Join us for our upcoming MEERTalk with evolutionary and global change scientist @phoebebarnard.bsky.social on navigating ecological overshoot and societal change at the crossroads of civilization.

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#MEERTalk #ClimateCrisis #EcologicalOvershoot

Earth's Smells Are Disappearing Because of Climate Change, and It's a Vast Cultural Loss A triple threat of pollution, extinction and warming temperatures is altering the way the planet smells. Scientists are only beginning to understand the stakes for humans

“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.

www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

People Place Planet - Didsbury - NEBFilm A special community screening: The People’s Emergency Briefing #PEBuk What’s happening with climate and nature, and what does it mean for everyday life in the UK? Join us for a screening of the People’s Emergency Briefing - an eye-opening film bringing together nine leading UK scientists and

Screenings in Chorlton, Didsbury and Withington. Free.

People Place Planet - Didsbury - NEBFilm
https://www.pppdidsbury.org/nebfilm

#climate #FoodSecurity #EcologicalOvershoot #collapse

A podcast thumbnail from PopulationBalance with Nandita Bajaj

3. We had a global coalition, the #StablePlanetAlliance - of trusted, respected organizations & experts united by an understanding that #ecologicalovershoot was deeply rooted in cultures, mindsets and systems of dominance, extraction, competition and separation that treat women as vassals and…

Nandita Bajaj | Confronting patriarchy, pronatalism, and population denial — Population Balance Not so long ago, the conventional wisdom in most liberal/left circles was that people concerned about population growth tended to be racists, nativists, and eugenicists. And mostly old white guys, acc...

#Ecologicalovershoot - and our silence on the natural, liberating ways to reverse it - is an astonishingly shortsighted travesty of our time.

Liberating - for whom? Well, essentially everyone other than the autocrats and entitled men we resist. A🧵

www.populationbalance.org/media/confro...

The last convulsions of the failing nation-state Why is the world suddenly confronted with so many new wars and warmongers? Russia invades Ukraine to restore imperial territory. Israel destroys Gaza in the name of national security.

"The wars being fought today ... are the last convulsions of a political structure designed for a world of expanding material throughput that no longer exists."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/last-c...
#NationState #Geopolitics #EcologicalOvershoot

The Iran war: symptom of a dying energy disorder What Operation Epic Fury reveals about a civilisation at war with the planet it depends on While mainstream media replays Trump’s “the war is nearly complete” hallucination, a new essay by Danish infl...

My new article on the real reason behind the #Iran war: "every major actor is chasing control over resources that planetary boundaries have already rendered insufficient for sustaining civilisation as we know it."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/iran-w...
#Geopolitics #EcologicalOvershoot #StraitOfHormuz

Carboncentric tunnel vision lunacy strikes again. 🙄

#biodiversityloss #ecologicalovershoot

#HumanExceptionalism and our #EcologicalOvershoot / #EnvironmentalOvershoot

“WE ARE DESTROYING OUR OWN EXISTENCE
CATASTROPHE IN THE MAKING
PROF. WILLIAM E. REES
SCIENCE TALK
Ecological Overshoot I The Greatest Threat to Humanity” PROF. #WILLIAMEREES

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#HumanExceptionalism and our #EcologicalOvershoot / #EnvironmentalOvershoot

“WE ARE DESTROYING OUR OWN EXISTENCE
CATASTROPHE IN THE MAKING
PROF. WILLIAM E. REES
SCIENCE TALK
Ecological Overshoot I The Greatest Threat to Humanity” PROF. #WILLIAMEREES

youtu.be/sZnnvH7FgBw?...

Es fehlt nicht an Geld. Es fehlt an allem anderen. Bald in einem Ausmaß, dass es jeder bemerken wird. #ecologicalovershoot

On the big Timber Debate at Circular Disruption and what to expect Suddenly all eyes are on timber. The attention has been building slowly, bubbling below the surface and behind closed doors, like a volcano rumbling and ready to erupt.

“There are also questions about the enormous amount of building that’s expected/called for around the globe with the follow up question of – is there enough timber to meet the demand?

Clearly not.”

#Timber

#ClimateChange

#EcologicalOvershoot

#TheFifthEstate

4.... And we've wasted the luxury of options we once had. We've failed to prevent our #perfectstorm of #climatedestabilization and #ecologicalovershoot.

None of us wants to be here: inevitably considering #solargeoengineering options as an emergency measure. Least myself. But. Here we are. 4/5

Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance - PubMed The doughnut-shaped framework of social and planetary boundaries (the 'Doughnut') provides a concise visual assessment of progress towards the goal of meeting the needs of all people within the means ...

#DoughnutEconomics shows rising inequality: rich nations drive #ecologicalovershoot while poorer ones face social shortfalls. To meet 2030 goals, we must shift from GDP growth to regenerative, fair economies 🌍

#PlanetaryBoundaries #Sustainability #ClimateJustice

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41034533/

2. The sad fact remains: many well-intentioned people - even in the environmental sector, in science, in ethics, in gender studies - ignore #ecologicalovershoot and #population because of its sordid #racisthistory. And it does have one. But the antidote is not to pretend ignorance or holiness...

I run GirlPlanet, a global platform for #womenandgirls to speak freely on #ecologicalovershoot +social pressures - population, consumption, pollution, planetary health, personal choices. www.girlplanet.earth/our-global-voices. Have a personal story to tell? Send it to me: girlplanet.earth@gmail.com

Earth Overshoot Day home - #MoveTheDate Overshoot occurs when humanity's demand on nature exceeds Earth's biocapacity. In 2025, Earth Overshoot Day falls on July 24th.

#EarthOvershootDay is coming.

#EcologicalOvershoot

overshoot.footprintnetwork.org

Climate change is a distraction from the real problem.

#Overshoot
#EcologicalOvershoot
#Overpopulation
#Overconsumption

I run GirlPlanet, a global platform for #womenandgirls to speak freely on #ecologicalovershoot +social pressures - population, consumption, pollution, planetary health, personal choices. www.girlplanet.earth/our-global-v... Have a personal story to tell? Send it to me: girlplanet.earth@gmail.com

And so-called "green growth" has a colossal ecocidal footprint (mining, deforestation, fossil fuel dependence for infrastructure buildout, etc.) The only logical solution to this polycrisis is degrowth to reduce the scale of energy demand- &, sadly, that isn't likely to happen. #EcologicalOvershoot

#Collapse via #EcologicalOvershoot #AnimalAg #BigOil #OverConsumption #CorporateGreed #Capitalism #Patriarchy #PowerHungryPoliticians #AuthoritarianRegimes #EnvironmentalDegradation #Speciesism #MicroPlastics, #ShortSightedHumans, etc. We are in big trouble; and the ruling class couldn't care less.

How many people have to go insane for global runaway mental health #collapse ? Feels like the world is close to complete collective insanity. #doomer #polycrisis #metacrisis #Enslopofication #Enshittification #ecologicalovershoot #carryingcapcity #AI

People (mainly women?) who point out that human population stabilization and decline is one of several entirely ethical+ just strategies to reverse #ecologicalovershoot and protect human and Earth rights are sometimes called ‘misanthropic’ by those who believe it is anti-human. Sorry if I was off-🎯🙃

These milestones are a stark reminder: #EcologicalOvershoot isn't just a global issue - it’s a national one too. And as the calendar ticks toward the global #EarthOvershootDay announcement on June 5, it’s clear we need bold action at every level.

We’re in #EcologicalOvershoot

But instead of slowing down, sharing fairly and using limited resources wisely…

We are going full throttle into a global resource war… that will cause the immiseration and death of the majority of human and non-human populations on our beautiful, only home, Earth. 🌏 😞

Hospicing Modernity — Population Balance Modernity is dying within and around us, and we need to face that death with courage and compassion. Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, Brazilian educator, Indigenous and land rights activist, and au...

Why the “house of modernity”, which is built on a foundation of humanity’s separation from the rest of nature, is structured to ultimately fail…

So what can we do?

#VanessaAndreotti
#HospicingModernity

#HumanSupremacy
#EcoCentrism

#EcologicalOvershoot
#Collapse

It’s too easy to get distracted by the minutia of politics. Will we even care about PP or Trump in 2050?
#cdnpoli
Sad excuse for taking our eye off the ball.

Perspective 🧐
Save it 1st, fix it 2nd.

Make long-term, generational plans now.

Climate change is just one symptom of
#ecologicalovershoot

“Hopium” and the Long Defeat — Population Balance The rhetoric of “hopium” is failing as ecological overshoot deepens. We're living in the long defeat and we must own and confront it with courage. Award-winning essayist, Pamela Swanigan, joins us.

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“Hopium” and the Long Defeat ~ #PamelaSwanigan

#CreationMyth
#HumanSupremacy

#EcologicalOvershoot
#Collapse

Natural Resources - Population Connection Population growth and overconsumption are depleting natural resources like forests, healthy soil and fresh water.

Humanity has a history of unsustainable resource consumption leading to #ecologicalovershoot. The aggregate human demands on resources, driven by per capita consumption & population growth, have exceeded the planet’s regenerative capacity since the 1970s.
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As #ecologicalovershoot deepens, is hope for a solution leading us astray?

What if hope is a distraction from a more meaningful, profound approach to the inevitable?
Pamela Swanigan joins us to talk about confronting The Long Defeat with courage.

www.populationbalance.org/podcast/pame...