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My 3 climate home truths: 1) The climate damage from fossil fuels is permanent. 2) without an explicit plan by govts to quickly end fossil fuel use we’re losing the human friendly climate. 3) Without subsidies and a free pass on climate damage the fossil carbon corps assets are stranded. Because 1/2
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"The PM’s fervent wish for Labor to be the 'natural party of government' is ultimately a conservative wet dream that takes our eyes off the prize while providing space for the far right to gather and set the agenda." @timdunlop.bsky.social
Albo must go. #auspol
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Albo must go. #auspol
tdunlop.substack.com/p/save-the-l...
Save the Labor Party save the country
It's time for Albanese to go
tdunlop.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"The PM’s fervent wish for Labor to be the 'natural party of government' is ultimately a conservative wet dream that takes our eyes off the prize while providing space for the far right to gather and set the agenda." @timdunlop.bsky.social
Albo must go. #auspol
tdunlop.substack.com/p/save-the-l...
Albo must go. #auspol
tdunlop.substack.com/p/save-the-l...
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I know y'all know the answer to that Q but if you want a nicely written and well-informed summary of some of the big factors from a bunch of nice experts, this from 2021 is unfortunately pretty timeless
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?
Despite three decades of political efforts and a wealth of research on the causes and catastrophic impacts of climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise and are 60% higher ...
www.annualreviews.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I know y'all know the answer to that Q but if you want a nicely written and well-informed summary of some of the big factors from a bunch of nice experts, this from 2021 is unfortunately pretty timeless
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Obviously be careful of reposting this if you work for the ABC
Israel’s genocide against Palestinians 'not over' despite ceasefire - new Amnesty briefing
Conditions for Palestinians in Gaza show no significant change, with no clear evidence to indicate that Israel’s intent has changed
www.amnesty.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Obviously be careful of reposting this if you work for the ABC
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"Stardust solutions" is a huge Israeli-US company (with massive investment from techno-fascist silicon valley funds) that seems to be frantically racing to deploy geoengineering for profit
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
November 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"Stardust solutions" is a huge Israeli-US company (with massive investment from techno-fascist silicon valley funds) that seems to be frantically racing to deploy geoengineering for profit
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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In the hubbub over EPBC laws, news of Santos making its biggest ever gas fracking play in the Beetaloo basin has flown under the radar
One to watch as @kirstyhowey.bsky.social notes that "not a single NT fracking project has been referred or assessed under federal environment laws, ever"
One to watch as @kirstyhowey.bsky.social notes that "not a single NT fracking project has been referred or assessed under federal environment laws, ever"
Fear Santos gas plan may start fracking rush that poses ‘major risk’ to NT water supply
Fossil fuel company plans to expand exploration in Beetaloo basin
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
In the hubbub over EPBC laws, news of Santos making its biggest ever gas fracking play in the Beetaloo basin has flown under the radar
One to watch as @kirstyhowey.bsky.social notes that "not a single NT fracking project has been referred or assessed under federal environment laws, ever"
One to watch as @kirstyhowey.bsky.social notes that "not a single NT fracking project has been referred or assessed under federal environment laws, ever"
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The Age editing out Kerry O'Brien's references to Palestinian journalists.
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Antoun Issa (@antounissa)
The Age published Kerry O’Brien’s speech at the Walkleys - except they edited out the part where he lauded the bravery of Palestinian journalists and dropped the ‘g’ word.
First screengrab is The Age...
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November 29, 2025 at 7:06 AM
The Age editing out Kerry O'Brien's references to Palestinian journalists.
substack.com/@antounissa/...
substack.com/@antounissa/...
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for a recently set-up ENGO, the offsets-cheerleading ABCF certainly got their seat at the table pretty rapidly..
(and lo & behold, the prohibition on using biodiversity certificates from the Nature Repair Market as offsets has been overturned in the EPBC package despite the deal struck in Dec 2023)
(and lo & behold, the prohibition on using biodiversity certificates from the Nature Repair Market as offsets has been overturned in the EPBC package despite the deal struck in Dec 2023)
I think these players all understand perfectly well, the charade they are participating in...
