BrentonS
@remnantnotes.bsky.social
“In the Indigenous worldview, Country means a way of seeing the world. Everything is living. There is no separation between people and nature.” Alison Page, from ‘Design, Building on Country’.
We lost everything because we separated from nature.
We lost everything because we separated from nature.
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BrentonS
@remnantnotes.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Everything changed long ago, and a long time before that. Convenience chosen over connection. The more comfortable we got, the more arrogant we became. The superiority morphed into racism.
“You shall have dominion over all”. The detachment from nature became increasingly unnoticeable.
“You shall have dominion over all”. The detachment from nature became increasingly unnoticeable.
The arrogance continues to be clearly on display:
“More specifically, it has rational actors capable of understanding the problem and trying to fix it, even though they caused it in the first place.”
Foolish ignorance.
apple.news/AaF6VkKwrQay...
“More specifically, it has rational actors capable of understanding the problem and trying to fix it, even though they caused it in the first place.”
Foolish ignorance.
apple.news/AaF6VkKwrQay...
The 6th Mass Extinction Is Further Along Than We Thought — Popular Mechanics
It's getting late.
apple.news
November 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The arrogance continues to be clearly on display:
“More specifically, it has rational actors capable of understanding the problem and trying to fix it, even though they caused it in the first place.”
Foolish ignorance.
apple.news/AaF6VkKwrQay...
“More specifically, it has rational actors capable of understanding the problem and trying to fix it, even though they caused it in the first place.”
Foolish ignorance.
apple.news/AaF6VkKwrQay...
This is what a species becomes when they ‘believe’ they rule the planet. The completely arrogant and terrifying Homo Colossus.
This is how some people inflict terror on species we need for survival. Just laugh
November 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This is what a species becomes when they ‘believe’ they rule the planet. The completely arrogant and terrifying Homo Colossus.
“Today’s supervillains don’t sign bribes in smoke-filled rooms. They speak at climate summits. Pose in front of solar farms. Break ground for carbon-capture industrial complexes. Promise “net zero” while expanding extraction.”
Lyle Lewis
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Lyle Lewis
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
THE HALL OF INFAMY: A Global Century of Environmental Supervillains
A century of leaders who liquidated the living world--and left us the bill.
substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
“Today’s supervillains don’t sign bribes in smoke-filled rooms. They speak at climate summits. Pose in front of solar farms. Break ground for carbon-capture industrial complexes. Promise “net zero” while expanding extraction.”
Lyle Lewis
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Lyle Lewis
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
“‘Deathly silent’: …scientists confirm, …almost two out of three corals across popular tourism spots at the world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef died after an unprecedented marine heatwave…”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Deathly silent’: two out of three corals in world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef have been killed, scientists confirm
One expert says she is ‘starting to visualise the point where all we have left of corals and reefs is memories’
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“‘Deathly silent’: …scientists confirm, …almost two out of three corals across popular tourism spots at the world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef died after an unprecedented marine heatwave…”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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“This is a wake-up call,” said author and ACEAS Deputy Director, @profmattengland.bsky.social (UNSW). “The evidence shows us clearly that the MOC has slowed down, and if this trend continues the impacts on human societies, climate and ecosystems will be profound.”
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
“This is a wake-up call,” said author and ACEAS Deputy Director, @profmattengland.bsky.social (UNSW). “The evidence shows us clearly that the MOC has slowed down, and if this trend continues the impacts on human societies, climate and ecosystems will be profound.”
The collapsing.
‘Lockdowns’ will become more frequent. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston announcing the details in the hope of preventing fires in tinder dry extreme heat.
This is just the beginning. Our failure has been in not imagining what is coming.
www.youtube.com/live/divuHOt...
‘Lockdowns’ will become more frequent. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston announcing the details in the hope of preventing fires in tinder dry extreme heat.
This is just the beginning. Our failure has been in not imagining what is coming.
www.youtube.com/live/divuHOt...
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston announces restrictions to prevent wildfires – August 5, 2025
YouTube video by cpac
www.youtube.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The collapsing.
