J Cooper 🌏🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🧶🚲🐠🏄
@jccooper.bsky.social
Materials and Transitions Engineer and Zoologist. Green Steel via Sodium Direct Reduction and Biographite from woodwaste. Lifelong Greenie, climate change activist and enthusiastic wingfoiler. She/her. Tangata tiriti.
www.1news.co.nz/2024/11/22/w...
The steel industry is planning to decarbonize making coking coal mostly redundant. Miners should take this into account when planning ahead but it seems they are not.
The steel industry is planning to decarbonize making coking coal mostly redundant. Miners should take this into account when planning ahead but it seems they are not.
West Coast coal miner outlines plans under fast-track proposal
The company is applying for consents that would allow it to keep mining coal for a further 25 years.
www.1news.co.nz
November 22, 2024 at 9:33 PM
www.1news.co.nz/2024/11/22/w...
The steel industry is planning to decarbonize making coking coal mostly redundant. Miners should take this into account when planning ahead but it seems they are not.
The steel industry is planning to decarbonize making coking coal mostly redundant. Miners should take this into account when planning ahead but it seems they are not.
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I know there are some very sound criticisms of the RMA and the consenting process.
But this just looks like our environmental protections have been thrown on a bonfire, by, and for the benefit of, a bunch of clowns.
But this just looks like our environmental protections have been thrown on a bonfire, by, and for the benefit of, a bunch of clowns.
Billion-dollar backtrack by fast-tracked seabed mine
One contentious fast-track project claimed it would generate $1 billion a year for NZ, as it emerges applications weren't fact-checked
newsroom.co.nz
October 12, 2024 at 1:07 AM
I know there are some very sound criticisms of the RMA and the consenting process.
But this just looks like our environmental protections have been thrown on a bonfire, by, and for the benefit of, a bunch of clowns.
But this just looks like our environmental protections have been thrown on a bonfire, by, and for the benefit of, a bunch of clowns.
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If she is not stood down and investigated, the public can assume the dishonesty is endorsed.
Revealed: Politically charged tobacco policy document that NZ First Minister Casey Costello tried to hide www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
Revealed: Politically charged tobacco policy document that NZ First Minister Casey Costello tried to hide www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
Revealed: Politically charged tobacco policy document that NZ First Minister Casey Costello tried to hide
Casey Costello now says she does not know who wrote, or even how she got, a document about tobacco policy she sent to health officials.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 25, 2024 at 6:42 PM
If she is not stood down and investigated, the public can assume the dishonesty is endorsed.
Revealed: Politically charged tobacco policy document that NZ First Minister Casey Costello tried to hide www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
Revealed: Politically charged tobacco policy document that NZ First Minister Casey Costello tried to hide www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
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One feather from an extinct bird sells for $46,000. Shame we don’t value the birds and their habitat so highly BEFORE they go extinct. My Sunday Star Times #cartoon today #nzpol #FastTrack
May 26, 2024 at 7:42 AM
One feather from an extinct bird sells for $46,000. Shame we don’t value the birds and their habitat so highly BEFORE they go extinct. My Sunday Star Times #cartoon today #nzpol #FastTrack
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I really enjoy the science and climate community here and I would love for it to grow. If you’re still on X, why not use it to invite people to come over here? I do, every week!
RT if you agree 😁
RT if you agree 😁
May 18, 2024 at 12:06 PM
I really enjoy the science and climate community here and I would love for it to grow. If you’re still on X, why not use it to invite people to come over here? I do, every week!
RT if you agree 😁
RT if you agree 😁
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The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists have included a session by the President of the anti-trans lobby group SEGM.
Petition attached. 🚨
transjustice.org.au/ranzcp/
Petition attached. 🚨
transjustice.org.au/ranzcp/
The anti-trans lobby have no place at a health conference
Tell RANZCP: Anti-trans lobbyists have no place at a health conference.
Trans people
transjustice.org.au
May 13, 2024 at 3:11 AM
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists have included a session by the President of the anti-trans lobby group SEGM.
Petition attached. 🚨
transjustice.org.au/ranzcp/
Petition attached. 🚨
transjustice.org.au/ranzcp/
"There's something wrong with our brains".
UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2024 at 7:24 PM
"There's something wrong with our brains".
UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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“Coalition's talk of fiscal mess, its funding freezes & state sector job cuts have reversed an initial revival in business and consumer confidence, extending & deepening 2023's recession into 2024”
Luxon & co, quelle surprise, not so great at economic management after all. #NZpol
Luxon & co, quelle surprise, not so great at economic management after all. #NZpol
Coalition's dirge of austerity and uncertainty is driving the economy into a deeper recession
Coalition's talk of fiscal mess, its funding freezes & state sector job cuts have reversed an initial revival in business and consumer confidence, extending & deepening 2023's recession into 2024
thekaka.substack.com
April 28, 2024 at 9:30 PM
“Coalition's talk of fiscal mess, its funding freezes & state sector job cuts have reversed an initial revival in business and consumer confidence, extending & deepening 2023's recession into 2024”
Luxon & co, quelle surprise, not so great at economic management after all. #NZpol
Luxon & co, quelle surprise, not so great at economic management after all. #NZpol
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A day after Stuff had to publish a note of a media council decision against it in relation to a Damien Grant column containing "significant factual inaccuracy" on the Israeli occupation of the West Bank they publish his views on trans healthcare.
Presume the same attention to facts on this topic.
Presume the same attention to facts on this topic.
Know nothing about a subject but willing to write about it, that’s Damien Grant on gender affirming healthcare. It’s disappointing that Stuff sees misinfo as just an opinion when in reality Stuff are contributing to making the world unsafe for trans youth. #kikorangi
April 27, 2024 at 10:17 PM
A day after Stuff had to publish a note of a media council decision against it in relation to a Damien Grant column containing "significant factual inaccuracy" on the Israeli occupation of the West Bank they publish his views on trans healthcare.
Presume the same attention to facts on this topic.
Presume the same attention to facts on this topic.
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Know nothing about a subject but willing to write about it, that’s Damien Grant on gender affirming healthcare. It’s disappointing that Stuff sees misinfo as just an opinion when in reality Stuff are contributing to making the world unsafe for trans youth. #kikorangi
April 27, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Know nothing about a subject but willing to write about it, that’s Damien Grant on gender affirming healthcare. It’s disappointing that Stuff sees misinfo as just an opinion when in reality Stuff are contributing to making the world unsafe for trans youth. #kikorangi
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My cartoon in today's: www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3502...
The fast track bill...
Here in Aotearoa New Zealand the collation government are hellbent on destroying the environment for big business.
#FastTrackBill #NzPol #EditorialCartoon
The fast track bill...
Here in Aotearoa New Zealand the collation government are hellbent on destroying the environment for big business.
#FastTrackBill #NzPol #EditorialCartoon
April 22, 2024 at 5:45 PM
My cartoon in today's: www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3502...
The fast track bill...
Here in Aotearoa New Zealand the collation government are hellbent on destroying the environment for big business.
#FastTrackBill #NzPol #EditorialCartoon
The fast track bill...
Here in Aotearoa New Zealand the collation government are hellbent on destroying the environment for big business.
#FastTrackBill #NzPol #EditorialCartoon
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Environmentalists warn companies against reputational risk of opting for fast-track consenting www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... #nzpol #waronnature #stopthreeministers
Environmentalists warn companies against fast-track consenting
Environmentalists are warning companies against going through the proposed fast-track consenting process because of potential reputational damage. Environmental Defence Society chief executive Gary Ta...
www.rnz.co.nz
April 21, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Environmentalists warn companies against reputational risk of opting for fast-track consenting www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... #nzpol #waronnature #stopthreeministers
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That this could just happen, that three unprincipled dudes can just decide seabed mining and god knows what else is fine and they don't have to care what other law says or we think, makes me sick.
Secrecy shrouds 'fast track' projects as submissions close
www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
Secrecy shrouds 'fast track' projects as submissions close
www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
Secrecy shrouds 'fast track' projects as submissions close
Not even the MPs supposed to be scrutinising the Fast Track Bill are allowed to know which projects could bypass rules.
www.rnz.co.nz
April 15, 2024 at 6:52 PM
That this could just happen, that three unprincipled dudes can just decide seabed mining and god knows what else is fine and they don't have to care what other law says or we think, makes me sick.
Secrecy shrouds 'fast track' projects as submissions close
www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
Secrecy shrouds 'fast track' projects as submissions close
www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
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BREAKING
New data from cameras on boats reveals massive under-reporting of dolphin and seabird killing by the fishing industry: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350...
They cannot be trusted.
We now need cameras on ALL their boats and the data managed independently.
#nzpol #NZOverFishing
New data from cameras on boats reveals massive under-reporting of dolphin and seabird killing by the fishing industry: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350...
They cannot be trusted.
We now need cameras on ALL their boats and the data managed independently.
