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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 2h

The reds spend much less vulnerable time on the ground than the greys (because of co-evolution).

Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 3h

By destroying nature we're destroying the future. And by destroying the future we're destroying hope, morality and purpose. Forever and ever. Amen.

Its not just psychological damage. Its spiritual.

Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 4h

Well, we could all ride around on cows (since we don't seem to want to give them up). The CO2 reductions would then cancel out the methane, so we could claim to be GHG neutral while still eating beef.

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 5h

"The most surprising result, the authors noted, is that while carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 5.4% in 2020, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere continued to grow at about the same rate as in preceding years."

www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/emissio...

Emission Reductions From Pandemic Had Unexpected Effects on Atmosphere

Earth’s atmosphere reacted in surprising ways to the lowering of emissions during the pandemic, showing how closely climate warming and air pollution are linked.

www.jpl.nasa.gov

Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 5h

For context, in the pandemic year of 2020 CO2 emissions fell by 5.4%.

Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 5h

EDGAR 2025:

“According to the latest data, global GHG emissions in 2024 experienced an increase of 1.3% compared to the levels in 2023.”

To keep under 2°C emissions should have fallen by 5.5% in 2024 and EVERY year thereafter until 2030.

Source: edgar.jrc.ec.europa....

Global GHG emission trends by sector and key years

Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 5h

Yes. And elephants are more destructive than horses!

Not sure about the conversion efficiency (bringing two tons of metal around with you everywhere you go isn't very efficient - never mind the road and air friction). And the waste would be compostable and thus circular.

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 7h

So the people who write economics textbooks are both perfectly rational and perfectly irrational?

Is this some kind of quantum effect?

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 8h

"There are many of us that long to build bridges. It takes two to make peace, my mum reminds me time and again. We made peace with the Germans, she adds and we will make peace with the Palestinians."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Two years after 7 October and the kidnap of my parents, hate is in fashion. For all our sakes, we need compassion | Sharone Lifschitz

So many were killed – yet on her release, my mother said ‘shalom’ to her captors. Let’s learn from that moment of grace, says Sharone Lifschitz, London-based film-maker and academic

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 15h

Despite much hypocrisy, the US has been a strong defender of freedom and democracy around the world. Now, as it descends into fascism itself, world leaders remain silent, indulging and normalising Trump in fear of tariffs or worse.

Where are America's friends in its hour of need?

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21h

This Is Fascism

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 19h

We live in a culture of 'more'. More stuff, more energy, more travel, more convenience, more luxury and, above all, more money. And there is no end to more.

But our survival depends on less - on a culture of 'enough'. The antidote to incontinent greed is temperance. Only sufficiency is sustainable.

Christian Dimmer @remmid.bsky.social · 4d

Not a comfortable read—but sugar-coating does not help. No countryis currently on track to meet 1.5°C Paris target. To reach it, individual lifestyle emissions in high-income countries must fall by up to 94%. Transport & nutrition remain largest sources of emissions.

hotorcool.org/publications...

A Climate for Sufficiency: 1.5-Degree Lifestyles Report

The report “A Climate for Sufficiency ” examines how lifestyles, shaped by infrastructure, policy, and culture, must transform to align with planetary limits.

hotorcool.org

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 21h

Also worth noting that EVs are the second most polluting, destructive and unsustainable form of land transportation ever invented. Only ICE vehicles are worse.

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Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 1d

“My vision is of a new Ireland - one that is inclusive, progressive, creative and fair. It is not about victory for one side, but partnership between all. I want to use the Presidency to encourage inclusive discussion about the future – to create...

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sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 1d

"Its because I'm Jewish"

The great Miriam Margolyes sets the record straight

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 1d

And maybe also take a moment to remember the Slender-billed Curlews...

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International Wader Study Group @waderstudy.bsky.social · 2d

Today IUCN has officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.

Read more here ⬇️
www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 1d

Every 3 years, we gather up
All of the carbon
And every wild mammal and bird
And burn them
All of the whales and chaffinches
Every stampede - the murders and the flocks
Reduced to air
Every 3 days we burn ourselves
By now we have matched
Every gram of living carbon
With a soot stain in the sky
...

Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 1d

Climate expert @robinlamboll.bsky.social treating an audience last night to a short poem. The first words are missing: "Every 3 years, we gather up..."
He had been explaining things like the planet-cooling effect of health-harming smog (aerosols), the 3 years of our carbon buget left before we

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 1d

We killed them all. Every last one of them. And now they will never be again.

They lived their Curlew lives, migrated, cared for their young, and had every right to be here - as much as ourselves. And they did us no harm.

And we killed them all.

International Wader Study Group @waderstudy.bsky.social · 2d

Today IUCN has officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.

Read more here ⬇️
www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 1d

Our breathing space is less than
The weight of the unseen bacteria
Or the myriad of ways
Life reinvents itself.

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 1d

Every 3 years, we gather up
All of the carbon
And every wild mammal and bird
And burn them
All of the whales and chaffinches
Every stampede - the murders and the flocks
Reduced to air
Every 3 days we burn ourselves
By now we have matched
Every gram of living carbon
With a soot stain in the sky
...

Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 1d

Climate expert @robinlamboll.bsky.social treating an audience last night to a short poem. The first words are missing: "Every 3 years, we gather up..."
He had been explaining things like the planet-cooling effect of health-harming smog (aerosols), the 3 years of our carbon buget left before we

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 2d

Steps 1-8:

nationalpeanutboard.org/news/how-to-...

8 Simple Steps to Grow Your Own Peanuts at Home

Learn how to grown your own peanut plant at home in 8 easy steps. Let’s go!

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 2d

OK! OK! I'll do them!! Jeez! But I just have to finish this one thing first.

(See - its not complicated at all!)

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 2d

Wouldn't it be easier to just have two dishwashers and eliminate the cupboard? Not complicated at all.

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 3d

Fair enough. But you don't actually think she was a supporter of the Assad regime, do you?

Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 3d

Whatever your views on Catherine Connolly's suitability for the presidency, do you really believe that she visited Syria in support of the Assad dictatorship?

Seriously - do you really believe that?

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 7d

Per the Sunday Independent poll earlier: Humphreys would have taken 60% of Gavin’s first preferences, Connolly 24%, the remainder non-transferrable.

Reworking the poll accordingly:

Catherine Connolly 36
Heather Humphreys 32
Undecided 33

#aras25

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 6d

There is a carbon price, it's just that the polluters aren't the one to pay it.

Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · 6d

This is a good thing from a risk-based pricing perspective. But also so hard for people that are now paying $12k + difference in conditions. This is one of the true costs for Californians of wildfire.

Lawrence Vulis @lvulis.bsky.social · 6d

CA FAIR plan seeks 35.8% rate increase.

#climaterisk

www.latimes.com/business/sto...

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