Population Conversations
@populationconvos.bsky.social
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We're a group of global women deeply concerned about ecological overshoot and its drivers: hyperconsumption, population pressure, and the systems and mindsets of power and dominance that have driven humanity to the brink. Very recent refugees from Meta...
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populationconvos.bsky.social
Welcome! We're moving here from being an established global women's group on Facebook. We're deeply concerned with intergenerational and Earth justice and human impact on the planet -to bend the curve on hyperconsumption, population, and mindsets and systems of power& dominance driving overshoot🐝🦋
populationconvos.bsky.social
Thank you - as co-author and/or lead author of 6 of the "Scientists' warnings" papers including World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency," I have to say this would've gravely disappointed my parents of that noble WWII generation. And then some. They brought us up to create a better society.
populationconvos.bsky.social
An important new #Substack series of 16 posts, #AntidotetoFascism, by collective-good impact investment godfather and retro rock video godparent, #JedEmerson

blendedvalue.substack.com/p/antidote-t...
Antidote to Fascism
Come along for the ride!!
blendedvalue.substack.com
populationconvos.bsky.social
Delighted to share this good discussion between friends Nandita Bajaj @popnbalance.bsky.social & Florence Blondel @florenceblondel.bsky.social on population angst/ #coercivepronatalism stoked by #farright patriarchal drivers of social/economic growth youtu.be/WBdJ4QZ-kc4 @endovershoot.bsky.social 👏
Overshooting Earth: How Population Myths Shape Our Crisis
YouTube video by Global Footprint Network
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phoebebarnard.bsky.social
Friends, I need your ideas for my fmr student in #wartime #Sudan. She has a PhD+hopes for a TWAS-DFG cooperation visits fellowship -not only to help her #wildlifeecology work, but also the survival+wellbeing of her family in Sudan. Who are antelope ecologists in Germany? @ignasheitkonig.bsky.social
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dyerm.bsky.social
If ever there was justification for a World Charter for Nature and Climate, surely Attenborough makes the case. sites.google.com/view/worldma... petitions.worldmagnacarta.co.uk @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @planetweaver.bsky.social
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phoebebarnard.bsky.social
So grateful to the #CO2Foundation for their generous support at a time when we most desperately needed it! co2foundation.org/exploring-cl...

Do you have an interest in supporting clear-eyed but unifying, agency-reclaiming messaging about our future, our climate, our planet and civilization? DM me 🌿
Exploring climate restoration options, in four parts - The CO2 Foundation
Transformative funding toward this global conversation-starter on carbon removal, ecosystem and climate restoration, and the shift to a kinder, wiser, more humble civilization ahead.
co2foundation.org
populationconvos.bsky.social
We wanted to share this #challenge for all of us in #humanity, at these crossroads. Our founder @phoebebarnard.bsky.social is working with Theo Wilson on her new project - somehow. Need to raise funds first. Please share this. It deserves to #goviral.

#crossroads

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNLr...
"I Am Humanity," by Theo Wilson.
YouTube video by Tej Fury
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hansschattle.bsky.social
Here's a story from South Korea that can inspire the "Hands Off!" events taking place in the United States: how a mix of street protests and responsive democratic institutions prevailed in a political crisis.
How ​South Korea’s Democracy Prevailed Over a Reckless Leader (Gift Article)
The rise and fall of Yoon Suk Yeol exposed a vulnerability in South Korean democracy, but also a resilience. Its people were always ready to fight for it.
www.nytimes.com
populationconvos.bsky.social
This #civilizationalshift #tippingpoint needs to accelerate and be brought on this year. There can be no more urgent time.
populationconvos.bsky.social
"What are we doing to ourselves when we tell ourselves we're Consumers 3000x/day?

What would it look like to put the same creativity+energy into involving people as Citizens?

