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Canaries in the Iceberg | Albert Bates

Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · 6d

The Palestinians are our canaries in the coal mine. It is appropriate that Greta should be there protesting. Somewhere, an iceberg melts. www.patreon.com/posts/canari... @citizenbrown1.bsky.social
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We usually only think about what we can see in front of us

Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · 8d

I was asked as part of a university sustainability program to develop an Iceberg model of my work. I had to revisit the earliest application of that model in systems theory to fully appreciate how it has evolved and where it is relevant today. substack.com/home/post/p-... @herbsimmens.bsky.social

Diving the Iceberg

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The Republic of Donald’s Gut

Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · 10d

PFAS, PFOS,
Plastic on the brain.
Forever are the chemicals
That flow inside your veins

What’s inside the Donald’s brain?

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Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.

The Republic of Donald’s Gut

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Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · 15d

Check out my new post! I have already been getting some feedback to the effect that I am letting MAGA off the hook by blaming the global weirding on microbes, but seriously…let’s not take this so seriously. substack.com/home/post/p-... @boilingfrogbss.bsky.social
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"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves"

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Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · 17d

A new report sounds the alarm on ocean acidification as Earth breaches the seventh of nine "planetary boundaries." The oceans just hit an ominous milestone, according to Potsdam Institute. www.planetaryhealthcheck.org

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Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · 17d

Gas stations in México have started closing to await resupply. Houston refineries, we have a problem. peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-ta... @nickbreeze.genn.cc
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A Tariff-ic Gas Shortage

Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.

A Tariff-ic Gas Shortage | Albert Bates

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Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · 20d

What do N.N.Taleb, Kate Crawford, Bill McKibben, Leopold Kohr, and Finnish President Stubb all have in common? My post today in Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/tariff...

What I just saw in México should worry all North Americans

Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · 22d

We stopped for gas only to find every pump wrapped in plastic. 2d stop similarly draped. Eventually, an open station. What was going on?

My best guess? Tariffs. @stephenleahy.bsky.social
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A Tariff-ic Gas Shortage

Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.

Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · 24d

Many have been looking at brightening clouds around Earth to slow the heating, but what if we did the opposite? What if we... peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

The Darkness at Noon

A new plan to inject biochar into the stratosphere raises more questions than answers

Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · 29d

Check out my new post! Sometimes geoengineering fantasies cross the line into science fiction. When you are out in space, it can be difficult to even find that line open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi... @leonsimons.bsky.social @herbsimmens.bsky.social @billmckibben.bsky.social @nickbreeze.genn.cc

The Darkness at Noon

Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.

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Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · Sep 14

The Gaza crisis is everything the UN was created to prevent. By opting out of the UN process and going so rogue, Israel and its one ally have undone a century of work towards lasting world peace peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

The Gaza Makeover

The Gaza Makeover | Albert Bates

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Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · Sep 11

Even before Operation Al Aqsa Flood, the occupation and blockade of Gaza had compounded existing climate and environmental stresses, worsening living conditions and deepening dependence on humanitarian aid. What comes next is anyone's guess. www.patreon.com/posts/gaza-m...

What could possibly go wrong?

Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · Sep 10

What to do with more than two million Gazans? The current Israeli plan — liquidation by starvation and bombing — is less kind than the Kushner vision. cooldesign.medium.com/the-gaza-mak...

The Gaza Makeover

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Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · Sep 9

Humanitarians see Gaza as crisis. TechBros see opportunity. cooldesign.substack.com/p/the-gaza-m... @nickbreeze.genn.cc
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Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · Sep 9

Regular followers of the posts that appear on The Great Change will be well aware that we have an unfortunate tendency to get information to readers six months to sixty years in advance. cooldesign.substack.com/p/the-gaza-m...

The Gaza Makeover

What could possibly go wrong?

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Award winning author and futurist Albert Bates writes about ecovillages, permaculture, negative emission technology, drawdown, and climate solutions.

Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · Sep 7

Biking ancient trails, I saw the beginning and ending of the Anthropocene peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2025/09/root...

Roots Reprised

A trip back to the past provides a few clues to our future

Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · Sep 2

This week I have journeyed back up my DNA a few centuries for the chance to glimpse the path ahead. open.substack.com/pub/cooldesi...

Roots Reprised

Nuking the Windmills | Albert Bates

Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · Aug 28

If you got your electricity from TVA or IL, PA, SC, or NY between 1993 to 2013, you were helping world peace by burning up dismantled Russian warheads. Robt Kennedy torched the health plans of the atomic workers who made that happen, leaving them to sickening fates www.patreon.com/posts/nuking...

Anti-Datacenter opposition is blocking billions of dollars for new server farms

Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · Aug 26

Industry analysts have long foreseen power as the Achilles heel of A.I., cloud computing, decarbonization, and indeed, automation in general. Blocking new server farms and nuclear power? That's a good thing.

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Nuking the Windmills

From Despair to Collective Action: John D Liu on Community, Survival, and the Path Forward

Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · Aug 24

At what point can you stand in front of a tractor tire rolling downhill and not only stop it (tip it over), but also push it back up? You’d have to be pretty close to the top of the hill. The metaphor applies to both authoritarianism and climate change

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Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · Aug 23

Well @mmflint.bsky.social and and anyone else joking about the electoral college in the past, now that it protects state electors, mail-in voters and machine voting from @realdonaldrumpf.bsky.social Executive Orders, what do you think?

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Nick Breeze @nickbreeze.genn.cc · Aug 23

My interview with ecologist & founder of the Ecosystem Restoration Communities, John D. Liu: "And when you see an extinction event, the top of the food chain is the most at risk. Well, that's us. So, calm down."
youtu.be/8g6y7sMip_k #climatechange #ecology #ecosystems

YouTube video by Nick Breeze ClimateGenn

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Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · Aug 23

I was born when CO2 was 310 ppm. The reading at Mauna Loa Aug 20 was 425.94, 4 ppm higher than 8/20/24 & 0.5 ppm higher than the day before. In 1896, the thinking was that fossil burning would reach this point in 3000 years. We were only off by 2871 years www.patreon.com/posts/local-...

Local Man Paints Everything White | Albert Bates