Finally available in English: Folding The World: Sustaining A Changing World On A Finite Planet by @alevermann.bsky.social! Have a read. @philiploring.com @chadbourn.bsky.social

A super-El Niño could be on the way. Couple this with Trump’s war closing the Strait of Hormuz and blocking fertiliser shipments and we may be looking at a crisis in some of the poorest parts of the world.

"The Old World has produced leaders who have stepped forth to defend freedom, and who may, in God’s good time, inspire us once again to do the same." What a position to be in.

Armuts­betroffene Frauen sind in Indien Vorreiterinnen im Kampf fürs Klima. Reema Nanavaty, eine der mächtigsten Gewerkschafterinnen des Landes, erklärt im Interview, was wir von ihnen lernen können.

Don’t forget Georgia, under assault from Putin’s puppets. Georgia is European. @annagvarish.bsky.social

A large crowd as always at the weekly march in Tbilisi. Georgians have been protesting in 8+ cities every day for the last 507 days.

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"Silence in the face of an explicit threat of civilizational destruction is complicity. And complicity, as the post-war architects of international justice understood with terrible clarity, is where atrocity finds the oxygen it needs to become real." 👇

When it's all about himself, everything that is going on in the world is about himself, and no-one has a right to do anything but clap, and the himself in question is an amoral, callous, cruel and lazy person elected by the discontent and the frenetic and supported by the self-important, it's bad.

The tiny South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu has declared a state of emergency as a worsening fuel crisis linked to the Iran war exacerbates power supply issues and threatens essential services across the country. bloom.bg/4sFdSQH 📷: Tama/Getty Images

The UN has announced that 32 million globally are now at risk of poverty purely because of the Iran War.

Neither Claude nor any other LLMs detects targets, processes radar, fuses sensor data, or pairs weapons to targets. Its Maven. And Maven= Palantir artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain

Hitze und Wind setzen unseren Äckern zu. Alte Baum­reihen und neue Experimente zeigen: Manchmal reicht eine einfache Idee, um die Land­wirtschaft zukunfts­fähig zu machen.

“This goes far beyond who gets to control Harry Potter and Superman. It has serious and far-reaching repercussions for the US — and for the rest of the world.”

Trump’s video suggests there’s no plan for after - he’s just going to let the Iranian people sort it out. And as the Iranian people have no access to weapons that likely means new faces from the heavily-armed old guard in charge, just like Venezuela.

"Switzerland’s right of reply law exists so people can correct factual errors, not so corporations can force publications to run PR copy because they didn’t like the tone of accurate, document-based reporting." www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/p...

Our current moment "just goes on posing questions, not only containable ones" - limited to individuals' behaviour - "but wider ones seeping through whole aspects" of the powerful: their money, privacy, unaccountability, character and, crucially, popularity with the public. Adapted from

Well. Who would have thought that these words see the light of day: The super-rich and those who curry favour with them are perpetrating crimes against humanity. Their negative impact on our shared climate and natural resources as well as their eroding impact on justice, trust and democracy concurs.

Want to giggle with abandon? @chadbourn.bsky.social has you covered with this:

"Woche für Woche wird von irgendjemand, meist einem CDUler, eine neue Sau aus der angeblich verweichlichten Arbeitswelt und dem überbordenden Sozialstaat über die Agora getrieben. Das Gerede von der Faulheit ist Politpropaganda." Udo Knapp für @tazfuturzwei.bsky.social über "Lifestyle-Teilzeit"

Governments resisting. En garde! Encore! More!

Wollt ihr euch nicht von Desinformation zum Klimawandel für dumm verkaufen lassen? Dann ist dieser Vortrag das richtige! Er zeigt den Stand der Wissenschaft, aber auch die häufigsten Tricks der Klimatäuscher. Holt euch einen Tee und schaut gerne mal rein! youtu.be/fMcm1ku-NOw?...

