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only 30% of the birds left on earth
are wild & they’re declining
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report bird strikes
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only 30% of the birds left on earth
are wild & they’re declining
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Wrong question. Overshoot isn’t something humanity “fixes.”
The real issue is whether we’re willing to confront a truth too painful to face: ecological limits are non-negotiable, even if we refuse to see them.
The real issue is whether we’re willing to confront a truth too painful to face: ecological limits are non-negotiable, even if we refuse to see them.
Right, and your solution is ...?
December 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Wrong question. Overshoot isn’t something humanity “fixes.”
The real issue is whether we’re willing to confront a truth too painful to face: ecological limits are non-negotiable, even if we refuse to see them.
The real issue is whether we’re willing to confront a truth too painful to face: ecological limits are non-negotiable, even if we refuse to see them.
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I’ve grasped it. You’re describing demographic momentum.
I’m describing ecological overshoot.
They aren’t the same thing.
Declining birth rates don’t fix a planet already beyond its biophysical limits.
I’m describing ecological overshoot.
They aren’t the same thing.
Declining birth rates don’t fix a planet already beyond its biophysical limits.
I'm not sure you've grasped the message of either Runciman's article or my thread. As Runciman puts it: “Much of what will happen is already determined, so that even dramatically declining birth rates in some places will have little overall impact [on the residual rise in population]”.
December 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I’ve grasped it. You’re describing demographic momentum.
I’m describing ecological overshoot.
They aren’t the same thing.
Declining birth rates don’t fix a planet already beyond its biophysical limits.
I’m describing ecological overshoot.
They aren’t the same thing.
Declining birth rates don’t fix a planet already beyond its biophysical limits.
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Our friend the Thick-skinned Harlequin Frog is a critically endangered toad who lives at high altitudes in the Andes mountains of Ecuador and Peru! They are also known as Schmidt's Stubfoot Toad, named after Eduard Oscar Schmidt, who first described them as a species in 1857! (photo by Jasmin Odar)
December 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Our friend the Thick-skinned Harlequin Frog is a critically endangered toad who lives at high altitudes in the Andes mountains of Ecuador and Peru! They are also known as Schmidt's Stubfoot Toad, named after Eduard Oscar Schmidt, who first described them as a species in 1857! (photo by Jasmin Odar)
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My political identity can best be described as "returning Pacific lamprey to downtown Spokane."
www.nwcouncil.org/fish-and-wil...
www.nwcouncil.org/fish-and-wil...
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My political identity can best be described as "returning Pacific lamprey to downtown Spokane."
www.nwcouncil.org/fish-and-wil...
www.nwcouncil.org/fish-and-wil...
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Best things I read this year
December 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Best things I read this year
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Mass murder?
Yes, math. We have positive net growth TODAY. It was 2% at 4 bn and is 1% now at 8.2 bn. Same net result.
Every year that passes > 0% (1.5°C and given planetary boundaries) makes it exponentially worse. 80M per year is a disaster.
UN & IPCC: "Population growth is the main driver"
Yes, math. We have positive net growth TODAY. It was 2% at 4 bn and is 1% now at 8.2 bn. Same net result.
Every year that passes > 0% (1.5°C and given planetary boundaries) makes it exponentially worse. 80M per year is a disaster.
UN & IPCC: "Population growth is the main driver"
‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’
UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Mass murder?
Yes, math. We have positive net growth TODAY. It was 2% at 4 bn and is 1% now at 8.2 bn. Same net result.
Every year that passes > 0% (1.5°C and given planetary boundaries) makes it exponentially worse. 80M per year is a disaster.
UN & IPCC: "Population growth is the main driver"
Yes, math. We have positive net growth TODAY. It was 2% at 4 bn and is 1% now at 8.2 bn. Same net result.
Every year that passes > 0% (1.5°C and given planetary boundaries) makes it exponentially worse. 80M per year is a disaster.
