@phoebebarnard.bsky.social
The world doesn't have to be this way. Climate & biodiversity science, risk &resilience, societal/planetary futures. Prof Univ Washington; research assoc African Climate & Development Initiative/ Fitztitute, UCapeTown, building global futures collaborative
On the Overshoot podcast with Nandita Bajaj and Alan Ware. This is an absolutely wonderful and highly rated podcast series, with excellent guests and great conversations - check it out at www.populationbalance.org/podcast.
@christinewebb.bsky.social @popnbalance.bsky.social
So glad you know my friends there. x
Good move. It won't end there, but when I lived there as a student I set off for a PhD Oxford job in Zimbabwe (and 3 years turned into 34) instead of lining up Canadian citizenship. What happens in the USA, sadly, doesn't stay in the USA. So be active wherever you are.
Good memory, thanks for the headline. I remember that too.
So happy to meet Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social via @natehagens.bsky.social. She calls the root of our systemic planetary/societal crises human exceptionalism. I've called it human supremacy. But there are few better weeks to make the point than this tragic one. youtu.be/ArHrLzkJm_k?...
If you have not already got yourself / your community completely off #fossilfuels - now’s a very, very good time to start practicing getting by on 20% or less of what you’re used to. And to reflect on this moment at the crossroads of humanity. aje.news/67zjaw #gulfcrisis #ww3 #israeluswar #hostage
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This is Jeffrey Sachs at his darkest and most incandescent at once. He speaks for millions of us. Perhaps billions worldwide. 🤯
Skip ahead past the intro frames 😏
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Our film, the People's Emergency Briefing, launches on 7th April. Find out more, including how to host a screening your community: www.nebriefing.org/the-film
More testimonials from those who attended the National Emergency Briefing. www.nebriefing.org/testimonials
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
Has your MP joined the Parliamentary Call yet for Government to stage a televised emergency briefing on the threats from climate change and nature loss?
Find out here:
www.nebriefing.org/parliamentar...
If not, would you consider hosting a screening of our new film?
www.nebriefing.org/the-film
Keep getting it out, Laurel 📯 📣
And it's not difficult to see how this becomes the ultimate step towards civil war. The USA, despite unpopularity of all that's happening, is now perilously close to a tipping point. 🫤
Fascinating that Bier is director of immigration at Cato Institute, cofounded by Charles Koch and not known for its progressive politics. The vise is tightening.
This shouldn't be news to anyone anymore, but still we follow fashion to create funny memes and odd artwork, driving us over the destabilization cliff. "If I were god" (household joke), I'd reserve it for a handful of really important public-good uses. Vaccine development. Climate modeling - etc.
4. Thank you @therestpolitics.bsky.social for another punchy analysis of indeed a gobsmackingly appalling set of unstrategic missteps. ⬆️
3. “Just step back: What is Trump doing again? Weakening his allies, strengthening his adversaries. He’s going to make Ukraine weaker,.. European economies weaker, and he’s strengthening China, Russia, everyone who benefits from.. America (being) seen as an unpredictable, savage, unreliable ally.”
2. Roughly paraphrased quote from @therestpolitics.bsky.social’s Rory and Alistair:
“I’d like to see #EdMiliband make a speech *right now* on energy resilience and how much better off we would have been with massive investment in renewables.” @houseofcommons.parliament.uk
“Trumps Planlosigkeit ist eine Gefahr.” - Der Spiegel. “Trump’s planlessness is a danger.”
Well, you can say that again. How few men are holding the entire world hostage with their reckless egos and superficial ideologies? Warfare asymmetries & planlessness. #Iran
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Except there may be a few billion of us up on that cliff, at this rate.
One of the scientists at Chornobyl sent us this for our upcoming film, Climate in a Time of Conflict, set partly in Ukraine. But look at how much closer to midnight we’ve become since 27 January when this article was written. #risk
Not a good month for humanity.
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If you don’t already follow the wonderful Nigerian writer Adetokunbo Abiola, I’d strongly recommend him. My partly Nigerian-raised husband is in Ukraine making a film, “Climate in a Time of Conflict.” And I’ve watched war’s impacts on Nature in Angola and Namibia.
open.substack.com/pub/adetokun...
At the moment this news came out, I knew that if we retain any semblance of a civilization at all, our world will be gripped in war crimes tribunals for the rest of our times. Every parent, every politician in USA and Israel must confront this horror. Most do not condone it. But some are unaware.
The UK government should be stockpiling food, according to a leading expert on food policy, as it is not prepared for climate shocks or wars that could cause famine.
Prof Tim Lang: UK, a small island, relies on corps and produces far less food than needed to feed its giant population. #preparedness
“I think I went to sleep and woke up in an insane asylum” - Josie Watts.
And which of us couldn’t say the same?
“I think I went to sleep and woke up in an insane asylum”
- reader Josie Watts on a Facebook post on the nouveau-crusades Illuminati gladiator rhetoric being spouted at the Pentagon, e.g. Trump “anointed by Jesus” to start an apocalypse in Iran.
Then this:
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Beautiful work and sleuthing.
And thanks @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social for reposting our fundraiser for Ukrainian scientist Svitlana Krakovska's community. . .
Last night I created Phoebe's little subscriber coffee café on Substack at the coalface of civilizational shift preparedness.
Real-life conversations can change the trajectory of humanity and the biosphere. A BYOB coffee café for serious, playful talk of the future
open.substack.com/pub/phoebeba...
This is one of the realms of the absolutely possible, and absolutely urgent for the reconnection of humanity, the repair of the climate, the restoration of ecosystems and food systems.
Please, share this wonderful organization's work.
As an ecosystem scientist, I get why the majority of politicians don't perceive severe environmental degradation risks, even to food security. They've lived in magic worlds: the economy, military, public policy. But now we know. And *all* governments had best be very proactive & judicious right now.
