John Brisbin
@ethicalfeast.bsky.social
Contented cultivator of the blossoming local.
I am what I eat. I am the change I want to see.
I am what I eat. I am the change I want to see.
Short, sharp reminder of the centrepoint around which most global issues are ensnared, from the excellent Degrowth Central Victoria (
degrowthcentralvictoria.substack.com/p/global-ine...)
degrowthcentralvictoria.substack.com/p/global-ine...)
September 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Short, sharp reminder of the centrepoint around which most global issues are ensnared, from the excellent Degrowth Central Victoria (
degrowthcentralvictoria.substack.com/p/global-ine...)
degrowthcentralvictoria.substack.com/p/global-ine...)
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"This civilisation is genocidal. Ecocidal. Omnicidal. Imperialist. Racist. Dehumanising. Degrading. Dystopian. Emotionally stunted. Culturally vapid. Spiritually impoverished. Intellectually enslaved. Why would any sane person want this to continue?"
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
Western civilisation is not worth saving
Western civilisation is not worth saving. I think that’s been pretty well established by now.
johnmenadue.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"This civilisation is genocidal. Ecocidal. Omnicidal. Imperialist. Racist. Dehumanising. Degrading. Dystopian. Emotionally stunted. Culturally vapid. Spiritually impoverished. Intellectually enslaved. Why would any sane person want this to continue?"
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...
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Slime mold cytoplasmic streaming. Physarium Polycephalum is a multinucleate giant single cell! Super new to slime molds but I’m hooked. Fist 20 secs sped up but the rest is not, the streaming is just -super- fast. Watch for flow reversals. #sciart #microscopy
June 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Slime mold cytoplasmic streaming. Physarium Polycephalum is a multinucleate giant single cell! Super new to slime molds but I’m hooked. Fist 20 secs sped up but the rest is not, the streaming is just -super- fast. Watch for flow reversals. #sciart #microscopy
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The shamelessness of the fishing lobby posing as the defenders of fish.
And scapegoating cormorants and seals to cover up for their over fishing.
Supported by the FAO which could maybe more usefully get back to confronting the intensive livestock industry that is choking the sea in shit.
And scapegoating cormorants and seals to cover up for their over fishing.
Supported by the FAO which could maybe more usefully get back to confronting the intensive livestock industry that is choking the sea in shit.
We are tired of hearing the same old Cormorant-diss track😡
Today, at the Conference on 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴, we heard the same blame-game song lines we have been hearing since the 70ies.
#Cormorants were blamed for fish stock decline instead of the real culprits
Today, at the Conference on 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴, we heard the same blame-game song lines we have been hearing since the 70ies.
#Cormorants were blamed for fish stock decline instead of the real culprits
June 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The shamelessness of the fishing lobby posing as the defenders of fish.
And scapegoating cormorants and seals to cover up for their over fishing.
Supported by the FAO which could maybe more usefully get back to confronting the intensive livestock industry that is choking the sea in shit.
And scapegoating cormorants and seals to cover up for their over fishing.
Supported by the FAO which could maybe more usefully get back to confronting the intensive livestock industry that is choking the sea in shit.
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Care maintains the world. The market made it invisible.
In The Care Economy, economist and writer @timjackson.org.uk exposes the violence behind growth-at-all-costs and calls for an economy that heals, not harms.
Out now (US + global):
🔗 timjackson.org.uk/the-care-eco...
#TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth
In The Care Economy, economist and writer @timjackson.org.uk exposes the violence behind growth-at-all-costs and calls for an economy that heals, not harms.
Out now (US + global):
🔗 timjackson.org.uk/the-care-eco...
#TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth
May 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Care maintains the world. The market made it invisible.
In The Care Economy, economist and writer @timjackson.org.uk exposes the violence behind growth-at-all-costs and calls for an economy that heals, not harms.
Out now (US + global):
🔗 timjackson.org.uk/the-care-eco...
#TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth
In The Care Economy, economist and writer @timjackson.org.uk exposes the violence behind growth-at-all-costs and calls for an economy that heals, not harms.
Out now (US + global):
🔗 timjackson.org.uk/the-care-eco...
