John
@johnwenger.bsky.social
Born 319.62 ppm. Life as emergent design, at the confluence of psychotherapy, spirituality & permaculture. Holding the beauty & joy with the suffering & grief. If you can’t disagree without being disagreeable, save yourself an aneurysm; I use mute
The main reason for developing our El Niño prediction capabilities is to mitigate its severe negative consequences.
El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year
UN forecasters warn of worsening conditions in 45 countries currently experiencing severe food insecurity
theguardian.com
Many foundational economic theories, developed by wealthy Europeans during colonial expansion, are treated as universal principles rather than products of their historical context. Decolonizing economics challenges assumptions about choice, rationality, economic value, resource extraction... 👇
Natalie Bennett@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 14h agoSo much to #Unlearn in many subjects. Economics is the standout leader in needing to abandon disastrous, failed ideas theconversation.com/decolonizing...
And I have writen a book to help with that www.routledge.com/Green-Thinki...
Green Thinking: Unlearning Outdated Ideas in Science, Economics and Politics
Green Thinking is about unlearning, discarding damaging, outdated ideas deeply rooted in our societies. It seeks to “compost” the views of dead white men (René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, No...
routledge.com
So much to #Unlearn in many subjects. Economics is the standout leader in needing to abandon disastrous, failed ideas theconversation.com/decolonizing...
Decolonizing economics means questioning where its ideas came from — and imagining new ones
Calls to decolonize economics challenge the discipline’s foundational assumptions about development, markets and inequality.
theconversation.com
Austria has set a new all time temperature record of 41.0°C today. 9 separate weather stations recorded >40°C as heatwaves & record temperatures continue to impact the Northern Hemisphere.
Stop calling them "data centers." Start calling them pollution centers. 🧵👇
Since Sep 2022, I've been building a website where you can find out who owns rural Scotland. Today I am publishing the latest update (July 2026) which contains ownership information on 5050 landholdings covering 5.9 million hectares (14.7 million acres) or over 77% of rural Scotland 1/2
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Brexit cannot be “reversed”, “undone”, whatever word you prefer…. It’s done. The UK is out of the EU. More exceptionalism from these islands. Like we can just “repeal Brexit”…. 🙄 If a country wishes to join the EU, you APPLY TO JOIN.
The Data Centre Land Grab: How Britain Is Being Carved Up for Big Tech — Without Your Consent Across Wales, Scotland, and England, the largest peacetime infrastructure seizure of community land and energy in modern British history is accelerating. open.substack.com/pub/european...
The Data Centre Land Grab: How Britain Is Being Carved Up for Big Tech — Without Your Consent
Across Wales, Scotland, and England, the largest peacetime infrastructure seizure of community land and energy in modern British history is accelerating.
open.substack.com
Across Wales, Scotland, and England, the largest peacetime infrastructure seizure of community land and energy in modern British history is accelerating, and the vast majority of people living in its path do not know it is happening.
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
So #ScottishIndependence supporting folk who are starting to ask genuinely important questions that are worthy of consideration or raising valid points that bear nuanced & intelligent examination are gradually framed as unionists or anti-independence. This is no Scotland I want part of.
The penny drops. Climate change will break our economies. Fragment our societies. Undermine our governance. And erode our security. "Ecosystem services" are our life support processes. Destroying them destroys the foundations of human civilisation.
ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’
Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy
theguardian.com
A good example of why climate justice is fully interlinked with justice more broadly. Improving social, racial, and economic justice helps reduce the power of the corrupt bastards happily burning the world for cash.
Jazz Tehara@drjazztehara.bsky.social · 4d agoPut up a data centre 500m away from Eton, you cowards. Stick one in the middle of Oxford University…
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
vox.com
The Arctic Circle just reached a temperature that once seemed almost impossible for such a frozen region: above 100°F, or 38°C … a shocking first … fragile regions are rapidly changing. Sometimes one number can tell a much bigger story … climate change is no longer distant. It’s here. It’s now.
Scottish independence means successfully negotiating a recognition agreement with the rest of the UK. You can fire off furious social media posts about sovereignty or democracy all you want, in your heart I’m sure you know that the world runs on realpolitik, Robin McAlpine ✍️
Human-wildlife coexistence is an odd idea It is an acceptance that humans are not part of nature and that other species have to fit around our domination of the planet www.science.org/content/arti...
Wolves are reconquering Europe. Can people learn to live with them?
As populations rebound, attacks on livestock and humans are fueling debate over the limits of coexistence
science.org
Scotland could bring energy into public ownership, costing you exactly the same as it will to not do it. Here's how: www.commonweal.scot/articles/mag...
The Ferret@theferret.scot · 4d ago🔴 NEW: An investment vehicle managed by JP Morgan and state-backed firms from France, Norway and China own Scottish wind farms which have paid tens of millions in dividends this decade. Our latest: https://www.theferret.scot/scotland-wind-china-wall-street/
The sea surface temperature anomalies developing in the eastern Pacific are absurd. El Nino wont peak until later this year and it’s already looking rather extreme.
We may hit 3.5C sea surface temperature anomaly in September. The planet you were born in no longer exists
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This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’ Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’
Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.
nature.com
This is what I think of when people complain that climate activists are 'disruptive'
Climate News@climatenews.bsky.social · 4d agoWithin the next 2 decades half the entire world’s infrastructure will be located in places where we can no longer survive. Half the global human population will need to migrate in the next 20 years just to survive.
in portland someone spray painted penises around potholes, and they got filled pretty immediately www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
A crude pothole graffiti tactic got Portland’s attention. Please don’t copy it, officials say
Nearby apartment dwellers had a bird's eye view of the graphic murals.
oregonlive.com
Welcome to August! ♨️ Here's a look how temperatures have changed around the world over the last four decades... Just about everyone is seeing warming during this month. Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.
