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Charles Latimer
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Head of Strategic Integration @greenpeaceca.bsky.social (Greenpeace Canada) Born in California raised in Quebec, made home somewhere in between (qathet). Serious about climate change, human rights and maple syrup. I unfollow anyone sharing A.I. images
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Carney is firing tens of thousands of civil servants and replacing them with chatbots, the majority of which will be operated by US companies, running on US servers. 14/
So the emergency alert on my phone went off just now... It's the loudest most terrifying sound... Was it an amber alert?! I have no idea because I rushed to swipe it away and now it's gone forever. It's midnight and I use my phone to play music in my 3 year olds room to help her go to sleep. 🫠🫠
This idiot has probably never been to the BOREAL FOREST a day in his life. It is 5.5 times the size of Texas. You cannot "groom" it. It's burning because of climate change. The utter bullshit from these climate deniers. Canadians are sick of this bullying and they are not going to take it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoRep. Jeff Van Drew: "Canada isn't working because they are so far left. This should be a warning shot to them. You better come to America, say, 'We're sorry, we're gonna mend our ways and do what we used to do and groom and maintain the forest.'"
It's real simple – if the data centers don't get consent, provide benefit, and run on 100% renewables, they don't get built. Kudos to NY for putting its residents first.
New York Governor Signs First Statewide Data Center Moratorium
“We have no choice but to address the challenges created by these massive facilities,” New York governor Kathy Hochul said. The executive order will pause construction for one year.
wired.com
I'm pleading with everyone, don't normalize pickleball!
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoThe Dink review – Jake Johnson’s pickleball comedy serves up engagingly silly laughs
Hey @davidcoletto.bsky.social, I see your poll question noted that the proposed westcoast pipeline would be owned by govt. But it said nothing about what the cost to taxpayers is slated to be (incl new export terminal, over $50B). Wonder how this knowledge would change the result?
David Coletto@davidcoletto.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW POLL: Six in ten Canadians support both proposed pipelines, one to the Pacific coast and another connecting Alberta and Ontario. Almost half want both built. Just 10% oppose both. But support is not a blank cheque. Many still see real climate risks. abacusdata.ca/six-in-ten-...
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government is proposing to steamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect nature, not treat it as red tape. 🌿 act.gp/4fbtKFS
Stop Federal Environmental Rollbacks in Canada
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government wants to streamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect the nature that sustains us, ...
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Stop Carney's environnemental rollbacks! act.greenpeace.ca/en-ca/nature...
Stop Federal Environmental Rollbacks in Canada
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government wants to streamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect the nature that sustains us, ...
act.greenpeace.ca
I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times
Canada is burning today, after it’s also been flooding and boiling lately. But don’t worry — Carney has a plan to offset his embrace of oil and gas: carbon capture and storage. There’s just one problem. That plan is full of more hot air than Canada’s skies right now. Let me explain:
I hope that when Liberal MPs who claim to care about climate change wake up coughing on smoke from a climate-fueled wildfire that is devastating First Nations communities in northern Ontario, they ask themselves: Do we really want to buy oil CEOs another pipeline? www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
Wildfires in northern Ontario force First Nations to flee
Several wildfires are forcing members of a number of First Nations to flee their homes in northern Ontario.
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These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w agoThese photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. Preorder it now! In the book, I dig into how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and the incredible efforts of people pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech. Get your copy: hyperscalebook.com
The fact that Carney is posting this today shows that he genuinely doesn't give a single solitary shit about the climate crisis that is BURNING SWATHS OF CANADA AS WE SPEAK
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 3w agoThe world wants to do more with Canada. Our MOU with Alberta will unlock those opportunities in energy — and create lasting benefits for Canadians.
These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
We are approaching the #WorldCup final, and men’s reproductive health is losing big: Since the 1974 World Cup, sperm count has dropped by 62%! 👇🧵
New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers.
New York to impose the country’s first statewide moratorium on data centers
The order will pause state permitting for new large data centers and direct state regulators to create standards that address environmental impacts, energy demand, water usage and other factors, the g...
nbcnews.com
Hey Canada: we should also have a moratorium on mega- AI data centres until we have legislated environmental, democratic and human rights protections in place. Petition to Parliament here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
New York won’t build big data centres for a year as it weighs energy and climate risks
No large data centres can be built in New York for up to a year as the state creates rules to protect the environment and its energy grid from the power-hungry facilities fueling artificial intelligen...
ctvnews.ca
I was sunning by the pool when the boxes arrived. And here in my hand is my life’s work: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.” Coming 8/18. Pre-orders make a huge difference! Make a fascist sweat—pre-order today! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
“Why don’t we cut out the middleman and just have Canadians send their tax dollars directly to ExxonMobil? ... there is no business case in a world where electric vehicles and heat pumps ... are cheaper, cleaner and faster to deploy than the fossil fuel megaprojects...,” -@climatekeith.bsky.social
Alberta, Ontario propose new pipeline in bid to boost Canada’s energy independence
Northern Shield Energy Corridor would carry crude oil across four provinces and end in Sarnia, Ont.
theglobeandmail.com
For the first time ever, from April 2025 to April 2026, solar energy outproduced ‘natural gas’ in Asia. First coal, now ‘natural gas’… the fossil fuel dominos are falling… and they said it cant be done…
