I don't care if you live in the #UK or are a @greenparty.org.uk member. Hear @zackpolanski.bsky.social, @carlbenfield.bsky.social +other experts. We hunger for proactivity+plain-spoken leadership by governments. Silence on the #climateemergency + #preparedness is due to #corruption + #complacency

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 7h ago

Heat & drought records keep falling. Reform promote denial. The Tories want to ditch our targets. The new PM still hasn't said a word. Such a relief to hear a politician actually name it. Should be ordinary. End the #climate hushing! Thanks for your #ClimateLeadership @zackpolanski.bsky.social

“CLIMATE IN A TIME OF CONFLICT” - Lessons from #ukraine in a Destabilising World 🇺🇦 #ClimateEmergencyCentre Network Wednesday Webinar - 🌿 Filmmaker #JohnBowey on forthcoming 🇺🇦documentary Wed 5 Aug 7-8pm London / 11am Los Angeles / 2pm NYC. Please share! www.climaterepaircafe.com/climateconfl... /2

I am angry. 1. Wars do not end well on their own. Men convinced of their ideological superiority or the strategic importance of their wars do not back down. We need to force them. War is brutal. It’s almost always completely unnecessary. #Ukraine #Gaza #Iran #Sudan #war #malignancy 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇮🇷 🇸🇩 🧵 /2

Finally nice and tidy #ClimateinaTimeofConflict on mobiles 😅 @caolanrob.bsky.social have a coffee with #JohnBowey when he gets back from #Khmelnytskyii - DM me

Prof Phoebe Barnard@phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 2w ago

www.climaterepaircafe.com/climateconfl... (not yet viewable on mobile if you want to avoid cross-eyes!) Love to talk @caolanrob.bsky.social - DM me - John is still in Kyiv.

@racheldonald.bsky.social's forthcoming 2027 book will drive home to us all, in unflinching horror, the links between violence against women, violence against the Earth, our human supremacy, & male entitlement. The thread here is worth reading. I quote: 🧵 2/5 www.planetcritical.com/major-news-h...

Major news! My "unflinching" debut is being published!

Introducing HER BODY, OUR CHOICE

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Dr Gabrielle Naomi on feminine, masculine, nurturing, providing, and what we should remember as things around us begin to shift with #civilization. Both #yin and #yang are needed to bring about a more nurturing, wise set of conditions for the biosphere and humanity. www.facebook.com/share/v/1NHC...

When @nature.com publishes articles with headlines like this, you know it’s time to batten down the hatches, reject incompetent self-serving politicians and buckle up for a bumpy ride. This #ElNiño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’ 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.

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"The promise of generative AI is that it can think for us, right? And that's a truly fascist idea..the idea of outsourcing thinking." @naomiaklein.bsky.social talks w @themaybe.org all over the subject. Yep, 3 weeks ago. I missed it. Maybe you too. "And what do we do then?" youtu.be/iEf-MNsyUiE?...

Naomi Klein: AI is a fascist idea

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#RichardHeinberg - a crisp, wry intellectual patron of/ advisor to the #stableplanetalliance for most of its 4 years. He knew more deeply of ecological overshoot than almost anyone. We had only a few conversations, but I was glad of his mentorship. everloved.com/life-of/rich... #pancreaticcancer

Visit Richard Heinberg's Memorial Website

Take part in remembering Richard Heinberg. Read his obituary, share your own memories, and learn about any funeral details on Ever Loved.

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#Climateconflict filmmaker #JohnBowey & climatologist #SvitlanaKrakovska visit ecological recovery in #Ukraine #ecocide disaster, when Russia exploded its #KakhovkaDam near the frontline between #Zaporizhzhia & #Nikopol. Friendly drones overhead like giant mosquitos youtu.be/yrhf9hK1Joc?...

