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RMontpellier - Climate Senior
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Climate Activist, Speaker, Organizer. Seniors For Climate, Climate Legacy, SCAN!, Citizens' Climate Lobby, Fridays For Future, 350.Org. Climate Reality Leader (2013)
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Lessons from Venezuela - Canada Will Never Break
After Venezuela, it's Greenland and Canada
#WakeUpCanada open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
Lessons from Venezuela
So now it’s out in the open - the “Don-roe” Doctrine.
open.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:08 PM
On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order declaring an “energy emergency” and calling on the government to expand support for fossil fuels while curtailing support for clean energy...and it was all downhill from there.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/c...
Looking Back at a Historic Year of Dismantling Climate Policies
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 2:49 PM
But as of the last three or four years, we finally have a tool, not at this point to stop global warming – it’s too late for that – but perhaps to at least shave some tenths of a degree off how hot the planet gets.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘This is the Costco of energy, man!’: author Bill McKibben on the promise of renewables
The activist and author of Here Comes the Sun discusses rapid advances in solar and wind power and how the US ceded leadership in the sector to its main rival
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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After the dark billionaire circus of robots and censorship, it’s time to join the light, Bluesky.

Hi I’m Robin - the youngest cofounder of Extinction Rebellion and a disabled writer on revolution, strategy and community.

Here’s a thread all about how fossil fuels flipped my life upside down 🧵
November 28, 2024 at 9:48 AM
China rolling out fleets of autonomous delivery trucks, experimenting with flying cars and installing parking lot robots that can swap out your E.V.’s dying battery in just minutes. There are drones that deliver lunch by lowering it from the sky on a cable.
Flying Taxis? China Has Them. And Drone Lunch Deliveries, Too. (Gift Article)
China’s experiments in clean energy can feel like living in the future. Even when things don’t quite work.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
As the excessive heat and energy warms the ocean, the change in temperature leads to unparalleled cascading effects, including ice-melting, sea-level rise, marine heatwaves, and ocean acidification.
www.un.org/en/climatech...
How is climate change impacting the world’s ocean | United Nations
www.un.org
December 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Tariffs are setting back climate goals around the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/b...
Europe May Roll Back Combustion Engine Ban
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
"The green economy has already crossed from “future opportunity” into present balance sheet reality. It is no longer a niche." Going mainstream.

www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...
www.forbes.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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So… big news.

(Keep reading.)
December 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The final statement of the U.N. talks, which were held in Belém, Brazil, did not even use the words “fossil fuels.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Another example of Canada falling behind.

Fossil Fuels Fall Below 1% of Canadian Employment While Global Clean Energy Jobs Surge www.theenergymix.com/fossil-fuels...
Fossil Fuels Fall Below 1% of Canadian Employment While Global Clean Energy Jobs Surge
Fossil fuel employment has fallen to less than 1% of the Canadian work force, while growth in global energy jobs outpaced the wider economy for the third year in a row, according to two reports releas...
www.theenergymix.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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It would be easy, and accurate, to call 2025 the low point of human action on the climate crisis. But there was another major development that gives us reason to hope for the future, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
www.newyorker.com/culture/2025...
A Low Point of Human Inaction on Climate Change
The second Trump Administration’s assault on the environment has been as damaging as expected, but other developments this year give at least some hope for the future.
www.newyorker.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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“Another year of data demonstrating clean energy as a real engine for job creation in Georgia.” With 85,500 clean energy jobs, Georgia has SEVEN TIMES as many clean energy jobs as fossil fuel jobs 🔌💡
Clean energy job growth continues to be a major economic driver in Georgia, study says
Clean energy job growth is still outpacing other sectors of Georgia’s economy according to nonpartisan energy and economy organization E2.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
In China, more wind turbines and solar panels were installed last year than in the rest of the world combine
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
There’s a Race to Power the Future. China Is Pulling Away. (Gift Article)
Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM