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“Famine is coming… “ 😱
The Great Acceleration 📈
Ecological Overshoot 📉
Limits to Growth 🌏
Future Shocked 😳
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Light Triad ❤️
Degrowth 😎
in the land Down Under
“Famine is coming… “ 😱
The Great Acceleration 📈
Ecological Overshoot 📉
Limits to Growth 🌏
Future Shocked 😳
Restore Nature 🌱
Light Triad ❤️
Degrowth 😎
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· Oct 20
How Psychopathy, Narcissism, and Machiavellianism Impact Our Cultures & Social Systems | RR 19
YouTube video by Nate Hagens
m.youtube.com
Urgent time to screen politicians, CEO’s, board members, religious leaders and any wealth, fame and power seeking adults, against the anti-social “Dark Tetrad”!
And… screen against Scott Barry Kaufman’s “Light Triad”, pro-social characteristics.
#DarkTetrad
#DarkTriad
#LightTriad
#auspol
And… screen against Scott Barry Kaufman’s “Light Triad”, pro-social characteristics.
#DarkTetrad
#DarkTriad
#LightTriad
#auspol
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Timothée Parrique’s “Slow Down Or Die: The Economics of Degrowth” contains strong arguments. Chapter 8 in particular, covering 12 objections, is on fire.
I’ll share a few reflections below.
I’ll share a few reflections below.
December 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Timothée Parrique’s “Slow Down Or Die: The Economics of Degrowth” contains strong arguments. Chapter 8 in particular, covering 12 objections, is on fire.
I’ll share a few reflections below.
I’ll share a few reflections below.
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Once people understand what Degrowth is, the majority support it (74–84% in the UK and 67–73% in the US), regardless of the label. See our new research in @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@giorgoskallis.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social @F. Basso @lsepbs.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk
@giorgoskallis.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social @F. Basso @lsepbs.bsky.social @cusp.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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The first major study into public attitudes toward degrowth – the notion that high-income economies should prioritise wellbeing over growing production – reveals significant public support for its key ideas across both the UK (74-84%) and the US (67-73%).
www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...
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 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The first major study into public attitudes toward degrowth – the notion that high-income economies should prioritise wellbeing over growing production – reveals significant public support for its key ideas across both the UK (74-84%) and the US (67-73%).
www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...
www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...
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Tomorrow is the Budapest Memorandum anniversary, and I still can’t get over this question:
Why did the U.S. insist Ukraine’s nukes go to russia instead of being destroyed or transferred safely to the U.S.?
That decision armed a future genocidal regime and left Ukraine with “guarantees” no one kept.
Why did the U.S. insist Ukraine’s nukes go to russia instead of being destroyed or transferred safely to the U.S.?
That decision armed a future genocidal regime and left Ukraine with “guarantees” no one kept.
December 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Tomorrow is the Budapest Memorandum anniversary, and I still can’t get over this question:
Why did the U.S. insist Ukraine’s nukes go to russia instead of being destroyed or transferred safely to the U.S.?
That decision armed a future genocidal regime and left Ukraine with “guarantees” no one kept.
Why did the U.S. insist Ukraine’s nukes go to russia instead of being destroyed or transferred safely to the U.S.?
That decision armed a future genocidal regime and left Ukraine with “guarantees” no one kept.
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"In a news release announcing the El Paso data center project, the company said it will “restore 200% of the water consumed by the data center to local watersheds.”
Meta didn’t specify how its water restoration will work in El Paso."
Meta didn’t specify how its water restoration will work in El Paso."
‘We can’t do this a lot’: El Paso Water CEO warns as questions grow over Meta data center’s water use
Meta is permitted to use as much as 1.5 million gallons of water per day, but the data center’s actual water usage will depend on how hot it is in El Paso.
elpasomatters.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"In a news release announcing the El Paso data center project, the company said it will “restore 200% of the water consumed by the data center to local watersheds.”
Meta didn’t specify how its water restoration will work in El Paso."
Meta didn’t specify how its water restoration will work in El Paso."
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“Teals [work] to undermine democracy.” 👀👀👀
…Seriously?
That’s a huge, and disturbingly Trumpian claim from an elected Liberal MP.
Australia deserves better than “Jan-6”-style dog whistles.
Let’s leave Trump-lite politics overseas.
…Seriously?
That’s a huge, and disturbingly Trumpian claim from an elected Liberal MP.
Australia deserves better than “Jan-6”-style dog whistles.
Let’s leave Trump-lite politics overseas.
December 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“Teals [work] to undermine democracy.” 👀👀👀
…Seriously?
That’s a huge, and disturbingly Trumpian claim from an elected Liberal MP.
Australia deserves better than “Jan-6”-style dog whistles.
