Philip Harris (@PhilipHarris15)
@philsharris.bsky.social
Retd. plant scientist keeping a log in accelerating time. Agrarian-minded if/when optimistic about the future. Regrets extinctions & other loss. Updates carrying capacity, LTG, geopolitical crunch & wars, leaving twitter. PoV: 'Predicaments not problems!
Pinned
Aquifer
No matter....
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'Human Ecology', widen the frame, note +ve feedback loops, sustainable until not? Not just cliches. Try some poetry can span a history. My timid effort 'Aquifer' & shout out Daraja Press et al here harrisp.substack.com/p/aquifer
Climate science is homing in! Even for a low emissions scenario there remains a 22%risk.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 on X: "How likely is an #AMOC shutdown? Here's our latest study based on 768 runs with 38 standard climate models (the CMIP6 models). Note these do not include any meltwater from Greenland mass loss, so might underestimate the risk a bit. 2/2 https://t.co/af1PkR2GTp https://t.co/KJ9abfkvGE" / X
How likely is an #AMOC shutdown? Here's our latest study based on 768 runs with 38 standard climate models (the CMIP6 models). Note these do not include any meltwater from Greenland mass loss, so might underestimate the risk a bit. 2/2 https://t.co/af1PkR2GTp https://t.co/KJ9abfkvGE
x.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Climate science is homing in! Even for a low emissions scenario there remains a 22%risk.
x.com/rahmstorf/st...
x.com/rahmstorf/st...
What happens when it is not working anymore, what else might we share instead? What pulls you differently now?
"Sunk Cost and the Superorganism | Frankly 116 youtu.be/Ymdut8EodIk?... via @YouTube
"Sunk Cost and the Superorganism | Frankly 116 youtu.be/Ymdut8EodIk?... via @YouTube
Sunk Cost and the Superorganism | Frankly 116
YouTube video by Nate Hagens
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December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
What happens when it is not working anymore, what else might we share instead? What pulls you differently now?
"Sunk Cost and the Superorganism | Frankly 116 youtu.be/Ymdut8EodIk?... via @YouTube
"Sunk Cost and the Superorganism | Frankly 116 youtu.be/Ymdut8EodIk?... via @YouTube
Print this one and pin it on the board and consult every 6 months?
The Real Reason Europe is Rearming: Germany’s Industrial Collapse
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The Real Reason Europe is Rearming: Germany’s Industrial Collapse
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The Real Reason Europe is Rearming: Germany’s Industrial Collapse
The global collapse arrives piecemeal. Germany is going first.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Print this one and pin it on the board and consult every 6 months?
The Real Reason Europe is Rearming: Germany’s Industrial Collapse
open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...
The Real Reason Europe is Rearming: Germany’s Industrial Collapse
open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...
Good & clear. Pass it on.
" When reality scares us, we reach for “solutions.” - "We’ll try almost anything before we’ll be honest with ourselves".
Many in crisis now globally? Look for allies in truth-telling traditions? Softer landings I hope.
www.artberman.com/blog/the-fal...
" When reality scares us, we reach for “solutions.” - "We’ll try almost anything before we’ll be honest with ourselves".
Many in crisis now globally? Look for allies in truth-telling traditions? Softer landings I hope.
www.artberman.com/blog/the-fal...
The False Promise of Enhanced Geothermal | Art Berman
Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) are advertised as a breakthrough: clean, firm power anywhere, unlocked by drilling and fracking technologies borrowed from shale. The story sounds great. The economic...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Good & clear. Pass it on.
" When reality scares us, we reach for “solutions.” - "We’ll try almost anything before we’ll be honest with ourselves".
Many in crisis now globally? Look for allies in truth-telling traditions? Softer landings I hope.
www.artberman.com/blog/the-fal...
" When reality scares us, we reach for “solutions.” - "We’ll try almost anything before we’ll be honest with ourselves".
Many in crisis now globally? Look for allies in truth-telling traditions? Softer landings I hope.
www.artberman.com/blog/the-fal...
Poverty, public health, better food for health... not unconnected. Restore PH grant. Vital if UK is to manage the future?
"Budget 2025: three things stand out for health | www.health.org.uk/features-and...
"Budget 2025: three things stand out for health | www.health.org.uk/features-and...
www.health.org.uk
December 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Poverty, public health, better food for health... not unconnected. Restore PH grant. Vital if UK is to manage the future?
