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[Guy Ballard @DingoResearch]

Today’s Australian native plant: Xanthorrhoea glauca - The grey grass tree. This specimen was 3 leaves, 10 years ago. Sculptural, ancient, insect and bird attracting. Love them.

[Mark Allen @Mark_PPP]

@99blackbaloons Another great piece of writing George.

[Peter Strachan @Peter_Strachan]

A curious thing about H. sapiens is that we are clever enough to document — in exquisite detail — various trends that portend the collapse of modern civilisation, yet not nearly smart enough to extricate ourselves from our self-induced predicament
https://t.co/ClwnuSmZWC

[Bob Brown Foundation @BobBrownFndn]

Yesterday, 15,000 people marched in the streets for forests sending a resounding message that native forest logging must END. #politas

https://t.co/LhcBhpy68C

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Habitat for endangered Australian birds cleared without assessment

Their home to be destroyed over 3,000 ha of tropical savanna
Its an absolute disgrace these birds will disappear forever
To hell with you Australia
https://t.co/XP2Cgbu8xb

[Mark Allen @Mark_PPP]

@JaneCaro Science alone cannot save it. It requires systemic change and behavioural change on a vast scale...combined with science.

[Mark Allen @Mark_PPP]

@TheAusInstitute To deny that adding more than the population of Canberra to Australia every year adds to demand, which in turn compounds the housing crisis, smacks of ideological blindness. Of course we need tax reform too. It requires a multi pronged approach.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Costa Rica, once home to rampant logging, has now almost doubled the size of its rainforest. They turned it all around within a generation. It can be done.

Protect people and the planet.

#ActOnClimate #biodiversity #deforestation #rewilding #solutions

[Philip Thalis @PhilipThalis]

Problems of suburbia go way beyond just black roofs.
Need to fix;
-moribund housing types
-miserable ‘design’
-bad environmental performance
-lack of landscape
-poor street design
-driveways everywhere
-difficulty connecting public & active transport
FAIL
https://t.co/HlTWf7pIwd

[Mark Allen @Mark_PPP]

How else are we to accommodate Australia's population growth without sprawl? Until we have a serious conversation about the demand side of the equation, we will forever be battling development that we do not deem appropriate.

[Cameron Kusher @cmkusher]

At the risk of being labelled a NIMBY I legitimately don’t understand why anywhere away from the city centre and surrounds (which should be much more dense) needs to have that sort of height unless it is a legitimate new CBD (like Parramatta in Sydney).

6-8 storeys is surely tall enough as you move further away from the centre of the city (not just Melbourne but any city).

Some of these heights, should they get built are going to stick out like a sore thumb.

https://t.co/LZ7ul3W4te

[Mark Allen @Mark_PPP]

@cmkusher How else are we to accommodate Australia's population growth without sprawl? Until we have a serious conversation about the demand side of the equation, we will forever be battling development that we do not deem appropriate.

[j.a.h.n.a.v.i._.i.y.e.r @JahnaviIyer]

We arent just witnessing a decline; we are witnessing an unravelling of the systems that make our air breathable and our soil alive. New data from the Living Planet Index confirms a terrifying reality: global wildlife populations have plummeted by 73% in just 50 years (1970–2020).

The burden of this extraction is not shared equally. The Global South is being hollowed out to fuel endless growth:

Latin America & Caribbean: -95%
Africa: -76%
Asia-Pacific: -60%
North America: -39%
Europe & Central Asia: -35%

This isnt an accident. It is a calculated result of:
1. Industrial Food Systems: Forests cleared for meat and soy.
2. Fossil Fuels: Driving a climate collapse that bleaches reefs and melts habitats.
3. Endless Extraction: Rivers choked by dams and chemicals for profit.

Every extinct species is a warning sign. Every forest cut is a wound. We, specifically our economic systems and the wealthy elite, are acting as the asteroid.

The window to change is closing fast. We must move beyond. We must BOYCOTT FOSSIL FUELS.

#ClimateAction #WildlifeCollapse #BiodiversityLoss #FossilFuelTreaty #ActNow #SixthMassExtinction

@WWF @IPBES @ZSLconservation
@IUCN
@UNBiodiversity
@moefcc
@WCTIndia
@wti_org_india

https://t.co/GiXp3MAoKB

[Mark Allen @Mark_PPP]

@JustCollapse My deepest condolences. I'm so sorry to hear this Kate.

[Patricia @PatriciaNPino]

Im leading this. With an amazing team of MMT savvy people. Please support if you can.

[Mark Allen @Mark_PPP]

"With panache and passion, Marcus shares a new economic vision. It eschews the current neoliberal paradigm to create a future where social and environmental wellbeing is prioritised over GDP, profits for the few and endless growth on a finite planet." https://t.co/QYsBot93le

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

When detached houses are built this ridiculously close, why not just build terraces?

[Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺 @AvidCommentator]

Modern Australian homes at times have all the visual appeal of a 1970s East German apartment block...

[Prof. Steve Keen @ProfSteveKeen]

Niall Ferguson says the US is doomed because of debt. The math says he is wrong.

Here is the uncomfortable truth: Your savings exist because the government is in debt.

It’s a seesaw. If the government tries to get out of debt (surplus), it pushes the private sector—you and me—into debt (negative equity).

We tried the "balanced budget" approach in the 19th century. It gave us depressions and panic every decade.

Don't fear the deficit. It’s the engine of private wealth.

#SteveKeen #Economics #Money #Debt #Finance

P.S. Watch the full breakdown here:
https://t.co/eOh86SpFfH

[Bob Brown Foundation @BobBrownFndn]

Vale Rob Hirst — Midnight Oil drummer and environmentalist. Rob showed extraordinary commitment to people and planet, backing Indigenous-led campaigns, standing against coal, and providing a soundtrack to resistance and rewilding. Vale Rob. https://t.co/nBVgoeGfXv

[Rupert Read 🌍 🔥 @GreenRupertRead]

BREAKING!: Huge news: The Government has quietly published [link below] on its website, without any fanfare, the Joint Intelligence Committee / Defra report on
'GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY LOSS, ECOSYSTEM COLLAPSE AND NATIONAL SECURITY'
that it suppressed last October. It has presumably done this at this point (in the middle of an international crisis) to try to bury the story. <DON'T LET IT BE BURIED> ...this is a huge story. Just consider the report's title, for starters... the report warns of multiple likely ecosystem >collapses< that will have dire implications for our national security, and that require serious strategic adaptation at minimum. The report also sets out how these collapses if they are allowed to occur will significantly increase migration-pressure: "as development gains begin to reverse", a phrase that should make any human shudder in anguish. There is much more... But it doesn't end there: what they have published very much appears to be >only part of a larger piece of work<: there is no detail at all in what they have published on the geo-regional analyses; the connections from those regional analyses to the national security threats consequently facing Britain are not detailed; the "Key Judgements" of the report are not properly explained. It is fairly obvious what has happened here: in response to FOIs, they are trying to slip this report out, presumably because they feared it would otherwise get out anyway; but they have done so in a form that holds back much of the most disturbing content - the content that WE as citizens need to know if we are to know how to protect ourselves, what we are potentially going to have to adapt TO.
We must continue to press for the full report to be released...
But in the meantime there is much here to digest and reflect on, to put it mildly. Kudos to those who commissioned the report; do READ this version of it (it's only short!), and let's take it from there... Kudos too to those who pursued an (at least partly) successful battle to get the report released, via Freedom of Information requests...
>>Please share widely!
https://t.co/lMI3Nr5mPL