UN & IPCC: "Population growth is the main driver"
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Population momentum is math.
Ecological overshoot is biology.
Even if global fertility dropped to zero tomorrow, overshoot persists until consumption, land-use, and biodiversity impact fall back within Earth’s regenerative capacity.
Declining births ≠ declining footprint.
Ecological overshoot is biology.
Even if global fertility dropped to zero tomorrow, overshoot persists until consumption, land-use, and biodiversity impact fall back within Earth’s regenerative capacity.
Declining births ≠ declining footprint.
I don't think you're hearing me. Residual growth is the result of events 3 or 4 generations ago, coupled with increasing longevity. The only thing that would make any significant difference would be mass murder. You're picking a fight with a mathematical function.
ourworldindata.org/global-decli...
ourworldindata.org/global-decli...
The global decline of the fertility rate
The total fertility rate has halved in sixty years — what are the causes of the decline?
ourworldindata.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Population momentum is math.
Ecological overshoot is biology.
Even if global fertility dropped to zero tomorrow, overshoot persists until consumption, land-use, and biodiversity impact fall back within Earth’s regenerative capacity.
Declining births ≠ declining footprint.
Ecological overshoot is biology.
Even if global fertility dropped to zero tomorrow, overshoot persists until consumption, land-use, and biodiversity impact fall back within Earth’s regenerative capacity.
Declining births ≠ declining footprint.
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Xpurts are always annoying just because the lack of humility is a big part of why we’re where we are.
December 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Xpurts are always annoying just because the lack of humility is a big part of why we’re where we are.
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True but following them is watching insane people. They talk like they’re experts while everything is collapsing
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 AM
True but following them is watching insane people. They talk like they’re experts while everything is collapsing
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My father was a farmer (fruit and veg).
Often used a backpack spray device.
He died 20 years ago from cancer of the lymphatic system. (Given 9 months, lasted 3)
We asked the doctor what could have caused it.
He said, probably the chemicals.
But could not be proven back then.
Often used a backpack spray device.
He died 20 years ago from cancer of the lymphatic system. (Given 9 months, lasted 3)
We asked the doctor what could have caused it.
He said, probably the chemicals.
But could not be proven back then.
December 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
My father was a farmer (fruit and veg).
Often used a backpack spray device.
He died 20 years ago from cancer of the lymphatic system. (Given 9 months, lasted 3)
We asked the doctor what could have caused it.
He said, probably the chemicals.
But could not be proven back then.
Often used a backpack spray device.
He died 20 years ago from cancer of the lymphatic system. (Given 9 months, lasted 3)
We asked the doctor what could have caused it.
He said, probably the chemicals.
But could not be proven back then.
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A new study shows the danger of pesticides isn’t only in what they kill, but in what they change. When bees forage less and fish behave differently, ecosystems begin to fail long before we notice the losses.
apple.news/ALzThv-E0QfS...
apple.news/ALzThv-E0QfS...
Researchers issue warning after observing concerning change in animal behavior: 'Much more far-reaching than previously assumed' — The Cool Down
apple.news
December 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A new study shows the danger of pesticides isn’t only in what they kill, but in what they change. When bees forage less and fish behave differently, ecosystems begin to fail long before we notice the losses.
apple.news/ALzThv-E0QfS...
apple.news/ALzThv-E0QfS...
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You're not alone in ignoring humanity's overshoot of Earth's carrying capacity. Elon Musk agrees with you as do many capitalists. I appreciate your work in so many other areas, which makes me sad you persist in this denial.
If anyone wants to skip to George's interview, it starts at 1 hr 50 min.
If anyone wants to skip to George's interview, it starts at 1 hr 50 min.
December 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
You're not alone in ignoring humanity's overshoot of Earth's carrying capacity. Elon Musk agrees with you as do many capitalists. I appreciate your work in so many other areas, which makes me sad you persist in this denial.
If anyone wants to skip to George's interview, it starts at 1 hr 50 min.
