Stephanie Carrick
@stephaniecarrick.bsky.social
Manager, Sydney Basin Koala Network. Wildlife Rescuer. Masters Climate Change at ANU. Former Manager and producer at ABC, triple j, SBS etc. Always thanks the bus driver.
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The Sydney surburban sprawl that’s a death zone for koalas
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I spoke to ABC News about our new research that shows around half of Campbelltown Council's last generation of disease free Koalas have been struck by vehicles. That’s 110 Koalas in the last 6 years.
Yet plans to cut off their corridors by NSW Gov persist.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Yet plans to cut off their corridors by NSW Gov persist.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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Both major parties are looking to push this Bill through Parliament in the next week, despite the fact that the Minister mislead the public about ICAC having reviewed the Bill (which ICAC has now confirmed it did not).
The Bill contains major corruption risks.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The Bill contains major corruption risks.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Minister urged to release advice amid concern overhaul of NSW housing laws may lead to coalmine approvals
Greens MP Sue Higginson says Icac confirmed to her it had not reviewed the bill, but had given general advice on some elements of it
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Both major parties are looking to push this Bill through Parliament in the next week, despite the fact that the Minister mislead the public about ICAC having reviewed the Bill (which ICAC has now confirmed it did not).
The Bill contains major corruption risks.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The Bill contains major corruption risks.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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There are 85 gas-fired power facilities in development globally to supply data centres & AI
The developers may talk green, about small nuclear reactors& renewables, but it's show
What's actually getting developed for AI is a huge surge of fossil fuel power stations
www.ft.com/content/0f61...
The developers may talk green, about small nuclear reactors& renewables, but it's show
What's actually getting developed for AI is a huge surge of fossil fuel power stations
www.ft.com/content/0f61...
Inside the AI race: can data centres ever truly be green?
Energy demand for training machines and running apps is driving a surge of investment into fossil fuels
www.ft.com
August 7, 2025 at 7:27 AM
There are 85 gas-fired power facilities in development globally to supply data centres & AI
The developers may talk green, about small nuclear reactors& renewables, but it's show
What's actually getting developed for AI is a huge surge of fossil fuel power stations
www.ft.com/content/0f61...
The developers may talk green, about small nuclear reactors& renewables, but it's show
What's actually getting developed for AI is a huge surge of fossil fuel power stations
www.ft.com/content/0f61...
Sitting on this truly shocking NSW State of the Environment report and doing basically nothing about it in the budget is insane. 1/3 Animals
June 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Sitting on this truly shocking NSW State of the Environment report and doing basically nothing about it in the budget is insane. 1/3 Animals
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It's great to see some thoughtful reflection in this op-ed on how wrong Americans were to largely ignore methane in climate action plans this century. I'd add:
- Groups that endorsed natural gas as a bridge fuel, such as Democrats and some big greens, share responsibility for methane pollution
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- Groups that endorsed natural gas as a bridge fuel, such as Democrats and some big greens, share responsibility for methane pollution
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Opinion | What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It's great to see some thoughtful reflection in this op-ed on how wrong Americans were to largely ignore methane in climate action plans this century. I'd add:
- Groups that endorsed natural gas as a bridge fuel, such as Democrats and some big greens, share responsibility for methane pollution
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- Groups that endorsed natural gas as a bridge fuel, such as Democrats and some big greens, share responsibility for methane pollution
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Just read a proposal for a housing development that argued by bulldozing critically endangered forest/koala habitat and instead planting non-native street trees they will be contributing to an increase in urban canopy targets. My god.
June 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Just read a proposal for a housing development that argued by bulldozing critically endangered forest/koala habitat and instead planting non-native street trees they will be contributing to an increase in urban canopy targets. My god.
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Every single young Australian would need to order 4,888 t-shirts from Temu each year (13 per day) to match Woodside's current emissions.
And to reach Woodside's maximum emissions estimates for the North West Shelf Extension? They would each need to order 214,571 t-shirts. #woodsideenergy
And to reach Woodside's maximum emissions estimates for the North West Shelf Extension? They would each need to order 214,571 t-shirts. #woodsideenergy
May 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Every single young Australian would need to order 4,888 t-shirts from Temu each year (13 per day) to match Woodside's current emissions.
And to reach Woodside's maximum emissions estimates for the North West Shelf Extension? They would each need to order 214,571 t-shirts. #woodsideenergy
And to reach Woodside's maximum emissions estimates for the North West Shelf Extension? They would each need to order 214,571 t-shirts. #woodsideenergy
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NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.
NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
May 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.
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A former magistrate and one of Australia’s most experienced scientists have launched an attack on the NSW government’s logging agency, describing it as effectively a “criminal organisation” that should be shut down after a string of court convictions.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW forestry agency should be shut down for repeatedly breaking law, critics argue
Forestry Corporation says suggestion that it can be compared to a criminal bikie gang is ‘ridiculous’
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
A former magistrate and one of Australia’s most experienced scientists have launched an attack on the NSW government’s logging agency, describing it as effectively a “criminal organisation” that should be shut down after a string of court convictions.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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In Franklin, the epicentre of the salmon industry, Independent Peter George achieved a swing of ~6% against Labor.
Mr George focused on fixing the salmon industry’s problems and – while he did not win the seat – he did win the vast majority of votes at booths adjacent to where the industry operates.
Mr George focused on fixing the salmon industry’s problems and – while he did not win the seat – he did win the vast majority of votes at booths adjacent to where the industry operates.
Election result shows the Tasmanian salmon industry is still on the nose - The Australia Institute
Labor and the Coalition went to the election with the same policy position on Tasmania's salmon industry: support at any cost.
australiainstitute.org.au
May 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
In Franklin, the epicentre of the salmon industry, Independent Peter George achieved a swing of ~6% against Labor.
Mr George focused on fixing the salmon industry’s problems and – while he did not win the seat – he did win the vast majority of votes at booths adjacent to where the industry operates.
Mr George focused on fixing the salmon industry’s problems and – while he did not win the seat – he did win the vast majority of votes at booths adjacent to where the industry operates.
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Easy to miss amidst the avalanche of bullshit, but scientists have shown conclusively that a handful of fossil fuel companies are responsible for trillions in damages for their contribution to heat waves alone. The great @roycerk2.bsky.social explains: drilled.media/news/heat-at...
“Numbers in the Trillions”: Fossil Fuel Producers on Hook for Climate Harms
New research suggests a way to link oil, gas and coal companies to specific climate harms.
drilled.media
May 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Easy to miss amidst the avalanche of bullshit, but scientists have shown conclusively that a handful of fossil fuel companies are responsible for trillions in damages for their contribution to heat waves alone. The great @roycerk2.bsky.social explains: drilled.media/news/heat-at...
Coming from Goldman Sachs banker. Yet when the Greens suggest it in Aus…
May 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Coming from Goldman Sachs banker. Yet when the Greens suggest it in Aus…
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We underestimate one another on climate change!
Such a brilliant important explainer from @dpcarrington.bsky.social on how we underestimate one another's willingness to address climate change and as a result we end up doing less.
Correcting this = more action!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Such a brilliant important explainer from @dpcarrington.bsky.social on how we underestimate one another's willingness to address climate change and as a result we end up doing less.
Correcting this = more action!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
April 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
We underestimate one another on climate change!
Such a brilliant important explainer from @dpcarrington.bsky.social on how we underestimate one another's willingness to address climate change and as a result we end up doing less.
Correcting this = more action!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Such a brilliant important explainer from @dpcarrington.bsky.social on how we underestimate one another's willingness to address climate change and as a result we end up doing less.
Correcting this = more action!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I spoke to ABC News about our new research that shows around half of Campbelltown Council's last generation of disease free Koalas have been struck by vehicles. That’s 110 Koalas in the last 6 years.
Yet plans to cut off their corridors by NSW Gov persist.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Yet plans to cut off their corridors by NSW Gov persist.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
The Sydney surburban sprawl that’s a death zone for koalas
Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.
www.abc.net.au
April 13, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I spoke to ABC News about our new research that shows around half of Campbelltown Council's last generation of disease free Koalas have been struck by vehicles. That’s 110 Koalas in the last 6 years.
Yet plans to cut off their corridors by NSW Gov persist.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Yet plans to cut off their corridors by NSW Gov persist.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
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“If a car generates more potholes in our roads, takes up more parking space and poses more danger to pedestrians, cyclists and other car occupants compared with smaller vehicles, then it is only fair that its owner pays more for driving that vehicle.”
Via @theguardian.com
Via @theguardian.com
The Observer view on SUVs: they are too dangerous and too big, their drivers should be made to pay
If a car generates more potholes, takes up more space and poses more risk, it is only fair that its owner pays more
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
“If a car generates more potholes in our roads, takes up more parking space and poses more danger to pedestrians, cyclists and other car occupants compared with smaller vehicles, then it is only fair that its owner pays more for driving that vehicle.”
