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Deep ecology + consumption culture + inner happiness as the core of the polycrisis.
Maybe some animal intelligence and contemplative science.
Gen Z Climatexbiodiversity ecologist with eco-anxiety
Alt for literature: @crisisbookquotes.bsky.social
Maybe some animal intelligence and contemplative science.
Gen Z Climatexbiodiversity ecologist with eco-anxiety
Alt for literature: @crisisbookquotes.bsky.social
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· Jul 30
“Energy Transition” is bad marketing for progress, it should be Energy Revolution
I see a Consumption Revolution as progress, not a consumer transition
where we reverse the previous decade of
consuming more and being less happy and healthy ❌
to consuming less and being happier and healthier ✅
I see a Consumption Revolution as progress, not a consumer transition
where we reverse the previous decade of
consuming more and being less happy and healthy ❌
to consuming less and being happier and healthier ✅
“saying they are going to help save the bee by encouraging all the farmers who supply them to keep more hives. This was, he went on, akin to trying to reverse bird declines by keeping more chickens”
Many people still imagine beekeeping and honey making are somehow 'good for nature'.
But it's the *total* opposite.
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But it's the *total* opposite.
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“A beehive is as natural as a pasture of grazing sheep.” Why beekeeping is causing a huge problem for wild bees – according to scientists | Discover Wildlife
A dramatic rise in the number of managed beehives is negatively impacting wild pollinating insects
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November 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
“saying they are going to help save the bee by encouraging all the farmers who supply them to keep more hives. This was, he went on, akin to trying to reverse bird declines by keeping more chickens”
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The judge due to rule on the proscription of Palestine Action is swapped last minute for a panel that includes a judge with a history of working for the government and another who ruled in favour UK selling jets to Israel.
Accusations of a “stitch-up”.
novaramedia.com/2025/11/25/a...
Accusations of a “stitch-up”.
novaramedia.com/2025/11/25/a...
A ‘Stitch-Up’: Palestine Action Case Gets New Judges | Novara Media
The judicial review of Palestine Action’s proscription has been thrown into turmoil by a last-minute change. A new panel of judges includes one with a long history of working for the government and an...
novaramedia.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The judge due to rule on the proscription of Palestine Action is swapped last minute for a panel that includes a judge with a history of working for the government and another who ruled in favour UK selling jets to Israel.
Accusations of a “stitch-up”.
novaramedia.com/2025/11/25/a...
Accusations of a “stitch-up”.
novaramedia.com/2025/11/25/a...
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A lot to unpack there, but imo most people want to do the right thing by the future, but don't have the time or head space to understand what's really going on.
They wrongly believe the lies they're fed, and presume if climate breakdown was serious, governments and the media would be freaking out.
They wrongly believe the lies they're fed, and presume if climate breakdown was serious, governments and the media would be freaking out.
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A lot to unpack there, but imo most people want to do the right thing by the future, but don't have the time or head space to understand what's really going on.
They wrongly believe the lies they're fed, and presume if climate breakdown was serious, governments and the media would be freaking out.
They wrongly believe the lies they're fed, and presume if climate breakdown was serious, governments and the media would be freaking out.
>As of 2022, most of the fish that humans eat are not caught wild from the ocean but raised on fish farms, which are so cruel they have been widely dubbed by animal welfare advocates as “underwater factory farms.”
Don't miss this new @vox.com project that uncovers the rapidly changing world of fish farming.
Stories from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social + team challenge everything you think you know about the billions of aquatic animals that shape our planet’s future:
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Stories from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social + team challenge everything you think you know about the billions of aquatic animals that shape our planet’s future:
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Eating the Ocean
How underwater factory farms are reshaping our food system.
www.vox.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
>As of 2022, most of the fish that humans eat are not caught wild from the ocean but raised on fish farms, which are so cruel they have been widely dubbed by animal welfare advocates as “underwater factory farms.”
"Juries are not the cause of the backlog. The cause is the systematic underfunding and neglect that has been perpetrated by this government and its predecessors for years."
Obviously!
Obviously!
Why would a government want to scrap juries?
Is it so they can pass sentences that the gov wants, but the people object to?
