Sustainable Population Australia (SPA)
sustpopaus.bsky.social
Sustainable Population Australia (SPA)
@sustpopaus.bsky.social
Registered Australian charity & advocacy
Vision: A relationship between people and the environment in which the human population stays within planetary boundaries.
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These insectometers have the worst job in the world. They document the decline of what they love, I had a similar job in the past. Ask me why I quit a few years back...

#Collapse
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
To us insectometers, it is clear that insect decline in our Costa Rican tropics is real, so let’s be kind to the survivors | PNAS
We have been field observers of tropical insects on four continents and, since 1978, intense observers of caterpillars, their parasites, and their ...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Nature has not evolved brains that can process such rapid changes since what we see since 1970 is unique and unchartered. Not in 600 (not 60) million years has anything come close to the speed of change. Human children now grow up slower than nature collapses globally.
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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“Doomer” is just an ad hominem label for someone who understands our multi-faceted predicament can’t be solved by “green capitalism”, & in fact that will make it worse. For instance mining for critical minerals (diesel) will need to increase 16x and that will inevitably destroy more of the biosphere
June 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM