Philip Harris (@PhilipHarris15)
@philsharris.bsky.social
Retd. plant scientist keeping a log in accelerating time. Agrarian-minded if/when optimistic about the future. Regrets extinctions & other loss. Updates carrying capacity, LTG, geopolitical crunch & wars, leaving twitter. PoV: 'Predicaments not problems!
Pinned
Aquifer
No matter....
harrisp.substack.com
'Human Ecology', widen the frame, note +ve feedback loops, sustainable until not? Not just cliches. Try some poetry can span a history. My timid effort 'Aquifer' & shout out Daraja Press et al here harrisp.substack.com/p/aquifer
There is much for the human family at stake here... their home is our ecology and more... the human mind.
For them, distance is protection — not isolation.
Uncontacted Indigenous peoples are defending their lands.
Discover their stories, their resilience – and the threats to their survival: uncontactedpeoples.org
#AtTheEdge #uncontacted #uncontactedpeoples #northsentinel #amazon #indigenouspeoples
Uncontacted Indigenous peoples are defending their lands.
Discover their stories, their resilience – and the threats to their survival: uncontactedpeoples.org
#AtTheEdge #uncontacted #uncontactedpeoples #northsentinel #amazon #indigenouspeoples
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
There is much for the human family at stake here... their home is our ecology and more... the human mind.
Who is thinking about it?
"How to end Israeli apartheid www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/how-...
"How to end Israeli apartheid www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/how-...
How to end Israeli apartheid
Many people have a ready answer to the Israel/Palestine issue, whether a one-state, a two-state, a federal or a confederal…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Who is thinking about it?
"How to end Israeli apartheid www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/how-...
"How to end Israeli apartheid www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/how-...
Meanwhile with an excellent comment...
"As Jewish academics, we reject the weaponisation of antisemitism www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/as-j...
"As Jewish academics, we reject the weaponisation of antisemitism www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/as-j...
As Jewish academics, we reject the weaponisation of antisemitism
Three Jewish academics at Goldsmiths University, Michael Rosen, Catherine Rottenberg and Des Freedman, are very critical of their university’s handling of allegations…
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November 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Meanwhile with an excellent comment...
"As Jewish academics, we reject the weaponisation of antisemitism www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/as-j...
"As Jewish academics, we reject the weaponisation of antisemitism www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/as-j...
URGENT
While Israelis burn ancient Palestine Christian town Tabeh, genocide goes exponential
"We denounce the horrendous mass atrocities and killings that have been taking place in and around El Fasher, Sudan.
People must be allowed to escape El Fasher and move to safer areas:
x.com/MSF/status/1...
While Israelis burn ancient Palestine Christian town Tabeh, genocide goes exponential
"We denounce the horrendous mass atrocities and killings that have been taking place in and around El Fasher, Sudan.
People must be allowed to escape El Fasher and move to safer areas:
x.com/MSF/status/1...
November 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
URGENT
While Israelis burn ancient Palestine Christian town Tabeh, genocide goes exponential
"We denounce the horrendous mass atrocities and killings that have been taking place in and around El Fasher, Sudan.
People must be allowed to escape El Fasher and move to safer areas:
x.com/MSF/status/1...
While Israelis burn ancient Palestine Christian town Tabeh, genocide goes exponential
"We denounce the horrendous mass atrocities and killings that have been taking place in and around El Fasher, Sudan.
People must be allowed to escape El Fasher and move to safer areas:
x.com/MSF/status/1...
