Peter McCartney
@climatepete.bsky.social
Nerding out about Indigenous community planning these days. Still big on fighting fossil fuel extraction, protecting nature, defending Indigenous rights and building communities that don't pollute.
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Saw Bluesky described as where elder millennials go to retire from the internet, and immediately felt the peace that passes all understanding wash over me. None of have to struggle any longer. We completed our time.
December 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Saw Bluesky described as where elder millennials go to retire from the internet, and immediately felt the peace that passes all understanding wash over me. None of have to struggle any longer. We completed our time.
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I admire Zelensky's composure. This is beyond infuriating.
Trump: "I saw a very interesting President Putin today. He wants to see it happen. He told me very strongly. I believe him. Don't forget, we went through the Russia Russia Russia hoax together and he'd call me, I'd say 'Can you believe the stuff they're making up?' It turned out we were right."
December 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I admire Zelensky's composure. This is beyond infuriating.
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The person who made the decision to hold this story has never been a news reporter or a news editor. Really sickening.
December 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The person who made the decision to hold this story has never been a news reporter or a news editor. Really sickening.
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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The only way to get back on track to the Paris Accords — which aims to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2.0 C — is to pull the “Emergency Brake” climate solutions.
Towards the top of the list is curbing methane emissions as quickly as possible.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Towards the top of the list is curbing methane emissions as quickly as possible.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley
The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out, says the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The only way to get back on track to the Paris Accords — which aims to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2.0 C — is to pull the “Emergency Brake” climate solutions.
Towards the top of the list is curbing methane emissions as quickly as possible.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Towards the top of the list is curbing methane emissions as quickly as possible.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We had so much fun postering around Amazon's offices to show that Amazon corporate workers are pushing back on the company's reckless AI plans. Sign our letter if you work at Amazon or sign our solidarity statement if you don't, link in bio!
TY to friends at @stand.earth @troublemakers.bsky.social!
TY to friends at @stand.earth @troublemakers.bsky.social!
December 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
We had so much fun postering around Amazon's offices to show that Amazon corporate workers are pushing back on the company's reckless AI plans. Sign our letter if you work at Amazon or sign our solidarity statement if you don't, link in bio!
TY to friends at @stand.earth @troublemakers.bsky.social!
TY to friends at @stand.earth @troublemakers.bsky.social!
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The magnitude of the housing shortage is huge, the problems chronic, but the housing crisis is solvable: latest research by @1alexhemingway.bsky.social.
Reforms from a flurry of government announcements gesture at the right ideas but fall short in scale and implementation.
Reforms from a flurry of government announcements gesture at the right ideas but fall short in scale and implementation.
This is why BC’s housing crisis hasn’t been solved yet
The magnitude of the housing shortage is huge, the problems chronic, but the housing crisis is solvable.
Throughout the province and country, the housing crisis is marked by high rents and prices, a scarcity of homes, displacement, homelessness and the quiet exclusion of people from entire neighb
bcpolicy.ca
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The magnitude of the housing shortage is huge, the problems chronic, but the housing crisis is solvable: latest research by @1alexhemingway.bsky.social.
Reforms from a flurry of government announcements gesture at the right ideas but fall short in scale and implementation.
Reforms from a flurry of government announcements gesture at the right ideas but fall short in scale and implementation.
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I understand the impulse to relocate to places perceived climate havens. My concern is how this leads to places (and people) being seen as expendable and not worth fighting for. Who will be left behind? Taken to the extreme, it's the billionaire fantasy of fleeing to Mars while Earth burns.
December 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I understand the impulse to relocate to places perceived climate havens. My concern is how this leads to places (and people) being seen as expendable and not worth fighting for. Who will be left behind? Taken to the extreme, it's the billionaire fantasy of fleeing to Mars while Earth burns.
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If you work on climate, you often get asked, "So, what can I *personally* do to help address climate change?"
Well, here's the resource that works! It provides specific recommendations, tailored to your lifestyle and situation, to help you take practical action.
Check it out!
jointheshift.earth
Well, here's the resource that works! It provides specific recommendations, tailored to your lifestyle and situation, to help you take practical action.
Check it out!
jointheshift.earth
SHIFT
jointheshift.earth
December 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
If you work on climate, you often get asked, "So, what can I *personally* do to help address climate change?"
Well, here's the resource that works! It provides specific recommendations, tailored to your lifestyle and situation, to help you take practical action.
Check it out!
jointheshift.earth
Well, here's the resource that works! It provides specific recommendations, tailored to your lifestyle and situation, to help you take practical action.
Check it out!
jointheshift.earth
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loved this conversation. Anyone need a crash course on why the intersection of AI, fascism and climate breakdown? We tried to cover it all!
🚨The video recording of the AI and the Politics of Extraction panel is now live! Watch this fascinating 1.5 hour discussion with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @profwhw.bsky.social, @mysdick.bsky.social, and @profhvdv.bsky.social as they explore the risks of unfettered AI implementation.
AI and the Politics of Extraction | Centre for Climate Justice
YouTube video by Centre for Climate Justice
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
loved this conversation. Anyone need a crash course on why the intersection of AI, fascism and climate breakdown? We tried to cover it all!
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@greenprofgreen.bsky.social and I reflect on #COP30's failure to even mention fossil fuels. In its silence Canada hides behind petro-states like Saudi Arabia and Russia. It's time to join more constructive fossil fuel producers in a coalition of the willing.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/02/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/02/o...
UN climate talks and Canadian policy can't ignore fossil fuels
COP30 ended with an astounding contradiction: an agreement to get to net-zero emissions by 2050 without acknowledging the need to wind down use of the fossil fuels.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
@greenprofgreen.bsky.social and I reflect on #COP30's failure to even mention fossil fuels. In its silence Canada hides behind petro-states like Saudi Arabia and Russia. It's time to join more constructive fossil fuel producers in a coalition of the willing.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/02/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/02/o...
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Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
What a dick. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Minister apologizes for 'poor choice of words' about meeting with B.C. First Nations group | CBC News
Federal Energy Minister Tim Hodgson says he has apologized to Coastal First Nations for what he says were a “poor choice of words” regarding a meeting he offered to have with the group on Friday.
www.cbc.ca
November 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What a dick. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Oh it's half-baked alright www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Pipeline deal is not a ‘baked cake,’ Canada's energy minister says
Tim Hodgson urges patience as critics pan a plan that lacks a route, an investor and support from key players.
www.politico.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Oh it's half-baked alright www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Grateful as always for the @ubcic.bsky.social www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_strong...
UBCIC Strongly Rejects Canada–Alberta Pipeline MOU that Ignores First Nations Rights and Threatens Environment
Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights
www.ubcic.bc.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Grateful as always for the @ubcic.bsky.social www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_strong...
“I don’t know that the PM would have agreed to a new bitumen pipeline without Pathways, and we wouldn’t have agreed to Pathways without a new bitumen pipeline," said Smith.
It's absolutely maddening that Big Oil has managed to paint its own greenwashing strategy as the climate bargaining chip 😩🙄🤬
It's absolutely maddening that Big Oil has managed to paint its own greenwashing strategy as the climate bargaining chip 😩🙄🤬
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“I don’t know that the PM would have agreed to a new bitumen pipeline without Pathways, and we wouldn’t have agreed to Pathways without a new bitumen pipeline," said Smith.
It's absolutely maddening that Big Oil has managed to paint its own greenwashing strategy as the climate bargaining chip 😩🙄🤬
It's absolutely maddening that Big Oil has managed to paint its own greenwashing strategy as the climate bargaining chip 😩🙄🤬
BREAKING: Industry responsible for destroying the planet doesn't keep it's promise to destroy the planet less.
"We did buy a pipeline because we felt there was a need to still get Alberta's oil to market," McKenna says. "And what did we get? They did not live up to their end of the bargain under any stretch of the imagination."
As Carney-Smith pipeline deal looms, Catherine McKenna says oil companies can't be trusted. She would know
Justin Trudeau's first environment minister spoke with Canada's National Observer about misogyny, policy and broken promises.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
BREAKING: Industry responsible for destroying the planet doesn't keep it's promise to destroy the planet less.
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BREAKING: 30 young people were just arrested after blocking an ICE detention facility near Alligator Alcatraz.
ICE is kidnapping our neighbors on behalf of fascist billionaires. It's time for every single American to stand up to their intimidation tactics. Let's shut it down.
