The Potsdam Climate Institute and affiliated scientists have published the first of what is planned to be an annual planet health check focused on earth system boundaries. This is effectively a summary of the state of the earth's ecosystem #Anthropocene planetaryhealthcheck.org/storyblok-cdn/…

🚨We have now breached 7 out of the 9 planetary boundaries 🔴Climate change 🔴Biosphere integrity 🔴Biogeochemical flows 🔴Land-system change 🔴Freshwater use 🔴Introduction of novel entities 🟠Ocean acidification 🟢ozone depletion 🟢aerosol loading news.mongabay.com/2024/09/inaugu…

Today, 73 organizations and 106 academics sent a letter to PM Trudeau and federal ministers, urging the Government of Canada to end all public financing of fossil fuels, including petrochemicals, ahead of #COP29. It’s time to #StopFundingFossils bit.ly/3N0F3Tz

Here's a new review essay I wrote on firepower & violence. It explores 3 great books: ieva jusionyte 's Exit Wounds, Nathan Thrall 's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, and Simon Dalby's Pyromania. Free e-prints while they last .... #mexico #palestin #climate tandfonline.com/eprint/KWPUZYB…

See our 2024 State of the Climate Report "We're already in the midst of abrupt climate upheaval, which jeopardizes the life on Earth like nothing humans have ever seen. More broadly, we are in ecological overshoot. See paper here doi.org/10.1093/biosci… technologynetworks.com/tn/news/2024-s…

Such an excellent illustration of how inefficient fossil fuels are and how manufactured our dependency actually is. Close to half of all shipping traffic worldwide is just moving fossil fuels around

We try not to miss the big picture in our new 2024 State of the Climate Report as we describe ecological overshoot: doi.org/10.1093/biosci…

From Novara Media "Graeber only fully realised the political value of anthropology as a graduate student conducting fieldwork in Madagascar. While there, he saw how various Madagascan tribes organised their affairs without the presence of the state." novaramedia.com/2021/09/02/ana…

“Doctors Without Borders is outraged by the REPEATED killings of our staff in Gaza” It is insane that they have to beg Israel to stop KILLING their staff but US weapons keep flowing to attack medical workers.

Finding a Place for “The Planetary?” Simon Dalby explores how using a "planetary" context as the starting point for climate security shifts policy priorities to focus on adaptation, sustainable habitats, and curbing fossil fuels.👇 buff.ly/3AwLniZ

They've been infected with the russian obsessesion with geopolitics, that sees the world like a chessboard, devoid of human actors or values.

Tonight's a good time to remember how the US government kidnapped Syrian-Canadian citizen Maher Arar and then sent him to Syria to be tortured. Then the Bush and Obama administrations successfully prevented him from receiving any justice whatsoever from us.

Roundtable XXVI-24: Jonathan S. Blake’s and Nils Gilman’s Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises “Blake and Gilman have done all social scientists a favor by focusing our attention on the necessity of thinking about planetarity and subsidiarity

After a long delay, my essay on "Politics and Geology in Anthropocene Geopolitics" has finally appeared, open access, in Hans Guenter Brauch's volume Towards Rethinking Politics, Policy and Polity in the Anthropocene: link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… #Anthropocene #Geopolitics

As Trump threatens to annex Canada, it is time for Canadians to rethink many things. Not having a US veto over our airforce operations would be a good start. Micheal Byers on the argument to buy Swedish technology instead: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

youtube.com/watch?v=vao_hz… Balsillie School of International Affairs Wilfrid Laurier University #geopolitics #cdnpolitics

Despite the headlines these days, the long term future of planet earth requires thinking about both peace and sustainability, preferably together! A new journal on "Peace and Sustainability" has just published a first sketch of the research agenda: doi.org/10.1016/j.nerp…

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My latest podcast on our planetary predicament: #geopolitics #anthropocene #planetarity #governance ucl.ac.uk/global-governa…