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Welcome! You are invited to join the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, which explores how a new scientific concept, ‘soilsmology’, is shaking up our und... We are delighted to invite you to the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, ‘Soilsmology: Transforming our Understanding of Soil’, which explores how an eme...

Do please join me on World Soil Day, 5 December, 2pm GMT, for the global launch of the most exciting thing I’ve ever been involved with:
The Earth Rover Program, developing a new scientific approach which will massively enhance our understanding of #soil.
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

And we warned them with our new 2025 State of the Climate Report which you can check out here: doi.org/10.1093/bios...

‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)

Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out

“More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém, significantly outnumbering every single country’s delegation apart from the host Brazil, new analysis has found.” Cuckoos in the nest? #climatechange www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yikes!

The Matthew Principle. 🙄

'Swarm' of fossil fuel lobbyists coming to COP31, former SA premier warns Former South Australian premier Mike Rann has sharply criticised the gas industry and warned that "battalions" of fossil fuel lobbyists will be descending on next year's UN climate summit to influence negotiations.

"Mr Rann said #Australia is "often seen internationally as walking both sides of the street on climate". #Auspol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-14/sa-mike-rann-speech-criticising-gas-industry/106005548?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

'The implications here are worth considering. News Corp, a foreign-owned media company, now has a direct stake in framing the Australian housing narrative and influencing policy, while profiting through its property platform from listings, data, and its own mortgages.'

Ten things you should know about Australia's proposed new environmental laws Ten things you should know about Australia's proposed new environmental laws

I invite folk to take action with the current government that is acting to damage our environment and remove community consultation requirements - right in front of us - because unlike the LNP - Albanese ALP is IN GOVERNMENT.

Here is a summary:

Sussan Ley Says Party Is Totally Committed to Paris Framework for Achieving Net Zero, Except for the Bit About Achieving Net Zero — The Shovel “We will embrace the spirit of emissions reduction while avoiding the unnecessary burden of reducing emissions”.

Sussan Ley Says Party Is Totally Committed to Paris Framework for Achieving Net Zero, Except for the Bit About Achieving Net Zero

Ukraine: 'Massive' overnight attack on Kyiv – DW – 11/14/2025 Russia launched large-scale air strikes on the Ukrainian capital on Friday morning, damaging residential buildings across the city. At least one person was killed and many others were injured. DW has ...

#Ukraine: "'Massive' overnight attack on #Kyiv"
www.dw.com/en/ukraine-m...

Island erklærer havstrøm-kollaps nasjonal sikkerhetsrisiko Den islandske regjeringen har erklært at faren for at havstrømssystemet Amoc kan bryte sammen utgjør en nasjonal sikkerhetsrisiko og eksistensiell trussel. Det gjør at landet kan planlegge for et vers...

The Government of Iceland declared that the danger of the Amoc ocean current system collapsing poses a national security risk and existential threat.

This is the first time a climate phenomenon has been formally brought before the Icelandic National Security Council as a possible existential threat

@albomp.bsky.social spruiked 'no one left behind', but clearly he meant corporate donors bc he has left everyone else in poverty, which is a policy choice by him. I dislike this hypocritic more and more. His 'small target political approach' was really a cover for cowardice and spinelessness.

The “Matthew Principle” baked into the system from the start.

It stinks!

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This week’s podcast is terrific — we have chronic BlueSky poster @athenakugblenu.bsky.social explain to us why UK Labour is fugged. www.arationalfear.com

A photo of a woman looking to camera who has lost her hair due to cancer treatment. She is an Australian politician who shared a committee on the harms of gambling and whose by bipartisan recommendations two and a half years later are un actioned. Said politician has since passed away.

Two and half years after #theMurphyReport was finalised 31 bipartisan recommendations languish in inaction and silence whilst around 200 suicides per year occur due to gambling and related issues

It’s time for action and to honour Peta Murphy’s final work in the parliament

#BanGamblingAds

‘Put the brakes on’: Record $40b investor blitz has banking regulator on high alert The value of mortgages taken out by property investors has soared more than a third in just six months. It could force new rules to curb their enthusiasm.

Investors are overwhelming first home buyers and pushing up house prices. Time for the Treasurer to open the prudential toolbox. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

More “kicking the can down the road” business…

So, rather a high risk temporary techno-fix, than accepting that “the haves” need to end their wasteful energy and material over-consumption. 🙄

Material Dependencies | Nina Djukanović The so-called “green transition” has triggered a mining boom all over the world which is leaving conflict, environmental devastation and political instability in its wake.

Such a brilliant @racheldonald.bsky.social conversation with Nina Djukanovic on critical raw materials -- from the energy transition to political violence to #degrwoth: www.planetcritical.com/material-dep...

Mass immiseration is coming.

This is scary shit!

Watch the unemployment numbers rise!!!

The bottom is going to fall out…

However, guest David Shapiro shared many important insights about the devolution towards a post-labour economy that we need to prepare for.

#auspol

#AI

Photo of John Howard speaking at a lectern NEW EPISODE | How bad policy created a housing crisis Listen to Dollars & Sense now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.

The capital gains tax discount & negative gearing have made housing less affordable & exacerbated inequality.

On this episode, Maiy Azize, @purplepingers.bsky.social, Josie Lee & @amyremeikis.bsky.social discuss the origins of the housing crisis & how to fix the current mess.

🎧 theaus.in/49Y7n5w

"Something is deeply wrong with this system, when people who are wealthy are getting far wealthier...and people who don't have a lot are falling further and further behind."

- Dr Cassandra Goldie AO, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service at our Revenue Summit 2025
#auspol

Losing faith: new research shows young Australians have no confidence in either side of politics to tackle climate change Fewer than a quarter of young Australians trust the nation's political leaders on climate

"Losing faith: new research shows young Australians have no confidence in either side of politics to tackle climate change"
#ThePoint

thepoint.com.au/news/251114-...

The collapse of the UK was hastened by Brexit, but it's been coming for a long time. Destroy the public sector and hand over water, energy etc to the profiteers. Then, as Starmer is doing, flog off the rest of the UK to billionaires. Started with Thatcher. It's called #Neoliberalism. Read this!

YouTube video by The National George Monbiot nails Keir Starmer's government in under a minute #ukpolitics

Here's a brief clip from the programme yesterday, about why Keir Starmer's Labour Party is tanking in the polls.
www.youtube.com/shorts/jcUXX...

November 13, 1963 -  Ritchie Calder warns of trouble ahead because of carbon dioxide... - All Our Yesterdays On this day, 60 years ago, November 13, 1963, the peace campaigner, journalist and science communicator (including as first editor of New Scientist)  Ritchie Calder gave a clear warning about the buil...

November 13, 1963 – Ritchie Calder warns a London audience of trouble ahead because of carbon dioxide build-up

allouryesterdays.info/2023/11/12/n...

One in five households struggle to feed themselves, but hey, we need a footy stadium and it must have a wonderful roof!

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

The moderate Liberal MP is extinct – Howard subjugated them years ago | Greg Jericho It’s time to stop lionising the myth of the moderate Liberal; it’s just a nonsensical label

Just a note to journalists - there is no such thing as a moderate Liberal MP. I told you about this back in 2019. (And even that was a late note)

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...