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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.

Frontiers | The Antarctic Peninsula under present day climate and future low, medium-high and very high emissions scenarios The Antarctic Peninsula is warming rapidly, with more frequent extreme temperature and precipitation events, reduced sea ice, glacier retreat, ice shelf coll...

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.

Agree? Disagree?

Thanks @mukulsoman.bsky.social for this.

A quiet climate majority is getting louder Rare's research suggests Americans are more aligned, more supportive, and more willing to engage on climate solutions than our public discourse reflects.

Yes, and dont let anyone selling binary tribalism tell you differently

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Vinyl cladding, composite flooring, asbestos, PVC piping, composite roofing - who really thought any of that was a good idea?

You’re in the US?

It was sad to live in the foothills of Mont Blanc and the Vercors Massif this winter, mountain communities trying to adapt to the loss of winter sports/tourism income. A dynamic planet for sure that we live on. Humanity and our economy aren’t prepared for instability or the weakening of the AMOC.

When Racism Stops Carrying Consequences Opinion: Trump’s attacks on the Obamas reveal what happens when open bigotry no longer disqualifies a president—and how that shift could endanger civil-rights protections.

“Everyone understands that depicting the Obamas as apes is racist. And still, only 11 congressional Republicans could be bothered to condemn it.”

YouTube video by AFP France: les images impressionnantes des crues

And France has a Minister of the Ecological Transition. This is the way that countries increase their resilience in the face of what’s to come. Or in some countries, fail to.

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I agree with all of your points fully in principle, thank you for laying them out! Let me take time to listen and read and think - I’ll try to reply soon. ✨

Thanks for sharing this. Impromptu, my filmmaker husband who was there filmed her speech at that evening but it was not rigged for audio or high quality video so I’m delighted that they have re-shot it.

Exactly as I’ve also said to governments and research groups - but succinctly framed by Carlo Angeles. Governments must do better to step up to the real world, as it already has become. | Phoebe Barn... Exactly as I’ve also said to governments and research groups - but succinctly framed by Carlo Angeles. Governments must do better to step up to the real world, as it already has become.

Governments must do better to step up to the real world, as it already has become. Not difficult in the long run - just needs a big rethink.

@climatemajority.bsky.social @rupertread.bsky.social @liamkavanagh.bsky.social @jamesgdyke.info @laurielaybourn.bsky.social

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