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Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · 2d

100% brilliant
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Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 7d

This is key for planetary and personal health: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

www.theguardian.com

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Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · 16d

New Zealands dairy driven freshwater disaster

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Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · 18d

Do the Math | Using physics and estimation to assess energy, growth, options—by Tom Murphy share.google/V4Xj0fN9kwfk...

Do the Math | Using physics and estimation to assess energy, growth, options—by Tom Murphy

One of the most common reactions is that abandoning agriculture is tantamount to committing many billions of people to death, since the planet can’t support billions of hunter-gatherers—especially given the dire toll on ecological health already accumulated.

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Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · 20d

Nailed! thanks Alf for saying it so clearly

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Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · 23d

NZs industrial dairy freshwater disaster. I think that's me in the boat with Miles, Vicky and daisy. Feel i have made it to appear in a Sharon Murdoch cartoon

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Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · 28d

"The reality is that AI is primarily a military technology. Look at where the money and urgency are going. AI is already being built into surveillance, cyberwarfare, autonomous weapons, and propaganda."
www.artberman.com/blog/beyond-...

Beyond Surplus: Rethinking How Civilizations Rose | Art Berman

The surplus story most of us learned is straightforward. Once humans learned to farm, they grew more food than they needed. That extra food freed some people to build, rule, trade, fight, worship, cre...

www.artberman.com

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Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · 28d

It's a warning Shane not just an annoying thing in your way

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Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · Sep 12

A snippet from electrifying the titanic by William Ophuls. Brilliant wee book

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Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · Sep 7

Debt traps
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The Debt Surge Ahead

Haven't we just passed by a dead end sign?

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Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · Sep 7

Andy tells it how it is
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The word on the streets is stop

I’m a forest dweller trying to sell leaves to my neighbours.

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Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · Sep 7

I would if I could figure out to work it :-)

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Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Login • Instagram

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Sep 1

Something that bugs me a lot is that schools don't hesitate to ban smartphones in a hot second but are anxiously and aggressively pushing students to rely on error-prone automated bullshit engines

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Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · Aug 29

Yeah The Conversation is slipping badly I see more and more of this rubbish, such a shame

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Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · Aug 2

Have a great break come back recharged

Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · Aug 1

Something even more obvious is reducing consumption rather than trying to propup the utterly unsustainable wasteful lifestyles of the wealthy 10% responsible for > 50% of emissions and 75% of non-renewable material consumption

Mike joy @mikejoyecologist.bsky.social · Jul 3

This is supposed to be ironic?

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · Jul 2

Me again... "If we do not quickly end the burning of fossil fuels then by the middle of this century the heatwave that is currently subjecting millions of people across Europe to crippling heat and humidity could be happening every other year." www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

As Europe swelters, scientists warn things are going to get HOTTER

Scientists say the extreme heat gripping Europe is only the start, with climate change set to make heatwaves more frequent, longer, and even more deadly.

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Asher Miller @ashermiller.bsky.social · Jul 1

Any claim of being the pro-life party should now and forever be received with howls of derision. Among many, many horrors this bill is essentially a gigantic fuck you to today's and future children -- human and non-human.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...

Senate Narrowly Passes Trump’s Policy Bill Amid Deep G.O.P. Divisions

www.nytimes.com

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · Jun 20

"The climate has been barking at us for decades. It’s now beginning to sink its teeth into humanity. Every single way of avoiding further harm involves the rapid phase out of fossil fuels. Denying that is madness."

jamesdyke.substack.com/p/the-climat...

The climate centre is barking mad

The climate movement will fail if it doesn't respect both political and physical realities

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · Jun 19

When, finally, politicians get it into their orthodox-economics-addled heads that we are facing not just a few points shaved off of GDP but actual near-term real-world disaster, then risk assessments will swing very quickly to deployment of geoengineering.
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