Betrayal, hypocrisy, obscenity - the taking of everything that is good about humanity and criminalizing it, asset-stripping it, destroying it. #Trumpobscenity But we will not be destroyed. substack.com/@ifloz/note/...

Meanwhile, as autocrats and wars grab the headlines, life remains risky and torrid in the townships during heatwaves and floods. @leoniejoubert.bsky.social is on the case in @dailymaverick.co.za. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Well - and it’s my daily minuta of small pet peeves - this is the 3rd time I’ve seen a claim that dashes are a sure-fire giveaway that text is Chat GPT written. For the record: I’ve written like this for 33 years, having observed that the brain absorbs info better that way. And no, I never use AI 🤷🏼‍♀️

Watch out for it! May 29th and June 3rd will see the first four episodes drop in a wonderfully inviting way. Follow @julespretty.bsky.social to get updates on some great conversations about our species and our future. www.linkedin.com/posts/phoebe...

Heat! Camera! Action! Climbing out of the Climate Hole with @julespretty.bsky.social and iconic, ecological, eccentric and ecocentric guests of many flavours. A new quirky, insightful, intelligent podcast on our crossroads of humanity. Landing midsummer - sign up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCsj...

On 14 April the BBC reported on the Lord Robinson defence review on all major news bulletins. Funny that the BBC could never find any space on TV news for the National Emergency Briefing, Joint Intelligence Chief's report or the Defra 'food riots' report !

A good summary from Utah physicians on why “thinning forests” in the North American west is disastrous. Most people recognize the thinning forests argument as profiteering and ideological gobbledygook - but not all do. Equip yourselt to counter dinner debates. open.substack.com/pub/ecointeg...

This is what happens when you put anyone whose confidence outweighs their competence in charge of anything. Which, sadly, many Americans are prone to doing, because many Americans are easily swayed by a smooth façade.

How can so many just watch in horror as the world is held hostage? Trump was a useful idiot for the malevolent right, but money & adulation, not ideology are his thing. We need a very clear plan for the post-Trump future. Not a bad time to wield the 25th. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Let the US, Bannon, Vance et al sit with this one for a month or so. Their own actions in the US and world today totally undercut their decade of nefarious intentions for Europe. Not that this will stop them. Orbán concedes defeat, sends congratulations to Magyar www.euronews.com/2026/04/12/r...

With everything going on in the world, it might be a good idea to remember : learn to get by on half, or less, of many things you’re used to. Especially water and energy. But as many areas as you can. This is a good time to remember exactly how to live lightly. Why not share your stories here?

“We are blinded by vision” in the western world. What’s at stake by the loss of #scents in our world through #ecologicalovershoot and its symptoms, e.g. #pollution and #climatechange. Those who practice shinrin-yoku, or #forestbathing, will know this. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

"Everyone needs to watch & pass on this video. It is quite clear that we are running out of time. The heating of the earth is accelerating & taking the future of everyone's children with it. Please, pass on & share this video. Please contact your politicians and forward this video to them." - Jan🇨🇦

Friends have blown me away with their courage. Biologist Dr Christy Bragg, single mom with fast-progressing Parkinson's Disease, has 2 young kids. Our mutual friend, biologist Dr Odette Curtis, organized www.backabuddy.co.za/campaign/chr... to give Christy more time with them. Pls help if you can/2🧵

This is most of what we need to know about preparedness in our new world. It’s not about ordinary readiness or existing 100-year event planning. It’s about outlier scenarios. Worse-case+ scenarios. Triple-whammy simultaneous and overlapping risk landscapes. substack.com/@phoebebarna...

Another important piece on #datacentres from Adetokunbo Abiola in AdetokunboSees on Substack. Let us all be vastly more mindful of the energy and water costs of our #digitallives. Data Centers: the Hidden Environmental Cost of the Digital Age open.substack.com/pub/adetokun...

A wonderful summary of inequality, corruption, and the American Dream by YouTuber #johnnyharris. Without ever having actually to use the word corruption youtube.com/watch?v=J4qq...

“New episode in the too-long series ‘Climate action is just so expensive’. Yep. Too many politicians (and others) will wait until it takes their own children downstream before acting. Tusen takk @olavtorvund.bsky.social 🤷🏼‍♀️

That a handful of men with more recklessness than strategy and more entitlement than common sense can hold this entire planet to ransom is beyond me. And clearly also beyond our much admired Senator, @murray.senate.gov, 2023-25 President Pro Tempore of the Senate. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

I know, it's a long weekend starting for some people. But LIVE, NOW, former New Scientist climate journalist #FredPearce talks to the #MEER climate cooling reflectivity project on climate overshoot: join us. REGISTER HERE TO JOIN THE LIVE DISCUSSION us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The demolition of the #USForestService is an #assetstripping wrecking ball of the worst possible kind - for US public lands, for climate, for biodiversity, for water quality, for US communities, for civic pride, for human morality. And it may yet trigger a civil war open.substack.com/pub/morethan...

Palaeoclimatologist, former dean, Episcopal deacon @lgraumlich.bsky.social is an important and evocative writer on relatable, crucial issues for this crossroads of humanity. The washing of feet - a #MaundyThursday tradition - dissolves #powerimbalances in a profound way substack.com/@phoebebarna...

#Ecologicalovershoot - and our silence on the natural, liberating ways to reverse it - is an astonishingly shortsighted travesty of our time. Liberating - for whom? Well, essentially everyone other than the autocrats and entitled men we resist. A🧵 www.populationbalance.org/media/confro...