#nzpol #NZOverFishing
April 13, 2024 at 6:58 PM
BREAKING
New data from cameras on boats reveals massive under-reporting of dolphin and seabird killing by the fishing industry: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350...
They cannot be trusted.
We now need cameras on ALL their boats and the data managed independently.
#nzpol #NZOverFishing
New data from cameras on boats reveals massive under-reporting of dolphin and seabird killing by the fishing industry: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350...
They cannot be trusted.
We now need cameras on ALL their boats and the data managed independently.
#nzpol #NZOverFishing
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A new report is setting the stage for the future of trans healthcare in the U.K.—and it could spell bad news
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
xtramagazine.com/health/trans...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
xtramagazine.com/health/trans...
Here’s why the ‘Cass Review’ matters—even if you aren’t in the U.K. | Xtra Magazine
ANALYSIS: A new report is setting the stage for the future of trans healthcare in the U.K.—and it could spell bad news
xtramagazine.com
April 13, 2024 at 7:44 AM
A new report is setting the stage for the future of trans healthcare in the U.K.—and it could spell bad news
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
xtramagazine.com/health/trans...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
xtramagazine.com/health/trans...
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The Greens make the threat explicit: companies who get fast-track "consents" should expect to have them reviewed when the government changes www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA24...
A Warning For Those Looking To Fast-track The Climate Crisis
“The Green Party is steadfast in its opposition to this legislation and its stance towards those looking to use it to fast track the degradation of our environment.
www.scoop.co.nz
April 4, 2024 at 9:17 AM
The Greens make the threat explicit: companies who get fast-track "consents" should expect to have them reviewed when the government changes www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA24...
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This is horrendous. Please sign.
Girls mutilated for life
This country could become the first to go BACKWARDS on girls’ safety
secure.avaaz.org
March 30, 2024 at 6:39 PM
This is horrendous. Please sign.
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OMG this is so good!
The adventures of the Unscrupulous Seymour! The greatest distraction in politics!
March 29, 2024 at 6:53 AM
OMG this is so good!
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Incredible post from the best writer on Boeing that we've got. The level of willful negligence from executives on something that carries human beings through the sky is astonishing and should be a crime. Sorry I forgot to make a joke. prospect.org/infrastructu...
Suicide Mission
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
prospect.org
March 28, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Incredible post from the best writer on Boeing that we've got. The level of willful negligence from executives on something that carries human beings through the sky is astonishing and should be a crime. Sorry I forgot to make a joke. prospect.org/infrastructu...
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#NZpol Science / Keremadecs reserve
Fisheries Minister Shane Jones: "We're not going to have the Kermadecs commandeered by a whole lot of test tube-watching white coat scientists"
Nasty play on a stereotype common in posed stock library photographs. Often with fake brightly-coloured liquids, etc 😞
Fisheries Minister Shane Jones: "We're not going to have the Kermadecs commandeered by a whole lot of test tube-watching white coat scientists"
Nasty play on a stereotype common in posed stock library photographs. Often with fake brightly-coloured liquids, etc 😞
March 28, 2024 at 7:40 AM
#NZpol Science / Keremadecs reserve
Fisheries Minister Shane Jones: "We're not going to have the Kermadecs commandeered by a whole lot of test tube-watching white coat scientists"
Nasty play on a stereotype common in posed stock library photographs. Often with fake brightly-coloured liquids, etc 😞
Fisheries Minister Shane Jones: "We're not going to have the Kermadecs commandeered by a whole lot of test tube-watching white coat scientists"
Nasty play on a stereotype common in posed stock library photographs. Often with fake brightly-coloured liquids, etc 😞
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This is really good on climate communication.
What I'd add is that we need to take care with what we call "doomism". There's a danger that anyone who isn't relentlessly positive about the future gets shut down for being a doomer. That won't help either.
What I'd add is that we need to take care with what we call "doomism". There's a danger that anyone who isn't relentlessly positive about the future gets shut down for being a doomer. That won't help either.
How to talk about climate change and the problem with doomerism
Should we be yelling that the sky is falling at every chance? Or might that paralyze us into inaction, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy?
www.resilience.org
March 20, 2024 at 6:24 PM
This is really good on climate communication.
What I'd add is that we need to take care with what we call "doomism". There's a danger that anyone who isn't relentlessly positive about the future gets shut down for being a doomer. That won't help either.
What I'd add is that we need to take care with what we call "doomism". There's a danger that anyone who isn't relentlessly positive about the future gets shut down for being a doomer. That won't help either.