Feels very 1984 to me…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@defendourjuries.bsky.social
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
@lawyersfornature.bsky.social
Is it so they can pass sentences that the gov wants, but the people object to?
Feels very 1984 to me…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@defendourjuries.bsky.social
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
@lawyersfornature.bsky.social
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"Juries are not the cause of the backlog. The cause is the systematic underfunding and neglect that has been perpetrated by this government and its predecessors for years."
Obviously!
Obviously!
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“The younger generation is the most ecologically informed ever."
They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.”
The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.
They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.”
The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
“The younger generation is the most ecologically informed ever."
They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.”
The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.
They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.”
The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.
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Debate today with a Labour MP on the economy.
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Is Labour being outflanked by Polanski and Farage? Reeves budget debate
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Debate today with a Labour MP on the economy.
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
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“The entire financial system, including government bonds & mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not.” - One of the aspects making climate policy more important, paradoxically, the more publicly ignored
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 AM
“The entire financial system, including government bonds & mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not.” - One of the aspects making climate policy more important, paradoxically, the more publicly ignored
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and also of course delighted to see this excellent 2022 @thebulletin.org article—about what happens when the Earth gets too hot for animals (livestock, wildlife, humans) to survive—get a well-deserved mention
thebulletin.org/2022/07/extr...
thebulletin.org/2022/07/extr...
What happens if the world gets too hot for animals to survive?
As extreme heat events become more common, humans will increasingly need technologies like air conditioning to survive. But what about the animals?
thebulletin.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
and also of course delighted to see this excellent 2022 @thebulletin.org article—about what happens when the Earth gets too hot for animals (livestock, wildlife, humans) to survive—get a well-deserved mention
thebulletin.org/2022/07/extr...
thebulletin.org/2022/07/extr...
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Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names.
"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."
Please share with your MP #NEB2025
"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."
Please share with your MP #NEB2025
National Emergency Briefing
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
www.nebriefing.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names.
"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."
Please share with your MP #NEB2025
"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."
Please share with your MP #NEB2025
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?
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"...Mass mortality events remain plausible at near-future temperatures* despite current adaptations to heat."
*...for instance "comparable to peak COVID-19 mortality in Europe, and not substantially reduced by climate adaptation currently observed across Europe".
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
*...for instance "comparable to peak COVID-19 mortality in Europe, and not substantially reduced by climate adaptation currently observed across Europe".
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur - Nature Climate Change
The authors couple calculations of historical heatwave intensity at present and future global temperatures with exposure–response functions to quantify mortality from extreme heat events in Europe. Th...
www.nature.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"...Mass mortality events remain plausible at near-future temperatures* despite current adaptations to heat."
*...for instance "comparable to peak COVID-19 mortality in Europe, and not substantially reduced by climate adaptation currently observed across Europe".
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
*...for instance "comparable to peak COVID-19 mortality in Europe, and not substantially reduced by climate adaptation currently observed across Europe".
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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That's the first 'human' death.
There have been plenty of wild and domestic bird deaths (and the more virulent strains like H5N1 and H5N5 developed in domestic poultry)...
Shifts to plant-based diets could greatly help reduce the risks of zoonotic pandemics.
There have been plenty of wild and domestic bird deaths (and the more virulent strains like H5N1 and H5N5 developed in domestic poultry)...
Shifts to plant-based diets could greatly help reduce the risks of zoonotic pandemics.
Bird flu: first ever death from rare H5N5 strain is recorded in US
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Bird flu: first ever death from rare H5N5 strain is recorded in US
Washington state resident’s backyard flock of domestic poultry had been exposed to wild birds, health officials said
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
That's the first 'human' death.
There have been plenty of wild and domestic bird deaths (and the more virulent strains like H5N1 and H5N5 developed in domestic poultry)...
Shifts to plant-based diets could greatly help reduce the risks of zoonotic pandemics.
There have been plenty of wild and domestic bird deaths (and the more virulent strains like H5N1 and H5N5 developed in domestic poultry)...
Shifts to plant-based diets could greatly help reduce the risks of zoonotic pandemics.
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Given that the words "information integrity" were followed by, effectively, science denial in the #COP30 text, that is not a win but rather a co-opting of the language folks are trying to use to fight climate disinfo. drilled.ghost.io/there-can-be...
