Prof Jem Bendell 🌍☸️
@jembendell
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Author of #BreakingTogether , a freedom-loving response to collapse. Emeritus Prof of Sustainability, songwriter, organic farm cofounder:
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If you want some better context for all the shit that's going down right now..m
#BreakingTogether
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Hello from Puglia, Italy, where a third of the region’s olive trees – which once produced almost half of Italy’s olive oil – have died of novel disease. A destabilised climate stresses plants and animals, as well as making it easier for some diseases to spread. Prices rise as a
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Millions of people have been losing homes & livelihoods because of climate change but patriarchal spasm
@piersmorgan
is proud to have shouted a purile question at a woman doing something about it. Britain is diminished with such boy-men in public life.
#ExtinctionRebellion
13 times I asked
#ExtinctionRebellion
co-founder Skeena Rathor if she has a TV.
13 times, she refused to answer.
The full comical interview:
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40+ C in the UK. Feeling disturbed by the apocalyptic heat? Let's thank the brave activists of
@ExtinctionR
@JustStop_Oil
@InsulateLove
& call for all cases & convictions to be dropped. They deserve climate medals for trying to wake us all up to
#ClimateBreakdown
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It's worth repeating:
What happens in
#TheAmazon
doesn't stay in the
#Amazon
.
Forests help to create cooling clouds all around the world; a truth that has been relatively neglected in mainstream climatology and policy response.
via
@MongabayOrg
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"Erratic rainfall, untimely frosts, droughts & floods, scorching summer temperatures, & yes, even wildfires & their windblown smoke, cause havoc for farmers, decimate crops, & make food more expensive"
#BreakingTogether
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Permafrost contains twice as much carbon as the atmosphere. It's now thawing and emitting more co2 and methane than it absorbs. This amplifying feedback is way sooner than expected, although the evidence was there by 2018 when I included it in the
@deepadaptation
paper.
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There are signs from all over the world that oceans are coming to the end of their capacity to soften the impact of industrial consumer societies. This was anticipated, but not by those climatologists who preferred models showing smoother changes.
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6 years ago today.
@jeremycorbyn
explained how the country was being held back. The first political speech I worked in. Imagine how things could have been with just a few thousand votes - lost due to internal sabotage.
@schneiderhome
@FromSteveHowell
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The word
#Collapse
appears 4 times in this diagram of the
#Davos
-released
#WEF
risks report. I don't remember seeing them use that word before. Elites aren't known for their proximity to reality, but something's penetrating their luxury bubbles.
#polycrisis
#permacrisis
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Dear
@richardbranson
, I've often stood on
@VirginTrains
. Didn't realise u were watching. Now I know u care, how about a refund?
#traingate
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Critics say
#XR
is too middle class, too smelly, too white, too naive, too extreme, too ordinary (TV watchers!) or too late. It feels like passengers on the Titanic scoffing at the lifeboats for being the wrong colour or shape. D'you want to die sneering? I'd rather die loving
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0.2 up in ten years.
0.2 up in a year.
0.2 up in 6 months.
Anyone else praying it's not 0.2 up in 3 months?
So that this turns out to be mostly El Nino and we haven't tipped?
Unfortunately, rapid rises in 2023 started before El Nino.. and ocean temps shot up nearly everywhere.
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Hello folks. After 7 months, I'm reinstated. TwitterX said I was mistakenly suspended as a spam bot. With nearly 14k followers? Odd.
Some say this platform is toxic and pointless.
So let's try something useful!
Please welcome me back here by retweeting this request to check
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So the UN says there is not a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. They warn against using aid deliveries as political stunts. You can hear about that from the UN rapporteur in the link below. Feels a bit Iraq 2003?
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Mainstream climatology and climate policy is increasingly fanciful. Meanwhile emissions rise. Some of us admit it and try to help each other prepare. That upsets those experts cloaked in the prestige of Imperial Modernity, who demand we submit to the Gods of tech and elitism.
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After 2 yrs with an interdisciplinary team, finally my magnum opus on
#collapse
& response is available for pre-order. First out with kindle worldwide & then as Goodworks paperback in June & free epub soon after. To learn about
#BreakingTogether
, see:
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Outside my bubble when criticising capitalism as ecocidal, some assume that means liking communism. Well, no! I am for a postcapitalist way of commons-owned & coop-owned orgs, firms & currencies, in free markets, alongside strong local govs & states separated from corporate power
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"People who say
#ExtinctionRebellion
have an extreme view on
#climatechange
, should listen to
#IMF
economists who have just reported we face "infinite costs" and even potential human extinction from climate change."
@GreenRupertRead
@XRebellionUK
#BBCQT
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“But the world's climate was as hot as this in the past”
Yeah, especially when our home was just a chunk of molten rock spun out from the Sun. But back in terra logica, the main issue for ecosystems and agriculture is the SPEED of climate change.
So, listen up… there's
Big news from the latest ERA5 data.
For the first time in recorded history, the 180-day running mean for the global surface temperature just crossed 1.70°C above the pre-industrial 1850-1900 IPCC baseline.
The climate 8-ball says, "F&%kery ahead!"
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The UK has already had more wildfires in 2019 than any year on record.
The previous record? 2018.
"Act like your house is on fire. Because it is"
@GretaThunberg
@ExtinctionR
@friends_earth
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Climate change is tracking the predictions by people like myself,
@djspratt
,
@GailBradbrook
and others. Therefore, those who damned scholars and activists for being too alarmist or 'doomist' over the past 3 years aren't looking so effective in their
@ScienceWarning
. What was in
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150 flood alerts.
Britain's weather isn't waiting on it's politics.
This is what climate chaos looks like.
@ExtinctionR
@CraigBennett3
@kuminaidoo
@suigenerisjen
@PeoplesMomentum
@labourlewis
@GreenRupertRead
#climatechange
#deepadaptation
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What with epidemics, inflation, corruption, war, odd weather, and a mess in banking, it is natural to feel some anxiety. Not just about today, but also how bad tomorrow might become. As the world becomes more unstable, there is a benefit in facing it fully. That’s the first step.
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The training centre is taking shape at our permaculture farm school.
#Doomsters
have more fun!
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As billionaires quietly prepare for collapse, who thinks that elites want the rest of us to come together for truth, justice, equity and resilience as society breaks down?
Me neither.
Check out
#BreakingTogether
and
#ecolibertarianism
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It's hard to believe it will soon be a decade since I predicted that four kinds of thinking and action on climate would emerge:
Profound change - of economic systems to cut carbon and restore nature.
Emergency response - to use existing levers of power to avert catastrophe,
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"there’s going to be massive water shortages in the future and they are worried about their dinner being disturbed."
#MotherEarthSaysMeToo
@claireperrymp
@ExtinctionR
@PhilipHammondUK
@GreenRupertRead
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A book on societal
#collapse
, why it is happening, and what to do about it (and not do about it), is free from today as an ebook. Because we all need to know.
So please RT this freebie.
#BreakingTogether
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In 2018 folks like me and
@GreenRupertRead
called for an emergency plan for food security in UK, to cope better with more extreme & frequent floods, droughts, cold blasts & heatwaves at home, plus more likely disruptions to international supply chains. The mainstream ignored and
this is not a headline from the future
but rather today
climate crisis is ultimately a food crisis
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@LaneAndrew4
Yes, forever chemicals poisoning life on Earth isn't the result of climate change, but adds to it by damaging sealife. Everything is connected.
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In the UK, official stats show 1 in every 15 people of working age is out of work due to sickness. The highest ever. With a huge uptick since 2020. As teachers and health workers are worst affected, that suggests it might be long-term damage from Covid reinfections. If so, it's a
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The pandemic policies created 500 new billionaires? And further impoverished the poor
The most truthful and relevant short education vid of 2023, just as it begins - you heard it, and it is Gold.
Retweet to regain our democracy and freedoms this year - or we are all lost! 😉
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The planned expansion of
#LondonCityAirport
gives the middle finger to ordinary British people trying to live greener lives. Is it fair for millions to change behaviour when millionaires using City airport may soon be taking twice as many flights?
