To leave a living planet for our children, we all need to be aware of the threats currently facing us. I have put together 8 units of biodiversity education. Informal but not uninformed (40 years teaching science at college level). dedide.info
Pam 🌱🌳🍏🦠🌐 retweeted
I’m super conscious that media people, the industry I come from, think it’s extreme to post and focus this much on climate change.
But science says this could potentially be catastrophic for the whole world.
There has never ever been a threat on this scale.
Even nuclear war - climate collapse in a worst case scenario, scientists say, would take significantly longer to recover from, potentially thousands of years.
How can it be that so few media folk understand, care, engage or speak about this?
Pam 🌱🌳🍏🦠🌐 retweeted
The planet isn't "dying" of natural causes.
Forests don't just disappear. They are logged.
Oceans don't just choke. They are polluted.
Rivers don't just dry up. They are diverted.
This is not a tragedy. It's ecocide. And ecocide should be a crime. #StopEcocide
Pam 🌱🌳🍏🦠🌐 retweeted
A 3-year-old boy was kidnapped from a public library, and less than an hour later, he was sitting on a city bus beside the man who had taken him. The little boy was crying, and the other passengers had no idea he had been abducted. But when the bus driver looked at the child, he suddenly realized he matched the description of a missing boy police were desperately searching for.
It happened in Milpitas, California. Bus driver Tim Watson had heard the police alert about a missing 3-year-old boy earlier that day. When a man boarded his bus with a crying child, something didn’t seem right. The more Tim looked at the little boy, the more he suspected he was the child everyone was searching for.
But Tim couldn’t risk confronting the man. If he was the kidnapper, one wrong move could put the little boy in even greater danger. So Tim came up with a clever plan. He announced to the passengers that someone had reported a missing green backpack and began walking through the bus, pretending to search for it.
As he moved past the man and child, Tim got a closer look and confirmed his suspicions. He quietly contacted dispatch to alert police, then returned to his seat and continued driving as though nothing had happened. All the while, the suspected kidnapper remained on board, completely unaware that the driver had recognized the child.
Tim kept his composure until police were able to intercept the bus. Officers rushed aboard, arrested the suspect, and brought the little boy to safety. Thanks to one observant bus driver who refused to ignore his instincts, a terrifying kidnapping ended with a child being returned to his family.
Tim Watson wasn’t a police officer or a trained rescuer. He was simply a bus driver who recognized a child in danger and found a way to save him without putting him at greater risk. Let’s give this incredible man the recognition he deserves.
Pam 🌱🌳🍏🦠🌐 retweeted
Travis Rowland supposedly 'had his hands full with this Alberta wolf.' He had a high powered rifle, the wolf nothing to defend himself. Braggart.
#BanTrophyHunting RT
Pam 🌱🌳🍏🦠🌐 retweeted
Replying to @JohnHookfox10
@JohnHookfox10 You let Lucy Biggers lie. Look who she works with, a fossil fuel lobby group climateconference.heartland.…
Pam 🌱🌳🍏🦠🌐 retweeted
Ma fille m’a demandé à changer d’école.
Comme ça. Sans larmes. Sans colère. Sans révolte.
Elle s’est simplement approchée pendant que je préparais mon sac pour le travail et m’a dit doucement :
— « Est-ce que je peux étudier ailleurs ? »
Je lui ai demandé s’il s’était passé quelque chose.
Elle m’a dit que non.
Je lui ai demandé si elle n’avait pas d’amies.
Elle m’a répondu qu’elle ne savait pas.
Alors je lui ai demandé si quelqu’un la traitait mal.
Et elle est restée silencieuse.
Cette nuit-là, je n’ai pas fermé l’œil.
Le lendemain, j’ai inventé que je devais parler à la directrice.
Mais en réalité, j’y suis allé pour observer.
Je suis resté dans un couloir et j’ai attendu la récréation.
Et je l’ai vue.
Debout près de la grille, son thermos à la main, le regard baissé.
Un groupe de filles est passé, se bousculant en riant.
Un garçon lui a jeté du jus sur la chemise et s’est enfui.
Une autre a pris une photo en cachette et l’a montrée aux autres, éclatant de rire.
Elle n’a rien dit.
Elle a simplement serré les lèvres.
Comme si elle y était déjà habituée.
Mais ce qui m’a le plus blessé, ce n’est pas cela.
C’est d’avoir vu une professeure passer à ce moment-là.
Elle l’a regardée.
A regardé les autres.
Et a continué son chemin, comme si de rien n’était.
Comme si ma fille était invisible.
Plus tard, j’ai écrit à l’école.
Je leur ai raconté ce qu’elle m’avait laissé entendre.
Qu’en classe, on lui cachait ses cahiers.
Que dans les couloirs, on lui donnait des surnoms.
Que dans le groupe WhatsApp, on se moquait de ses photos.
Ils m’ont répondu avec la phrase habituelle :
— « Ne vous inquiétez pas, ce sont des histoires d’enfants. Nous gérons la situation. »
Mais ils n’ont rien fait.
Rien du tout.
Ce soir-là, en rentrant à la maison, elle m’a demandé tout bas :
— « Tu y as pensé ? »
Je lui ai répondu que oui.
Et qu’elle n’avait plus à retourner dans cette école.
Elle n’a pas demandé pourquoi.
Elle a juste posé son sac dans un coin et respiré profondément.
Comme quelqu’un qui, enfin, se libère d’un fardeau qu’il portait seul.
Aujourd’hui, elle étudie ailleurs.
Pas dans un endroit plus grand.
Ni plus moderne.
Juste plus humain.
Là où on la regarde dans les yeux.
Où on l’appelle par son prénom.
Et où elle n’a plus besoin de se faire petite pour ne pas être blessée.
Parce qu’un enfant — une fille ou un garçon — ne demande pas à changer d’école par caprice.
Il le fait quand il n’en peut plus.
Et le plus déchirant, ce n’est pas ce que font ses camarades…
mais ce que ne font pas les adultes censés le protéger.
Et j’aimerais que cela soit rare.
J’aimerais ne pas faire partie de ces parents qui l’ont compris trop tard.
Car il y a quelque chose qu’on n’oublie jamais :
le jour où ta fille te demande, presque en chuchotant,
de la sortir du seul endroit où elle aurait dû se sentir en sécurité.
Pam 🌱🌳🍏🦠🌐 retweeted
In April 2022, a 12-year-old Russian girl named Masha Moskalyova was told in art class to draw a picture supporting russian troops in Ukraine.
Instead, she drew a Ukrainian mother protecting her child as russian missiles flew toward them. On the Ukrainian flag she wrote, “Glory to Ukraine.”
On the russian flag: “No to war. No to Putin.” Her school reported her to the authorities. Police began investigating her father, Alexei Moskalyov, a single father who had raised Masha largely on his own.
They searched his social media and discovered posts criticizing russia’s invasion and documenting russian atrocities in Bucha.
In December 2022, around a dozen russian security officers raided their home. They ransacked it, seized their computers, phones, and savings.
Alexei later said that during interrogations, officers beat him and slammed his head against the wall and floor. They blasted the russian national anthem at full volume while questioning him.
Eventually, the regime charged him with repeatedly “discrediting” the russian military because of his anti-war social-media posts.
Masha was taken away from him and placed in a state “social rehabilitation” center. Alexei was sentenced to two years in a penal colony.
He later described horrific conditions there: a tiny punishment cell roughly two meters long, freezing temperatures, rats crawling out of the sewer, and days when he was forced to stand for as long as 16 hours because the bunk was locked against the wall.
Meanwhile, his daughter wrote to him. “Dad, don’t give up.” “You are my hero.” They were separated for more than a year and a half.
