If you are disheartened by the first image, then look at the second image and then tell your mates to enroll to vote and then bully them into voting for greens ✌🏽
Lauren M
@elenem.bsky.social
Mum, cricket lover, cargo biker, gardener; always wanting more climate action, always wanting more climate justice. Re-skeets for interest, not always endorsement. Says 'fuck' a lot. Aotearoa/NZ.
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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When we don't adequately fund public universities, and instead force students to take out loans, what we as a society are really doing is borrowing money from the younger generation—their hard-earned future income—to fund a necessary project that benefits us all: building an educated society.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d ago1. This is bullsh*t & an epically stupid policy completely detached from any empirical evidence: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 2. We could simply avoid this entire issue by <all together now> Funding. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Maddow calling Sunrise a "radical" organization is all you need to know about how rightwing mainstream media is
It’s a war against the rest of humanity and we need to take it a lot more seriously www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
Heatwaves reaching the upper thermal limits of mammals Poor lions, poor residents of Tokyo And yes, we should be worried and yes we know what to collectively do
Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · yesterday“Three female lions died of suspected heatstroke at Tokyo's Tama Zoo, the first heat-related deaths among the facility's lion population in its 62-year history. The lions, aged 3, 11 and 15 and all born in the zoo, showed signs of severe dehydration and multiple organ failure in post-mortem exams”
Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Sauce. This was the solution considered. Give me strength.
BusinessDesk@businessdesknz.bsky.social · 22h agoAs schools reported throwing out nearly one in three Compass lunches late last year, the Ministry of Education looked into adding sauce to make the meals more appealing but shelved the idea over cost.
I really like this because when you identify emissions as the cause, the solution is clear- end the emissions. When you say the cause is climate change, while true, it takes a minute to get to the solution and you lose people. End fossil fuel emissions, it's clear.
Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 5d agoThe missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions. By Hayley Fowler and myself: theconversation.com/was-this-hea...
We're not going to stop climate change unless we phase out fossil fuels.
Oil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - again
The "strong" three-month results come amid "one of the most disrupted periods in the global energy market".
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If the left want to be taken seriously by the British political and pundit class, they need to stop saying ridiculous things like "I believe transgender people deserve to live with dignity, rights and respect," and instead say common sense things like "I would like to statutorily rape young women."
Hey #Kikorangi peeps: if you have family who live overseas who have been back to Aotearoa at any point in the last three years, they can enrol to vote. Get them to vote.nz. They just need a NZ passport or drivers license (they can be expired).
vote.nz
Excellent and confronting story on the Euro/US fires and climate change, including interview with the @climatecouncil.org.au Greg Mullins, shown last night on @news.abc.net.au 7:30 Report. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Europe is burning – could Australia be next?
Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs journalism and interviews that hold the powerful to account. Plus political analysis...
abc.net.au
Beginning to think that Simeon sticking the FSU onto Andrea Vance might not have been a strategically brilliant move.
Simeon Brown’s Medical Council pick under scrutiny over supplement marketing
As Health Minister Simeon Brown moves to overhaul the bodies that regulate doctors and other health professionals, the commercial interests of one of his new Medical Council appointees has emerged.
thepost.co.nz
This is terrible news for Aotearoa. If the super El Niño plays out, forests are going to be very dry and pine plantations are especially flammable. We need to be building capacity, not eroding it because homes, towns and infrastructure are also at risk. #NZPol www.odt.co.nz/news/nationa...
Fire protections drop in NZ as wildfires rage overseas
Fire protections drop in NZ as wildfires rage overseas
odt.co.nz
"It's as if we have to mourn the future."
Repeated heatwaves fuel eco-anxiety and anger among youth: 'It feels like we're living in a dystopia'
In the wake of the third heatwave to hit France since May, frustration and anxiety have gripped part of the younger generations, faced with what some call 'the coolest summer of the rest of their live...
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"The hotter the planet gets, the more chaotic and dangerous its weather will get and the more [home insurance] premiums will become part of the national political conversation ... It wears many disguises, but climate change is always on the ballot."
Mark Gongloff@markgongloff.bsky.social · 5d agoGrocery prices, the Iran war, diarrhea lettuce: These are the obvious midterm issues. But there's another one that could change lives, and it's how climate gets represented in this vote: the home insurance crisis Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Do you know what would be better forest management? ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 2d agoThis (from the @wsj.com Editorial Board) distills every denialist trope there is: It implies climate change isn’t exacerbating extreme weather. It calls solutions “costly … nostrums.” It fosters doomerism. And it suggests we can just adapt to or “manage” climate impacts. How is this journalism?
I spoke to @thetimes.com on horrible yields and how there is no "new normal" "As bad as this year’s harvest is proving to be, Behrens warned against seeing it as a “new normal”. “Until we get our carbon emissions down things will continue to get much, much worse.”" www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Heatwave forces farmers to abandon crops as harvests fail
Extreme weather and rising costs see growers diversifying into alternative businesses, raising severe concerns over the future of British food security
thetimes.com
‘The obsession with endless growth can only end in tears’: your questions on extreme weather this summer answered
‘The obsession with endless growth can only end in tears’: your questions on extreme weather this summer answered
From Europe’s deadly heat to floods in Asia, it’s been a terrifying summer. Environment writers Jonathan Watts and Ajit Niranjan answered Reddit users’ questions about their work – and their sources of hope
theguardian.com
"By now, limiting warming to ~1.7C requires the same transformational change that limiting warming to 1.5C would have required in 2018-2020"
Overshoot: challenges and choices after we exceed 1.5°C
YouTube video by CMCC Channel
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So many kiwis share the same story. That special river, lake or beach that holds connections across generations. For many, those environments of our past are now too polluted or degraded to safely swim or gather a feed from....continued in comments.
Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
theconversation.com
I've never had as many 'If this government gets back in I'm considering leaving' conversations with people as I've had recently. It's depressing in its own right and even harder when you think that for every person who has the option to leave, there's a heap more who don't have a choice #nzpol
Now Luxon needs to apologise to actual children for this government’s policies.
As an FYI Luxon has also used “replacement” language and when I criticized it on Twitter I got The Post editors telling me off cause I was a columnist at the time. And then of course they cancelled my column. People who have the power to stand up against white supremacy never want to.