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Deep ecology + consumption culture + inner happiness as the core of the polycrisis.
Maybe some animal intelligence and contemplative science.
Gen Z Climatexbiodiversity ecologist with eco-anxiety
Alt for literature: @crisisbookquotes.bsky.social
Maybe some animal intelligence and contemplative science.
Gen Z Climatexbiodiversity ecologist with eco-anxiety
Alt for literature: @crisisbookquotes.bsky.social
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· Jul 30
“Energy Transition” is bad marketing for progress, it should be Energy Revolution
I see a Consumption Revolution as progress, not a consumer transition
where we reverse the previous decade of
consuming more and being less happy and healthy ❌
to consuming less and being happier and healthier ✅
I see a Consumption Revolution as progress, not a consumer transition
where we reverse the previous decade of
consuming more and being less happy and healthy ❌
to consuming less and being happier and healthier ✅
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Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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🏛️ THIS is real Democracy. No Lords, Lobbyists, or Politicians in sight.
Day one of @HouseOfPeopleUK was incredible. 100 ordinary people from across the UK building a National Charter. People are angry, but they are united.
Donate to build momentum: www.houseofthepeople.uk/donate
Day one of @HouseOfPeopleUK was incredible. 100 ordinary people from across the UK building a National Charter. People are angry, but they are united.
Donate to build momentum: www.houseofthepeople.uk/donate
July 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🏛️ THIS is real Democracy. No Lords, Lobbyists, or Politicians in sight.
Day one of @HouseOfPeopleUK was incredible. 100 ordinary people from across the UK building a National Charter. People are angry, but they are united.
Donate to build momentum: www.houseofthepeople.uk/donate
Day one of @HouseOfPeopleUK was incredible. 100 ordinary people from across the UK building a National Charter. People are angry, but they are united.
Donate to build momentum: www.houseofthepeople.uk/donate
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Will your community be ready when the time comes?
Organise an assembly in your neighbourhood. You’ll get to know your neighbours, increase community cohesion, and you’ll be sowing the seeds of direct democracy as the alternative to fascism when the shit hits the fan.
@timetoassemble.bsky.social
Organise an assembly in your neighbourhood. You’ll get to know your neighbours, increase community cohesion, and you’ll be sowing the seeds of direct democracy as the alternative to fascism when the shit hits the fan.
@timetoassemble.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Will your community be ready when the time comes?
Organise an assembly in your neighbourhood. You’ll get to know your neighbours, increase community cohesion, and you’ll be sowing the seeds of direct democracy as the alternative to fascism when the shit hits the fan.
@timetoassemble.bsky.social
Organise an assembly in your neighbourhood. You’ll get to know your neighbours, increase community cohesion, and you’ll be sowing the seeds of direct democracy as the alternative to fascism when the shit hits the fan.
@timetoassemble.bsky.social
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Women co-lead every assembly.
Minorites - Christians, Arabs, Yazidis, Assyrians - are guaranteed leadership roles and given the first chance to speak.
This is how you unify people, prevent conflicts and make better decisions.
Minorites - Christians, Arabs, Yazidis, Assyrians - are guaranteed leadership roles and given the first chance to speak.
This is how you unify people, prevent conflicts and make better decisions.
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Women co-lead every assembly.
Minorites - Christians, Arabs, Yazidis, Assyrians - are guaranteed leadership roles and given the first chance to speak.
This is how you unify people, prevent conflicts and make better decisions.
Minorites - Christians, Arabs, Yazidis, Assyrians - are guaranteed leadership roles and given the first chance to speak.
This is how you unify people, prevent conflicts and make better decisions.
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What is really fuelling humanity's destruction?
According to Bookchin, it's the belief that we are in control of nature instead of being part of it.
Trapped in concrete cities, we are alienated from ourselves and the natural world.
According to Bookchin, it's the belief that we are in control of nature instead of being part of it.
Trapped in concrete cities, we are alienated from ourselves and the natural world.
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
What is really fuelling humanity's destruction?
According to Bookchin, it's the belief that we are in control of nature instead of being part of it.
Trapped in concrete cities, we are alienated from ourselves and the natural world.
According to Bookchin, it's the belief that we are in control of nature instead of being part of it.
Trapped in concrete cities, we are alienated from ourselves and the natural world.
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Bookchin said democratic decisions should be made by local communities, not distant political elites. Like in the villages of Ancient Greece where everyone (OK, not the women or slaves) took turns making political decisions.
This idea can unite disaffected people on the left AND the right.
This idea can unite disaffected people on the left AND the right.