Gates is put of his depth... climate is part of disaster from human 'overshoot' in the biosphere.
artberman.com
Bill Gates Has Solved Climate Change | Art Berman
We can all relax. Bill Gates has solved climate change. That should trigger every intuitive alarm our species has evolved. His m
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Bill Gates Has Solved Climate Change | Art Berman
We can all relax. Bill Gates has solved climate change. That should trigger every intuitive alarm our species has evolved. His m
Hire Renowned Energy Consultant & Keynote Speaker | Art Berman
Industry-leading energy consultant, petroleum geologist & keynote speaker delivering bias-free education & insights. Expert witness & consulting services.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Gates is put of his depth... climate is part of disaster from human 'overshoot' in the biosphere.
artberman.com
Bill Gates Has Solved Climate Change | Art Berman
We can all relax. Bill Gates has solved climate change. That should trigger every intuitive alarm our species has evolved. His m
artberman.com
Bill Gates Has Solved Climate Change | Art Berman
We can all relax. Bill Gates has solved climate change. That should trigger every intuitive alarm our species has evolved. His m
Scotland pulls ahead... stunned uplands especially could do with a bit of comprehending friendship.
Great news for nature🌳 Yesterday MSPs voted to create a law obliging the owners of large landholdings to publish plans on how they will increase biodiversity and adapt to climate breakdown, as part of the new Land Reform Bill.
Read the full story 👉 bit.ly/4hyl3Gl
📷James Shooter/Rewilding Britain
Read the full story 👉 bit.ly/4hyl3Gl
📷James Shooter/Rewilding Britain
New law says large landowners need to set out biodiversity plans, in ‘big step towards a Rewilding Nation’ - Trees for Life
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October 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Scotland pulls ahead... stunned uplands especially could do with a bit of comprehending friendship.
The landscapes of friendship discerned? Walking for hours again!
In Our Hands
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In Our Hands
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It's In Our Hands
How not to be conformed to the machine, pt1, an introduction
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October 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The landscapes of friendship discerned? Walking for hours again!
In Our Hands
open.substack.com/pub/caroline...
In Our Hands
open.substack.com/pub/caroline...
Yes. and there are also realities consequential of the industrial era... see my substack 'Aquifer'. Any guess about the USA and "the rupture"?
After the “time of monsters” – what next for Israel and Palestine? www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/afte...
After the “time of monsters” – what next for Israel and Palestine? www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/afte...
After the “time of monsters” – what next for Israel and Palestine?
A review of a book with a blueprint for moving from apartheid to democracy was published just days before the…
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October 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Yes. and there are also realities consequential of the industrial era... see my substack 'Aquifer'. Any guess about the USA and "the rupture"?
After the “time of monsters” – what next for Israel and Palestine? www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/afte...
After the “time of monsters” – what next for Israel and Palestine? www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/afte...
"...most pronounced in Scotland, where the bulk of deaths from drugs and suicide have afflicted the generation that grew up during spells of high joblessness during the rapid deindustrialisation of the 1970s and 1980s."
Yep, I saw it... +heroin/HIV colonisation
John Burn-Murdoch, FT, h/t Adam Tooze
Yep, I saw it... +heroin/HIV colonisation
John Burn-Murdoch, FT, h/t Adam Tooze
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
"...most pronounced in Scotland, where the bulk of deaths from drugs and suicide have afflicted the generation that grew up during spells of high joblessness during the rapid deindustrialisation of the 1970s and 1980s."
Yep, I saw it... +heroin/HIV colonisation
John Burn-Murdoch, FT, h/t Adam Tooze
Yep, I saw it... +heroin/HIV colonisation
John Burn-Murdoch, FT, h/t Adam Tooze
Write your poems? They turn up interesting questions. Canadian poet can look in his eye and over his shoulder this November. Cuoreosity- Living The Questions millardj.substack.com?utm_campaign...
Cuoreosity- Living The Questions | Jamie Millard | Substack
An invitation into the deeper conversations that will shape your Being as you live into the light of the very questions themselves. Click to read Cuoreosity- Living The Questions, by Jamie Millard, a ...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Write your poems? They turn up interesting questions. Canadian poet can look in his eye and over his shoulder this November. Cuoreosity- Living The Questions millardj.substack.com?utm_campaign...
Can't get a lot starker than this... 2050? but what happens when a large dynamic structure fueled by primary energy cracks? Modern civilisation is complex and fragile... relies almost entirely on fossil fuel.
Energy Reality: What Can’t (and Won’t) Happen
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Energy Reality: What Can’t (and Won’t) Happen
artberman.com
Hire Renowned Energy Consultant & Keynote Speaker | Art Berman
Industry-leading energy consultant, petroleum geologist & keynote speaker delivering bias-free education & insights. Expert witness & consulting services.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Can't get a lot starker than this... 2050? but what happens when a large dynamic structure fueled by primary energy cracks? Modern civilisation is complex and fragile... relies almost entirely on fossil fuel.
Energy Reality: What Can’t (and Won’t) Happen
artberman.com
Energy Reality: What Can’t (and Won’t) Happen
artberman.com
Measured, not prophetic, we are not there yet but the signs are.
Is Israel in trouble – or at least under pressure? www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/is-i...
Is Israel in trouble – or at least under pressure? www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/is-i...
Is Israel in trouble – or at least under pressure?
Here is an assessment of the state of play for Israel at the moment in various arenas. Despite its superior…
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October 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Measured, not prophetic, we are not there yet but the signs are.
Is Israel in trouble – or at least under pressure? www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/is-i...
Is Israel in trouble – or at least under pressure? www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/is-i...
Notes for the grandchildren... diet matters, sugar the industrial product?
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Exposure to sugar rationing in first 1000 days after conception and long term cardiovascular outcomes: natural experiment study
Objective To examine whether exposure to sugar rationing during early life is associated with a reduction in the risk of cardiovascular outcomes in adulthood.
Design Natural experiment study.
Settin...
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October 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Notes for the grandchildren... diet matters, sugar the industrial product?
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Step back a bit, I have this morning been relaying a quote from September 1939 by W.H. Auden. Now from Adam Tooze; hinge period, arms & resources race? Confidence, fear & destructive innovation?
"Last time debts as a share of GDP [Advanced economies] were this high was around the Napoleonic war."
"Last time debts as a share of GDP [Advanced economies] were this high was around the Napoleonic war."
October 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Step back a bit, I have this morning been relaying a quote from September 1939 by W.H. Auden. Now from Adam Tooze; hinge period, arms & resources race? Confidence, fear & destructive innovation?
"Last time debts as a share of GDP [Advanced economies] were this high was around the Napoleonic war."
"Last time debts as a share of GDP [Advanced economies] were this high was around the Napoleonic war."
@CraigMurrayOrg
The ICJ has just rejected EVERY SINGLE ISRAELI POINT...found:
Israel is an illegal occupier,
has duty to ensure humanitarian relief is provided to the Palestinians,
must cooperate with UN, specifically UNRWA, and other aid agencies
must allow ICRC access to Palestinian prisoners
The ICJ has just rejected EVERY SINGLE ISRAELI POINT...found:
Israel is an illegal occupier,
has duty to ensure humanitarian relief is provided to the Palestinians,
must cooperate with UN, specifically UNRWA, and other aid agencies
must allow ICRC access to Palestinian prisoners
October 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
@CraigMurrayOrg
The ICJ has just rejected EVERY SINGLE ISRAELI POINT...found:
Israel is an illegal occupier,
has duty to ensure humanitarian relief is provided to the Palestinians,
must cooperate with UN, specifically UNRWA, and other aid agencies
must allow ICRC access to Palestinian prisoners
The ICJ has just rejected EVERY SINGLE ISRAELI POINT...found:
Israel is an illegal occupier,
has duty to ensure humanitarian relief is provided to the Palestinians,
must cooperate with UN, specifically UNRWA, and other aid agencies
must allow ICRC access to Palestinian prisoners
Read the letter, hold 'our' governments to account, and tear down 'our' official propaganda complicit in genocide. Take action.
At last, a serious global Jewish call for sanctions on Israel www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/at-l...
At last, a serious global Jewish call for sanctions on Israel www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/at-l...
At last, a serious global Jewish call for sanctions on Israel
Not before time, a significant body of world Jewish opinion has come out in support of sanctions against Israel. As…
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October 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Read the letter, hold 'our' governments to account, and tear down 'our' official propaganda complicit in genocide. Take action.
