“Hell is here” isn’t a metaphor.
It is a daily reality for millions of nonhuman lives and increasingly for human ones.
Honesty doesn’t cause collapse.
It simply names the collapse we were born into.
It is a daily reality for millions of nonhuman lives and increasingly for human ones.
Honesty doesn’t cause collapse.
It simply names the collapse we were born into.
We are told things are getting better. They aren’t.
“Hell Is Here” is what the world looks like when greenwashing replaces truth.
My new article: Hell Is Here: Greenwashed.
open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...
“Hell Is Here” is what the world looks like when greenwashing replaces truth.
My new article: Hell Is Here: Greenwashed.
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HELL IS HERE: What Greenwashed Reveals About the Truth We're Not Allowed to Say
Why the most taboo words in environmentalism are "overpopulation" and "less."
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December 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“Hell is here” isn’t a metaphor.
It is a daily reality for millions of nonhuman lives and increasingly for human ones.
Honesty doesn’t cause collapse.
It simply names the collapse we were born into.
It is a daily reality for millions of nonhuman lives and increasingly for human ones.
Honesty doesn’t cause collapse.
It simply names the collapse we were born into.
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False hope fills me with despair.
It surprised me how many of those who (should) know better have been celebrating the *false* narrative that the Paris agreement has supposedly limited warming to below 2.6°C this century.
Genevieve breaks it down here:
It surprised me how many of those who (should) know better have been celebrating the *false* narrative that the Paris agreement has supposedly limited warming to below 2.6°C this century.
Genevieve breaks it down here:
On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four.
I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
False hope fills me with despair.
It surprised me how many of those who (should) know better have been celebrating the *false* narrative that the Paris agreement has supposedly limited warming to below 2.6°C this century.
Genevieve breaks it down here:
It surprised me how many of those who (should) know better have been celebrating the *false* narrative that the Paris agreement has supposedly limited warming to below 2.6°C this century.
Genevieve breaks it down here:
Over the last two decades, the Western Arctic Caribou Herd has plummeted from nearly half a million to some 164,000 — a 66 per cent decline, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. No to Ambler road.
Climate change is straining Alaska's Arctic. A new mining road may push the region past the brink | CBC News
The approval of the 340-kilometre Ambler Access Road came as record rainfall in Northwest Alaska flooded villages and ripped through fish spawning habitat — the latest climate-driven blow to Indigenou...
www.cbc.ca
December 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Over the last two decades, the Western Arctic Caribou Herd has plummeted from nearly half a million to some 164,000 — a 66 per cent decline, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. No to Ambler road.
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🌡️ November 2025 was the third-warmest November on record globally, keeping 2025 on track to be the second- or third-warmest year recorded. The global three-year average temperature for 2023–2025 will likely exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for the first time.
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December 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
🌡️ November 2025 was the third-warmest November on record globally, keeping 2025 on track to be the second- or third-warmest year recorded. The global three-year average temperature for 2023–2025 will likely exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for the first time.
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More fundamentally to survival, AI data centers are stealing basic needs, like water, clean air, land, and energy. Water has been diverted from residential sources to cool data centers while land has been gobbled up, sometimes at public expense, that might otherwise house wildlife and human beings.
AI is a Performance of Progress, Not the Real Thing. Despite driving "growth", AI is failing to improve anyone's life, and its harms are piling up.
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AI is a Performance of Progress, Not the Real Thing
Despite driving "growth", AI is failing to improve anyone's life, and its harms are piling up.
substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
More fundamentally to survival, AI data centers are stealing basic needs, like water, clean air, land, and energy. Water has been diverted from residential sources to cool data centers while land has been gobbled up, sometimes at public expense, that might otherwise house wildlife and human beings.
Their silence in the forest is not absence; it is sovereignty. It is a reminder that freedom does not always speak loudly — it often lives quietly, beneath the canopy, where the human spirit remains truly untamed.