"Budget 2025: three things stand out for health | www.health.org.uk/features-and...
"Budget 2025: three things stand out for health | www.health.org.uk/features-and...
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On day #4 of Overland's Subscriberthon, we bring you two reviews of books about Palestine: by Yahia Lababidi on ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS and Norman Saadi Nikro on DAYBREAK IN GAZA.
Two reviews: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and Daybreak in Gaza - Overland literary journal
Yahia Lababidi and Norman Saadi Nikro review thew new book by Omar El Akkad and collection edited by Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller.
overland.org.au
November 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
On day #4 of Overland's Subscriberthon, we bring you two reviews of books about Palestine: by Yahia Lababidi on ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS and Norman Saadi Nikro on DAYBREAK IN GAZA.
Still thinking about this? At the time I got snorted at down south when I mentioned it, and again later when I tried to talk about 'social catastrophe'. That was y'r factional 'media' back then and a mindset. And we are into the future now.
"...most pronounced in Scotland, where the bulk of deaths from drugs and suicide have afflicted the generation that grew up during spells of high joblessness during the rapid deindustrialisation of the 1970s and 1980s."
Yep, I saw it... +heroin/HIV colonisation
John Burn-Murdoch, FT, h/t Adam Tooze
Yep, I saw it... +heroin/HIV colonisation
John Burn-Murdoch, FT, h/t Adam Tooze
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Still thinking about this? At the time I got snorted at down south when I mentioned it, and again later when I tried to talk about 'social catastrophe'. That was y'r factional 'media' back then and a mindset. And we are into the future now.
Helps make much better sense for policy than most... British uplands are large, vital, and need you!
It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like #Christmoss! Have you been good peatland practitioners and restored a lot of #Peatland this year? #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog #Christmas
December 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Helps make much better sense for policy than most... British uplands are large, vital, and need you!
Reposted by Philip Harris (@PhilipHarris15)
Small gardens can boost biodiversity just as much as large ones – and when little green spaces join together with others, it creates a network of wildlife-friendly areas that benefits many different species.
Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/sma...
Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/sma...
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Small gardens can boost biodiversity just as much as large ones – and when little green spaces join together with others, it creates a network of wildlife-friendly areas that benefits many different species.
Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/sma...
Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/sma...
Like me, out of your depth, what with existential environmental threats and militarised policies? Try this timely sketch...
"Harlequin Goes to War: The Slapstick Strategy open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...
"Harlequin Goes to War: The Slapstick Strategy open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...
Philip Harris on The Seneca Effect
I'm out of my depth, so this is timely, rather brilliant in its brief scholarship. Thanks Ugo. Can we contemplate confronting the only too real existential threats and further damage to the biosphere ...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Like me, out of your depth, what with existential environmental threats and militarised policies? Try this timely sketch...
"Harlequin Goes to War: The Slapstick Strategy open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...
"Harlequin Goes to War: The Slapstick Strategy open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...
Guess you practice this a lot before you need it? Some of this is location or task specific, i.e. loops already constructed. Don’t look for ‘answers’ or beat it up, let a more secure brain sort matters, I guess. PFC has a chance to get out more and to smile like the man?
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Illuminate The Illusion (@ajw3477)
POWER
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November 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Guess you practice this a lot before you need it? Some of this is location or task specific, i.e. loops already constructed. Don’t look for ‘answers’ or beat it up, let a more secure brain sort matters, I guess. PFC has a chance to get out more and to smile like the man?
substack.com/@ajw3477/not...
substack.com/@ajw3477/not...
Reposted by Philip Harris (@PhilipHarris15)
Fruit trees benefit all sorts of wildlife, including bees, bats and birds. But around two thirds of UK orchards have been lost since 1960. Planting an apple tree in your garden or community can really help to boost biodiversity.
What to grow:
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/cho...
What to grow:
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/cho...
November 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Fruit trees benefit all sorts of wildlife, including bees, bats and birds. But around two thirds of UK orchards have been lost since 1960. Planting an apple tree in your garden or community can really help to boost biodiversity.
What to grow:
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/cho...
What to grow:
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/cho...
See also the vital article from Jewish POV in the face of the wrecking ball that is 'cowardice' in the face of extreme violence visited on the innocents of the world. open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
How the BBC censored the line that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history”
This sentence was cut from the broadcast of the 2025 Reith Lectures for "legal reasons" - but do those supposed legal reasons make sense?
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November 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
See also the vital article from Jewish POV in the face of the wrecking ball that is 'cowardice' in the face of extreme violence visited on the innocents of the world. open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
This is America... Zionism dead, what else? I'm not Jewish, but took my British identity as necessary... what now? Can Britain & America regenerate to tell the truth?
A must read. "Jewish Exceptionalism: a path to genocide www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/jewi...
A must read. "Jewish Exceptionalism: a path to genocide www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/jewi...
Jewish Exceptionalism: a path to genocide
This is a beautifully written lament for the lost illusions of an American Jew born in the mid-‘70s, and a…
www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk
November 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This is America... Zionism dead, what else? I'm not Jewish, but took my British identity as necessary... what now? Can Britain & America regenerate to tell the truth?
A must read. "Jewish Exceptionalism: a path to genocide www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/jewi...
A must read. "Jewish Exceptionalism: a path to genocide www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/jewi...
h/t Rahmstorf
Iceland's climate minister:
"We believe confronting climate tipping points & risks.. is not 'pessimism' or 'alarmism' but a sign of realism & responsibility."
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Observations & models suggest AMOC is slowing down, with global implications for climate resilience & adaptation.
Iceland's climate minister:
"We believe confronting climate tipping points & risks.. is not 'pessimism' or 'alarmism' but a sign of realism & responsibility."
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Observations & models suggest AMOC is slowing down, with global implications for climate resilience & adaptation.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
h/t Rahmstorf
Iceland's climate minister:
"We believe confronting climate tipping points & risks.. is not 'pessimism' or 'alarmism' but a sign of realism & responsibility."
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Observations & models suggest AMOC is slowing down, with global implications for climate resilience & adaptation.
Iceland's climate minister:
"We believe confronting climate tipping points & risks.. is not 'pessimism' or 'alarmism' but a sign of realism & responsibility."
youtube.com
Observations & models suggest AMOC is slowing down, with global implications for climate resilience & adaptation.
Peaceful anti-zionist British Jews challenge Israeli recruitment of more settlers to steal more land from Palestinians, recruitment going on in a London synagogue. Heaven help us!
Anti-Zionist Jews abused during protest outside synagogue www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/anti...
Anti-Zionist Jews abused during protest outside synagogue www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/anti...
Anti-Zionist Jews abused during protest outside synagogue
Metropolitan police placed a banning order on a protest organised by Jewish Anti-Zionist Action and Palestine Pulse on November 23,…
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November 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Peaceful anti-zionist British Jews challenge Israeli recruitment of more settlers to steal more land from Palestinians, recruitment going on in a London synagogue. Heaven help us!
Anti-Zionist Jews abused during protest outside synagogue www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/anti...
Anti-Zionist Jews abused during protest outside synagogue www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/anti...
Poet Yahia Lababidi's review of the challenge to old US Labor grip: a regeneration of foundational moral solidarity? Yahia & JVL help make a bridge.
'No neutrals there': How US labor built Israel and ignored Palestine www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/no-n...
'No neutrals there': How US labor built Israel and ignored Palestine www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/no-n...
No neutrals there: How US labor built Israel and ignored Palestine
Attempts in the labour movement in to show solidarity with the Palestinians after October 2023 were quickly scotched in the…
www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Poet Yahia Lababidi's review of the challenge to old US Labor grip: a regeneration of foundational moral solidarity? Yahia & JVL help make a bridge.
'No neutrals there': How US labor built Israel and ignored Palestine www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/no-n...
'No neutrals there': How US labor built Israel and ignored Palestine www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/no-n...
Security riskassessment? Check also good update at Carneigie International for Peace. Yes, Iran, for aquifers note also Israel. Question, what would make your country uninhabitable perhaps in a generation or two? UK... AMOC?
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Alia Parker (@aliaparker)
UPDATE: Since I wrote this, Iran’s president has flagged the possibility that the nation’s capital, Tehran, will be evacuated if rain doesn’t fall soon. A city of almost 9 million people, and a wider ...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Security riskassessment? Check also good update at Carneigie International for Peace. Yes, Iran, for aquifers note also Israel. Question, what would make your country uninhabitable perhaps in a generation or two? UK... AMOC?
substack.com/@aliaparker/...
substack.com/@aliaparker/...
