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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 13h

The more this shitshow of a world reveals itself, the more I retreat into nature. And that's kind of nice. 🖤💚✌️

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 13h

This creed hasn’t changed: man above beasts, profit above life. We still trade extinction for “growth,” still justify destruction as destiny. This isn’t fringe—it’s mainstream, rooted in 10,000 years of monotheistic dominion.

Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · 1d

This was written in 1879, just a few years before passenger pigeons disappeared from the wild. These people are still out there

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 13h

So, so true, Piper 👌
We so forgot the descent that must be faced 🖤

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 13h

Human ingenuity, where it began so shall it end.
It'll only get worse before it gets much worse.

Evenings Ian

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 13h

Bonne chance to whatever species that needs a survivable biosphere after this mess.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 15h

What the fuck are we doing?

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 15h

“[Last year] CO2 in the global surface atmosphere increased by 3.5 ppm, the largest one-year increase since modern measurements began... This increase was driven by continued fossil CO2 emissions, enhanced fire emissions and reduced terrestrial/ocean sinks… which could signal a climate feedback.”

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 21h

“It took 3.8 billion years for 10 million species to slowly evolve on Earth. It has taken just a few hundred years for just one of those species to usher in a global ecosystem collapse that will be the biggest extinction event on the planet”

From my book THE UNHAPPINESS MACHINE

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 2d

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 1d

This changes everything!

The Northern Hemisphere used to radiate more heat to space than it absorbed from the sun, but this changed over the past 20 years.

More:

www.patreon.com/posts/141034...

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #thicktrunktuesday 💚🌳

Looking up from within the centre of a multi-trunked Alder

Looking up to the canopy of very old Alder tree with multiple trunks.
A beautifully clear blue sky in the background

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 1d

The Okavango Delta, Amazon, Everglades—Earth’s last wild strongholds—are all in decline, says the IUCN. It’s not a mystery. As the human footprint grows, the living world shrinks. What little we have left is almost gone.
theconversation.com/natural-worl...

Natural World Heritage sites under growing threat, but bright spots remain

Many of these extraordinary places are increasingly at risk due to escalating climate change, invasive species, and and a lack of consistent funding to protect them.

theconversation.com

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Cynthia Sax @cynthiasax.bsky.social · 2d

World leaders knew corals would be gone at 1.5C when they agreed on that goal.
I was so angry that day and I'm still angry today.
We have NO idea how everything is interconnected.
We are knowingly breaking a system that is far too complex for our understanding.
And this will end in total disaster.

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 2d

Evenings Ian

Hope your day was a good one.

In a previous life I studied economics. So glad I jumped off that insane growth grid. 🖤

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 2d

Economic growth story.
Mind. Fucking. Blowing. 🤯

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, Jah
Christopher Columbus is a damn blasted liar
👌💚🖤🎶

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 2d

“The real economy of this planet is its forests and oceans. Its currency is water, food, oxygen, sunlight. Its stock market is the ecosystems and climate systems which balance the allocation of these resources, and its stakeholders are its 10 million species”

From my book BEYOND THE PETRI DISH

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 3d

#MushroomMonday
🍄🌳😞💚🍄

Multiple clusters of Hypholoma mushrooms on the roots of a dead Birch tree

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 3d

The homes of a quarter of the animals that live in our oceans. Gone forever.

We should grieve & know that these tipping points are gonna fall like dominoes.

Now is not the time for ‘carrying on as normal’.

All our homes are at risk.

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 3d

Comme d'hab, Lyle nails this perfectly. 🖤

Hope thrives in the absence of honesty.

"Humanity would rather lie to itself about endless growth than face the limits of a finite planet"

Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 3d

The IUCN calls the extinction crisis a mix of “hope and concern.” But hope thrives in the absence of honesty. Humanity would rather lie to itself about endless growth than face the limits of a finite planet.
apnews.com/article/red-...

Arctic seals and more than half of bird species are in trouble on latest list of threatened species

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction and more than half of bird species around the world are declining.

apnews.com

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 3d

These are some nice Mycelium 🍄💚🖤

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 3d

The IUCN calls the extinction crisis a mix of “hope and concern.” But hope thrives in the absence of honesty. Humanity would rather lie to itself about endless growth than face the limits of a finite planet.
apnews.com/article/red-...

Arctic seals and more than half of bird species are in trouble on latest list of threatened species

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction and more than half of bird species around the world are declining.

apnews.com

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 3d

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 12, 2025 ~ The end of bees.

"Fifteen species of bumblebee, which play a crucial role in pollinating peas, beans, peanuts and clover ... are now classified as threatened."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study

www.theguardian.com

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Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 4d

Unsurprising tbh 🖤

Martin in FR 🌿 🌳 ☮️ @martindix.bsky.social · 4d

Hell must surely have frozen over, when MTG makes sense 🤯🥶

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