As we in planetary science have always said - you think climate action or environmental regulations are expensive? Wait until you see the costs of inaction and no regulations.

I want to honour my lovely friend Evelyn Adams - wise founder of @transitionfidalgo.bsky.social - by sharing her beautiful story with a hummingbird: 1/7🧵 “So there I was, up in the Jonagold pruning branches, when an Anna’s hummingbird suddenly joined me. I welcomed her and pruned on, puzzled….

I've worked in government science-policy and academia long enough to know a brilliant piece of powerful bare-bones messaging when I see one. Well done @climatemajority.bsky.social for this #business & #climatepolicy report - all 7 pages of it. drive.google.com/file/d/1Vbzg...

And here I thought she was referring to the three or four men holding the world hostage and committing war crimes, genocide and climate destabilization. Removing Unfriendly Leaders www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...

And which of us has not looked up into the night sky, as the Earth turns into dawn, and felt this? ✨

Government & civil society preparedness are now frankly urgent.Those of us supporting it would appreciate your help! As it’s a challenge to achieve dramatic reform & still keep the tiller steady on society. Great 🧵 by @thierryaaron.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social

Listen while you make your tea. I listen to this most wonderful book every spring, while saying goodnight to the day. And the broken world is made whole again. Chapter 17, part 2: The Honourable Harvest - by Robin Wall Kimmerer, read by Sen Naomi Keir-Schultz. youtube.com/watch?v=b4IX...

"Daily school shootings are exactly what the anti-gun brigade wants"

Since the birth of my girls, I’ve wanted a parallel life as a doula. But having watched a southern right whale birth from atop a cliff near my home, this doesn’t surprise me✨ Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c... @racheldonald.bsky.social

Why emotional resilience should be at the heart of climate change education theconversation.com/why-emotiona... @jessnlv.bsky.social 🎯 in @theconversation.com 🌟

Another good article by @phoebeweston.bsky.social - on the timelessly criminal drama of #falcon #smuggling for status-seeking #MiddleEast falconers. 32 years ago, I'd just set up #Namibia 's 1st national program on biodiversity. Falcon smuggling was already pretty rife then arij.net/investigatio...

This is so important in the #UK - and not the same report on ecosystem collapse that was recently quietly released, after being equally quietly withdrawn last year. If like most of us, you don't subscribe to the @thetimes.com, the public-interest text is at rupertsreads.substack.com/p/our-nation...

Don't look away. It's not about going down without a fight. It's about being nimble, focused, courageous and having steely determination in the creation of this new world order. Trump isn't the death blow. He and his ilk are only the spark that transforms our civilization.

Dave Borlace this week looks at the lovely illusion of #biofuels, which can emit more CO2 than fossil fuels. At scale, a very cozy multi-industry alliance. More unforeseen consequences and unacceptable tradeoffs. #DaveBorlace #JustHaveAThink @natehagens.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/video-...

Remember what hunanity and leadership are really all about. Don’t lose heart. This is a toxic flash in the pan at the moment. But we can change this. Leadership is what we need right now - of the wisest and most future-focused, strategic and compassionate kind. substack.com/@cliffsedge/...

Alas - this is what stupid really means at this crossroads of history. Power has never been so profoundly costly and misguided to achieve - for humanity and the biosphere. And everyone who donated to Trump and Trumpites should utterly realize it by now. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Who else feels that their whole life’s work of blood, sweat & tears is being undermined in a matter of days? We cannot remain hostages in this abysmal drama. What are the options of an entire species on a precious planet to stop these men? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... @theguardian.com

Remember, polarization is a narrative. And narratives have been carefully crafted - one might even say 'weaponized' to disempower the public. How polarized are we, really? I believe, like Dr Elisabeth Loose, that a big, coherent backlash has been building. www.johnsmithcentre.com/news/researc...

Like working on climate change, justice, biodiversity loss, systems change and civilizational shift in the United States?

I'd also wonder what the graph would look like of how many US scientists have left the USA - like myself - in order to do the urgent work for humanity and the biosphere that can't be done right now there. . . and perhaps not again for some time.

1 Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social just released new report, Mobilising Silent Majorities. Read it! People don’t need convincing that climate chaos+societal breakdown are serious threats. They need convincing they can change that assets.climatemajorityproject.com/Mobilising%2...

An ornithologist by training, long working on human impacts on this exquisite planet, I've used the canary-in-a-coalmine metaphor many times. But it doesn't seem that humanity is too perturbed. Alas, most people only pay attention when the water's up to their waists or fire singeing their hair

At the ruins of Dunboy Castle, the fortress of the O’Sullivan clan controlling the Béarra Peninsula and waters (and exacting tolls for shipping) for centuries. But then the castle was besieged by Oliver Cromwell’s men in 1602 on orders of Elizabeth I and all the men were summarily executed.

"When we shift from transaction to relationship, we change what’s possible." @csafina.bsky.social with #Oprah on animals' behaviour, sentience, emotions, empathy. Everything we know and love is at stake in the world right now. Nature and our fellow Earthlings are awesome. www.carlsafina.org/oprah

Please consider following this terrific team working on illumunating and probing the many issues driving #humanity to the brink of destabilization. #War and #climate are also the subject of one of our upcoming #documentaries. @herbsimmens.bsky.social @paulbeckwith.bsky.social

Is it not now demonstrably true that *each* of these three countries is a rogue state? Via Euronews: 'Iran must not be allowed to hold global economy hostage,' UAE minister tells Euronews www.euronews.com/2026/03/14/i...