Via @theguardian.com
Via @theguardian.com
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Heard Island and McDonald Islands have seen a dramatic warming since 1940. The penguins there have enough to deal with even without the 10% tariffs just imposed on them.
April 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Heard Island and McDonald Islands have seen a dramatic warming since 1940. The penguins there have enough to deal with even without the 10% tariffs just imposed on them.
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In short: „We couldn‘t save the world economy from being diminished by climate change because that would have hurt the economy.“
April 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
In short: „We couldn‘t save the world economy from being diminished by climate change because that would have hurt the economy.“
So our penguins got tarrifs and Russia didn’t?
April 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
So our penguins got tarrifs and Russia didn’t?
Koalas live where people like to live and/or extract resources. Their numbers plummet over time because of the significant impacts that often occur despite the developer promising they won’t (and because use offsets that don’t work). IMO Koalas are utterly stuffed by this law change.
The EPBC amendment will apply to any past decision (not just salmon farming), subject to a set of criteria
It'll remove the Minister's ability to revoke a past decision even if there's impt new info about the impacts of the action or circumstances not foreseen at the time of the original decision
It'll remove the Minister's ability to revoke a past decision even if there's impt new info about the impacts of the action or circumstances not foreseen at the time of the original decision
March 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Koalas live where people like to live and/or extract resources. Their numbers plummet over time because of the significant impacts that often occur despite the developer promising they won’t (and because use offsets that don’t work). IMO Koalas are utterly stuffed by this law change.
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Fun additional fact! Pandas in a zoo are getting 0.8 million more than a captive breeding program for Maugean skates ($3 million), with the latter being driven closer to extinction by the toxic Tasmanian salmon industry which Labor supports by taking an axe to the EPBC Act.
Australia has > 2000 threatened species & ecological communities, many get ~ zero direct conservation $.
"Adelaide Zoo's Giant Pandas Xing Qiu and Yi Lan will be millionaires thanks to a $3.8 million spend over five years to support their ongoing stay."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Labor, lol.
"Adelaide Zoo's Giant Pandas Xing Qiu and Yi Lan will be millionaires thanks to a $3.8 million spend over five years to support their ongoing stay."
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Labor, lol.
Find out if you're among the budget's winners or losers
The Albanese government has delivered its final budget ahead of an election in May, with a fresh new round of tax cuts the major offer. Find out who else is set to benefit and who may miss out.
www.abc.net.au
March 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Fun additional fact! Pandas in a zoo are getting 0.8 million more than a captive breeding program for Maugean skates ($3 million), with the latter being driven closer to extinction by the toxic Tasmanian salmon industry which Labor supports by taking an axe to the EPBC Act.
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I'm a researcher primarily in adaptation. We are not even adapted to where the climate is today.
If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming.
Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.
If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming.
Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.
I’m am adaptation scientist and here’s what I had to say about this—many years ago already.
March 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I'm a researcher primarily in adaptation. We are not even adapted to where the climate is today.
If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming.
Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.
If you think you can seawall your way through a 4°C planet, you are straight up dreaming.
Mitigation AND adaptation, or you end up with way more of option 3 for dealing with climate change: suffering.
So completely on brand for my neighbour, who bought an oversized SUV despite not having parking, therefore needing to mount the median strip to park it in our narrow street, to place a Liberal placard in his window.
March 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
So completely on brand for my neighbour, who bought an oversized SUV despite not having parking, therefore needing to mount the median strip to park it in our narrow street, to place a Liberal placard in his window.
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It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
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Instead of slowing down, human destruction of the natural world is accelerating, and biodiversity is now declining faster than at any time in human history.
The vast majority of us value nature. Why does that so rarely translate into policy, and effective action?
theconversation.com/with-just-5-...
The vast majority of us value nature. Why does that so rarely translate into policy, and effective action?
theconversation.com/with-just-5-...
With just 5 years to go, the world is failing on a vital deal to halt biodiversity loss
All countries must accelerate efforts to avert the biodiversity crisis, and preserve Earth’s precious natural places for future generations.
theconversation.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Instead of slowing down, human destruction of the natural world is accelerating, and biodiversity is now declining faster than at any time in human history.
The vast majority of us value nature. Why does that so rarely translate into policy, and effective action?
theconversation.com/with-just-5-...
The vast majority of us value nature. Why does that so rarely translate into policy, and effective action?
theconversation.com/with-just-5-...