Ecological democracy in theory & practice Author of https://xitter.cf/t.co/wTH1JJyqKH @institutegreen Exec Director @GreenMusicAU founder @FourPlaySQ violist
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Excellent news. Govt has announced it will shelve Nature Repair Market Bill until at least end of the year. It needs to be dropped completely because it drives #Ecocide. It is bad policy based on Monetising #Nature. Thanks @YungEnChee1 @EuanRitchie1 @pollyjhemming #auspol
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Wow. The offical Threatened Species Committee just told the Senate that Enviro Minister Plibersek has not even consulted them on how her 'Green Wall Street' scheme would protect animals or nature. Green Wall Street is a sham.
Senate inquiry on now 👇
aph.gov.au/News_and_Events/L…
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📢Louder for the carbon market enthusiasts & would-be purchasers of carbon offsets📢
"Today, every major offset program still has the same exact problems researchers and investigative reports have been identifying for more than two decades. That suggests the core problems are inherent to offsets and intractable"
Big new J Romm paper:
bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/web.sa…
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A reminder that fossil fuel companies Net0 pledges are meaningless and we need to stop pretending we can negotiate with them.
We need to start regulating them.
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Ok, will government have the maturity to admit they’ve got it horribly wrong & that _maybe_ listening to thousands of scientists about what _will_ work, might be better? theguardian.com/australia-ne… Or they could keep listening to those that only see questionable $$$$ opportunities.
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The Labor government spends over $10b of public money every year subsidising the burning of fossil fuels. That’s how far we are from a genuine climate response in Australia. Labor remains captured by fossil fuel interests but surely they’ll get mugged by reality at some point 👇
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Loud explosions heard coming from the direction of the #NatureRepairMarket bill
Witnesses from @TheAusInstitute say no orcas were sighted in the vicinity
PwC walks back report used to claim Australia’s nature repair market could be worth $137bn theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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Imagine knowing this is happening right now and still approving new coal mines.
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Labor: we need to pass the HAFF immediately so people can get into houses now
Also Labor:
timhollo.bsky.social retweeted
2023 European Highest temperature returns to Spain again with 42.5C at El Granado.
Over 40C also in Portugal.
But this is just the beginning.
Next days the temperatures can beat records for June in some areas and we might see up to 44C/45C.
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There are no good sides. The Kremlin is evil. Wagner is evil. The mafiosos, oligarchs, and sadists in their overlapping networks are evil. The only people to root for are the innocents they have terrorized. And the people trying to keep the worst weapons from the loosest hands.
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We're talking about nearly a half billion fellow humans dealing with unprecedented heat
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Trying to get head around a Bill which proposes to allow Santos to take CO2 from a very polluted gas field (Barossa) to Timor Leste, then pump it underground for ‘carbon capture’.. which doesn’t really work…
.. Because if we dump it on a poorer country it’s not our problem?
timhollo.bsky.social retweeted
The truly terrifying news this week is not what happened deep beneath the sea, it's what's going on at the surface
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This is absolutely bananas.
There is NOTHING like this on the instrumental record. Its likely impact is probably immeasurable.
But is it leading our news bulletins & on newspaper front pages?
Nope.
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Don't wonder what will happen if Russia collapses. It already did! Years ago. It's not a state, it's a mafia front with factions fighting each other for money, resources, and power.
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The Greek shipwreck was a horrific tragedy. Yet it didn’t get the attention of the Titanic story
The bizarre commemoration of the death-folly of the rich while ignoring the deaths of desperate refugees is reminiscent of the Ancien Regime in 18thC France theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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I know Twitter is throttling Substack, but in this case I have some of the highlights from last week's monumental Kids V Montana climate trial, so I think it's worth reading/sharing
billmckibben.substack.com/p/…