Christopher Wright
@chriswrightau.bsky.social
Professor University of Sydney. Author of Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations (2015) & Organising Responses to Climate Change (2022)
An important piece by @roycerk2.bsky.social @deepcutnews.bsky.social Anthony Albanese Listens to Lobbyists Over Public Opinion From salmon to supermarkets, gas to Gaza to gambling, there's a pattern: Albo listens to power & wealth over public opinion. #auspol www.deepcutnews.com/p/albaneses-...
Albanese keeps backing lobbyists over public opinion, our analysis shows
From salmon to supermarkets, gas to Gaza, the PM has consistently backed those with power and wealth
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The number of terror-related arrests in Britain has risen 1,200% a year following the ban of Palestine Action The number of people arrested for holding signs - under a law originally designed for IRA uniforms - is higher than total terror arrests over the previous decade inews.co.uk/news/retired...
How retired teachers, nurses and vicars became Britain's newest terror suspects
Majority of suspects arrested for holding signs reading 'I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action' at protests against the ban
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It is much simpler: We know what we emitted since we know how much fossil fuel has been burned. And that’s twice as much as has accumulated in the atmosphere. So nature hasn’t been a source but a sink: oceans and forests took up half. And that’s also observed fact. www.climate.gov/news-feature...
How do we know the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is caused by humans?
Fossil fuels are the only source of carbon dioxide large enough to raise atmospheric carbon dioxide amounts so high so quickly.
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AI is a fundamentally destructive technology - discuss!: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘More than just objects’: Australian book sellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
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On the US-led destruction of the planet's life-support systems: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Europe is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander Hurst
The White House seems committed to ecocide. The EU should harness the power of the single market to force it to change course, says Guardian Europe writer Alexander Hurst
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You cannot extract a technology from the system that built and deployed it. Under capitalism, “AI” is fascist, authoritarian tech developed by fascist sociopaths who want the poors to be biodiesel. Educate yourself. www.thenerdreich.com
The Nerd Reich | Silicon Valley Tech Extremism
Silicon Valley tech billionaire politics: authoritarianism, fascism, plutocracy, weirdness
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Full of despair today. Massive lay offs in social sciences and humanities across the country, Burnham puts out a video saying 'AI can write an essay', and my university is busy integrating co-pilot into all staff and student computers. We are being told we're defunct and there's no resistance.
It’s shocking that a professional body is monitoring social media accounts of its members for “political misspeak” based on another country’s desires especially when often it’s doctors reporting on what horrific injuries they observed or were treating in Gaza on children.
Yet another unsurprisingly half-baked "just forget about the environmental stuff" slop-ed in the NYT on data centres. The industry tactic he's citing here is the single-query framing: highlight the lowest-impact interaction to erase the bigger picture. ketanjoshi.co/2025/08/23/b...
France is suffering from the worst wildfire it has had since 1949, while Spain had its worst year ever in 2025 but this year's fires are set to beat that. Global Warming has many consequences.
This, ladies and gentlemen,is the Fafocene. You are in it, and you will be for the rest of your life - poor, solitary, nasty, brutish and short.
Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2w agoWhen the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
Netanyahu and Fat Donnie are war criminals, This is a picture of Netanyahu's work. Breaks my heart.
Age of stupid redux...Seriously where do they get these people? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Politician’s claim Earth’s magnetic poles could flip if NT doesn’t use more groundwater criticised by experts
NT minister for trade and business Robyn Cahill makes scientifically inaccurate claims while pushing to make territory ‘datacentre capital of the globe’
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I need to delete LinkedIn - the neoliberal managerialism and AI worship is just insufferable!
Nikki Haley signing bombs that Israel will soon drop on Palestinians in Gaza. Here are Indians after being starved to death by Britains in 1877. Nikki Haley is of Indian heritage.
The UN has officially declared Gaza a genocide, that Israel is deliberately killing children. What response should I expect from my AUS Govt? Let me guess: "Israel has the right to defend itself." And Penny Wong will be "deeply concerned" by the "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza 🙄 #auspol #GazaGenocide
A reminder: The US, by being the largest historical CO₂ emitter, has caused $10 trillion in global climate damage since 1990. A quarter of this impact is felt domestically, but it disproportionately affects poorer countries.
