Jussi Pasanen
@jopas.bsky.social
A designer who would like to ensure that there remains a liveable world for our kids to enjoy
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Jussi Pasanen
@jopas.bsky.social
· Nov 22
(Thread) I have been trying to understand the root causes of human-induced ecological and climate breakdown, and have written several essays about the systemic problems and drivers. I am collecting them here:
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Water conflicts are on the rise, ping @bios.fi @ezhakala.bsky.social @helmiraisanen.bsky.social and others.
(and this is pretty amazing chronology/time-series, 4000 years of conflicts about water. And the incidents are on the rise, because, well, there is scarcity of water due to climate change)
(and this is pretty amazing chronology/time-series, 4000 years of conflicts about water. And the incidents are on the rise, because, well, there is scarcity of water due to climate change)
New report identifies major surge in water-related conflicts.
Violence over water is reported in every region of the world.
Pacific Institute releases an update to the Water Conflict Chronology, now documenting over 2750 cases over more than 4000 years. #water
www.worldwater.org/water-confli...
Violence over water is reported in every region of the world.
Pacific Institute releases an update to the Water Conflict Chronology, now documenting over 2750 cases over more than 4000 years. #water
www.worldwater.org/water-confli...
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Water conflicts are on the rise, ping @bios.fi @ezhakala.bsky.social @helmiraisanen.bsky.social and others.
(and this is pretty amazing chronology/time-series, 4000 years of conflicts about water. And the incidents are on the rise, because, well, there is scarcity of water due to climate change)
(and this is pretty amazing chronology/time-series, 4000 years of conflicts about water. And the incidents are on the rise, because, well, there is scarcity of water due to climate change)
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
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“Climate-related disasters forcibly displaced 250 million people globally over the past decade, the equivalent of 70,000 displacements every day, according to a report by the UN refugee agency.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds
Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“Climate-related disasters forcibly displaced 250 million people globally over the past decade, the equivalent of 70,000 displacements every day, according to a report by the UN refugee agency.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Excellent piece about future of America that might be right out from (dystopian) sci-fi novel in just few years time (2050). Thought-provoking and disturbing in certain ways, but good read.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Excellent piece about future of America that might be right out from (dystopian) sci-fi novel in just few years time (2050). Thought-provoking and disturbing in certain ways, but good read.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Photos: The Northern Lights Put on a Show - A powerful geomagnetic storm brought spectacular light displays to the night skies across the Northern Hemisphere, with sightings as far south as Florida and Oklahoma. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Photos: The Northern Lights Put on a Show - A powerful geomagnetic storm brought spectacular light displays to the night skies across the Northern Hemisphere, with sightings as far south as Florida and Oklahoma. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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“Between 1989 and 2022, households in the top 1 percent added about 100 times as much wealth as households at the national median. The share of all U.S. wealth held by the top 0.00001 percent has nearly doubled over the last decade.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Opinion | The Haves and Have-Nots Are, Once Again, at War
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“Between 1989 and 2022, households in the top 1 percent added about 100 times as much wealth as households at the national median. The share of all U.S. wealth held by the top 0.00001 percent has nearly doubled over the last decade.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
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📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢
Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.
The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.
The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢
Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.
The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.
The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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What's striking isn't the growing number of studies finding negative effects from using AI - in this case, to have it summarize research for you (vs. searching individual sources yourself) - but the kneejerk tendency of those reporting them to ask how best to use AI (vs. whether we need it at all).
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
What's striking isn't the growing number of studies finding negative effects from using AI - in this case, to have it summarize research for you (vs. searching individual sources yourself) - but the kneejerk tendency of those reporting them to ask how best to use AI (vs. whether we need it at all).
Have a listen to this Palantir ad talking about AI eliminating workers. It's a bit on the nose, in more ways than one.
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Have a listen to this Palantir ad talking about AI eliminating workers. It's a bit on the nose, in more ways than one.
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"The report.......substantiates claims the country's gas export industry could be hampering global efforts to decarbonise, according to climate and energy analysts"
A leaked report confirms carpet-bombing other countries with fossil fuel exports actively stifles renewable energy development -->>>
A leaked report confirms carpet-bombing other countries with fossil fuel exports actively stifles renewable energy development -->>>
Secret report challenges government claim WA gas will help world decarbonise
A secret report undermines the WA government's claim that domestic gas production is helping the rest of the world decarbonise, while the state's own greenhouse gas emissions rise.
www.abc.net.au
November 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"The report.......substantiates claims the country's gas export industry could be hampering global efforts to decarbonise, according to climate and energy analysts"
A leaked report confirms carpet-bombing other countries with fossil fuel exports actively stifles renewable energy development -->>>
A leaked report confirms carpet-bombing other countries with fossil fuel exports actively stifles renewable energy development -->>>
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Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
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Record high ocean temperatures continued across the North Pacific in October 2025, with recent warming really amplifying since the early 2000s.
This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every October from 1854-2025 using
NOAA ERSSTv5 data (psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...).
This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every October from 1854-2025 using
NOAA ERSSTv5 data (psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...).
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Record high ocean temperatures continued across the North Pacific in October 2025, with recent warming really amplifying since the early 2000s.
This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every October from 1854-2025 using
NOAA ERSSTv5 data (psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...).
This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every October from 1854-2025 using
NOAA ERSSTv5 data (psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...).
Reminds me of one of my favourites, 'This is progress' by Levni Yilmaz #thenandnow
@meganjherbert.bsky.social
@meganjherbert.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Reminds me of one of my favourites, 'This is progress' by Levni Yilmaz #thenandnow
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@meganjherbert.bsky.social
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The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.
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go to the cloud they said
itll be fine they said
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline
itll be fine they said
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline
November 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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The chart most certainly visualizes the range of AI predictions accurately.
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The chart most certainly visualizes the range of AI predictions accurately.
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Climate talk in Helsinki at request of young people standing up for their future - mailchi.mp/caa/a-climat...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/a-climate-...
Video: drive.google.com/file/d/1NGOp...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/a-climate-...
Video: drive.google.com/file/d/1NGOp...
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Climate talk in Helsinki at request of young people standing up for their future - mailchi.mp/caa/a-climat...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/a-climate-...
Video: drive.google.com/file/d/1NGOp...
Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/a-climate-...
Video: drive.google.com/file/d/1NGOp...
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everyone knows Richard Scarry's "Very Busy Surveillance State." classic.
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
everyone knows Richard Scarry's "Very Busy Surveillance State." classic.
November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Who's surprised?
Venture capitalists Andreessen and Horowitz invest in startup that sells thousands of AI bot influencers to manipulate social media as a service, clearly violating major platform policies
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...
a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.
www.404media.co
November 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Who's surprised?
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a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
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The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
Standard Operating Procedure: Privatise profits, socialise losses
As we debate building a new generation of fossil fuel infrastructure for data centers and LNG exports, it's helpful to understand how the last generation's infrastructure is faring. Answer: the fossil fuel industry (and now the fed gov't) has left it behind to poison our communities.
Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.
November 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Standard Operating Procedure: Privatise profits, socialise losses
"It's by design"
There is increasing talk about overshoot of 1.5°C, particularly that *now* we can only achieve 1.5°C by first overshooting 1.5°C.
Well, sorry to tell you, 1.5°C have always been overshoot scenarios. Here from the original 'SSP' 1.5°C scenarios published in 2018.
[Overshoot is a scenario design]
Well, sorry to tell you, 1.5°C have always been overshoot scenarios. Here from the original 'SSP' 1.5°C scenarios published in 2018.
[Overshoot is a scenario design]
November 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"It's by design"