No human is illegal.

Episode 2: Carbon Suckers Who’s going to clean up the mess? We hear the story of how all climate plans are dependent on one big idea. But it might not even work, and we didn’t vote for it. And it all started in Swedish paper mills... Listen to episode 2 now: open.spotify.com/episode/49H1...

God of wonders, hear the cries of those in distress.

I like this game. I shall play anon.

"Glaciers all over Switzerland have lost a quarter of their volume since 2015. Over 1,000 small glaciers have already disappeared." #Switzerland 🇨🇭 #ClimateEmergency

Excellent 4 part series by @pbs.org looking at how global cities are coming to grips with the real-time effects of rising seas and extreme weather. Episodes linked in the following 🧵 #ClimateEmergency

The whole world wants batteries. The US doesn't want to make them. More genius energy policy. www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

Now you can follow us & get our episodes on your favourite platforms Apple Podcasts, Spotify, + other platforms including (any minute now @freedomforall.net - PocketCasts pca.st/9kjkpe25). Do follow! It helps the show! + @richard.wickedproblems.earth's boss @solstice-potter.bsky.social will know!

Industrial livestock doesn’t just pollute our waterways & wipe out biodiversity, it also threatens our very existence. On a per capita basis, Ireland is among world’s worst livestock polluters.

“There is a window, not for the continuation of what we have now, but for the creation of something different without necessarily having to endure a civilisational collapse.” Discussing Transformative Adaptation with John Izzo on this excellent podcast 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhbA...

"Aerial photographs of the areas don’t fully capture the level of destruction, Mr. Winkelman said. He added that in Kwigillingok, 53 houses floated away, and that it looked like the village had been bombed."

Was listening to @laurielaybourn.bsky.social's @overshootpod.bsky.social final ep while editing this - in some ways the ClimatePilgrim.com series is stumbling around looking for the "ethical and psychological" cope with the post-1.5°C world we've entered, to which Laurie devotes the last section.

New episode - The Irish Mafia. With @janemellett1.bsky.social, Eamon Ryan, and Bishop Martin Hayes. open.substack.com/pub/aclimate...

"Let's say we reach net-zero in 2050, the political narrative around climate change is that that's kind of mission accomplished... but that's the most dangerous moment in history! Because at the moment of net-zero... the earth system is at its most destabilized" - @laurielaybourn.bsky.social

New Wicked Problems just dropped - white-hot timing, with @laurielaybourn.bsky.social about his new documentary series @overshootpod.bsky.social: how to navigate the world after 1.5°C. Just this morning the UK's @thecccuk.bsky.social Baroness Brown warned that 2°C by 2050 would be BEST CASE.

@aradwanski.bsky.social preview of Carney’s likely climate strategy confirms that Canada is, yet again, refusing to deal with the oil and gas sector, which generates around 1/3 of Canada’s emissions. Carney is gambling w Canada's economic future & he should know better. 🧵

I see Carney's reversal as a sign moral cowardice. A refusal to act on his past convictions and fight for the good. I'm not a practitioner of his religion, but I can't help but feel that Pope Francis saw clearly to heart of matters in his 2023 LAUDATE DEUM www.vatican.va/content/fran...

This is a very thoughtful answer indeed! I cannot do it justice, but Andreas Malm just gave a talk based in psychoanalytic theory about how climate denial becomes repression which allows for continued cognitive dissonance. proteanmag.com/2025/06/03/u...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating - CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening @wmo-global.bsky.social #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

i suppose this is one vision of the future, can anyone explain why we might expect this pattern of electrification through 2050??

From Bulwark, quoting one voice rising above all else: Just this past Thursday, Pope Leo asked journalists to “act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing.”

Pentagon retreats from climate fight even as heat and storms slam US troops #Climate

Since NoKings 2.0 is this weekend, I thought I’d reup what I was seeing earlier this year…

Please show up on October 18.

Nobel Prize for Climate Tech. Should actually be a category going forward. But this'll do for today (gift link) - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Kudos, Richard!

This graph by @leonsimons.bsky.social is one of the clearest explanations of Earth’s accelerating climate crisis. Earth’s energy imbalance is growing faster than @ipcc.bsky.social projections & why the 2020s already feel like climate chaos. 🧵 www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/this-graph-s...

The second Global Tipping Points Report has been launched today. Please see our press release here: www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article... Find the full report here: global-tipping-points.org @gsiexeter.bsky.social #TippingPoints #COP30

With Caroline Lucas at the Conduit Club, talking about how to save democracy - by making action climate popular. By starting with where people are: not in abstractions, but in collaborative agency. On climate impacts and in cost of living - which are >the same fight<. #Safer

An important new research publication from the Laudato Si Research Institute: "Indigenous Approaches to Nature: Insights at a Time of Planetary Crisis" lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

A new book from the LSRI responding to Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum is now available as a free digital download. lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/node/1882 @lsrioxford.bsky.social

Pope Leo just did what Donald Trump never could: defend the press. He told journalists to reject clickbait and fight for truth — quoting Hannah Arendt’s warning that totalitarianism thrives when people can no longer tell true from false.

Ten years after Pope Francis published Laudato Si' and changed the climate conversation from just science, technology, and economics to include how they're grounded in ethics and faith, @richard.wickedproblems.earth went to the Vatican to find out whether it made a difference.

It's a little specific vs my usual Wicked Problems beat but I think the climate crisis in 2025 can't be understood if you limit it to a tech/econ problem without exploring the ethical/spiritual context. That's what I'm attempting with climatepilgrim.com. Some of it isn't too bad!

And with Maina Talia, Tuvalu's climate minister, whose PhD thesis looked at climate geopolitics through a theological lens, summed up as "who is my neighbour?" aclimatepilgrim.substack.com/p/who-is-my-...

Spoke to a lot of great people while there, so am putting it into a new series, ClimatePilgrim.com. With chats like this w @kuminaidoo.bsky.social - on whether Pope Leo should endorse the @fossiltreaty.bsky.social at #COP30 in Belém. aclimatepilgrim.substack.com/p/should-pop...

The Pope, the Terminator, and a Wicked Problem walk into a bar. If you told me 2 yrs ago I'd spend a week in the Vatican w them I'd say you were nuts. But then if 20 years ago you told me the Catholic Church would be standing up for climate science vs denialist freaks I'd have you committed.

The Pope “warned against those who ‘deride the increasingly evident signs of climate change to ridicule those who speak of global warming, and even to blame the poor for the very thing that affects them the most,’ and urged citizens to pressure governments for ‘rigorous regulations and controls.’”