Nick Young
@nickofnz.bsky.social
Co-Head of Communications & Story at Greenpeace International. Settler in so-called New Zealand. West Aucklander. Oppose Ford Rangers.
Why IS Chris Bishop sending people speeding into a “death trap”?
Many people died when the Ōtaki to Levin highway was 100kmh. When the Ardern Govt reduced it to 80kmh no-one died. When Luxon Govt increased it back to 100kmh, the dying restarted.
Many people died when the Ōtaki to Levin highway was 100kmh. When the Ardern Govt reduced it to 80kmh no-one died. When Luxon Govt increased it back to 100kmh, the dying restarted.
Why is Chris Bishop Sending People Speeding into a Death Trap? - Greenpeace Aotearoa
“It’s a death trap” said National Party Campaign Committee Chair and Transport Minister Chris Bishop, on September 23, 2025.
www.greenpeace.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Why IS Chris Bishop sending people speeding into a “death trap”?
Many people died when the Ōtaki to Levin highway was 100kmh. When the Ardern Govt reduced it to 80kmh no-one died. When Luxon Govt increased it back to 100kmh, the dying restarted.
Many people died when the Ōtaki to Levin highway was 100kmh. When the Ardern Govt reduced it to 80kmh no-one died. When Luxon Govt increased it back to 100kmh, the dying restarted.
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As the first day of #COP30 on the edge of the Amazon rainforest winds down, here are five things you should know for the next two weeks of climate talks >> act.gp/3Xm2sE1
COP30 in sight: 5 things you need to know about COPs - Greenpeace International
COP30 in Belém will be historic. Discover what COPs are, what they have achieved, why they matter, and why this year’s summit is critical for the Amazon and climate.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
As the first day of #COP30 on the edge of the Amazon rainforest winds down, here are five things you should know for the next two weeks of climate talks >> act.gp/3Xm2sE1
With Trump's recent announcement of a return to nuclear testing, nuclear madness is back on the table.
Here's how we restore sanity in a world of nuclear madness👇
(*Contains House of Dynamite spoilers.)
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Here's how we restore sanity in a world of nuclear madness👇
(*Contains House of Dynamite spoilers.)
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How we restore sanity in a world of nuclear madness - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers for A House of Dynamite
www.greenpeace.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
With Trump's recent announcement of a return to nuclear testing, nuclear madness is back on the table.
Here's how we restore sanity in a world of nuclear madness👇
(*Contains House of Dynamite spoilers.)
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Here's how we restore sanity in a world of nuclear madness👇
(*Contains House of Dynamite spoilers.)
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto... via @greenpeace.org.nz
Don’t let Luxon poison your porridge - The Government has stopped testing our food for glyphosate residues but it still refuses to prosecute agrichemical criminals.
Don’t let Luxon poison your porridge - Greenpeace Aotearoa
The Government has stopped testing our food for glyphosate residues but it still refuses to prosecute agrichemical criminals.
www.greenpeace.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Don’t let Luxon poison your porridge - The Government has stopped testing our food for glyphosate residues but it still refuses to prosecute agrichemical criminals.
“What this nation needs as we build bundles of big beautiful roads is not another round of hand-wringing, airy-fairy woke utopianism. We need a sensible, boots-on-the-deck approach to securing our energy future. And yes, harvesting the noble whale for its bountiful oil is the common-sense solution.🧵
November 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
“What this nation needs as we build bundles of big beautiful roads is not another round of hand-wringing, airy-fairy woke utopianism. We need a sensible, boots-on-the-deck approach to securing our energy future. And yes, harvesting the noble whale for its bountiful oil is the common-sense solution.🧵
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While #ElonMusk is celebrating that he might become the 1st ever trillionaire 🤯 we pay the price with rising heat, more floods & broken futures.
#TaxTheSuperRich is not just a matter of fairness, it's necessary for the planet’s survival.
#UNTC
#TaxTheSuperRich is not just a matter of fairness, it's necessary for the planet’s survival.
#UNTC
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
While #ElonMusk is celebrating that he might become the 1st ever trillionaire 🤯 we pay the price with rising heat, more floods & broken futures.
#TaxTheSuperRich is not just a matter of fairness, it's necessary for the planet’s survival.
#UNTC
#TaxTheSuperRich is not just a matter of fairness, it's necessary for the planet’s survival.
#UNTC
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Great news from Sweden!
Nestlé has dropped forestry giant SCA over its destruction of Sweden's old-growth forests & Indigenous rights violations.
This is a huge win for people and planet! 🌲🌳🌏
Nestlé has dropped forestry giant SCA over its destruction of Sweden's old-growth forests & Indigenous rights violations.
This is a huge win for people and planet! 🌲🌳🌏
Nestlé drops forest giant SCA as supplier over sustainability and indigenous rights concerns - Greenpeace Sweden
The world’s largest food and beverage company has “decided to cease sourcing virgin fibre from suppliers involved in controversy in Northern Sweden”.
www.greenpeace.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Great news from Sweden!
Nestlé has dropped forestry giant SCA over its destruction of Sweden's old-growth forests & Indigenous rights violations.
This is a huge win for people and planet! 🌲🌳🌏
Nestlé has dropped forestry giant SCA over its destruction of Sweden's old-growth forests & Indigenous rights violations.
This is a huge win for people and planet! 🌲🌳🌏
The X Effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
The X Effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right
For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The X Effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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It's not just an issue in the UK.
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How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
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November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It's not just an issue in the UK.
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There are a handful of corporates that stand to benefit from Commerce Minister Scott Simpson's unexpected call to dramatically loosen climate reporting requirements.
Some are political donors.
#nzpol
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Some are political donors.
#nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/g...
Govt answers fishing chief's billion dollar question on climate disclosures
There are just a handful of corporates that stand to benefit from Commerce Minister Scott Simpson's unexpected call to dramatically loosen climate reporting requirements; some are political donors. Jo...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
There are a handful of corporates that stand to benefit from Commerce Minister Scott Simpson's unexpected call to dramatically loosen climate reporting requirements.
Some are political donors.
#nzpol
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Some are political donors.
#nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/g...
How long will it be before some countries start banning X for its corrosive influence on democracy?
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
How long will it be before some countries start banning X for its corrosive influence on democracy?
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People power CAN win.
Zohran Mamdani didn’t win because he had the most money or the biggest platform. He won because communities organised.
The future being built will be diverse, inclusive and unstoppable – powered by people who refuse to give up!
Hope wins. Justice wins. People power wins.✊💚🌏
Zohran Mamdani didn’t win because he had the most money or the biggest platform. He won because communities organised.
The future being built will be diverse, inclusive and unstoppable – powered by people who refuse to give up!
Hope wins. Justice wins. People power wins.✊💚🌏
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
People power CAN win.
Zohran Mamdani didn’t win because he had the most money or the biggest platform. He won because communities organised.
The future being built will be diverse, inclusive and unstoppable – powered by people who refuse to give up!
Hope wins. Justice wins. People power wins.✊💚🌏
Zohran Mamdani didn’t win because he had the most money or the biggest platform. He won because communities organised.
The future being built will be diverse, inclusive and unstoppable – powered by people who refuse to give up!
Hope wins. Justice wins. People power wins.✊💚🌏
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100,000 people have already said it: no more fossil gas.
They’re calling on EU leaders to ban new fossil fuel projects and phase out gas by 2035.
Fossil gas = dependence on autocrats, high energy bills, climate chaos.
Become part of the movement!
👉 bit.ly/47F7Zue
#StopFossilGas
They’re calling on EU leaders to ban new fossil fuel projects and phase out gas by 2035.
Fossil gas = dependence on autocrats, high energy bills, climate chaos.
Become part of the movement!
👉 bit.ly/47F7Zue
#StopFossilGas
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
100,000 people have already said it: no more fossil gas.
They’re calling on EU leaders to ban new fossil fuel projects and phase out gas by 2035.
Fossil gas = dependence on autocrats, high energy bills, climate chaos.
Become part of the movement!
👉 bit.ly/47F7Zue
#StopFossilGas
They’re calling on EU leaders to ban new fossil fuel projects and phase out gas by 2035.
Fossil gas = dependence on autocrats, high energy bills, climate chaos.
Become part of the movement!
👉 bit.ly/47F7Zue
#StopFossilGas
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Judges keep BANNING climate activists from talking about the climate crisis in their evidence in court...
Because they know that juries find them NOT GUILTY when they explain the JUSTIFICATION for their protests
Because they know that juries find them NOT GUILTY when they explain the JUSTIFICATION for their protests
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Judges keep BANNING climate activists from talking about the climate crisis in their evidence in court...