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Bookchin said democratic decisions should be made by local communities, not distant political elites. Like in the villages of Ancient Greece where everyone (OK, not the women or slaves) took turns making political decisions.
This idea can unite disaffected people on the left AND the right.
This idea can unite disaffected people on the left AND the right.
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It's the wokest place in the world.
👩🏾 Women co-lead everything.
👨👩👧👧 Communities make decisions for themeslves.
💰 No-one pays taxes.
🤝🏾 Prisons are being replaced with mediation.
But now Islamists are trying to abolish it.
This is the story of Rojava. �
👩🏾 Women co-lead everything.
👨👩👧👧 Communities make decisions for themeslves.
💰 No-one pays taxes.
🤝🏾 Prisons are being replaced with mediation.
But now Islamists are trying to abolish it.
This is the story of Rojava. �
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It's the wokest place in the world.
👩🏾 Women co-lead everything.
👨👩👧👧 Communities make decisions for themeslves.
💰 No-one pays taxes.
🤝🏾 Prisons are being replaced with mediation.
But now Islamists are trying to abolish it.
This is the story of Rojava. �
👩🏾 Women co-lead everything.
👨👩👧👧 Communities make decisions for themeslves.
💰 No-one pays taxes.
🤝🏾 Prisons are being replaced with mediation.
But now Islamists are trying to abolish it.
This is the story of Rojava. �
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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The reality today is that only 8% of the countryside is open to public access, and only 3% of our rivers, with around 20 million people living more than 15 minutes from access to nature. Access under CRoW is a postcode lottery, with over 100 constituencies left with no access land at all.
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The reality today is that only 8% of the countryside is open to public access, and only 3% of our rivers, with around 20 million people living more than 15 minutes from access to nature. Access under CRoW is a postcode lottery, with over 100 constituencies left with no access land at all.
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The Countryside Right of Way (CRoW) Act succeeded in giving partial access across the nation.
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The Countryside Right of Way (CRoW) Act succeeded in giving partial access across the nation.
Oh thats a Dub. Especially when the front quote of your “capitalism will fix climate change” book is by *bill gates*.
#agedlikemilk
#agedlikemilk
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Oh thats a Dub. Especially when the front quote of your “capitalism will fix climate change” book is by *bill gates*.
#agedlikemilk
#agedlikemilk
Thats strange because its a terrible one paragraph explanation of ‘innovation’
Consumers arnt being “showered with products and services beyond their dreams.” Lol. We are paying more for water, healthy food, decent housing. While plastic crap, that gives us cancer, and Ai is shoved down our throats
Consumers arnt being “showered with products and services beyond their dreams.” Lol. We are paying more for water, healthy food, decent housing. While plastic crap, that gives us cancer, and Ai is shoved down our throats
November 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Thats strange because its a terrible one paragraph explanation of ‘innovation’
Consumers arnt being “showered with products and services beyond their dreams.” Lol. We are paying more for water, healthy food, decent housing. While plastic crap, that gives us cancer, and Ai is shoved down our throats
Consumers arnt being “showered with products and services beyond their dreams.” Lol. We are paying more for water, healthy food, decent housing. While plastic crap, that gives us cancer, and Ai is shoved down our throats
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Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017
Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb
Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017
www.newscientist.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink to a carbon source in 2010 to 2017
Seeing a new leader mock the old puritanical self-destroying “left”, who’ve wasted 20 years worrying about which words are mean and gatekeeping ‘the good guys’, rather than fighting the acceleration of fascism, inequality, nature death, and dark money corrupted politics - fills my heart with hope.
Hope is here.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Seeing a new leader mock the old puritanical self-destroying “left”, who’ve wasted 20 years worrying about which words are mean and gatekeeping ‘the good guys’, rather than fighting the acceleration of fascism, inequality, nature death, and dark money corrupted politics - fills my heart with hope.
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Hope is here.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
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“saying they are going to help save the bee by encouraging all the farmers who supply them to keep more hives. This was, he went on, akin to trying to reverse bird declines by keeping more chickens”
Many people still imagine beekeeping and honey making are somehow 'good for nature'.
But it's the *total* opposite.
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But it's the *total* opposite.
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“A beehive is as natural as a pasture of grazing sheep.” Why beekeeping is causing a huge problem for wild bees – according to scientists | Discover Wildlife
A dramatic rise in the number of managed beehives is negatively impacting wild pollinating insects
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November 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
“saying they are going to help save the bee by encouraging all the farmers who supply them to keep more hives. This was, he went on, akin to trying to reverse bird declines by keeping more chickens”
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The judge due to rule on the proscription of Palestine Action is swapped last minute for a panel that includes a judge with a history of working for the government and another who ruled in favour UK selling jets to Israel.
