Prof Phoebe Barnard

Beautiful work and sleuthing.

And thanks @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social for reposting our fundraiser for Ukrainian scientist Svitlana Krakovska's community. . .

Last night I created Phoebe's little subscriber coffee café on Substack at the coalface of civilizational shift preparedness.
Real-life conversations can change the trajectory of humanity and the biosphere. A BYOB coffee café for serious, playful talk of the future
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Rewilding Underground Ecosystems in Colombia Designing and Monitoring a Tropical Rewilding Project for Belowround Ecosystem Restoration

See also this article by Dr Adriana Corrales: www.spun.earth/articles/rew...

This is one of the realms of the absolutely possible, and absolutely urgent for the reconnection of humanity, the repair of the climate, the restoration of ecosystems and food systems.
Please, share this wonderful organization's work.

As an ecosystem scientist, I get why the majority of politicians don't perceive severe environmental degradation risks, even to food security. They've lived in magic worlds: the economy, military, public policy. But now we know. And *all* governments had best be very proactive & judicious right now.

9. In her Facebook thread with these words, my American mountaineer friend Karen Molenaar Terrell finished by reflecting on the Trump administration’s score. I needn’t share that - it’s excruciatingly obvious to us all how the world can be held hostage by this one appalling example. May we change.

8. “Peace is kept if we
- Stop changing borders - establish & keep them.
- Link our security to others’. Peace & happy prosperity lets others see you’re no threat.
- Don’t mess in other nations' govts.
- Work & trade w other nations on common issues - climate, oceans - building trust & alliances”

7. “He talked about strategies in a nuclear disarmament:
- Unilateralism - when a nation says, "We're done playing this game," and gives up its nuclear weapons without waiting for other nations to give up theirs.
- Reciprocity - when nations take turns giving up their weapons. This builds trust.

6. “He asked if we thought a nuclear war was "winnable." And if you "won" a nuclear war, what would that look like? What would be left of civilization to "win" when there's already enough nuclear weapons to annihilate all life off the face of the planet?

5. “Or is war, as Karl Deutsch believed, the worst evil of all?

Leo got us thinking.

Leo spoke of nuclear weapons and explained the difference between missiles and warheads - just limiting the number of missiles, doesn't limit nuclear power when each missile can have more than one warhead on it.

4. “Leo asked if we thought, like Von Clausewitz, that war can be justified as a way to solve problems when diplomacy doesn't get us what we want? Is war, as Tolstoy believed, like a natural disaster that we can't prevent, but shouldn't participate in? Can we justify war if it's used to stop evil?

3. “He said there are different kinds of war, and different kinds of peace. Negative peace is just the absence of war; Positive peace is built on the idea of social justice for all members of a society.

Leo talked of Von Clausewitz, Tolstoy and Karl Deutsch and their differing views on war.

2. “Leo had us draw a line down the middle of a paper. On side he asked us to draw war, and write our definition of it. On the other side we drew peace, and our definition of it. We thought about what war and peace actually ARE.

#War and #peace. What they really mean. Why we’ve focused the last 80 years on how to bring peace. A thread from the wonderful Karen Molenaar Terrell:

1. “Years ago I took part in a peace workshop at our local community college taught by Leo Valk (?) from Netherlands. Here's what I remember”:

Never mind all that about stranded assets....

I wish these memes would cover his face. If we don't see his face and hear his voice everywhere, he pretty quickly ceases to exist, right? And he certainly wouldn't like that. Let's just stop him sucking all the oxygen outt of the room of civilizational shift. We have work to do. #trumpnewsblackout

Excellent. Just at the right time for these goals as part of our civilizational shift.

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3. It's not just about the climate, or even climate repair - but about the common roots of all our societal & planetary ills. We mustn't misinterpret these as individual crises, but see them all as symptoms of a world with broken relationships with Nature & each other. www.theclimaterestorers.com

2...Climate Repair Café is a multimedia series in prep on a regenerative future - 5 new formats all building on our 2025 documentary series #TheClimateRestorers - a news magazine, youth learning sessions, news headlines, climate events and a talk show. Watch this space! www.climaterepaircafe.com /3

Fundraiser by John Bowey | Help Ukrainian climate scientist's community in this freezing winter John Bowey Needs Your Help | Can you help climate scientist Svitlana and her community keep warm in this brutal Ukraine winter? Dr Svitlana Krakovska is Ukraine’s pre-eminent climate sci...

In our news magazine series Climate Repair Café, we feature the courageous Dr Svitlana Krakovska, top Ukrainian climate scientist, as she drives her hard work during a brutal, exhausting war.

Yet she always thinks of her neighbors' freezing flat first.
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"Stinking rich media moguls want you to blame the poorest people in society for everything we think's wrong in our lives and country, not looking hard at super rich oligarchs sitting on hordes of gold like malignant dragons..."

My family, like yours, were immigrants www.facebook.com/share/p/18L2...

So important, as Helen does, to reframe the language of adaptation. Water needs space. And we need water to have space. I'm here a few months in SW County Cork: stream 'management,' better surely here than in urban areas, needs attention. Here, that's more about manure. Elsewhere, about space.

Absolutely, and we had sixty or seventy years to reduce inequality to an absolute minimum. Only the Nordics and a few others took that seriously. And those who haven't really started by now may have a messy landing, as the USA shows 🫤

Texas Has Thousands of Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells. Who Is Responsible for Cleaning Them Up? Across Texas, abandoned wells are erupting with chemical-infused liquid and some have created massive lakes of contaminated water. Regulators say they need more money to address the problem.

Govts taking backhanders from oil companies aren't especially inclined to force them to clean up their mess when they're done profiteering. Corruption's multigenerational costs. 2 million US wells alone.
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A call to heads of states and all leaders of the world from Slovenia’s first woman president: www.instagram.com/reel/DVRFoW7...

3. … and actually enlisting their views, their skills, their aid. As anyone who has lived through the Arab Spring knows, collapse and anarchy are not usually pretty or helpful for those caught in it. And both governments and publics need to learn collaborative strategy. Way too much is at stake.

2. Most governments are not in the habit of collaborating deeply with their citizens. Many fear them. But if they wish to keep the tiller even remotely steady as economies and societies radically transform, they must find ways of speaking with their publics on the perils of this moment,…/3

Few things matter more than an awareness of these crossroads of humanity, the need for civil dialogues on options ahead, and governments’ preparedness to govern wisely and with their publics in unstable times ahead. As otherwise, things fall apart rather fast. 🧵2/3
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