@cmhensch.bsky.social
Humanitarian, Lived Experience Expert, Philosopher
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In Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, rich with macaques, gibbons & hornbills, Indigenous youth continue practicing Arat Sabulungan — a belief that every part of nature holds spirits. Rituals before cutting trees or fishing remain a way to keep balance.
In Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, rich with macaques, gibbons & hornbills, Indigenous youth continue practicing Arat Sabulungan — a belief that every part of nature holds spirits. Rituals before cutting trees or fishing remain a way to keep balance.
How religious beliefs may help protect Mentawai’s forests
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, the Mentawai Islands…
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November 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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In Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, rich with macaques, gibbons & hornbills, Indigenous youth continue practicing Arat Sabulungan — a belief that every part of nature holds spirits. Rituals before cutting trees or fishing remain a way to keep balance.
In Indonesia’s Mentawai Islands, rich with macaques, gibbons & hornbills, Indigenous youth continue practicing Arat Sabulungan — a belief that every part of nature holds spirits. Rituals before cutting trees or fishing remain a way to keep balance.
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Civilians and civilian infrastructure that provides essential services must be protected.
Even wars have limits.
Even wars have limits.
October 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Civilians and civilian infrastructure that provides essential services must be protected.
Even wars have limits.
Even wars have limits.
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Self-termination or a fundmental transforamation of how we live with each other on this plant!
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Self-termination or a fundmental transforamation of how we live with each other on this plant!
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Today — What Democracy is Really About from my experiences working around the world, building it and defending it.
It’s about believing that win-win is possible, and that we are better off solving problems together than trying to impose our will on each other.
open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
It’s about believing that win-win is possible, and that we are better off solving problems together than trying to impose our will on each other.
open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
What Democracy Is Really About
People often discuss democracy as if it were a system.
open.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Today — What Democracy is Really About from my experiences working around the world, building it and defending it.
It’s about believing that win-win is possible, and that we are better off solving problems together than trying to impose our will on each other.
open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
It’s about believing that win-win is possible, and that we are better off solving problems together than trying to impose our will on each other.
open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... - #souvereignty #decoloniality #canada - An example of a people who remembers the time from before empire.
An Indigenous nation in Canada hails historic constitution: ‘We’re now the architects of certainty for ourselves’
Product of decades-long process aims to restore Heiltsuk’s system of coherent governance destroyed by colonial powers
www.theguardian.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... - #souvereignty #decoloniality #canada - An example of a people who remembers the time from before empire.
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We weren’t born to consume and die. We were born to connect, to create, to protect. The colonial story told us that we are separate from nature. The new (but ancient) story, the true one, knows that we are nature defending itself. We need to remember this before it is too late.
May 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
We weren’t born to consume and die. We were born to connect, to create, to protect. The colonial story told us that we are separate from nature. The new (but ancient) story, the true one, knows that we are nature defending itself. We need to remember this before it is too late.
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In Gaza werden jeden Tag Pfleger:innen, Sanitäter:innen, Ärzt:innen als Terroristen gebrandmarkt, verschleppt, gefoltert und getötet. Darüber dürfen wir nicht schweigen. @medico.de @ippnwgermany.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
In Gaza werden jeden Tag Pfleger:innen, Sanitäter:innen, Ärzt:innen als Terroristen gebrandmarkt, verschleppt, gefoltert und getötet. Darüber dürfen wir nicht schweigen. @medico.de @ippnwgermany.bsky.social
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The law once upheld slavery. Apartheid. Genocide. Today it defends fossil fuels and criminalises protest. Legality doesn’t always mean right.
May 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The law once upheld slavery. Apartheid. Genocide. Today it defends fossil fuels and criminalises protest. Legality doesn’t always mean right.
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A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳
April 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳
livingeconomies.nz/solutions/pr... - it seems to me, that without and understanding of how money is created (out of nothing), any effort to address climate change will be in vain.
Living Economies :: The problem
In our global financial system, "normal" money (such as New Zealand Dollars) is created as interest-bearing debt. This exacerbates inequality, weakens community ties, and destroys the planet.
livingeconomies.nz
May 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
livingeconomies.nz/solutions/pr... - it seems to me, that without and understanding of how money is created (out of nothing), any effort to address climate change will be in vain.
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Most of us want government to do something about the climate crisis!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Most of us want government to do something about the climate crisis!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Autism is also substantially (certainly not entirely) hereditary. That it persists, has persisted for millennia, says something important: It must be adapative, beneficial in some way, to individuals and/or to the whole. Ponder on that.
Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.
April 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Autism is also substantially (certainly not entirely) hereditary. That it persists, has persisted for millennia, says something important: It must be adapative, beneficial in some way, to individuals and/or to the whole. Ponder on that.
Must read: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Must read: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The Easter Bunny has older roots in the hare, sacred to the Germanic goddess Ēostre. Hares were believed to lay eggs in spring fields, confusing observers and blending myth with mischief. The hare was her familiar, fleet and fertile. #FolkloreSunday
🎨Carl Gough
🎨Carl Gough
April 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The Easter Bunny has older roots in the hare, sacred to the Germanic goddess Ēostre. Hares were believed to lay eggs in spring fields, confusing observers and blending myth with mischief. The hare was her familiar, fleet and fertile. #FolkloreSunday
🎨Carl Gough
🎨Carl Gough
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
As a humanitarian, we are often put in situations when we have to ask ourselves: WHY? Drilling deep enough, we get to the most basic WHY of the purpose of our work and life! I wish you happy reading of the second issue of The Phoenix! 🎈
Have you ever asked yourself why? Please read the second edition of The Phoenix: culture-of-care.org/02_phoenix_f...
culture-of-care.org
March 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
As a humanitarian, we are often put in situations when we have to ask ourselves: WHY? Drilling deep enough, we get to the most basic WHY of the purpose of our work and life! I wish you happy reading of the second issue of The Phoenix! 🎈