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Christopher Wright
@chriswrightau.bsky.social
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Professor University of Sydney. Author of Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations (2015) & Organising Responses to Climate Change (2022)

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15h
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?

Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d
Sheesh
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d
Just a little more gold and it will be perfect
Trump in the Oval Office of the White House with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The walls are decorated with tacky gold bullshit https://flic.kr/p/2rE6s9j

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Christopher Wright @chriswrightau.bsky.social · 4d
Creative self-destruction "How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d
CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @mluckovichajc)

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Christopher Wright @chriswrightau.bsky.social · 5d
Excellent article in the academic journal “Organization” on Israel’s continuing Gaza genocide, Western government complicity and the broader links to colonial and capitalist expansion: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Facing the facts of the Gaza genocide: Refusing complicity, organizing solidarity - Nidhi Srinivas, Devi Vijay, Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar, Yuliya Shymko, Steffen Böhm, Koen Van Laer, Fahreen Alamgir, Ism...
As a collective, Organization has a strong commitment to exposing and challenging domination and oppression, to amplifying scholarly activism, and to standing i...
journals.sagepub.com

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Christopher Wright @chriswrightau.bsky.social · 6d
Forget the Coalition, Labor has already abandoned net zero in all but name (and its excuses are absurd) www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/06/n...
Forget the Coalition, Labor has already abandoned net zero in all but name (and its excuses are absurd)
A speech from one Labor MP, both fantastical and technologically absurd, illuminates the government's terrifying approach to climate change.
www.crikey.com.au

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 7d
Fascism is back. Hoods and all...
50501movement.bsky.social 50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8d
It’s clear who the aggressors are. Keep remaining nonviolent, and record EVERYTHING. All of these masked ICE thugs will be held accountable.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 7d
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
ANU bought shares in Israeli weapons maker after pledging to stop controversial arms investments
Exclusive: University says Elbit Systems, whose drones have been used extensively in Gaza, not on any controversial weapons list when shares bought and sold this year
www.theguardian.com

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 7d
Still can't wrap my head around the fact that internationally renowned activist Greta Thunberg said she was tortured and sexually humiliated by Israeli soldiers when she was abducted for trying to bring aid to starving civilians and the world just shrugged and moved on.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 7d
Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 4, 2025 ~ Fast times!

"Glaciologists recorded a five-mile retreat in just two months on the Hektoria Glacier on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, a rate nearly 10 times faster than previously measured for a grounded glacier..."

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Antarctic glacier retreating at rate 10 times faster than previously measured: Study
An Antarctic glacier has experienced a rapid retreat 10 times faster than previously measured, according to new research.
abcnews.go.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 7d
"Prince William’s prestigious climate prize hired a Brazilian public relations firm that was also under contract to the country’s state oil company Petrobras, which is facing criticism for its plans to drill in the Amazon basin"

@tjjordan.bsky.social in @desmog.com >

www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/r...
Robert Irwin, David Beckham and Jacinda Ardern as photographed panels behind yellow text saying the Earthshot Prize as part of an advertising campaign for the prize itself

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 7d
The planet isn’t “greening.” It’s photosynthetically busier but biologically poorer—more leaves, fewer living systems.
New mini-essay with images: The Illusion of Greening ⤵︎
open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...
The Illusion of Greening
From orbit the planet looks healthier than ever: more green on the maps, more leaf area in the models.
open.substack.com

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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 8d
'[t]he present-day fetishism of numbers in higher education is neither rational nor practical. Neither does it ensure fairness and accuracy. Instead, it stems from and fosters delusion, deception, inequity and irrationality, vanity and greed' (F. Wood)

www.prometheusjournal.co.uk/prometheus/t...
The cult of the quantifiable: the fetishism of numbers in higher education – Prometheus
www.prometheusjournal.co.uk