'Universe 25 / Behavioural Sink' Calhoun concluded from his experiments: "No matter how sophisticated we are, once the number of individuals capable of filling social roles greatly exceeds the number of such roles, only violence and disruption can follow." sproutsschools.com/behavioral-s...

Wild mammals make up ~4% of total biomass. The other ~96% consists of humans and our domesticated animals bred for slaughter. Domesticated poultry, mostly chickens make-up ~70% of all avian biomass The biomass of the African elephant in 1850 was roughly equal to all current wild terrestrial mammals.

Today, the mass of our built environment (concrete, glass, metal, plastics, personal devices, asphalt, roads, etc.) — is greater than the dry mass of all life on the planet (all plants, animals, fungi, archaea, protists & bacteria combined) We are in the plague phase of a one time boom, bust cycle.

The 2.5 trillion tons of CO2 we've emitted from burning fossil fuels & land use change is larger than the total dry living biomass of all living things on the planet today. It's also larger than the the mass of all human-made structures (all concrete, glass, constructed timber, brick, steel, etc.)

Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO₂ than they absorb Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The modern villain doesn’t clear-cut a forest; they approve a permit. They don’t burn wetlands, they subsidize the companies that do. They don’t deny the consequences outright. They deny them by minimizing them, recasting them as overblown, or insisting technology will solve them “later.”

The number of people living in cities has more than doubled since 1950, when urban dwellers accounted for 20% of the world’s 2.5 billion people, according to the report. Now they comprise nearly half of the planet’s 8.2 billion people.

In 2024, the DRC experienced an uptick in primary forest loss, according to Global Forest Watch. Subsistence agriculture continues to be the main driver of forest loss, with recent research finding artisanal mining in the eastern DRC results in more forest loss than previously thought.

Astonishingly, sea ice still hasn't started to reform over the Barents Sea area yet of the #Arctic. This includes record low conditions around Svalbard as well. It's been a very bad few months across the region. Check out more graphics here: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Oh look, Rosneft, Russia's biggest oil producer, reported a 70% drop in net income from January to September, falling by $3.57 billion or 277 billion Russian roubles. #collapse

Oh look, Britain said on Friday it would temporarily stop imports of pork meat from parts of Spain after the country confirmed its first cases of African swine fever in just over three decades. #collapse

"Our updated estimate for 2008 is 48% - so the lives of around half of humanity are made possible by Haber-Bosch nitrogen" www.researchgate.net/publication/...

According to Grok...

Link to full documentary. "This film confronts existential ecological crises threatening our planet through the lens of a major yet uncomfortable truth — one that most environmental organizations refuse to acknowledge or, worse, actively deny." Human Ecological Overshoot youtu.be/XjWUKFUaoL4?...

Avoiding the subject of overpopulation (as most environmentalists/environmental organizations currently do) has resulted in a profound lack of awareness of this fundamental issue & is stifling progress on nearly every single environmental front. Human Ecological Overshoot youtu.be/SHTeCHKGh7w?...

Your 'doom quote' for today: “we humans have made a mess of our civilization and our planet, and not enough of us seem to care enough to change deeply enough or quickly enough to save ourselves.” www.amazon.com/Life-After-D...

Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 28, 2025 ~ The enemy "Human activity is the primary cause of the problem. Farmers are clearing more land for food production. Infrastructure projects and mining are exacerbating the loss of vegetation and global heating... " www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Oh look, between 2010 and 2017, African forests lost approximately 106bn kg of biomass per year, which is equivalent to the weight of about 106m cars. #collapse

"Avian flu viruses can withstand fever temperatures thanks to the PB1 gene, allowing them to replicate where human viruses fail. This heat resilience, combined with gene swapping between bird and human strains, heightens pandemic risk." (sciencedaily.com) #collapse

"The US Treasury posted a $284.4 billion deficit in October, the worst opening month to any fiscal year in history. This exceeds the previous record of $284.1 billion in October 2020, during the historic pandemic response." (The Kobeissi Letter) #collapse

"November will also mark the second consecutive month breaking 1.5°C over the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline." (Prof Eliot Jacobson) #collapse

"In the U.S., 107 outbreaks [of bird flu] were reported by November 18, nearly four times last year's total. Minnesota, the country's largest turkey producing state, confirmed its first case two months earlier than in 2022." (Reuters) #collapse

