Alex Lenferna
@alexlenferna.bsky.social
Working to overthrow eco-apartheid | Co-Founder of the South African ClimateJusticeCoalition.org | Co-host JustUsAndTheClimate.org 🎙️ | AlexLenferna.com
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Alex Lenferna
@alexlenferna.bsky.social
· Jan 13
There's an exciting new special issue of the Journal of Political Ecology on the Colonialities of climate change & action. I contributed a paper on how oil & gas corporations are appopriating the language of decolonization, with a case study of Shell in South Africa
grassrootsjpe.org/categories-s...
grassrootsjpe.org/categories-s...
Bill Gates may have a plan to not die rich, but he sure has lived incredibly rich, primarily through problematic monopolistic practices. Even his philanthropy has often served his own business ends. This is another salvo in the propaganda campaign to paint Gates as a benevolent billionaire.
May 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Bill Gates may have a plan to not die rich, but he sure has lived incredibly rich, primarily through problematic monopolistic practices. Even his philanthropy has often served his own business ends. This is another salvo in the propaganda campaign to paint Gates as a benevolent billionaire.
When the times get tough, the super rich drop the facade that they actually care about climate change. Now is an urgent time to double down on climate spending, instead Gates, Bezos, and company are slashing it, under the cover of and in step with Trump's darkness. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...
Climate Group Funded by Bill Gates Slashes Staff in Major Retreat
Breakthrough Energy, an umbrella group for energy and environmental efforts funded by Mr. Gates, is resetting for the Trump era.
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
When the times get tough, the super rich drop the facade that they actually care about climate change. Now is an urgent time to double down on climate spending, instead Gates, Bezos, and company are slashing it, under the cover of and in step with Trump's darkness. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...
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Time to use Amazon like they used to use brick-and-mortar book stores!
March 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Time to use Amazon like they used to use brick-and-mortar book stores!
Last week we had the leadership handover meeting for the South African Climate Justice Coalition. The outgoing elected leadership, myself included, put together a podcast of lessons learnt. In it we discuss the difficulties, lessons & rewards of building leaderful movements.
pod.link/cjc/episode/...
pod.link/cjc/episode/...
Just Us and the Climate - Climate Justice Coalition
Welcome to Just Us and the Climate – a podcast by South Africa’s Climate Justice Coalition.
Join us as we bring climate change back down to earth and show how it’s not only a crisis, but an opportuni...
pod.link
March 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Last week we had the leadership handover meeting for the South African Climate Justice Coalition. The outgoing elected leadership, myself included, put together a podcast of lessons learnt. In it we discuss the difficulties, lessons & rewards of building leaderful movements.
pod.link/cjc/episode/...
pod.link/cjc/episode/...
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
February 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
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🚨BREAKING: While targeting federal education contracts, Elon Musk just scored a new deal for more government cash, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.
The new "supplemental agreement" adds millions to SpaceX's already huge $3.9 billion deal.
The new "supplemental agreement" adds millions to SpaceX's already huge $3.9 billion deal.
Musk Just Scored More Government Cash While Pushing Education Cuts
As the billionaire was reportedly slashing Education Department contracts, SpaceX secured a multimillion-dollar “supplemental” deal from NASA.
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February 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
🚨BREAKING: While targeting federal education contracts, Elon Musk just scored a new deal for more government cash, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.
The new "supplemental agreement" adds millions to SpaceX's already huge $3.9 billion deal.
The new "supplemental agreement" adds millions to SpaceX's already huge $3.9 billion deal.
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi does a brilliant job (as always) of explaining and historicising South Africa's new Expropriation Act, dispelling the terrible misinformation that racist right-wingers have been levelling against it.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
The new Expropriation Act: Our chance to face SA’s imperial past
Donald Trump claims that South Africa’s expropriation law is aimed at ‘seizing ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation’. This is a falsehood. Some historical perspective...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
February 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi does a brilliant job (as always) of explaining and historicising South Africa's new Expropriation Act, dispelling the terrible misinformation that racist right-wingers have been levelling against it.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Petrostates and oil & gas corporations are celebrating Trump's return. There's no doubt that this is a victory for the fossil fuel industry & connected rapacious forces. Like the last time Trump was elected, it's key that we use this moment to build resistance.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
Saudi Arabia Says It Will Increase U.S. Trade and Investment by $600 Billion
The Saudi media reported that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had spoken with President Trump, who made the kingdom the first stop on his first overseas presidential trip in 2017.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Petrostates and oil & gas corporations are celebrating Trump's return. There's no doubt that this is a victory for the fossil fuel industry & connected rapacious forces. Like the last time Trump was elected, it's key that we use this moment to build resistance.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...
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NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
January 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
There's an exciting new special issue of the Journal of Political Ecology on the Colonialities of climate change & action. I contributed a paper on how oil & gas corporations are appopriating the language of decolonization, with a case study of Shell in South Africa
grassrootsjpe.org/categories-s...
grassrootsjpe.org/categories-s...
January 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
There's an exciting new special issue of the Journal of Political Ecology on the Colonialities of climate change & action. I contributed a paper on how oil & gas corporations are appopriating the language of decolonization, with a case study of Shell in South Africa
grassrootsjpe.org/categories-s...
grassrootsjpe.org/categories-s...
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Apparently, you can take the boy out of South Africa, but you can't take apartheid out of the boy.
mronline.org/2024/12/24/g...
mronline.org/2024/12/24/g...
German politicians criticize Musk backing for far-right AfD | MR Online
After Elon Musk posted his support for Germany’s far-right AfD, the party’s leader Alice Weidel expressed her gratitude. Other German lawmakers have criticized “interference” in the country’s upcoming...
mronline.org
December 24, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Apparently, you can take the boy out of South Africa, but you can't take apartheid out of the boy.
mronline.org/2024/12/24/g...
mronline.org/2024/12/24/g...
