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Of course @gwagner.com said it first. And better.

bsky.app/profile/gwag...

We might as well start preparing to explain why energy price increases aren’t due to the transition to renewables, but due to the transition not happening faster.

Persian Gulf desalination plants could become military targets in regional war Key sources of drinking water have been targets in past conflicts. And Iranian strikes have already hit close to some.

“The region’s monarchies are often described as petro-states, but they have also become what I call saltwater kingdoms, global superpowers in the production of human-made fresh water drawn from the sea.”

theconversation.com/persian-gulf...

This is a terrifying thread. And I wouldn't be at all surprised if the idiots running this war never considered it.

The climate crisis is worse than ever

Climate coverage gets good ratings

So how do our Objective Journalists justify covering it less?

We have mobilised full humanitarian response across region and will meet this moment.

But humanitarians are being asked to do too much with too little, while politicians pour oil on fire and boast of spending billions on war while aid budgets are slashed.

Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...

North American bird populations are not only declining, but they’re also shrinking faster with each passing year—particularly in regions shaped by intensive agriculture, according to a new study in Science. https://scim.ag/4bkrafP

223 projects in 16 Blue states were terminated. That’s because Americans elected a Neanderthal.

Geneva Convention 1977 Protocols:
“It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as... drinking #water installations & supplies and irrigation works... for any other motive.”

Iran's FM condemns US attack on Qeshm's freshwater desalination plant, warns of grave consequences US President Donald Trump announced that Iran promised not to attack its neighbours anymore

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
timesofoman.com/article/1691...

A lot of what is described on this site as a "war crime" might well not be. These laws, after all, were created by states, which gave themselves a lot of room for maneuver.

Attacks on desalination plants doesn't strike me as a difficult case. It is pretty clearly a war crime.

IDF says it can't guarantee it will send alert for missile before sirens sound Commenting on Friday's Short Notices, the IDF Said That It Cannot Commit to a Specific Number of Minutes Between the Warning and the Activation of Sirens. Meanwhile, Satellite Images Show Iran Is Atte...

Bekräftar de jag var inne på tidigare.
Israel ser inte robotarna i tid. Radarsystem har slagits ut.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

DN Debatt. ”Hade jag inte redan slutat som domare skulle jag gjort det nu” DN Debatt. Svensk kriminalpolitik förändras när rehabilitering tas bort som påföljd, skriver fd domaren Monica Nebelius Lüning.

www.dn.se/debatt/hade-...

Transformative foresight for diverse futures: the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative Motivation Foresight methods are increasingly recognized as essential for decision-making in complex environments, particularly within development and research settings. As foresight methods continu...

and a recent review of our futures methods

Transformative foresight for diverse futures: the Seeds of Good Anthropocenes initiative
Preiser+
doi.org/10.1111/dpr....

Ecology & Society: Seeds of Good Anthropocenes: Envisioning and Exploring Pathways toward Transformative Futures A journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability

we have an ongoing special feature

"Seeds of Good Anthropocenes: Envisioning and Exploring Pathways toward Transformative Futures"
that captures some of the insights from this research

ecologyandsociety.org/feature/160/

right now 5 papers - but ~10 more in review

Solnit's work is one of the inspirations between our project

"Seeds of a Good Anthropoence"
for over a decade we've been helping imagine positive futures built from connecting the diverse alternatives that exist at the margins of our worlds
goodanthropocenes.net

🥹“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. Every 10th of a degree we can prevent of temperature rise saves…species, communities. Of course we’re going to lose a lot - we’ve already lost a lot - but we don’t have to lose everything, and we don’t have to surrender”

They're stealing the voice of Sinead O'Connor, who risked her own career in 1992 by speaking up about child sexual abuse in the Catholic church, so let's make this theft an occasion to keep talking about Trump in the Epstein files.

Fossil fuels weren’t meant to compete with technological renewables in performance or with sufficiency in fairness.

För Timbro går äganderätten före lagens krav på miljöhänsyn i skogen LEVANDE SKOGAR:: Tankesmedjan Timbro verkar mena att ideella naturvårdare gör fel när de inventerar skogarnas skyddsvärda arter och gör vad markägaren egentligen är skyldig, skriver debattör på SMB.

"Men äganderätt kan inte innebära en rätt att stå över lagens krav på hänsyn till skyddsvärda arter. Effekten lär annars bli det motsatta, dvs en mindre levande landsbygd. För vem vill bo där skogarna blir allt mer enformiga och utarmade på biologisk mångfald?"

Excellent summary of where we are and where we might want to be.

Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

This thread as a single page: skywriter.blue/@profsaunder...

Chartbook 436 Unseasonal war. How the US-Israeli war on Iran threatens the global agricultural cycle. One impact of the war being waged by the US and Israel against Iran that is not getting as much attention as it deserves, is the impact on the global supply of fertilizer.

Here’s some compounding conflict & climate risks to worry about on a Friday night. 😬🫣

First, we have a growing fertilizer crisis due Iran war As @adamtooze.bsky.social notes, this will hurt poorer countries in Africa the most-but US farmers also feeling the squeeze. (1/x)

Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather
Yin+
doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adx8813
synchronous fire weather increased during 1979 to 2024
>2X increase in most regions

"over 1/2 of the observed increase is attributable to anthropogenic climate change."

Och denna artikel. Att regeringen ska kunna ta över lagstiftningsmakten i allvarlig fredstida kris är en riktigt farlig och dålig idé.

www.etc.se/ledarkolumn/...

DN Debatt. ”Myndigheter måste vara redo att försvara sin självständighet” DN Debatt. Tormod Johansen, docent i offentlig rätt, varnar för ökad regeringsmakt. Om hur självständiga myndigheter skyddar mot auktoritär utveckling.

www.dn.se/debatt/myndi...

Kriget startades av en dåre i ett rum av guld KARIN PETTERSSON Livsfarligt när Europas ledare lägger sig platt för Trump

Helgtext "Jag tänker på hur Friedrich Merz – ledare för Europas största land – så lättvindigt sålde ut sin EU-partner Pedro Sanchez, en av få politiker som verkar kunna se klart i denna värld av feghet och lögner."

: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/6q9...

Nya migrationsförslag ska hantera problem efter tidigare lagändringar - Asylrättscentrum

Nya migrationsförslag har presenterats – och Migrationsverket pausar nu prövningen av så kallade tonårsutvisningar. Samtidigt är mycket fortfarande oklart kring hur förändringarna kommer att se ut.
Läs mer här:

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