Robert Macfarlane

@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane

@70sbachchan.bsky.socialReposted by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

"A national election, that of Brazil, which will affect the 8.3 billion people who inhabit this world.

The Amazon, according to scientific evidence, is close to reaching a point of no return. Returning to the deforestation levels of 2022 (Bolsonaro) would be the final blow"
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@ketanjoshi.coReposted by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

I agree with Al Gore on a whole lot of things but he's profoundly wrong on almost everything he says in this piece, and is adopting fossil-fuel industry style talking points that he's previously criticised

A short thread on why.............

www.ft.com/content/ba94...

Al Gore downplays AI threats and touts its climate potential Former US vice-president argues in favour of technology to help with green progress
@fenrisgames.comReposted by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

started my annual relisten of @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social 's amazing Underland a day or two early. if you've the slightest interest in underground environments, humanity's intertwined history of burial and storytelling, or need tips on making your dungeons feel more terrifying, you need this book

cover for Underland - a stylised Holloweg between curved pathway and overhanging branches in red and orange.
@morelle.house.govReposted by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

These whistleblower allegations are extraordinary. If Trump Administration officials knowingly built a system designed to prevent Americans from receiving their ballots, that is not election security. It is a betrayal of our Constitution and the American people.

nytimes.comWhistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before MidtermsA report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

Is A River Alive? is published today, 1 May. It’s about the lives, deaths & rights of rivers—& how our fate flows with that of water & always has. To the people, places & rivers whose ideas run through its pages, thank you so much. I think it’s the book I’ve been learning to write all these years.