‘Lockdowns’ will become more frequent. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston announcing the details in the hope of preventing fires in tinder dry extreme heat.
This is just the beginning. Our failure has been in not imagining what is coming.
www.youtube.com/live/divuHOt...
‘Lockdowns’ will become more frequent. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston announcing the details in the hope of preventing fires in tinder dry extreme heat.
This is just the beginning. Our failure has been in not imagining what is coming.
www.youtube.com/live/divuHOt...
“…it’s about how we live within it.”
A thread worth reading
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A thread worth reading
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Collapse is not coming - it’s already here.
Four systems (climate, energy, food, and economy) are breaking down together, each amplifying the weaknesses of the others.
This is not a prediction - the #collapse of these systems is well underway, and already changing our lives. 1/10 #overshoot
Four systems (climate, energy, food, and economy) are breaking down together, each amplifying the weaknesses of the others.
This is not a prediction - the #collapse of these systems is well underway, and already changing our lives. 1/10 #overshoot
August 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
“…it’s about how we live within it.”
A thread worth reading
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A thread worth reading
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“The Sixth Extinction won’t arrive as a headline — it’s already here, in the fading of lives too ordinary for us to measure.”
🧵 Why AI (and modern science) keep telling us biodiversity is “fine” — even as it vanishes in front of us.
1/8
1/8
August 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
“The Sixth Extinction won’t arrive as a headline — it’s already here, in the fading of lives too ordinary for us to measure.”
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Thank you, again, Mr Tsakraklides. You continue to challenge us.
“The human brain is a beautiful yet frightening machine. Intelligence is like the Big Bang: it evolves and expands, until it becomes too dangerous for its own good.”
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“The human brain is a beautiful yet frightening machine. Intelligence is like the Big Bang: it evolves and expands, until it becomes too dangerous for its own good.”
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“Ruthless survival is our default genetic predisposition despite culture, society and “learned” morality trying to convince us otherwise: that we are meant to be “good”, to love and respect one another and nature. This was a lie we desperately wanted to believe in”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
A Brief History Of The Human Brain: How We Got It All Wrong
All power corrupts, brain power being no exception.
open.substack.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Thank you, again, Mr Tsakraklides. You continue to challenge us.
“The human brain is a beautiful yet frightening machine. Intelligence is like the Big Bang: it evolves and expands, until it becomes too dangerous for its own good.”
…./2
“The human brain is a beautiful yet frightening machine. Intelligence is like the Big Bang: it evolves and expands, until it becomes too dangerous for its own good.”
…./2
The news will not get better.
“The result is a collapse of the ecosystem: copepods vanish, fish populations plummet, while jellyfish thrive unchecked.”
“The result is a collapse of the ecosystem: copepods vanish, fish populations plummet, while jellyfish thrive unchecked.”
"this glow marks the explosive growth of one of the ocean’s most dangerous microorganisms — Noctiluca scintillans.”
“with every surge in their population, the ocean loses oxygen and becomes less habitable for marine life.”
“with every surge in their population, the ocean loses oxygen and becomes less habitable for marine life.”
Glowing Green Ocean Warns of Imminent Ecological Collapse
A glowing green ocean in the Gulf of Oman may look beautiful, but scientists warn it’s a symptom of a severe ecological imbalance threatening marine life and local
english.pravda.ru
July 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The news will not get better.
“The result is a collapse of the ecosystem: copepods vanish, fish populations plummet, while jellyfish thrive unchecked.”
“The result is a collapse of the ecosystem: copepods vanish, fish populations plummet, while jellyfish thrive unchecked.”
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The fossil fuel industry has been making a $3,000,000,000 profit EVERY SINGLE DAY for over 50 YEARS.
They can’t believe their luck.
Governments & politicians are willing to sell out their souls & our childrens’ chances of a survivable future for chicken feed.
They can’t believe their luck.
Governments & politicians are willing to sell out their souls & our childrens’ chances of a survivable future for chicken feed.
