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
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.”
7. ♥️💜🧡 The future is not yet written, but time is against us, and the odds are still very stark. If we want a future for civilization, we have to shift our destructive systems + our mindsets of entitlement and domination - fast.
#cdr #carbon #climaterepair #climaterestoration #civilizationalshift
#cdr #carbon #climaterepair #climaterestoration #civilizationalshift
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
7. ♥️💜🧡 The future is not yet written, but time is against us, and the odds are still very stark. If we want a future for civilization, we have to shift our destructive systems + our mindsets of entitlement and domination - fast.
#cdr #carbon #climaterepair #climaterestoration #civilizationalshift
#cdr #carbon #climaterepair #climaterestoration #civilizationalshift
5. cont... for scaled, well regulated solutions is essential.
6. 🌇🚋 Construction and renovation need to move rapidly to biological concrete alternatives+other approaches to sustainable human settlements, as they generate more than 38% of global carbon emissions.
www.theclimaterestorers.com/news
6. 🌇🚋 Construction and renovation need to move rapidly to biological concrete alternatives+other approaches to sustainable human settlements, as they generate more than 38% of global carbon emissions.
www.theclimaterestorers.com/news
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
5. cont... for scaled, well regulated solutions is essential.
6. 🌇🚋 Construction and renovation need to move rapidly to biological concrete alternatives+other approaches to sustainable human settlements, as they generate more than 38% of global carbon emissions.
www.theclimaterestorers.com/news
6. 🌇🚋 Construction and renovation need to move rapidly to biological concrete alternatives+other approaches to sustainable human settlements, as they generate more than 38% of global carbon emissions.
www.theclimaterestorers.com/news
4. cont. ...to find, test, scale, fund, regulate ways to remove levels already in the atmosphere. It’s too late to focus simply on emissions reduction, though both are urgent.
5. 🐋🐟🌅 Blue carbon solutions are critical+promising, even if some are proving unlikely. And continued innovation funding
5. 🐋🐟🌅 Blue carbon solutions are critical+promising, even if some are proving unlikely. And continued innovation funding
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
4. cont. ...to find, test, scale, fund, regulate ways to remove levels already in the atmosphere. It’s too late to focus simply on emissions reduction, though both are urgent.
5. 🐋🐟🌅 Blue carbon solutions are critical+promising, even if some are proving unlikely. And continued innovation funding
5. 🐋🐟🌅 Blue carbon solutions are critical+promising, even if some are proving unlikely. And continued innovation funding
3. cont. ...and Nature protection and restoration, and food systems change and soil restoration, need vast investment and effort globally.
www.theclimaterestorers.com/news
4. 🌪️⛽️ Methane, the superpollutant, needs urgent attention, not only to reduce emissions drastically and rapidly, but also...
www.theclimaterestorers.com/news
4. 🌪️⛽️ Methane, the superpollutant, needs urgent attention, not only to reduce emissions drastically and rapidly, but also...
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
3. cont. ...and Nature protection and restoration, and food systems change and soil restoration, need vast investment and effort globally.
www.theclimaterestorers.com/news
4. 🌪️⛽️ Methane, the superpollutant, needs urgent attention, not only to reduce emissions drastically and rapidly, but also...
www.theclimaterestorers.com/news
4. 🌪️⛽️ Methane, the superpollutant, needs urgent attention, not only to reduce emissions drastically and rapidly, but also...
2. 🍘 Nature-based technologies and building approaches may, sometimes will, have an increasing role to play in carbon dioxide removal and methane oxidation - but:
3. 🌿🐝👩🏽🌾 while they’re developing and being tested and scaled, and governance developed, Nature is still the only real game in town.
3. 🌿🐝👩🏽🌾 while they’re developing and being tested and scaled, and governance developed, Nature is still the only real game in town.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
2. 🍘 Nature-based technologies and building approaches may, sometimes will, have an increasing role to play in carbon dioxide removal and methane oxidation - but:
3. 🌿🐝👩🏽🌾 while they’re developing and being tested and scaled, and governance developed, Nature is still the only real game in town.
3. 🌿🐝👩🏽🌾 while they’re developing and being tested and scaled, and governance developed, Nature is still the only real game in town.
#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
I have to say, moving to #Europe is a breath of fresh air (no bad-taste pun intended) when you’ve been surrounded by industry lobbying corruption in the USA for some years.
#nicotinelobby #corruption #cigarettes #Italy #lobbyists #truthinadvertising #tellthetruth #climateemergency
#nicotinelobby #corruption #cigarettes #Italy #lobbyists #truthinadvertising #tellthetruth #climateemergency
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I have to say, moving to #Europe is a breath of fresh air (no bad-taste pun intended) when you’ve been surrounded by industry lobbying corruption in the USA for some years.
#nicotinelobby #corruption #cigarettes #Italy #lobbyists #truthinadvertising #tellthetruth #climateemergency
#nicotinelobby #corruption #cigarettes #Italy #lobbyists #truthinadvertising #tellthetruth #climateemergency
#Faithcommunities are emotionally powerful allies for science and society in civilizational shift, indeed we likely cannot shift without them. So I encourage you to consider attending this meeting next year, virtually or in person. mindful-dialogue.org/about-us/ and mindful-dialogue.org/schedule/
November 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
#Faithcommunities are emotionally powerful allies for science and society in civilizational shift, indeed we likely cannot shift without them. So I encourage you to consider attending this meeting next year, virtually or in person. mindful-dialogue.org/about-us/ and mindful-dialogue.org/schedule/
"I don't think anyone working on #SAI sees it as a feel-good concept. Deliberately intervening in climate on a planetary scale is a risky unpleasant idea. But we must work out whether suffering warming over 2C - 3C (is) even more risky+ unpleasant. No one knows yet. It's crucial that we find out."
October 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"I don't think anyone working on #SAI sees it as a feel-good concept. Deliberately intervening in climate on a planetary scale is a risky unpleasant idea. But we must work out whether suffering warming over 2C - 3C (is) even more risky+ unpleasant. No one knows yet. It's crucial that we find out."
5. While we figure out #ethicalgovernance, #civilsociety participation, and the testing and scaling up of Nature-based engineering solutions, our priorities must absolutely be #ecosystemprotection + #ecosystemrestoration, plus #methaneemissionsreduction + #methaneremoval. Urgent. #AllHands
October 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
5. While we figure out #ethicalgovernance, #civilsociety participation, and the testing and scaling up of Nature-based engineering solutions, our priorities must absolutely be #ecosystemprotection + #ecosystemrestoration, plus #methaneemissionsreduction + #methaneremoval. Urgent. #AllHands
4.... And we've wasted the luxury of options we once had. We've failed to prevent our #perfectstorm of #climatedestabilization and #ecologicalovershoot.
None of us wants to be here: inevitably considering #solargeoengineering options as an emergency measure. Least myself. But. Here we are. 4/5
None of us wants to be here: inevitably considering #solargeoengineering options as an emergency measure. Least myself. But. Here we are. 4/5
October 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
4.... And we've wasted the luxury of options we once had. We've failed to prevent our #perfectstorm of #climatedestabilization and #ecologicalovershoot.
None of us wants to be here: inevitably considering #solargeoengineering options as an emergency measure. Least myself. But. Here we are. 4/5
None of us wants to be here: inevitably considering #solargeoengineering options as an emergency measure. Least myself. But. Here we are. 4/5
3. I'm known for being exasperated by our collective tendency to fear/avoid discussing risky inevitabilities. And as an ecosystem scientist, I've been in this crowd myself. "Western solutions, reductionist mindsets - what could possibly go wrong?" BUT. We've wasted our time. ... 3/4
October 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
3. I'm known for being exasperated by our collective tendency to fear/avoid discussing risky inevitabilities. And as an ecosystem scientist, I've been in this crowd myself. "Western solutions, reductionist mindsets - what could possibly go wrong?" BUT. We've wasted our time. ... 3/4
2. So this week's global online HPAC conference @hpacoalition.bsky.social has many hundreds of participants from Australia to Zimbabwe, drilling down into the reality of the consequences of humanity's wishful thinking. Day 2 happening now - last 2.5 hrs of conference. www.preventing2degrees.org 2/4
October 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
2. So this week's global online HPAC conference @hpacoalition.bsky.social has many hundreds of participants from Australia to Zimbabwe, drilling down into the reality of the consequences of humanity's wishful thinking. Day 2 happening now - last 2.5 hrs of conference. www.preventing2degrees.org 2/4
Prof @jimskeaclimate.bsky.social at an Oct conference @iiasa.ac.at - St Augustine's prayer as he struggled w/ youthful longings: ‘Lord grant me chastity+continence, but not yet.’ Is this the way the world thinks of 1.5C?: ‘Lord, limit warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, but not yet’ 🧵1/4
October 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Prof @jimskeaclimate.bsky.social at an Oct conference @iiasa.ac.at - St Augustine's prayer as he struggled w/ youthful longings: ‘Lord grant me chastity+continence, but not yet.’ Is this the way the world thinks of 1.5C?: ‘Lord, limit warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, but not yet’ 🧵1/4
3. ...can we, humanity, raise our eyes above the exasperating corruption of some world leaders (itself a confirmation of some people's ability to rise beyond the primal) to better understand our true natures and build kinder, wiser, fairer and much more sustainable civilizations?
October 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
3. ...can we, humanity, raise our eyes above the exasperating corruption of some world leaders (itself a confirmation of some people's ability to rise beyond the primal) to better understand our true natures and build kinder, wiser, fairer and much more sustainable civilizations?
2. ..and a university partner to develop+offer a diploma course. That surprised some of us authors - I guess I had not fully understood the value of applying my evolutionary behavioural ecology background to the challenges of hyperconsumption, status signalling+ ecological overshoot. So how... 2/3
October 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
2. ..and a university partner to develop+offer a diploma course. That surprised some of us authors - I guess I had not fully understood the value of applying my evolutionary behavioural ecology background to the challenges of hyperconsumption, status signalling+ ecological overshoot. So how... 2/3
Our 2023 paper warning of our 'human behavioural crisis' is doing well: >75,000 downloads, still with an attention score in top 1% of all tracked academic literature. It has led to relationships with global governments and institutions, ...🧵 1/3
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #merzinstitute
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #merzinstitute
October 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Our 2023 paper warning of our 'human behavioural crisis' is doing well: >75,000 downloads, still with an attention score in top 1% of all tracked academic literature. It has led to relationships with global governments and institutions, ...🧵 1/3
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #merzinstitute
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #merzinstitute
3. So it’s important to see work focusing on the public good and what it really means in an obscenely unequal society of 8.2 billion people. Like me, @jonathanglennie.bsky.social of the Global Cooperation Institute believes that a much more collaborative, just, and sustainable society is possible.
October 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
3. So it’s important to see work focusing on the public good and what it really means in an obscenely unequal society of 8.2 billion people. Like me, @jonathanglennie.bsky.social of the Global Cooperation Institute believes that a much more collaborative, just, and sustainable society is possible.
2. And we should all be very aware that narratives, which I can only fairly describe as sociopathic, are flooding the USA under Trump and increasingly other countries where right-wing candidates are relatively strong statistically, like the UK. It’s important to be aware if we are to fight this.
October 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
2. And we should all be very aware that narratives, which I can only fairly describe as sociopathic, are flooding the USA under Trump and increasingly other countries where right-wing candidates are relatively strong statistically, like the UK. It’s important to be aware if we are to fight this.
3. …stopped at the door, turned and sat down to listen to his whole presentation. Her rapt attention impressed me. S Africa’s Cabinet subsequently announced a commitment to a low-carbon economy. It may not have lasted, but Allen’s was a powerful, tightly-documented talk.
@michaelemann.bsky.social
@michaelemann.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
3. …stopped at the door, turned and sat down to listen to his whole presentation. Her rapt attention impressed me. S Africa’s Cabinet subsequently announced a commitment to a low-carbon economy. It may not have lasted, but Allen’s was a powerful, tightly-documented talk.
@michaelemann.bsky.social
@michaelemann.bsky.social
2. …I hosted @ox.ac.uk Prof Myles Allen as plenary speaker at South Africa’s 1st climate change science conference, which I organized. The conference was opened by Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka who instead of leaving, as politicians normally do,…2/3
@michaelemann.bsky.social
@michaelemann.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
2. …I hosted @ox.ac.uk Prof Myles Allen as plenary speaker at South Africa’s 1st climate change science conference, which I organized. The conference was opened by Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka who instead of leaving, as politicians normally do,…2/3
@michaelemann.bsky.social
@michaelemann.bsky.social
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October 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Pouring rain, fog, wind and darkness at the beginning of the day - on windy remote mountain roads, with our nervous loving dogs sensing big changes. Sprinkling rain, sun, hurtling planes at the end. Off to another continent, again. Goodbye, troubled country. Sad to leave so many people here, tho.
October 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Pouring rain, fog, wind and darkness at the beginning of the day - on windy remote mountain roads, with our nervous loving dogs sensing big changes. Sprinkling rain, sun, hurtling planes at the end. Off to another continent, again. Goodbye, troubled country. Sad to leave so many people here, tho.