"Revolution is the sound of your heart still beating. And as long as it is, you have work to do. Do it. Without apology. Do it. Bravely and nobly. Do it. Exist, insist and by all means, resist." — Dominique Christina

"Carbon offsets are a confusion of dependencies. The economy is dependent on ecology, not the other way ‘round. Playing games with monopoly money is a dangerous deception that provides cover for not taking the action that is urgently needed." -- @kevinbarron.bsky.social

"Perhaps the role of the philosopher, the role of philosophy at present, is not to be a theoretician of totality, but the diagnostician, if you will allow me to use this word, the diagnostician of today." ― Michel Foucault Photo credit: Robert & Shana Parkeharrison

"Revolution is the sound of your heart still beating. And as long as it is, you have work to do. Do it. Without apology. Do it. Bravely and nobly. Do it. Exist, insist and by all means, resist." — Dominique Christina

“Shedding this anthropocentric lens, I believe, can yield very humbling realizations,and this humility might impart true wisdom—the quality our species, Homo sapiens, has assigned itself, yet one we can only ever truly realize by unlearning human exceptionalism.”

“Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.” – Grace Lee Boggs

"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny." --George Santayana

The film 'Merchants of Doubt' (2014) chronicles the long history of fossil fuel company funded science disinformation, complete with candid admissions by high level corporate schemers.

In “Recursive Worlds”, Sara Walker redefines life as a physical process that structures matter through recursive information across deep time. Challenging conventional physics, she introduces assembly theory to describe how complex objects and living systems emerge through informational lineages.

I’ve written an entire book showing how centrist economists & techno-optimists provide a permission structure for climate propaganda, creating an overlapping false consensus that we can keep using fossil-fuels and still deal w climate change anyway. Here’s a good example of that dynamic 👇

Photo credit: Cosa Nostra

Closing off the month at Stop Caring with this beautiful, poetic, evocative piece by @aglhrm.bsky.social On oil paintings, Dark Souls 3, and what we do with the end of the world. You are missing out if you don't read this! Guilherme's paintings are worth the price of admission alone.

"We’re not ready for more extreme heat, heavier rainfall, and the strain that puts on homes, hospitals, and farms." We need to talk about adaptation. Read my latest newspaper column for more on why 👇 www.edp24.co.uk/news/2559142...

We are the arrogant ape (some more so than others)

“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.” ― Gregory Bateson, An Ecology of Mind #FilmSky #Documentary Nora Bateson

People don’t seem to like billionaires controlling their lives and democracy. Good. We have to sustain collective and coordinated resistance to the authoritarian-billionaire doom loop.

A collaboration between Canada Organic Trade Association (COTA), Canadian Organic Growers (COG), and the Organic Federation of Canada (OFC) for an exclusive webinar introducing The Organic Action Plan, a roadmap for advancing the organic sector in Canada. guelphorganicconf.ca/products/the...

The most under-appreciated (and under-funded and under-reported) driver of climate change is our food system. Our food system emits ~1/3 of global emissions. But it only gets 3% of climate funding and 4% of media coverage. Let’s focus more on food. Here’s a start: go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24

Chimpanzees and bonobos shape friendships in layered circles, much like humans. A new cross-species analysis of grooming networks suggests ancient roots for social selectivity, egalitarianism, and coalition-building in Pan. #primates #anthropology #socialevolution #Pan

The Authoritarian Stack: An impressive visual database tracking the tech oligarchs razing our (already weakened) democratic foundations, with Europe now in their crosshairs. www.authoritarian-stack.info

“The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the world, and the subject is inseparable from the world, but from a world which the subject itself projects.” - Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“The human presumption of superiority and entitlement to exploit the natural world is deeply rooted in our religious, cultural, and scientific traditions—and now we are witnessing the consequences.” — @christinewebb.bsky.social

The tech optimist posts about how renewables are contributing a larger share to the global energy mix, or how EVs are replacing combustion engines are driving me mad. Overall material throughput is continuing to rise, and that's a massive problem.

Alberta is a petro-state deeply dependent on & controlled by large oil corporations. They don’t even hide it — with corporate logos and names on everything, while openly flaunting the corporate influence on government policy. Their capital city’s hockey team is even called the Edmonton Oilers ffs.

This makes so much sense. Bolster city energy grids with an extensive network of solar capture infrastructure retrofits that also cool urban heat islands via shaded microclimates @markcarney here’s a programme that creates jobs, supports industry & diversifies our energy portfolio at the same time!

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥 There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️ They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬 Thread:🧵Plz RT

'Guardians of the Earth' (2017) is an intimate documentary on the negotiations that led to the Paris Agreement. It shows the tireless efforts of leading climate justice advocates to create a framework and policy agreement that could actually have a positive impact. Watch in full here:

The film 'Merchants of Doubt' (2014) chronicles the long history of fossil fuel company funded science disinformation, complete with candid admissions by high level corporate schemers.

'Age of Consequences' (2016) is a film that grapples with what the #climate crisis means for international security and the geopolitics of the near future. films.mediaed.org/Film/The_Age... Available in full here:

‘Anote's Ark’ (2018) is about how rapid changes in the climate threaten societies, and how entire nations are facing annihilation from rising sea. www.anotesark.com

'Thin Ice' (2013) by geologist/film-maker Simon Lamb brilliantly captures why scientists think planetary heating is such a problem, and is told by the scientists themselves as they race to understand the workings of the Earth's ecological systems.

I had a fascinating discussion today with @wimcarton.bsky.social on Climate Chat about adaptation, carbon removal, solar geo-engineering, and what is needed to create real climate action. youtube.com/live/oxtkKTd...

As we crash through the 1.5C target & head into planetary #overshoot the task before the #climate movement becomes ever clearer, we must focus our efforts on keeping fossil fuels in the ground. I discussed how we can achieve this with @racheldonald.bsky.social on her 'Planet Critical' podcast.

The interests of working-class and rural communities lie in demonstrating that the insatiable demands of capital-military-extraction-consumer complex is a barrier to collective flourishing.

My new article "Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common" now published in Area Development and Policy (open access)!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My friend Bernardo and I interviewed Andreas Malm for @proteanmag.com ~We spoke about his new book with Wim Carton, Overshoot, on his recent travels to Colombia, the dangers of geoengineering, Palestine in the context of fossil empire...

“Without structural conditions that enable alternative forms of land use, food production and nature generation, bottom-up initiatives risk remaining highly localised in their effects instead of aligning into a broader transformation of nature-society relations.”

“I feel that the only thing to be done is to reach out to one another and deepen the relational infrastructure of being human. We need to slow down, dig deep and listen. We need to take the time necessary to weave that which can hold us.” — @racheldonald.bsky.social

This week we have members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective ( @adamcalo.bsky.social , Maywa Montenegro de Wit , @beniuliano.bsky.social , @alastairiles.bsky.social ) taking on the productivist roots of the "feed-the-world" approach to food security. spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...

As the climate crisis worsens, activists have employed a wide range of tactics to draw attention to the issue. Our new paper explores how perspectives on a diversity of social movement tactics vary between members of the general public and climate activists. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Drawing from his rich philosophical research, @martinsavransky.bsky.social emphasizes the importance of acknowledging multiple ways of understanding and interacting with the Earth to foster more inclusive and effective climate action.

“Capitalist and consumerist structures haunt our expectations and horizons of understanding in ways that are often concealed, unless brought to light by sustained reflection.”

How about natural floating wetlands in the pools formed by woody structure in streams? #processbasedrestoration #floatingwetlands

I need a new rabbit hole. Do any of you have a good topic, issue, or person who is blowing minds and-or positively impacting the world that you feel I should know about? I will then research the f*ck out of it and let you know what I think.

“Conflating intelligence & technology is an assumption worth challenging. True intelligence may know not to use the technologies we so dearly cling to as we plumb our planet’s riches to exhaustion.” — @miquai.bsky.social

Today Baltimore welcomed the arrival of Neoliner Origin, the world’s first wind-powered, industrial-scale cargo ship! Evidence that things can be done differently beyond our addiction to cheap energy via liquid carbon.

Good! The “American Dream” was a momentary delusion of a rising middle class. False aspiration. Hopefully young people we come to see the value of hard work when it’s in service of projects that actually promote life, rather than for making rich people richer and producing harmful goods & services.

My morning podcast listen today was @michaelmezz.bsky.social and @graceblakeley.substack.com in conversation on BETTER FUTURE. It was very cogent discussion of how wealthy people use power & money to control and curate an economic system designed for exploitation. Includes important examples.

Planetary heating is shrinking the range of insurability. Loss of property and financial security follows. This is the frontlines of forces remaking the world into fully urban and corporate owned city enclaves where workers sell labour for subsistence.