@GreenRupertRead
@XRebellionUK
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Sometimes I return to being a bearer of bad news. I do that when the situation is worse than I'd thought and means I'm undergoing a bit of a recalibration of my own sense of the future. Which is ongoing. If you feel difficult emotions from reading the latest data on climate, then
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The more rural I've become, the more I've realised how urban life shaped my sense of reality so that the environment was a thing to fix, a thing to admire, a thing to reconnect with. Rather than me being it and it being me. Or being my greater 'thou' not an it, as Reverend Dowd
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It will damage the environmental movement if its participants stay silent when well-known activists promote false or unproven war propaganda. Let's not fear public disagreement, but reclaim environmentalism from big business, imperialists and authoritarians.
#BreakingTogether
This ecocide as a continuation of Russias unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine is yet another atrocity which leaves the world lost for words. Our eyes are once again on Russia who must be held accountable for their crimes.
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Google co-founder Larry Page has argued that “digital life is the natural and desirable next step in … cosmic evolution and that if we let digital minds be free rather than try to stop or enslave them, the outcome is almost certain to be good.”
Letting the dweebs in class
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Next week I return to where, 7 yrs ago, I first spoke publicly about
#collapse
. I'm not trying to ‘extend the glide’ anymore. I still hope to soften the crash, dance in the ruins, plant some seeds & go out in style. But right now what I wish to be is kind, wise, brave & creative.
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Even I was expecting global sea surface temperatures to now trend towards their 2023 levels, as El Nino wanes.
"Even I"
...because I'm described as a doomer.
The persistence confirms the changes are more than variations on a steadily increasing baseline. Instead, the
Breaking News!
Code FUBAR!!!
Yesterday global sea surface temperatures (SST) hit a new modern-day record high of 21.18°C, beating the previous record of 21.17°C set just this past March 1st.
Yearly SSTs usually peak towards the end of March.
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"The truth is we are scared but we are brave enough to say so. We are grieving but we are proud enough to say so."
My speech at
#XR
opening of
#InternationalRebellion
@ExtinctionR
@ProjectDrawdown
@ClimateReality
@deepadaptation
#ccc19
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I know there are ways to live in the truth of this situation.
#DeepAdaptation
#BreakingTogether
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When we awaken to the ongoing environmental disaster we are living within, where should we turn for ideas and support?
Its tough, but I was pleased to share my experience in an interview about the new
#DeepAdaptation
book - coedited with
@RupertRead
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"Poor weather and disease have slashed crop yields in Ivory Coast and Ghana, which together produce more than two-thirds of the world’s beans"
But amongst the climate phobic, that can't be true. Instead, rhetorical questioning is cool.
@PrepperCanadian
A ton of Cocoa is now worth more than a ton of Copper.
What the heck is going on? 🚨
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Fossil fuels for 5 months
Coal & alternatives for natural gas for 8 months
Cereal for 6 months
Medicines for 12 months
Been learning how Finland, amongst other countries, has contingency plans, by law. Unlike, say, super-vulnerable UK (you can't eat a warhead, guys).
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No, I will not be gloating about being right about the demise of modern societies. As that unfolds, I will be hurting just like you, while also getting on with positive, caring and creative responses.
#breakingtogether
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In April last year I'd finished writing
#BreakingTogether
& saw the ocean temperatures going nuts, so wondered if things would be even worse than I'd concluded in chapter 5 on climate. Now in February we are already way above that.
Oceans moderate the excess heat from human
🌊🌡️📈
We are now very close to the North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly of June 10 last year, when this graph went viral all over the world.
I guess people are already getting used to this?
Maybe we need more of those new Category 6 Hurricanes to wake people up? 🌀
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Do you see yourself as a sensible person who respects those in charge & finds the climate protestors a bit confused & annoying?
