Yes indeed. What happened to Nelson Mandela’s South Africa? A new podcast series marks 30 years of post-apartheid democracy theconversation.com/what-happened-… via The Conversation Africa

Sometimes budget cuts encourage creativity. At the FitzPatrick Ins, one of my two African academic institutes, Femi Olubodun faced budget cuts and fuel prices by completing his field season monitoring pygmy falcon nests in Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, #Kalahari on horseback. Lovely scene I thought.

Do not forget. We live on a planet of million-year-old species and an almost mystically beautiful, coevolved set of ecosystems and species.

There's no more skilled or ardent scientist defending intactness of our global biodiversity hotspot forests, precious carbon sinks than William Laurance
Roads of destruction: vast illegal ‘ghost roads’ crack open pristine rainforest theconversation.com/roads-of-destr… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

The blessings of a solar eclipse and an excruciatingly tender new moon - Susan J. Tweit explores the ways to diffuse irritation. ✨🌿

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This is the age of reframing, rezoning, rethinking, repurposing, reconditioning. Grease up your muscle 💪🏾

I must admit, I have plenty of stroppy moments like this. At least once a day. And I am gratified that we are building number and building momentum. But is it fast enough? I am so sick of cynics, casually dismissing action. Thanks 🙏🏽 for smart experienced strops like Vici 😅

How the climate crisis affects our brains: one of the most gripping @Guardian articles⁩ in years. Based on book by Clayton Page Aldern, neuroscientist journalist. Worth us all reading. ❤️
theguardian.com/environment/20… ⁦Jan Ellison Baszucki⁩ ⁦Climate Majority Project⁩ theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Speaking of Our Forests
From the Earth at Risk Report
This whole report is a great sum up of where we are at.
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Boreal forests=1/4 of emissions from wildfires & Tropical forests now aC02 emitter
Unreal what bad shape we are in

If you have limited time/attention span: let me re-cite a short popular pre-commentary msn.com/en-us/weather/… where Chip Fletcher & I had sketched the broad #civilizationalshift #crossroadsofhumanity points we'd go on to detail in our PNAS Nexus paper: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

Now this is interesting. Even though no word (at least in this unlinked popular summary) about the moisture pros and cons of clouds on heating and direct land/atmosphere water cycle interactions. Peter Paap 🇳🇱 🇧🇷 Rob de Laet JonSchull Global EverGreening Alliance Peter Kalmus Peter Gubbels

An urgent call to end the age of destruction.
'we are speeding past Earth's material limits destroying critical ecosystems and triggering irreversible changes in the biophysical systems ..which fostered human civilization..'
#ClimateCrisis
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“There is no guarantee of a just, nourishing, and healthy future for humanity, and hope will not catalyze the change we need. That work must fall upon us, and it is clear from this review that we are past due .. an appropriate reaction to the global emergency we have created.”

🚨Earth at risk: a stunning new paper from scholars including NaomiOreskes Prof Michael E. Mann Dr. William J. Ripple Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social Sir David King: 'We are past due for, and critically far away from, an appropriate reaction to the global emergency we have created.'
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The world doesn’t have to be this way, and civilization doesn’t have to disintegrate as though we lack the imagination to create a new one. We can change it. And time is short. Step up and help create the new kinder, wiser, more humble one. ☀️⏰🦋🐝🌿🐛🌷🌅

Return on investment is not making it look good for a smooth global energy transition. My advice? Help your own resilience by getting used to living on half, a third, or less, ASAP. As 75-84m net new people join us on this planet every year. open.substack.com/pub/platformen…

Lucy Kagendo Mbae is a beloved climate mentor to younger Kenyan activists+young professionals who are fundraising for her to travel to Ottawa to attend INC4 on plastics pollution. Africa needs strong leaders! If you can chip in a bit: 23-29 April 2024 gofund.me/490e753f 🙏🏽❤️

In our new paper we argue that humanity must stop treating major crises in isolation, & instead establish a response based on kinship with nature that recognizes Earth as our lifeboat in the cosmic sea of space
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Chip Fletcher Sir David King Prof Michael E. Mann

A view of our place on this planet that was advanced so eloquently by earlier voices such as Carl Sagan and Buckminster Fuller

'Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future' | Honored to be a co-author of this new article in PNAS Nexus w/ @Fletcher_Chip, Sir David King, NaomiOreskes, Prof Phoebe Barnard @phoebebarnard.bsky.social & others!