Anthony Burke
@anthonyburke.bsky.social
Australian political theorist & international relations professor. Climate, justice, biodiversity, ecodemocracy. He/him. New book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552554/the-ecology-politic About: https://www.anthonydburke.net
This is the way the world ends, this is the way the
Jerusalem’s most important Muslim religious site facing ‘imminent’ threat of Israeli takeover, says Jordan
Country convenes emergency meeting of ministers from Arab and Islamic world, fearing such a move could ‘trigger a religious conflict’
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This! ➡️ “…what the world needs is not just economic degrowth but ecological regrowth. We need a system of trade, currency, taxation, incentives that rewards countries and companies for restoring the world’s battered ecosystems.”
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago‘The obsession with endless growth can only end in tears’: your questions on extreme weather this summer answered
Well I feel a little sheepish for not seeing this in our climate future. We live with the wrong systems.
Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor
Hungary and Romania face energy crisis as record-low river levels force atomic power plants to reduce output
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The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms. Ahead of a landmark climate lawsuit, confidential documents show how British scientist James Lovelock warned executives of the risks of burning fossil fuels in the 1960s. www.desmog.com/2026/07/29/t...
The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms
“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...
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Did the Secretary-General do all he could in Gaza?
Guterres Can Still Save His Legacy in Gaza - PassBlue
Guterres Can Still Save His Legacy in Gaza - PassBlue
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From Nature Abounding, edited by E.L. Grant Watson. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x
"Unless confronted, political inertia & scientific blind spots within #climate mitigation will impede efforts to leave no one behind. Past political & scientific failures to justly & promptly take climate action should not deter but rather incentivize new & improved mitigation efforts"
Applying earth system justice to phase out fossil fuels: learning from the injustice of adopting 1.5 °C over 1 °C - International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
The Paris Agreement has seen the adoption of a 1.5° to 2 °C climate target, based on the belief that climate change becomes ‘dangerous’ above this level. Since then, the scientific community and the c...
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Faux progressive @theguardian.com All or most the daters are hetero, and one assumes not gender queer in any way. Anti-trans Britain must be great. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Blind date: ‘I joked we should join the young people for a club night. We didn’t’
Richard, 63, a communications consultant, meets Katrina, 60, a GP
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this week we talk about Thursday’s straw poll to select the next UN Secretary General, which produced one clear front runner, Costa Rica’s Rebeca Grynspan, one candidate close behind her, Guyana’s Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, & two additional viable candidates, Argentina’s Grossi & Ecuador’s Espinosa
Who’s Up, Who’s Down in the Race for UN Secretary-General?
Podcast Episode · To Save Us From Hell · July 31 · 44m
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The official government badger cull stats have been released. Behind that number are individuals, each with a right to life, who were part of a close social group, and were raising cubs in setts passed down through generations. They were not just statistics.
#Shell has just reported that its profits have DOUBLED. Shell's profits for the April-to-June period reached $9.84bn (£7.37bn) So I just signed this petition telling governments around the world to make polluters pay. Sign and share it too: act.350.org/sign/treaty-...
Sign the petition: The global tax treaty that can make polluters pay
Every time oil and gas prices spike, from war, shortage, or plain market panic, big oil and gas companies cash in. We pay more at the pump and on our energy bills. They pay almost nothing extra in tax...
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This obviously contested study shows the risks of “climate only” justice. The welfare of the birds themselves ought to be paramount surely?
Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens
Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests
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There are some good nuggets of optimism in the article. Recommend it
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · last wk.about half of centrists and the center-left for some reason concluded that climate change was passe hippie bullshit that doesn't matter, and we're about to learn how wrong that was, the hard way prospect.org/2026/07/28/c...
My alma mater (College of the Atlantic) is hiring faculty in Field Ecology, Agroecology, and Chemistry. If you're looking for a very cool small liberal arts college on the coast of Maine with a strong environmental focus, check it out (happy to answer questions!): www.coa.edu/human-resour...
Career Opportunities | College of the Atlantic
Career opportunities at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor Maine.
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we’ve all lived through the fire scale changing. Climate change will not stop until the world reaches zero emissions.
What do the heatwaves in Europe and North America tell us about our future? | Fiona Katauskas
The signs are there
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140 million is petty cash for AUKUS, which has delivered zero extra security.
Anthony Ricciardi@ecoinvasions.bsky.social · last wk.Quote: "Experts warned governments the national fire ant eradication program needed at least $200m a year to stay ahead of the invasion. Governments chose to spend around $60 million instead. Starved of eradication resources, the fire ant infestation exploded by over 40 per cent."
The right think they can create a new form of newspeak. But without agreed facts that in turn match physical reality, modernity will become impossible. These are civilisation ending forces. One thinks of Einstein and wars faught with rocks.
American Nero: Why Trump is trying to burn down the National Academy of Sciences
Carnage in pursuit of power, revenge, personal financial gain, and ego.
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Vale the gentle Bill Oddie. The Goodies was a highlight of an otherwise difficult childhood, I laughed and laughed. Never found a martial arts studio that teaches ecky thump!
Bill Oddie, naturalist and broadcaster, dies aged 85
Coming to fame in The Goodies, Oddie was later known for his wildlife expertise and presented BBC Springwatch
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You can’t tinker with the status quo. We don’t need Biden lite.
FFiona Harvey@fionaharvey.bsky.social · last wk.
Ed Miliband makes first major foreign policy intervention, signalling clearly that climate and development will be at heart of UK international relations. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
We’ve been waiting two decades for the catastrophe to hit. Watching global average temps creep past the 1.5c guardrail. Watching Europe and the Arctic heat by much more. Now it’s incontrovertible.
Annette Dittert@annettedittert.bsky.social · last wk.We’re so much closer to a national emergency than ppl think.
EXTRAORDINARY 41c AGAIN IN JAPAN Worse heat wave in Japan history with over 300 records smashed in few days and more coming. 41 July records Maxes (20 of which all time records) and 17 of High Minimums,including Nagoya,Kobe and Osaka Airports.(see below) HISTORIC
The system was always going to fail here. My book with Roger Hallam explains how the British state and its legal system is a death machine for climate and its protectors. rev21.earth/product/suic...
Suicide (Paperback) 🇬🇧
Suicide is part memoir, part political reckoning. Drawing on Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam’s award-winning research and experience representing himself [...]
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