Tehran Wages War on Iran’s Youth and Women As More Victims of Regime Brutality Identified #Iran @chadbourn.bsky.social

Können bitte alle vernünftigen Menschen aufhören, Russland als „Großmacht“ oder „Great Power“ zu bezeichnen? Russland ist ein technologisch, gesellschaftlich und infrastrukturell rückständiger Petrostaat mit einem Bruttoinlandsprodukt wie Italien. Aber mit Atomwaffen.

A common theme in these days. Unfortunately massed in those who have gained positions of wealth and power that all but guarantee that the consequences of their hubris fill fall on all our heads in form of a devastation of the natural world we depend on, and social cohesion and sense. 🧌🧌🧌🧌

Davos is looking a bit of a disaster for Trump and the MAGA crowd. After Trump was forced to TACO on Greenland, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was tonight heckled during a speech at a dinner. Christine Lagard, European Central Bank President, walked out mid-speech.

#Iran Massacre of Protesters in Iran: A Crime Against Humanity with Organized Impunity @chadbourn.bsky.social @fulelo.bsky.social @nhabouzite.bsky.social

@chadbourn.bsky.social this may be of interest: podtail.com/podcast/econ... a conversation with historian Adam Hanieh

Do you like charts? Oh yes you do. I've just published hundreds of them, as I do every year. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

I have a morning opinion writing workshop next Tuesday for all of the Europeans who have told me that they (understandably) do not want to do a zoom at midnight their time. You can register here: www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/

You know what? I don't care for goals. Half of people dealing in goals forget them as soon as they sign on to them. The other half seems to feel triggered to criticize them or to do their best to undermine them. I suggest you skip the goal-ing and go straight to the doing. It makes you keep going.

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social & @rory-stewart.bsky.social unfortunately couldn’t make the National Emergency Briefing. Would they consider having @mikebernerslee.bsky.social on #Leading?🙏 Mike chaired the NEB and sets out the threats - and the choices ahead - with exceptional clarity. #NEB2025

Decarbonising building heat is essential to the energy transition, yet progress remains too slow. Heating is still a major source of emissions. Stronger policy, sustained investment and political commitment are needed to scale solutions and meet net-zero goals. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

4/ In fact, as @kristiansn89.bsky.social, @kimberlynicholas.bsky.social & colleagues show, 'high-socioeconomic-status' people collectively work to prevent serious action on climate in a range of ways both conscious and unconscious www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Iranians opposing the regime are protesting all over the world today - big turnouts in Tokyo, Perth, Auckland and Budapest…

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www.theguardian.com/environment/... @dpcarrington.bsky.social shows how efficiency measures already in implemented in parts of the world can slash CO2 emissions

I think @philiploring.com is on to something essential: demoralizing and painful and driven by nothing but ugly feelings and thoughts corrodes those who lack the light, love and warmth, the curiosity and instinct to do good that makes our lives worth living, and that we find in the great majority.

Who rules the world?

This Trump speech is much bigger than Venezuela. He talked about the Monroe Doctrine - about America’s sphere of influence. He’s warning that any country close to the US must bow to the needs of America or power will be exerted.

Naked grab for oil.

“What we are seeing is a war between the dying fossil fuel industry and the clean energy industry that is about to replace it with cheaper and cleaner energy,” US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said Friday.“and they’re fighting back dirty because they’re desperate.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/02/m...

Great quote from Tony (Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication) I completely agree.

Großartiger Text von @luisaneubauer.bsky.social - auch über ihre Arbeit als Skilehrerin: "Wovon ich den verzagten Erwachsenen erzähle, ist nicht die körperliche Technik der Kinder, sondern ihre Haltung. Oftmals lachen sie nämlich beim Hinfallen." Lesen! www.deutschlandfunk.de/klimawandel-...

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Want to learn what we know about #AMOC risk in under 15 minutes? Here's a video of my latest talk, in Helsinki in October. 6/6 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULJX...

Positive developments: the danger is increasingly recognised and taken seriously by governments. Iceland has officially declared an #AMOC instability a national security threat: www.dagens.com/news/iceland... Watch Icelands climate minister: youtu.be/B-0eQnEEsYA?... 3/6