#Adaptation to #climate related #disasters now a huge expenditure in the US. Also fuelling rise in GDP which just shows how ridiculous the GDP measure is. Destroy the planet and GDP rises because you have to spend so much to adapt. Before the collapse of course. www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

Madman. The Government Is Shut Down. But Not for #FossilFuels. Federal workers who issue permits for oil, gas and mining operations are on the job, along with those working to repeal pollution limits. . www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/c... via @NYTimes

How can monitoring, #evaluation, accountability & learning (MEAL) help us tackle today's #polycrisis more effectively? Join us this Monday for an online lecture with @iangoldmansa.bsky.social, President of the International Evaluation Academy. 🗓️Oct. 20, 4-5 PM (UTC+8) 👉Meeting link: bit.ly/4nUlrBz

The well-off continue to splash out on luxury travel: posh hotels, first-class air fares and once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Global spending on luxury hospitality will exceed $390bn in 2028, up from $239bn in 2023. #climatecrisis #emissions #inequality . economist.com/business/202...

Donald Trump is weaponizing the DOJ against his political opponents. Meanwhile, he's gutting the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section which assists U.S. attorneys’ offices around the country with investigating crooked government officials. "Drain the swamp."

‘The year … served as a brutal reminder to the Roman people that all their greatness, their prosperity, might be threatened by the very quality that had originally won them their empire…their aptitude for killing.’ The US today, with troops being ordered into cities? From Pax by Tom Holland p xxvii

Can’t fix it all in 3…ah sorry, 4 years

As news comes out that Greta Thunberg and hundreds of other flotilla members are being tortured in Israeli 'prisons'. I ask you. Do you stand with Greta Thunberg? Spread the message Free Greta Thunberg if you do.

Ireland remembers how 19th-century aid from Sultan Abdulmejid saved the fate of thousands in the Irish famine, with their own flotilla bypassing the British. www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/ir...

I am looking for a public manager in the global S to collaborate with who is thinking deeply about how public management needs to change to address the polycrisis. Please do put me in contact with anyone that is thinking deeply on this and that would be a good co-author.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in #ClimateChange and #JustTransition at Wits University in 5 faculties. 2-year fellowship, R300 000 per annum, plus medical aid and a contribution to research costs. Deadline for applications: 30 April 2025. Please contact [email protected].

Our pet #dogs have a far greater effect on the #environment than we would like to be the case. Pets attack wildlife, disturb habitats, shed toxic flea treatments, eat vast amounts of meat.

1984 in action

#vaccines work. Newborn babies are among the biggest beneficiaries of vaccines. 50 years ago, nearly 10/100 babies died in their first year of life. Now fewer than 3/100 babies do. Since 1974, vaccination has averted 101 million deaths globally in infants under one. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Know anyone gof this award? www.linkedin.com/posts/clarem...

Opening of international workshop on #monitoring the #justtransition, organised by ICAT, WRI and Presidential #Climate Commission, in Cape Town.

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

This feels like a 1936 moment - Trump preparing to take over Greenland, Panama and Gaza, allies browbeaten, no regard for international or domestic US law, US state being taken over with no regard for law while people are dazed.

And some thought Russia was the enemy.

The US federal government now becomes an unmasked tool for #oligarchs, #genocide (Israel), and negative emotions of hate, greed, jealousy etc. It is now incumbent to support all sorts of partnerships with US cities, states, NGOs to keep the flames of compassion, solidarity and truth.

The Cucuteni–Trypillia culture, which thrived 5000-2000BC in Romania, Moldova and Ukraine, seem to have been egalitarian societies. There are hints of social stratification in later settlements — perhaps leaduing to the culture’s demise. Lessons for us? nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?...

If anybody else did this would we ever hear the end of it?

#heat records shattered in 2023/2024, more than expected from modelling. Scientists are racing to see if this is just a blip in #climate data, or an indicator that the planet is heating up faster than they thought. Lets all hope its not the latter. nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?...

