Elon Gates
@strawdogs.bsky.social
PhD in game theory and economics. Interested sustainability, climate, the ecocide and the role of human exceptionalism. Towards a Post-humanism.
"If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares" ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares
We could reduce the amount of land used for grazing and croplands used to grow animal feed.
ourworldindata.org
The Trump admin just selected matthew wielicki, a fake climate expert, climate impact denier, and serial liar, to lead the national climate assessment. www.politico.com/news/2026/07... He blocked and unblocked me over on twitter 5 times in a row because I kept catching him spreading false claims.
The administration has a new climate change office. It’s headed by a climate critic.
The office that produces the National Climate Assessment has been reconstituted, after the administration gutted it last year.
politico.com
Meat, dairy and eggs are almost exclusively responsible for biodiversity loss. If you care at all about other life forms - go plant based!!
ivyteas@ivyteas.bsky.social · 5mo agorequiem for vanished birdsong
Veggies and mushrooms can heal. Whole foods plant-based diets can prevent and *reverse* colon, prostate & breast cancer; heart disease, diabetes, obesity, & some autoimmune diseases. WFPB diets also ⬆️ longevity: ~ 8 years And, eating vegan is delicious! 🥦🍠🍅🫑🍜🫐 #diet #ItsTheDiet #SergiosBreakfast
Kevin 🇯🇲@cooyah.blacksky.app · 5d agoThe garden provided. 🌱
We are guests of this planet, not its conquerors. It’s time to stop the destruction and start the coexistence. It is entirely possible. 🌿✨ #ClimateCrisis #ActNow
Prices fall towards zero
@alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 6d ago#Spain combination of high solar irradiance, large available land, and aggressive #renewable auction programs has made it one of Europe's fastest-growing solar markets. #Solar regularly sets the marginal price in Spain's electricity market — meaning that when the sun shines, prices fall toward zero.
The latest Nino 3.4 data. Yesterday's Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature set the 60th consecutive daily record high for the Nino 3.4 region, and was 0.83°C higher than the previous record for July 28th, which came at the start of the 1997/98 El Nino.
Expecting collapse of the Thwaites shelf this year. Then, acceleration of land deglaciation, ocean level rise, and increased albedo loop effects. Then isostatic rebound (deglaciation moves trillions of tons across the shelves). Then rifting… the extinction stuff.
Scary new world this, truth as a commodity that can be gamed. Where we gonna turn for facts? Our traditional media has been poisoned for decades - by the agendas of their rich foreign (always male) owners.
Wow - the average global sea surface temperature outside of the polar regions is currently tied for the all-time absolute hottest on record (in the NOAA/OISST dataset). The record was in 2024. More graphics like this at www.climatecentral.org/climate-brie... 🌊
Do not adjust your screens: Daily Telegraph, purveyor of hard-core #climate denial, has temporarily noticed reality. Don’t panic: normal service on behalf of its energy industry sponsors will be resumed shortly.
25 tonnes of nurdles, more than 1 billion nurdles, were spilled into the Tyne last week and are washing up on our beaches, north and south of the Tyne. Likely one of the largest ever plastic pollution events in the UK. There is remarkably little mention of this on here.
In a large-scale study, it concluded that plant-based cats suffer from less health issues than ones who ate meat. Most of the owners of the cats in the study ate meat themselves so they had no ulterior motive to sway results. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A cross-sectional study of owner-reported health in Canadian and American cats fed meat- and plant-based diets - BMC Veterinary Research
Background Cats, being obligate carnivores, have unique dietary requirements for nutrients most commonly found in dietary ingredients of animal origin. As such, feeding a diet devoid of animal-derived...
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Your 'doom quote' for today: "the cull during this century is going to be huge, up to 90 per cent. The number of people remaining at the end of the century will probably be a billion or less." www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2009/01/27/l...
Lovelock: One billion better than nine billion - Science Media Centre
It is a wonderfully philosophical and pragmatic 90 year-old James Lovelock who is interviewed in New Scientist this week. The […]
sciencemediacentre.co.nz
I’m sure the insurance sector is willing to lower its premiums based on that. «top Allianz executive warns that climate-fueled fires, floods and storms are pushing more homes and infrastructure into the category of “uninsurable” assets.» www.latimes.com/environment/...
Climate change keeps adding to the list of uninsurable assets, Allianz executive says
One major bank now sets loan rates for companies based on their exposure to global warming. BBVA said sectors being targeted are agriculture, real estate and leisure, as well as utilities and infrastr...
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"Sunny Jim" in Private Eye nails the Tories' new approach to climate change...
'By mid-July, farmers in Khagochen village under Kana Gewog, Dagana, would normally have completed paddy transplantation. This year, however, prolonged dry have left many terraces uncultivated, with some fields still planted with maize as farmers wait for rainfall' asianews.network/bhutan-farme...
Bhutan farmers race against time as water shortages delay paddy transplantation
The delayed monsoon and declining irrigation sources have disrupted the paddy calendar in several parts of the country, leaving farmers uncertain about whether they can complete transplantation on tim...
asianews.network
As of July 19th update, the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature is now more than 3.7 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 mean. With the warming just getting started, this El Nino is still in charted territory, but just barely.
Through appointments and political priorities, reality becomes distortion.
White House appoints climate science critic to lead key climate program
Matthew M. Wielicki will now oversee the nation’s flagship report on the climate.
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Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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We’re never going to live on Mars. We’re never going to live on the Moon. There is no Planet B. We need to take care of our magical mystical miraculous planet like it’s the only home we will ever have. Because it is.
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-gra...
The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most ...
lyrebirddreaming.com
Hunger: Did you know that if we all went vegan, *all* the people who are hungry in the world (including the +15,000 kids that will die by tonight) could be fed? 💚😎 #hunger #ZeroHunger #FoodSecurity #Plants4Hunger #ClimateFriendly #ShareThePlanet #NonViolence #Ahimsa #GoVegan
The UK's Forest Green Rovers are the first carbon-neutral football team, reducing food and water emissions and its carbon footprint per spectator by 42% over a decade. Read more: unfccc.int/climate-acti... But these are the exception, rather than the rule.
Also. Half of land use in Europe is overseas in rainforest (primary forest regions). This means that Europe has "negative" nature, not "nothing". A debt. A deficit. Here the UK.
Hugo@nonviolence.bsky.social · last mo.How much nature is left in Europe? -40% to -50%. Negative nature. Half of all European land use is overseas in rainforest regions. In short, Europe has a nature deficit like the world at large. It's called #overshoot.
On the day of the launch of the #GlobalJusticeReport, the coordinators @thomaspiketty.bsky.social @lucaschancel.bsky.social @cmohren.bsky.social @rowaida96.bsky.social @moritzoder.bsky.social & @anmol-smnch.bsky.social published this opinion piece 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A good life for the 99% isn’t a pipe dream: it can be done. Here’s how
Our plan is radical – but by transforming how we live on a finite planet, nearly everyone gains, says Thomas Piketty and researchers from the World Inequality Lab
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