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Discussing responses to climate change and the collapse of global industrial civilisation due to ecological overshoot. Doomer. Permaculture designer. Co-founder - Just Extinction.
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We're an embarrassment..
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Lol of course mate. I am English too btw!
I'm talking about people in the leafy suburbs who don't want to be confronted by poor people or the homeless.
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English people are a bunch of nasty sick f**ks for the most part..
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Thanks a lot Rupe 🙏
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Bristol.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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All of the above. Facts.
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😂🤣😅 Happy Saturday mate!
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In the UK, we're not getting decent coverage of the military deployments in LA - just press conferences with the idiots running your country. How bad is it really?
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Appreciate it Ian, WASF mate.
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😂 @ if an adult boils the kettle.
Careers are overrated mate, they just keep you occupied and busy while the human enterprise devours the biosphere.
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I'd give you a job in a heartbeat! Do you have any special skills?
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If this were a video, you'd need drugs to appreciate it!
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Thanks dude, appreciate that 🙏
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This dissonance is the spectre of business as usual still haunting a world that’s anything but, giving the times we live in an unsettling quality.
We're no longer in the old paradigm, but not yet metabolising the new one. This is deeply unnerving for those with their eyes open. Can you feel it? 5/5
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People are still planning careers and retirements in a future that physics increasingly denies.
This liminal space is haunted by inertia; not just physical (as in ocean heat lag), but also institutional, cultural, psychological. We know, but we act like we don't know. 4/5
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We haven’t caught up with the consequences of our past emissions, let alone the present.
The delay between cause and consequence is what makes this period feel so dissonant. Stock markets rising while the jet stream stutters, and conferences on net zero while the Amazon tips. 3/5
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We are at a threshold - the Anthropocene's waiting room if you like.
The ice is still melting, the oceans are still heating, forests still falling, species are disappearing, but the full consequences haven’t yet cascaded through the human systems that depend on a stable biosphere. 2/5
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Global industrial civilisation is collapsing due to ecological overshoot. Human extinction this century is a plausible outcome.
The only reason we’re still here having this conversation is inertia - delayed feedback in complex systems creating the illusion that everything’s fine.
It’s not. 10/10
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CO2 and emissions: UP
Ice melt: ACCELERATING
Forest loss: WORST IN TWO DECADES
Biodiversity: STAGGERING DROP
Fertility: SHIFTING DEMOGRAPHICS
Verdict: Yes, things are worse - faster, deeper, more systemic, and even more f**ked than three years ago when I finally realised solar won't save us! 😂🤣9/10
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Though harder to find a simple 3‑year metric, persistent CO₂ increases and ice loss imply strong planetary energy imbalance.
Verdict: Heating locked in. 8/10
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Global fertility rates continue falling, many countries already below replacement. IMF warns of long-term demographic disruption.
Verdict: Not collapse in the usual sense, but a systemic disruption in another direction. 7/10
www.imf.org/en/Publicati...
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Living Planet Index: 73% average decline in monitored vertebrate populations (1970–2020) versus 69% in 2018.
Verdict: Continuing trend, though recent drop less steep - still catastrophic. 6/10
ourworldindata.org/2024-living-...
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Tropical primary forest loss in 2024 was 6.7 M ha - the worst in two decades, 74% above 2018–20 baseline.
Verdict: No sign of hitting zero-deforestation targets by 2030. 5/10
www.vox.com/climate/4137...
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Winter max sea-ice extent in 2025 was the lowest ever recorded at 14.33 M km², shattering previous lows.
Verdict - Rapid ecological breakdown still in progress. 4/10
nsidc.org/sea-ice-toda...
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Energy-related CO₂ emissions hit a new high in 2024: 37.8 Gt (+0.8%).
Verdict: No pause button on fossil-fuel combustion. 3/10
www.iea.org/reports/glob...
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2022 to 2024: atmospheric CO₂ rose from 422 ppm to 422.7 ppm.
2025 May peak reached 430 ppm which is a 3.5–3.6 ppm jump from 2024.
Verdict: Escalating greenhouse gases still accelerating. 2/10
www.co2.earth/daily-co2
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Ecological overshoot - any species that could figure out how to use fossil fuels would do the same.
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Morning Donald, WASF mate.
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Guilty as charged 😂
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This is new to me too, hopefully we're saved...
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Jesus Christ!!
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I left you guys alone for one week. One week!!!!
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😂🤣 WASF mate
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It seems appropriate, but I'm an equal opportunities extinctionist!
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😂 I'm riffing on the common military creed rather than excluding female humans!
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😂
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Great English, perfectly stated 🙏
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I'm cancelling all plans today, I'm expecting a high volume of calls and invitations from the media....
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I'm just messing - I don't think anyone can accuse Eliot of hopium. As you say, conflict will get us as resources deplete.
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Hopium 😂
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Love it 😍