What would you do in this time, if you truly believed in yourself +those around you?"
www.canburypress.com/products/cit...
Citizens by Jon Alexander (ISBN: 9781912454846)
🇬🇧 To buy a physical copy of the book, click here. McKinsey 2022 summer reading list - TOP 5 recommended book What are we doing to ourselves when we tell ourselves we're Consumers 3000 times a day? ...
www.canburypress.com
populationconvos.bsky.social
It's hard to find 20-somethings or 50-somethings for that matter these days in the Global North who can repair socks, sweaters, toasters, or chairs. That's a problem for the times likely coming. If you haven't seen BuyNow! yet, prepare to be abundantly grossed out😧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVfZ...
populationconvos.bsky.social
Yep, that's exactly what we fear it is, too. For those of us who've worked on climate change for longer than many gamers have been alive, it's exasperating to see nihilism creep over humanity. It reflects badly on us scientists too, for not messaging v clearly about what's too late and what's not.
populationconvos.bsky.social
There's definitely a level at which volcanic winters cause climate change - indeed our historical knowledge of the social, economic and political impacts of climate change come from the big eruptions of Tambora and other distant-past volcanos. (And several of us in this group are volcanophiles...)
populationconvos.bsky.social
2. ...to deliver babies despite rape, incest, and ectopic pregnancies. This culture is dominating, cruel, and drives a plethora of unwanted babies and ill health of mothers.
Thank you Jess and Alex for fighting. jesspiper.substack.com/p/send-it-ba...
Send it Back to the States
But not like that...
jesspiper.substack.com
populationconvos.bsky.social
#Pregnancy and #childbirth are intimate, potentially very risky, energetically demanding, and a woman's choice.

We appreciate community political leaders like @piperformissouri.bsky.social who call out horrific arrogance and misogyny of right-wing politicians+activists that would force women ...🧵
populationconvos.bsky.social
This is challenging at the best of times - psychologically, economically, geographically, politically, culturally. In times of planetary emergency it's our #1 choice.

Do we live out a life of #Elysium for billionaires and misery for the rest of us? Or do better? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium...
Elysium (film) - Wikipedia
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populationconvos.bsky.social
The global minority ('Global North'), usually more economically privileged, often white, needs to take massive responsibility to embrace simplicity/ #enoughism if we are to solve this. And to help the global majority achieve enough quality of life+ #womensempowerment so we can all live more safely.
populationconvos.bsky.social
Someone engaged us yesterday on a common refrain: "It's not population, it's consumption." Well, yes. And no. Let us point out 2 obvious facts. 1. Population is mathematically (very non-linearly) related to consumption. 2. The world is a tragically unequal place. We need to solve both, not bicker.
populationconvos.bsky.social
We're not sure in what sense any resource is functionally infinite, except perhaps (for a few billion years) sunlight. Virtually all require energy and materials to deliver technologies - sometimes in massive and unsustainable quantities. Is that the kind of tech you mean, or...?
populationconvos.bsky.social
National borders have served humanity in the past, but we shd now consider how to think of them, and/or whether to try to enforce them w/the mindsets we did then. It depends whether we lead from a place of competition or cooperation, reactivity or proactivity, exploitation or compassion - or all.
populationconvos.bsky.social
But not all humans follow self-destructive behaviors. Ancient civilizations and especially Indigenous cultures have much to teach us about the mistakes some of us have made.
#indigenousculturalbridges #collapse #stewardship #rights #responsibilities #biodiversity #humansupremacy #entitlement
tsakraklides.bsky.social
The pathology of civilisational expansion

From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM
#overshoot #quoteoftheday #tsakraklides #collapse #climatecrisis #anthropology #economics
populationconvos.bsky.social
#Hyperconsumption, #population pressures, and #entitlement #mindsets are at the root of these failures. Let's change that.
phoebebarnard.bsky.social
Biodiversity strategy 🧵: 4 critical mistakes in conservation.
A. Assuming good intentions+ treaties were almost enough.
B. Failing to shift entitlement mindsets +spiritual traditions.
C. Failing to reform corrosive global & local economies.
D. Failing to scan the horizon for curve balls. 🧵
drbrucewebber.bsky.social
With just 5 years to go, the world is failing on the Global Biodiversity Framework to conserve and restore biodiversity.
"In fact, we're actively destroying biodiversity faster than ever in human history."
theconversation.com/with-just-5-...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🌏🌐🧪#bioinvasions