Meanwhile, as autocrats and wars grab the headlines, life remains risky and torrid in the townships during heatwaves and floods. @leoniejoubert.bsky.social is on the case in @dailymaverick.co.za.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
We’re not helpless. This isn’t a time for nihilism.
If only it were just prime time comedy without implications for democracy, civilization, climate and planet! 🤷🏼♀️
Well - and it’s my daily minuta of small pet peeves - this is the 3rd time I’ve seen a claim that dashes are a sure-fire giveaway that text is Chat GPT written. For the record: I’ve written like this for 33 years, having observed that the brain absorbs info better that way. And no, I never use AI 🤷🏼♀️
Yet another mechanism to enforce colonial dominance? Hmmm…
Watch out for it! May 29th and June 3rd will see the first four episodes drop in a wonderfully inviting way. Follow @julespretty.bsky.social to get updates on some great conversations about our species and our future.
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Dear Free Press: Why do you keep asking questions to, and/or amplifying the voices of, people who repeatedly lie to you? Why not report that fact with each answer or statement they give? There are many more important stories you could tell, instead, among the people and/or our efforts to realize true democracy.
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On 14 April the BBC reported on the Lord Robinson defence review on all major news bulletins. Funny that the BBC could never find any space on TV news for the National Emergency Briefing, Joint Intelligence Chief's report or the Defra 'food riots' report !
A good summary from Utah physicians on why “thinning forests” in the North American west is disastrous. Most people recognize the thinning forests argument as profiteering and ideological gobbledygook - but not all do. Equip yourselt to counter dinner debates. open.substack.com/pub/ecointeg...
This is what happens when you put anyone whose confidence outweighs their competence in charge of anything.
Which, sadly, many Americans are prone to doing, because many Americans are easily swayed by a smooth façade.
How can so many just watch in horror as the world is held hostage?
Trump was a useful idiot for the malevolent right, but money & adulation, not ideology are his thing. We need a very clear plan for the post-Trump future. Not a bad time to wield the 25th. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
But together it all adds up to a perfect storm.
The UK like most countries needs a national phenology network, but unlike most, at least actually has the essence of one in Nature’s Calendar and the Environmental Change Network naturescalendar.woodlandtrust.org.uk ecn.ac.uk
Of course, I’m talking to the people here who have digital access, at least one electronic device and time on their hands to spend here. It’s a stark line dividing humanity. But of course you know we are in agreement on the nature of ecological overshoot and inequality.
Absolument! But let us see what his endorsement of Farage does. 🤦🏼♀️
Let the US, Bannon, Vance et al sit with this one for a month or so. Their own actions in the US and world today totally undercut their decade of nefarious intentions for Europe. Not that this will stop them.
Orbán concedes defeat, sends congratulations to Magyar www.euronews.com/2026/04/12/r...
With everything going on in the world, it might be a good idea to remember : learn to get by on half, or less, of many things you’re used to. Especially water and energy. But as many areas as you can.
This is a good time to remember exactly how to live lightly. Why not share your stories here?
“We are blinded by vision” in the western world.
What’s at stake by the loss of #scents in our world through #ecologicalovershoot and its symptoms, e.g. #pollution and #climatechange.
Those who practice shinrin-yoku, or #forestbathing, will know this.
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"Everyone needs to watch & pass on this video. It is quite clear that we are running out of time. The heating of the earth is accelerating & taking the future of everyone's children with it. Please, pass on & share this video. Please contact your politicians and forward this video to them." - Jan🇨🇦
2. Here's a lovely short film about Christy and her extraordinary positivity after a difficult divorce and her Parkinson's diagnosis in quick succession - a double-whammy which I, and no doubt many of us, can understand: www.dailygood.org/kt/8981/mira...
Friends have blown me away with their courage. Biologist Dr Christy Bragg, single mom with fast-progressing Parkinson's Disease, has 2 young kids. Our mutual friend, biologist Dr Odette Curtis, organized www.backabuddy.co.za/campaign/chr... to give Christy more time with them. Pls help if you can/2🧵
This is most of what we need to know about preparedness in our new world.
It’s not about ordinary readiness or existing 100-year event planning. It’s about outlier scenarios. Worse-case+ scenarios. Triple-whammy simultaneous and overlapping risk landscapes.
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Another important piece on #datacentres from Adetokunbo Abiola in AdetokunboSees on Substack. Let us all be vastly more mindful of the energy and water costs of our #digitallives.
Data Centers: the Hidden Environmental Cost of the Digital Age
open.substack.com/pub/adetokun...
A wonderful summary of inequality, corruption, and the American Dream by YouTuber #johnnyharris. Without ever having actually to use the word corruption
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“New episode in the too-long series ‘Climate action is just so expensive’. Yep. Too many politicians (and others) will wait until it takes their own children downstream before acting.
Tusen takk @olavtorvund.bsky.social 🤷🏼♀️
That a handful of men with more recklessness than strategy and more entitlement than common sense can hold this entire planet to ransom is beyond me. And clearly also beyond our much admired Senator, @murray.senate.gov, 2023-25 President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
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I know, it's a long weekend starting for some people. But LIVE, NOW, former New Scientist climate journalist #FredPearce talks to the #MEER climate cooling reflectivity project on climate overshoot: join us.
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So proud of you all with this project, we certainly managed to raise some interest and awareness with potential funders, too.
So many good friends. I hope that was not our last potluck barbecue with you all! Hugs and greetings from Ireland, on our way to Oxford.