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Deep ecology + consumption culture + inner happiness as the core of the polycrisis.
Maybe some animal intelligence and contemplative science.
Gen Z Climatexbiodiversity ecologist with eco-anxiety
Alt for literature: @crisisbookquotes.bsky.social
Maybe some animal intelligence and contemplative science.
Gen Z Climatexbiodiversity ecologist with eco-anxiety
Alt for literature: @crisisbookquotes.bsky.social
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· Jul 30
“Energy Transition” is bad marketing for progress, it should be Energy Revolution
I see a Consumption Revolution as progress, not a consumer transition
where we reverse the previous decade of
consuming more and being less happy and healthy ❌
to consuming less and being happier and healthier ✅
I see a Consumption Revolution as progress, not a consumer transition
where we reverse the previous decade of
consuming more and being less happy and healthy ❌
to consuming less and being happier and healthier ✅
Jesus
‘I feel it’s a friend’: quarter of teenagers turn to AI chatbots for mental health support www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘I feel it’s a friend’: quarter of teenagers turn to AI chatbots for mental health support
Experts warn of dangers as England and Wales study shows 13- to 17-year-olds consulting AI amid long waiting lists for services
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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“The lack of public access to accurate, science-based information has created a vacuum which has been filled by polarized headlines designed to deny and delay action.” Precisely! It was the same with Covid in 2020: the lack of Government-sponsored, scientific, educational information was stunning.
December 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“The lack of public access to accurate, science-based information has created a vacuum which has been filled by polarized headlines designed to deny and delay action.” Precisely! It was the same with Covid in 2020: the lack of Government-sponsored, scientific, educational information was stunning.
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Olivia Williams's powerful reading of an open letter to Sir Keir Starmer and the national broadcasters calling for a televised emergency briefing. Full version here: www.youtube.com/@nebriefing
Please add your name: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
Please add your name: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
December 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Olivia Williams's powerful reading of an open letter to Sir Keir Starmer and the national broadcasters calling for a televised emergency briefing. Full version here: www.youtube.com/@nebriefing
Please add your name: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
Please add your name: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
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This passage shocked me to my core.
The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!
The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!
December 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This passage shocked me to my core.
The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!
The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!
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Labour: We're on the side of the miners, not the blockers.
Scientists: “The study shows… technologies for harvesting are too damaging.”
The Metals Company: “We're encouraged by these data.” 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Metals Company: “We're encouraged by these data.” 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Over a third of animals impacted in deep sea mining test - scientists
The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Labour: We're on the side of the miners, not the blockers.
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I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
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Thank you to @carolinevoadenmp.bsky.social for pushing for Government to consider a televised emergency briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis.
The public have a right to know.
Sign the open letter:
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
Now at over 36,000 signatories.
#TimeToStepUp #NEB2025
The public have a right to know.
Sign the open letter:
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
Now at over 36,000 signatories.
#TimeToStepUp #NEB2025
December 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Thank you to @carolinevoadenmp.bsky.social for pushing for Government to consider a televised emergency briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis.
The public have a right to know.
Sign the open letter:
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
Now at over 36,000 signatories.
#TimeToStepUp #NEB2025
The public have a right to know.
Sign the open letter:
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
Now at over 36,000 signatories.
#TimeToStepUp #NEB2025
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Rewilding is simply the best.
When people care for nature, nature gives back.
No gadgets, no billionaires. Just people letting nature fix everything money destroyed.
When people care for nature, nature gives back.
No gadgets, no billionaires. Just people letting nature fix everything money destroyed.
We Tried a Different Reforestation Method — With Incredible Results
YouTube video by Ecosia
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Rewilding is simply the best.
When people care for nature, nature gives back.
No gadgets, no billionaires. Just people letting nature fix everything money destroyed.
When people care for nature, nature gives back.
No gadgets, no billionaires. Just people letting nature fix everything money destroyed.
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If you haven't already been persuaded to sign the @nebriefing.bsky.social letter on the rapidly escalating climate and nature crises, this summary of the presentations at the National Emergency Briefing event in Westminster, by Dave Borlace, is really worth a watch:
youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
This is not the video I had planned to make.