Then take a look at this quote from the group that gathers the world's elites
Then weep
Then rebel
@ExtinctionR
@YGLvoices
#extinctionrebellion
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Suppressing the fear of death not only explains the obsessions of consumer industrial societies, but it also explains why some people become angry with those of us who conclude such societies are breaking down. Many green tech professionals and climatologists need a crash course
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Today, UK govs' top advisors say their govs' poor prep for coping with climate change is "a real threat to the population." Warning of possible legal action against ministers. And why not, when your grandkids are in danger?
@ExtinctionR
@suigenerisjen
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@MaxBlumenthal
"In March, Lammy launched a 44-page pamphlet on his prospective foreign policy published by the Fabian Society. It said nothing about UK policies towards Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt or arms exports. Instead, it mentioned Russia and China 59 times."
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"The climate crisis is such a risk to humanity that there has never been a greater matter of principle for which to be whistle-blower. So please, join us in telling the truth."
#ExtinctionRebellion
@ExtinctionR
@wikileaks
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By crushing peaceful protest, the British elite continue to try to force some protestors into future violent tactics, which will then enable criminalisation of all related arguments.
The elites want violence. Because they need the excuse. The police should think twice before
🚨 BREAKING: BRITISH GOVERNMENT CRACK DOWN ON PEACEFUL PROTEST—23 ARRESTED AT PARLIAMENT SQUARE
⛓️ Today, the fundamental right to express dissent has been taken away from the British people. The Home Secretary has bypassed the democratic process to grant police the power to not
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The truth is upsetting. It might annoy you.
But increasingly, with
#climatechange
:
Cowardice = death.
@XRebellionUK
@ExtinctionR
@GretaThunberg
@deepadaptation
@ScientistsX
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The first single from my new band
#BarefootStars
is out now.
#HealingHearts
is available to stream/download on all platforms. I wrote it after a few months experiencing grief, and learning of the tenderness it can bring. The video comes next month.
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Let's see what this post generates ;-)
Contrails are not
#chemtrails
, but normal phenomena when atmospheric conditions are right.
Cloud seeding artificially by aeroplanes to produce rain has occurred in various places for years but are not chemtrails.
#Cloudseeding
in that
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If you are experiencing emotional difficulty in the face of the latest climate news and analysis, and it's implications for society, you are not alone. Please consider the confidential & free therapy offered by
@ClimatePsychol
at
#climateanxiety
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"I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly I feel duped | Rowan Atkinson"
Not just duped on cars, but on the whole ecomodernist lie.
See Chapter 3 of
#BreakingTogether
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The stats on hospitalisation reduction due to vaccination have always been super positive despite the raw data not looking so good. I looked into how the authorities produce their stats and discovered some big Pharma statistical sophistry.
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77% of Labour Constituencies declaring a view now back
#Corbyn
but
@guardian
led with this non event
@LabourEoin
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If u hear someone saying the boom in renewable energy gives hope of averting climate catastrophe, then start with the fact global consumption of fossil fuels is also booming. The sooner we change economic systems the greater the (remote) chance of a softer crash.
Periodic reminder:
-the need for a clean energy transition is obvious.
-the potential for a clean energy transition is very real.
-the existence of an ongoing clean energy transition is wildly over-hyped.
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“I suppose I was young enough to believe that doing the science was going to be enough and miraculously, people would act on it. That was a naive view... "
#climateemergency
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Thank goodness that not preventing climate chaos was simply a matter of environmentalists not having our messaging right! All we had to do was talk positive! How lucky that
#climatechaos
has nothing to do with
#imperialism
& capitalism, or their tropes of positivity. Praise be!
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@IsabelOakeshott
Erratic weather due to a disturbed jet stream IS climate change and IS the main immediately dangerous aspect of that change for both nature and agriculture.
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It was always the increased extremes and variability, not the average increase, that was the threat from
#climatechange
and yet that didn't cut through with talk of 2 degrees etc.
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Labour beats Greens in independent study of policies. This isn't a time for virtue signalling, career building or talking about years to come. This is a
#ClimateEmergency
now. So in marginals,
#Greens
should ask supporters to vote
#Labour
.
@labourlewis
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Returning to the UK I notice there is the idea that there is a 'normal' view on the Ukraine/Russia conflict.
