We have been living in stable times - for over 11,000 years.
Get ready to live in unstable times. It won't be for sissies.

This looks absolutely wonderful. What civilizations still are, and still could be. @julespretty.bsky.social on storytelling for an imaginative tomorrow.

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Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers.

Since the birth of my girls, I’ve wanted a parallel life as a doula. But having watched a southern right whale birth from atop a cliff near my home, this doesn’t surprise me✨

Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c... @racheldonald.bsky.social

Removing Unfriendly Leaders

And here I thought she was referring to the three or four men holding the world hostage and committing war crimes, genocide and climate destabilization.

Removing Unfriendly Leaders www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...

Thank goodness for the wonderful Nandita Bajaj and her team at @popnbalance.bsky.social. And well done to writer and overshoot thinker @robertjensen.bsky.social for a great article, well worth reading and spreading.

Thank you @phoebebarnard.bsky.social for the thread 🧵 and Jensen's great article.

It's a pretty telling commentary on the state of our human 'civilizations' - especially the western one, such as it is.

Thanks @davidho.bsky.social for consistently good stuff on our future, ecological overshoot and what's needed to pull up and out of our messes.

@phoebebarnard.bsky.social

There is no one more on point, starker, blunter, more darkly moving on the state of our planet and civilizations than George Tsakraklides. Please absorb his writing in your morning coffee ruminations. Well worth it.

The George Tsakraklides View
georgetsakraklides.substack.com?r=1ibqiu&utm...

What could be putting young women off marriage? It really isn’t that much of a mystery | Naoise Dolan Survey data suggests more and more girls can’t imagine getting married, while their male counterparts are keener. That disparity holds a clue, says writer Naoise Dolan

What could be putting young women off marriage and childbearing? It really isn't so much of a mystery.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

2. ...but now the estuary is badly encroached by thoughtless white folks' enterprises: boatyards, timber lots with creosote, RV sales & storage lots, rusting railway bridges & sidings, road infrastructure, (somewhat better) sewage treatment plants. My mental hindcasting visualizations are painful.

For example, the Snohomish Estuary (pictured above) was, until sometime in the late 19th/early 20th C, a significant hunting- fishing ground for the N'Quentlmamish and Sdodohobsh people, descendents of whom are now mostly enrolled in the (recognized) Tulalip Tribes. I close my eyes and see them. But

Snohomish Estuary, Washington State, a beautiful and ecologically important estuary which has since been partly encroached upon by timber lots, boatyards, RV lots, sewage treatment plants and railway bridges and sidings. Credit: Restore America's Estuaries, via Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/center-blue-economy/cbe-news/economic-value-americas-estuaries

I often wish (especially since starting to make documentaries) that I'd managed, 12,000 years ago to place time-lapse cameras at strategic points around the globe. BBC has done some great imaginary but plausible visualizations. I love those. I can't cross an estuary without creating one in my mind.

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British Union of Fascists - Wikipedia

Breakfast convo today: Oswald Moseley/Diana Mitford, the couple driving the short-lived rise of WW1-WW2 British fascism. The relationship with some suffragettes sheds light on why some women were initially drawn in despite fascism+pronatalism @popnbalance.bsky.social
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And completely unacceptable too in the 21st (soon 19th) century USA, where it is about to mushroom phenomenally as the Trump administration forces literally millions into poverty through stripping food and healthcare supports. These are times none of us truly thought we'd see... until recently.

Izikhothane: a deeper history of a South African youth subculture where luxury items are trashed This fascinating piece by Mthobeli Ngcongo and Sifiso Mnisi, faculty respectively of South Africa's universities of the Free State and Johannesburg, was originally published 25 October 2023 in The Con...

On psychology, status, a history of ideological poison, and conspicuous hyperconsumption even in townships. Our need for status signaling is pretty dramatic. Just like birds and other vertebrates, we guess. www.stableplanetalliance.org/post/izikhot...

