Patrik 🦦
@electrification.bsky.social
Reconstruction of society by bike, regrowth & electrification.
Ecology, psychology, urbanism & technology.
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@[email protected]
Ecology, psychology, urbanism & technology.
From 🇸🇪
@[email protected]
8 swedish glaciers have died since year 2000. These words by @andrimagnason.bsky.social dedicated to an iclandic glacier are relevant for all of them.
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
8 swedish glaciers have died since year 2000. These words by @andrimagnason.bsky.social dedicated to an iclandic glacier are relevant for all of them.
Många vet inte historien bakom forskningen om hur naturen kan minska stress och att den till en början faktiskt utgick från ett undersökande av motsatser till studier som påvisat att det var lättare att lära sig känna rädsla för vissa saker i naturen ex ormar.
December 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Många vet inte historien bakom forskningen om hur naturen kan minska stress och att den till en början faktiskt utgick från ett undersökande av motsatser till studier som påvisat att det var lättare att lära sig känna rädsla för vissa saker i naturen ex ormar.
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[email protected]: Colombian authorities must go beyond providing bodyguards & prosecute those behind threats & attacks on defenders & alleged links between the Commandos, multinational oil & mining companies accused of enviro damage should be investigated... apnews.com/article/colo...
'It’s not safe to live here.' Colombia is deadliest country for environmental defenders
Jani Silva is a renowned environmental activist in Colombia’s Amazon, but she has been unable to live in her house for nearly a decade.
apnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
[email protected]: Colombian authorities must go beyond providing bodyguards & prosecute those behind threats & attacks on defenders & alleged links between the Commandos, multinational oil & mining companies accused of enviro damage should be investigated... apnews.com/article/colo...
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Very pleased to be one of the signatories on this. We called for really bold ambition, including 50% of trips under 5 miles to be made actively soon
Exclusive: More than 50 groups connected to transport and public health have urged the transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, to set specific targets for levels of walking and cycling in England, warning that plans as they stand are too vague.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Active travel groups call for clear targets on walking and cycling in England
Exclusive: Groups including British Cycling call for active travel strategy to be put on equal footing with road and rail
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Very pleased to be one of the signatories on this. We called for really bold ambition, including 50% of trips under 5 miles to be made actively soon
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"Support for cycling infrastructure and traffic restrictions [but] particularly opposed the removal of car parking... Cyclists and drivers favoured segregated cycling infrastructure"
New UK study has some nuanced insights into what the public might support www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New UK study has some nuanced insights into what the public might support www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"Support for cycling infrastructure and traffic restrictions [but] particularly opposed the removal of car parking... Cyclists and drivers favoured segregated cycling infrastructure"
New UK study has some nuanced insights into what the public might support www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New UK study has some nuanced insights into what the public might support www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thats great now lets transition the EU and media off of twitter.
December 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Thats great now lets transition the EU and media off of twitter.
At least one thing getting a bit better. Pollustion levels falling in most of EU.
More progress — and action — ahead!
Read the article:
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/2014-2024-de...
Forum link:
eucleanairforum.wmhproject.events
Read the article:
atmosphere.copernicus.eu/2014-2024-de...
Forum link:
eucleanairforum.wmhproject.events
November 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
At least one thing getting a bit better. Pollustion levels falling in most of EU.
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This is BIG and we hope the @ec.europa.eu is listening for the next Omnibus packages!
❗Laws cannot be weakened in this way
❗Stop immediately with the watering down of environmental protections through rushed, non-democratic processes
#NoToOmnibus
⬇️
friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas...
❗Laws cannot be weakened in this way
❗Stop immediately with the watering down of environmental protections through rushed, non-democratic processes
#NoToOmnibus
⬇️
friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas...
EU watchdog slams Commission’s undemocratic environmental rollbacks - Friends of the Earth Europe
The EU Commission violated fundamental principles of good administration in rolling back environmental + human rights protections (Omnibus I)
friendsoftheearth.eu
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This is BIG and we hope the @ec.europa.eu is listening for the next Omnibus packages!
❗Laws cannot be weakened in this way
❗Stop immediately with the watering down of environmental protections through rushed, non-democratic processes
#NoToOmnibus
⬇️
friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas...
❗Laws cannot be weakened in this way
❗Stop immediately with the watering down of environmental protections through rushed, non-democratic processes
#NoToOmnibus
⬇️
friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas...
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🚨 The UK just announced a ban on almost all new North Sea oil & gas licenses, a long-overdue pivot away from fossil fuel expansion! As a historic emitter, the UK must move first by supporting workers and frontline communities. #ENDFOSSILFUELS tinyurl.com/NorthSeaOilBan
November 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🚨 The UK just announced a ban on almost all new North Sea oil & gas licenses, a long-overdue pivot away from fossil fuel expansion! As a historic emitter, the UK must move first by supporting workers and frontline communities. #ENDFOSSILFUELS tinyurl.com/NorthSeaOilBan
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China’s fertility rate has fallen to one, continuing a long decline that began before and continued after the one-child policy—
The 1970s were a decade shaped by fears about overpopulation. As the world’s most populous country, China was never far from the debate.