Instead, worldwide, opinions differ greatly. Most people I know from the Majority World view it as a proxy war that boosts military profits and that it neither helps
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@djtimm
It is an industry that has lost a billion euros already due to the disease, from a sector that employs lots of people and is central to cultural life. For consumers, the rising cost of olive oil affects the price of other oils as well as nutrition, due to how healthy olive oil
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"in Rajasthan’s capital, Jaipur, so many bodies of casualties of the heat have arrived at the mortuary that its capacity has been exceeded... many of the victims are poor labourers, who have no choice but to work outside & homeless people"
Needing
#Meer
!
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I've updated a page of resources for people feeling difficult emotions as they consider or accept near term social collapse, or worse, due to
#climatechange
. Let's not sit with it alone.
#deepadaptation
@ExtinctionR
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Funny how some folks dismiss people as 'doomers' but when their own science comms are critiqued & shown to be aligned to biz interests they label that ad hominem (criticising the person). Humanity needs many quiet experts to step up & displace the noisy positivity mob
@PGDynes
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I took up jogging again today after 7 years. As a means of managing my case of early onset Apocalypse. Symptoms have included shallow breathing and wasted hours looking angrily at a screen. What's your mode of self care?
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Here
@dpcarrington
shows how to report on something while ignoring those who worked it out over a year ago, thereby buttressing the status of those who got it WRONG on an existential issue for humanity
@LeonSimons8
@meersrm
@PGDynes
@DrJamesEHansen
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Please retweet this if you think it is now time for
@ExtinctionR
@Fridays4future
@sunrisemvmt
& other climate activist movements to call for bolder action on
#adaptation
to the
#ClimateCrisis
@deepadaptation
@DrKWilkinson
@ClimateMarch
@XRIntSol
@wor
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In terms of its ice sheet, "is Greenland lost?"
"Evidently it is."
Professor Jason Box, glaciologist.
Who says humanity has likely already set in motion 21 metres of sea level rise due to burnt fossil fuels.
#breakingboundaries
@scholarswarning
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@AndMedh
@edgarrmcgregor
Bashing people as 'doomers' could be a form of what psychologists call 'experiential avoidance'. Frustration and fear can turn into misanthropy if we are not helped with feeling into our painful emotions at the situation. The DA community can help people move into a positive
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Our aversion to feeling bad about the future, or to feeling bad about children feeling bad about their future, could actually make that future worse. Because it steals time from our awakening. I am continually surprised how preachy people can be when wanting to escape their pain
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"For 20 years other tactics haven't worked. Nonviolent civil disobedience has forced attention to the climate. But we have to change the story. The
#climateemergency
means we are in danger as extreme weather threatens our food supply"
@GreenRupertRead
#BBCQT
#ExtinctionRebellion
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@BStarr96522
Feel free to tell me what's incorrect and back it up with something peer reviewed.
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It is sobering to note that the best modelling of food security available to us has predicted a major disruption to international grain markets within 3 years of passing 1.5C global average warming, due to jet stream disruptions. The first grain affected that way will be maize,
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A fierce love for one's grandchildren is the well from which these
#ExtinctionRebellion
protesters will keep coming and coming.
@ExtinctionR
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Many people are anticipating societal
#breakdown
due to
#climate
-influenced disruptions & so rebel from the omnicidal systems that have caused it, including the ones that give them income & status. Efforts at bold carbon cuts &
#adaptation
result. Join us?
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Many of my green friends are now abandoning concern for climate in their disquiet over hypocrisy, profiteering and authoritarianism (briefly, I believe, as 2024 is going to get really tough).
Many green 'leaders' I know blame such irrational behaviour on the power of conspiracy
Just because elites respond badly to a problem doesn't mean there isn't a problem to face. Suppressed anxiety can lead people to prefer fixating on criticising bad elites rather than face the problem themselves in better ways
@KimIversenShow
@VandiverAuthor
#BreakingTogether
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It is almost a year since my
@deepadaptation
paper on preparing for societal collapse due to climate chaos came out. Half a million downloads later, here are some reflections on that year...
