Prof Phoebe Barnard

Never mind all that about stranded assets....

I wish these memes would cover his face. If we don't see his face and hear his voice everywhere, he pretty quickly ceases to exist, right? And he certainly wouldn't like that. Let's just stop him sucking all the oxygen outt of the room of civilizational shift. We have work to do. #trumpnewsblackout

Excellent. Just at the right time for these goals as part of our civilizational shift.

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"Stinking rich media moguls want you to blame the poorest people in society for everything we think's wrong in our lives and country, not looking hard at super rich oligarchs sitting on hordes of gold like malignant dragons..."

My family, like yours, were immigrants www.facebook.com/share/p/18L2...

So important, as Helen does, to reframe the language of adaptation. Water needs space. And we need water to have space. I'm here a few months in SW County Cork: stream 'management,' better surely here than in urban areas, needs attention. Here, that's more about manure. Elsewhere, about space.

Absolutely, and we had sixty or seventy years to reduce inequality to an absolute minimum. Only the Nordics and a few others took that seriously. And those who haven't really started by now may have a messy landing, as the USA shows 🫤

Texas Has Thousands of Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells. Who Is Responsible for Cleaning Them Up? Across Texas, abandoned wells are erupting with chemical-infused liquid and some have created massive lakes of contaminated water. Regulators say they need more money to address the problem.

Govts taking backhanders from oil companies aren't especially inclined to force them to clean up their mess when they're done profiteering. Corruption's multigenerational costs. 2 million US wells alone.
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A call to heads of states and all leaders of the world from Slovenia’s first woman president: www.instagram.com/reel/DVRFoW7...

3. … and actually enlisting their views, their skills, their aid. As anyone who has lived through the Arab Spring knows, collapse and anarchy are not usually pretty or helpful for those caught in it. And both governments and publics need to learn collaborative strategy. Way too much is at stake.

2. Most governments are not in the habit of collaborating deeply with their citizens. Many fear them. But if they wish to keep the tiller even remotely steady as economies and societies radically transform, they must find ways of speaking with their publics on the perils of this moment,…/3

Few things matter more than an awareness of these crossroads of humanity, the need for civil dialogues on options ahead, and governments’ preparedness to govern wisely and with their publics in unstable times ahead. As otherwise, things fall apart rather fast. 🧵2/3
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There is nothing I can say about the horror of this world right now. My grieving hugs to friends in Iran and Israel/Palestine, and indeed all of us. A very dark moment for humanity.

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This video is based on Davies et al. (2026), which came out today: www.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2025.1730203

We have been speaking of these things for years, but now the scale is vast and the speed is grave.

Thank you @drtomharris.bsky.social

We have been saying this since at least the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, in which I was very deeply involved. But nonetheless, some governments, including sadly the UK, are not being proactive or forthright to a public which cares deeply about ecosystems and Nature. And that *must* change.

Indeed, this may be a year when quite a few smoldering powder kegs ignite, where governments are not being proactive and engaging deeply with their publics on the challenges of the future.

Bleak, but now utterly plain to most everyone.

I rode last week by train from Dublin with a software engineer. He knew of AI's vast hyperconsumption of energy and water driving our climate over the edge, and was challenged by the positive/negative impacts on his industry and the "self-policing."

My daughter, who monitors these things, tells me there's now pretty overwhelming evidence that this is likely to be the case. Homo sapiens? Sigh.

2,500-year-old 'primitive prosthetic' found on jaw of mummified Scythian woman who survived complex jaw surgery Researchers used CT scans to peer inside a partially mummified skull and discovered the woman survived jaw surgery 2,500 years ago.

Yep. Some of the recent findings about ancient jaw and skull surgeries were carried out are a powerful reminder that care and compassion are features of the human lineages that actually survive in times of crisis. www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

A cold rage: why a just transition matters Cold homes and rising power bills are fuelling public anger and challenging trust in how Sweden’s energy transition is being managed.

Cold homes and high energy bills are fuelling a “cold rage” in Sweden.

The climate transition must be fair, or it risks losing public trust, says SEI’s Jenny von Platten, drawing on her ongoing research on #EnergyPoverty:

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Underconsumption in the Anthropocene? Past, present and future of energy poverty in Sweden This project traces how experiences of energy poverty in Sweden have changed since the 1950s to inform more critical, sufficiency-oriented energy policymaking.

When we look at our world, inequality and injustice are at the root of most of our ills - and hyperconsumption at much of the rest. We need to tackle these two to get through the gauntlet of the next centuries.

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Sweet, thanks my friend and sociological overshoot advisor!

I sat in on SRM360’s impressive panel discussion today on the subject. I’d long been wary of SRM or indeed any reductionist interference with the climate. But now I lament we’ve gone too far without progress and must prepare as a risk management tool. An uncomfortable conclusion, but unavoidable.

Apart from driving the climate over the edge, it’s a fashion-focused driver of further obscene inequality…

I’m hearing some similar things from Aotearoan friends. To me it’s utterly tragic and mind-boggling how the absolute worst of humanity nonetheless finds contagion at these perilous times.