Let’s leave Trump-lite politics overseas.
…Seriously?
That’s a huge, and disturbingly Trumpian claim from an elected Liberal MP.
Australia deserves better than “Jan-6”-style dog whistles.
Let’s leave Trump-lite politics overseas.
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The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
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The Southern Ocean is the engine room of global heat and carbon uptake – and it’s changing faster and more dramatically than we thought.
Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global
theconversation.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The Southern Ocean is the engine room of global heat and carbon uptake – and it’s changing faster and more dramatically than we thought.
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🎥 New Speakers' Corner video!
Mandatory Passive House: The Massachusetts Story
See how MA shifted from #efficiency to #decarbonization and made #PassiveHouse mandatory for residential buildings, becoming a global model for climate-smart policy.
Watch the full story here: https://ow.ly/8R3o50XBcJr
Mandatory Passive House: The Massachusetts Story
See how MA shifted from #efficiency to #decarbonization and made #PassiveHouse mandatory for residential buildings, becoming a global model for climate-smart policy.
Watch the full story here: https://ow.ly/8R3o50XBcJr
December 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🎥 New Speakers' Corner video!
Mandatory Passive House: The Massachusetts Story
See how MA shifted from #efficiency to #decarbonization and made #PassiveHouse mandatory for residential buildings, becoming a global model for climate-smart policy.
Watch the full story here: https://ow.ly/8R3o50XBcJr
Mandatory Passive House: The Massachusetts Story
See how MA shifted from #efficiency to #decarbonization and made #PassiveHouse mandatory for residential buildings, becoming a global model for climate-smart policy.
Watch the full story here: https://ow.ly/8R3o50XBcJr
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Red squirrels expand across Highlands after 10-year reintroduction drive
- Rewilding charity @treesforlife.bsky.social helps bolster Scottish stronghold of species that once came close to extinction in UK
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Rewilding charity @treesforlife.bsky.social helps bolster Scottish stronghold of species that once came close to extinction in UK
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Red squirrels expand across Highlands after 10-year reintroduction drive
Rewilding charity helps bolster Scottish stronghold of species that once came close to extinction in UK
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Red squirrels expand across Highlands after 10-year reintroduction drive
- Rewilding charity @treesforlife.bsky.social helps bolster Scottish stronghold of species that once came close to extinction in UK
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Rewilding charity @treesforlife.bsky.social helps bolster Scottish stronghold of species that once came close to extinction in UK
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Fossil-fuel billionaires bought up millions of shares after meeting with top Trump officials
#climatecrisis
Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
#climatecrisis
Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Fossil-fuel billionaires bought up millions of shares after meeting with top Trump officials
Co-founders’ acquisition of Venture Global shares before key permit granted draws scrutiny as pair deny wrongdoing
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Fossil-fuel billionaires bought up millions of shares after meeting with top Trump officials
#climatecrisis
Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
#climatecrisis
Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Memo about fossil fuel legacy to @mark-carney.bsky.social
When global temperatures shot up by ~6°C about 56 million years ago, plants were unable to thrive
The reduced ability of vegetation & soils to capture & store carbon may have kept temperatures elevated for >100,000 years
Today Earth is warming ~10 times faster than it did 56 million years ago
The reduced ability of vegetation & soils to capture & store carbon may have kept temperatures elevated for >100,000 years
Today Earth is warming ~10 times faster than it did 56 million years ago
56 million years ago, the Earth suddenly heated up – and many plants stopped working properly
It could be a sign of what’s to come.
theconversation.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Memo about fossil fuel legacy to @mark-carney.bsky.social
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🤦♀️
When you read this Guardian article, it’s worth bearing in mind that between 2001-2005, trawlers caught in excess of 500,000 tonnes of sardines and anchovies in these waters - every year.
And you wonder why the penguins are starving to death.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
And you wonder why the penguins are starving to death.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🤦♀️
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5 December, 1952 & 2009 London sees climatic pollution events
(A deadly smog and a march)
allouryesterdays.info/2023/12/04/3...
(A deadly smog and a march)
allouryesterdays.info/2023/12/04/3...
5 December, 1952 & 2009 London sees climatic pollution events - All Our Yesterdays
Seventy one years ago, on this day, December 5, 1952… The potentially deadly nature of urban smoke had been demonstrated some years earlier during London’s historic “Black Fog” of December 5-9, 1952. ...
allouryesterdays.info
December 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
5 December, 1952 & 2009 London sees climatic pollution events
(A deadly smog and a march)
allouryesterdays.info/2023/12/04/3...
(A deadly smog and a march)
allouryesterdays.info/2023/12/04/3...
