Mike joy
@mikejoyecologist.bsky.social
Ecologist and advocate for the life supporting capacity of the planet
The tiny grey sliver is remaining carbon budget for the mythical 1.5 degrees. Heads in sand we March on as if there is no tomorrow
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
The tiny grey sliver is remaining carbon budget for the mythical 1.5 degrees. Heads in sand we March on as if there is no tomorrow
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As we alarmingly wrote "We are hurtling toward climate chaos" in our new State of the Climate Report which just came out. We may be on the path of a hothouse Earth trajectory as shown in this figure. Read the full report: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
November 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
As we alarmingly wrote "We are hurtling toward climate chaos" in our new State of the Climate Report which just came out. We may be on the path of a hothouse Earth trajectory as shown in this figure. Read the full report: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
A Bolt From the Blue | Art Berman a brilliant reality check on the "energy transition" share.google/XaeDsECvQ2Kw...
A Bolt From the Blue | Art Berman
In 1858, Charles Darwin received a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace explaining that natural selection was the driving force behind evolution. Darwin later said it struck him like “a bolt from the blu...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:41 AM
A Bolt From the Blue | Art Berman a brilliant reality check on the "energy transition" share.google/XaeDsECvQ2Kw...
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Our carbon capture plan. . .
October 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Our carbon capture plan. . .
100% brilliant
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Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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October 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
100% brilliant
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This is key for planetary and personal health: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds
Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries
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October 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
This is key for planetary and personal health: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
New Zealands dairy driven freshwater disaster
September 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
New Zealands dairy driven freshwater disaster
Do the Math | Using physics and estimation to assess energy, growth, options—by Tom Murphy share.google/V4Xj0fN9kwfk...
Do the Math | Using physics and estimation to assess energy, growth, options—by Tom Murphy
One of the most common reactions is that abandoning agriculture is tantamount to committing many billions of people to death, since the planet can’t support billions of hunter-gatherers—especially given the dire toll on ecological health already accumulated.
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September 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Do the Math | Using physics and estimation to assess energy, growth, options—by Tom Murphy share.google/V4Xj0fN9kwfk...
Nailed! thanks Alf for saying it so clearly
September 23, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Nailed! thanks Alf for saying it so clearly
NZs industrial dairy freshwater disaster. I think that's me in the boat with Miles, Vicky and daisy. Feel i have made it to appear in a Sharon Murdoch cartoon
September 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
NZs industrial dairy freshwater disaster. I think that's me in the boat with Miles, Vicky and daisy. Feel i have made it to appear in a Sharon Murdoch cartoon
"The reality is that AI is primarily a military technology. Look at where the money and urgency are going. AI is already being built into surveillance, cyberwarfare, autonomous weapons, and propaganda."
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Beyond Surplus: Rethinking How Civilizations Rose | Art Berman
The surplus story most of us learned is straightforward. Once humans learned to farm, they grew more food than they needed. That extra food freed some people to build, rule, trade, fight, worship, cre...
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September 15, 2025 at 5:23 AM
"The reality is that AI is primarily a military technology. Look at where the money and urgency are going. AI is already being built into surveillance, cyberwarfare, autonomous weapons, and propaganda."
www.artberman.com/blog/beyond-...
www.artberman.com/blog/beyond-...
It's a warning Shane not just an annoying thing in your way
September 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
It's a warning Shane not just an annoying thing in your way
A snippet from electrifying the titanic by William Ophuls. Brilliant wee book
September 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
A snippet from electrifying the titanic by William Ophuls. Brilliant wee book
Debt traps
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The Debt Surge Ahead
Haven't we just passed by a dead end sign?
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September 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Debt traps
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Andy tells it how it is
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The word on the streets is stop
I’m a forest dweller trying to sell leaves to my neighbours.
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September 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Andy tells it how it is
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Something that bugs me a lot is that schools don't hesitate to ban smartphones in a hot second but are anxiously and aggressively pushing students to rely on error-prone automated bullshit engines
September 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Something that bugs me a lot is that schools don't hesitate to ban smartphones in a hot second but are anxiously and aggressively pushing students to rely on error-prone automated bullshit engines
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Me again... "If we do not quickly end the burning of fossil fuels then by the middle of this century the heatwave that is currently subjecting millions of people across Europe to crippling heat and humidity could be happening every other year." www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...
As Europe swelters, scientists warn things are going to get HOTTER
Scientists say the extreme heat gripping Europe is only the start, with climate change set to make heatwaves more frequent, longer, and even more deadly.
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July 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Me again... "If we do not quickly end the burning of fossil fuels then by the middle of this century the heatwave that is currently subjecting millions of people across Europe to crippling heat and humidity could be happening every other year." www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...
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Any claim of being the pro-life party should now and forever be received with howls of derision. Among many, many horrors this bill is essentially a gigantic fuck you to today's and future children -- human and non-human.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
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Senate Narrowly Passes Trump’s Policy Bill Amid Deep G.O.P. Divisions
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July 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Any claim of being the pro-life party should now and forever be received with howls of derision. Among many, many horrors this bill is essentially a gigantic fuck you to today's and future children -- human and non-human.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/u...
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"The climate has been barking at us for decades. It’s now beginning to sink its teeth into humanity. Every single way of avoiding further harm involves the rapid phase out of fossil fuels. Denying that is madness."
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The climate centre is barking mad
The climate movement will fail if it doesn't respect both political and physical realities
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June 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"The climate has been barking at us for decades. It’s now beginning to sink its teeth into humanity. Every single way of avoiding further harm involves the rapid phase out of fossil fuels. Denying that is madness."
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When, finally, politicians get it into their orthodox-economics-addled heads that we are facing not just a few points shaved off of GDP but actual near-term real-world disaster, then risk assessments will swing very quickly to deployment of geoengineering.
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Putting out fire with gasoline
Proposals to 'fix' climate change with geoengineering are unhinged, but risk becoming inevitable
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June 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
When, finally, politicians get it into their orthodox-economics-addled heads that we are facing not just a few points shaved off of GDP but actual near-term real-world disaster, then risk assessments will swing very quickly to deployment of geoengineering.
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May 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Our plan for the planet can't be the lesser of two evils newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/09/o...
Our plan for the planet can't be the lesser of two evils
From Victoria University - Opinion: The fossil fuel-powered lives of excess we in the wealthy world see as normal are not. What's being swept under the rug in the clean energy debate?
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May 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Our plan for the planet can't be the lesser of two evils newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/09/o...
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Grateful for a functioning judiciary
March 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Grateful for a functioning judiciary