If anyone wants to skip to George's interview, it starts at 1 hr 50 min.
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Is this a serious question? Access to birth control works but we deny and do not acknowledge & accept the predicament.
Lyle has no children despite wanting some. 1st step: Be honest.
"All the environmental crises were worsening as the global population grows and required more food and energy"
Lyle has no children despite wanting some. 1st step: Be honest.
"All the environmental crises were worsening as the global population grows and required more food and energy"
December 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Is this a serious question? Access to birth control works but we deny and do not acknowledge & accept the predicament.
Lyle has no children despite wanting some. 1st step: Be honest.
"All the environmental crises were worsening as the global population grows and required more food and energy"
Lyle has no children despite wanting some. 1st step: Be honest.
"All the environmental crises were worsening as the global population grows and required more food and energy"
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Whoa, cowboy!
Roughly two-thirds of all the livestock grazing on public land acres administered by the BLM is controlled by just 10% of ranchers.
On Forest Service administered public land, the top 10% of permittees control more than 50% of grazing.
grist.org/economics/th...
Roughly two-thirds of all the livestock grazing on public land acres administered by the BLM is controlled by just 10% of ranchers.
On Forest Service administered public land, the top 10% of permittees control more than 50% of grazing.
grist.org/economics/th...
The wealthy profit from public lands, and taxpayers pick up the tab
Roughly two-thirds of grazing on Bureau of Land Management land is controlled by just 10 percent of permit holders.
grist.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Whoa, cowboy!
Roughly two-thirds of all the livestock grazing on public land acres administered by the BLM is controlled by just 10% of ranchers.
On Forest Service administered public land, the top 10% of permittees control more than 50% of grazing.
grist.org/economics/th...
Roughly two-thirds of all the livestock grazing on public land acres administered by the BLM is controlled by just 10% of ranchers.
On Forest Service administered public land, the top 10% of permittees control more than 50% of grazing.
grist.org/economics/th...
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Grower uses more Colorado River water than the entire Las Vegas metropolitan area.
A wealthy California farmer, a contentious divorce and a fatal shooting
A wealthy California farmer, a contentious divorce and a fatal shooting
Kerri Ann Abatti was shot and killed last month as she divorced her husband, powerful farmer Mike Abatti.
www.latimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Grower uses more Colorado River water than the entire Las Vegas metropolitan area.
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THIS IS THE WAY THEY PUNISH COLORADO
THIS IS THE WAY THEY PUNISH COLORADO
Brand New “Biggest Logging Project in Colorado History” Brings Total to Half-Million Acres and Seventeen Roadless Areas
This week, the U.S.
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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THIS IS THE WAY THEY PUNISH COLORADO
THIS IS THE WAY THEY PUNISH COLORADO
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Idaho is planning to work with the U.S. Forest Service to significantly boost logging and timber sales from National Forest trees in the Gem State.
Idaho partners with US Forest Service with goal to double timber sales • Idaho Capital Sun
Idaho is planning to work with the U.S. Forest Service to significantly boost logging and timber sales from National Forest trees.
idahocapitalsun.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Idaho is planning to work with the U.S. Forest Service to significantly boost logging and timber sales from National Forest trees in the Gem State.
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Indonesia will collapse like Nauru greed. Sumatra collapse already. Then Brazil next will collapse. Greed.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The loggers and ranchers are closing in but still Brazil’s Kawahiva people wait for protection
Bureaucratic delays and funding shortages stall plans to carve out a forest reserve for the uncontacted Indigenous group on the southern fringe of the Brazilian Amazon
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Indonesia will collapse like Nauru greed. Sumatra collapse already. Then Brazil next will collapse. Greed.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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If Brazil thinks this is a win for loggers and not protecting forests they will collapse. Look at Nauru and Indonesia. The president said Palm oil trees are trees too. Sumatra gone now. One by one countries will collapse for corporations
December 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
If Brazil thinks this is a win for loggers and not protecting forests they will collapse. Look at Nauru and Indonesia. The president said Palm oil trees are trees too. Sumatra gone now. One by one countries will collapse for corporations
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Brazil’s Pesticide Observatory: Lula's government authorises more pesticides banned in Europe to supply large-scale agro-export farms.
blogdopedlowski.com/2025/12/08/o...
blogdopedlowski.com/2025/12/08/o...
