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BellingenNSW

The Murray-Darling Basin
A comprehensive evaluation of water reform in the country's largest river system

"Without bold action to recover more water, rivers that sustain life across south-eastern Australia potentially face collapse."

"There's a really important sentence in the opening of their evaluation report where they acknowledge that First Nations had been intentionally excluded from the way water is managed across Australia...First Nations peoples have been here caring for water for 65,000 years."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-07-25/mur
#MDB #water #rivers #biodiversity #wildlife #irrigation #extraction #ecosystems #collapse

ABC News · Murray-Darling Basin Plan report card finds water reform workingBy Annie Brown
OccuWorld

Manifesto for World Revolution

youtube.com/watch?v=4pVxcbbPtw

Rise Up, oh people of the world
Wake up, wake up!
We’re at the cusp of a geopolitical power shift moment.
The hierarchical, top down power structures that have ruled the world for thousands of years are now collapsing right before our eyes.
The street now holds unprecedented power, unprecedented sway…

YouTubeManifesto for World Revolution - Rise UpBy Adbusters
#Manifesto#WorldRevolution#SystemChange
Expat Repeat

The collapse of everything marches on. But I just want to tell the world that I have at least six blossoms on my zucchini plants. If I get six zucchini this year, I will have doubled my yield for the second year in a row. The first year I harvested one. The second year it was three (but one was tiny. But this year... I'm hoping for six. Wish me great success! #collapse #gardening

Broadwaybabyto

I’m dealing with multiple severe chronic illnesses, including serious heart issues and frequent loss of consciousness.

Yet most days I feel like supply chain issues will be what kills me.

It’s terrifying to rely on medications & medical supplies during these uncertain times.

You can’t “just stock up” on medications.

Financial issues aside, there’s insurance issues and often limits as to how much a person can have.

There’s virtually no way you can “prep” for medication shortages, and it’s scary.

I spent this entire day trying to track down a medication that’s on back order.

Trying to find an alternative.

Trying to cobble together enough to survive.

People who are non disabled have no idea how scary it is to know that supply chain disruptions could quickly & painfully end your life.

We need a system to ensure medication needs are met.

#disability#ableism#eugenics
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anlomedad

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And now that we have all read the explainer above on #ACC , the Antarctic Circumpolar Current(s),
we can better appreciate what Matt England explains here from about minute 50 onwards
youtube.com/live/39T7bW7KA18
He actually answers a question I put to him beforehand on Bluesky, regarding my confusion about salinification versus freshening.

The beginning of this #ClimateChat episode hosted by Dan Miller and Leon Simons
is all about Matt's paper with Rahmstorf and others about the 2023 bananas in the North Atlantic. You may recall: low wind speed as primary cause by far for the marine heatwaveS 2023 that gripped regions of the North Atlantic one after the other.
Matt explains the multiple ways wind over oceans contribute to cooling.
a) mixing b) white caps on the waves = albedo increase c) ocean spray or fog = albedo increase, and one more I now forget.

As is Dan Miller's habit, he also quickly asks Matt about #geoengineering, bringing SO2 into the #stratosphere .
Matt's reply: 1) angry that fossil fuel industry should be let off the hook by this
2) realistically, the political mindset lets Matt expect that geo engineering will be done.
3) whether he supports this is not answered.
4) as an afterthought, he adds that ocean acidification from relentless CO2 emissions does continue despite geo-engineering, and also the CO2 take-up and later re-release into the atmosphere continues.

Dan Miller also grazes his pet topic #ShippingSO2 . Matt politely agrees that it is a bananas factor – but a small one.

Then comes the Southern Ocean part (thank you!).
At which point the question is also raised and answered with a NO: whether seafloor #clathrate on Antarctica's continental shelf might thaw and cause a methane bomb.

And only one short moment at the end on #AMOC collapse, about which Matt also published a paper recently, namely the #collapse impacts non-Europe areas, such as teleconnections to adjacent basins and into the Southern Hemisphere
nature.com/articles/s41558-022
I think, my question stole precious time from the AMOC part. 😬

YouTubeCause of Extreme North Atlantic Warming in 2023 with Matthew EnglandBy Climate Chat
#ocean#Atlantic#ClimateChange
InspiredByBlackElk

Dispatch from Dystopia: 1 :earth:

Hello readers, it’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been busy proselytizing regenerative culture over at The Cultural Easton. What follows is a wandering exploration of the summer so far. I’ve titled it “Dispatch from Dystopia: 1,” as current events now clearly show the old world is not coming back. We’ve moved on. Systems are collapsing all around, and we’re just getting started.

This is the first in a series of quick updates I’m preserving for my children, nieces, and nephews. We may have entered a new phase of collapse, but that doesn’t mean we stop fighting. Right now, I’m on the first of three training sessions through Indivisible for mass defiance and civil resistance. Sustained resistance against authoritarian breakthroughs isn’t easy. But I won’t leave that fight to my kids. There’s a better way to live. All known life follows regenerative principles—except human systems.

It’s time we changed that. 🌱

🔗 Read on: jjwebster.com/2025/07/16/dispa

Jonathan J Webster · Dispatch from Dystopia: 1Hello readers, it’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been busy proselytizing regenerative culture over at The Cultural Easton. What follows is a wandering exploration of the summer so far. I’v…
#resistance#community#goodtrouble
anlomedad

The documentary Wasser, "Water" shows two installations of a fog water collector, one on a Portuguese island and one on a hill in arid North Africa.
The installation consists of a metal wire mesh standing upright on a hill, a collection vessel and a pipe to funnel collected water downhill to where people live.
Wind blows through the mesh. Moisture in the air condenses on the cool metal and the droplets run down into the collector.

This version here is a tad more elaborate than in the documentary
smithsonianmag.com/innovation/

This new version uses hydrogel – a chemical compound, so very high-tech:
news.mit.edu/2025/window-sized

We depleted ground water in many areas so the wire mesh idea is relevant in parts of Germany and Europe, too.
Not being able to dig a well as deep as needed due to depletion, and not being able to run pumps without electricity anyway, such a mesh, left behind by civilisation, might be a feasible solution for survivor communities after the #collapse.
Not as sole drinking water provision. Because if it were, they also couldn't live off the – then also dry – land and should better pack up and move elsewhere.
But I see use for the mesh installation for comfortable household access to water.
The ground water table will only take 200 years to replenish to pre-industrial levels. 🖖🏽

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