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Part of gratitude, as I understand it, is soul-searching — recognizing our transgressions & striving to do better:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2qH0... #poetry #booksky
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2qH0... #poetry #booksky
Reflections on Sin & Salvation
YouTube video by YAHIA LABABIDI
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November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Part of gratitude, as I understand it, is soul-searching — recognizing our transgressions & striving to do better:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2qH0... #poetry #booksky
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2qH0... #poetry #booksky
Then do a risk assessment for us? And war industries deny any chance to ward off existential threats, e.g. AMOC?
"UK complicity in Gaza and the myth of “British democracy” www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/uk-c...
"UK complicity in Gaza and the myth of “British democracy” www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/uk-c...
UK complicity in Gaza and the myth of “British democracy”
UK governments complicity with Israel has a long history that the horrors of Gaza are exposing but not shifting. Not…
www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Then do a risk assessment for us? And war industries deny any chance to ward off existential threats, e.g. AMOC?
"UK complicity in Gaza and the myth of “British democracy” www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/uk-c...
"UK complicity in Gaza and the myth of “British democracy” www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/uk-c...
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Bodies are like poems
a fraction of their power
resides in their skin.
The rest belongs
to the spirit that
swims through them.
www.npr.org/2012/04/19/1... @npr.org #poetry #writing
a fraction of their power
resides in their skin.
The rest belongs
to the spirit that
swims through them.
www.npr.org/2012/04/19/1... @npr.org #poetry #writing
Egyptian-American Poet: Bodies Are Like Poems
As part of Tell Me More's series for National Poetry Month, host Michel Martin shares a poetic tweet from freelance writer and poet Yahia Lababidi. Listeners are invited to tweet original poems of 140...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Bodies are like poems
a fraction of their power
resides in their skin.
The rest belongs
to the spirit that
swims through them.
www.npr.org/2012/04/19/1... @npr.org #poetry #writing
a fraction of their power
resides in their skin.
The rest belongs
to the spirit that
swims through them.
www.npr.org/2012/04/19/1... @npr.org #poetry #writing
Reposted by Philip Harris (@PhilipHarris15)
The mind is full
of elephants and mice
scuffling in corridors
the air is dense
with stray spirits
swarming for soul
of elephants and mice
scuffling in corridors
the air is dense
with stray spirits
swarming for soul
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The mind is full
of elephants and mice
scuffling in corridors
the air is dense
with stray spirits
swarming for soul
of elephants and mice
scuffling in corridors
the air is dense
with stray spirits
swarming for soul
Tactical but essential if in time, given risks facing British Isles and Britain in particular?
Let's see if we can get similar swings in Birmingham at the council elections in May and #TurnBrumGreen!
Macclesfield Central (Cheshire East) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+19.7)
🌹 LAB: 28.6% (-25.7)
➡️ RFM: 15.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.1% (-4.5)
⚖️ EQU: 2.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 2.2% (-7.7)
Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+19.7)
🌹 LAB: 28.6% (-25.7)
➡️ RFM: 15.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.1% (-4.5)
⚖️ EQU: 2.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 2.2% (-7.7)
Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Tactical but essential if in time, given risks facing British Isles and Britain in particular?
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And we now know that Epstein and Bannon were involved with Farage. It sounds like a massive treasonous fraud was perpetrated on the British people. @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
November 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
And we now know that Epstein and Bannon were involved with Farage. It sounds like a massive treasonous fraud was perpetrated on the British people. @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
Regeneration and original people needed!
'Salmon everywhere' one year after Klamath River dam removals open.substack.com/pub/earthhop...
'Salmon everywhere' one year after Klamath River dam removals open.substack.com/pub/earthhop...
'Salmon everywhere' one year after Klamath River dam removals
A year after the tribal-led demolition of four dams, water temperatures are down, parasitic bacteria are down, and salmon are reaching "every nook and cranny" of their former range.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Regeneration and original people needed!
'Salmon everywhere' one year after Klamath River dam removals open.substack.com/pub/earthhop...
'Salmon everywhere' one year after Klamath River dam removals open.substack.com/pub/earthhop...