YouTube video by Just Have a Think
youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If you haven't already been persuaded to sign the @nebriefing.bsky.social letter on the rapidly escalating climate and nature crises, this summary of the presentations at the National Emergency Briefing event in Westminster, by Dave Borlace, is really worth a watch:
youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
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Just some of the news coverage of last Thursday's National Emergency Briefing on the climate & nature crisis, attended by over 1,200 politicians and influential people from business, culture, faith, sport and the media.
#timetostepup #NEB2025 #climatecrisis
www.nebriefing.org
Please share.
#timetostepup #NEB2025 #climatecrisis
www.nebriefing.org
Please share.
December 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Just some of the news coverage of last Thursday's National Emergency Briefing on the climate & nature crisis, attended by over 1,200 politicians and influential people from business, culture, faith, sport and the media.
#timetostepup #NEB2025 #climatecrisis
www.nebriefing.org
Please share.
#timetostepup #NEB2025 #climatecrisis
www.nebriefing.org
Please share.
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A critical case starts tomorrow as Judge Silas Reid is effectively on trial for threatening a jury with criminal proceedings if they applied their conscience in the case of five climate activists.
Jury trials are not the problem here; they are part of the solution.
Jury trials are not the problem here; they are part of the solution.
Court to hear appeal after notorious judge threatens jury in climate case - Extinction Rebellion UK
Five women are stepping forward to appeal against their convictions, after a judge threatened the jury with criminal proceedings if they applied their conscience to the case. Appeal Hearing: Thursday ...
extinctionrebellion.uk
December 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
A critical case starts tomorrow as Judge Silas Reid is effectively on trial for threatening a jury with criminal proceedings if they applied their conscience in the case of five climate activists.
Jury trials are not the problem here; they are part of the solution.
Jury trials are not the problem here; they are part of the solution.
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The UK regime is terrified of verdicts like these, which endorse nonviolent direct action to prevent climate breakdown.
Think about that when they attack jury trials.
Support @defendourjuries.bsky.social.
Think about that when they attack jury trials.
Support @defendourjuries.bsky.social.
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The UK regime is terrified of verdicts like these, which endorse nonviolent direct action to prevent climate breakdown.
Think about that when they attack jury trials.
Support @defendourjuries.bsky.social.
Think about that when they attack jury trials.
Support @defendourjuries.bsky.social.
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In 2023, nine women were allowed to explain why they had broken windows at HSBC's offices. The jury took less than two hours to find them not guilty.
Jury finds women who broke HSBC windows ‘not guilty’ - Extinction Rebellion UK
In a decision which vindicates the actions of nine women who broke the windows of Europe’s second largest investor in fossil fuels, HSBC, a jury at Southwark Crown Court today returned a verdict of ‘n...
extinctionrebellion.uk
December 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In 2023, nine women were allowed to explain why they had broken windows at HSBC's offices. The jury took less than two hours to find them not guilty.
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In 2023, an Insulate Britain trial ended with a hung jury after Judge Gold said in his summing up that what lies ahead for this country is "Armageddon".
BREAKING: HUNG JURY IN LATEST INSULATE BRITAIN TRIAL AS JUDGE DESCRIBES CLIMATE BREAKDOWN AS ‘ARMAGEDDON’ -
Six Insulate Britain supporters were given a temporary reprieve after a Crown Court jury failed to reach a majority verdict in Hove today. The trial that concluded today was the fourteenth Crown Court...
insulatebritain.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In 2023, an Insulate Britain trial ended with a hung jury after Judge Gold said in his summing up that what lies ahead for this country is "Armageddon".
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Why are jury trials under attack by the UK government?
Let's look at some of the things juries have decided recently for clues. 🧵
Let's look at some of the things juries have decided recently for clues. 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Why are jury trials under attack by the UK government?
Let's look at some of the things juries have decided recently for clues. 🧵
Let's look at some of the things juries have decided recently for clues. 🧵
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It has been called “the most prophetic work of humanity”. In 1971, it told us why collapse is coming and how to avoid it.
It was denounced by almost every leading economist - but it was right.
This is the story of The Limits To Growth. 🧵
It was denounced by almost every leading economist - but it was right.
This is the story of The Limits To Growth. 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It has been called “the most prophetic work of humanity”. In 1971, it told us why collapse is coming and how to avoid it.
It was denounced by almost every leading economist - but it was right.
This is the story of The Limits To Growth. 🧵
It was denounced by almost every leading economist - but it was right.
This is the story of The Limits To Growth. 🧵
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"While not all consumers may wish to adapt their consumption behaviour, all consumers need to be provided access to the tools to enable their participation. Regulatory frameworks must drive, and not hinder, the delivery of such flexibility resources."
www.acer.europa.eu/news/rewardi...
www.acer.europa.eu/news/rewardi...
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"While not all consumers may wish to adapt their consumption behaviour, all consumers need to be provided access to the tools to enable their participation. Regulatory frameworks must drive, and not hinder, the delivery of such flexibility resources."
www.acer.europa.eu/news/rewardi...
www.acer.europa.eu/news/rewardi...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
*the first hump
Now to try and reduce overall demand by promoting sufficinecy and wellbeing focussed economies! :)
Its not like we are all saying that once clean growth outsrips FF we can just pollute extract metals ‘forever’ until we are in another crisis… right? 😅
Guys…?
right!?!
Now to try and reduce overall demand by promoting sufficinecy and wellbeing focussed economies! :)
Its not like we are all saying that once clean growth outsrips FF we can just pollute extract metals ‘forever’ until we are in another crisis… right? 😅
Guys…?
right!?!
Clean electricity is officially growing fast enough in China that the level of fossil generation is falling, even as overall demand rises. They've gotten over the hump.
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
*the first hump
Now to try and reduce overall demand by promoting sufficinecy and wellbeing focussed economies! :)
Its not like we are all saying that once clean growth outsrips FF we can just pollute extract metals ‘forever’ until we are in another crisis… right? 😅
Guys…?
right!?!
Now to try and reduce overall demand by promoting sufficinecy and wellbeing focussed economies! :)
Its not like we are all saying that once clean growth outsrips FF we can just pollute extract metals ‘forever’ until we are in another crisis… right? 😅
Guys…?
right!?!
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"Far from being broadly unpopular, our findings show that the public strongly supports the vision of reducing harmful production and prioritising wellbeing."
Call it #Sufficiency - it requires specific infrastructure policies, preferably at the local level.
www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...
Call it #Sufficiency - it requires specific infrastructure policies, preferably at the local level.
www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...
First comprehensive investigation shows large support for core ideas of degrowth, but not the label
The first major study into public attitudes toward degrowth – the notion that high-income economies should prioritise wellbeing over growing...
www.uab.cat
December 2, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"Far from being broadly unpopular, our findings show that the public strongly supports the vision of reducing harmful production and prioritising wellbeing."
Call it #Sufficiency - it requires specific infrastructure policies, preferably at the local level.
www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...
Call it #Sufficiency - it requires specific infrastructure policies, preferably at the local level.
www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...
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The "Krampus" begin prowling parts of Europe this week as traditional & seasonal reminders for people to ‘be good’
An antihero who ‘seeks to prevent children from becoming spoiled by rampant consumerism flowing from the economics of Christmas,’ Charles Freger imaged these in Austria:
An antihero who ‘seeks to prevent children from becoming spoiled by rampant consumerism flowing from the economics of Christmas,’ Charles Freger imaged these in Austria:
December 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The "Krampus" begin prowling parts of Europe this week as traditional & seasonal reminders for people to ‘be good’
An antihero who ‘seeks to prevent children from becoming spoiled by rampant consumerism flowing from the economics of Christmas,’ Charles Freger imaged these in Austria:
An antihero who ‘seeks to prevent children from becoming spoiled by rampant consumerism flowing from the economics of Christmas,’ Charles Freger imaged these in Austria:
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We are not safe. This is an emergency.
Watch this summary of the UK National Emergency Briefing.
youtu.be/8sa7uh192r0?...
@nebriefing.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social @scientistsforxr.earth
Watch this summary of the UK National Emergency Briefing.
youtu.be/8sa7uh192r0?...
@nebriefing.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social @scientistsforxr.earth
This is not the video I had planned to make.
YouTube video by Just Have a Think
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
We are not safe. This is an emergency.
Watch this summary of the UK National Emergency Briefing.
youtu.be/8sa7uh192r0?...
@nebriefing.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social @scientistsforxr.earth
Watch this summary of the UK National Emergency Briefing.
youtu.be/8sa7uh192r0?...
@nebriefing.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social @scientistsforxr.earth
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Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …