She fought apartheid, defended Nelson Mandela, and helped change how the world prosecutes sexual violence. Today, at 85, Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What an extraordinary woman. 💜 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Gratifying to learn that the Nobel prize committee still has a backbone and a clear sense of justice and morality. An excellent choice.
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3d agoNavi Pillay last year: "The commission finds it is genocide" Pillay has just won the Nobel peace prize.
This absolutely made my day. And probably my week and month as well. Bravo Wendy and Tony! 👏 Am so impressed. #Coal #Mining #ClimateChange
‘A real-life moment from The Castle’: the retired Australian couple who took on a coal giant and won
Wendy Wales and Tony Lonergan’s four-year fight over MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant coalmine went all the way to the high court
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It’s astounding this isn’t the only thing people are talking about. It shows how much power mainstream news, who are blacking out the climate element of this El Niño, still holds. #ClimateCrisis
Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · last wk.Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December
Trump, thinking he's solved the AI and data centre problem with a stroke of rebranding genius..
Fossil funded Groninger Museum decided It's Party Time!.. with 4 major openings on one weekend, its choice was for celebration, oblivious to a summer of extreme heat, drought, and fires. But repressed realities can lead to bad dreams, and in this case, summoned an ironic Wake-Up Call from us.
Official food shortage projections are being buried by governments. Particularly those captured by/ entangled with fossil interests (which is most of them)
Adam McKay@ghostpanther.bsky.social · 2w ago“Food shortages…” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump thinks his Super Intelligence will amaze his Chinese counterpart, but Xi doesn't look so convinced..
Haven't seen a better AI explainer than this one (even if it somewhat overstates the AI safety stuff) www.instagram.com/reel/Ddlt1kR...
FFC's art intervention against fossil sponsorship at the Groninger Museum took up themes from both their opening weekend, and Frances Stark’s book - The Architect and the Housewife, which loans its title to a new exhibition. Stark’s work explores gendered divisions and power dynamics in art and life
If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out
Images from our art intervention at fossil sponsored Groninger Museum. Cupcakes with ARTWASHING? - NO THANKS! were given out. Soon after, sad party whistles disrupted a panel discussion on 'Building the Future' - then floating pillows of climate dream angst were released in various rooms.
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NYCGRIFF@nycgriff.bsky.social · 3w agoMust read: "The Nerd Reich" by journalist Gil Durán. A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the international stage. These fuckers mean business. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’ - Amid heatwaves & popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial? #climatecrisis By @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’
Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial?
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Trump's name should be etched into the target piss-point in every public urinal in America.
New Legal Fight: Should Trump's Name Be Etched on the Institute of Peace?
President Donald Trump renamed the United States Institute of Peace after himself in December.
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Great new site just launched - from Emily Sanders of Exxon News and longtime investigative climate reporter Rebecca Leber. Check them out ! @emdashsanders.bsky.social @rebleber.bsky.social pointsourcenews.org bsky.app/profile/clim...
This broke my heart because it gets to the part of this moment that is hardest to confront. The danger was never just the con man. It was the hunger for what he was selling, and the willingness to sacrifice compassion, decency and other people’s humanity to get it. Read this.
Forget planting trees for a second. Let's talk about BOGS. Did you know that peatlands cover a tiny 3% of Earth’s land, but store MORE CARBON than all the world's forests combined?They are an ultimate MVP of our climate system and it’s time we start hyping them. Join me! 🧵 1/
It won't make you feel better, but I think we should all have the basic idea of where we're up to in this direction. Brrrrrrrr.
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · last mo.I urge you to go to X and read the threads of the conversation unfolding there after an Anthropic researcher announced his resignation last night, exposing that everyone in the company thinks that AI will “kill us all by the end of the decade,” and the Alignment Science lead at the company agreed. 🧵
The whole world knows we have to Stop Burning Fossil Fuel, or we Suicide As A Species. So what does the Fossil Fuel Industry do? Pretends to make renewable energy. Convinces gullible people to spread their Hydrogen Myth. In the Netherlands this now includes the King 🤦♂️, and the Groninger Museum.
Why degrowth movements need perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe
Why degrowth movements need perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe
In many ways, Central and Eastern Europe is not a newcomer to degrowth. It helped shape some of its foundational ideas.
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If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.
The carbon lobby has pursued a 3 step strategy around H2 since the hype began; 1- convince govt's to embrace H2 as ‘clean’ fuel of the future; get subsidies 2- get support for 'low-carbon' blue H2; dispute regulations 3- get govt's to accept any kind of H2; 'cos blue and green are $$$
More than 90% of hydrogen is fossil fuel based. Not green. Not renewable. Hydrogen is the industry’s plan to keep selling gas, by masquerading as renewable energy advocates. It’s A Fake Solution. Designed to lock fossil hydrogen into our future energy system under the guise of ‘progress’.