Accusations of a “stitch-up”.
novaramedia.com/2025/11/25/a...
Accusations of a “stitch-up”.
novaramedia.com/2025/11/25/a...
A ‘Stitch-Up’: Palestine Action Case Gets New Judges | Novara Media
The judicial review of Palestine Action’s proscription has been thrown into turmoil by a last-minute change. A new panel of judges includes one with a long history of working for the government and an...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The judge due to rule on the proscription of Palestine Action is swapped last minute for a panel that includes a judge with a history of working for the government and another who ruled in favour UK selling jets to Israel.
Accusations of a “stitch-up”.
novaramedia.com/2025/11/25/a...
Accusations of a “stitch-up”.
novaramedia.com/2025/11/25/a...
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A lot to unpack there, but imo most people want to do the right thing by the future, but don't have the time or head space to understand what's really going on.
They wrongly believe the lies they're fed, and presume if climate breakdown was serious, governments and the media would be freaking out.
They wrongly believe the lies they're fed, and presume if climate breakdown was serious, governments and the media would be freaking out.
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A lot to unpack there, but imo most people want to do the right thing by the future, but don't have the time or head space to understand what's really going on.
They wrongly believe the lies they're fed, and presume if climate breakdown was serious, governments and the media would be freaking out.
They wrongly believe the lies they're fed, and presume if climate breakdown was serious, governments and the media would be freaking out.
>As of 2022, most of the fish that humans eat are not caught wild from the ocean but raised on fish farms, which are so cruel they have been widely dubbed by animal welfare advocates as “underwater factory farms.”
Don't miss this new @vox.com project that uncovers the rapidly changing world of fish farming.
Stories from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social + team challenge everything you think you know about the billions of aquatic animals that shape our planet’s future:
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Stories from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social + team challenge everything you think you know about the billions of aquatic animals that shape our planet’s future:
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Eating the Ocean
How underwater factory farms are reshaping our food system.
www.vox.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
>As of 2022, most of the fish that humans eat are not caught wild from the ocean but raised on fish farms, which are so cruel they have been widely dubbed by animal welfare advocates as “underwater factory farms.”
"Juries are not the cause of the backlog. The cause is the systematic underfunding and neglect that has been perpetrated by this government and its predecessors for years."
Obviously!
Obviously!
Why would a government want to scrap juries?
Is it so they can pass sentences that the gov wants, but the people object to?
Feels very 1984 to me…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@defendourjuries.bsky.social
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
@lawyersfornature.bsky.social
Is it so they can pass sentences that the gov wants, but the people object to?
Feels very 1984 to me…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@defendourjuries.bsky.social
@amnestyuk.bsky.social
@lawyersfornature.bsky.social
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"Juries are not the cause of the backlog. The cause is the systematic underfunding and neglect that has been perpetrated by this government and its predecessors for years."
Obviously!
Obviously!
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“The younger generation is the most ecologically informed ever."
They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.”
The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.
They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.”
The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
“The younger generation is the most ecologically informed ever."
They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.”
The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.
They are also “the most emotionally involved in [nature loss], have contributed the least to [its] causing, and are going to suffer most as a result.”
The power of rewilding to transform our own lives, as well as nature.
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Debate today with a Labour MP on the economy.
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Is Labour being outflanked by Polanski and Farage? Reeves budget debate
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Debate today with a Labour MP on the economy.
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
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“The entire financial system, including government bonds & mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not.” - One of the aspects making climate policy more important, paradoxically, the more publicly ignored
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 AM
“The entire financial system, including government bonds & mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not.” - One of the aspects making climate policy more important, paradoxically, the more publicly ignored
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and also of course delighted to see this excellent 2022 @thebulletin.org article—about what happens when the Earth gets too hot for animals (livestock, wildlife, humans) to survive—get a well-deserved mention
thebulletin.org/2022/07/extr...
thebulletin.org/2022/07/extr...
What happens if the world gets too hot for animals to survive?
As extreme heat events become more common, humans will increasingly need technologies like air conditioning to survive. But what about the animals?
thebulletin.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
and also of course delighted to see this excellent 2022 @thebulletin.org article—about what happens when the Earth gets too hot for animals (livestock, wildlife, humans) to survive—get a well-deserved mention
thebulletin.org/2022/07/extr...
thebulletin.org/2022/07/extr...