Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief - António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sadly it looks like our way of life will end due to status competition, dominance hierarchies and conspicuous consumption. Not that it would be the first time on this planet, or unique in any way. www.penguin.co.uk/books/321192...

“These statistics highlight the large inequalities in the distribution of both benefits and burdens of current food systems.” Whether it's land use or transport, climate experts should always not just invoke technology which 'competes' with fossil fuels. www.carbonbrief.org/eat-lancet-r...

Finnish people grab at modernity with money and status, whereas the land here is ancient. We can pack people in cities, grow the airports and harvest the forests, but the old forest sees us in southern Finland. #Nature

Having seen the world, and not only Europe, from many perspectives in my short life, the Finnish conscription model equipped with capabilities deters Russian ambitions here.

There are two kinds of European people born in the 1990s, the other ones volunteered to fight Russia in Ukraine, and others sniff cocaine in a Royal palace.

Finland is good at security in all situations, and we support Ukraine with military and civilian aid. But think about this, if you are reading my post from Canada, Belgium or France.

Most people in Finland are not able to go out in certain places, especially in mid-winter. Some will, either for work in the military or because they have a family connection to the landscape, as I do. If you want to be tough, learn over the years, know the right people and be humble. #Sufficiency

Actually, my first social interactions online were via e-mail servers. All changes cause some issues. But social media that’s engineered to be addictive is poison.

Fly fishing and campaigning for free rivers are deeply personal issues, revealing much about ourselves. Are you in it to win in front of others? #Sufficiency

An overall healthy lifestyle is still different from extreme expeditions, for example. You can be in good physical shape in the late 30s, so that it is not a problem to go far outdoors, but I see so many guys eating sausages, bad stuff when they are out. Not even game meat, which is leaner

“These statistics highlight the large inequalities in the distribution of both benefits and burdens of current food systems.” Whether it's land use or transport, climate experts should always not just invoke technology which 'competes' with fossil fuels. www.carbonbrief.org/eat-lancet-r...

I turned 40 last October. The plan was to eat healthier, walk or bike all weekly trips to the grocery store and some gym. It takes a few months or even up to half a year to get used to it, but once these are customary, it's hard to digress. #Sufficiency yle.fi/a/74-20127714

Digital services, AI, air conditioner systems, e-cars are causing global #electricity demand to rise faster than electricity production from renewables, warn PIK’s Felix Creutzig and @ipcc.bsky.social vice chair Diana Ürge-Vorsatz in Nature Reviews Clean Technology: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Every day workout in my town isn't as fancy as travelling further to famous National Parks, but I've noticed these great trees. When I look up, I see the stars. #Sufficiency is not complicated.

«With reduced follow-on engagement, AI tools seem to automate established fields rather than explore new ones, highlighting a tension between personal advancement and collective scientific progress.» @nature.com

And the trend goes both ways, by the way. The US government is telling Americans to hate Europeans and Canadians. And many have dutifully changed their opinions.

🇪🇺 NEW | REPORT: EU CO2 emissions & fossil fuel imports review reveals emissions fell by only 0.8% in 2025; clean energy investments lag behind fossil fuel imports 🇺🇸 U.S. now EU's largest fossil fuel supplier; average EU citizen spent EUR 150 on imports⤵️ energyandcleanair.org/publication/...

Both the hyper-commercial social medias and the old-timer forum have issues, but the latter is at best more democratic and lower-threshold for really young folks who want to try fly fishing. The commercial social media hypes individuals, consumption, extreme travel/outdoors etc.

Meanwhile, no meaningful precipitation in Finland in this year so far. Snow depths are exceptionally low in central Finland despite the cold January. Incredibly stuck pattern!

Finally, there is new snow in the forecast. This winter has been particularly cold, but we have only had 15 cm of snow in my town. The skiing will be good in March-April on lake ice.