This summer, leaders of global financial institutions will meet on funding the #SDGs. Finance is short in part because lenders like World Bank insist that indebted countries prioritize paying off loans to rich countries over investing in public services. nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Social #isolation or #loneliness affects the levels of five proteins in the body, all of which are related to inflammation and metabolism, which might explain why a lack of contact with other people is linked to poor health. nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=

Arresting the protestors not the perpetrators of #climatebreakdown. In Australia, 20% of #climate protests led to arrests, the UK 17%, with a global average of 6.7% - an increasing criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest. nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Call me sour, but EVERY mention of this "victory" should acknowledge that it's funded entirely by the profits of ongoing fossil-fuel production. Since the IEA said "no more new oil and gas fields if we are to hit net zero by 2050" in 2021, Norway has issued >150 new production licenses.

From planetary destruction to wantonly genocidal warfare, from ongoing colonialism to neoliberal exploitation-sacrifice of the vulnerable, from fascistic takeovers to demonisation of migrants & trans: they won't rest until all that is left is hateful, bitter desolation, ashes.

The case for better regulation of #digitalmedia must be made. Partisan vested interests are lobbying against political action that might tip the balance in favour of fair and safe usage. To consider them immune from regulation is irresponsible, akin to neglecting the contamination of water supplies.

Two primary concepts of #socialmurder: resulting from capitalist exploitation and resulting from bad public policy across the domains of: working conditions, living conditions, poverty, housing, race, health inequalities, crime, neoliberalism, austerity… www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How justice 'works'.

2024: Hottest year to date, and first year over 1.5ºC #Climate

Israel - destroyed #Gaza and committed #genocide, bombed #Lebanon even in a ceasefire, invaded #Syria and bombed widely. This is a mad state with crazies in power. No interest in peace - just military domination. And the West supports it. Utter hypocrisy.

Eurocentric distortion

The most consequential intervention we all need to focus on is controlling political donations. Without that the oligarchs control everything and democracy is a sham.

The International Evaluation Academy work area on Decolonising National Evaluation Systems is the main contributor to this webinar next week mailchi.mp/globalevalua...

Amos Goldberg, Professor of Genocide Studies at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem "Yes, it is genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. Jewish history will henceforth be stained" Is there anyone more qualified and unbiased?

Just read The Dispossessed by Ursula le Guinn. She uses sci-fi to explore property based society vs #anarchist society. There is only a passing reference to Earth on page 286 - telling as this is exactly what we are doing, knowingly destroying the planet. ⁦‪@GeorgeMonbiot‬⁩ ⁦‪@jasonhickel‬⁩

Applying #M&E through the #policy cycle. #SHIPDET training in M&E systems in Shanghai organised by Asian Development Bank. Co-facilitating with Bridget Dillon. In the picture. theories of change on a programme they selected from Mongolia and Fiji.

Applying the #policy cycle with varying timeframes of from a typhoon coming in 10 days to 3 years to produce a plan. #SHIPDET training in M&E systems organised by Asian Development Bank. In the picture Indonesian and Fiji teams at work.

Start of #SHIPDET training this week Building Effective National M&E Systems. Cofacilitated by Bridget Dillon and I, organised by ADB #Evaluation Office and AFCDI. Tajikistan, Mongolia, Nepal, Fiji, Indonesia participating. Opened by Lu Wenwin of AFDI, Eduardo Abello and Maya Vijaravaghan of ADB.

Preparing for #SHIPDET training this week Building Effective National M&E Systems. Cofacilitated by Bridget Dillon and I, organised by Asian Developmemt Bank and AFCDI. Tajikistan, Mongolia, Nepal, Fiji, Indonesia participating. Interesting to be in Shanghai for first time.

See the Call for Proposals for the Canadian Evaluation Society 2025 virtual conference. Play an integral role in this dynamic event. Deadline for proposals = December 2, 2024. More info at evaluationcanada.ca/c2025/progra... #C2025 #CES #evaluation