Dr Costa Avgoustinos

"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshiping." - Hubert Reeves.

Does anyone else constantly get irritating “03” scam calls? It’s typical Victorians after the one thing they crave: our attention.

Going to Greek Church (Peters of Kensington)

A flow chart demonstrating the fossil fuel energy

☀️ The difference between delivering solar #energy and the dirty alternatives is clear. There’s no need for extracting finite resources, transportation or wasted energy from leaks and combustion. It’s just the power of the sun, direct to your home or business 🏡 (Re-post these to save them for later.)

#ICJAO “The consequences of climate change are severe and far-reaching. They affect both natural ecosystems and human populations. These consequences underscore the urgent and existential threat posed by climate change,” said Iwasawa Yuji, President of the ICJ.

earth.org/icj-advisory...

The ICJ ruling makes it clear that every one of Labor's new coal or gas approvals risks Australia being legally liable for the climate consequences. This should be a turning point. Fossil fuel profits cannot override a climate safe future.

World Court Delivers Landmark Opinion On Climate Justice, Confirming Countries Have Legal Duty To Act On The Climate Emergency The International Court of Justice – the world’s highest court and the principal judicial body of the United Nations – has issued a landmark and potentially game-changing advisory opinion on countries...

The ICJ affirmed that countries can be held liable for conduct that contributes to significant climate harm, incl. supporting continued fossil fuel activities

"The court said in no uncertain terms that climate impunity is no longer allowed"- Vishal Prasad

www.climateinthecourts.com/world-court-...

“It is not about opinion or ideology, but about scientific evidence.”

“The climate issue is the Q of our time. It is the interrogative Q that destiny throws at us and the answers we can formulate will decide what future humanity will have
- or if there will be any future. There is no other agenda, no other problem, no other Q."

- Brazilian judge Edson Fachin

Italian jurist Luigi Ferrajoli wants a Constitution for the Earth in his 2022 book “For a Constitution of the Earth”. He claims it’s not just desirable but inevitable as we’ll have to get along collectively in the face of climate change (and other threats). Interesting.

"If the [US] Constitution does not contain the guarantee that the citizen must be protected against lethal poisons … this is certainly because our ancestors … could not imagine such a problem at the time of its drafting"

- Rachel Carson, 1962

Important stuff. Also seems to align with “end times fascism” idea from @naomiaklein.bsky.social

‘All other avenues have been exhausted’: Is legal action the only way to save the planet? The long read: Monica Feria-Tinta is one of a growing number of lawyers using the courts to make governments around the world take action

Climate litigation is vital because “all other avenues have been exhausted”.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Labor has never been freer to do what they want + what they want is trashing the climate and Aboriginal history.

Labor just approved Woodside’s gas extension, helping destroy both the future (by unleashing a “carbon bomb”) + the past (50,000yo Aboriginal rock art).

I wrote this this in 2022 and just revisisted it, and it really feels pretty relevant

Labor can definitely be bullied, cajoled and pressured into Doing Things on climate, but it takes *real pressure*. An op-ed in the first week isn't going to do it. The attitude of refusing to offend them has to go

This election is tough because I don’t know, out of Albo + Dutton, who I love most.

Some history.

This photo was sent to the Wilderness Society in 1983 after the High Court stopped the Franklin River Dam.

The graffiti is on the charred remains of the 2000yo “Lea Tree” (which was cut down and set alight, seemingly out of spite after the Court’s decision).

Climate activists were hacked. There was a link between the victims and an alleged attacker Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.

Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.

Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’

Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“In my six decades of legal practice, I have never witnessed a trial as unfair as the one against Greenpeace.... The law that can come down in this case can affect any demonstration, religious or political" -Marty Garbus, first amendment lawyer

a colourful blue, orange, red and purple chart showing a light and dar kblue history for temperatures, recent shifts upwards through orange and light red, and two futures: one of light and dark red (1.5c), and one of deep purple (3c and more)

I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once:

- Things are going to get worse, no matter what

- The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today

theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org

💦 2005: “Will this be the disaster that wakes people up about climate change?”

💨 2015: “Will this be the disaster that wakes people up about climate change?”

🔥 2025: “Will this be the disaster that wakes people up about climate change?”

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For me, my realisation that there was no bottom to the environmental degradation we’ll allow was letting koalas become endangered. An Australia without koalas because we couldn’t stop ourselves … addict behaviour.

Me in 2004, teaching 10th graders: For the love of god don't cite Wikipedia, it's not a reliable source

Me in 2024, to literally anyone in earshot: Good ol' Wikipedia, the only thing the internet hasn't fucked up yet

"I see opening coal mines as a crime. This is my message on the Australian government's decision to approve 3 new coal mines." - Rabweena Ieete, #climate change activist, Kiribati

The Environment Minister has just approved 3 new mine expansions – Caval Ridge, Boggabri mine & Lake Vermont #auspol

“In every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation.”

- Iroquois Confederacy’s oral constitution (requirement of chiefs to think long-term)

By Shel Silverstein (Playboy, 1965)

aww

You’re right! I’m as ashamed as a ship’s queer :(