Respecting uncontacted peoples can protect biodiversity and our humanity news.mongabay.com/2025/12/resp... || #Indigenous
Respecting uncontacted peoples can protect biodiversity and our humanity (commentary)
Deep within the remaining tropical forests of the world, the last uncontacted peoples live in near-total isolation. Their very presence carries unintended yet powerful implications for all of us. Stud...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Their silence in the forest is not absence; it is sovereignty. It is a reminder that freedom does not always speak loudly — it often lives quietly, beneath the canopy, where the human spirit remains truly untamed.
People often don’t consider that farmed seafood still comes from animals who, themselves, need to eat. And their food comes either from wild-caught fish or feed crops: Farmed fish consume about 1.2 trillion other fish, amplifying the pressure of industrial fishing.
Like other factory farms, farmed fish or “aquaculture” spreads disease & drives climate change — from the destruction of mangrove ecosystems that sequester carbon to on-farm emissions, fossil fuels & the undermining of local food sovereignty.
www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop...
www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/pop...
Farming the ocean
Last month’s edition of Food X discussed how the fishing industry wreaks havoc on the ocean and on wildlife rebranded as “seafood.” Now let’s take a look at what happens in fish farms.
www.biologicaldiversity.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
People often don’t consider that farmed seafood still comes from animals who, themselves, need to eat. And their food comes either from wild-caught fish or feed crops: Farmed fish consume about 1.2 trillion other fish, amplifying the pressure of industrial fishing.
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Oh Canada! For the third year in a row, Canada set a new record for the warmest fall (Sep-Nov).
December 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Oh Canada! For the third year in a row, Canada set a new record for the warmest fall (Sep-Nov).
Collectively, we are using far, far too much of everything: land, water, metals and minerals, lumber, living creatures, and more. We must decrease our use of all of it. It’s way past time to power down, and not just find another way to keep the machine running full speed ahead.
Blind Spots in the Climate Movement
In the media and in activist circles, Climate Change is generally presented as a problem with one cause—carbon emissions—and one solution: a “green energy transition.” But this narrative is far too na...
www.resilience.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Collectively, we are using far, far too much of everything: land, water, metals and minerals, lumber, living creatures, and more. We must decrease our use of all of it. It’s way past time to power down, and not just find another way to keep the machine running full speed ahead.
Vuntut Gwitchin elder Lorraine Netro said ANWR contains six months' worth of oil reserves and she questioned the value of extracting oil in the coastal plain.
“Imagine that, six months of oil in this sacred area. And the United States wants to drill and destroy our very livelihood," she said.
“Imagine that, six months of oil in this sacred area. And the United States wants to drill and destroy our very livelihood," she said.
Gwich’in want Carney to advocate for protecting caribou, oppose Trump’s Alaska oil plans | CBC News
The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has passed a resolution from Gwich'in leaders, calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to work to protect the Porcupine caribou herd and advocate against development ...
www.cbc.ca
December 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Vuntut Gwitchin elder Lorraine Netro said ANWR contains six months' worth of oil reserves and she questioned the value of extracting oil in the coastal plain.
“Imagine that, six months of oil in this sacred area. And the United States wants to drill and destroy our very livelihood," she said.
“Imagine that, six months of oil in this sacred area. And the United States wants to drill and destroy our very livelihood," she said.
Overpopulation is not merely a policy failure; it is a failure of consciousness. A species that cannot see where its hunger comes from will consume its own home. A civilisation that defines success through accumulation will accumulate until nothing remains.
Excellent essay, and I especially appreciate how it gets into the deeper psychological roots of why denial continues to persist: sundayguardianlive.com/feature/one-... #overpopulation
One greed six earths: The inner emptiness behind global consumption
New analysis warns humanity exceeds earth’s limits while inner emptiness fuels unchecked consumption.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Overpopulation is not merely a policy failure; it is a failure of consciousness. A species that cannot see where its hunger comes from will consume its own home. A civilisation that defines success through accumulation will accumulate until nothing remains.
Canadians use more than four times as much energy per capita as the world average, and 17 times as much as the average person in 1800 before the fossil fuel blowout got started. Half of the world’s population presently lives at, or below, levels of per capita energy consumption circa 1800.
A New Oilsands Pipeline? What Politicians Won’t Admit | The Tyee
An energy expert lays out the risks and fallacies as Canada and the world fail to face the climate crisis.
thetyee.ca
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Canadians use more than four times as much energy per capita as the world average, and 17 times as much as the average person in 1800 before the fossil fuel blowout got started. Half of the world’s population presently lives at, or below, levels of per capita energy consumption circa 1800.
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Farmed pigs weigh as much as all of the world’s whales, orcas, sea otters, seals, and dolphins combined. All the dogs in the world, including pets and feral dogs, weigh as much as all wild mammals on land.
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Farmed pigs weigh as much as all of the world’s whales, orcas, sea otters, seals, and dolphins combined. All the dogs in the world, including pets and feral dogs, weigh as much as all wild mammals on land.
Why the so-called "abundance agenda" and its proposed weakening of environmental laws creates an abundance of concrete and a scarcity of nature;
How the renewable energy abundance of solar and wind farms, and AI data centers, spells even greater destruction of wildlife habitat;
How the renewable energy abundance of solar and wind farms, and AI data centers, spells even greater destruction of wildlife habitat;
We need an “abundance agenda” for nature. Ben Goldfarb challenges the techno-fix growth agenda that delivers an abundance of concrete and condos and a scarcity of wildness and wildlife.
Listen to this conversation on your favorite streaming platform!
www.populationbalance.org/podcast/ben-...
Listen to this conversation on your favorite streaming platform!
www.populationbalance.org/podcast/ben-...
November 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Why the so-called "abundance agenda" and its proposed weakening of environmental laws creates an abundance of concrete and a scarcity of nature;
How the renewable energy abundance of solar and wind farms, and AI data centers, spells even greater destruction of wildlife habitat;
How the renewable energy abundance of solar and wind farms, and AI data centers, spells even greater destruction of wildlife habitat;
The modern villain doesn’t clear-cut a forest; they approve a permit. They don’t burn wetlands, they subsidize the companies that do. They don’t deny the consequences outright. They deny them by minimizing them, recasting them as overblown, or insisting technology will solve them “later.”
Every era celebrates its conservation heroes. Far fewer remember the destroyers.
My new piece, The Hall of Infamy, traces a century of leaders, industries, and institutions that liquidated the living world — and left us the bill.
From Hetch Hetchy to the Amazon…
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My new piece, The Hall of Infamy, traces a century of leaders, industries, and institutions that liquidated the living world — and left us the bill.
From Hetch Hetchy to the Amazon…
open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...
THE HALL OF INFAMY: A Global Century of Environmental Supervillains
A century of leaders who liquidated the living world--and left us the bill.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The modern villain doesn’t clear-cut a forest; they approve a permit. They don’t burn wetlands, they subsidize the companies that do. They don’t deny the consequences outright. They deny them by minimizing them, recasting them as overblown, or insisting technology will solve them “later.”
Kemp also argues that a “deep collapse” would level the playing field, equalize wealth and discredit Goliath’s institutions and leaders. “A deep collapse,” he says, “could provide fertile soil for democracy to take root.”
@crof.bsky.social: The value of a book like “Goliath’s Curse” is in [its] power to make us question what we’ve been told from childhood about the greatness of our society.
The Cost of Greatness | The Tyee
Luke Kemp studies the end of the world, over and over again.
thetyee.ca
November 29, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Kemp also argues that a “deep collapse” would level the playing field, equalize wealth and discredit Goliath’s institutions and leaders. “A deep collapse,” he says, “could provide fertile soil for democracy to take root.”
"The new types of societies that arrived with the first empires,” writes McDonald, “were extracting and expanding rapidly, to the detriment both of the ecological diversity in their region and certain members of these societies.” These “parasitic societies” …
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"The new types of societies that arrived with the first empires,” writes McDonald, “were extracting and expanding rapidly, to the detriment both of the ecological diversity in their region and certain members of these societies.” These “parasitic societies” …
The number of people living in cities has more than doubled since 1950, when urban dwellers accounted for 20% of the world’s 2.5 billion people, according to the report. Now they comprise nearly half of the planet’s 8.2 billion people.
