Christopher Wright
@chriswrightau.bsky.social
Professor University of Sydney. Author of Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations (2015) & Organising Responses to Climate Change (2022)
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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In these dark times we must take joy wherever we find it, and I delight in every picture of how hideous Trump has made his White House look. No part of the decoration has been made to fit with any other. It’s a parody of elitism: witless, crude, clumsy, jarring, cheap, ugly, pathetic. It’s so him
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
In these dark times we must take joy wherever we find it, and I delight in every picture of how hideous Trump has made his White House look. No part of the decoration has been made to fit with any other. It’s a parody of elitism: witless, crude, clumsy, jarring, cheap, ugly, pathetic. It’s so him
Creative self-destruction "How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Creative self-destruction "How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @mluckovichajc)
(From @mluckovichajc)
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM
CARTOON OF THE DAY
(From @mluckovichajc)
(From @mluckovichajc)
Excellent article in the academic journal “Organization” on Israel’s continuing Gaza genocide, Western government complicity and the broader links to colonial and capitalist expansion: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Facing the facts of the Gaza genocide: Refusing complicity, organizing solidarity - Nidhi Srinivas, Devi Vijay, Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar, Yuliya Shymko, Steffen Böhm, Koen Van Laer, Fahreen Alamgir, Ism...
As a collective, Organization has a strong commitment to exposing and challenging domination and oppression, to amplifying scholarly activism, and to standing i...
journals.sagepub.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Excellent article in the academic journal “Organization” on Israel’s continuing Gaza genocide, Western government complicity and the broader links to colonial and capitalist expansion: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Forget the Coalition, Labor has already abandoned net zero in all but name (and its excuses are absurd) www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/06/n...
Forget the Coalition, Labor has already abandoned net zero in all but name (and its excuses are absurd)
A speech from one Labor MP, both fantastical and technologically absurd, illuminates the government's terrifying approach to climate change.
www.crikey.com.au
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Forget the Coalition, Labor has already abandoned net zero in all but name (and its excuses are absurd) www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/06/n...
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WTF, Australian National University⁉️ WTAF⁉️
As alumna, this is incredibly disappointing and revolting
As alumna, this is incredibly disappointing and revolting
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
WTF, Australian National University⁉️ WTAF⁉️
As alumna, this is incredibly disappointing and revolting
As alumna, this is incredibly disappointing and revolting
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The planet isn’t “greening.” It’s photosynthetically busier but biologically poorer—more leaves, fewer living systems.
New mini-essay with images: The Illusion of Greening ⤵︎
open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...
New mini-essay with images: The Illusion of Greening ⤵︎
open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...
The Illusion of Greening
From orbit the planet looks healthier than ever: more green on the maps, more leaf area in the models.
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The planet isn’t “greening.” It’s photosynthetically busier but biologically poorer—more leaves, fewer living systems.
New mini-essay with images: The Illusion of Greening ⤵︎
open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...
New mini-essay with images: The Illusion of Greening ⤵︎
open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...
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Fascism is back. Hoods and all...
It’s clear who the aggressors are. Keep remaining nonviolent, and record EVERYTHING. All of these masked ICE thugs will be held accountable.
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Fascism is back. Hoods and all...
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Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 4, 2025 ~ Fast times!
"Glaciologists recorded a five-mile retreat in just two months on the Hektoria Glacier on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, a rate nearly 10 times faster than previously measured for a grounded glacier..."
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
"Glaciologists recorded a five-mile retreat in just two months on the Hektoria Glacier on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, a rate nearly 10 times faster than previously measured for a grounded glacier..."
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
Antarctic glacier retreating at rate 10 times faster than previously measured: Study
An Antarctic glacier has experienced a rapid retreat 10 times faster than previously measured, according to new research.
abcnews.go.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 4, 2025 ~ Fast times!
"Glaciologists recorded a five-mile retreat in just two months on the Hektoria Glacier on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, a rate nearly 10 times faster than previously measured for a grounded glacier..."
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
"Glaciologists recorded a five-mile retreat in just two months on the Hektoria Glacier on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, a rate nearly 10 times faster than previously measured for a grounded glacier..."
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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Still can't wrap my head around the fact that internationally renowned activist Greta Thunberg said she was tortured and sexually humiliated by Israeli soldiers when she was abducted for trying to bring aid to starving civilians and the world just shrugged and moved on.
November 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Still can't wrap my head around the fact that internationally renowned activist Greta Thunberg said she was tortured and sexually humiliated by Israeli soldiers when she was abducted for trying to bring aid to starving civilians and the world just shrugged and moved on.
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"Prince William’s prestigious climate prize hired a Brazilian public relations firm that was also under contract to the country’s state oil company Petrobras, which is facing criticism for its plans to drill in the Amazon basin"
@tjjordan.bsky.social in @desmog.com >
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/r...
@tjjordan.bsky.social in @desmog.com >
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/r...
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"Prince William’s prestigious climate prize hired a Brazilian public relations firm that was also under contract to the country’s state oil company Petrobras, which is facing criticism for its plans to drill in the Amazon basin"
@tjjordan.bsky.social in @desmog.com >
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/r...
@tjjordan.bsky.social in @desmog.com >
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/r...
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'[t]he present-day fetishism of numbers in higher education is neither rational nor practical. Neither does it ensure fairness and accuracy. Instead, it stems from and fosters delusion, deception, inequity and irrationality, vanity and greed' (F. Wood)
www.prometheusjournal.co.uk/prometheus/t...
www.prometheusjournal.co.uk/prometheus/t...
The cult of the quantifiable: the fetishism of numbers in higher education – Prometheus
www.prometheusjournal.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
'[t]he present-day fetishism of numbers in higher education is neither rational nor practical. Neither does it ensure fairness and accuracy. Instead, it stems from and fosters delusion, deception, inequity and irrationality, vanity and greed' (F. Wood)
www.prometheusjournal.co.uk/prometheus/t...
www.prometheusjournal.co.uk/prometheus/t...
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The Teals aren't the solution. They're LNP with a shred more social/ environmental conscience. Take seats from hardline LNP, sure. Actual evidence-based policy not informed by neoliberal/ free market ideology... no. Given how neoliberalism slowly alides us to fascism, they're not a solution
November 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The Teals aren't the solution. They're LNP with a shred more social/ environmental conscience. Take seats from hardline LNP, sure. Actual evidence-based policy not informed by neoliberal/ free market ideology... no. Given how neoliberalism slowly alides us to fascism, they're not a solution
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What he said: 💯 🎯
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What he said: 💯 🎯
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"We’re shell-shocked not only by the brutality of what we’ve seen, but by the refusal of our elected officials to do something — anything — meaningful to try to stop it." #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
What Israel's genocide has laid bare
Two years into an ongoing genocide — recognised as such by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights, Doc...
johnmenadue.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"We’re shell-shocked not only by the brutality of what we’ve seen, but by the refusal of our elected officials to do something — anything — meaningful to try to stop it." #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
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I better understand the Reign of Terror now.
Dancers at Trump’s Halloween party as people begin losing food stamps under his administration
November 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I better understand the Reign of Terror now.
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They do seem to have gotten over their dislike and hatred of masks though.
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
They do seem to have gotten over their dislike and hatred of masks though.
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I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
November 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
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Federal immigration officers are using chemical irritants to disperse protesters in ways that violate American policing norms and test the boundaries of use-of-force laws, video footage from Chicago shows.
ICE and Border Patrol’s use of tear gas injures, sickens and tests the law
Federal immigration agents say chemical agents are needed to disperse violent protesters. But videos also show them firing at people in aggressive and ‘unorthodox’ ways.
wapo.st
November 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Federal immigration officers are using chemical irritants to disperse protesters in ways that violate American policing norms and test the boundaries of use-of-force laws, video footage from Chicago shows.
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Take out the data centre, and use the electricity to heat three hospitals instead
Greedy industries offer scraps of their own waste to underfunded and undervalued public services all the time, as a way of greenwashing their public image. You don't have to accept it.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Greedy industries offer scraps of their own waste to underfunded and undervalued public services all the time, as a way of greenwashing their public image. You don't have to accept it.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Take out the data centre, and use the electricity to heat three hospitals instead
Greedy industries offer scraps of their own waste to underfunded and undervalued public services all the time, as a way of greenwashing their public image. You don't have to accept it.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Greedy industries offer scraps of their own waste to underfunded and undervalued public services all the time, as a way of greenwashing their public image. You don't have to accept it.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet
Bill Gates softens 'Climate Disaster' approach, says too many resources are going to fight the problem
Bill Gates softens 'Climate Disaster' approach, says too many resources are going to fight the problem
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says countries and leaders need to shift their approach to climate change and focus on 'improving lives'
cnb.cx
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet
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“Modern right-wing rhetoric is essentially the same as Hitler’s 1925 rhetoric”
@alonso-gd.bsky.social writes about fascist takeover of the global right and how it’s basically just a rebranding of Hitler’s ‘superior race’ argument.
zeteo.com/p/the-right-...
@alonso-gd.bsky.social writes about fascist takeover of the global right and how it’s basically just a rebranding of Hitler’s ‘superior race’ argument.
zeteo.com/p/the-right-...
October 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“Modern right-wing rhetoric is essentially the same as Hitler’s 1925 rhetoric”
@alonso-gd.bsky.social writes about fascist takeover of the global right and how it’s basically just a rebranding of Hitler’s ‘superior race’ argument.
zeteo.com/p/the-right-...
@alonso-gd.bsky.social writes about fascist takeover of the global right and how it’s basically just a rebranding of Hitler’s ‘superior race’ argument.
zeteo.com/p/the-right-...
And the stupidity continues as Australian conservatives double-down on climate denial: "‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Coalition MPs weighing net zero given sceptical briefing on climate science": www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Coalition MPs weighing net zero given sceptical briefing on climate science
Exclusive: Briefing by conservative thinktank Centre for Independent Studies was arranged by a Coalition backbench committee
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
And the stupidity continues as Australian conservatives double-down on climate denial: "‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Coalition MPs weighing net zero given sceptical briefing on climate science": www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...