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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 2h

We live in a culture of 'more'. More stuff, more energy, more travel, more convenience, more luxury and, above all, more money. And there is no end to more.

But our survival depends on less - on a culture of 'enough'. The antidote to incontinent greed is temperance. Only sufficiency is sustainable.

Christian Dimmer @remmid.bsky.social · 3d

Not a comfortable read—but sugar-coating does not help. No countryis currently on track to meet 1.5°C Paris target. To reach it, individual lifestyle emissions in high-income countries must fall by up to 94%. Transport & nutrition remain largest sources of emissions.

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A Climate for Sufficiency: 1.5-Degree Lifestyles Report

The report “A Climate for Sufficiency ” examines how lifestyles, shaped by infrastructure, policy, and culture, must transform to align with planetary limits.

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 4h

Also worth noting that EVs are the second most polluting, destructive and unsustainable form of land transportation ever invented. Only ICE vehicles are worse.

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Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 9h

“My vision is of a new Ireland - one that is inclusive, progressive, creative and fair. It is not about victory for one side, but partnership between all. I want to use the Presidency to encourage inclusive discussion about the future – to create...

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sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 21h

"Its because I'm Jewish"

The great Miriam Margolyes sets the record straight

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 21h

And maybe also take a moment to remember the Slender-billed Curlews...

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International Wader Study Group @waderstudy.bsky.social · 1d

Today IUCN has officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.

Read more here ⬇️
www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 1d

Every 3 years, we gather up
All of the carbon
And every wild mammal and bird
And burn them
All of the whales and chaffinches
Every stampede - the murders and the flocks
Reduced to air
Every 3 days we burn ourselves
By now we have matched
Every gram of living carbon
With a soot stain in the sky
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 1d

Climate expert @robinlamboll.bsky.social treating an audience last night to a short poem. The first words are missing: "Every 3 years, we gather up..."
He had been explaining things like the planet-cooling effect of health-harming smog (aerosols), the 3 years of our carbon buget left before we

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 1d

We killed them all. Every last one of them. And now they will never be again.

They lived their Curlew lives, migrated, cared for their young, and had every right to be here - as much as ourselves. And they did us no harm.

And we killed them all.

International Wader Study Group @waderstudy.bsky.social · 1d

Today IUCN has officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.

Read more here ⬇️
www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 1d

Our breathing space is less than
The weight of the unseen bacteria
Or the myriad of ways
Life reinvents itself.

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 1d

Every 3 years, we gather up
All of the carbon
And every wild mammal and bird
And burn them
All of the whales and chaffinches
Every stampede - the murders and the flocks
Reduced to air
Every 3 days we burn ourselves
By now we have matched
Every gram of living carbon
With a soot stain in the sky
...

Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 1d

Climate expert @robinlamboll.bsky.social treating an audience last night to a short poem. The first words are missing: "Every 3 years, we gather up..."
He had been explaining things like the planet-cooling effect of health-harming smog (aerosols), the 3 years of our carbon buget left before we

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 1d

Steps 1-8:

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8 Simple Steps to Grow Your Own Peanuts at Home

Learn how to grown your own peanut plant at home in 8 easy steps. Let’s go!

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 1d

OK! OK! I'll do them!! Jeez! But I just have to finish this one thing first.

(See - its not complicated at all!)

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn't it be easier to just have two dishwashers and eliminate the cupboard? Not complicated at all.

a man wearing a watch holds his finger to his forehead while smiling

ALT: a man wearing a watch holds his finger to his forehead while smiling

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 2d

Fair enough. But you don't actually think she was a supporter of the Assad regime, do you?

Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 2d

Whatever your views on Catherine Connolly's suitability for the presidency, do you really believe that she visited Syria in support of the Assad dictatorship?

Seriously - do you really believe that?

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 6d

Per the Sunday Independent poll earlier: Humphreys would have taken 60% of Gavin’s first preferences, Connolly 24%, the remainder non-transferrable.

Reworking the poll accordingly:

Catherine Connolly 36
Heather Humphreys 32
Undecided 33

#aras25

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 5d

There is a carbon price, it's just that the polluters aren't the one to pay it.

Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · 5d

This is a good thing from a risk-based pricing perspective. But also so hard for people that are now paying $12k + difference in conditions. This is one of the true costs for Californians of wildfire.

Lawrence Vulis @lvulis.bsky.social · 5d

CA FAIR plan seeks 35.8% rate increase.

#climaterisk

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Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · 6d

With the Conservative Party and Reform UK planning for the UK to join Russia by pulling out of the European Convention on Human Rights, here is a checklist of what those rights are and what they would be ripping up:
#EHRC #humanrights

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 9d

The area of Manchester where the horrific antisemitic attack took place is one of the few in the UK where Jewish & Muslim ppl both live in large numbers. We must learn from & follow how these communities support each other, as we condemn the attack & send love & solidarity to Jews across the UK

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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 9d

Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 9d

Happening now: Hundreds of rabbis and Jewish community members gather in Brooklyn for a mass public memorial service on Yom Kippur, demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the U.S. to stop arming Israel.

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 9d

It's amazing how many people don't (or won't) understand that adding green energy has NO effect on ameliorating climate change unless fossil fuels are reduced. If its just feeding additional demand then its not green - its greenwashing.

Robert Ferry @robertferry.bsky.social · 9d

There is something wrong with our information ecosystem.

"Production of fossil fuels AND green energy is needed to power the future," says investment firm with $400 billion in fossil fuel investments.

The article cites their "research" with not one mention of their conflicted interests.

BlackRock says fossil fuels AND green energy are needed for future

The fund manager says soaring global energy demand will require more fossil fuels and also more renewables, creating opportunities for investors across the market.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 9d

Also Dublin...

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 9d

🇮🇪🇵🇸 #BREAKING | Irish people protest at Dublin Port in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla participants and Gaza 👇

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 9d

The best guess of climate experts at this Overshoot Conference is that - in an optimistic scenario - we return to 1.5C (where we are now) in 7 generations time.

That's about the same distance from now as the start of the Industrial Revolution.

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 9d

On precision vs accuracy amid uncertainty...

Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 9d

We finally have a new paper out looking at how summary statistics from the AR6 scenario database are highly dependent on the sampling of the database.

High profile statistics are often more representative of the model fingerprint, not the physics.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Two curves show how the median is different depending on the scenario.

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Doughnut Economics Action Lab @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social · 10d

DOUGHNUT 3.0 IS HERE! 🎉

Today, DEAL is launching the latest update of the global Doughnut, now monitoring trends in social shortfall and ecological overshoot across the 21st century.

#DoughnutEconomics
Check out the link below to see all the resources and dive in:

Doughnut 3.0 is here | DEAL

The Doughnut, updated, now monitors global trends in social shortfall and ecological overshoot over the 21st century

doughnuteconomics.org

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