Observatório dos Agrotóxicos: governo Lula libera mais agrotóxicos proibidos na Europa para abastecer o latifúndio agro-exportador
Enquanto a região do sul do Brasil se prepara para mais uma situação de evento meterológico extremo e tem-se a confirmação de que estamos vivendo um período de aquecimento agravado da atmosfera da …
blogdopedlowski.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Brazil’s Pesticide Observatory: Lula's government authorises more pesticides banned in Europe to supply large-scale agro-export farms.
blogdopedlowski.com/2025/12/08/o...
blogdopedlowski.com/2025/12/08/o...
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Please sign an open letter to Sir Keir Starmer and the UK broadcasters calling for a televised emergency briefing on the #climate & #nature crisis.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
Highlights from actor Olivia Williams' powerful reading.
Full version link below.
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
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Highlights from actor Olivia Williams' powerful reading.
Full version link below.
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Please sign an open letter to Sir Keir Starmer and the UK broadcasters calling for a televised emergency briefing on the #climate & #nature crisis.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
Highlights from actor Olivia Williams' powerful reading.
Full version link below.
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
Highlights from actor Olivia Williams' powerful reading.
Full version link below.
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
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Proposing mines in the jaguar’s critical habitat and calling a single jaguar crossing into Arizona every few years “recovery” is a reminder of how low we’ve set the bar for “success.”
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
New jaguar spotted in Arizona points to progress in endangered species' recovery
Researchers have confirmed a new jaguar in southern Arizona, marking what they say is the fifth big cat over the last 15 years to be spotted in there after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border
abcnews.go.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Proposing mines in the jaguar’s critical habitat and calling a single jaguar crossing into Arizona every few years “recovery” is a reminder of how low we’ve set the bar for “success.”
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
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We confuse demographic comfort with ecological truth.
Fertility rates feel reassuring.
Biodiversity loss is not an abstraction.
Fertility rates feel reassuring.
Biodiversity loss is not an abstraction.
December 9, 2025 at 4:46 AM
We confuse demographic comfort with ecological truth.
Fertility rates feel reassuring.
Biodiversity loss is not an abstraction.
Fertility rates feel reassuring.
Biodiversity loss is not an abstraction.
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Dismissing people as “clinging to an outdated idea” is easier than engaging with ecology.
Population isn’t about nostalgia. It’s about land, water, soil, habitat loss, nutrient cycling, fisheries, and mass extinction.
Emissions are only one symptom. Overshoot is the whole condition.
Population isn’t about nostalgia. It’s about land, water, soil, habitat loss, nutrient cycling, fisheries, and mass extinction.
Emissions are only one symptom. Overshoot is the whole condition.
That section of the film is incoherent to say the least, but if it has a motif, it is the tragic sight of someone desperately clinging to an idea long after the evidence has departed. share.google/R3sJQ4XRxbQg...
David Runciman · Are we doomed? The End of the Species
Are we doomed to die out? We find ourselves at the only point in the history of the species when the rate of population...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Dismissing people as “clinging to an outdated idea” is easier than engaging with ecology.
Population isn’t about nostalgia. It’s about land, water, soil, habitat loss, nutrient cycling, fisheries, and mass extinction.
Emissions are only one symptom. Overshoot is the whole condition.
Population isn’t about nostalgia. It’s about land, water, soil, habitat loss, nutrient cycling, fisheries, and mass extinction.
Emissions are only one symptom. Overshoot is the whole condition.