Ross Macfarlane
@rossmacfarlane.bsky.social
Advocate for climate action, clean energy & democracy. Likes to play outside. Director with Sierra Club Foundation, Way to Rise, and Clean Energy Transition Institute and recently Director and Vice President with Sierra Club.
Parties are fun, but the more clearly we recognize that we are confronting major catastrophic risks, the more likely it is we have a chance to actually navigate them and avoid civilizational collapse. 5/ youtu.be/wugkIxGKzx8
This Is How the World Ends According to Science
YouTube video by PBS Terra
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January 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Parties are fun, but the more clearly we recognize that we are confronting major catastrophic risks, the more likely it is we have a chance to actually navigate them and avoid civilizational collapse. 5/ youtu.be/wugkIxGKzx8
Meanwhile, the great minds of Wall Street and the global oligarchy party with Trump in Davos as the we continue to inflate the AI bubble, the carbon bubble, the inequality bubble, and the other indicia of an economy and society on the brink. 4/
soap bubbles are floating in the air in the dark
ALT: soap bubbles are floating in the air in the dark
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January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Meanwhile, the great minds of Wall Street and the global oligarchy party with Trump in Davos as the we continue to inflate the AI bubble, the carbon bubble, the inequality bubble, and the other indicia of an economy and society on the brink. 4/
And it is not as if there is anything that has happened to diminish concern over global warming. The past three years are the warmest since humans have been recording and the cost of climate fueled disasters continues to mount. 3/
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WMO confirms 2025 was one of warmest years on record
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January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
And it is not as if there is anything that has happened to diminish concern over global warming. The past three years are the warmest since humans have been recording and the cost of climate fueled disasters continues to mount. 3/
wmo.int/news/media-c...
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Those impacts are directly impacting financial markets. Earlier last year, for example, a global insurance executive warned that capitalism (and civilization itself) would not be able to survive the climate crisis on the current trajectory. 2/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Those impacts are directly impacting financial markets. Earlier last year, for example, a global insurance executive warned that capitalism (and civilization itself) would not be able to survive the climate crisis on the current trajectory. 2/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Ross Macfarlane
Hadn't heard this one! Got to hear him live at the Vancouver Folk Festival -- a highlight.
January 17, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Hadn't heard this one! Got to hear him live at the Vancouver Folk Festival -- a highlight.
Reposted by Ross Macfarlane
I don’t think this stuff is recoverable. I think these are the crucial four years where we just cede all basically all green tech production to China.
January 16, 2026 at 2:58 PM
I don’t think this stuff is recoverable. I think these are the crucial four years where we just cede all basically all green tech production to China.
But, but, everyone says he's a business genius!?!?
January 16, 2026 at 3:53 PM
But, but, everyone says he's a business genius!?!?