Thank you - as co-author and/or lead author of 6 of the "Scientists' warnings" papers including World Scientists' Warning of a Climate Emergency," I have to say this would've gravely disappointed my parents of that noble WWII generation. And then some. They brought us up to create a better society.

Antidote to Fascism Come along for the ride!!

An important new #Substack series of 16 posts, #AntidotetoFascism, by collective-good impact investment godfather and retro rock video godparent, #JedEmerson

blendedvalue.substack.com/p/antidote-t...

Overshooting Earth: How Population Myths Shape Our Crisis YouTube video by Global Footprint Network

Delighted to share this good discussion between friends Nandita Bajaj @popnbalance.bsky.social & Florence Blondel @florenceblondel.bsky.social on population angst/ #coercivepronatalism stoked by #farright patriarchal drivers of social/economic growth youtu.be/WBdJ4QZ-kc4 @endovershoot.bsky.social 👏

Either All of Us Are Human, or None of Us Are - Paths to Understanding Human beings have survived and thrived by forming in-groups. This instinct is so central to our lives that we’re often willing to risk everything to protect our group. But here’s the problem: other in...

My friend Rev Terry Kyllo of Paths to Understanding is a Lutheran pastor and cross-cultural community cohesion builder. He writes:

pathstounderstanding.org/either-all-o...

Friends, I need your ideas for my fmr student in #wartime #Sudan. She has a PhD+hopes for a TWAS-DFG cooperation visits fellowship -not only to help her #wildlifeecology work, but also the survival+wellbeing of her family in Sudan. Who are antelope ecologists in Germany? @ignasheitkonig.bsky.social

If ever there was justification for a World Charter for Nature and Climate, surely Attenborough makes the case. sites.google.com/view/worldma... petitions.worldmagnacarta.co.uk @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @planetweaver.bsky.social

Exploring climate restoration options, in four parts - The CO2 Foundation Transformative funding toward this global conversation-starter on carbon removal, ecosystem and climate restoration, and the shift to a kinder, wiser, more humble civilization ahead.

So grateful to the #CO2Foundation for their generous support at a time when we most desperately needed it! co2foundation.org/exploring-cl...

Do you have an interest in supporting clear-eyed but unifying, agency-reclaiming messaging about our future, our climate, our planet and civilization? DM me 🌿

"I Am Humanity," by Theo Wilson. YouTube video by Tej Fury

We wanted to share this #challenge for all of us in #humanity, at these crossroads. Our founder @phoebebarnard.bsky.social is working with Theo Wilson on her new project - somehow. Need to raise funds first. Please share this. It deserves to #goviral.

#crossroads

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How ​South Korea’s Democracy Prevailed Over a Reckless Leader (Gift Article) The rise and fall of Yoon Suk Yeol exposed a vulnerability in South Korean democracy, but also a resilience. Its people were always ready to fight for it.

Here's a story from South Korea that can inspire the "Hands Off!" events taking place in the United States: how a mix of street protests and responsive democratic institutions prevailed in a political crisis.

This #civilizationalshift #tippingpoint needs to accelerate and be brought on this year. There can be no more urgent time.

Citizens by Jon Alexander (ISBN: 9781912454846) 🇬🇧 To buy a physical copy of the book, click here. McKinsey 2022 summer reading list - TOP 5 recommended book What are we doing to ourselves when we tell ourselves we're Consumers 3000 times a day? ...

"What are we doing to ourselves when we tell ourselves we're Consumers 3000x/day?

What would it look like to put the same creativity+energy into involving people as Citizens?

What would you do in this time, if you truly believed in yourself +those around you?"
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It's hard to find 20-somethings or 50-somethings for that matter these days in the Global North who can repair socks, sweaters, toasters, or chairs. That's a problem for the times likely coming. If you haven't seen BuyNow! yet, prepare to be abundantly grossed out😧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVfZ...

Rain tomorrow!

Yep, that's exactly what we fear it is, too. For those of us who've worked on climate change for longer than many gamers have been alive, it's exasperating to see nihilism creep over humanity. It reflects badly on us scientists too, for not messaging v clearly about what's too late and what's not.