Despair is not just wrong. It's irrational. Things can change, at astonishing speed. In fact, the flip might be happening already. My article for the Guardian's climate support campaign. www.theguardian.com/membership/2...

Don’t despair about what’s happening to our planet. That’s what they want you to feel

There are social tipping points when the seemingly impossible suddenly becomes inevitable. Good journalism plays an essential role in helping drive these shifts and shows us how real change can happen

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The most depressing thing about swift parrots is that this same story has been told repeatedly for the entire 16 years I’ve been working on them - same terrible conservation outcomes again and again with no changes to Tasmanian forest management www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

What happened when a rare bird found a place to nest near a logging coupe

It was late 2021 when one of Australia's rarest birds started to arrive in the native forests of Lonnavale. Ecologists had expected it but for a reacting forestry sector, it was "not sustainable".

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So, I found out on Friday that my gig at the Guardian is coming to an end in late August. Needless to say I'm rather bummed by this development AND in need of a new job so if anyone's looking for a cartoonist HMU.

Case in point: the new Trumpian lead for the next National Climate Assessment is literally a #climate denier, disputing the most basic science fact about #climatechange. This is Stalin-like science.

Peter Gleick@petergleick.bsky.social · last mo.

There have been 5 US National Climate Assessments, each advancing the science of #climate threats, prepared by the nation's top scientists.The 6th will be prepared by climate deniers & MAGA political hacks & will be a scientific embarrassment, forever to be ignored. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

We can only look forward to the explanation, no doubt in some belated memoir, for why the billionaire press decided Nigel’s time was up.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.

He’s got a long ways to go before he reaches Trump’s level of grifting.

Presumably he will milkshake duck at some point. But for now …

Niki Savva takes aim at Abbott’s “very strange” & “very extreme” speech at a RW conference in London saying it could have just as well been delivered by Hanson/ON. “Maybe he should be President of One Nation?” 💥 Speers, agitated, tries to cut in. Savva ignores, powers on.💥

Bob Brown Foundation's patron @christinemilne.bsky.social on why Marinus Link is an economic and environmental disaster. youtu.be/DoL7cY7KrY8?...

Marinus Link: an economic and environmental disaster

YouTube video by Bob Brown Foundation

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Cape Verde didn't win a match at the World Cup, and somehow, that didn't seem to matter. The African team's debut on this stage was unforgettable. n.pr/4p28mY1

Cape Verde's historic World Cup ride ends after pushing Argentina to the brink

Cape Verde didn't win a match at the World Cup, and somehow, that didn't seem to matter. The African team's debut on this stage was unforgettable.

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When I say Labor is all talk and no action, this is exactly what I mean. The Albanese government has just rejected hundreds of recommendations from the United Nations aimed at improving the terrible state of human rights in this country. nit.com.au/30-06-2026/2...

UN recommendations on Indigenous rights largely rejected by Albanese government

The Albanese government has rejected key United Nations recommendations aimed at improving outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including calls to raise the age of criminal respo...

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Can’t believe we’re going to get a fossil fuel supercharged Hanson under the guise of fighting for the everyday person… because the the people that elected to fight for everyday people forgot and started fighting for fossil fuels.

Translation: not developing this gas will leave a Roger Cook sized hole in a future Woodside board

Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

WA premier Roger Cook says "could be forced to allow fracking" in the Kimberley if Woodside's $30B offshore Browse is not developed Unbelievably crass, thuggish coercion—a display of the ugly mentality of a colonial extractivist hellbent on getting their way Utterly inappropriate & unacceptable

If you’re ‘protest voting’ for One Nation you’re also saying you aren’t at all ashamed to support a party of vile racists and science-denialists. By association, that’s what YOU stand for. If you’re absolutely cool with this, please fuck off.

