Prof Phoebe Barnard
@phoebebarnard.bsky.social
The world doesn't have to be this way. Climate & biodiversity risk and resilience, societal/planetary futures. Prof Univ Washington; research assoc African Climate & Development Initiative/ Fitztitute, UCapeTown, building global futures program in France
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#ClimateRepair, #ClimateRestoration, and the future(s) of civilization - a 🧵:
1. Our 2025 documentary series #TheClimateRestorers is now broadcasting on CBC (GEM) Canada - adding to our broadcast schedule in the USA, Australia and Italy.
Our conclusions?
www.theclimaterestorers.com/news
1. Our 2025 documentary series #TheClimateRestorers is now broadcasting on CBC (GEM) Canada - adding to our broadcast schedule in the USA, Australia and Italy.
Our conclusions?
www.theclimaterestorers.com/news
The waiting game....
Ah, finally, a better idea of why we still await an answer from #ChooseFranceforScience after I submitted my matching grant application in July. Fascinating article on the process I'm seemingly stuck in.
Can autotranslate it to English. lexpress.envoy.gift/QX2me3
Ah, finally, a better idea of why we still await an answer from #ChooseFranceforScience after I submitted my matching grant application in July. Fascinating article on the process I'm seemingly stuck in.
Can autotranslate it to English. lexpress.envoy.gift/QX2me3
November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The waiting game....
Ah, finally, a better idea of why we still await an answer from #ChooseFranceforScience after I submitted my matching grant application in July. Fascinating article on the process I'm seemingly stuck in.
Can autotranslate it to English. lexpress.envoy.gift/QX2me3
Ah, finally, a better idea of why we still await an answer from #ChooseFranceforScience after I submitted my matching grant application in July. Fascinating article on the process I'm seemingly stuck in.
Can autotranslate it to English. lexpress.envoy.gift/QX2me3
We do have plenty of good leadership role models for the future. I'm not sure if they're perfect, but they understand their responsibilities to their people, the planet, and the future. #Iceland is proving itself again.
#ThankYouIceland @euiniceland.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/stefan...
#ThankYouIceland @euiniceland.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/stefan...
This is what it sounds like when a government speaks openly and responsibly about climate risks.
(In case you live in a country where you're not used to that.)
Iceland's climate minister Jóhan...
This is what it sounds like when a government speaks openly and responsibly about climate risks.
(In case you live in a country where you're not used to that.)
Iceland's climate minister Jóhann Páll J...
www.linkedin.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
We do have plenty of good leadership role models for the future. I'm not sure if they're perfect, but they understand their responsibilities to their people, the planet, and the future. #Iceland is proving itself again.
#ThankYouIceland @euiniceland.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/stefan...
#ThankYouIceland @euiniceland.bsky.social
www.linkedin.com/posts/stefan...
"We will not be able to control or avoid the simplification ahead, but can cultivate our own ability to adapt+respond." The metacrisis as a foundational moment to cultivate relational intelligence and moral imagination @natehagens.bsky.social @ssweetwater.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF3D...
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"We will not be able to control or avoid the simplification ahead, but can cultivate our own ability to adapt+respond." The metacrisis as a foundational moment to cultivate relational intelligence and moral imagination @natehagens.bsky.social @ssweetwater.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF3D...
This is beautiful from Geoffrey Deihl on US Thanksgiving Day at a time when that time of remembrance - already so culturally blind-spotted but still meaningful as a practice, is so at odds with a society and government poisoned by white entitlement and self-pity.
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What to Be Thankful For
It’s all about everyone else
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November 27, 2025 at 6:34 AM
This is beautiful from Geoffrey Deihl on US Thanksgiving Day at a time when that time of remembrance - already so culturally blind-spotted but still meaningful as a practice, is so at odds with a society and government poisoned by white entitlement and self-pity.
open.substack.com/pub/geoffrey...
open.substack.com/pub/geoffrey...
Over 1000 top #UK #scientists have signed a strongly worded letter to the #UKGovernment calling for attention to tomorrow's #NationalEmergencyBriefing #NEB. Solutions for stopping global heating will make us so much better off. But that's seriously underreported. www.nebriefing.org/open-letter
National Emergency Briefing
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
www.nebriefing.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Over 1000 top #UK #scientists have signed a strongly worded letter to the #UKGovernment calling for attention to tomorrow's #NationalEmergencyBriefing #NEB. Solutions for stopping global heating will make us so much better off. But that's seriously underreported. www.nebriefing.org/open-letter
The reality is: even really dramatic, immediate emissions reduction is no longer enough. Even a decade ago, it was not enough...especially given the nature of governments and self interest.
But we can also do much better than this when faced with reality. Everything we know and love is at stake.
But we can also do much better than this when faced with reality. Everything we know and love is at stake.