The 1970s were a decade shaped by fears about overpopulation. As the world’s most populous country, China was never far from the debate.
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
China’s fertility rate has fallen to one, continuing a long decline that began before and continued after the one-child policy—
The 1970s were a decade shaped by fears about overpopulation. As the world’s most populous country, China was never far from the debate.
The 1970s were a decade shaped by fears about overpopulation. As the world’s most populous country, China was never far from the debate.
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NEW | A single carbon removal project at a biomass power station In the UK could cost £30 BILLION in government subsidies.
This would cost more than the UK government plans on spending for carbon capture programmes over 25 years.
https://loom.ly/XibxT4k
This would cost more than the UK government plans on spending for carbon capture programmes over 25 years.
https://loom.ly/XibxT4k
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
NEW | A single carbon removal project at a biomass power station In the UK could cost £30 BILLION in government subsidies.
This would cost more than the UK government plans on spending for carbon capture programmes over 25 years.
https://loom.ly/XibxT4k
This would cost more than the UK government plans on spending for carbon capture programmes over 25 years.
https://loom.ly/XibxT4k
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It'd be cool if the "increasing the cost of motoring hurts poor people" people cared anything like as much about cost to people who rely on public transport - who are disproportionately likely to be poor and disabled, and who consistently face far greater increases in cost.
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
It'd be cool if the "increasing the cost of motoring hurts poor people" people cared anything like as much about cost to people who rely on public transport - who are disproportionately likely to be poor and disabled, and who consistently face far greater increases in cost.
So the suggestion is to not question growth at all? Why then even question climate change and the planetary crisis that convincing is not really going well either it seems.
Maybe offering a grounded solution would at least have a possibility to signify real change?
Maybe offering a grounded solution would at least have a possibility to signify real change?
We've spent decades trying to persuade societies to give up a small fraction of short-term growth in exchange for avoiding the climate crisis in the long term, with mixed success. Good luck convincing everyone to give up the pursuit of growth and prosperity wholesale instead.
There is no end of the #climatecrisis without the end of growth
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
So the suggestion is to not question growth at all? Why then even question climate change and the planetary crisis that convincing is not really going well either it seems.
Maybe offering a grounded solution would at least have a possibility to signify real change?
Maybe offering a grounded solution would at least have a possibility to signify real change?
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Couldn’t agree more!
"I would want to see emissions going down for several years before I would stand up on a building top and shout that emissions have peaked"
Please take note of my wise words...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Please take note of my wise words...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Couldn’t agree more!
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“The government wants to drill for oil in the Amazon & build a railway. We will all face problems if this continues. I told Lula not to exploit oil in the Amazon & that we don’t want the Ferrogrão. If necessary, I’ll scold [him]. He must show respect,” Raoni stated. amazonwatch.org/news/2025/11...
Major River Mobilization With More Than 5,000 Leaders from the Amazon Arrives at COP30 | Amazon Watch
“The presence of Indigenous Peoples at COP30 is very important, but the struggle doesn’t end here."
amazonwatch.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
“The government wants to drill for oil in the Amazon & build a railway. We will all face problems if this continues. I told Lula not to exploit oil in the Amazon & that we don’t want the Ferrogrão. If necessary, I’ll scold [him]. He must show respect,” Raoni stated. amazonwatch.org/news/2025/11...
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This is one of the most inspiring things I’ve been part of. 24 activists, practitioners & engaged academics from various disciplines got together for a week in July to discuss ways out of this ecological, political and social crisis. Here’s what we produced: short article with link to longer report
Climate activists and land defenders are being murdered in the Global South and increasingly imprisoned in the Global North.
A brainwave in the heatwave?
Engaged academics and high-level strategists from the climate movement met to discuss movement strategy during a European heatwave last June. They released their summary report today.
theecologist.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is one of the most inspiring things I’ve been part of. 24 activists, practitioners & engaged academics from various disciplines got together for a week in July to discuss ways out of this ecological, political and social crisis. Here’s what we produced: short article with link to longer report
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The Uninhabitable United States
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Uninhabitable United States
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Maybe it's just me, but I find the positive tone of posts like this infuriating. It isn't "good" news.
To limit warming to 2 (not 1.5) degrees, emissions must fall by ~8% p.a., every year, from NOW.
Fossil fuel use GROWING for ~5 more years would be an unmitigated disaster.
To limit warming to 2 (not 1.5) degrees, emissions must fall by ~8% p.a., every year, from NOW.
Fossil fuel use GROWING for ~5 more years would be an unmitigated disaster.
NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Maybe it's just me, but I find the positive tone of posts like this infuriating. It isn't "good" news.
To limit warming to 2 (not 1.5) degrees, emissions must fall by ~8% p.a., every year, from NOW.
Fossil fuel use GROWING for ~5 more years would be an unmitigated disaster.
To limit warming to 2 (not 1.5) degrees, emissions must fall by ~8% p.a., every year, from NOW.
Fossil fuel use GROWING for ~5 more years would be an unmitigated disaster.
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The Swedish King stepping in it today in Brazil by suggesting that the multilateral climate change process is likely to fail and that Europe does not have any responsibility to pay for climate change impacts on the Global South. He is wrong and should be prevented from making such statements.
November 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Swedish King stepping in it today in Brazil by suggesting that the multilateral climate change process is likely to fail and that Europe does not have any responsibility to pay for climate change impacts on the Global South. He is wrong and should be prevented from making such statements.
@omarfatehmn.com
Fateh, like Mamdani, is running a progressive campaign including raising the minimum wage to $20, rent stabilization and standing up to Trump.
6 of 13 council members have backed him, as have unions and state lawmakers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Fateh, like Mamdani, is running a progressive campaign including raising the minimum wage to $20, rent stabilization and standing up to Trump.
6 of 13 council members have backed him, as have unions and state lawmakers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The ‘Mamdani of Minneapolis’ is banking on a grassroots campaign to unseat the Democratic mayor
Omar Fateh, a democratic socialist, hopes to defeat Jacob Frey by focusing on affordability, wages and public safety
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
@omarfatehmn.com
Fateh, like Mamdani, is running a progressive campaign including raising the minimum wage to $20, rent stabilization and standing up to Trump.
6 of 13 council members have backed him, as have unions and state lawmakers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Fateh, like Mamdani, is running a progressive campaign including raising the minimum wage to $20, rent stabilization and standing up to Trump.
6 of 13 council members have backed him, as have unions and state lawmakers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Pix is wildly popular in Brazil 📈
it’s a free, inclusive, publicly-owned digital payment system… and it’s quickly become the most common payment method in 🇧🇷
but it cuts out US corporations — so now the US govt is trying to get it taken down.
this is what capitalist imperialism looks like:
it’s a free, inclusive, publicly-owned digital payment system… and it’s quickly become the most common payment method in 🇧🇷
but it cuts out US corporations — so now the US govt is trying to get it taken down.
this is what capitalist imperialism looks like:
October 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Pix is wildly popular in Brazil 📈
it’s a free, inclusive, publicly-owned digital payment system… and it’s quickly become the most common payment method in 🇧🇷
but it cuts out US corporations — so now the US govt is trying to get it taken down.
this is what capitalist imperialism looks like:
it’s a free, inclusive, publicly-owned digital payment system… and it’s quickly become the most common payment method in 🇧🇷
but it cuts out US corporations — so now the US govt is trying to get it taken down.
this is what capitalist imperialism looks like:
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Hey, I'm in this @npr.org story about the hidden costs of car ownership! www.npr.org/2025/10/30/n...
Cost of Living: The hidden price of car ownership
The cost of both new and used cars has soared in the last four years, and insurance, maintenance and the invisible costs like damage to our health add up to a much higher price tag.
www.npr.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Hey, I'm in this @npr.org story about the hidden costs of car ownership! www.npr.org/2025/10/30/n...
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Brazil is set to unveil an investment fund that would channel billions of dollars yearly to countries that safeguard tropical forests.
Proponents see a game-changer for conservation, but critics say the plan will benefit investors first, rather than forests and the countries that host them.
Proponents see a game-changer for conservation, but critics say the plan will benefit investors first, rather than forests and the countries that host them.
Carbon Offsets Are Failing. Can a New Plan Save the Rainforests?
Brazil is set to unveil an ambitious international plan that would provide up to $4 billion a year to countries that protect their tropical forests. Proponents see it as a potential game-changer for f...
e360.yale.edu
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Brazil is set to unveil an investment fund that would channel billions of dollars yearly to countries that safeguard tropical forests.
Proponents see a game-changer for conservation, but critics say the plan will benefit investors first, rather than forests and the countries that host them.
Proponents see a game-changer for conservation, but critics say the plan will benefit investors first, rather than forests and the countries that host them.
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The luxury effect: why you’ll find more wildlife in wealthy areas – and what it means for your health
The luxury effect: why you’ll find more wildlife in wealthy areas – and what it means for your health
The discovery that affluent neighbourhoods have more diversity of nature has implications for human wellbeing – and sheds light on the structural injustices in cities
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The luxury effect: why you’ll find more wildlife in wealthy areas – and what it means for your health