Jakarta overtakes Tokyo as world’s most populous city, according to UN
The rankings were changed after the UN used new criteria to give a more accurate picture of the rapid urbanisation driving the growth of megacities
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
The number of people living in cities has more than doubled since 1950, when urban dwellers accounted for 20% of the world’s 2.5 billion people, according to the report. Now they comprise nearly half of the planet’s 8.2 billion people.
Life in the woods, north of 60.
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Life in the woods, north of 60.
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We are witnessing how a technological elite wants to turn us into humachines. Humans at the service of technology, favoring those who hoard power. We let it happen, we even promote, but what are the consequences? How can we confront this new form of dehumanization?
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November 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
We are witnessing how a technological elite wants to turn us into humachines. Humans at the service of technology, favoring those who hoard power. We let it happen, we even promote, but what are the consequences? How can we confront this new form of dehumanization?
www.instagram.com/p/DRatnrxgQY...
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The rapid pace of change to our habitat, combined with mounting evidence of compromised function in industrialised environments, leads to the hypothesis that industrialisation has created an environmental mismatch.
Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis
For the vast majority of the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, a range of natural environments defined the parameters within which selection shaped human biology. Although human-induced alteratio...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The rapid pace of change to our habitat, combined with mounting evidence of compromised function in industrialised environments, leads to the hypothesis that industrialisation has created an environmental mismatch.
Loblaw said this grid tie is really about powering the mines — among them, the colossal Casino project, which, as it stands, would be off-grid, meaning fossil fuels would be needed to power it. Loblaw said the grid tie would fuel further harm to the land.
Yukon First Nation refutes claim there’s no opposition to grid tie project | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney recently announced the grid connection as part of his list of “nation-building” projects. While Ottawa has put up $40 million for a pre-feasibility study, the only new mon...
www.cbc.ca
November 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Loblaw said this grid tie is really about powering the mines — among them, the colossal Casino project, which, as it stands, would be off-grid, meaning fossil fuels would be needed to power it. Loblaw said the grid tie would fuel further harm to the land.
Of all herds, only the Porcupine herd in Yukon, Alaska and parts of the northwestern NWT is thought to be at or near an all-time high – but the United States’ move to open up drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could fundamentally alter the herd’s calving grounds.
Chart shows precipitous decline of the Bathurst #caribou herd. New in our news section, www.northerncaribou.ca/news
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Of all herds, only the Porcupine herd in Yukon, Alaska and parts of the northwestern NWT is thought to be at or near an all-time high – but the United States’ move to open up drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge could fundamentally alter the herd’s calving grounds.
Land-use change stemmed from rapid population growth and economic development, with population density rising from 30 to 430 people per square kilometer between 1913 and 2022.
In Tanzania, human land use caused 76% of Kilimanjaro natural plant species loss, finds study
->Down To Earth | #plant species #biodiversity #land | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
->Down To Earth | #plant species #biodiversity #land | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
In Tanzania, human land use caused 76% of Kilimanjaro natural plant species loss, finds study
A new study reveals that land-use change caused by rapid population growth, not climate change, was the primary direct cause of the loss of 76 per cent of natural plant species on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro between 1911...
www.downtoearth.org.in
November 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Land-use change stemmed from rapid population growth and economic development, with population density rising from 30 to 430 people per square kilometer between 1913 and 2022.
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It should go without saying that the first step in #rewilding is to keep what's left untouched. There's so little that hasn't been marred by humans left that there should be not one more inch of development on the relatively pristine wildands left. Not one more inch.
The Trump administration has launched fresh attacks on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Izembek Wilderness, and Gates of the Arctic National Preserve.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/04/t...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/04/t...
Trump Administration Attacks Iconic Wildlands in Alaska: Placing ANWR, the Izembek Wilderness, and Gates of the Arctic in Peril
On October 23, the Trump administration launched fresh attacks on three iconic wildlands in Alaska, places that Wilderness Watch, our members and supporters, and our conservation allies have fought to...
www.counterpunch.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It should go without saying that the first step in #rewilding is to keep what's left untouched. There's so little that hasn't been marred by humans left that there should be not one more inch of development on the relatively pristine wildands left. Not one more inch.