#EPBC #EnvironmentalLaw #EnvironmentPolicy #ClimatePolicy #Carbon #Biodiversity #Markets #Offsets #Credits
#EPBC #EnvironmentalLaw #EnvironmentPolicy #ClimatePolicy #Carbon #Biodiversity #Markets #Offsets #Credits
November 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
for a recently set-up ENGO, the offsets-cheerleading ABCF certainly got their seat at the table pretty rapidly..
(and lo & behold, the prohibition on using biodiversity certificates from the Nature Repair Market as offsets has been overturned in the EPBC package despite the deal struck in Dec 2023)
(and lo & behold, the prohibition on using biodiversity certificates from the Nature Repair Market as offsets has been overturned in the EPBC package despite the deal struck in Dec 2023)
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🚨Nine Jewish groups are urging the Government to reject Jillian Segal's "Antisemitism Report", saying it's an attack on Australia's "democracy" and "freedoms" – benefitting the state of Israel.
Segal must be given zero powers, they warn. Explosive...
theklaxon.com.au/22ti
Segal must be given zero powers, they warn. Explosive...
theklaxon.com.au/22ti
Segal “threatening Australia’s freedoms and democracy”, Jewish groups warn - The Klaxon
A group of Jewish organisations has labelled Envoy Jillian Segal's "Antisemitism Report" an attack on Australia's “democracy” and “freedoms”, and say it must be rejected.
theklaxon.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
🚨Nine Jewish groups are urging the Government to reject Jillian Segal's "Antisemitism Report", saying it's an attack on Australia's "democracy" and "freedoms" – benefitting the state of Israel.
Segal must be given zero powers, they warn. Explosive...
theklaxon.com.au/22ti
Segal must be given zero powers, they warn. Explosive...
theklaxon.com.au/22ti
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"This week’s amendments acknowledge that the state of the natural world is foundational. That without its rebuilding, future economic & social progress cannot be secured."
If only, Ken Henry.
Labor blocked a climate trigger, and see fossil fuels as foundational.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If only, Ken Henry.
Labor blocked a climate trigger, and see fossil fuels as foundational.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Australia finally acknowledges environment underpins all else. That’s no small thing | Ken Henry
In what are dangerous times for democracies around the world, parliament’s overhaul of nature laws in the EPBC Act shows ambitious reform remains possible
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"This week’s amendments acknowledge that the state of the natural world is foundational. That without its rebuilding, future economic & social progress cannot be secured."
If only, Ken Henry.
Labor blocked a climate trigger, and see fossil fuels as foundational.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If only, Ken Henry.
Labor blocked a climate trigger, and see fossil fuels as foundational.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
Your false hope is the enemy’s greatest weapon; your grounded hope is their greatest threat.
November 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Your false hope is the enemy’s greatest weapon; your grounded hope is their greatest threat.
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David Tyler:
“This isn’t lobbying. This is when you own the people making the decisions, fund their campaigns, write their talking points, and guarantee their post-political income. This is systematic institutional capture (by mining industry), and both parties are wholly compromised.”
“This isn’t lobbying. This is when you own the people making the decisions, fund their campaigns, write their talking points, and guarantee their post-political income. This is systematic institutional capture (by mining industry), and both parties are wholly compromised.”
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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It's called 'appearing to do something while keeping all the back channels wide open.' At the end of next year what is the bet that there will be a record number of approvals for new mining and gas projects? Let's start a sweep now.
November 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
It's called 'appearing to do something while keeping all the back channels wide open.' At the end of next year what is the bet that there will be a record number of approvals for new mining and gas projects? Let's start a sweep now.
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Btw this is the core of the con here. The elaborate codification creates the illusion that decisions are ultimately bureaucratic. So a minister can say “all the rules have been met for this [insert ecocidal project] development so my hands are tied” when the final discretion was always the govt’s.
November 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Btw this is the core of the con here. The elaborate codification creates the illusion that decisions are ultimately bureaucratic. So a minister can say “all the rules have been met for this [insert ecocidal project] development so my hands are tied” when the final discretion was always the govt’s.
All these galaxy 🧠 observer takes re why we’re in the 💩 ignore the fact that an uncountered multibillion $ disinformation project is deployed to hide the truth. If it was really so hard to get people to see harsh realities and support policies to deal with them this wouldn’t be the case.