#TheCareEconomy #PostGrowth
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"“Tragically, we’re seeing more extreme weather events. They’re occurring more frequently, and they’re more intense” Albanese said"
Pray tell, PM @albomp.bsky.social, will your recognition of impacts of the climate crisis translate into CEASING approvals for NEW/EXTENSIONS of Coal & Gas projects❓
Pray tell, PM @albomp.bsky.social, will your recognition of impacts of the climate crisis translate into CEASING approvals for NEW/EXTENSIONS of Coal & Gas projects❓
NSW flooding: PM delivers climate crisis warning as damaging winds to strike flood-hit mid-north coast
Anthony Albanese acknowledges home insurance now a ‘real challenge’ as government announces disaster assistance for 19 local council areas
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:29 AM
"“Tragically, we’re seeing more extreme weather events. They’re occurring more frequently, and they’re more intense” Albanese said"
Pray tell, PM @albomp.bsky.social, will your recognition of impacts of the climate crisis translate into CEASING approvals for NEW/EXTENSIONS of Coal & Gas projects❓
Pray tell, PM @albomp.bsky.social, will your recognition of impacts of the climate crisis translate into CEASING approvals for NEW/EXTENSIONS of Coal & Gas projects❓
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Look, domestic transition to renewables is impt BUT
1️⃣The bulk (~80%) of Australia’s contribution to global carbon emissions is emissions embodied in its fossil fuel exports
2️⃣Since 2022, Labor's approved 30🤯 new coal & gas projects
1️⃣+2️⃣ = MASSIVE emissions fueling #ClimateBreakdown
#AusVotes25
1️⃣The bulk (~80%) of Australia’s contribution to global carbon emissions is emissions embodied in its fossil fuel exports
2️⃣Since 2022, Labor's approved 30🤯 new coal & gas projects
1️⃣+2️⃣ = MASSIVE emissions fueling #ClimateBreakdown
#AusVotes25
Australia's massive global carbon footprint set to continue with…
Australia has a global carbon footprint that far exceeds its economic size and population - and is responsible for around 4.5% of global fossil carbon dioxide emissions, with 80% of those emissions co...
climateanalytics.org
April 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Look, domestic transition to renewables is impt BUT
1️⃣The bulk (~80%) of Australia’s contribution to global carbon emissions is emissions embodied in its fossil fuel exports
2️⃣Since 2022, Labor's approved 30🤯 new coal & gas projects
1️⃣+2️⃣ = MASSIVE emissions fueling #ClimateBreakdown
#AusVotes25
1️⃣The bulk (~80%) of Australia’s contribution to global carbon emissions is emissions embodied in its fossil fuel exports
2️⃣Since 2022, Labor's approved 30🤯 new coal & gas projects
1️⃣+2️⃣ = MASSIVE emissions fueling #ClimateBreakdown
#AusVotes25
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Every day we see the potential of #MMT move a tiny step forward....
Great reminder! And fortunately, the study isn't onerous
@warwicksmith.bsky.social explains why the federal budget is not like a household budget
From 2014 (so just replace the scaremongers & shills with today's set) and everything substantive still applies
@warwicksmith.bsky.social explains why the federal budget is not like a household budget
From 2014 (so just replace the scaremongers & shills with today's set) and everything substantive still applies
March 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Every day we see the potential of #MMT move a tiny step forward....
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Aussie consumers face a manufactured gas shortage, pushing up energy costs across the board. Meantime the gas cartel inks more long-term deals to sell cheap gas to foreign industry. This time it’s Woodside selling to China. Colonial economics 1.01 #auspol
Woodside signs long-term LNG supply deal with China Resources Gas
Australian energy giant Woodside Energy said on Monday it had signed a long-term sale and purchase agreement with China Resources Gas International for the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to China.
www.reuters.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Aussie consumers face a manufactured gas shortage, pushing up energy costs across the board. Meantime the gas cartel inks more long-term deals to sell cheap gas to foreign industry. This time it’s Woodside selling to China. Colonial economics 1.01 #auspol
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If Global South nations do not organize collective geopolitical action to cut economic ties and weaken the US-led West, the latter will pick them off one by one to capture the lands and resources they need to maintain their wealth and power amid climate and biosphere collapse.
March 16, 2025 at 6:44 AM
If Global South nations do not organize collective geopolitical action to cut economic ties and weaken the US-led West, the latter will pick them off one by one to capture the lands and resources they need to maintain their wealth and power amid climate and biosphere collapse.
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Big gas is taking the piss.
There fixed it.
There fixed it.
March 16, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Big gas is taking the piss.
There fixed it.
There fixed it.
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Look, a multipolar world with regional hegemony may be what we need for Australia to mature past grasping America's coat tails...
March 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Look, a multipolar world with regional hegemony may be what we need for Australia to mature past grasping America's coat tails...
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Americans: We’d like to afford basic necessities, keep vital programs, and not lose our retirement savings.
Trump: Best I can do is a car commercial for the richest man on Earth.
Trump: Best I can do is a car commercial for the richest man on Earth.
March 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Americans: We’d like to afford basic necessities, keep vital programs, and not lose our retirement savings.
Trump: Best I can do is a car commercial for the richest man on Earth.
Trump: Best I can do is a car commercial for the richest man on Earth.
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It's hard to comprehend the scale at which supertrawlers are murdering life in the oceans.
March 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
It's hard to comprehend the scale at which supertrawlers are murdering life in the oceans.
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Costa Rica has massively rewilded over recent decades. Has this led to the collapse of farming, rural society, or national wellbeing?
Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Learning from an awe-inspiring immense ecosystem that has returned to life
Rewilding ecologist and author Eoghan Daltun visited Costa Rica to see first-hand how the country has managed over the last 30 years to reverse one of the worst deforestation rates in all Latin Americ...
www.irishexaminer.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Costa Rica has massively rewilded over recent decades. Has this led to the collapse of farming, rural society, or national wellbeing?
Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
A timely reminder from one of my heroes: Wendell Berry
(sourced through the excellent @stoweboyd.bsky.social family of channels!) www.workfutures.io/p/destroyed-...
(sourced through the excellent @stoweboyd.bsky.social family of channels!) www.workfutures.io/p/destroyed-...
March 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
A timely reminder from one of my heroes: Wendell Berry
(sourced through the excellent @stoweboyd.bsky.social family of channels!) www.workfutures.io/p/destroyed-...
(sourced through the excellent @stoweboyd.bsky.social family of channels!) www.workfutures.io/p/destroyed-...
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This is what enabling fossil fuel corps in @australianlabor.bsky.social's #FutureGasStrategy "to 2050 & beyond" requires, so we will work with every level of government to provide ambulances at the bottom of cliffs
#ClimateBreakdownIDontKnowHer
#ClimateBreakdownIDontKnowHer
We're working with every level of government to make sure people in Queensland and New South Wales affected by Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred get the help they need straight away.
March 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This is what enabling fossil fuel corps in @australianlabor.bsky.social's #FutureGasStrategy "to 2050 & beyond" requires, so we will work with every level of government to provide ambulances at the bottom of cliffs
#ClimateBreakdownIDontKnowHer
#ClimateBreakdownIDontKnowHer
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China National Peoples Congress 2025 affirms clean energy as a driver of high-quality growth, in China's economy committing a 10% increase in science and technology spending for 2025 in support of clean tech innovation
China growing science, not cutting science🧪
China growing science, not cutting science🧪
Clean-energy technologies >10% China’s economy in 2024: sales and investments worth 13.6tn yuan or $1.9tn
Clean-energy sectors drove 25% China gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2024
Clean tech share now > real-estate sales
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...
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@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
Clean-energy sectors drove 25% China gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2024
Clean tech share now > real-estate sales
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...
+🧵
@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
China National Peoples Congress 2025 affirms clean energy as a driver of high-quality growth, in China's economy committing a 10% increase in science and technology spending for 2025 in support of clean tech innovation
China growing science, not cutting science🧪
China growing science, not cutting science🧪
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This piece explains in a nutshell the staggering failure of capitalism to address the climate crisis. “No capitalist,” Marx wrote, “ever voluntarily introduces a new method of production… so long as it reduces the rate of profit.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
BP dropping its green ambitions is a travesty. But that’s exactly how capitalism works | Brett Christophers
The failure to deal with the climate emergency is not a problem of greedy individual companies, but a system rigged against positive change, says Brett Christophers, a professor of economic geography
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This piece explains in a nutshell the staggering failure of capitalism to address the climate crisis. “No capitalist,” Marx wrote, “ever voluntarily introduces a new method of production… so long as it reduces the rate of profit.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It's fascinating how, in the 1950s, US officials acknowledged - on the record - that socialism in the global South was a more effective development model than capitalism.
March 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
It's fascinating how, in the 1950s, US officials acknowledged - on the record - that socialism in the global South was a more effective development model than capitalism.
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Right now you can take an easy but important step to support positive action for nature, culture and people. Indigenous Rangers and Indigenous Protected Areas benefit every Aussie. Sign the petition to tell federal pollies to strengthen their support www.countryneedspeople.org.au/full_support
Sign the Petition to Secure Indigenous Rangers into the Future
Indigenous Rangers are an Aussie success story. Sign the petition today.
www.countryneedspeople.org.au
March 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Right now you can take an easy but important step to support positive action for nature, culture and people. Indigenous Rangers and Indigenous Protected Areas benefit every Aussie. Sign the petition to tell federal pollies to strengthen their support www.countryneedspeople.org.au/full_support
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It does't get noted enough that the disruption of public, collective risk-mitigation mechanisms makes the purchase of private risk-mitigation services effectively mandatory for the who can afford them... and creates profitable captive markets for privatized safety.
March 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It does't get noted enough that the disruption of public, collective risk-mitigation mechanisms makes the purchase of private risk-mitigation services effectively mandatory for the who can afford them... and creates profitable captive markets for privatized safety.
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There is no market solution to a market failure.
We need to simply build public housing - not subsidise private, profit-seeking corporations and NGOs.
We need to simply build public housing - not subsidise private, profit-seeking corporations and NGOs.
March 2, 2025 at 3:12 AM
There is no market solution to a market failure.
We need to simply build public housing - not subsidise private, profit-seeking corporations and NGOs.
We need to simply build public housing - not subsidise private, profit-seeking corporations and NGOs.