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1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing:
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
November 26, 2024 at 7:05 AM
1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing:
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
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Made a starter pack for folks who want to learn more about the intersection of the climate crisis, Global South debt, and a climate reparations approach to these serious challenges. Definitely not comprehensive, no offensive meant if I missed you- comment to be added! go.bsky.app/92HS9cA
November 18, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Made a starter pack for folks who want to learn more about the intersection of the climate crisis, Global South debt, and a climate reparations approach to these serious challenges. Definitely not comprehensive, no offensive meant if I missed you- comment to be added! go.bsky.app/92HS9cA
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Will Shoki from @africasacountry.bsky.social on the miners currently trapped in South Africa. "Cruel indifference" to the "unbearable spectacle of death".
November 18, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Will Shoki from @africasacountry.bsky.social on the miners currently trapped in South Africa. "Cruel indifference" to the "unbearable spectacle of death".
Oil and gas corporations are appropriating and perverting the language of decolonisation and sovereignty to push forward their extractive and harmful neocolonial agenda. A nice piece in @africasacountry.bsky.social calling out this duplicitous propaganda. 1/2
africasacountry.com/2024/11/libe...
africasacountry.com/2024/11/libe...
Liberation is not propaganda
At Africa Energy Week, the language of resource sovereignty disguised a new form of climate denial that appropriates progressive rhetoric in service of fossil fuel companies.
africasacountry.com
November 19, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Oil and gas corporations are appropriating and perverting the language of decolonisation and sovereignty to push forward their extractive and harmful neocolonial agenda. A nice piece in @africasacountry.bsky.social calling out this duplicitous propaganda. 1/2
africasacountry.com/2024/11/libe...
africasacountry.com/2024/11/libe...
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Israel destroyed 83% of plant life in Gaza by June this year.
It destroyed 70% of its agricultural land.
It damaged or destroyed 65% of water tanks and 47% of groundwater wells.
Israel has deliberately tried to make Gaza uninhabitable. This is genocide.
It destroyed 70% of its agricultural land.
It damaged or destroyed 65% of water tanks and 47% of groundwater wells.
Israel has deliberately tried to make Gaza uninhabitable. This is genocide.
November 18, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Israel destroyed 83% of plant life in Gaza by June this year.
It destroyed 70% of its agricultural land.
It damaged or destroyed 65% of water tanks and 47% of groundwater wells.
Israel has deliberately tried to make Gaza uninhabitable. This is genocide.
It destroyed 70% of its agricultural land.
It damaged or destroyed 65% of water tanks and 47% of groundwater wells.
Israel has deliberately tried to make Gaza uninhabitable. This is genocide.
Hello Bluesky world,
I'm new here and wondering if anyone knows good starter packs made up of climate and environmental justice voices, especially more radical ones & from the global south?
Would much appreciate any recommendations as I am not sure how best to find them. 🙏
I'm new here and wondering if anyone knows good starter packs made up of climate and environmental justice voices, especially more radical ones & from the global south?
Would much appreciate any recommendations as I am not sure how best to find them. 🙏
November 18, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Hello Bluesky world,
I'm new here and wondering if anyone knows good starter packs made up of climate and environmental justice voices, especially more radical ones & from the global south?
Would much appreciate any recommendations as I am not sure how best to find them. 🙏
I'm new here and wondering if anyone knows good starter packs made up of climate and environmental justice voices, especially more radical ones & from the global south?
Would much appreciate any recommendations as I am not sure how best to find them. 🙏
For my first legit post on BlueSky, I thought I'd share this book chapter I am about to publish, titled:
The 3 Radical R's of Environmentalism: From “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” to “Regulation, Redistribution, and Reparations”.
Thoughts and comments are welcome!
www.academia.edu/122985988/Th...
The 3 Radical R's of Environmentalism: From “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” to “Regulation, Redistribution, and Reparations”.
Thoughts and comments are welcome!
www.academia.edu/122985988/Th...
The 3 Radical Rs of Environmentalism - From “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” to “Regulation, Redistribution, and Reparations”
This is a draft chapter that has been accepted to be part of a book collection on Community Psychologies for Climate Justice. Comments are welcome at alexlenferna@gmail.com Summary: Reduce, reuse, and...
www.academia.edu
November 16, 2024 at 3:11 PM
For my first legit post on BlueSky, I thought I'd share this book chapter I am about to publish, titled:
The 3 Radical R's of Environmentalism: From “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” to “Regulation, Redistribution, and Reparations”.
Thoughts and comments are welcome!
www.academia.edu/122985988/Th...
The 3 Radical R's of Environmentalism: From “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” to “Regulation, Redistribution, and Reparations”.
Thoughts and comments are welcome!
www.academia.edu/122985988/Th...
It's overdue but I left X, and this will be my micro-blogging space to talk climate justice, movement building, and creating a better, more just world.
It's sad to leave X as I had previously built a good community there, but Musk has turned it into dangerous vehicle for right-wing propaganda.
It's sad to leave X as I had previously built a good community there, but Musk has turned it into dangerous vehicle for right-wing propaganda.
November 10, 2024 at 1:05 PM
It's overdue but I left X, and this will be my micro-blogging space to talk climate justice, movement building, and creating a better, more just world.
It's sad to leave X as I had previously built a good community there, but Musk has turned it into dangerous vehicle for right-wing propaganda.
It's sad to leave X as I had previously built a good community there, but Musk has turned it into dangerous vehicle for right-wing propaganda.