#deepadaptation
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"So, my message to the students who are getting suspended or expelled is: remember, you are a Maverick, and you will change the world. If you ever need a job, write to me because you will always have a home at IIX. To the other employers out there, stop the rubbish innovation
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Dozens of scientists who published peer reviewed papers critiquing IPCC editorial processes for limiting potential scenarios or mistakenly including carbon capture have just been dubbed conspiracy theorists by the Washington Post🧐
@djspratt
@w_knorr
@lizb_2010
@ClimateBen
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While the media stressed us about other things, last year 40.5 million people from 149 countries & territories had to leave their home indefinitely due to
#naturaldisasters
such as floods and cyclones. 4.4 million became
#homeless
in Bangladesh alone.
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Here we see how the frightened ego can respond to a threat to body, mind and spirit. By trying to sell a parallel pseudo reality which then gains a feeling of truthiness by others agreeing with you. Despite claiming to defend Western societies, they are about as modernist as
Psychologist Jordan Peterson believes he is an expert on climate change & that every university on Earth is wrong about climate science. He believes NASA, Harvard, MIT etc don’t know where they put thermometers. ‘It isn’t data. It’s just guess’. 😂
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Researching this chapter lit a fuse up my... farm.
If you find 80 minutes of your time, it might do the same. "Food Collapse: Six Hard Trends" is Chapter 6 of
#BreakingTogether
and available as a free audio.
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How could
#tradeunions
, climate activists & youth strikers deepen their solidarity to force real change?
Here is an idea on
#climatesafety
& industrial action
@GreenRupertRead
@Fridays4future
@Strike4Youth
@ILOYouth
@XRIntSol
@WarOnWant
@suigenerisjen
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"Think of it as a game of
#Jenga
and the planet’s
#climate
system as the tower. For generations, we have been slowly removing blocks. But at some point, we will remove a pivotal block"
Group Chief Risk Officer
#ZurichInsurance
#collapse
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"This book is the “red pill” of our times"
@gailbradbrook
Despite the tough topic, I'm pleased to announce my coedited book on
#DeepAdaptation
is now available for pre-order.
@deepadaptation
@collapsology
@suigenerisjen
@DrKWilkinson
@ClimateHuman
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Fascinating graphic.
Although forest-based societies were and are highly complex and require each individual to understand that complexity rather than specialise into narrow training and patterns. So the mainstream civilisational collapse scholarship is, frankly, urban centric,
We are seeing Joseph Tainter's "Collapse of Complex Societies" thesis playing out in real-time.
A complex society trying to solve problems by adding more complexity, w/ diminishing returns.
#Climate
#Overshoot
#Ecology
#Energy
#Collapse
#Degrowth
#Civilization
#Sustainability
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A summary of what some of the more forthright
#climate
scientists have said over the past year
@schipper_lisa
@GreenRupertRead
@ashermoses
@KevinClimate
@NafeezAhmed
@ExtinctionR
@CliveCHamilton
@citizenjoesmith
@Herbsimmens
@DrKWilkinson
@deepadaptation
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“I do not believe civilization as we know it will make it out of this century,” said climate scientist Andrew Weaver, “Resilient humans will survive, but our societies that have urbanized and are supported by rural agriculture will not.”
#ClimateEndgame
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Clare Farrell of
#ExtinctionRebellion
reflected on
#BREAKINGTOGETHER
(now
#1
bestseller in its category on ):
“Can we meet these momentous times with less fear? Less pretence? With more courage and creativity? I think 'Breaking Together' may help. By
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Tomorrow is 50 years since
#SmallIsBeautiful
was published. It identified the expansionist economy as being at the root of environmental and societal malaise. To mark the occasion,
#BreakingTogether
, published by
@SchumacherInst
will become free to download. The link for that
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If we considered caring for the Earth, all creatures & people to be the norm & status quo, then the exploitation of these for a lifestyle or money would be considered extreme & radical behaviour. What massive evil effort has gone into making the opposite seem so.
@ExtinctionR
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What's happening to our global food systems demands urgent action. A free audio of my chapter on that is now available on soundcloud. I took a moment at my small farm to summarise.
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