Because they know that juries find them NOT GUILTY when they explain the JUSTIFICATION for their protests
Because they know that juries find them NOT GUILTY when they explain the JUSTIFICATION for their protests
For seven months the Greenpeace ships Arctic Sunrise and Witness were on a mission across Europe to expose the fossil gas trap and show that a renewables-powered future is already within reach👇
7 Months, 7 Countries, One Mission: Stop Fossil Gas - Greenpeace International
For seven months the Greenpeace ships Arctic Sunrise and Witness were on a mission across Europe to expose the fossil gas trap and show that a renewables-powered future is already within reach.
www.greenpeace.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
For seven months the Greenpeace ships Arctic Sunrise and Witness were on a mission across Europe to expose the fossil gas trap and show that a renewables-powered future is already within reach👇
Free water testing for nitrate contamination – next stop Southland, Canterbury
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#nzpol #toomanycows #waterislife
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#nzpol #toomanycows #waterislife
Free water testing for nitrate contamination - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Find free nitrate contamination water testing near you, or request Greenpeace's free mail-in water testing.
www.greenpeace.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Free water testing for nitrate contamination – next stop Southland, Canterbury
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#nzpol #toomanycows #waterislife
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#nzpol #toomanycows #waterislife
Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior arrives in Belém for COP30
#cop30 #climatechange
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#cop30 #climatechange
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Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior arrives in Belém for COP30 - Greenpeace International
Greenpeace’s iconic ship, the Rainbow Warrior, arrived in Belém, Pará, ahead of the United Nations Climate Conference COP30.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior arrives in Belém for COP30
#cop30 #climatechange
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#cop30 #climatechange
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PRESS RELEASE
The Fast-Track Amendment Bill which passed its first reading in parliament today is a savage escalation of the Luxon Government’s war on nature.
#nzpol
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The Fast-Track Amendment Bill which passed its first reading in parliament today is a savage escalation of the Luxon Government’s war on nature.
#nzpol
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Fast-Track Amendment Bill a Savage Escalation in Government’s War on Nature
The Fast-Track Amendment Bill passed its first reading in parliament today, prompting fierce condemnation from Greenpeace.
www.greenpeace.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
PRESS RELEASE
The Fast-Track Amendment Bill which passed its first reading in parliament today is a savage escalation of the Luxon Government’s war on nature.
#nzpol
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
The Fast-Track Amendment Bill which passed its first reading in parliament today is a savage escalation of the Luxon Government’s war on nature.
#nzpol
www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
The Luxon Government's surprise move to gut the Zero Carbon Act has upended six years of cross-partisan consensus on climate change.
They are unfit to govern in 2025.
#nzpol
They are unfit to govern in 2025.
#nzpol
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The Luxon Government's surprise move to gut the Zero Carbon Act has upended six years of cross-partisan consensus on climate change.
They are unfit to govern in 2025.
#nzpol
They are unfit to govern in 2025.
#nzpol
We stopped them raising the allowable glyphosate residue limit by 100 times, and now there’s this.
Sign the open letter calling on the NZ Government to restart glyphosate testing and ENFORCE the law:
action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/gly...
Sign the open letter calling on the NZ Government to restart glyphosate testing and ENFORCE the law:
action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/gly...
Start testing food for glyphosate - sign the open letter
The NZFS has not tested for glyphosate in our food since 2015. Sign the open letter now to get the NZFS to start testing and enforcing glyphosate limits.
action.greenpeace.org.nz
November 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
We stopped them raising the allowable glyphosate residue limit by 100 times, and now there’s this.
Sign the open letter calling on the NZ Government to restart glyphosate testing and ENFORCE the law:
action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/gly...
Sign the open letter calling on the NZ Government to restart glyphosate testing and ENFORCE the law:
action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/gly...
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Fossil fuels burned anywhere = climate chaos everywhere.
This is what climate injustice looks like.
via @greenpeaceafrica.org
This is what climate injustice looks like.
via @greenpeaceafrica.org
Kenya’s deadly landslides and rising waters reveal the true cost of climate injustice - Greenpeace Africa
Kenya is once again counting its losses in the wake of devastating climate-fuelled disasters. At least 32 people have died and dozens remain missing after a powerful landslide struck Elgeyo Marakwet C...
www.greenpeace.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Fossil fuels burned anywhere = climate chaos everywhere.
This is what climate injustice looks like.
via @greenpeaceafrica.org
This is what climate injustice looks like.
via @greenpeaceafrica.org
WATCH: Something in the Water - Something in the Water tells the story of people in Canterbury, NZ who are standing up for safe drinking water and swimmable rivers. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/vid...
WATCH: Something in the Water - Greenpeace Aotearoa
Something in the Water tells the story of people in Canterbury, NZ who are standing up for safe drinking water and swimmable rivers.
www.greenpeace.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
WATCH: Something in the Water - Something in the Water tells the story of people in Canterbury, NZ who are standing up for safe drinking water and swimmable rivers. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/vid...
Not enough known about seafloor to begin mining, Cook Islands government scientist says
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Not enough known about seafloor to begin mining, Cook Islands government scientist says
There is still not enough known about the seafloor to decide if deep sea mining can start in the Cook Islands, government scientist says.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Not enough known about seafloor to begin mining, Cook Islands government scientist says
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