David Tomkins 🦋
@davidctomkins.bsky.social
‘First do no harm’ - climate, environment, minorities
When do renters get their turn in the sun? Subsidise stand alone batteries and portable panel setups for renters.
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
JFC! That #RayBan would work with misogynist & #PsychoTechBro to make it easier for men to sexually harass women, is offensive in the extreme! Ray Ban has now trashed its own brand & a #BoycottRayBans campaign is now starting to pick up steam! Join the boycott & ban the ray ban folks!
From October, solar rooftop incentives will expand to cover solar systems up to 10 times larger. That means Aussie farms & factories will be able to access support to install panels & receive huge reductions in electricity bills. #climatecrisis #solarenergy #auspol www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ng...
IN FULL: Chris Bowen speaks about Australia's energy future at National Press Club | ABC NEWS
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
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The ‘extremely effective’ campaigns undermining support for renewables – Full Story podcast #climatecrisis #RenewableEnergy #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The ‘extremely effective’ campaigns undermining support for renewables – podcast
The Guardian’s environment and climate correspondent Graham Readfearn joins Reged Ahmad to unpack Australia’s relationship with renewables
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Travel platforms: Don’t advertise Tiger encounters in Thailand! actions.eko.org/a/travel-pla...
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My wonderful doctor is over in Sri Lanka at the moment visiting his family 😔 I hope he and his family are safe and all in Sri Lanka facing these devastating monsoons at the moment... apnews.com/article/sri-...
Sri Lanka closes schools as floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains kill 7
Sri Lanka has closed schools in its tea-growing mountainous regions as heavy rains triggered floods and mudslides that left seven people dead and three injured, officials say.
apnews.com
Italy to place all 27 of its major cities on highest heat alert #Climate
Italy to place all 27 of its major cities on highest heat alert
Move comes as fourth heatwave of summer intensifies, edging temperatures in some areas close to 40C
theguardian.com
Far beyond the fires raging across Europe and North America, the smoke, dangerous to breathe, hangs in the air, dimming the view, changing the very color of sunlight into something grimly unsettling. #climatecrisis #wildfires #heatwave #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
July 2026 was the driest month in southern England since records began nearly 200 years ago, the Met Office said. The “remarkable conditions” this year came amid a summer marked by multiple heat records. #climatecrisis #drought #heatwave #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...
July was driest month in southern England since records began
England and Wales provisionally record driest July in nearly 200 years, Met Office says
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I just signed a petition: Australia's biggest ocean protection opportunity in 10 years.. Sign here: www.saveourmarinelife.org.au/actions/prot...
Australia's biggest ocean protection opportunity in 10 years - Save Our Marine Life
The Australian Government has listened to island communities, and just announced plans to massively expand marine sanctuary protection around the stunning Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. But before it becomes a reality, the government wants to hear from YOU on the proposed expansions, AND on what other improvements are needed across Australia’s offshore marine parks. […]
saveourmarinelife.org.au
The #climatecrisis is driving drastic measures. In Romania the navy has carried out a controlled explosion to deepen the channel of the Danube to keep water flowing to the Cernavoda nuclear plant's cooling systems.
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
Individuals get fined for littering and rubbish dumping, one law for us and another for them. "Some of us are more equal than others"
We support big coal, oil and gas corporations paying their fair share for the costs of climate change. Local councils and residents shouldn’t be left holding the bill while corporations pocket the profits. #ClimateEmergency #gas #darebincouncil #auspol www.act.tippingpoint.org.au/petitions/ma...
Make Big Polluters Pay Their Fair Share: City of Darebin
The “Polluter Pays” principle is simple – if you make a mess, you should clean it up. Communities like ours are already paying the price of climate change through higher insurance premiums and ...
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Karl’s ‘great net zero debate’ was anything but – so beware Coalition claims of renewables taking over ‘two Tasmanias’ | Graham Readfearn | The Guardian #climatecrisis #netzero #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The ‘great net zero debate’ was anything but – so beware Coalition claims of renewables taking over ‘two Tasmanias’ | Temperature Check
One expert described Nationals leader Matt Canavan’s claim of land used for clean energy as ‘plain wrong and plain silly’
theguardian.com
Washington States Faces Its Worst Fire in Memory #Climate
Washington States Faces Its Worst Fire in Memory
On ‘draconian’ water cuts, Tesla’s China business, and Italian nuclear
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The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to protect the only true minority - the individual. It limits the governments power to harm the individual. The whole constitution is designed to limit the governments power.
The inability to deliver the changes Indigenous Australians need is no longer just a moral failure but a civilisational one | Noel Pearson | The Guardian #indigenous #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The inability to deliver the changes Indigenous Australians need is no longer just a moral failure but a civilisational one | Noel Pearson
After the rejection of the voice, the conversation about structural reform of the federal arrangements governing Aboriginal affairs must resume
theguardian.com
‘Psychiatrists calling for broader reforms to make courts safer & less traumatising for #sexualassault victim-survivors. Stronger protections for counselling records, while a welcome first step, will not on their own address systemic issues that continue to cause harm’ www.ranzcp.org/news-analysi...
Counselling record review welcome, but survivors need stronger trauma informed court protections | RANZCP
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These people are mad at Dr. Fauci because he told them to wear a mask during a deadly pandemic.
South Korea has registered its highest temperature since records began more than a century ago, as authorities warned people to “immediately” stop all outdoor activities in affected areas. #climatecrisis #heatwave #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
‘Stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature
Authorities issue alert saying indoor spaces without airconditioning are ‘dangerous’ as temperatures pass 40C for fifth straight day
theguardian.com
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed. #ArtificialIntelligence #rarebooks www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers 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
theguardian.com
This is insanity and greed beyond all imagining. World's biggest banks pledging $906 BILLION to the largest fossil fuel companies. They might as well just set the world on fire! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds
JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say
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My heart goes out to those who must flee the flames. If we don't get serious about installing green energy, particularly solar, and keeping fossil fuels in the ground, this could/will be US!