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Interested in degrowth, ecological overshoot, ecological economics, random different "bits and bobs".

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Quite possibly losses are going to increase, correct?

09.10.2025 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is crazy indeed!

09.10.2025 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Swiss glaciers have lost 3% of their ice volume in 2025! πŸ”₯

...and ONE QUARTER only over the last 10 years! πŸ“ˆ

2025 is the 4th most disastrous loss ever measured (after absolute record years 2022 and 2023)!

JUST CRAZY… 😱

Full report:
doi.glamos.ch/pubs/annualr...

Data @matthias-huss.bsky.social

01.10.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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The anthropogenic glacier collapse currently underway in the Alps has resulted in the disappearance of >1000 small glaciers! 😱πŸ”₯

Following the release of Swiss glacier loss numbers today, let me introduce you the now extinct Vadret da Triazza (Eastern Switzerland) ✝️

Via @matthias-huss.bsky.social

01.10.2025 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 205    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 8
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Remember the catastrophic rock-ice avalanche of Blatten πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­ this May?
This incredible image comparison shows like nothing else the darkening of mountain peaks.
And along with the disappearance of snow, ice and permafrost, new hazards come along
@vaw-glaciology.bsky.social

01.10.2025 10:18 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Gries Glacier
1919 | 2025

Over last 12 months it has lost 6 meters in thickness at the bottom and even the top has melted! 🧊πŸ”₯

Between 2000 and 2023, the glacier lost 800 m in length, and is now 3.2 km shorter than in 1880! πŸ“ˆ

Average thickness, now only 57 m... 😱

Via @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social

01.10.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
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Glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada are likely disappearing for the first time in the Holocene! 🧊😲

What a surprise! (nope) πŸ™ƒ

Another evidence we are leaving the climate crucible that saw human societies develop! πŸ”₯πŸ“ˆ

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

04.10.2025 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Last rays on the Queen of this realm tonight! πŸ₯°

The pleasure of being out in the field would not be the same without her presence, benevolent and solemn πŸ’š

06.10.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mont Collon and Bas Glacier d'Arolla
1888 | 2025

Nothing is left of this valley glacier today...😱

Check our paper about Arolla glaciers here:
(PDF) Tree-ring Dating of the Little Ice Age Maxima of Arolla Glaciers (Valais, Switzerland) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

07.10.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Immersion in the Zinal Glacier ice cave today! 🧊πŸ₯°

08.10.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Blatten today with all the construction machinery buzzing around! 😰

Something truly astonishing to contemplate: a valley that will never be the same again...

09.10.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Attached is a suggestion I made several years ago. It would need to be part of a broader package, including eliminating first & business class, & ensuring even the first flight incurs the same tax & carbon costs as other fuels do. Aviation remains heavily dependent on its highly privileged status

09.10.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

To put it bluntly - humans are killing the ocean and a dead ocean represents a dead planet
The ocean cannot continue to take this huge amount of heat
Already as air moves over ocean it is picking up this excess heat and moisture, leading to excess heat hurricanes floods on land

08.10.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Introducing the 2025 Grist 50 list Climate solutions are more important now than ever. Read about 50 leaders shaping the future of climate progress.

Climate action isn’t stopping. The 2025 Grist50 spotlights 50 people reshaping arts, tech, food, land, policy and science. 10 years, 500 change-makers. Progress is alive β€” meet the leaders moving us forward.

Read more here: grist.org/fix/grist-50...

#Climate #Leadership #Arts #Tech #Business #Land

06.10.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But we are talking about degrowth economics not about child development.

IMO degrowth is already being recognized - but I might be biased.

09.10.2025 11:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"He has 100s of 1000s of Arabs' blood on his hands. Tony Blair should be heading to The Hague, not to Gaza."

What I told Piers Morgan on his show this week, about the ludicrous and colonial plan to have Blair help Trump run Gaza.

Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmdm...

08.10.2025 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 945    πŸ” 190    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 7

If this deal holds, if it goes beyond the 1st phrase, if all of the hostages on both side are released, if Israel withdraws its troops & doesn't resume bombing, if aid gets in, then I'll give Trump credit.

But I count 5 "ifs" above. Let's see. Trump always tends to disappoint.

08.10.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1056    πŸ” 156    πŸ’¬ 104    πŸ“Œ 11

I love that we live in a world where we're all supposed to now praise Trump for his peace-making and ignore the fact that at least 20,000 Palestinians have been killed on his watch, with bombs & bullets - & rhetorical support! - that he supplied to Israel.
That's all erased now.

09.10.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2677    πŸ” 534    πŸ’¬ 148    πŸ“Œ 22
Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

β€œthe girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

09.10.2025 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 8080    πŸ” 1566    πŸ’¬ 159    πŸ“Œ 115

I hope/pray this very flawed β€˜deal’ from Trump that Hamas & Israel agreed to ends the genocide & famine & leads to a real ceasefire.

But my biggest fear is there is nothing and no one to stop Netanyahu from resuming the genocide once they get all the hostages back and Trump has his Nobel Prize.

09.10.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2109    πŸ” 325    πŸ’¬ 204    πŸ“Œ 24

I tried all day to join antifa.
I was thwarted!
β€’No website.
β€’No email.
β€’No Substack.
β€’No Instagram.
β€’No LinkedIn
β€’No TikTok
β€’Not even a lousy Facebook page.

I wonder if Pam Bondi can help me find them.

09.10.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1503    πŸ” 423    πŸ’¬ 144    πŸ“Œ 29
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Has finding an affordable home in Australia just gotten harder? | Fiona Katauskas Thanks climate change

Astute work by @fionakatauskas.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

09.10.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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Pastor shot in the head by ICE agents sues over First Amendment threats David Black joins journalists and protesters in lawsuit to stop β€˜pattern of extreme brutality’ from federal agents

An incident in Chicago took place that everyone in America should know about. Trump's ICE thugs shot a pastor in the head with a pepper bullet. He's suing. This man should be internationally famous. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

09.10.2025 04:12 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

I agree.

09.10.2025 03:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On Palestine We stand in unconditional solidarity with Palestine and with the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people. Because their freedom is bound up with the freedom and survival of all oppressed pe...

Degrowth without anti-imperialism is just lifestyle politics. #Palestine makes this undeniable. Read our colleagues' statement on why this is a #degrowth issueπŸ‘‡

07.10.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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3️⃣/4️⃣ Proposals for a Green New Deal Beyond Growth

🀲 UNIVERSAL PUBLIC SERVICES

πŸ”— Read the full policy brief and executive summary at: degrowth.org/blog/2025/09...
β€”
#policybrief #greennewdeal #wellbeing #welfarestate #degrowth #postgrowth

07.10.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Peak Oil is here After basic needs, "the best things in life are free", time for an economic revolution then!

β€œThe economy is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the environment. We can print more money, but we cannot print more living systems… Recognising this is the first step in curing our β€˜Energy Blindness’ & redefining what true wealth means.” #PostGrowth #Degrowth
open.substack.com/pub/misterjo...

07.10.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The idea that people cant adjust to new careers if given the tools to do so is probably the weakest and most common argument against degrowth that I’ve encountered.

It hinges entirely on the idea that we can’t dismantle harmful industries because the people in them are too dumb/uneducated to learn

07.10.2025 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Technofeudalism and Degrowth (my response to Yanis Varoufakis) | DEGROWTHIFY #1
YouTube video by Vlad Bunea Technofeudalism and Degrowth (my response to Yanis Varoufakis) | DEGROWTHIFY #1

youtu.be/-L1tKQHPJoE?...
Technofeudalism and Degrowth @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social

07.10.2025 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On Saturday I take part in the Scientists Responsibility Summit in #Berlin. I talk about Challenges for the Degrowth Transformation: The Role of Academia. Berliners can still register and livestream will be provided (link below). @scientistrebellion.bsky.social

blogs.fu-berlin.de/scientistsre...

08.10.2025 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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