CLIMATE IN A TIME OF CONFLICT: Floodplain by Destruction

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For the 20 yrs I worked in governments - Namibia, South Africa - I was surrounded by those who said that things were “not politically possible.” But political possibility needs, and sometimes starts, in governments. #GretaThunberg & all of us are precious years older - years we squandered. A 🧵 1/2

All governments, all corporations, every one of us must hold ourselves accountable for ensuring a future for children, grandchildren, civilisation, all life on Earth. Please support this work by @drandrewboswell.bsky.social as #UK was long a #climateleader. www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...

Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law

Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.

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Haunting music, a country that shows how to prepare for multiple threats: war, nuclear & missile contamination, climate change, geopolitical ping-pong. #JohnBowey #SvitlanaKrakovska #VolodomyrAnfimov in “Climate in a Time of Conflict” due Nov 2026: youtu.be/4yU6zQuYMIY?... @meanwhileua.bsky.social

TALE OF TWO CITIES

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@laurielaybourn.bsky.social nice work here: words matter, climate science doesn’t care about political timidity, and time is of the essence. Leadership can be done oh, so much better. So collaboratively and popularly @jamesgdyke.info @climatemajority.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Andy Burnham must act fast on the climate – or risk getting stuck in a ‘derailment’ doom loop | Laurie Laybourn

Around the world, climate-sceptic parties are exploiting floods and fires to make political capital. Without urgent changes, this deadly spiral will continue, says Laurie Laybourn, executive director ...

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There are many great ways to repurpose abandoned shopping malls. In Washington’s Skagit Valley, students formulated plans for walkable communities in a local mall (abandoned after a mass shooting, and with local stores starved by Bezos). @petebuttigieg.bsky.social @obamafoundation.bsky.social

AllCuteDemocratsHere@democratcutie.bsky.social · 3w ago

I love this idea!!! Funny how ordinary people come up with the best ideas - we need ordinary caring citizens making decisions that don’t increase their bank accounts.

Sometimes i almost feel that the magic of #astronomy serves just to remind us of the ephemerality of human vanities or political machinations. NSF-DOE’s @vrubinobs.bsky.social Rubin Observatory initiative is of extraordinary breadth. 😟 If only we had endless time 🧘🏼‍♀️ www.washington.edu/news/2026/06...

Preparedness for the destabilizing climate, planet and societies means, first, one thing: understanding how not to expect what's always happened earlier in your life. Predictability is ending. Please watch / follow the @climateeforum.bsky.social discussions to help you understand what's coming.

Climate Emergency Forum@climateeforum.bsky.social · 3w ago

North America’s summer is already pushing the limits: record floods, fires across the boreal, a 1,200‑year mega‑drought and heat dome after heat dome. Our latest Climate Emergency Forum dives into what this means and what we must do now. @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social youtu.be/U-wMcIZEhnI

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Russia 🇷🇺 #war #nuclearcontamination #munitions #soilhealth #climatechange #fortitude #resilience #trauma #copingwithunpredictability - all lessons we can learn from Ukraine in these torrid, tough, inspiring and enlightening times. @medicinebleu.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com

Population Conversations@populationconvos.bsky.social · 3w ago

In a crowded world, wars over resources, ideologies and testosterone become even more brutal and destructive than "usual." This film on #Ukraine 's #resilience in the face of multiple threats - past #nuclearcatastrophe, aggressive Russian #invasion, and #climatechange among others - should be good.

Introducing our new documentary in production in Ukraine at a dangerous time: “Climate in a Time of Conflict” by #JohnBowey. Fortitude, resilience: how Ukrainians cope with unpredictability, brutality, toxicity, risk: what we can all learn. Pls share! #climate #conflict youtube.com/watch?v=4yU6...

TALE OF TWO CITIES

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A random comment about Wendell Berry from a WhatsApp correspondent today brought me back again to this beautifully shot film which South African filmmaker Michael Raimondo of Reflections of Life made with me 3 years ago. He has such a way with light, texture and cadence✨💚 youtube.com/watch?v=aZny...

