Tragically, this seems to be a peculiarly Commonwealth mindset. Enslave or employ them when you need them, deport them when they finally have their families with them? And separate them cruelly and often completely without due process? theconversation.com/around-the-w...

“AI today is like asbestos yesterday. We're putting it everywhere, greedily. Tomorrow, we'll devote crazy sums and infinite efforts to decontaminating the information space.” (Google translate’s version)

“Across land types, urban land comes with the highest #opportunitycosts, followed by arable, pastoral, and forestry land. We envisage this new opportunity cost layer to be particular useful for broad-scale European conservation prioritisation analyses.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@theguardian.com’s brief homily is not nearly as rich a commentary on #JaneGoodall as this wonderful account from 2021 by the Templeton Prize Team at the time of her winning the award. Those who do not know her work will be wise to start here. 🌿 www.templetonprize.org/dr-jane-good...

Pouring rain, fog, wind and darkness at the beginning of the day - on windy remote mountain roads, with our nervous loving dogs sensing big changes. Sprinkling rain, sun, hurtling planes at the end. Off to another continent, again. Goodbye, troubled country. Sad to leave so many people here, tho.

Many of you, like me, are exasperated that we dither, bicker, and plod thru our daily lives rather than getting on with planning a coherent and pragmatic future of civilizational shift. This will be one of what I hope will be many important forums. I'm not organizing it! srm360.org/event/global...

We can't let political chaos in a few countries make us take our eye off the ball of climate & ecosystem stabilization. If we get distracted, the social and economic instability that results may dwarf that whipped up by ideologues. #Methane is critical. otherwords.org/the-climates...

There’s absolutely a role for science in #climaterepair as our Cambridge partners @climaterepair.bsky.social demonstrate well. But after 3 yrs filming #TheClimateRestorers documentaries, we’ve concluded Nature is still the only real game in town. Atmospheric science is complex! #samemindsetsfail

“We can restore whales to the ocean..bison to the plains..recover old-growth forests. We can rebuild savannah+wetland ecosystems, coral reefs..with biorock build beaches faster than the seas rise. It is not too late..We can have a population sized to harmonize, not destabilize.. All that beckons.”

#5alarmfire: our tendency to leap on trendy things like #AI for frivolous use, to generate funny memes or avoid brainwork, ramps up the climate crisis: almost completely mindlessly. This is how we surrender to climate breakdown. If we want to avoid disasters & brownouts, surely we must limit AI. 🧵

1. As a passionate university teacher on our future, our crossroads of humanity, the fierce headwinds we're in - I want you to see @robertreich.substack.com.web.brid.gy's film. If I weren't busy moving continents, 🧵1/4 open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

If humans would stop trying to play god and remember we are connected to everything in nature, nature can heal itself. #Nature #Science #Sustainability

Good work @uwenvironment.bsky.social - $10m from the #PaulGAllen Fund For Science & Technology - "to deepen its work in researching climate solutions, climate prediction & environmental monitoring via field observation & data modeling...." 🧵 1/2 www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...

‘An orator spouting banalities with great confidence and even greater solemnity before a captive audience is a good setting for noting data on pride, anger, sloth, selfishness, and the stupidity of human behaviour.’ - Jorge Wagensberg youtu.be/dXKsPJlFr9M?...

Just a little reminder of #leadership and #adaptation in tough times, from Elizabeth Gilbert. And all of us can be this way. Likely, all of us will sometime if not always called to be this way.

The world always needs bold systems-change leaders of clear vision and purpose. But at these crossroads, never more so. Purpose: the @wellbeingeconomy.cymru alliance film on @katherinetrebeck.bsky.social & my coauthor @lorenzofb.bsky.social. Watch and share it if you haven’t already. purpose.film

Are humans inherently bad for the planet? @RWKimmerer says no, and so do I. It’s how we are taught, and how we think of our relationship with Nature and with each other. youtube.com/watch?v=ChdC...

Of the things I will actually really miss about the USA, Heather Meadows and Table Mountain at snowy Mount Baker and Shuksan volcanoes are right up there.

Transparency vs transgression, a proactive future vs a reactive regression. 🤷🏼‍♀️ My friends work for this agency - it is a travesty. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Like the rest of us, governments must choose which way they’re going to turn. Forward or backward? Proactive or reactive? Knowledge or profiteering?Curiosity or ideological entrapment? #ChooseEuropeforScience #ChoisirlaFrancepourlaScience @michaelemann.bsky.social

To remember one of the most important things at stake in our human dramas, dip into @jwirth.bsky.social’s lovely tapestry of #pollination and #ecologicalcommunities in her corner of this exquisite planet.

“Friends+colleagues, 4998 people have signed the petition “Save a Habitable Earth for our Children” . If you haven't already, please consider adding your name. Our initial goal is to reach 5,000 signatures - we need more support. Read more & sign the petition here.” - @juliancribb.bsky.social

Could this plan actually end tropical deforestation ? We certainly need some bold systemic solutions, “like, yesterday” to enable the vast-scale conservation and restoration of carbon sinks and Earth’s exquisite biodiversity. What do you think? @robdelaet.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/bobecc...

It's tragic that vested interests, defending massive profits, spend so much money trying to make public policy and politics a simplistic, binary socialist/capitalist issue. Let us reclaim our curiosity, our observation, about the real-life nuance of global experiments in governing wisely.

We ecologists working to renew civilization know the value of physiological and systems metaphors. #Civilizationalcollapse isn't a light-switch but a lurching descent. We have a fast-vanishing window in which to talk about what kind of a society we wish to have, and how to get there from here.

Don’t let the few men causing chaos+ autocracy in the world hold your mind hostage. There’s real work to be done. We need our minds focused. Climate, biodiversity, social justice, cohesion, destabilization of our civilization. Everything we know and love is at stake.🧵 www.hiddenbrain.org/mission/

It's hard to overstate just how off the charts warm the Pacific is right now. The swath of the basin from California to Japan (a HUGE area) from 25N to 60N is ~3F (1.6C) above normal. To put it into math terms that is 6 Sigma/ standard deviations above the mean. More… 1/

"What will we do? Will we stop long enough to recognize the dimensions of the moment? Are we even able to amidst the modern manufactory of distractions?" - ecologist Rob Lewis, my homie, of Washington State. Another Orca Mother Spotted Pushing Her Dead Calf open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

@emilyatkin.bsky.social of #HEATED on yet more nefariously corrupt behaviour in the guise of “disruptive” business and governance… open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

Quico Toro calls bullshit on #CDR investor-pitch #spin innumeracy #Nature is still the only real game in town “at scale” to stabilize and repair the climate #carbondioxideremoval #climaterepair #climaterestoration #techdreams #keeptrying #butgetreal open.substack.com/pub/francisc...

It’s time to step out of the vortex of human politics and ideology, and listen to the patient rhythms and longterm patterns of Nature in longterm ecological observatories. Thanks @npr.org and @katharinehayhoe.com for the post 🦋🌿✨

Whether or not you are a US scientist, you’ll know that this US administration’s reckless ideology endangers the entire globe - the trajectory of human civilization and all life on Earth. Scientists please sign.

A day when some escape from a humanity in terminal meltdown is always a welcome respite, for me anyway….

While we are all distracted by selfish human politics and brutal wars, remember that Nature goes on, and yet is a casualty of our self-absorption. Love Nature. Protect her. Create change. @africanornithology.bsky.social #oceanecosystems #conservationthreats #albatross #southernocean

I believe it's past time that we talk about #civilizationalshift. At dawn today I convened a pretty incredible power team of global players, addressing a big gap in shifting from our destructive civilization to a better one. Jed Emerson was one. Follow him 🎯 open.substack.com/pub/blendedv...

"Viral online movement against “Nepo Kids” - politicians’ children showing off their lavish lifestyles - fuels anger by highlighting disparities between those in power+regular Nepalis." Is this the point where societies everywhere crumble in reactivity, not proactivity? www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/a...

“Much as they have paid the price for their promotion of lies regarding the 2020 election and voting machines, it’s time for outfits that attack science and scientists to pay the price for the threat they pose to human civilisation.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @michaelemann.bsky.social

The return of the #salmon to Washington State’s Samish Estuary - as captured on smartphone by my love, filmmaker John Bowey yesterday at a charity event we were at for the Skagit River Poetry Foundation. A magical experience in a country where so much #ecologicalcomplexity has been lost. #science

Well, I know I am finally recovering my mental space when I sit down and just decide finally to write a #Substack - long-neglected platform that it is, at least for me. And if you have had enough dreary human news for this week, have a peek. substack.com/@phoebebarna...

Yes! Absolutely, thanks Prof John Taylor and @climaterepair.bsky.social. Also have a look at our 2025 documentary series #TheClimateRestorers and our upcoming #ClimateRepairCafé for why removal of legacy emissions is critical to stabilizing our planet. www.theclimaterestorers.com/channel

Follow #JedEmerson on #Substack if you can. He's an important global strategist for an economy and investments that work for the planet and for people. #AntidotetoFascism

Long having worked on molt in birds, from a natural/sexual selection lens, I was initially stymied by this feather found by my husband on a forest walk. An outer primary of a downy woodpecker? I asked Siri for photos. Imagine my delight at the result: www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2018/08...

Many thanks to Conservation Northwest for their support to conserve thousands of acres of structurally complex forests. I couldn't be more excited to work with organizations like them as we build a more sustainable future for our forests. conservationnw.org/news-updates...

Like many regions w/ an economic history of logging, #WashingtonState struggles to protect #oldgrowthforests -Commissioner @daveupthegrovecpl.bsky.social is doing better even in #assetstripping #USA times youtu.be/OfRUoRpO-Ng @responsiblesci.bsky.social @forestsforever.bsky.social @forestwatch.org

A succinct little reminder of #tippingpoints, planetary & societal futures, & @leomurray.bsky.social's classic film "Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip." First aired in 2008, and never more timely than 2025. Thanks Leo from this planetary/societal futures convenor www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnyL...

As many know, I feel #ecosystemrestoration, #climaterestoration or #climaterepair + #socialreconnection are inseparable. And that a new world order, one built to last, asks us to rethink our relationships with the Earth - and with each other. Listening is part: landing.pachamama.org/day-of-liste...

More from the incomparable @MukulSoman… I have a thing for @shortearedowls. www.facebook.com/reel/7900635...

This I had in @theguardian.com in 2022, when the founder of Patagonia handed over his $3bn business empire for public good, to the Earth. Worth reflecting just how far we've fallen in under 3 years: #leadership, #gullibility, #self-interest, #corruption. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Okay who can help make this happen? Something in the drinking water perhaps ? Stepford Husbands for Good