Abruptly ending all fossil fuel use would trigger the most severe food crisis in human history. The Haber-Bosch process alone underpins roughly half of global food production. Then there's transportation, processing, storage, harvesting, tilling, irrigation, storage, diesel for fishing trawlers etc

If you were hoping for some good climate news post-COP30, there isn't any As the world's carbon sinks become sources, our prospects look increasingly grim As Pliocene conditions beckon, we need global action NOW to stop a return to the Eocene hothouse www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rare for now maybe www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

More than 200 people have been killed across South-East Asia after a week of record-breaking rain, flash flooding and landslides which metrologists say stemmed partly from a "rare" tropical cyclone. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Troops in Sri Lanka were racing to rescue hundreds of people marooned by rising flood waters on Friday as weather-related deaths rose to 69, with another 34 people declared missing. More than 18,000 evacuated to temporary shelters. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Today's volcano Hayli Gubbi (Ethiopia) eruption seen from space

Photo of the decade? This stunning and rare photograph shows a female polar bear standing on the massive carcass of a male sperm whale that had become trapped in Arctic ice. The image was captured by wildlife photographer Roie Galitz #ClimateCrisis #cryosphere

#PFAS nowhere is safe

The blame game for climate change often pits FF companies against consumers. FFC's withheld their knowledge of risks & spread disinformation for decades. The cover-ups and lies tip the scales toward corporate culpability. These were strategic choices to prioritize profits over planetary stability.

"The Article finds that in jurisdictions across the US, fossil fuel companies could be prosecuted for every type of homicide short of first degree murder... It also concludes that prosecutions could offer highly effective remedies and that prosecutors should be motivated to seek them."

"Starvation, economic collapse, civil unrest and wars are among the risks we face if we don’t take decisive action to limit further global warming and preserve nature, leading experts in #climate, food, health and security warned today in London" @nebriefing.bsky.social

Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"the biomass of the African elephant in 1850 was roughly equal to the current biomass of all wild terrestrial mammals combined" Humans & their livestock make-up ~95% of all mammalian biomass Domesticated poultry, mostly chickens make-up ~70% of all avian biomass www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The combined biomass of wild land and marine mammals has plummeted by about 70% since 1850 (from about 200 million tons to 60 million tons). The biomass of humans has increased by about 700% and that of domesticated animals has increased by about 400% www.caltech.edu/about/news/h...

Just 100 grams of shrimp may require 0.5 to 1 litre of diesel fuel to catch. Tomatoes from Almerías heated plastic greenhouses, when bought in a Scandinavian supermarket have an embedded production and transportation energy cost of ~14.8 millilitres of diesel for each 125 gram tomato! Vaclav Smil

First video to cross 10K views. Thankful to all those who have supported me so far throughout this journey. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁🍽 @djspratt.bsky.social @climatenews.bsky.social youtu.be/SWVZc1coiNQ?...

Chemical pollution, light pollution, and noise pollution are all effects of human inability to limit consumption. Is it hard to live more with less? "‘The narwhals stop calling’: how the noise from ships is silencing wildlife in the Arctic." #ClimateSky www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Coral reefs support ~25% of marine species, providing essential habitat, feeding grounds & nurseries for over a million species. Reefs also protect other coastal ecosystems, such as mangrove forests and seagrass beds, which serve as nurseries for marine creatures.

"In its latest report on bird flu, the WHO said there had been nearly 1,000 outbreaks in humans between 2003 and 2025 - mainly in Egypt, Indonesia and Vietnam, of which 48% had died." (Reuters) #collapse

"Floods leave at least 50 dead across Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia" Floods have affected more than 980,000 homes and over 2.7 million people in Thailand. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

"The Insurance Council of Australia has today declared an Insurance Catastrophe for the strong winds & damaging hail that impacted SE Queensland between 23rd & 24th November. Insurers have already received over 16,000 claims across more than 140 postcodes" insurancecouncil.com.au/insurance-ca...

Scientists recorded a 47 percent drop in breeding females in South Georgia’s three largest elephant seal colonies after bird flu hit. Scaled to the whole island, that’s a potential loss of more than 50,000 of the animals. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b...

This documentary confronts the overpopulation crisis head on, along with biodiversity loss, pollution, toxicity & the destructiveness of 'green energy' etc & how they are the symptoms of overpopulation, overconsumption & the futile pursuit of infinite growth on a finite planet. Ecological overshoot.