Lara
@laraisnatasha.bsky.social
wild human designing outside spaces for ecosystems and community // nyc la sf seattle
The world is crumbling. We need to be aware how many places are experiencing crises. Our attention and awareness is important.
Like 1,000-yr floods & 100k megafires, massive ecological catastrophes have become all-too-common occurrences. As this one Down Under, they wreak unprecedented destruction but very little public attention or understanding. Biodiversity disappears without notice. 🌏 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
SA’s algal bloom ‘one of the worst marine disasters in living memory’, and driving force could rival black summer, experts say
As Senate establishes inquiry into the ‘human-mediated disaster’, a report is calling for more long-term action
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The world is crumbling. We need to be aware how many places are experiencing crises. Our attention and awareness is important.
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Today is #EarthOvershootDay — the day when humanity’s demands on nature surpass Earth’s ability to replenish itself in a year. This year’s date (a week earlier than 2024) means that people are using nature 1.8 times faster than Earth can replenish itself.
Learn more about the day ⬇️
Learn more about the day ⬇️
Home - Global Footprint Network
The Ecological Footprint metric shows how much nature we use compared to how much nature we have.
www.footprintnetwork.org
July 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Today is #EarthOvershootDay — the day when humanity’s demands on nature surpass Earth’s ability to replenish itself in a year. This year’s date (a week earlier than 2024) means that people are using nature 1.8 times faster than Earth can replenish itself.
Learn more about the day ⬇️
Learn more about the day ⬇️
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Hansen and Lacis at NASA GISS warned the world about the Faustian Bargain of combined greenhouse gas and sulphur emissions already back in 1990!
Now it turns out that it's worse than their 'extreme case 1'.
And desulphurization is happening without GHG reductions.
www.giss.nasa.gov/pubs/abs/ha0...
Now it turns out that it's worse than their 'extreme case 1'.
And desulphurization is happening without GHG reductions.
www.giss.nasa.gov/pubs/abs/ha0...
July 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Hansen and Lacis at NASA GISS warned the world about the Faustian Bargain of combined greenhouse gas and sulphur emissions already back in 1990!
Now it turns out that it's worse than their 'extreme case 1'.
And desulphurization is happening without GHG reductions.
www.giss.nasa.gov/pubs/abs/ha0...
Now it turns out that it's worse than their 'extreme case 1'.
And desulphurization is happening without GHG reductions.
www.giss.nasa.gov/pubs/abs/ha0...
@repkimschrier.bsky.social can Washington, Oregon and Cali simply develop our own inter-state emergency act to protect the public lands from development?
Surely our state sovereignty can exercise all its jurisdiction muscle in times like this.
Surely our state sovereignty can exercise all its jurisdiction muscle in times like this.
June 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
@repkimschrier.bsky.social can Washington, Oregon and Cali simply develop our own inter-state emergency act to protect the public lands from development?
Surely our state sovereignty can exercise all its jurisdiction muscle in times like this.
Surely our state sovereignty can exercise all its jurisdiction muscle in times like this.
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No, this is not “unused land.” It is used by innumerable species, and they are, in fact, dependent on it.
(Somewhere in southern Arizona.)
(Somewhere in southern Arizona.)
June 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
No, this is not “unused land.” It is used by innumerable species, and they are, in fact, dependent on it.
(Somewhere in southern Arizona.)
(Somewhere in southern Arizona.)
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Nearly $7 trillion USD is invested annually in activities harming nature, while investments in Nature-based Solutions total only around $200 billion.
It’s time to flip these numbers.
Check UNEP’s State of Finance for Nature for more data: financefornature.unep.org
It’s time to flip these numbers.
Check UNEP’s State of Finance for Nature for more data: financefornature.unep.org
April 12, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Nearly $7 trillion USD is invested annually in activities harming nature, while investments in Nature-based Solutions total only around $200 billion.
It’s time to flip these numbers.
Check UNEP’s State of Finance for Nature for more data: financefornature.unep.org
It’s time to flip these numbers.
Check UNEP’s State of Finance for Nature for more data: financefornature.unep.org
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UCLA report shows that if all 7 of the drought-plagued Colorado River Basin states recycled water as well as Arizona (or even 2/3rds as well as Nevada), they could save up to 30% of the shrinking river’s shortfall. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/as-... Research by @uclaioes.bsky.social @nrdc.org
As Colorado River shrinks, states fail to tap an accessible water source
A new UCLA-NRDC report reveals basin-wide gaps in wastewater reuse despite worsening water shortages.
newsroom.ucla.edu
April 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM
UCLA report shows that if all 7 of the drought-plagued Colorado River Basin states recycled water as well as Arizona (or even 2/3rds as well as Nevada), they could save up to 30% of the shrinking river’s shortfall. newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/as-... Research by @uclaioes.bsky.social @nrdc.org
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Please touch grass that's not a lawn
March 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Please touch grass that's not a lawn
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"Day by day, species by species, landscape by landscape, the world in which humans arose is being deleted. What remains will be unfit for survival of either humans or large animals...Yet every person contributes to it & (almost) every business supports it." cribb.substack.com/p/delete-the...
Delete the Earth...
Day by day, species by species, landscape by landscape, the world in which humans arose is being deleted.
cribb.substack.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:09 AM
"Day by day, species by species, landscape by landscape, the world in which humans arose is being deleted. What remains will be unfit for survival of either humans or large animals...Yet every person contributes to it & (almost) every business supports it." cribb.substack.com/p/delete-the...
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"The Forest Service is increasing its timber harvest to 4 billion board ft -- That’s enough lumber to circle the globe more than 30 times...The agency does not account for carbon effects when setting its timber targets because it 'does not manage for carbon.'” 🌏 wisconsinwatch.org/2025/03/fore...
Forest Service cuts more trees despite their carbon-capture ability
Advocates argue that we need trees now more than ever and that an increase in the timber harvest doesn’t make sense.
wisconsinwatch.org
March 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
"The Forest Service is increasing its timber harvest to 4 billion board ft -- That’s enough lumber to circle the globe more than 30 times...The agency does not account for carbon effects when setting its timber targets because it 'does not manage for carbon.'” 🌏 wisconsinwatch.org/2025/03/fore...