On October 15, 2024, Alexei finally walked out of prison. Masha was waiting for him. Five days later, they fled russia. They first escaped to Armenia and applied for a German humanitarian visa.
After waiting for more than a year, their case stalled when Germany suspended the relevant humanitarian admission program. Then France stepped in. In March 2026, Masha and Alexei received French humanitarian visas and flew to Paris. And on July 17, 2026, France granted them political asylum.
Today, Masha is drawing again and hopes to pursue art. She also writes and has spoken out in support of russian political prisoners.
When asked whether, knowing everything that happened afterward, she would still have made that drawing, Masha said she would. “One only lives once.”
One drawing. A child saying no to war. And for that, the russian state destroyed their home, separated a father from his daughter, imprisoned him, and drove them both into exile.
This is what dictatorship looks like.
Pam 🌱🌳🍏🦠🌐 retweeted
A forest does not “make way” for progress. It is the progress: rainfall, carbon storage, food, and species that exist nowhere else. Clear the Congo Basin and you export drought to the people least able to absorb it.
Pam 🌱🌳🍏🦠🌐 retweeted
In 63 hours hunters will be allowed to hunt Grizzly #Bears in Wyoming for the first time in 40 years. 22 bears will lose their life....so someone can have a rug. RT to show disapproval. #BanTrophyHunting
Pam 🌱🌳🍏🦠🌐 retweeted
The climate crisis will destroy our economies – we learned this 20 years ago. When will we act?
From the great @fionaharvey
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Pam 🌱🌳🍏🦠🌐 retweeted
Sometimes I’m surprised by just how surprised trans-identifying people and their allies are about the pushback.
You’re asking people to accept that you are the opposite sex, often when they can plainly see otherwise. You expect everyone, regardless of their beliefs, backgrounds, religions, cultures or understanding of biology, to affirm your beliefs you have about yourself.
And when they can’t honestly agree, you won’t let it slide. You want institutions, workplaces and schools to enforce that agreement, right down to ordinary public interactions. People who object are labelled hateful, with demands that they face consequences at work or even legal penalties.
Then you seem bewildered by the resistance.
You’re demanding that people speak as though they agree with you about the nature of sex and gender, how society should organise itself around those beliefs, and even the best way to treat dysphoria. The same views. Even when it means it forces people to lie to you. Everyone must use the same language. Everyone in lockstep.
How do you not recognise how authoritarian that demand is?
Pam 🌱🌳🍏🦠🌐 retweeted
The world’s private jets, release more CO2 in two seconds than most of the world’s people emit in an entire year
BAN PRIVATE JETS NOW
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
Pam 🌱🌳🍏🦠🌐 retweeted
Men in West Africa want to have sex with little girls with breast buds, so the girls’ mothers heat up stones and hammers and try to flatten out their daughters’ developing breast tissue. This happens to millions of little girls in Africa.
The custom is intended to keep the girls from getting pregnant for as long as possible. Ten-year-old mothers die in childbirth.
Mothers are the ones held responsible for the “dishonour” of the girls getting pregnant (while the honour of a good girl belongs to the family generally).
All the former (wanting to have sex with a child with secondary sex characteristics, doing something brutal to protect your offspring from becoming a mother too young) seems really animalistic to me. But then the “honour” stuff is pure culture layered on top of it. Like some kind of half animal, half civilised thing. Maybe everything is. It’s all hardware with a fancy doily on it.
Pam 🌱🌳🍏🦠🌐 retweeted
Lucy Biggers, a fossil fuel lobby group member, is spouting BS yet again. See my debunk: teapawt.org/TheDisproof/status/163…
Pam 🌱🌳🍏🦠🌐 retweeted
Q: If these other nations can end authoritarian regimes, why can’t the U.S.?
A: Because our voters are the most politically-ignorant and self-destructive electorate in human history. After experiencing Trump for 4 years, they actually elected him AGAIN.
