There Can Be No Information Integrity Without Scientific and Political Integrity
I'm just back from COP30 in Belém and it is making me feel crazy to watch so many climate advocates and reporters declare the final text coming out of it a victory. It's true that the final text inclu...
drilled.ghost.io
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Given that the words "information integrity" were followed by, effectively, science denial in the #COP30 text, that is not a win but rather a co-opting of the language folks are trying to use to fight climate disinfo. drilled.ghost.io/there-can-be...
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EU commission president von der Leyen said today the EU isn't fighting fossil fuels, only the *emissions* from fossil fuels
total nonsense, we can't separate fossil fuels from carbon emissions
even IF we could, they're a disaster for health, nature & human rights even before you burn them
#COP30
total nonsense, we can't separate fossil fuels from carbon emissions
even IF we could, they're a disaster for health, nature & human rights even before you burn them
#COP30
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
EU commission president von der Leyen said today the EU isn't fighting fossil fuels, only the *emissions* from fossil fuels
total nonsense, we can't separate fossil fuels from carbon emissions
even IF we could, they're a disaster for health, nature & human rights even before you burn them
#COP30
total nonsense, we can't separate fossil fuels from carbon emissions
even IF we could, they're a disaster for health, nature & human rights even before you burn them
#COP30
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What is today's best example of soft denialist rhetoric?
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that the fight against climate change was not against the fuels that cause it — only the pollution they emit.
Von der Leyen says EU is not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions
The comment could undermine European countries’ push at COP30 to move away from coal, oil and gas.
www.politico.eu
November 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
What is today's best example of soft denialist rhetoric?
!!! An advanced civilisation is one that realises it does not need to conquer the stars.
Or conquer anything at all.
One that creates a functionally permanent state of ecological abundance and personal wellbeing.
None of which needs spaceships. If anything, needs them out the picture
Or conquer anything at all.
One that creates a functionally permanent state of ecological abundance and personal wellbeing.
None of which needs spaceships. If anything, needs them out the picture
November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
!!! An advanced civilisation is one that realises it does not need to conquer the stars.
Or conquer anything at all.
One that creates a functionally permanent state of ecological abundance and personal wellbeing.
None of which needs spaceships. If anything, needs them out the picture
Or conquer anything at all.
One that creates a functionally permanent state of ecological abundance and personal wellbeing.
None of which needs spaceships. If anything, needs them out the picture
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Next up, CO₂ does not cause climate change.
CDC website changed to contradict scientific conclusion that vaccines don't cause autism
The Trump administration has revised a website to contradict the scientific consensus that vaccines don't cause autism.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Next up, CO₂ does not cause climate change.
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At next week's budget, we're calling on the Chancellor to:
1. Recognise that nature - more of it, and better access to it - will boost the economy and could save the NHS billions of pounds
1. Recognise that nature - more of it, and better access to it - will boost the economy and could save the NHS billions of pounds
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
At next week's budget, we're calling on the Chancellor to:
1. Recognise that nature - more of it, and better access to it - will boost the economy and could save the NHS billions of pounds
1. Recognise that nature - more of it, and better access to it - will boost the economy and could save the NHS billions of pounds
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Nature isn’t a “blocker” – it makes our lives better.
Our coast, countryside, heritage and wildlife underpin our food, water and health and put millions of pounds into the economy. The Government must not weaken the laws that protect them.
Our coast, countryside, heritage and wildlife underpin our food, water and health and put millions of pounds into the economy. The Government must not weaken the laws that protect them.
November 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Nature isn’t a “blocker” – it makes our lives better.
Our coast, countryside, heritage and wildlife underpin our food, water and health and put millions of pounds into the economy. The Government must not weaken the laws that protect them.
Our coast, countryside, heritage and wildlife underpin our food, water and health and put millions of pounds into the economy. The Government must not weaken the laws that protect them.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Academics need to quit publishing with these commercial behemoths (Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Routledge, etc) and support university nonprofit presses instead.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Academics need to quit publishing with these commercial behemoths (Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Routledge, etc) and support university nonprofit presses instead.
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All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth
Chief Seattle
Chief Seattle
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth
Chief Seattle
Chief Seattle