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Pelle Berting
@pelleberting.bsky.social
Ecological Systems campaign area lead
@ Greenpeace | Views are my own

‘A culture is no better than its woods.’
De macht
Zomaar een stukje uit de Elsevier in 2004:
November 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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A new Global Justice Now report has found that nearly one-fifth of minerals labeled “critical” by the U.K. aren’t actually essential for the green energy transition, but are instead needed for the aerospace and weapons industries.
‘Clean energy is just one driver of mining’: Cleodie Rickard on critical minerals
For Cleodie Rickard, the policy and campaigns manager at Global Justice Now, the term “critical” minerals, commonly used to describe the metals vital for the green energy transition, can be…
news.mongabay.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The mainstream media has long participated in covering up the full scale of the Epstein story. The original cover-up was ignoring his sexual crimes. Those are now better reported. But by ignoring how integrated Epstein was with the American empire, these outlets are conducting another cover-up.
“Don’t forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals…. The true war is a celebration of markets.”

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It.
Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy.
www.thenation.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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PFAS-houdende gewasbeschermingsmiddelen zouden verboden moeten worden, vindt @vewin.bsky.social. Het risico daarvan voor het grondwater en drinkwater is te groot.🚫💧 #PFAS
Waterbedrijven willen PFAS-houdende gewasbeschermingsmiddelen verbieden
De Vereniging van waterbedrijven in Nederland (Vewin) pleit voor een verbod op PFAS-houdende gewasbeschermingsmiddelen. 'Deze stoffen horen niet thuis in het milieu.'
www.nieuweoogst.nl
November 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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The centre-right – the EPP – in the EU Parliament is about to vote with the far-right to dismantle rules making businesses check and report their supply chains for human rights abuses or environmental destruction

They will side with deeply illiberal politicians to boost company profits

#Omnibus
EU lawmakers to vote on unpicking green business rules
European lawmakers are expected on Thursday to back weakening a set of EU environmental and human rights rules, as part of a business-friendly push against red tape that has split parliament.
www.france24.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%.

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November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Just remembering that Dick Cheney secretly intervened in a dispute over the Klamath River in 2001--and caused the biggest fish die-off in US history, with ~77,000 fully grown adult salmon piled on the banks of the river.
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I gotcha
Contrast this with the response of a president who was an actual decent human being.
November 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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A reminder of what happened last time a UK govt tried to reduce bills by "cutting the green crap"

Analysis: Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £22bn to UK energy bills since 2015

www.carbonbrief.org/...
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests.

Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
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‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war
Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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“Al had Timmermans een zeehondenbaby uit een brandend asiel gered, dan nog had Sven Kockelmann argwanend zijn wenkbrauwen opgetrokken: 'Waarom heeft iedereen toch zo'n hekel aan u?'”
October 31, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Sterker nog, inmiddels kunnen we ook BBB wel tot het radicaalrechtse blok rekenen, en de VVD staat er ook met één teen, dan wel één been in. Het blok is gegroeid en het raam van Overton is een stuk naar rechts verschoven.
October 30, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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The narrative seems to be(come) that the Dutch election shows a “comeback of the political center”. We have seen this frame before, implying “the center” has an ideological substance and is stable. But “the center” keeps moving right on mostly nativist, but also often authoritarian, issues.
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Among the dead are 24 children as Israeli military says one of its soldiers killed.
Death toll from Israel’s attacks on Gaza rises to 63, testing fragile truce
Among the dead are 24 children as Israeli military says one of its soldiers killed.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Wilders neemt afstand van de PVV-pagina’s met AI-nepbeelden, nadat de Volkskrant meldde dat GroenLinks-PvdA aangifte doet tegen beheerders Maikel Boon en Patrick Crijns. De Groene wijst de PVV er al sinds december op dat zulke pagina’s vanuit de landelijke fractie worden beheerd.
PVV’ers maakten AI-nepbeelden van Timmermans, Wilders biedt excuses aan
Geert Wilders neemt afstand van de PVV-pagina’s met AI-nepbeelden, nadat de Volkskrant meldde dat GroenLinks-PvdA aangifte doet tegen beheerders Maikel Boon en Patrick Crijns. De Groene wijst de PVV…
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October 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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“Timmermans neemt geen genoegen met excuses Wilders: eist maatregelen tegen PVV-Kamerleden.”

www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/tim...
Timmermans neemt geen genoegen met excuses Wilders: eist maatregelen tegen PVV-Kamerleden
GroenLinks-PvdA-leider Frans Timmermans neemt geen genoegen met alleen excuses van PVV-leider Wilders voor de nepbeelden over hem die vanuit de PVV-fractie werden verspreid. Timmermans wil dat er maat...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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'...dat twee parlementsleden nepfoto's verspreiden van een collega, daarmee tientallen reacties gericht op diens dood uitlokken en die ook nog op de pagina laten staan, dat is volgens emeritus hoogleraar staatsrecht Paul Bovend'Eert een 'schandalig dieptepunt' in de parlementaire democratie.'
Twee PVV-Kamerleden vallen met nepbeelden anoniem Timmermans aan, GroenLinks-PvdA doet aangifte
Twee Kamerleden van de PVV plaatsten met AI gemaakte beelden van Frans Timmermans op een populaire Facebookpagina die ze heimelijk beheren. Tientallen doodswensen richting de politicus zijn het gevolg...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Geen gezond drinkwater voor het eigen volk! Sterf, paupers!
October 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Bewust de klimaatdoelen niet halen en vervolgens eens even gaan kijken of je met het overgebleven geld in het klimaatfonds de dwangsommen die de rechter je zal opleggen kan dekken. Het cynisme van dit kabinet is peilloos.
October 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Sometimes you do need to beat a dead horse
October 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Is dit VN-rapport door NLse media opgepakt? Kinda feels like a big deal zo net voor de verkiezingen.
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Cuts to social protection for people living in poverty have created “fertile ground” for far-right movements around the world, according to a United Nations report. https://cnn.it/3JlsNyN
October 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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The interviewer asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social if he's worried about splitting the left vote & whether the best way to beat the right is to vote Labour.

Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"
October 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM