Terror management

Why do we keep trashing the environment despite the overwhelming evidence that it's a pathway to a #ghastlyfuture?

Terror management explains our collective denial

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#environment #terrormanagement #denialofdeath #existentialthreat

Frontiers | Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that ...

Our #GhastlyFuture paper just passed 600k views

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Can we resurrect the thylacine? Maybe, but it won’t help the global extinction crisis ‘De-extinction’ seems like a way to save dying or dead species - but in reality it’s an expensive and impractical waste of time.

'De-extinction' is devoid of any real conservation utility https://t.co/Ft5EWQwwHg My article today in @ConversationEDU #deextinction #extinction #conservation #biodiversity #ghastlyfuture

Our Environmental Crisis Requires Political Fixes, Not Technological Ones Our current innovation policies aim to preserve the way we live now rather than what would do the least damage

Our #ghastlyfuture paper mentioned in @sciam: 'Our environmental crisis requires political fixes, not technological ones' www.scientificamerican.com/article/our-environmenta...

Frontiers | Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that ...

Suprisingly🧐, sounds like he didn’t (won’t) read our papers: 'Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a #ghastlyfuture’ https://t.co/2doELWRWfm & 'Opportunities to improve the future of #SouthAustralia’s terrestrial #biodiversity’ https://t.co/lCzZ9bh667 https://t.co/4tzkH7jMEK

Ooooh! Looked what arrived today! Complimentary copy from @ConversationEDU that includes our article on the prospects of a #GhastlyFuture https://t.co/zP7mBfjgFj (based on this paper: https://t.co/4UrQjj5Lsk @Flinders

Frontiers | Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that ...

Indeed, we underestimate the challenges of avoiding a #ghastlyfuture www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2... twitter.com/THEMONTHLY/status/145534...

Get 20% off if you use this link https://t.co/NDxFtcOmGF to purchase 'No, You’re Not Entitled to Your Opinion’ by @ConversationEDU, featuring our #GhastlyFuture essay among the 50 all-time best

Frontiers | Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that ...

To add (fossil) fuel to @danilic’s kangaroo fire www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2... #GhastlyFuture @CNN twitter.com/TheLeadCNN/status/144913...

'No, You’re Not Entitled to Your Opinion’ — Our #GhastlyFuture article https://t.co/zP7mBfjgFj deemed among 50 best @ConversationEDU essays ever https://t.co/bMnj2yJH3D @Flinders @TeamMarmot @PaulREhrlich @Flinders @ThamesHudsonAU

Frontiers | Response: Commentary: Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future In their comment on our paper ‘Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future’ (Bradshaw et al., 2021), Bluwstein et al. (2021) attempt to contr...

Final version out now: Response: Commentary: Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a #GhastlyFuture www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcosc.20...

Avoiding a ghastly future - ABC listen Stable climate and strong ecosystems have supported human development. Both are now destabilised. Scientists say the future is ominous.

Check it out. Robyn Williams' interview with me on our #GhastlyFuture will be aired tomorrow on @RadioNational Science Show

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Avoiding a ghastly future www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/s...

The very worn slur of “neo-Malthusian”

The very worn slur of “neo-Malthusian” conservationbytes.com/2021/09/07/the-very-worn... #GhastlyFuture

49th most-viewed article out of 223,570 @FrontiersIn articles published to date (0.022 percentile) 'Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a #GhastlyFuture’ www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2... @FrontConservSci (note: follow-up ‘solutions’ article in preparation)

Frontiers | Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that ...

Long-form podcast interview with me by @EmmaStrutt_ & @ben_eitel about the #GhastlyFuture paper (https://t.co/4UrQjj5Lsk https://t.co/CXAsAGiyds @GlobEcoFlinders @Flinders @cabahCoE @FrontConservSci @FrontiersIn @PaulREhrlich @FredSaltre @EndOvershoot @MaWackernagel @mahbglobal

#GhastlyFuture www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2...

Worried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can grasp Humanity is destroying Earth’s ability to support complex life. But coming to grips with the magnitude of the problem is hard, even for experts.

Wow. This just clicked over 475,000 views: Worried about Earth's future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can grasp #GhastlyFuture https://t.co/Ds8H0wNM7P via @ConversationEDU

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Although only published in Jan 2021, #GhastlyFuture is the 45th most-viewed @FrontiersIn article of all time (out of 205,608 articles published to date) https://t.co/lKs0Ko79Jc https://t.co/4UrQjj5Lsk @FrontConservSci

Frontiers | Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that ...

If you could change one thing in the world to make the future a little less ghastly (www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2... what would it be? #GhastlyFuture

Nailed yet again. And yet some people query my pessimism #ghastlyfuture twitter.com/thejuicemedia/status/136...

This @newscientist article cites our recent article in @FrontConservSci @FrontiersIn #GhastlyFuture twitter.com/newscientist/status/1362...

Interview on @ecoshock about #GhastlyFuture (listen) www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/1...

Read Finnish? Our #GhastlyFuture article covered in this interview of me in Finland’s top paper @hsfi (by @SaraVainio) ‘Ihmiskunta kiihdyttää kohti kärsimystä, eivätkä poliittiset järjestelmämme osaa suojella meitä' https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000007762607.html #Suomi🇫🇮 @Flinders @PaulREhrlich

Worried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can grasp Humanity is destroying Earth’s ability to support complex life. But coming to grips with the magnitude of the problem is hard, even for experts.

Apparently our #GhastlyFuture piece (theconversation.com/worried-about-earths-fut... was the most-read @ConversationEDU article last week @PaulREhrlich @mahbglobal @EndOvershoot @MaWackernagel @FredSaltre @Flinders @cabahCoE

Thanks for the online chat with the @funkyant lab of @LivUni @Env_Sci last night about the #GhastlyFuture paper (www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2... Clever mob! @HanMGriffiths @aliceelizabeth4 @TomRBishop

Webinar (27 Jan 09:00 PST): 'Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a #GhastlyFuture’ with @PaulREhrlich, Joan Diamond, @NJHagens, @ecofootnotes & others. Hosted by Michael Lerner. register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bEQZ... @mahbglobal @ForesightNexus

Frontiers | Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that ...

“The predominant paradigm is still one of pegging “environment” against “economy”; yet in reality, the choice is between exiting overshoot by design or disaster—because exiting #overshoot is inevitable one way or another” https://t.co/4UrQjj5Lsk #DesignOrDisaster #GhastlyFuture

Frontiers | Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that ...

Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a #GhastlyFuture https://t.co/4UrQjj5Lsk @ProjectDrawdown @GlobalEcoGuy @extinctsymbol @WWFscience @DocsEnvAus @IPBES @IPCC_CH @sarahinthesen8 @AlboMP @AOC @JoeBiden @NaomiOreskes @joelbakan @sdiazecology @IUCN @UNEP @WHO @FAO @CGIAR

Worried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can grasp Humanity is destroying Earth’s ability to support complex life. But coming to grips with the magnitude of the problem is hard, even for experts.

Well, this has struck a chord — > 130K views in < 24 hours Worried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can grasp https://t.co/zP7mBfjgFj @ConversationEDU @Flinders #GhastlyFuture https://t.co/4UrQjj5Lsk

Frontiers | Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that ...

“… humanity is running an ecological Ponzi scheme in which society robs nature and future generations to pay for boosting incomes in the short term.” www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2... #GhastlyFuture