"The bystanders who did not believe you were not simply reading the situation incorrectly. They were responding to a tactic specifically designed to produce that result. Their failure to support you was the intended outcome of a deliberate sequence — not a verdict on your credibility or your […]

Passive rewilding refers to *actively unmanaged* environments that are allowed to regain natural dominance, typically after their abandonment. 🧵 Sometimes referred to as "natural regeneration", it differs from other forms of rewilding in that direct human management or intervention is absent.

"What #publishing, our dubious white ally, does so often to marginalized creators. They want the credibility of our identities, want to market our biographies. They want to sell our suffering, smoothed down and made palatable to the white readers they prioritize. To assuage white guilt with […]

Liberal arts and critical thinking are as relevant as ever. So Why is their education dwindling? For decades, such departments have been actively crippled by institutions that shun them on principle. Read Sarah Blackwood: archive.is/lOrsl 🧶 #humanities #acceleration #higherEd #academicChatter

Liberal arts and critical thinking are as relevant as ever. So Why is their education dwindling? For decades, such departments have been actively crippled by institutions that shun them on principle. Read Sarah Blackwood: https://archive.is/lOrsl 🧶 #humanities #acceleration #convergence […]

Q: "Will the AI bubble bursting be the moment in history where we'll have to come to terms with the fact that we'll need to stabilise societies with extant resources, people and technology?" A: As with pandemics, societies will continue to function. But there will be a shock opportunity.

"By 2025, we ranked second in the world to electrify our transport system. "A question now sits on the same foundation the water has exposed. What does losing 10 percent of national generation capacity in one morning actually mean? Someone like a taxi driver, who might have financed an electric […]

'At least 5.5 M people in Borneo and Sumatra have been directly exposed to smoke.' “When landscapes that have long been safeguarded by indigenous communities are transformed into industrial-scale production zones, the ecological function of these areas as a buffer against fire is also weakened”.

Indonesia faces a wildfire catastrophe. Again

And El Niño could cause the fires to get much worse.

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Interview with a Nepali climate negotiator about: • how the government is handling rescue and relief in the aftermath of the disastrous flooding • the kinds of international support it seeks, including from the climate loss and damage fund. https://drilled.media/news/nepal-floods #attribution […]

… The World Bank wishes for more investment in methane gas infrastructure. 🔥 The World Bank cites the USA as progress. The language is deliberate:

Early cereal grain growth was shaped by water, not early farming, study finds https://archaeologymag.com/2026/08/cereal-grain-growth-was-shaped-by-water/ Early Neolithic cereals grew larger in parts of southwest Asia because of wetter growing conditions, rather than human selection through […]

The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵 Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently! In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first […]

Let me start a thread on nature restoration, rewilding, reforestation 🧵 #adaptation #mitigation #carbon #carbonSinks #restoration #rewilding #reforestation #land #wetlands #rewetting #deterrence #prevention #drought #droughts #wildfires #heatwaves #landSink

There are "multifaceted reasons for our collective failure to bend the global emissions curve. However, a common thread that emerges across the reviewed literature is the central role of power, manifest in many forms, from a dogmatic political-economic hegemony and influential vested interests […]

"Forest thinning […] can deliver wood for local industry, absorb carbon and improve habitat for wildlife. It is a win-win-win outcome that challenges the false dichotomy of conservation versus production that has dominated public debate for decades." …

Here is a thread on #forests #degradation due to #climateChange (itself due to #carbon emissions) 🧵 #ecology #science

From #Ireland Land Use Review latest report: “sustainable land use requires very significant change”. Journalist: "Agriculture is the main polluter of waterways, half of which fail to meet minimum environmental standards. "It is responsible for 38 per cent of national emissions." archive.ph/Al4qw

Society must anticipate: prepare not for this year's climate but for the future climates. 🧵 #futures #risks #risk #riskManagement #riskAssessment #livability #habitability #climatePolicy #policy #adaptation #plantations #forestry #climateDrift #climateChange #climateFailure #climateCollapse […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/116968740671862203 „Some areas were expected to remain above 30 C overnight, increasing the risk of heatstroke even after sunset and impacting sleep.“ The heat is everywhere.

The EU's adaptation framework offers an illusion of preparation. Laying out plans for a 3°C drift average does not make it survivable. But it makes it seem so. 🧵 Europe is not even preparing for what happened recently! In the pine plantations west of Bordeaux, firefighters met the first […]

"every lukewarm client that saw the chatbot in action, *even with us telling them that it was not going to accomplish what they wanted,* wanted to buy it immediately.... It was like a dark and terrible force seized control of their limbs, plunged their hands […] [Original post on newsie.social]

We may tackle a problem from at least two ends: • "Zero soil artificialisation" can be applied and concrete makers train to the transformation of offices into housing; • Sale of petrol vehicles and fossil exploration can be prohibited; • Advertising for any animal […] [Original post on mas.to]

RE: https://mamot.fr/@koantig/117015895289870417 The AI-on-Google-Earth feature has just been rolled back. To a product manager, every step between having the idea and shipping it is a cumbersome waste of time.

"Information by itself is very limited in what it can do to change behaviour". Reluctance "often comes down to concerns about cost and fairness". Prof. @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social

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📺 Bath psychologist Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE gave evidence to Parliament as part of an inquiry into building public support for a #CleanEnergy transition. https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/professor-lorraine-whitmarsh-mbe-gives-evidence-to-parliaments-energy-security-net-zero-committee/

Accepting a hypothesis depends on the importance of being mistaken. It can be considered a judgment with ethics attached. Without accounting for multiple values and preferences in policy design, scientific insights risk becoming politicized, potentially reinforcing dominant parties’ interests in […]

"Water, food and a decent temperature range are needed for our survival. […] We can act consequently." http://data.yt/kit/water-food-and-temperature.html Would you know a person born around 1950 and who would have lived in NYC in the late 1970's? I am looking […] [Original post on social.coop]

"Imperfection is not a failure but a method. […] Putting down what you know, what you suspect, and what you are not yet sure about often turns out to be the fastest route to clarity. The act of spelling out what you mean, imperfect as it is, creates the conditions for the next step." "The […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116946142636186759 So very much this: Even if you think AI is net-positive, we have a duty to expand well, not on top of the most marginalized as always. The way we do it now is the way of paving natural beauty, discarding entire communities, and taking […]

"Il faut anticiper." 🧵 "On s'expose à des risques majeurs pour la population, et même pour les animaux, et pour les plantes, les arbres. Les plantes ne sont plus capables de faire la photosynthèse de façon correcte ; donc elles commencent à entrer dans un processus de mort ; qui peut se […]

✊ Respect to the folks from No Tech For Apartheid. Let's keep going, make it impossible for those designers, engineers, managers to ignore what the tech they build is being used for. #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #AI #Tech