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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 8h

I hope @oasis are enjoying playing to all the Cliff Richard fans with their Cool Britannia TM show. Viva Michael!

A screenshot from Insta showing a woman’s saying how great cliff Richard and oasis were live. She is from Queensland.

James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 10h

This should be fun. Many other online events happening over 15-16th. You can sign up here:
events.zoom.us/ev/AjPpsEFuC...

Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 1d

Your argument sounds a little like Eduardo's here. I liked this book very much, and have a review of it in Review of Politics in the next couple of months.

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The Philosophical Animal

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 1d

If a governance regime should match the gravity of its crisis, the Paris Agreement is the worst global treaty since Versailles. Consensus voting suffocates progress. State insincerity for lunch. Chancers and carpetbaggers for dinner.

Yes, we should try to get what progress we can but boy 😕

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 1d

Get ready for #COP30❗

Get your climate obstruction bingo card out — how many actors of obstruction & different kinds of obstructive plays can you spot in the various sectors❓

Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 27d

It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond.

Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 1d

Get ready for #COP30❗

Get your climate obstruction bingo card out — how many actors of obstruction & different kinds of obstructive plays can you spot in the various sectors❓

Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 27d

It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond.

Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Henk. This is the first long review! You offer so many interesting provocations. I don’t think we devalue the human at all, but it feels that way against a certain humanist horizon. Interspecies cosmopolitanism is my attempt to reassure; our true home is mammalia and the biosphere.

Henk Nijsingh @henknijsingh.bsky.social · 1d

@anthonyburke.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social I finished reading your book and wrote a review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 🙂

H. Nijsingh's review of The Ecology Politic

5/5: This book encompasses much and offers a comprehensive reading of the literature, both critical of it and elaborating it, turning it into a visionary narrative. Developing an alternative framewor...

www.goodreads.com

Henk Nijsingh @henknijsingh.bsky.social · 1d

@anthonyburke.bsky.social @flusterbird.bsky.social I finished reading your book and wrote a review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 🙂

H. Nijsingh's review of The Ecology Politic

5/5: This book encompasses much and offers a comprehensive reading of the literature, both critical of it and elaborating it, turning it into a visionary narrative. Developing an alternative framewor...

www.goodreads.com

Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 3d

So there’s #climate COPs and fancy funds and protests but climate action goes nowhere.

The BIGGEST thing we can do to free our nations from fossil fuel corruption is ban large political donations. Ban gerrymandering.

Ban them forever if you want to save this planet.

barack obama is wearing a suit and tie with an american flag badge

ALT: barack obama is wearing a suit and tie with an american flag badge

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 3d

www.croakey.org/pacific-isla...

Pacific Islands focus: infectious diseases, food insecurity, and the long-lasting impacts of war

Introduction by Croakey: At COP30 in Belem, Brazil, next week, Pacific Island leaders will be calling for strengthened mitigation measures

www.croakey.org

Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe it’s the modern vice of taking a complex understanding (which we all have) and shoehorning it into a binary structure of logic in which something is only ever completely right or completely wrong. The opposite is called emotional maturity.

Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 3d

If you think the world can do more than wring its hands performatively as the planet cooks, read on.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An architecture for a net zero world: Global climate governance beyond the epoch of failure

In the wake of the 2021 Glasgow meeting of the Paris Agreement, where states embedded a 2050 pathway to net zero that will overshoot the Earth's remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C, attention is turnin...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

"I don’t use the term fascism lightly. But the Lam/Philp plan, if enacted, would be a human rights violation of a scale without an obvious analogue in the modern era."

Toby Buckle on darkness in the U.K.: www.thebulwark.com/p/tories-con...

The Tories’ Dangerous Drift

In the U.K., a shocking proposal from a Conservative MP elicited pushback from her party only belatedly. It signals darker things to come.

www.thebulwark.com

Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 3d

It’s great to see you acknowledging what Fridays for Future argued before Glasgow. But we can supplement Paris cops with new treaties concluded in the UNGA where there is no consensus voting rule to block ambition.

Surely as the coral tipping point falls we have to now?

An architecture for a net zero world: Global climate governance beyond the epoch of failure

In the wake of the 2021 Glasgow meeting of the Paris Agreement, where states embedded a 2050 pathway to net zero that will overshoot the Earth's remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C, attention is turnin...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Chad Levinson @chadlevinson.com · 3d

Threadlet on AI.

My mentor as a programmer (former career) was from the original generation of computer geeks (bought a PC out of the trunk of Michael Dell's car, iirc). He passed away just before COVID broke, but we had just started talking about writing a book together about trust and tech.

Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 3d

Paywall lifted: At every turn, the Govt has opted for whatever would actually lead to more pollution and a warmer world – even if it costs more, jeopardises NZ’s reputation, overturns a campaign promise or clashes with the Govt’s other priorities.

The long retreat:
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/g...

Govt's climate strategy: Let it burn

Comment: The Government has relentlessly pursued policies that boost climate pollution – even if they cost more or jeopardise NZ's reputation, Marc Daalder writes

newsroom.co.nz

Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 3d

There truly is hope

Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 3d

Also at COP? THOUSANDS of fossil fuel lobbyists.

An exclusive from @ninalakhani.bsky.social at the @environment.theguardian.com

How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling

Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action

www.theguardian.com

Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 3d

You people get it now?

Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 3d

‘Giving up would be a betrayal’: Miliband says 1.5C target still alive before Cop30

Exclusive: Environment secretary says global tipping points are possible as he rejects far-right climate ‘defeatism’

www.theguardian.com

Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 3d

‘Giving up would be a betrayal’: Miliband says 1.5C target still alive before Cop30

Exclusive: Environment secretary says global tipping points are possible as he rejects far-right climate ‘defeatism’

www.theguardian.com

Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 3d

Also at COP? THOUSANDS of fossil fuel lobbyists.

An exclusive from @ninalakhani.bsky.social at the @environment.theguardian.com

How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling

Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action

www.theguardian.com

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3d

Fields near Pokrovsk,Donetsk region.Everything is covered with fiber optic cables,which have enveloped hundreds of hectares of Ukrainian land.In the sky,there’re more drones than birds
The fields are polluted with chemicals from explosives&unexploded shells.This’s what 'Russian liberation'looks like

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3d

This study by my colleagues at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa shows that deep sea mining waste to be released near the ocean surface would disrupt marine food webs.

The same would be true of grinding and spreading rocks in the ocean for CO₂ removal. 🌊