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Iran decides their new leaders. It is a sovereign country.

absent from this analysis is the fact that negotiations in Geneva over whether or not Iran was or would ever in the future develop a nuclear bomb were going well. Agreement had been reached, fine-tuning of the language of the agreement was to continue on Monday. the US struck preventably & illegally

Stunning , Tara! Ataahua hoki!

Ka aroha hoki.

Mark Carney just picked his lane on climate change For all the recent talk about pipelines, it's clear that Mark Carney's economic strategy revolves around turning Canada into one of the world's leading electro-states.

Mark Carney just picked his lane on climate change www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/13/o...

Project Drawdown launches Climate Science Serving America Fellowship to support scientists working in the public good Fellowship seeks early- to mid-career researchers based in America who are committed to science and public expertise

While others are stepping back on climate, Project Drawdown is stepping up!

We’re proud to announce the Climate Science Serving America Fellowship to support U.S.-based Ph.D.-level scientists & engineers focused on climate solutions for the public good.

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Intense competition for resources is always followed by conflict, depletion, extinction and collapse.

No civilisation has ever managed to challenge this sequence

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Native American tribe reclaims land at the edge of Yosemite National Park The tribal nation that calls Yosemite National Park its ancestral home has reclaimed a stunning piece of its historical territory with the acquisition of 800 acres along the edge of the park.

Occasionally there is good news.

Buy a book.

Any book, it doesn't matter which. The one you've been looking forward to, the one with the title that made you laugh, the weighty award-winner you've been meaning to get to. Whatever.

Treat yourself. Step away from it all. In this time of gross ignorance & madness, read something.

The Panel with Marian Hobbs and Scott Campbell, Part 1 Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Marian Hobbs and Scott Campbell. First up, health insurance premiums rose by a shocking 19.2 percent in the year to September - what's dr...

About half way through The panel today with Wallace Chapman on Radio NZ I talk about the chaotic situation the government finds itself in without a plan for climate policy, a very long from the John Key government’s Paris position www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

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How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing

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World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating

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“As it evolved, capitalist civilisation became a snowball of self-fraud: humans created products they didn’t need, jobs they didn’t like, and places they couldn’t live in”

How did I miss this?

Woa.

Indigenous lands must be recognised as part of climate policy, says Brazilian minister Sonia Guajajara tells Cop30 the rights of traditional communities must be maintained in the face of exploitation by the mining industry Countries must recognise the demarcation of Indigenous lands as a key component of tackling the climate crisis, and civil society must help in the defence of such lands against mining interests, Brazil’s minister for Indigenous peoples has said. Sonia Guajajara, a longtime Indigenous activist before being appointed a minister by President Lula da Silva, said: “[Among the goals of the Cop30 summit is] a request that countries recognise the demarcation of Indigenous lands as climate policy.” Continue reading...

Indigenous lands must be recognised as part of climate policy, says Brazilian minister

YouTube video by More Perfect Union We Found Corporate America’s Biggest Enemy

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This is essential viewing. Arohamai for the clickbaity title. This is worth 14mins of your time

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Ahead of COP 30 I’ve been thinking about the irony that the critics of our 1.5 IPCC report are many of the people now saying it’s too late to act because we’ve going past 1.5 & we must focus on instead on technological fixes to address overshoot - here’s why I think these arguments are distractions

I am full of admiration Tara!

Ah. Wow. That’s awesome!

Good luck with that 😊

“At the centre of our existential polycrisis has been our failure to understand the politics of the ecosystem: Earth only works as a federation of 10 million species, not a dictatorship of one”

From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM

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How can we prepare for shocks? A good start is by collecting data on past events.

Centre researcher Emmy Wassénius leads the project Shock Tracker the first prototype of a united database of social-ecological shocks.

Learn more: www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...

The new Global Tipping Points Report 2025 finds that warm-water coral reefs, on which nearly a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend, are passing their tipping point.The only way to avert catastrophe is to act urgently, triggering ‘positive tipping points’: lnkd.in/dbfNYSDp

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower Rilke’s Timeless Spell for Living Through Difficult Times

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