US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds
US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says
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I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.
Walking in our farm's rainforest with the melting heat of these days, I am filled with such inexpressible anger at what is being done to our once stable climate. The richest 1% are actively, knowingly, and uncaringly sabotaging the future for all of us, and for the rest of the planet's life.
Got upset and made this so hopefully people will actually listen. What the fuck are we doing here folks?
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...
When I say Albanese uses "firming" as special code for fossil gas, I really mean it thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
!["The cheapest form of new energy is renewables. That needs to be backed up by gas as firming capacity, by
batteries, and by hydro"
"Well, I do welcome that because we know that the cheapest form of new energy is renewables. But backed
with firming capacity of gas as well as batteries"
"Theyre (the Coalition) also walking away from reliable and affordable energy - renewables backed by storage
and backed by gas for firming capacity"
"You need firming capacity and what businesses like Tomago in regional Australia, New South Wales' biggest
energy user, what they want to do is to have renewables, but they need the backing -- the firming capacity of
gas has a really important role to play as well"
"They [Westem Australia] are moving to 100 per cent renewables. But in order to do that they need the firming
capacity of gas. They don't have hydro in WA, they need the firming capacity of gas in order to move there"
"In order to get that investment in renewables you do need firming capacity, whether it be batteries, hydro or
gas"
"Our view is renewables backed by gas, backed by batteries and backed by hydro is the way forward"
"Iln response to a question about North West Shelfl You cant have renewables unless you have firming
capacity. Simple as that. You don't change a transition through, you know, warm thoughts"
"With regard to gas projects, one of the things that is required for major users of energy like Tomago there in
the Hunter is to move to renewables, which they are doing, but with some firming capacity as well. And gas
has a role to play in that"
"We acknowledge that gas has an important role in the future, including on providing firming capacity for
renewables along with storage"
"We're working on a range of projects and I want to see projects like Narrabri in New South Wales and others
proceed. I've said that it needs — we need more firming capacity in the system, whether it be gas or whether it
be batteries"
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New York State implements a one year moratorium on new hyperscale data centres! Meanwhile in Australia our PM has embraced the AI hype. What could go wrong? www.reuters.com/world/new-yo...
New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium
There is growing concern over the facilities raising power costs, straining water supplies and burdening local communities.
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Wow! The AI boosterism by our corporate, political and university leaders is quite something. Still waiting to hear how genAI is socially or environmentally beneficial despite the clear social and environmental harms it brings! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
AI may be the toughest challenge Anthony Albanese faces this term. Guardrails are urgently needed | Peter Lewis
Coherent decision-making and internal accountability are critical to meeting this manic moment
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Good. Good. Good. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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...
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Canyonlands National Park that could be slated for open-pit coal or uranium mining if der trumple gets his way. Bless BlueSky friends for preventing that from happening.
Hey kids, GRAND new job opportunities‼️ The public subsidy-reliant CCS industry's teamed up with the @albomp.bsky.social Labor gov to make transboundary carbon dumping rules like the Sea Dumping Bill so 🇦🇺 can be a quarry as well as a CO2 waste dump🎊 They just need MORE public $$ to make it work 1/
LouiseMorris@louisemorris.bsky.social · 3w ago#CCS interests pitching #Australia as a Sequestration Nation of CCS hubs, never ending fossil fuels BAU, taxpayer subsidies & a carbon waste trading market that takes us from quary nation to C02 dumping ground. It's full of spin and full of holes #auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
A quick hot take on Albanese's AI plan from a climate / energy perspective: ultimately nothing new, but reading between the lines, a hint at weakening a 100% clean standard specifically to allow for gas. www.pm.gov.au/media/ai-aus...
A new Met Office report: "more extreme weather is becoming the normal now in our climate" Climate change is here. Where is the national conversation about the urgent need for adaptation in the years ahead? Instead what we get is politicians demanding billions more for bombs
