Population Conversations
@populationconvos.bsky.social
We're a group of global women deeply concerned about ecological overshoot and its drivers: hyperconsumption, population pressure, and the systems and mindsets of power and dominance that have driven humanity to the brink.
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Welcome! We're moving here from being an established global women's group on Facebook. We're deeply concerned with intergenerational and Earth justice and human impact on the planet -to bend the curve on hyperconsumption, population, and mindsets and systems of power& dominance driving overshoot🐝🦋
In a crowded world, wars over resources, ideologies and testosterone become even more brutal and destructive than "usual." This film on #Ukraine 's #resilience in the face of multiple threats - past #nuclearcatastrophe, aggressive Russian #invasion, and #climatechange among others - should be good.
Introducing our new documentary in production in Ukraine at a dangerous time: “Climate in a Time of Conflict” by #JohnBowey. Fortitude, resilience: how Ukrainians cope with unpredictability, brutality, toxicity, risk: what we can all learn. Pls share! #climate #conflict youtube.com/watch?v=4yU6...
TALE OF TWO CITIES
YouTube video by TransMediaVision
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July 15, 2026 at 9:33 AM
In a crowded world, wars over resources, ideologies and testosterone become even more brutal and destructive than "usual." This film on #Ukraine 's #resilience in the face of multiple threats - past #nuclearcatastrophe, aggressive Russian #invasion, and #climatechange among others - should be good.
We have been living in stable times - for over 11,000 years.
Get ready to live in unstable times. It won't be for sissies.
Get ready to live in unstable times. It won't be for sissies.
New study: most climate models underestimate the decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC. The AMOC is on course to slow by more than 50% by the end of the century. 🌊
Very likely the AMOC will then be past the tipping point for full shutdown. 😨
us.cnn.com/2026/04/16/c...
Very likely the AMOC will then be past the tipping point for full shutdown. 😨
us.cnn.com/2026/04/16/c...
A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents is weakening and closer to collapse than thought, new studies find | CNN
New research provides alarming evidence this ocean circulation is slowing and could be heading toward a shutdown, which would have catastrophic impacts on the planet’s weather and climate.
us.cnn.com
April 18, 2026 at 3:43 PM
We have been living in stable times - for over 11,000 years.
Get ready to live in unstable times. It won't be for sissies.
Get ready to live in unstable times. It won't be for sissies.
This looks absolutely wonderful. What civilizations still are, and still could be. @julespretty.bsky.social on storytelling for an imaginative tomorrow.
@rupertread.bsky.social @anitaroy1000.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social
@rupertread.bsky.social @anitaroy1000.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social
Heat! Camera! Action! Climbing out of the Climate Hole with @julespretty.bsky.social and iconic, ecological, eccentric and ecocentric guests of many flavours. A new quirky, insightful, intelligent podcast on our crossroads of humanity. Landing midsummer - sign up!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCsj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCsj...
Heat! Camera! Action! Trailer
YouTube video by Story for Climate and Nature Recovery
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April 18, 2026 at 2:58 PM
This looks absolutely wonderful. What civilizations still are, and still could be. @julespretty.bsky.social on storytelling for an imaginative tomorrow.
@rupertread.bsky.social @anitaroy1000.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social
@rupertread.bsky.social @anitaroy1000.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social
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Since the birth of my girls, I’ve wanted a parallel life as a doula. But having watched a southern right whale birth from atop a cliff near my home, this doesn’t surprise me✨
Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c... @racheldonald.bsky.social
Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c... @racheldonald.bsky.social
Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2026 at 5:54 AM
Since the birth of my girls, I’ve wanted a parallel life as a doula. But having watched a southern right whale birth from atop a cliff near my home, this doesn’t surprise me✨
Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c... @racheldonald.bsky.social
Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c... @racheldonald.bsky.social
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And here I thought she was referring to the three or four men holding the world hostage and committing war crimes, genocide and climate destabilization.
Removing Unfriendly Leaders www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...
Removing Unfriendly Leaders www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...