The Secret to Emotional Freedom? Feel Everything

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I hope that in the three years since a group of scientists in my own field had an embarrassing convulsion of groupthink knee-jerk reaction to warnings about this, that the overwhelmingly logical mathematics of the link between population, consumption and ecological overshoot has become 100% clear.

Dr. Helen Kopnina @helenkopnina.bsky.social · 4w ago

New commentary is out: "Why pronatalism fails the planetary health test." Falling birth rates aren't the crisis, ignoring planetary boundaries is. doi.org/10.3197/whpj... #Pronatalism #PlanetaryHealth #PopulationAndSustainability #ReproductiveRights #EcologicalOvershoot #Biodiversity

Surreal being in the UK -with its quintessential nature & abundant water- to observe how this breeds complacency on a sm island of c70m people in a world of 8.3bn people, declining agricultural predictability, snowpack & soil fertility 🧵 @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

UK has ‘no future’ if it fails to act on ecosystem collapse threatening national security

MPs demand publication of full report that outlines catastrophic consequences amid concerns for food security

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If you're not watching Messi & Salah - or even if like me, you ridiculously are, join us live right now w/ #JemBendell @rupertread.bsky.social #HelenaNorbergHodge #MichaelBauwens "Lessons from civilisations which knew they were failing" www.resilience.org/stories/2026... Try joining: bit.ly/44djecb

Inspirational Collapses? Learning from the civilisations that tried to break down well

We believe that more historians and archaeologists can step into a public, reflective role, helping societies explore narratives beyond either progress and growth fetishism on the one hand, or nostalg...

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We can choose which kind of human we wish to be. I’m an evolutionary behavioural ecologist by training, but competition is not our main model of humanity. And certainly not our only one. Collaboration is key to our survival now. Philip Ball in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Togetherness by Rowan Hooper review – a stunning portrait of cooperation in nature

This corrective to our habitual emphasis on competition had me writing ‘wow’ in the margins again and again

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I'd missed this intriguing paper while moving in 2025. So counterintuitive, at least on the surface. Wd love yr views @rahmstorf.bsky.social @pik-potsdam.bsky.social #AMOC #GrIS #climatestability #tippingpoints Mutual stabilization of AMOC & GrIS doi.org/10.1088/1748... @ioppublishing.bsky.social

Mutual stabilization of AMOC and GrIS due to different transient response to warming

Mutual stabilization of AMOC and GrIS due to different transient response to warming, Pöppelmeier, Frerk, Stocker, Thomas F

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A green economy that works for everyone is not only possible but necessary - Andy Burnham take note! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Make people dream’: how to build an economy for the common good

Economist Prof Mariana Mazzucato says governments must ‘get back their mojo’ and believe they can change the world

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A woman after my own heart: economist #MarianaMazzucato @ucl.ac.uk @ucleconomics.bsky.social points to this pivot point for our struggling #civilization - and how leaders should lead. 🌟 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Make people dream’: how to build an economy for the common good

Economist Prof Mariana Mazzucato says governments must ‘get back their mojo’ and believe they can change the world

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Well, now there’s a surprise. Who voted no on the draft #UK #carbonbudget yesterday? Not, seemingly, the MPs with nuanced legitimate policy improvements in mind… 🤦‍♀️ votes.parliament.uk/votes/common...

Something important, empowering and directly benefiting your and others’ kids. Please share this wonderful thread on schools’ climate adaptation options from @charliejgardner.bsky.social. Tag your city, your mayor, your schools associations.

Dr Charlie Gardner@charliejgardner.bsky.social · last mo.

1/ Over 1000 schools are closed due to dangerous heat, and millions of parents are now sat at home, feeling worried and powerless about their children’s future Yet there’s lots parents can do and this is an important moment, so please share this thread with your friends and loved ones 🧵

Another wonderfully insightful conservation story told by @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social of @mongabay.com 🦋🌱👨🏾‍🌾 open.substack.com/pub/rhettaye...

How silk caterpillars became a tool for conservation in Madagascar

Something different this week: Three interviews

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