July 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The fossil fuel industry has been making a $3,000,000,000 profit EVERY SINGLE DAY for over 50 YEARS.
They can’t believe their luck.
Governments & politicians are willing to sell out their souls & our childrens’ chances of a survivable future for chicken feed.
They can’t believe their luck.
Governments & politicians are willing to sell out their souls & our childrens’ chances of a survivable future for chicken feed.
Reposted by BrentonS
252 million years ago the Earth’s temperature increased by 8C over 60,000 years, killing 90% of life on Earth in a period known as ‘The Great Dying’.
We’re on track for 4C rise above preindustrial temp in our children’s life times.
We’re living through ‘The Great Slaughter’.
We’re on track for 4C rise above preindustrial temp in our children’s life times.
We’re living through ‘The Great Slaughter’.
July 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
252 million years ago the Earth’s temperature increased by 8C over 60,000 years, killing 90% of life on Earth in a period known as ‘The Great Dying’.
We’re on track for 4C rise above preindustrial temp in our children’s life times.
We’re living through ‘The Great Slaughter’.
We’re on track for 4C rise above preindustrial temp in our children’s life times.
We’re living through ‘The Great Slaughter’.
“…more than 13 degrees Celsius hotter than the 1991-2020 average May daily maximum temperatures”
Worth reading that again slowly: “…more than 13 degrees Celsius hotter than the 1991-2020 average May daily maximum temperatures”
Worth reading that again slowly: “…more than 13 degrees Celsius hotter than the 1991-2020 average May daily maximum temperatures”
“Temperatures over Iceland as observed this May are record-breaking, more than 13 degrees Celsius hotter than the 1991-2020 average May daily maximum temperatures”
Greenland ice melted much faster than average in May heatwave: scientists
Greenland's ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA) said in a report Wednesday.
www.france24.com
June 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
“…more than 13 degrees Celsius hotter than the 1991-2020 average May daily maximum temperatures”
Worth reading that again slowly: “…more than 13 degrees Celsius hotter than the 1991-2020 average May daily maximum temperatures”
Worth reading that again slowly: “…more than 13 degrees Celsius hotter than the 1991-2020 average May daily maximum temperatures”
Reposted by BrentonS
This is playing out in the worst kinds of ways in far too many countries.
"We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
June 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This is playing out in the worst kinds of ways in far too many countries.
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Faustian future fires.🔥
Your 'moment of doom' for June 12, 2025 ~ Farewell to trees.
“Planting more and more trees in such an environment with the purpose of carbon mitigation will likely increase carbon emissions due to future fires."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/fore...
“Planting more and more trees in such an environment with the purpose of carbon mitigation will likely increase carbon emissions due to future fires."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/fore...
Tree Planting Was Supposed to Be a Climate Change Solution. It Could Be Making Things Worse
With wildfires turning forests into “massive carbon emitters,” planting trees in some places could inadvertently increase carbon emissions, a new report says
www.scientificamerican.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Faustian future fires.🔥
Homo colossus continues it’s rampage across Gaia and it’s destruction of Indigenous Peoples and sacred sites.
May 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Homo colossus continues it’s rampage across Gaia and it’s destruction of Indigenous Peoples and sacred sites.
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I feel sick. I feel angry. I feel so, so sad.
What a legacy, @albomp.bsky.social.
I'll NEVER forgive what you've done to this country and our future.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
What a legacy, @albomp.bsky.social.
I'll NEVER forgive what you've done to this country and our future.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Breaking: Australia's largest gas project approved for operation to 2070
The life of Australia's largest oil and gas project will be extended to 2070, with Environment Minister Murray Watt giving the long-awaited environmental approval for Woodside's North West Shelf proje...
www.abc.net.au
May 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
I feel sick. I feel angry. I feel so, so sad.
What a legacy, @albomp.bsky.social.
I'll NEVER forgive what you've done to this country and our future.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
What a legacy, @albomp.bsky.social.