At last, a serious global Jewish call for sanctions on Israel www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/at-l...
At last, a serious global Jewish call for sanctions on Israel www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/at-l...
North Atlantic, the drivers of change, the food chains and their implications... Worth checking out atmospheric anthropomorphic CO2 absorption by the ocean, flagellates, diatoms, calcifiers and copepods; it gets complicated at the Fram Strait.
October 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
North Atlantic, the drivers of change, the food chains and their implications... Worth checking out atmospheric anthropomorphic CO2 absorption by the ocean, flagellates, diatoms, calcifiers and copepods; it gets complicated at the Fram Strait.
Reposted by Philip Harris (@PhilipHarris15)
The true poet, or mystic,
is not too proud to admit that, in matters great and small, they cannot proceed until they receive further instructions.
is not too proud to admit that, in matters great and small, they cannot proceed until they receive further instructions.
October 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The true poet, or mystic,
is not too proud to admit that, in matters great and small, they cannot proceed until they receive further instructions.
is not too proud to admit that, in matters great and small, they cannot proceed until they receive further instructions.
Interesting comment on this by Rob Moir At the Ocean River Institute,
Bright Spot: North Atlantic Right Whale Numbers are Still Rising open.substack.com/pub/revkin/p...
Bright Spot: North Atlantic Right Whale Numbers are Still Rising open.substack.com/pub/revkin/p...
Rob Moir on Sustain What
Bravo, 384 North Atlantic right whales! Still with only about 70 breeding females, right whales' survival is hardly assured. Much is being done to slow ships in the presence of whales and to eliminate...
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October 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Interesting comment on this by Rob Moir At the Ocean River Institute,
Bright Spot: North Atlantic Right Whale Numbers are Still Rising open.substack.com/pub/revkin/p...
Bright Spot: North Atlantic Right Whale Numbers are Still Rising open.substack.com/pub/revkin/p...
I post this in solidarity. Build safety in identity and security globally, Jews & non-Jews, use our resources well. Common interest in peace.
Building a Vision for Antizionist Judaism www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/buil...
Building a Vision for Antizionist Judaism www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/buil...
Building a Vision for Antizionist Judaism
More and more Jews are appalled at what Israel is doing in Gaza and in the West Bank. Some have…
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October 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I post this in solidarity. Build safety in identity and security globally, Jews & non-Jews, use our resources well. Common interest in peace.
Building a Vision for Antizionist Judaism www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/buil...
Building a Vision for Antizionist Judaism www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/buil...
Recommended... yes look to your own and children for risk factors, but community better top the agenda; its a dread diseconomy we live with? | www.health.org.uk/evidence-hub...
www.health.org.uk
October 20, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Recommended... yes look to your own and children for risk factors, but community better top the agenda; its a dread diseconomy we live with? | www.health.org.uk/evidence-hub...
x.com/beatricegrov...
"Ancient yews flanking the 'Tolkien door' at St. Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold..."
"Ancient yews flanking the 'Tolkien door' at St. Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold..."
October 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
x.com/beatricegrov...
"Ancient yews flanking the 'Tolkien door' at St. Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold..."
"Ancient yews flanking the 'Tolkien door' at St. Edward’s Church, Stow-on-the-Wold..."
Interesting govt. break with British traditions... we will see how it goes.
"Step up the fight for the right to protest! www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/step...
"Step up the fight for the right to protest! www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/step...
Step up the fight for the right to protest!
Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori has welcomed a court ruling on Friday rejecting the government’s attempt to block judicial review…
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October 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Interesting govt. break with British traditions... we will see how it goes.
"Step up the fight for the right to protest! www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/step...
"Step up the fight for the right to protest! www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/step...
Reposted by Philip Harris (@PhilipHarris15)
October 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Reposted by Philip Harris (@PhilipHarris15)
"God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone"
— W.B. Yeats
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone"
— W.B. Yeats
October 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone"
— W.B. Yeats
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone"
— W.B. Yeats