Franklin Bruinstroop
@franklinb51.bsky.social
Calling for System Change for the good of all life now and the generations to come.
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“The reality and scale of the crisis means that small steps forward aren’t going to be enough... I won’t sugar-coat it – the consequences will be terrifying if words aren’t turned into action soon.” - Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30’s watered-down agreements will do little for an ecosystem at tipping point
Delegates made minimal headway on timetable for replacing oil and gas or on firm commitments to reducing carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
“The reality and scale of the crisis means that small steps forward aren’t going to be enough... I won’t sugar-coat it – the consequences will be terrifying if words aren’t turned into action soon.” - Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Way to go, Robin. The Serviceberry - An economy of Abundance.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-se...
emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-se...
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.
emergencemagazine.org
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Way to go, Robin. The Serviceberry - An economy of Abundance.
emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-se...
emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-se...
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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#COP30 is happening right now in the Amazon, home to Indigenous communities on the sharp end of corporate abuses.
ActionAid Brasil hosted a #JustTransition event at
looking at how agribusiness, mining and energy projects are risking lives of women and girls.
www.actionaid.org.uk/publications...
ActionAid Brasil hosted a #JustTransition event at
looking at how agribusiness, mining and energy projects are risking lives of women and girls.
www.actionaid.org.uk/publications...
November 17, 2025 at 11:51 AM
#COP30 is happening right now in the Amazon, home to Indigenous communities on the sharp end of corporate abuses.
ActionAid Brasil hosted a #JustTransition event at
looking at how agribusiness, mining and energy projects are risking lives of women and girls.
www.actionaid.org.uk/publications...
ActionAid Brasil hosted a #JustTransition event at
looking at how agribusiness, mining and energy projects are risking lives of women and girls.
www.actionaid.org.uk/publications...
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#SaveTheSepik. Large scale mining is threatening people, the environment and the mighty Sepik River in Papua New Guinea.
Solidarity from Melbourn with the people of the Sepik.
@SaveTheSepik @JubileeAustralia
savethesepik.org
Solidarity from Melbourn with the people of the Sepik.
@SaveTheSepik @JubileeAustralia
savethesepik.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
#SaveTheSepik. Large scale mining is threatening people, the environment and the mighty Sepik River in Papua New Guinea.
Solidarity from Melbourn with the people of the Sepik.
@SaveTheSepik @JubileeAustralia
savethesepik.org
Solidarity from Melbourn with the people of the Sepik.
@SaveTheSepik @JubileeAustralia
savethesepik.org
It sure is time for #SystemChange, @foeint.bsky.social, and the #ParadigmChange we need for the good of #AllLife now and the #Generations2Come
Transnational corporations have been setting the rules for too long, and it has led us into endless cycles of plunder, exploitation and domination.
All for the profit of a few who continue to violate rights with impunity.
It's time for #SystemChange
#PeoplesSummit
All for the profit of a few who continue to violate rights with impunity.
It's time for #SystemChange
#PeoplesSummit
November 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
It sure is time for #SystemChange, @foeint.bsky.social, and the #ParadigmChange we need for the good of #AllLife now and the #Generations2Come
“We must recognise that climate justice cannot succeed without addressing historical and structural forms of injustice and their lasting consequences.”
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Hurricane Melissa a ‘real-time case study’ of colonialism’s legacies
Destruction in Jamaica shows why climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice, campaigners say
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
“We must recognise that climate justice cannot succeed without addressing historical and structural forms of injustice and their lasting consequences.”
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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REVEALED: A campaign that led to the axing of a large wind farm project in Central QLD was spearheaded by an anti-renewables group that used fake sources in its official submission.
90% of submissions were generated by a group which used AI to prepare its submission.
90% of submissions were generated by a group which used AI to prepare its submission.
November 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
REVEALED: A campaign that led to the axing of a large wind farm project in Central QLD was spearheaded by an anti-renewables group that used fake sources in its official submission.
90% of submissions were generated by a group which used AI to prepare its submission.
90% of submissions were generated by a group which used AI to prepare its submission.
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We’ve just delivered our open letter to Ed Miliband, demanding the UK champions forest defenders at the Amazon climate talks taking place next week. And keeps its promise to halt and reverse global deforestation by 2030.
November 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
We’ve just delivered our open letter to Ed Miliband, demanding the UK champions forest defenders at the Amazon climate talks taking place next week. And keeps its promise to halt and reverse global deforestation by 2030.
.. courts around the world have clarified the inclusion of ... scope 3 emissions in environmental impact assessments. These are emissions that do not happen on-site but would not be created if the facility did not exist.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
.. courts around the world have clarified the inclusion of ... scope 3 emissions in environmental impact assessments. These are emissions that do not happen on-site but would not be created if the facility did not exist.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Although conceptually appealing, reliance on offsets has fatal flaws:
* Difficult to ensure that they represent real emissions reductions
* Ensuring that emission reductions are ‘additional’
* Crucial to ensure that the CO2 is locked away permanently
ICYMI: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
* Difficult to ensure that they represent real emissions reductions
* Ensuring that emission reductions are ‘additional’
* Crucial to ensure that the CO2 is locked away permanently
ICYMI: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Although conceptually appealing, reliance on offsets has fatal flaws:
* Difficult to ensure that they represent real emissions reductions
* Ensuring that emission reductions are ‘additional’
* Crucial to ensure that the CO2 is locked away permanently
ICYMI: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
* Difficult to ensure that they represent real emissions reductions
* Ensuring that emission reductions are ‘additional’
* Crucial to ensure that the CO2 is locked away permanently
ICYMI: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"To have knowledge that goes back tens of thousands of years is very hard for most people to comprehend."
from www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
from www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au
October 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"To have knowledge that goes back tens of thousands of years is very hard for most people to comprehend."
from www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
from www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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Alberta First Nations denounce plans to ‘treat and release’ oil sands tailings ricochet.media/indigenous/a...
Alberta First Nations denounce plans to ‘treat and release’ oil sands tailings
Oil sands pollution has been kept in ponds for decades — Now the government wants to release it into the Athabaska River watershed
ricochet.media
October 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Alberta First Nations denounce plans to ‘treat and release’ oil sands tailings ricochet.media/indigenous/a...
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In the wake of the release of Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment, Renew Australia for All is holding a Melb launch of a plan to make climate adaptation & resilience a national priority.
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actionnetwork.org/events/clima...
October 31, 2025 at 2:21 AM
In the wake of the release of Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment, Renew Australia for All is holding a Melb launch of a plan to make climate adaptation & resilience a national priority.
actionnetwork.org/events/clima...
actionnetwork.org/events/clima...
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A historic moment as Treaty passes Vic Parliament, the first time in our history that a Treaty has been enshrined in law.
To those who have fought for this - thankyou.
This must act as a guiding light towards federal truth, Treaty & justice for all First Nations people.
To those who have fought for this - thankyou.
This must act as a guiding light towards federal truth, Treaty & justice for all First Nations people.
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 AM
A historic moment as Treaty passes Vic Parliament, the first time in our history that a Treaty has been enshrined in law.
To those who have fought for this - thankyou.
This must act as a guiding light towards federal truth, Treaty & justice for all First Nations people.
To those who have fought for this - thankyou.
This must act as a guiding light towards federal truth, Treaty & justice for all First Nations people.
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Important new report from the Children's Commissioner today on evidence-based child justice reform. It shows we can transform outcomes for kids, prevent crime & keep communities safe through prevention & diversion—not prison which solves nothing 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Important new report from the Children's Commissioner today on evidence-based child justice reform. It shows we can transform outcomes for kids, prevent crime & keep communities safe through prevention & diversion—not prison which solves nothing 🧵
Well done #Greens. Life's hard enough for First Nations kids, without governments getting tough on crime without addressing underlying causes.
BREAKING: The Greens have secured a fresh Federal inquiry into youth justice. While States and Territories compete on cruelty, First Nations kids are being locked up at skyrocketing rates. The Federal Government can't keep washing its hands of this crisis. It's time for urgent action.
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Well done #Greens. Life's hard enough for First Nations kids, without governments getting tough on crime without addressing underlying causes.
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The sums so far suggest global emissions will fall by around 10% by 2035, not the almost 60% required to avoid the worst of climate change. With extreme weather already costing lives and causing havoc we need all nations to do more, including our own. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The sums so far suggest global emissions will fall by around 10% by 2035, not the almost 60% required to avoid the worst of climate change. With extreme weather already costing lives and causing havoc we need all nations to do more, including our own. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Israeli forces launched an air strike in central Gaza, striking a tent that was sheltering displaced Palestinian families.
October 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Israeli forces launched an air strike in central Gaza, striking a tent that was sheltering displaced Palestinian families.
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Secretary general of the UN :
'It is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the 1.5oC target.
He urged the leaders at the COP summit to realise that the longer they delay cutting emissions, the greater the danger of passing catastrophic “tipping points”.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'It is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the 1.5oC target.
He urged the leaders at the COP summit to realise that the longer they delay cutting emissions, the greater the danger of passing catastrophic “tipping points”.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Secretary general of the UN :
'It is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the 1.5oC target.
He urged the leaders at the COP summit to realise that the longer they delay cutting emissions, the greater the danger of passing catastrophic “tipping points”.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
'It is now “inevitable” that humanity will overshoot the 1.5oC target.
He urged the leaders at the COP summit to realise that the longer they delay cutting emissions, the greater the danger of passing catastrophic “tipping points”.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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In early 2025 we hosted the first ever 'snow gum summit', which brought together traditional owners, academics, land managers, enviro & outdoor grps to better understand the threat to this iconic species.
The 2nd summit will happen in Jindabyne, March 2026.
www.melbournefoe.org.au/snow_gum_sum...
The 2nd summit will happen in Jindabyne, March 2026.
www.melbournefoe.org.au/snow_gum_sum...
Snow gum summit 2026
Mobilise! Resist! Transform!
www.melbournefoe.org.au
October 28, 2025 at 11:28 PM
In early 2025 we hosted the first ever 'snow gum summit', which brought together traditional owners, academics, land managers, enviro & outdoor grps to better understand the threat to this iconic species.
The 2nd summit will happen in Jindabyne, March 2026.
www.melbournefoe.org.au/snow_gum_sum...
The 2nd summit will happen in Jindabyne, March 2026.
www.melbournefoe.org.au/snow_gum_sum...
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Friends of the Earth hosts regular field trips in the Wombat forest with representatives from the Galk-galk Dhelkunya (forest gardening) team of DJAARA (Central VIC).
The next one will happen this friday (OCT 31).
www.melbournefoe.org.au/wombat_work_...
The next one will happen this friday (OCT 31).
www.melbournefoe.org.au/wombat_work_...
Wombat work trip OCT 2025
Mobilise! Resist! Transform!
www.melbournefoe.org.au
October 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Friends of the Earth hosts regular field trips in the Wombat forest with representatives from the Galk-galk Dhelkunya (forest gardening) team of DJAARA (Central VIC).
The next one will happen this friday (OCT 31).
www.melbournefoe.org.au/wombat_work_...
The next one will happen this friday (OCT 31).
www.melbournefoe.org.au/wombat_work_...
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UN Chief Antonio Guterres says it is “inevitable” we will miss our Paris climate targets. This will have devastating consequences for us here in Australia as well as vulnerable communities around the world.
We must change course.
We must change course.
October 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
UN Chief Antonio Guterres says it is “inevitable” we will miss our Paris climate targets. This will have devastating consequences for us here in Australia as well as vulnerable communities around the world.
We must change course.
We must change course.
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The Environment Minister's job is to protect the environment (the clue is in the name), not make approvals easier and cheaper for Chevron and BHP!
Credit: @goldingcartoons.bsky.social
Credit: @goldingcartoons.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Environment Minister's job is to protect the environment (the clue is in the name), not make approvals easier and cheaper for Chevron and BHP!
Credit: @goldingcartoons.bsky.social
Credit: @goldingcartoons.bsky.social