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Biosphere in Crisis

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The biosphere is in crisis due to factors that include global warming, biodiversity loss, overpopulation, overshoot, & plastic pollution. My aim is to increase awareness of urgency for action

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 14h
A federal plan to clean up #atrazine would leave 99% of the nation’s most contaminated watersheds polluted with the pesticide at levels the Environmental Protection Agency itself considers unsafe. Lakes, rivers and streams in these watersheds provide drinking water for millions 🔗➡️ bit.ly/4j9CLCT
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◉●○•° @cosmoecology.bsky.social · 13h
A society loses its vitality whenever people become incapable of caring about problems that don’t personally affect them.
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 14h
🚨 BREAKING Y-AXIS 🌊🌡📈 Record warm waters in the main El Niño region reached >30°C for the first time in the @noaa.gov Sea Surface Temperature dataset. We've ain't seen nothing yet of the impacts this will have around the world.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 18h
Dear Mainers, I'm reposting this as the election nears. #SusanCollins #Maine
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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 30/09/2026
Sign the call for an International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering: www.solargeoeng.org/take-action/
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Take Action - Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
We invite all academics, civil society organizations and citizens to support our call for an International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering
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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · 30/09/2026
Read Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement response on UNEP’s working paper on Solar Geoengineering: www.solargeoeng.org/precaution-m...
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Precaution Means Non-Use: A Response to UNEP’s Working Paper on Solar Radiation Modification - Solar Geoengineering Non-Use Agreement
On 12 May 2026, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released a working paper presented as a synthesis of the current state of scientific knowledge on solar radiation modification (SRM). It...
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A recent investigation by Dutch TV station Zembla looks into where RWE is sourcing its biomass for so-called green energy in the Netherlands. RWE imports 200,000 tonnes of biomass from Malaysia every year. Some of this comes from primary rainforest. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/rwes-bioma...
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RWE’s biomass power plants in the Netherlands emit more CO₂ than burning coal. And some of the biomass is coming from recently deforested rainforest in Malaysia
New investigation by Zembla: “How your 'green electricity' contributes to deforestation.”
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 19h
Breaking News! Code UFB!!! For the first time in recorded history, the Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature (SST) is above 30.0°C, reaching a preliminary SST of 30.06°C on October 5th. The Niño 3.4 SST anomaly is now 3.41°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Everything is not fine.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 20h
Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: Getting closer. "It's strange to live through these hot days, watching our leaders fail us and the media barely mention what's happening. Lately, newspapers offer mere hints that something is amiss on our planet." electricnotes.news/p/el-nino-di...
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The El Niño Diaries #1 — The Ants
Dispatches from 100° days, in October
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 05/10/2026
#Antarctic sea ice extent has now dropped to the lowest on record for this time year... See more at zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...
Line graph time series of daily Antarctic sea ice extent for each year from 1979 through 2026. This year is currently the lowest on record for the date. A seasonal cycle is also visible on this graphic, but no long-term trend is visible.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 23h
A sad tragic reflection on a country that will not even give ancient Oak trees a chance to survive, but instead giving priority for huge Sitka plantations that smother ancient native trees and have zero benefit for nature but are solely grown for profit
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Biofuelwatch @biofuelwatch.bsky.social · 21h
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 23h
#FOTW Daily Post 6 Imagine heat so humid you can't sweat. No water, no shade will save you — organ failure within 6 hours. These 'wet-bulb' heatwaves become more common as the planet gets hotter. Not distant. Not abstract. Please share + tag 2 #FateOfTheWorld #TogetherUnstoppable
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Digger will very likely be the last chance at a global commercial movie sounding the alarm and connecting people with the reality of global climate collapse... until the climate becomes so chaotic we can't make films anymore.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 22h
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/super-el-nin...
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The ‘Super El Niño’ Is Testing the Limits of the Global Food System
On the whole, agricultural systems have so far proven resilient to changing weather patterns. But the severe El Niño is arriving at a sensitive time.
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adamplatform.bsky.social @adamplatform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Cervino is naked! A stunning look at the #Cervino, #Italy without snow after the scorching summer 2026 capured by #Copernicus #Sentinel2 compared with the same view from September 2025. #Alps #climateemergency #Matterhorn
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
AMOC news is building: A climate nightmare lurks in the Atlantic. Europe is starting to pay attention. A slowdown of ocean currents that would disrupt life on the continent on an unthinkable scale. www.politico.eu/article/clim...