Urgent climate choices: Should we use large-scale interventions like SRM and marine cloud brightening? Justice and equity must lead the way—centering those most impacted. #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #COP30 @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social @hughhunt.bsky.social #Geoengineering youtu.be/fNbNm18eBhQ
The Equity of Climate Intervention
YouTube video by Climate Emergency Forum
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November 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The reality is: even really dramatic, immediate emissions reduction is no longer enough. Even a decade ago, it was not enough...especially given the nature of governments and self interest.
But we can also do much better than this when faced with reality. Everything we know and love is at stake.
But we can also do much better than this when faced with reality. Everything we know and love is at stake.
I have a small but vitally important dream (if we want a future civilization). And it's that governments can reframe democracy more collaboratively for a planet and global societies in crisis - that we can take decisive action, but that governments can do this in collaboration with civil societies.
We are charting the steps that make engagement honest, inclusive, and practical. Follow ENGAGED and share if you want to help shape the standard. #publicengagement #openresearch
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
I have a small but vitally important dream (if we want a future civilization). And it's that governments can reframe democracy more collaboratively for a planet and global societies in crisis - that we can take decisive action, but that governments can do this in collaboration with civil societies.
Just a little reminder.
Not just "global issues" but "global suicide issues."
And we are all turning over with our paws in the air? C'mon, people of the world!
Not just "global issues" but "global suicide issues."
And we are all turning over with our paws in the air? C'mon, people of the world!
The most on-the-money statement you’ll read today.
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Just a little reminder.
Not just "global issues" but "global suicide issues."
And we are all turning over with our paws in the air? C'mon, people of the world!
Not just "global issues" but "global suicide issues."
And we are all turning over with our paws in the air? C'mon, people of the world!
Follow this amazing and talented scientist and communicator on #OneHealth - #planetaryhealth, #humanhealth in times of the polycrisis. #DrAndreiaFernandes #OHScience www.instagram.com/onehealthsci...
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Follow this amazing and talented scientist and communicator on #OneHealth - #planetaryhealth, #humanhealth in times of the polycrisis. #DrAndreiaFernandes #OHScience www.instagram.com/onehealthsci...
While we allow ourselves to be distracted by fatuous dictators and ephemeral technologies, this is happening. And it's not that these issues aren't related. They are. But that's the point. Distraction, extraction, destabilization, despair, paralysis fuels plunder. Thanks @billmckibben.bsky.social
These are among the oldest forests on earth, but they're running up against the new world of climate change--firefighting help badly needed!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w...
Fire Threatens Iran’s Ancient Forest, a World Heritage Site
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 AM
While we allow ourselves to be distracted by fatuous dictators and ephemeral technologies, this is happening. And it's not that these issues aren't related. They are. But that's the point. Distraction, extraction, destabilization, despair, paralysis fuels plunder. Thanks @billmckibben.bsky.social
The choice is increasingly naked - between those who can't see past their own need for control and fantasies of a glorified past, vs those seeing a repair-oriented, stabilizing civilization ahead.
@katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social @leonsimons.bsky.social @kevinclimate.bsky.social
@katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social @leonsimons.bsky.social @kevinclimate.bsky.social
"Countries are divided on whether to commit to phasing out fossil fuels" should read, "Countries are divided on whether humanity is worth saving" because *not* phasing out fossil fuels - despite decades of scientific proof & accelerating #collapse - keeps us on a suicidal path.
📈HT @jamesgdyke.info
📈HT @jamesgdyke.info
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The choice is increasingly naked - between those who can't see past their own need for control and fantasies of a glorified past, vs those seeing a repair-oriented, stabilizing civilization ahead.
@katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social @leonsimons.bsky.social @kevinclimate.bsky.social
@katharinehayhoe.com @michaelemann.bsky.social @leonsimons.bsky.social @kevinclimate.bsky.social
Excellent summary by @dpcarrington.bsky.social +Jonathan Watts in @theguardian.com of heartbreaks, small triumphs, leadership+sabotage in #Belém as #COP30 ends. #Colombia, Pacific #SIDS +other climate-committed countries moving outside COPs is significant.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Compromises, voluntary measures and no mention of fossil fuels: key points from Cop30 deal
A deal is welcome after talks nearly collapsed but the final agreement contains small steps rather than leaps
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Excellent summary by @dpcarrington.bsky.social +Jonathan Watts in @theguardian.com of heartbreaks, small triumphs, leadership+sabotage in #Belém as #COP30 ends. #Colombia, Pacific #SIDS +other climate-committed countries moving outside COPs is significant.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If youve lived in countries where 30•C or 40•C temps are common, you’ll know well what a brake it is on physical activity. Ten, twenty, thirty years ago, it was African desert countries that often kept me from a morning run. Now, in the summertime , it’s France 😟 www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘
The Arsenal and England forward is backing new global campaign because talent and teamwork should decide the game – not the climate
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
If youve lived in countries where 30•C or 40•C temps are common, you’ll know well what a brake it is on physical activity. Ten, twenty, thirty years ago, it was African desert countries that often kept me from a morning run. Now, in the summertime , it’s France 😟 www.theguardian.com/football/202...
So far, only 13 countries have signed the #COP30 #InformationIntegrityDeclaration to counter FossilFuelDisinformation. Which countries?: 🧵
www.unesco.org/en/informati... #COPofTruth
www.unesco.org/en/informati... #COPofTruth
Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change
The Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change is a global partnership aimed at promoting and defending information integrity on climate change
www.unesco.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
So far, only 13 countries have signed the #COP30 #InformationIntegrityDeclaration to counter FossilFuelDisinformation. Which countries?: 🧵
www.unesco.org/en/informati... #COPofTruth
www.unesco.org/en/informati... #COPofTruth
When you look at it like this, every moment of hot air is especially inexcusable. Please share from my science colleagues at #COP30
planetarysciencepavilion.org/2025/11/14/s...
planetarysciencepavilion.org/2025/11/14/s...
Statement from Scientists at the Planetary Science Pavilion, about the current state of COP negotiations - Planetary Science Pavilion
Belém, November 14, 2025. Most of the CO2 budget that would push warming to 1.5°C has already been emitted, mainly by the world’s major economies. Now, midway through the decade, when global emissions...
planetarysciencepavilion.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
When you look at it like this, every moment of hot air is especially inexcusable. Please share from my science colleagues at #COP30
planetarysciencepavilion.org/2025/11/14/s...
planetarysciencepavilion.org/2025/11/14/s...
My colleague @nafeez.bsky.social exposes the utterly dark and cynical relationship between #Epstein and #Bannon - not just domestically in the #USA but in the blatant ideological infiltration of #Europe. The worst ironies of #pizzagate, etc. #marjorietaylorgreene
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as Shield for Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein helped shape Trump’s MAGA movement through a secret alliance with its chief architect, Steve Bannon, who told him it could help him “stave off Time’s Up for a decade” in return for str...
bylinetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
My colleague @nafeez.bsky.social exposes the utterly dark and cynical relationship between #Epstein and #Bannon - not just domestically in the #USA but in the blatant ideological infiltration of #Europe. The worst ironies of #pizzagate, etc. #marjorietaylorgreene
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
Prof Bill Laurance’s team shows how protected areas in South America are hugely vulnerable to road expansion and the many environmental perils this brings.
South America’s protected areas are bisected by >830,000 km of roads — enough to encircle Earth over 20x.
drive.google.com/file/d/1lIjD...
South America’s protected areas are bisected by >830,000 km of roads — enough to encircle Earth over 20x.
drive.google.com/file/d/1lIjD...
November 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Prof Bill Laurance’s team shows how protected areas in South America are hugely vulnerable to road expansion and the many environmental perils this brings.
South America’s protected areas are bisected by >830,000 km of roads — enough to encircle Earth over 20x.
drive.google.com/file/d/1lIjD...
South America’s protected areas are bisected by >830,000 km of roads — enough to encircle Earth over 20x.
drive.google.com/file/d/1lIjD...
My determined friend and global climate strategy expert #EliseBuckle: “Very moving and humbling to witness the immensely beautiful territory of #Amazonia with its
550 million hectares of trees. 390 billion trees from 16,000+ species. There are 50 times more trees than human beings on #Earth.”
550 million hectares of trees. 390 billion trees from 16,000+ species. There are 50 times more trees than human beings on #Earth.”
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My determined friend and global climate strategy expert #EliseBuckle: “Very moving and humbling to witness the immensely beautiful territory of #Amazonia with its
550 million hectares of trees. 390 billion trees from 16,000+ species. There are 50 times more trees than human beings on #Earth.”
550 million hectares of trees. 390 billion trees from 16,000+ species. There are 50 times more trees than human beings on #Earth.”
We have to choose. Right now, by lunchtime. Bleakness? Or human agency and a future? If you’re anything like me, you’ll fight for the latter and not capitulate to the lazy and grim former. Read it: www.linkedin.com/posts/phoebe...
#climateemergency #civilization #futures @nickoldridge.bsky.social
#climateemergency #civilization #futures @nickoldridge.bsky.social
#hansen | Phoebe Barnard
🎯 Many of us have been predicting this for years, not least James #Hansen and Sir David King - I remember the time in 2005 when I realized that reality was starting to be worse than the worse case sce...
www.linkedin.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
We have to choose. Right now, by lunchtime. Bleakness? Or human agency and a future? If you’re anything like me, you’ll fight for the latter and not capitulate to the lazy and grim former. Read it: www.linkedin.com/posts/phoebe...
#climateemergency #civilization #futures @nickoldridge.bsky.social
#climateemergency #civilization #futures @nickoldridge.bsky.social
#ClimateRepair, #ClimateRestoration, and the future(s) of civilization - a 🧵:
1. Our 2025 documentary series #TheClimateRestorers is now broadcasting on CBC (GEM) Canada - adding to our broadcast schedule in the USA, Australia and Italy.
Our conclusions?
www.theclimaterestorers.com/news
1. Our 2025 documentary series #TheClimateRestorers is now broadcasting on CBC (GEM) Canada - adding to our broadcast schedule in the USA, Australia and Italy.
Our conclusions?
www.theclimaterestorers.com/news
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#ClimateRepair, #ClimateRestoration, and the future(s) of civilization - a 🧵:
1. Our 2025 documentary series #TheClimateRestorers is now broadcasting on CBC (GEM) Canada - adding to our broadcast schedule in the USA, Australia and Italy.
Our conclusions?
www.theclimaterestorers.com/news
1. Our 2025 documentary series #TheClimateRestorers is now broadcasting on CBC (GEM) Canada - adding to our broadcast schedule in the USA, Australia and Italy.
Our conclusions?
www.theclimaterestorers.com/news
Read this series "Antidote to Autocracy." Highly recommended.
Jed Emerson is the thoughtful benign philosopher and practitioner of blended value and the purpose of an economy to support society, rather than the other way around. When he speaks, I listen and when he writes, I read.
Jed Emerson is the thoughtful benign philosopher and practitioner of blended value and the purpose of an economy to support society, rather than the other way around. When he speaks, I listen and when he writes, I read.
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Read this series "Antidote to Autocracy." Highly recommended.
Jed Emerson is the thoughtful benign philosopher and practitioner of blended value and the purpose of an economy to support society, rather than the other way around. When he speaks, I listen and when he writes, I read.
Jed Emerson is the thoughtful benign philosopher and practitioner of blended value and the purpose of an economy to support society, rather than the other way around. When he speaks, I listen and when he writes, I read.
Reposted by Prof Phoebe Barnard
To clarify a few key points regarding where we are in our process of moving from a democracy to what lies ahead.
open.substack.com/pub/blendedv...
open.substack.com/pub/blendedv...
#4: Past as Future: Key Concepts and Terms
We have been here before!
open.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:50 AM
To clarify a few key points regarding where we are in our process of moving from a democracy to what lies ahead.
open.substack.com/pub/blendedv...
open.substack.com/pub/blendedv...
The choice is ours - forward or backward? Public good or fetid corruption and inertia?
@nickoldridge.bsky.social nebriefing.org
@nickoldridge.bsky.social nebriefing.org
Understandably over the moon that the incredible Chris Packham agreed to not only open the National Emergency Briefing, but also to do a series of high profile interviews about the initiative 👊🔥💚
I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all .
@nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧
@nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The choice is ours - forward or backward? Public good or fetid corruption and inertia?
@nickoldridge.bsky.social nebriefing.org
@nickoldridge.bsky.social nebriefing.org
What kind of a society are we when globally we too-often favor luddites and comfortable plump senators of Rome over the future of civilization and all life on Earth?
@ukgovernment.bsky.social please ensure that you are out in force for this crossroads-of-civilization briefing. nebriefing.org
@ukgovernment.bsky.social please ensure that you are out in force for this crossroads-of-civilization briefing. nebriefing.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
What kind of a society are we when globally we too-often favor luddites and comfortable plump senators of Rome over the future of civilization and all life on Earth?
@ukgovernment.bsky.social please ensure that you are out in force for this crossroads-of-civilization briefing. nebriefing.org
@ukgovernment.bsky.social please ensure that you are out in force for this crossroads-of-civilization briefing. nebriefing.org
It could be wonderful.
And what I did, mostly.
“In essence, cutting air cargo removes the turbocharger that lets globalised fashion behave like it’s local. The disruption wouldn’t just be logistical; it would be psychological. Consumers would relearn patience.”
open.substack.com/pub/taraapie...
And what I did, mostly.
“In essence, cutting air cargo removes the turbocharger that lets globalised fashion behave like it’s local. The disruption wouldn’t just be logistical; it would be psychological. Consumers would relearn patience.”
open.substack.com/pub/taraapie...
The End of Air Travel
It could be wonderful.
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
It could be wonderful.
And what I did, mostly.
“In essence, cutting air cargo removes the turbocharger that lets globalised fashion behave like it’s local. The disruption wouldn’t just be logistical; it would be psychological. Consumers would relearn patience.”
open.substack.com/pub/taraapie...
And what I did, mostly.
“In essence, cutting air cargo removes the turbocharger that lets globalised fashion behave like it’s local. The disruption wouldn’t just be logistical; it would be psychological. Consumers would relearn patience.”
open.substack.com/pub/taraapie...