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How likely is an #AMOC shutdown? Here's our latest study based on 768 runs with 38 standard climate models (the CMIP6 models). Note these do not include any meltwater from Greenland mass loss, so might underestimate the risk a bit. 2/2
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
How likely is an #AMOC shutdown? Here's our latest study based on 768 runs with 38 standard climate models (the CMIP6 models). Note these do not include any meltwater from Greenland mass loss, so might underestimate the risk a bit. 2/2
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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The profound effect of a 133-year old debt free Trust, housing elderly pensioners, when ‘gifted’ by the Board to social housing outfit - HousingFirst. The collapse of a community, distress and unimaginable rent hikes. Assets of $72M given away. Pensioners’ rents had funded 20 new apartments.
Pensioners handed consecutive rent rises after new provider takes over
Elderly residents in Melbourne's south-east say they are in financial distress after two rent increases, which a community housing organisation says are a necessary move to a standard rent-setting mod...
www.abc.net.au
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
The profound effect of a 133-year old debt free Trust, housing elderly pensioners, when ‘gifted’ by the Board to social housing outfit - HousingFirst. The collapse of a community, distress and unimaginable rent hikes. Assets of $72M given away. Pensioners’ rents had funded 20 new apartments.
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If you decrease the space given to cars, they go slower, walking & cycling become safer, more people turn to public transport and the higher uptake makes it faster and more reliable.
The UK: "It's hard to think of a country better suited to public transport or where it's more needed."
The UK: "It's hard to think of a country better suited to public transport or where it's more needed."
December 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
If you decrease the space given to cars, they go slower, walking & cycling become safer, more people turn to public transport and the higher uptake makes it faster and more reliable.
The UK: "It's hard to think of a country better suited to public transport or where it's more needed."
The UK: "It's hard to think of a country better suited to public transport or where it's more needed."
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We have been seduced by our economic system to live way beyond the carrying capacity of the planet to support our species.
Oh the irony
Oh the irony
December 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
We have been seduced by our economic system to live way beyond the carrying capacity of the planet to support our species.
Oh the irony
Oh the irony
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Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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Over the past year and a bit, Australia's grid operator has moved data centres into their own category, and you can REALLY see why: here's their projected consumption and the range between scenarios, compared to the middle scenarios for ALL EVS AND ELECTRIFICATION
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Over the past year and a bit, Australia's grid operator has moved data centres into their own category, and you can REALLY see why: here's their projected consumption and the range between scenarios, compared to the middle scenarios for ALL EVS AND ELECTRIFICATION
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
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It is remarkable how all of these things seem to have gone mostly unremarked, or if not unremarked, then sort of shrugged off as irrelevant
To me, it's the spectacle of a predatory industry feasting on infrastructure that was meant to be used to eliminate fossil fuels, and killing climate progress
To me, it's the spectacle of a predatory industry feasting on infrastructure that was meant to be used to eliminate fossil fuels, and killing climate progress
How data centres are killing Australia’s climate progress
Australia's climate ambitions are being completely screwed by the tech industry’s panicked data centre frenzy.
www.crikey.com.au
December 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It is remarkable how all of these things seem to have gone mostly unremarked, or if not unremarked, then sort of shrugged off as irrelevant
To me, it's the spectacle of a predatory industry feasting on infrastructure that was meant to be used to eliminate fossil fuels, and killing climate progress
To me, it's the spectacle of a predatory industry feasting on infrastructure that was meant to be used to eliminate fossil fuels, and killing climate progress
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The Dyvinyls would like a word
I don't know how many shopping days there are until Christmas but I'm doing all mine here.
December 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The Dyvinyls would like a word
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"When an event in Melbourne invites children to cheer for wounded Lebanese civilians, this is not community building, nor cultural pride, nor even political advocacy. It is the normalisation of sadism disguised as civic engagement." #warcrimes #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
Celebrating war crimes is a moral failure, not cultural pride
From ancient Rome to modern Melbourne, societies have repeatedly transformed civilian suffering into spectacle. Celebrating violence against the innocent is not a cultural quirk – it is a profound mor...
johnmenadue.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"When an event in Melbourne invites children to cheer for wounded Lebanese civilians, this is not community building, nor cultural pride, nor even political advocacy. It is the normalisation of sadism disguised as civic engagement." #warcrimes #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
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1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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200 thousand years of modern human occupation on Earth are coming to a pivotal moment. We either recognise the sovereignty of the biocivilization we destroyed and begin making reparations or witness the spectacular fall of the brutal regime which has oppressed all life forms
December 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
200 thousand years of modern human occupation on Earth are coming to a pivotal moment. We either recognise the sovereignty of the biocivilization we destroyed and begin making reparations or witness the spectacular fall of the brutal regime which has oppressed all life forms