False beliefs and conspiracy theories persist because they offer emotional safety when reality feels unbearable. Evidence alone can’t compete with equilibrium, writes John Frew.
#Psychology #Politics #Truth #Belief #Misinformation #Climate
#Psychology #Politics #Truth #Belief #Misinformation #Climate
Why false beliefs feel safer than the truth
People clinging to falsehoods is not a failure of intelligence, but a deeply human attempt to protect emotional stability in an overwhelming world.
johnmenadue.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
All these galaxy 🧠 observer takes re why we’re in the 💩 ignore the fact that an uncountered multibillion $ disinformation project is deployed to hide the truth. If it was really so hard to get people to see harsh realities and support policies to deal with them this wouldn’t be the case.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Increasing I’m seeing ostensibly intelligent people constructing elaborate fantasies to escape harsh truths. Eg Carney’s capitulation on climate policy is really 4D Chess, loopholes being codified into the 🇦🇺 ALP govt’s new nature laws won’t be exploited by the multinationals etc. Sharpen up! 🙏 🐧
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Increasing I’m seeing ostensibly intelligent people constructing elaborate fantasies to escape harsh truths. Eg Carney’s capitulation on climate policy is really 4D Chess, loopholes being codified into the 🇦🇺 ALP govt’s new nature laws won’t be exploited by the multinationals etc. Sharpen up! 🙏 🐧
Do not enter this imaginarium:
There has been a shift in the power dynamic between Labor and the mining industry. This week's environmental law reform is its embodiment.
The power dynamic between Labor and mining has shifted
There has been a shift in the power dynamic between Labor and the mining industry. This week's environmental law reform is its embodiment.
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Do not enter this imaginarium:
Seeing so many in the climate and environment movement celebrate the Albanese govt’s profoundly ineffective “reforms” to the EPBC legislation is pretty disturbing. I know you’re all desperate for some hope but you really need to sharpen the fuck up. You’re being conned by a pantomime.
November 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Seeing so many in the climate and environment movement celebrate the Albanese govt’s profoundly ineffective “reforms” to the EPBC legislation is pretty disturbing. I know you’re all desperate for some hope but you really need to sharpen the fuck up. You’re being conned by a pantomime.
Gonna log off for the day because your naive hopey takes on the new nature laws are spiking my blood pressure. Yous are 👶 👶 👶 in the 🌳 🌳 🌳 thinking the 🐺 🐺 🐺 hunting you are 🐶 🐶 🐶.
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Gonna log off for the day because your naive hopey takes on the new nature laws are spiking my blood pressure. Yous are 👶 👶 👶 in the 🌳 🌳 🌳 thinking the 🐺 🐺 🐺 hunting you are 🐶 🐶 🐶.
Most of our political commentariat have spent so much time sitting in the 🎭 that they’ve forgotten the outside world even exists. You know, that place where toxic algae kills marine life indiscriminately and Greater Gliders need old growth forests now and not after 18 months of logging frenzy.
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Most of our political commentariat have spent so much time sitting in the 🎭 that they’ve forgotten the outside world even exists. You know, that place where toxic algae kills marine life indiscriminately and Greater Gliders need old growth forests now and not after 18 months of logging frenzy.
My Chin Strap 🐧 comrades need you to understand that you’re watching a pantomime and outside the 🎭 Tassal et al are still driving the Maugean Skate to extinction, Koala and Greater Glider 🌳 are being logged faster than ever, Woodside et al are destroying the climate and 1/
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
My Chin Strap 🐧 comrades need you to understand that you’re watching a pantomime and outside the 🎭 Tassal et al are still driving the Maugean Skate to extinction, Koala and Greater Glider 🌳 are being logged faster than ever, Woodside et al are destroying the climate and 1/
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“Amnesty International has said Israel is “still committing genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreed last month. The fragile, US-brokered truce between Israel & Hamas came into effect on 10 October, after 2 years of war”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“Amnesty International has said Israel is “still committing genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreed last month. The fragile, US-brokered truce between Israel & Hamas came into effect on 10 October, after 2 years of war”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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