Alex Kleytman was just a child when he survived the Holocaust. To have been killed by anti-semitic hatred 80 years after the end of WWII is like being crushed under the wheel of time. It should take the breath out of all of us. www.planetcritical.com/an-unmistaka...

Organisations like Our World in Data and folk like Steven Pinker would have us believe that everything is getting better because lines are travelling a certain way on charts. This week's guest @smillermcdonald.bsky.social thoroughly debunks that. Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/the-myth-of-...

Geographer @smillermcdonald.bsky.social on the myth of progress — a delusion that's been following us for 5000 years and justified endless wars, genocides and ecological destruction. Full episode out now: www.planetcritical.com/the-myth-of-...

I read the White House National Security Plan so you don't have to. It's bad btw. www.planetcritical.com/trumps-natio...

A pleasure to talk with Rachel Donald again on Planet Critical about hyper-local futures and my new book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' www.planetcritical.com/hyper-local-...

As a journalist, my mother knew the horrors that human beings can inflict on one another. She knew that things don't get better unless people push for justice. But she still believed, then, that justice was possible. Her outlook is different today. www.planetcritical.com/today-my-mot...

Should You Have Kids? Choosing whether or not to have children has been a critical component of cultures around the world for millennia, and the choosing not to has always been as important as the choosing to. Read the full piece now on Planet: Critical: www.planetcritical.com/should-you-h...

Natural Scientist Fernando Racimo, author of Science in Resistance: The Scientist Rebellion for Climate Justice, joins Planet Critical podcast to discuss what works/ doesn't in climate activism; how deep complicity rot goes in universities, & much more www.planetcritical.com/fernando-rac...

Planet: Critical has left Substack! Find out why visiting Samoa and Crete made me discover something "achingly human" which encouraged me to get away from the noise. www.planetcritical.com/into-the-woo...

Such a brilliant @racheldonald.bsky.social conversation with Nina Djukanovic on critical raw materials -- from the energy transition to political violence to #degrwoth: www.planetcritical.com/material-dep...

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

New site: www.planetcritical.com I've switched over to Ghost and would love your feedback now that I've been able to customise my design. Comment below!

NEED A SOURCE: Community, I'm looking for an academic source showing the linear relationship between material footprint and GDP (I've heard they're tied 1:1 but can't find such a paper.) Please help!

"Were our justice system capable of justice, those who furnish their own lives at the expense of others would be held accountable for their actions long before they face threats to their lives." www.planetcritical.com/p/free-speec...

The climate crisis is causing an invisible health crisis: brain health. On this ep, neuroscientist and environmental reporter @compatibilism.bsky.social reveals how the climate crisis intersects with our psychological, mental and brain health. Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/p/how-the-ec...

Canadian mining companies are 'getting away with atrocities' in South America and across the globe, says Brandi Morin. She shares the details with @racheldonald.bsky.social on this episode of the Mongabay Newscast. Listen now @mongabay.com

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds" The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

The modern Left demands a form of empathy which refuses to confront the actions and speech of individuals, conveniently championing the fact of their humanness over evidence of their lack of humanity. Kirk's only discernible quality was his homo sapiens DNA. www.planetcritical.com/p/charlie-kirk

I finally had the chance to interview neuro-philosopher @Iain McGilchrist and it was a delight. Listen to us discuss the necessity of metaphors, the relationship between our brain hemispheres and giggle about his portrayal of the unconscious mind. Episode: www.planetcritical.com/p/iain-mcgil...

I want to migrate from Substack to @ghost.org Can anyone help?

Collapse: Who does it really hurt? Listen to the full interview with Cambridge scholar for existential risk, Luke Kemp, to find out everything you couldn't have possibly imagined about what happens when empires collapse: www.planetcritical.com/p/luke-kemp

There is no going back. There is no going forward, either, when the path is giving way under your feet. www.planetcritical.com/p/between-tw...

I recently spent 10 days with an Aboriginal community in one of Australia's remotest regions. What I learned from the elders is there is no going back. www.planetcritical.com/p/there-is-n...

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

“Carbon credits show just how far economic doublethink has infected policymaking: The claim that emissions can somehow be cancelled out by paying to protect a forest or a wind power plant is ludicrous.” Greenwashing is Gaslighting - @racheldonald.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/planetcr...

Who has the most updated numbers on U.S. fossil fuel subsidies?

VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM! CLIMATE CHANGE IS A HOAX! Conspiracies are born when people have lived experience of abuse and exploitation but no language to make sense of it. It's not a conspiracy—it's capitalism. www.planetcritical.com/p/its-not-a-...

A 17-year-old was among seven people who starved to death in Gaza as Israeli forces shot dead dozens more aid seekers.

Israel is being mythologised as exceptional rather than inevitable. www.planetcritical.com/p/one-day-ev...

The biggest form of pharmaceutical pollution is us. By passing numerous drugs through our bodies and into the environment, we are having shocking effects on organisms and ecosystems. Full interview with Health Economist Martin Hensher: www.planetcritical.com

Human bodies are no longer just in the factories. Now they are the factories. Marxist Eco-Feminist, Silvia Federici, explains how exploitation of the body has now expanded beyond labor towards a new commerce of body parts. Full interview at www.planetcritical.com/p/why-earth-...

The capitalist class has always sought to control women's reproduction—it's not just promoting the birth of certain babies, but also reducing the number of potential rebel babies. Listen to the full episode with Marxist-feminist scholar Silvia Federici now: www.planetcritical.com/p/why-earth-...

Nature is still doing an enormous job of cleaning up our carbon emissions despite our best efforts to hinder her efforts. Gerard Wedderburn-Bisshop, principal scientist, explains the data on just how much work nature is putting in for us. Full episode at www.planetcritical.com/p/gerard-wed...

The IPCC is using different methodologies to calculate different industry emissions. Using the *same* methodology, animal agriculture comes out as the biggest contributor to global heating—not fossil fuels. Listen to the episode with scientist Gerard Bissop: www.planetcritical.com/p/gerard-wed...

Compliance won't protect you from the UK's witch hunt: Protesting genocide is now an act of terrorism in the UK. "Centralised power demands we police ourselves. We need to overwhelm the system by refusing to do their police work." Read it now: www.planetcritical.com/p/compliance...

"The idea of individual empowerment is an ignorant justification of self-satisfaction. Pretending that such empowerment can be secured through prostitution in a regime which attains its power through the exploitation of Earth’s reproductivity, is dangerous." www.planetcritical.com/p/can-you-be...

Why does it matter that the UK government is using counter terror powers to ban Palestine Action? Designating Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation means that the 69 million people living in the UK have limitations on their freedom of speech. Proscribing Palestine Action impacts everyone.

New episode of @racheldonald.bsky.social's indispensable Planet: Critical with guest @christinewebb.bsky.social.

Is a river alive? Nobel prize contender and celebrated author Robert Macfarlane explores this question with @racheldonald.bsky.social on the latest @mongabay.com podcast here:

Talking about politics doesn't change people's views on politics. However, meaningful relationships and actions can. @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social, author of 'Don't Talk About Politics', explains. For the full episode: www.planetcritical.com/p/sarah-stei...

The foundational step for liberation is empowering people with knowledge that has been withheld from them. Writer, artist and advocate, Celine Semaan, founder of Slow Factory, on the importance of education. Full episode at PlanetCritical.com

Community, I want to interview an expert on the history of activism in the 20th century. Who can you recommend?

This moves closer and closer to dead civilians on the streets.

Planet Prophecy: Six months ago @edzitron.com predicted this Trump/Musk Cat fight.

How did I not know about this???? It works amazingly well - select 'transactions' and then just whack in a company name. Massively under-used resource here

“Petromasculinity & capitalism extract the core from the earth furiously & thoughtlessly, with no understanding that we only have one home & we cannot extract from it forever, lest we destroy ourselves.” Can feminism teach us how to die? - @racheldonald.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/planetcr...

“The walls are closing in and yet, everywhere, people are queuing to take photos with the graffiti.” Why a suicide in the room next door was less alienating than an indigenous new year gatecrashed by hippies. www.planetcritical.com/p/the-walls-...

Is it a breach of GDPR to be added to email lists without permission?

Let's get critical, critical 🕺 www.planetcritical.com/p/techno-opt...