Andre Rademan

CEO and co-founder,

[Andre Rademan @andrerademan]

https://t.co/HcivYX3PwM

[Andre Rademan @andrerademan]

Can climate shocks change how people feel about paying taxes?

Citizens are more willing to comply with taxes when they believe governments use public resources fairly and provide protection during crises... by Enrico Nichelatti
https://t.co/NXhqCpGePs.

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

One way of seeing climate change in action is looking at 1200 year continuous data from Japan about cherry tree blossoming.

[Juan Bordera🌍🇵🇸 @JuanBordera]

Ya no son previsiones, modelos, teorías... es la realidad.

Vamos a vivir un El Niño como no se ha visto otro en la historia medida.

Lo increíble que es esta gráfica solo se ve superado por lo increíble que es que prácticamente ningún "medio de comunicación" la sacará.

[James Hall @hallaboutafrica]

South Africa is now the world's top citrus exporter, surpassing Spain with nearly 3 million tonnes of oranges, grapefruit and lemons this past year. Key to export growth has been marketing, with the Southern African Citrus Association (including Eswatini and Zim) advertising and seeking out new markets.

[Peter D Carter @PCarterClimate]

ATMOSPHERIC CO2 JUST TOPPED 430 PPM, 3-5 MILLION YEAR HIGH
Accelerating atmospheric CO2 reached 431 ppm in April 2026, the highest in 3 to 5 million years and the fastest increase in 10s of millions of years.
Fossil fuel fatal CO2 emissions are still being increased, meaning global temperatures will soon become unlivable on to unsurvivable, an insanely evil fossil fuel hellish future. https://t.co/CN2JazeqDW
#CO2 #climatechange #globalwarming

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone.

In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery.

In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years.

A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years.

Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply.

Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story.

One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

[Simon @SimonDingle]

Online gambling is a pandemic, especially in countries like South Africa where it exploits the poorest of the poor. We should be shaming the celebrities that lend it their credibility, and boycotting projects that support it.

[Ember @ember_energy]

🚨 NEW RECORD | South Africa's clean generation surpassed 30% of electricity in Dec 2025, driven by a solar surge ☀️

Although power demand fell due to milder temperatures, fossil generation also declined, with coal hitting a record low.

https://t.co/DGXXlcJOgx

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Breaking News!
Code Yikes!

In case you haven't been paying attention, global sea-surface temperatures have been spiking for the last week and may soon set a new all-time record.

Massively overheated oceans are not healthy for children and other living things.

[George Tsakraklides @99blackbaloons]

As long as this planet continues to be run as a for-profit business rather than a community of 10 million species, most life on Earth is destined to vanish

[Khaya Dlanga @khayadlanga]

This act has to be praised. Buying Curron for R7.2 billion and converting it from a listed private school business into a non-profit public benefit organisation is the single largest and most generous philanthropic act in South Africa’s history. At 79, having stepped back from business in 2018 after being diagnosed with dementia, and after founding Capitec and PSG, has chosen to spend his final active years of making South Africa richer rather make himself richer.

I know some people say things like, "Well, he's supposed to." Nobody is supposed to do anything, because we see people doing what they want to do everyday.

Now, instead of giving money to shareholders, Curro will reinvest all surpluses into building more schools and training more quality teachers. And the part that is closets to my heart, offering thousands of under privileged children bursaries, and expanding into rural areas where quality education is in shortest supply. (It's both a blessing a pity that an individual has to step in where the government fails.)

Of course, it goes without saying that critics will do what they do best, criticise. Humans are, after all, specialists at decorating even the most generous acts with suspicion. But the truth remains, thousands of children from underprivileged backgrounds who might never even know Jannie Mouton’s name, will have an opportunity that will change the course of their lives. That, to me, is breathtaking.

There is an old saying that I am about to butcher: great people plant trees even though they will never enjoy the shade themselves. Jannie Mouton has not just planted one tree, he has planted an entire forest for generations to come.

[Bizcommunity.com @Bizcommunity]

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[Bizcommunity.com @Bizcommunity]

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[Andre Rademan @andrerademan]

RAPT BizTrendsTV: Li Ndube on Afro-optimism - African growth vs Western degrowth https://t.co/Qwpw3PnbzQ by Danette Breitenbach/@danettefrog44 via @Biz_Marketing

[UN Development @UNDP]

💸 No poverty
🍜 Zero hunger
⚕️ Good health
📒 Quality education
👩‍💻 Decent jobs
⚖️ Gender equality
☀️ Clean energy
☔ Climate action
🕊️ Peace and justice
... And much more

We put the #GlobalGoals at the heart 💙 of all we do.

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[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Breaking News!
Code UFB!!!

The preliminary global surface temperature for July 22 just came in at 17.15°C, obliterating the previous record set just yesterday of 17.09°C.

[Andre Rademan @andrerademan]

Sea surface temperature hitting record highs: https://t.co/rYJnAJYvsH

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Breaking News!
Code FUBAR!!!

Yesterday global sea surface temperatures (SST) hit a new modern-day record high of 21.18°C, beating the previous record of 21.17°C set just this past March 1st.

Yearly SSTs usually peak towards the end of March.

[Leon Simons 🌍 @LeonSimons8]

🌊🌡️📈

8 months ago, many thought that the record high Sea Surface Temperature anomalies over the 40 million square kilometers of the North Atlantic would be temporary.

After 355 record days and counting, this is not temporary:

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Um. Hello? Media? Politicians? Celebrities? Oprah?

The latest global temperature that was just posted by Copernicus (data from Feb. 9) was 2.03°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.