Wow! New research finds little evidence of shifting firm behavior in the auto sector as a result of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

”Etelä-Suomen lajisto on vaarassa hävitä. Pohjoisen suojelualueet eivät auta etelän lajeja…” yle.fi/a/74-20206950

Gift Article! - Trains are good and we should have more of them. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/f39d95c...

Kyiv is in total blackout, as are many parts of Ukraine. No water, no heating, no electricity. Severe frost outside. This is the result of constant russian attacks. Thank you to those few who still care.

Commenting as the US formally withdraws from the Paris Climate Agreement, @gredmondking.bsky.social, @eciu.net said: "The US finds itself on its own given 194 nations are still in the Paris Agreement, working towards the aim of stabilising the world’s climate" eciu.net/media/press...

”In 2024, Russia established the 44th Army Corps in the Republic of Karelia, which in practice means about 15,000 more soldiers.” yle.fi/a/74-20207070

El 70 % del suelo de Europa está contaminado por pesticidas. La investigación, publicada en la revista Nature, proporciona, por vez primera, evidencias cuantitativas de la prevalencia y el impacto de los pesticidas usados en agricultura» en Europa. efeverde.com/el-70-del-su...

Pohjois-Kainuun valtion luonnonmetsiä joita @metsahallitus.bsky.social uhkaa hakkuilla. Tässä kuvia Hossan Iso Harsuvaaralta, joka on käsittämättömän hieno luonnonmetsäkokonaisuus kansallispuiston ja Pahamaailman luonnonsuojelualueen välissä.

It’s actually quite simple. Either you survive, or you die. So you better survive. Living outdoors when it’s -25°C or less is no joke. *Everything* is much much harder. Many things work very differently, if at all.

The court case against the Russian drivers that unknowingly carried the hidden drones attacking several military airfields last spring has started in Moscow.

Extreme seasons recently in Finnish Lapland: both summer 2025 and winter 2026 featured the 3rd hottest and 3rd coldest two-week periods on record. Data is based on FMI ClimGrid (available since 1961).

Shadow banks quizzed over meltdown threat, hidden losses from false valuations. Shadow banks (includes private equity, hedge funds and private credit) are unregulated. Enmeshed with pension funds, insurance, banks, industry. Red lights flashing. UK govt pushing more deregulation. archive.ph/3wZbj

Uutisen pitäisi olla se, että tämä ei ole uutinen. Edelleen sama touhu, jossa jokainen pienikin metsätilkku on ihan pakko hakata, tai tulevat heinäsirkat, nälänhätä ja maailmanloppu. yle.fi/a/74-2020712...

For its next step, ICE is turning warehouses into massive detention centres, the largest of which is more than four times the capacity of the largest prison in Britain www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The world’s farmland produced enough calories in 2020 to feed 15 billion people (there are about 8 billion people on Earth). But only half of those calories were made available for people to eat. The biggest culprit? Beef. Martin Bowman in Food & Climate. matochklimat.nu/bara-halften...

Dutch society is built on U.S. digital services. That’s now seen as a glaring security issue. www.politico.eu/article/neth...

Un bilan terrifiant des victimes de près de 4 ans de guerre en Ukraine a été publié par un think tank US : 1,25 million de victimes (morts, blessés & disparus) côté russe, 2 fois plus que celles de l’Ukraine. Ma chronique géopolitique du 7/10 @franceinter www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Also why should people who are young and healthy pay for those who are old and sick, ammirite?

How much of Scotland’s emissions plan is riding on electric vehicles? The answer: too much. Scottish Government's latest Draft Climate Change Plan predicates up to 95%(!) of the total transport emissions reduction on rapid EV uptake. Read our response to the Plan: transform.scot/2026/01/29/h...

NEW: The People’s Republic of China (PRC) continues to provide critical support to Russia’s weapons production, including Oreshnik missiles and Shahed long-range drones. (1/3) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar012826

Deploying wind power and cleaning up transportation in line with the EU’s 2030 targets would have reduced both oil and gas consumption by more than the total imports from Russia in 2025. That is, all oil and gas imported from Russia went to cover the shortfall to these targets.