ICE is kidnapping our neighbors on behalf of fascist billionaires. It's time for every single American to stand up to their intimidation tactics. Let's shut it down.
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
BREAKING: 30 young people were just arrested after blocking an ICE detention facility near Alligator Alcatraz.
ICE is kidnapping our neighbors on behalf of fascist billionaires. It's time for every single American to stand up to their intimidation tactics. Let's shut it down.
ICE is kidnapping our neighbors on behalf of fascist billionaires. It's time for every single American to stand up to their intimidation tactics. Let's shut it down.
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Maybe we should reconsider the notion that the politicians and diplomats were going to save us?
November 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Maybe we should reconsider the notion that the politicians and diplomats were going to save us?
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BC is not just ceding its leadership on EVs, but arguing against provincial leadership. Passing the buck on incentives (up to the feds) and wrt regulations "there should be one clear, harmonized sales target for the country to provide clarity..."
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/n...
BC redrawing EV sales mandate, scraps adoption goal and leaves rebates to Feds
Adrian Dix told reporters on Tuesday that the 100-per-cent mandate in 2035 and a 90-per-cent goal for 2030 were no longer "realistic," and the NDP government would introduce legislation next year to r...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
BC is not just ceding its leadership on EVs, but arguing against provincial leadership. Passing the buck on incentives (up to the feds) and wrt regulations "there should be one clear, harmonized sales target for the country to provide clarity..."
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/n...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/n...
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📢 For the first time in over a decade, Canada has been shamed at #COP30 as the “Fossil of the Day” — the most dishonourable award given during COPs to the countries “who are the best at being the worst and doing the most to do the least.”
Read our press release:
shorturl.at/hSGvm
Read our press release:
shorturl.at/hSGvm
Canada shamed as “Fossil of the Day” at COP30, for the first time in more than a decade - Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac)
Belém, Brazil, 18 November 2025:
Today at COP30, international civil society denounced Canada as Fossil of the Day—the first time since 2014 that Canada has been singled out for this dishonour.
Foss...
shorturl.at
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
📢 For the first time in over a decade, Canada has been shamed at #COP30 as the “Fossil of the Day” — the most dishonourable award given during COPs to the countries “who are the best at being the worst and doing the most to do the least.”
Read our press release:
shorturl.at/hSGvm
Read our press release:
shorturl.at/hSGvm
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Have courage to create fossil fuel phaseout roadmap at Cop30, Brazilian minister urges
Have courage to create fossil fuel phaseout roadmap at Cop30, Brazilian minister urges
Marina Silva says contentious plan would be ‘ethical answer’ to climate crisis but does not commit Brazil to it
Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva, has urged all countries to have the courage to address the need for a fossil fuel phaseout, calling the drawing up of a roadmap for it an “ethical” response to the climate crisis.
She emphasised, however, that the process would be voluntary for those governments that wished to participate, and “self-determined”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Have courage to create fossil fuel phaseout roadmap at Cop30, Brazilian minister urges
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“ At just 16 years old, she took a job at Mar a Lago, believing she had secured a dream summer position. But that dream quickly morphed into a nightmare when Ghislaine Maxwell preyed upon her…. They trafficked her”
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“ At just 16 years old, she took a job at Mar a Lago, believing she had secured a dream summer position. But that dream quickly morphed into a nightmare when Ghislaine Maxwell preyed upon her…. They trafficked her”
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I think it's a lot easier to think of #nuclear as "clean energy" if you are willing to ignore the people who mined the fuel, the communities they live in, and what happens after the mines close.
Turns out there are a lot of Native Americans in those two categories.
Turns out there are a lot of Native Americans in those two categories.
From me: ‘EPA begins uranium cleanup at Lukachukai Superfund site on the Navajo Nation’
EPA begins uranium mine cleanup at Lukachukai Superfund site on the Navajo Nation
The U.S. EPA has started the long-awaited cleanup of Cold War-era uranium mine sites at a Superfund site on the Navajo Nation.
www.azcentral.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I think it's a lot easier to think of #nuclear as "clean energy" if you are willing to ignore the people who mined the fuel, the communities they live in, and what happens after the mines close.
Turns out there are a lot of Native Americans in those two categories.
Turns out there are a lot of Native Americans in those two categories.