Removing Unfriendly Leaders
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2026 at 7:08 AM
And here I thought she was referring to the three or four men holding the world hostage and committing war crimes, genocide and climate destabilization.
Removing Unfriendly Leaders www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...
Removing Unfriendly Leaders www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...
Thank goodness for the wonderful Nandita Bajaj and her team at @popnbalance.bsky.social. And well done to writer and overshoot thinker @robertjensen.bsky.social for a great article, well worth reading and spreading.
Thank you @phoebebarnard.bsky.social for the thread 🧵 and Jensen's great article.
Thank you @phoebebarnard.bsky.social for the thread 🧵 and Jensen's great article.
#Ecologicalovershoot - and our silence on the natural, liberating ways to reverse it - is an astonishingly shortsighted travesty of our time.
Liberating - for whom? Well, essentially everyone other than the autocrats and entitled men we resist. A🧵
www.populationbalance.org/media/confro...
Liberating - for whom? Well, essentially everyone other than the autocrats and entitled men we resist. A🧵
www.populationbalance.org/media/confro...
Nandita Bajaj | Confronting patriarchy, pronatalism, and population denial — Population Balance
Not so long ago, the conventional wisdom in most liberal/left circles was that people concerned about population growth tended to be racists, nativists, and eugenicists. And mostly old white guys, acc...
www.populationbalance.org
April 2, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Thank goodness for the wonderful Nandita Bajaj and her team at @popnbalance.bsky.social. And well done to writer and overshoot thinker @robertjensen.bsky.social for a great article, well worth reading and spreading.
Thank you @phoebebarnard.bsky.social for the thread 🧵 and Jensen's great article.
Thank you @phoebebarnard.bsky.social for the thread 🧵 and Jensen's great article.
It's a pretty telling commentary on the state of our human 'civilizations' - especially the western one, such as it is.
Thanks @davidho.bsky.social for consistently good stuff on our future, ecological overshoot and what's needed to pull up and out of our messes.
@phoebebarnard.bsky.social
Thanks @davidho.bsky.social for consistently good stuff on our future, ecological overshoot and what's needed to pull up and out of our messes.
@phoebebarnard.bsky.social
It’s 2026, we have to fight fascists, climate change, and this nonsense.
Lamar wants to have children with his girlfriend. The problem? She’s entirely AI
As synthetic personas become an increasingly normal part of life, meet the people falling for their chatbot lovers
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:03 AM
It's a pretty telling commentary on the state of our human 'civilizations' - especially the western one, such as it is.
Thanks @davidho.bsky.social for consistently good stuff on our future, ecological overshoot and what's needed to pull up and out of our messes.
@phoebebarnard.bsky.social
Thanks @davidho.bsky.social for consistently good stuff on our future, ecological overshoot and what's needed to pull up and out of our messes.
@phoebebarnard.bsky.social
There is no one more on point, starker, blunter, more darkly moving on the state of our planet and civilizations than George Tsakraklides. Please absorb his writing in your morning coffee ruminations. Well worth it.
The George Tsakraklides View
georgetsakraklides.substack.com?r=1ibqiu&utm...
The George Tsakraklides View
georgetsakraklides.substack.com?r=1ibqiu&utm...
November 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
There is no one more on point, starker, blunter, more darkly moving on the state of our planet and civilizations than George Tsakraklides. Please absorb his writing in your morning coffee ruminations. Well worth it.
The George Tsakraklides View
georgetsakraklides.substack.com?r=1ibqiu&utm...
The George Tsakraklides View
georgetsakraklides.substack.com?r=1ibqiu&utm...
What could be putting young women off marriage and childbearing? It really isn't so much of a mystery.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What could be putting young women off marriage? It really isn’t that much of a mystery | Naoise Dolan
Survey data suggests more and more girls can’t imagine getting married, while their male counterparts are keener. That disparity holds a clue, says writer Naoise Dolan
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
What could be putting young women off marriage and childbearing? It really isn't so much of a mystery.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Breakfast convo today: Oswald Moseley/Diana Mitford, the couple driving the short-lived rise of WW1-WW2 British fascism. The relationship with some suffragettes sheds light on why some women were initially drawn in despite fascism+pronatalism @popnbalance.bsky.social
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...
British Union of Fascists - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Breakfast convo today: Oswald Moseley/Diana Mitford, the couple driving the short-lived rise of WW1-WW2 British fascism. The relationship with some suffragettes sheds light on why some women were initially drawn in despite fascism+pronatalism @popnbalance.bsky.social
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...
On psychology, status, a history of ideological poison, and conspicuous hyperconsumption even in townships. Our need for status signaling is pretty dramatic. Just like birds and other vertebrates, we guess. www.stableplanetalliance.org/post/izikhot...
Izikhothane: a deeper history of a South African youth subculture where luxury items are trashed
This fascinating piece by Mthobeli Ngcongo and Sifiso Mnisi, faculty respectively of South Africa's universities of the Free State and Johannesburg, was originally published 25 October 2023 in The Con...
www.stableplanetalliance.org
September 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
On psychology, status, a history of ideological poison, and conspicuous hyperconsumption even in townships. Our need for status signaling is pretty dramatic. Just like birds and other vertebrates, we guess. www.stableplanetalliance.org/post/izikhot...
An important new #Substack series of 16 posts, #AntidotetoFascism, by collective-good impact investment godfather and retro rock video godparent, #JedEmerson
blendedvalue.substack.com/p/antidote-t...
blendedvalue.substack.com/p/antidote-t...
Antidote to Fascism
Come along for the ride!!
blendedvalue.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
An important new #Substack series of 16 posts, #AntidotetoFascism, by collective-good impact investment godfather and retro rock video godparent, #JedEmerson
blendedvalue.substack.com/p/antidote-t...
blendedvalue.substack.com/p/antidote-t...
Delighted to share this good discussion between friends Nandita Bajaj @popnbalance.bsky.social & Florence Blondel @florenceblondel.bsky.social on population angst/ #coercivepronatalism stoked by #farright patriarchal drivers of social/economic growth youtu.be/WBdJ4QZ-kc4 @endovershoot.bsky.social 👏
Overshooting Earth: How Population Myths Shape Our Crisis
YouTube video by Global Footprint Network
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July 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Delighted to share this good discussion between friends Nandita Bajaj @popnbalance.bsky.social & Florence Blondel @florenceblondel.bsky.social on population angst/ #coercivepronatalism stoked by #farright patriarchal drivers of social/economic growth youtu.be/WBdJ4QZ-kc4 @endovershoot.bsky.social 👏
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My friend Rev Terry Kyllo of Paths to Understanding is a Lutheran pastor and cross-cultural community cohesion builder. He writes:
pathstounderstanding.org/either-all-o...
pathstounderstanding.org/either-all-o...
Either All of Us Are Human, or None of Us Are - Paths to Understanding
Human beings have survived and thrived by forming in-groups. This instinct is so central to our lives that we’re often willing to risk everything to protect our group. But here’s the problem: other in...
pathstounderstanding.org
May 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
My friend Rev Terry Kyllo of Paths to Understanding is a Lutheran pastor and cross-cultural community cohesion builder. He writes:
pathstounderstanding.org/either-all-o...
pathstounderstanding.org/either-all-o...
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Friends, I need your ideas for my fmr student in #wartime #Sudan. She has a PhD+hopes for a TWAS-DFG cooperation visits fellowship -not only to help her #wildlifeecology work, but also the survival+wellbeing of her family in Sudan. Who are antelope ecologists in Germany? @ignasheitkonig.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Friends, I need your ideas for my fmr student in #wartime #Sudan. She has a PhD+hopes for a TWAS-DFG cooperation visits fellowship -not only to help her #wildlifeecology work, but also the survival+wellbeing of her family in Sudan. Who are antelope ecologists in Germany? @ignasheitkonig.bsky.social
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If ever there was justification for a World Charter for Nature and Climate, surely Attenborough makes the case. sites.google.com/view/worldma... petitions.worldmagnacarta.co.uk @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @planetweaver.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
If ever there was justification for a World Charter for Nature and Climate, surely Attenborough makes the case. sites.google.com/view/worldma... petitions.worldmagnacarta.co.uk @phoebebarnard.bsky.social @planetweaver.bsky.social
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So grateful to the #CO2Foundation for their generous support at a time when we most desperately needed it! co2foundation.org/exploring-cl...
Do you have an interest in supporting clear-eyed but unifying, agency-reclaiming messaging about our future, our climate, our planet and civilization? DM me 🌿
Do you have an interest in supporting clear-eyed but unifying, agency-reclaiming messaging about our future, our climate, our planet and civilization? DM me 🌿
Exploring climate restoration options, in four parts - The CO2 Foundation
Transformative funding toward this global conversation-starter on carbon removal, ecosystem and climate restoration, and the shift to a kinder, wiser, more humble civilization ahead.
co2foundation.org
May 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
So grateful to the #CO2Foundation for their generous support at a time when we most desperately needed it! co2foundation.org/exploring-cl...
Do you have an interest in supporting clear-eyed but unifying, agency-reclaiming messaging about our future, our climate, our planet and civilization? DM me 🌿
Do you have an interest in supporting clear-eyed but unifying, agency-reclaiming messaging about our future, our climate, our planet and civilization? DM me 🌿
We wanted to share this #challenge for all of us in #humanity, at these crossroads. Our founder @phoebebarnard.bsky.social is working with Theo Wilson on her new project - somehow. Need to raise funds first. Please share this. It deserves to #goviral.
#crossroads
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNLr...
#crossroads
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNLr...
"I Am Humanity," by Theo Wilson.
YouTube video by Tej Fury
www.youtube.com
May 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
We wanted to share this #challenge for all of us in #humanity, at these crossroads. Our founder @phoebebarnard.bsky.social is working with Theo Wilson on her new project - somehow. Need to raise funds first. Please share this. It deserves to #goviral.
#crossroads
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNLr...
#crossroads
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNLr...
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Here's a story from South Korea that can inspire the "Hands Off!" events taking place in the United States: how a mix of street protests and responsive democratic institutions prevailed in a political crisis.
How South Korea’s Democracy Prevailed Over a Reckless Leader (Gift Article)
The rise and fall of Yoon Suk Yeol exposed a vulnerability in South Korean democracy, but also a resilience. Its people were always ready to fight for it.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Here's a story from South Korea that can inspire the "Hands Off!" events taking place in the United States: how a mix of street protests and responsive democratic institutions prevailed in a political crisis.
"What are we doing to ourselves when we tell ourselves we're Consumers 3000x/day?
What would it look like to put the same creativity+energy into involving people as Citizens?
What would you do in this time, if you truly believed in yourself +those around you?"
www.canburypress.com/products/cit...
What would it look like to put the same creativity+energy into involving people as Citizens?
What would you do in this time, if you truly believed in yourself +those around you?"
www.canburypress.com/products/cit...
Citizens by Jon Alexander (ISBN: 9781912454846)
🇬🇧 To buy a physical copy of the book, click here.
McKinsey 2022 summer reading list - TOP 5 recommended book
What are we doing to ourselves when we tell ourselves we're Consumers 3000 times a day?
...
www.canburypress.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"What are we doing to ourselves when we tell ourselves we're Consumers 3000x/day?
What would it look like to put the same creativity+energy into involving people as Citizens?
What would you do in this time, if you truly believed in yourself +those around you?"
www.canburypress.com/products/cit...
What would it look like to put the same creativity+energy into involving people as Citizens?
What would you do in this time, if you truly believed in yourself +those around you?"
www.canburypress.com/products/cit...
It's hard to find 20-somethings or 50-somethings for that matter these days in the Global North who can repair socks, sweaters, toasters, or chairs. That's a problem for the times likely coming. If you haven't seen BuyNow! yet, prepare to be abundantly grossed out😧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVfZ...
April 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It's hard to find 20-somethings or 50-somethings for that matter these days in the Global North who can repair socks, sweaters, toasters, or chairs. That's a problem for the times likely coming. If you haven't seen BuyNow! yet, prepare to be abundantly grossed out😧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVfZ...
#Pregnancy and #childbirth are intimate, potentially very risky, energetically demanding, and a woman's choice.
We appreciate community political leaders like @piperformissouri.bsky.social who call out horrific arrogance and misogyny of right-wing politicians+activists that would force women ...🧵
We appreciate community political leaders like @piperformissouri.bsky.social who call out horrific arrogance and misogyny of right-wing politicians+activists that would force women ...🧵
April 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
#Pregnancy and #childbirth are intimate, potentially very risky, energetically demanding, and a woman's choice.
We appreciate community political leaders like @piperformissouri.bsky.social who call out horrific arrogance and misogyny of right-wing politicians+activists that would force women ...🧵
We appreciate community political leaders like @piperformissouri.bsky.social who call out horrific arrogance and misogyny of right-wing politicians+activists that would force women ...🧵
Someone engaged us yesterday on a common refrain: "It's not population, it's consumption." Well, yes. And no. Let us point out 2 obvious facts. 1. Population is mathematically (very non-linearly) related to consumption. 2. The world is a tragically unequal place. We need to solve both, not bicker.
April 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Someone engaged us yesterday on a common refrain: "It's not population, it's consumption." Well, yes. And no. Let us point out 2 obvious facts. 1. Population is mathematically (very non-linearly) related to consumption. 2. The world is a tragically unequal place. We need to solve both, not bicker.
But not all humans follow self-destructive behaviors. Ancient civilizations and especially Indigenous cultures have much to teach us about the mistakes some of us have made.
#indigenousculturalbridges #collapse #stewardship #rights #responsibilities #biodiversity #humansupremacy #entitlement
#indigenousculturalbridges #collapse #stewardship #rights #responsibilities #biodiversity #humansupremacy #entitlement
The pathology of civilisational expansion
From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM
#overshoot #quoteoftheday #tsakraklides #collapse #climatecrisis #anthropology #economics
From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM
#overshoot #quoteoftheday #tsakraklides #collapse #climatecrisis #anthropology #economics
April 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
But not all humans follow self-destructive behaviors. Ancient civilizations and especially Indigenous cultures have much to teach us about the mistakes some of us have made.
#indigenousculturalbridges #collapse #stewardship #rights #responsibilities #biodiversity #humansupremacy #entitlement
#indigenousculturalbridges #collapse #stewardship #rights #responsibilities #biodiversity #humansupremacy #entitlement
#Hyperconsumption, #population pressures, and #entitlement #mindsets are at the root of these failures. Let's change that.
Biodiversity strategy 🧵: 4 critical mistakes in conservation.
A. Assuming good intentions+ treaties were almost enough.
B. Failing to shift entitlement mindsets +spiritual traditions.
C. Failing to reform corrosive global & local economies.
D. Failing to scan the horizon for curve balls. 🧵
A. Assuming good intentions+ treaties were almost enough.
B. Failing to shift entitlement mindsets +spiritual traditions.
C. Failing to reform corrosive global & local economies.
D. Failing to scan the horizon for curve balls. 🧵
With just 5 years to go, the world is failing on the Global Biodiversity Framework to conserve and restore biodiversity.
"In fact, we're actively destroying biodiversity faster than ever in human history."
theconversation.com/with-just-5-...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🌏🌐🧪#bioinvasions
"In fact, we're actively destroying biodiversity faster than ever in human history."
theconversation.com/with-just-5-...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🌏🌐🧪#bioinvasions
April 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#Hyperconsumption, #population pressures, and #entitlement #mindsets are at the root of these failures. Let's change that.