Population Conversations

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

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:

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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 🌿

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

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.

There's definitely a level at which volcanic winters cause climate change - indeed our historical knowledge of the social, economic and political impacts of climate change come from the big eruptions of Tambora and other distant-past volcanos. (And several of us in this group are volcanophiles...)

Send it Back to the States But not like that...

2. ...to deliver babies despite rape, incest, and ectopic pregnancies. This culture is dominating, cruel, and drives a plethora of unwanted babies and ill health of mothers.
Thank you Jess and Alex for fighting. jesspiper.substack.com/p/send-it-ba...

#Pregnancy and #childbirth are intimate, potentially very risky, energetically demanding, and a woman's choice.

We appreciate community political leaders like @piperformissouri.bsky.social who call out horrific arrogance and misogyny of right-wing politicians+activists that would force women ...🧵

Elysium (film) - Wikipedia

This is challenging at the best of times - psychologically, economically, geographically, politically, culturally. In times of planetary emergency it's our #1 choice.

Do we live out a life of #Elysium for billionaires and misery for the rest of us? Or do better? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium...

The global minority ('Global North'), usually more economically privileged, often white, needs to take massive responsibility to embrace simplicity/ #enoughism if we are to solve this. And to help the global majority achieve enough quality of life+ #womensempowerment so we can all live more safely.

Someone engaged us yesterday on a common refrain: "It's not population, it's consumption." Well, yes. And no. Let us point out 2 obvious facts. 1. Population is mathematically (very non-linearly) related to consumption. 2. The world is a tragically unequal place. We need to solve both, not bicker.

We're not sure in what sense any resource is functionally infinite, except perhaps (for a few billion years) sunlight. Virtually all require energy and materials to deliver technologies - sometimes in massive and unsustainable quantities. Is that the kind of tech you mean, or...?

National borders have served humanity in the past, but we shd now consider how to think of them, and/or whether to try to enforce them w/the mindsets we did then. It depends whether we lead from a place of competition or cooperation, reactivity or proactivity, exploitation or compassion - or all.

But not all humans follow self-destructive behaviors. Ancient civilizations and especially Indigenous cultures have much to teach us about the mistakes some of us have made.
#indigenousculturalbridges #collapse #stewardship #rights #responsibilities #biodiversity #humansupremacy #entitlement

#Hyperconsumption, #population pressures, and #entitlement #mindsets are at the root of these failures. Let's change that.

Remember, everything that is lost or imperilled on this human-crowded and human-plundered planet. It matters. Many species are almost a million years old, and their future is threatened by our actions mainly over the past 50 years.

@phoebebarnard.bsky.social

How Pronatalism Feeds The Economy | Nandita Bajaj Listen now | Population is Political

Yes, and for 'workforce' ... you can almost equally substitute 'army,' 'parishioners', 'consumers,' 'shareholders,' 'followers' etc. Our systems can be decoupled from growth, but it's not a trivial pursuit...
www.planetcritical.com/p/how-pronat... @popnbalance.bsky.social @phoebebarnard.bsky.social

Yes, it's hard to overemphasize the massive risks to humanity and the planet when governments, banks and systems are all too familiar with the comfortable boxes in which they've been living. @phoebebarnard.bsky.social is there with an icy bucket and an offer of help....

What's your own country's Overshoot Day? If it's before December 31, you and your government and civil society need to talk. . . Sweden's was 10 April.

Separation from Nature isn't just destroying Nature. It's also destroying our mental and physical health. Here are three easy steps to help communities - kids and adults - reconnect.
Thanks @fernhames.bsky.social ✨

How do we keep the tiller steady on a crowded planet of nearly 8.2 billion people increasingly isolated from Nature and this exquisite planet - all of whom deserve enough to have a satisfying life of wellbeing, but many of whom expect and demand more?

This group is initially curated by @phoebebarnard.bsky.social, founding CEO of Stable Planet Alliance who started the initial Facebook group. Yep, we accept 'doomers' in this group and acknowledge the massive challenges of overshoot, but we're not nihilists and won't tolerate too much of that, fyi!