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A climate nightmare lurks in the Atlantic. Europe is starting to pay attention.
A slowdown of ocean currents that would disrupt life on the continent on an unthinkable scale.
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 23h
“Utilizing Landscape Restoration to Build Sustainable Socio-Ecological Systems.” Somewhere along the way, conservation stopped being about protecting wild places and became a competition to see who could say almost nothing while sounding extraordinarily important.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 05/10/2026
Here is my talk last week to the Fallbrook Climate Action Team. It's about 30 minutes, followed by Q&A. youtu.be/dhDmOt7B_v8?...
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Straight Talk on Climate Change
YouTube video by Fallbrook Climate Action Team
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/10/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "... maybe the vast majority of humans are truly doomed. While it's a fringe position, we've even heard some of the left urging us to welcome that end, to give the planet a chance to recover." www.thriftbooks.com/w/end-times-...
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End Times Fascism book by Naomi Klein
Buy a cheap copy of End Times Fascism book by Naomi Klein. A New York Times BestsellerA scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and ...
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 23h
As the reflectivity (albedo) of Earth continues to set new record lows, more of the incoming solar radiation is absorbed by the Earth system, increasing the amount of energy available to heat the oceans, atmosphere, and land, and to melt ice.
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 22h
'Flávio Bolsonaro won the majority of votes in 8/10 Amazon municipalities that cleared the most rainforest over the last decade, according to an analysis by Sumaúma, an Amazon-based pub… Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency coincided with a historic spike in deforestation.' news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
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Brazil far-right presidential candidate wins most votes in deforestation hotspots
In Brazil’s general election on Oct. 4, incumbent leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finished second to far-right Flávio Bolsonaro, a senator and son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who w...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Everything you need to know about the subject of my new book - THE FATE OF THE WORLD - in a single picture
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
AI data centers are sucking up water and power. Industry PACs are spending millions to buy our elections. And AI is already being used to facilitate online scams, deny insurance claims, and price-gouge consumers. Sam Altman's response? We should "accept some bad things happening." Hello?
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 22h
🌀 Tropical Timeline 🌀 Conditions are ripe now, storm will form fast. Next 2-3 Days: Intensification, perhaps rapid. A #hurricane, maybe even strong (major) is possible under very low shear and record hot water temps…
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 05/10/2026
Breaking News! The latest ECMWF forecast for October continues to show the Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature peaking around 4.0°C above the 1991-2020 average in December, with a strong El Niño lasting into Spring. The current Nino 3.4 anomaly is 3.3°C. charts.ecmwf.int/products/sea...
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 05/10/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "Human communities and human activities in general are ecophagic: they devour the ecosystem. Human communities and activities generate and excrete toxic wastes and oncometabolites as do malignant neoplasms." www.thriftbooks.com/w/homo-ecoph...
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Homo Ecophagus book by Warren M. Hern
Buy a cheap copy of Homo Ecophagus book by Warren M. Hern. Home Ecophagus by Warren M. Hern is a wide-ranging look at the major problems for the survival of not just the human species, but all other s...
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MUSER PRESS @muser.press · 05/10/2026
Human ingenuity has long been measured by our ability to make things last. But persistent substances such as #PFAS, #TFA and #plastics raise a different question: what happens when the materials we design to endure also persist in the #environment? #PersistentPollution #Biodiversity
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The hidden legacy of durability: persistent pollution • Muser Press
Plastics, fluorinated compounds and other synthetic substances were designed to resist degradation, a property now tied to concerns about persistent pollution.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 05/10/2026
Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 5, 2026 ~ That's why. "The hosts of the next major United Nations climate conference, Turkey and Australia, are facing criticism for being partners in a coal supply chain while remaining near silent on the need for a global deal to rapidly get off fossil fuels."
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Australia and Turkey criticised for hosting UN climate conference while embracing coal
Global campaign group 350.org urges Cop31 hosts to announce a coal phase-out date and national roadmaps to get off fossil fuels
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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Perhaps no generation before them has been so thoroughly educated about the catastrophes awaiting it. They know what rising sea levels look like, what an AI-powered kamikaze drone can do... What nobody can convincingly explain is where they fit into that future." www.advance.hr/en/articles/...
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Rebellion of French Students and a Futureless School System | advance.hr
While we build armies and intelligent machines, we expect the youth not to notice that the future we are handing to them more closely resembles a threat than a promise.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My Novara Media interview just reached half a million views In case you are at a loose end, you can still watch here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee9f...
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Natural Disaster Expert: Elites Have NO PLAN for Climate Collapse | Aaron Bastani meets Bill McGuire
YouTube video by Novara Media
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#FOTW Daily Post 5 Favourite denier myth - volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans Ask me or any other volcanologist — false Volcanoes: ~300 million tonnes CO2/year. Humans: 130 times more Please pass on the truth. Share and tag 2 others #FateOfTheWorld #TogetherUnstoppable
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Guarding #nuclear waste transports too expensive ? Just deregulate. Problem solved ... inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Nuclear waste armed guards face axe under cost-cutting plan
Proposals spark security fears amid warnings over Russia grey war, but nuclear authorities insist there is no risk
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Ian@collapseaphorisms @collapseaphorisms.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh look, Chinese AI developer Moonshot is conducting an internal review after researchers were able to persuade two of its popular Kimi models to tell them how to make biological weapons and carry out assassinations. #collapse
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
With 8.3 billion people on the planet, we’ve learned to define wildlife recovery so narrowly that we can celebrate a species’ comeback even as the ecosystem supporting it continues to unravel.
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Ospreys are disappearing along the East Coast. Scientists think they know why.
At the center of a widening crisis for one of the nation's great wildlife comebacks is a fish most Americans would hardly recognize.
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Brian Creek, Photographer @briancreekphoto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
These tech bros are full of shit. How about we focus all the bad things on you, Sam? The hubris of expecting society to suffer for his success and wealth is beyond disconnected with reality and another argument for hitting the big PAUSE button.
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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI
The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.
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David A Johnson @infpwriter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"In 2026, there are over 420 million people on the move, seeking new homes in places not torn by war, famine, climate disruption, resource scarcity, or political, religious, and economic savagery." - Julian Cribb @juliancribb.bsky.social
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Here comes the Human Tsunami
Unleashing a migratory crisis on the Planet.
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Julian Cribb @juliancribb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
cribb.substack.com/p/on-becomin...
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On becoming an Earth Citizen
Unless we agree to survive, we probably won’t.
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Ironic Mullet @ironicmullet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jevon's Paradox reigns SUPREME. What are they selling?
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Coal is only cheap if someone else pays the bill... theconversation.com/our-research...
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Our research measures the real cost of coal mines to people and planet
A new model offers a template for just and transparent accounting of loss and damage.
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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 04/10/2026
The scariest straight line you'll see all day, via @financialtimes.com no less
Global sea level rise has a accelerated during the past decade
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"El Nino Digest" Times ("END Times", geddit?) An 8 page round-up of what is happening/about to happen. Front page - from The Climate Brink, a handy impacts map... 1/8
END Times page 1
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Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
White-bellied #Pangolins 🤎😻🙏 are threatened by #palmoil #cococa #meat #deforestation and #poaching. These amazing animals can walk upright on their hind legs🐾 Help them when you shop be #vegan #Boycottpalmoil 🌴⛔️#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/18/w...
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El Squigg @psychicsquirrel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Let's go fuck up the Moon and Mars! Why not fix Earth?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Labour just don't get it. They don't get how scared people are with extreme weather becoming our new normal. We need voices in parliament that will force them to take wildfires seriously, not quietly shirk responsibility.
Revealed: government quietly dropped plan to orepare England for wildfires
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#FOTW Daily Post 4 Dinner-table science: Carbon and CO2 are not the same Multiply CO2 by 0.27 to get Carbon value In 2023 we emitted ~40bn tonnes CO2 = ~11bn tonnes carbon Knowing this is how you catch a misleading stat Please share + tag 2 #FateOfTheWorld #TogetherUnstoppable
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
HOLD BIG OIL ACCOUNTABLE Their own lawyers have admitted that the companies face “massive monetary liability” from the dozens of climate deception cases. www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...
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Big Oil Fears the Evidence of Its Climate Lies | Common Dreams
Fossil fuel companies are desperate to escape trial in climate deception lawsuits. The Supreme Court should not shield them from accountability.
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The water vapor concentration in the atmosphere may be approx 13% higher this winter than around 1950. More moisture = heavier downpours.
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