This Tuesday, @yungenchee.bsky.social and I will join @amymullins.bsky.social on @3rrrfm.bsky.social's Uncommon Sense, at 9:20 am, to have a long chat about much of what's in our @australia.theguardian.com piece, below. 👇 #CommunityRadio #Environment #Conservation #Policy

Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS@euanritchie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My good friend and colleague @yungenchee.bsky.social and I penned an Op Ed for @australia.theguardian.com about @australianlabor.bsky.social's failure to deliver on their promise to voters of 'ending environmental neglect' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At some point in the next weeks / months, Pauline Hanson is going to try and hamfistedly wide the wave of opposition to data centres in Australia, so in advance of that: fuck all racists, and racist political parties, and everyone who accepts allyship with vicious, violent white supremacist ghouls 👍

For nearly 100 years, four large dams on the Klamath River blocked salmon and steelhead trout from reaching more than 400 miles of habitat. 🐟 This World Fish Migration Day, enjoy this footage of their return to historic spawning habitat post-dam removal! 🎥 Swiftwater Films

But the treasurer said what he was doing was in line with the “good book”. Removing 1700 hundred jobs from hospitals, schools, police, environment while spending 1-2 billion on a gambling syndicate’s infrastructure disguised as sport is apparently a Christian act 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is so fcked. They've blown half a billion on the Spirit disaster, will spend a billion plus on the new stadium. Services, health and education are a disaster zone. But sure, fire 1700 public servants...

Ben Eltham@beneltham.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Eric Abetz is slashing 1,700 jobs in Tasmania. In a state that small, that is a lot of jobs www.themandarin.com.au/313422-1700-...

SpaceX is going to spend $2.8 billion on new fossil fuel power stations for its data centres www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/spac...

Britain has created a new breed of political prisoners through the systematic incarceration of people acting to prevent climate breakdown and the annihilation of Gaza, new research has found. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...

New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise

More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals

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Time’s up. The Albanese Government must do better, to stop Australians being the world’s biggest losers, with gambling losses of $87 million every day. We must ban gambling ads and establish a national regulator.

Most of our protest crew (fr 5 local enviro grps) are >65 yrs, our eldest member is >80 Thru rain, hail & shine, illness, injury & serious life events, we've turned up wk after wk to protest the @albomp.bsky.social gov's environment, Indigenous cultural heritage & planet-destroying climate policies

Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nearly a YEAR since @leanaustralia.bsky.social Environment Champion, Josh Burns, refused to open his office to accept our petition opposing @albomp.bsky.social govt's approval of WoodCIDE's North West Shelf Extension carbon 💣 👎33 Coal+Gas proj approvals 👎42 Coal projs in the pipeline LABOR SHAME

Remand is “the first line of attack”, with the effect of chilling protest and civil disobedience. In 60% of cases, final sentences were more lenient than time already spent in custody awaiting trial. Political prisoners in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...

New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise

More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals

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Around 40% of ocean shipping is fossil fuels. So many things will get better when the fossil-fuel era ends. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Only 0.5% of 90,000 oil slicks reported over five-year period, analysis finds

Pollution incidents reported between 2014 and 2019 were compared against scientific study that used satellite imagery to count slicks

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"Offsets" is not a solution; it's a confession. In this video, I break down four ways you should interrogate this term when you hear it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPe2... #DataCenters #AI #Offsets #NetZero #CarbonNeutral #Sustainability #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #Greenwashing

The Problem With "Offsets" - The Accounting Trick & The Confession of Harm.

YouTube video by Zehn Root

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1/ "Australians really care about the landscapes they live in, & abt the precious places they will never visit, but want protected anyway. They just need a govt that cares as much as they do.[..] I will be guided by 3 essential goals. To protect, to restore, & to manage Australia’s environment."

Hi @scienceau.bsky.social, perhaps the Science Meets Parliament gala dinner Pauline Hanson's so fond of can spotlight fossil fascism, to enable scientists to educate themselves critically about One Nation, racism & fossil fascism❓(backgrd next post) Not just provide photo ops for One Nation reps

Dr Jeremy Walker@jeremywalker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

3/- It's absolutely urgent that we discuss and name the current Hanson-LNP moment as fossil fascism, not resort to mind numbing lazy cliches like 'populism' or compartmentalise the racist content away as in any way seperate from the 'dump net zero'/fossil fuel funding/Atlas Network disinfo.

My good friend and colleague @yungenchee.bsky.social and I penned an Op Ed for @australia.theguardian.com about @australianlabor.bsky.social's failure to deliver on their promise to voters of 'ending environmental neglect' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Australia’s ‘green Wall Street’ is failing to launch. Threatened species deserve better than the nature repair market | Euan Ritchie and Yung En Chee

One must ask why Labor is so comfortable continuing to ignore the wishes of the vast majority of voters

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Scientists warn that no adaptation measure can sustain Venice as rising sea levels threaten to swallow the city. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/ZzbG

New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will - Increase Microsoft's emissions 160% - Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc... - Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined stand.earth/press-releas...