I'll NEVER forgive what you've done to this country and our future.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
"That suggests the entire forest was responding together, almost like one connected system. Scientists think older trees may store “ecological memory," a kind of natural awareness of past events like eclipses, and possibly pass that knowledge to younger trees..."
www.accuweather.com/en/space-new...
www.accuweather.com/en/space-new...
Trees sense solar eclipses before they happen
A study found that trees both reacted to, and prepared for a solar eclipse, leading scientists to learn how the trees may be connected to one another.
www.accuweather.com
May 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
"That suggests the entire forest was responding together, almost like one connected system. Scientists think older trees may store “ecological memory," a kind of natural awareness of past events like eclipses, and possibly pass that knowledge to younger trees..."
www.accuweather.com/en/space-new...
www.accuweather.com/en/space-new...
The collapsing.
“Living honestly in this moment means holding the contradiction of participating in systems you no longer believe in, while actively building alternatives that might never fully arrive.”
A thread well worth the read
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“Living honestly in this moment means holding the contradiction of participating in systems you no longer believe in, while actively building alternatives that might never fully arrive.”
A thread well worth the read
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Like many of us here, I sometimes feel like I’m living two parallel lives - one in the system of modernity, and one trying to respond to its collapse.
A personal thread about living in the space between them as collapse accelerates around us. 1/8 #overshoot #collapse
A personal thread about living in the space between them as collapse accelerates around us. 1/8 #overshoot #collapse
May 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The collapsing.
“Living honestly in this moment means holding the contradiction of participating in systems you no longer believe in, while actively building alternatives that might never fully arrive.”
A thread well worth the read
⬇️
“Living honestly in this moment means holding the contradiction of participating in systems you no longer believe in, while actively building alternatives that might never fully arrive.”
A thread well worth the read
⬇️
Reposted by BrentonS
Hey Australia.
Did you know Santos is going to put 650 gas wells over the great artesian basin, which will all leak and poison the basin on the most arid continent on earth? Do you know what this means for water supply and vegetation ?
Did you know Santos is going to put 650 gas wells over the great artesian basin, which will all leak and poison the basin on the most arid continent on earth? Do you know what this means for water supply and vegetation ?
May 21, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Hey Australia.
Did you know Santos is going to put 650 gas wells over the great artesian basin, which will all leak and poison the basin on the most arid continent on earth? Do you know what this means for water supply and vegetation ?
Did you know Santos is going to put 650 gas wells over the great artesian basin, which will all leak and poison the basin on the most arid continent on earth? Do you know what this means for water supply and vegetation ?
“Collapse awareness isn’t the end.
It’s the end of pretending.
What follows isn’t hope. It’s presence.
Less noise. More soil. Less grind. More care.”
A thread well worth reading
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It’s the end of pretending.
What follows isn’t hope. It’s presence.
Less noise. More soil. Less grind. More care.”
A thread well worth reading
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More and more people are quietly disengaging, from work, ambition, even life itself.
Not out of laziness. But because they see the world for what it is:
burning, broken, and built on lies.
🧵 1/10
Not out of laziness. But because they see the world for what it is:
burning, broken, and built on lies.
🧵 1/10
May 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
“Collapse awareness isn’t the end.
It’s the end of pretending.
What follows isn’t hope. It’s presence.
Less noise. More soil. Less grind. More care.”
A thread well worth reading
⬇️
It’s the end of pretending.
What follows isn’t hope. It’s presence.
Less noise. More soil. Less grind. More care.”
A thread well worth reading
⬇️
Irreversible, runaway change. Heartbreaking….
May 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Irreversible, runaway change. Heartbreaking….
Savour every moment….”if you're lucky it's going to be 20 years before it hits the fan."
www.theguardian.com/theguardian/...
www.theguardian.com/theguardian/...
James Lovelock: 'Enjoy life while you can: in 20 years global warming will hit the fan'
The climate science maverick believes catastrophe is inevitable, carbon offsetting is a joke and ethical living a scam. So what would he do, asks Decca Aitkenhead
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Savour every moment….”if you're lucky it's going to be 20 years before it hits the fan."
www.theguardian.com/theguardian/...
www.theguardian.com/theguardian/...