The collapsing. ‘Lockdowns’ will become more frequent. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston announcing the details in the hope of preventing fires in tinder dry extreme heat. This is just the beginning. Our failure has been in not imagining what is coming. www.youtube.com/live/divuHOt...

“…it’s about how we live within it.” A thread worth reading ⬇️

“The Sixth Extinction won’t arrive as a headline — it’s already here, in the fading of lives too ordinary for us to measure.”

"Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of earth’s greenings. Now, think." (Hildegard of Bingen) #collapse

Thank you, again, Mr Tsakraklides. You continue to challenge us. “The human brain is a beautiful yet frightening machine. Intelligence is like the Big Bang: it evolves and expands, until it becomes too dangerous for its own good.” …./2

The news will not get better. “The result is a collapse of the ecosystem: copepods vanish, fish populations plummet, while jellyfish thrive unchecked.”

The fossil fuel industry has been making a $3,000,000,000 profit EVERY SINGLE DAY for over 50 YEARS. They can’t believe their luck. Governments & politicians are willing to sell out their souls & our childrens’ chances of a survivable future for chicken feed.

252 million years ago the Earth’s temperature increased by 8C over 60,000 years, killing 90% of life on Earth in a period known as ‘The Great Dying’. We’re on track for 4C rise above preindustrial temp in our children’s life times. We’re living through ‘The Great Slaughter’.

“…more than 13 degrees Celsius hotter than the 1991-2020 average May daily maximum temperatures” Worth reading that again slowly: “…more than 13 degrees Celsius hotter than the 1991-2020 average May daily maximum temperatures”

This is playing out in the worst kinds of ways in far too many countries.

Faustian future fires.🔥

Homo colossus continues it’s rampage across Gaia and it’s destruction of Indigenous Peoples and sacred sites.

I feel sick. I feel angry. I feel so, so sad. What a legacy, @albomp.bsky.social. I'll NEVER forgive what you've done to this country and our future. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

"That suggests the entire forest was responding together, almost like one connected system. Scientists think older trees may store “ecological memory," a kind of natural awareness of past events like eclipses, and possibly pass that knowledge to younger trees..." www.accuweather.com/en/space-new...

The collapsing. “Living honestly in this moment means holding the contradiction of participating in systems you no longer believe in, while actively building alternatives that might never fully arrive.” A thread well worth the read ⬇️

Hey Australia. Did you know Santos is going to put 650 gas wells over the great artesian basin, which will all leak and poison the basin on the most arid continent on earth? Do you know what this means for water supply and vegetation ?

“Collapse awareness isn’t the end. It’s the end of pretending. What follows isn’t hope. It’s presence. Less noise. More soil. Less grind. More care.” A thread well worth reading ⬇️

Irreversible, runaway change. Heartbreaking….

Savour every moment….”if you're lucky it's going to be 20 years before it hits the fan." www.theguardian.com/theguardian/...

This may sound grim, but it is a colossal underestimate of the impact of 4C heating Forget 40% poorer - this will leave billions dead and society and economy will have collapsed long before the 4C mark is reached www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“This is the insanity of white colonial supremacy. This is the insanity. This theatre is an integral part of western colonialism. Pretending to have law and order is an essential part of western colonisation. The murder and the fake.”

overpopulation-project.com/overpopulati... “Synthesising findings from hundreds of recent peer-reviewed scientific studies, a comprehensive new article reviews the effects of expanding human populations on humanity’s most pressing environmental problems.” Overshoot.

The horror is that this is just the start of the worst. It’s heart-wrenching.

The end game - “we must now busy ourselves with the obligations of global hospice and console ourselves with simple acceptance of the same.”

Your 'doom quote' for today: "the human race being effectively extinct by the end of the century is now the main scenario meaning it is a lot more likely to happen than not and very possibly it is inevitable" www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qfD...

Agree, @d3v1ls7h3r4p157.bsky.social “No, definitely not unexpected”. The linked video is from over three years ago; with so many other similar warnings before that. How bad does this need to get before….?

“By the time we noticed, it was too late” as it is now

“Extreme temperature anomalies in the high Arctic continue. It’s mid-winter & it’s 4°C. On a normal year we commonly have temperatures down to -20°C…” Exponential change. If you haven’t already, it’s time to get very serious about this ‘collapsing’. “Folks we have lost the Arctic.” - Kevin Hester

News of rising fascism has taken airtime from climate destruction. The reality is these two things are inexplicably linked in a circular relationship.

1/ Keep it simple - the pace of collapse is accelerating. Kevin Hester wrote in his bio: “Brace for imminent impact as we bear witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of.” >>>>

🧵”Australia has recorded its second-warmest January on record, with average temperatures that were 2.15°C above the long-term average across the nation as a whole.” “…January 2019 was warmer overall, with temps a whopping 2.85°C above the long-term average…” www.weatherzone.com.au/news/austral...

It's fucking February. The North Pole is still experiencing 24-hour nights.

Oh joy, watching the ABC's flagship current affairs show where Sarah Ferguson ask s"Is there any proportion of the Palestinian people in Gaza who would welcome the chance to be relocated?" How about no, because there is no such thing an ok proportion of ethnic cleansing? #730

Indigenous knowledges key for Australia's response to bird flu, and for protecting communities' wellbeing https://www.croakey.org/indigenous-knowledges-key-for-australias-response-to-bird-flu-and-for-protecting-communities-wellbeing #publichealth

Australia - built on murder.

Always was, always will be

For sure! Many people just have a societal idea, probably from Millenarian Christianity seeped into larger culture, that "collapse" is instant & Rapture-like. It's not even that we're in "collapse" so much as "collapsing," a transitive state that's indefinite. & indefinite is harder to process.

I'm not going to insult your eyes and hearts by trying to leave you with words of hope tonight. Instead, I hope to inspire and remind you: We all will die. Everyone. Everything. The earth and everything on it. What are you going to do, then, to make the time before your death count?

Nothing says hypocrisy quite as eloquently as developing golf courses in the desert while people bemoan the lack of water to put out wildfires. apple.news/Afncv5DVgTm6...

“The fires currently tearing through Los Angeles are a reminder that Australia can no longer rely on northern hemisphere nations for water-bombing aircraft and firefighters during our summer.” theaimn.net/los-angeles-...

Homo Colossus can’t and won’t recognise overshoot. The species has become too arrogant.

Humans are eating the planet alive… www.techexplorist.com/internationa...

Albanese didn’t want it to succeed. No politician wants to give up any power to any section of the community.

Eloquent language has become a distraction. Time for truth speaking ⬇️⬇️ “After 30+ years of eloquent language, pseuo-tech &clever subterfuge, time to face the music regardless of paymasters or prestige.”

Our future was yesterday.

Indigenous worldviews embrace the notion that “we’re not central to everything.” We left it behind to our detriment.

Australia, the extermination machine, has wiped out 9000 species so far... www.msn.com/en-au/news/a...

If someone who belongs to Country says this about a settler, that settler is a rare genuine ‘spirit’. Listen.

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