s racist decision to remove Treaty of Waitangi requirement in schools!
Axing schools' obligation to give effect to the Treaty of Waitangi has shocked groups representing school boards, teachers & principals.
Fascist wannabes #ACT importing #Trumpian
#nzpol
Teachers shocked by government decision to remove Treaty of Waitangi requirement in schools
The minister had been moving to change the requirement, but has announced it will remove it altogether.
www.rnz.co.nz
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 13h
Neo-conservativism presaged Trumpian neo-fascism in several respects. It saw violence as a positive policy option not a defensive last resort. It held laws, norms and the lives of non-white people in total contempt. And many, many centrists either cringed in deference to it or actively collaborated.
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Prof. Rob McLeod @robscot.bsky.social · 12h
“The fight in the big pandemic public health story has moved from proving COVID is airborne to building a public health system that acts like it.”

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 12h
The Arctic just hit its lowest winter sea ice maximum 🌍 Could this reshape British & Irish winters?

In our latest Climate Conversations, experts discuss the tug-of-war between Arctic sea-ice loss & ocean warming.

Watch 👀 youtu.be/JbaZfdxyIOY
Read 👉 bit.ly/49Bxu27

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d
Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize

When the WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 that COVID wasn’t airborne, Professor Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists worldwide to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and urge global recognition.
Australian scientist who alerted world that Covid is airborne wins top science prize
Prof Lidia Morawska says recognition of her research comes at a fraught time – an ‘age of anti-science’
www.theguardian.com
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 13h
Solow would likely say that we could come up with artificial substitutions for coffee, chocolate, and wine, so what's happening to those commodities isn't really a cost.

Here's Solow on "substitutability," in the context of the 1970s debate over limits to growth.

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His position on substitution is perhaps best encapsulated by the summary he offered in his Richard T. Ely Lecture at the 1973 annual meeting of the American Economic Association. There, he announced, the "key factor" in the question of whether or not economic growth would lead to collapse is "the degree of substitutability": "If it is very easy to substitute other factors for natural resources, then there is in principle no "problem." The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catas- trophe... If, on the other hand, real output per unit of resources is effectively bounded ... then catastrophe is unavoidable .. Fortunately what little evidence there is suggests that there is quite a lot of substitutability between exhaustible resources and renewable or reproducible resources, though this is an empirical question that could absorb a lot more work."
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eco mindful @ecomindful.bsky.social · 12h
Also worth noting:

Josh Farley — The Myths Shaping Our Economies: The Disconnect between Economic Theory and Reality

#JoshFarley

#Economics

#NateHagens
#Reality101
#TGS
Josh Farley — The Myths Shaping Our Economies: The Disconnect between Economic Theory and Reality - The Great Simplification
Economic theory has come to wield outsized influence over our societal goals, decisions, and policies – often relying on models that claim to optimize how human systems function. Yet the outcomes of o...
www.thegreatsimplification.com
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 13h
The 20th-century economist Robert Solow created the theory of infinite economic growth by substituting "technological innovation" for the productivity of land in his model, thereby decoupling the economy from any limits imposed by land or ecosystems.

The world took his theory as gospel.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 12h
[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]

Once the first district leader of Samosir, Wilmar Eliaser Simandjorang has spent his retirement rewilding parts of this landscape sacred to the Batak people.

“If we don’t pay attention to this, Lake Toba will be just a memory,” he says.
One man’s mission to rewild a dying lake
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. From a hillside overlooking Lake Toba, the vast volcanic basin at…
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 14h
Why care is the foundation of a thriving society – #Mindvalley Book Club with @timjackson.org.uk and Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
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cc #TheCareEconomy #CareEconomy #Kairos #PostGrowth #Degrowth #ProsperityWithoutGrowth #LifeAfterCapitalism #BigFood
Why care is the foundation of a thriving society | Mindvalley Book Club with Tim Jackson
Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani speaks with Tim to discuss why modern economics overlooks care work, how the pandemic exposed the real foundations of society, and wh ...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 13h
[COMMENTARY]

Heading into COP30, where tropical forests are set to be a central theme, Mongabay's Founder and CEO @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social offers a thought experiment—tracing today’s trajectories a little further forward to imagine where they might lead.

** The views expressed are author's.
What might lie ahead for tropical forests (commentary)
Heading into COP30, where tropical forests are set to be a central theme, it seemed worth attempting a thought experiment: to trace today’s trajectories a little further forward and imagine where…
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Climate Disconnect @climate-disconnect.bsky.social · 7d
A clear and insightful piece from @popnbalance.bsky.social.
Dear Elon and friends, this one's for you.

"While human overpopulation is not the only factor driving ecological overshoot, it is the most neglected one, and the factor that intensifies every crisis confronting us."
The Perils of Population Denialism — Population Balance
We are in a state of extreme overshoot, which is driven by too many people on the planet consuming too much. This should not be a controversial statement. And yet, bringing up the population issue, or...
www.populationbalance.org
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