Alex Lenferna

‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’ is corporate gaslighting – the real change must come from the fossil fuel industry Recycling and cutting personal waste isn’t enough. Polluters must be regulated, and reparations paid by companies that have harmed the environment.

'Regulation, redistribution & #reparations' - Great commentary on fossil fuel industry PR with a twist on the slogan 'reduce, reuse, recycle' from @alexlenferna.bsky.social.

theconversation.com/reduce-reuse...

Bill Gates may have a plan to not die rich, but he sure has lived incredibly rich, primarily through problematic monopolistic practices. Even his philanthropy has often served his own business ends. This is another salvo in the propaganda campaign to paint Gates as a benevolent billionaire.

Climate Group Funded by Bill Gates Slashes Staff in Major Retreat Breakthrough Energy, an umbrella group for energy and environmental efforts funded by Mr. Gates, is resetting for the Trump era.

When the times get tough, the super rich drop the facade that they actually care about climate change. Now is an urgent time to double down on climate spending, instead Gates, Bezos, and company are slashing it, under the cover of and in step with Trump's darkness. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...

Find a cool product on Amazon? That company exists OFF Amazon, too. 1. Google company name 2. Order from their site 2a. Can usually find a 10% code! 3. Can still get product in 2 - 8 days. 4. Company avoids losing 25% margin share to Amazon. 5. You avoid giving money to Bezos.

Time to use Amazon like they used to use brick-and-mortar book stores!

Just Us and the Climate - Climate Justice Coalition Welcome to Just Us and the Climate – a podcast by South Africa’s Climate Justice Coalition. Join us as we bring climate change back down to earth and show how it’s not only a crisis, but an opportuni...

Last week we had the leadership handover meeting for the South African Climate Justice Coalition. The outgoing elected leadership, myself included, put together a podcast of lessons learnt. In it we discuss the difficulties, lessons & rewards of building leaderful movements.
pod.link/cjc/episode/...

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Musk Just Scored More Government Cash While Pushing Education Cuts As the billionaire was reportedly slashing Education Department contracts, SpaceX secured a multimillion-dollar “supplemental” deal from NASA.

🚨BREAKING: While targeting federal education contracts, Elon Musk just scored a new deal for more government cash, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.

The new "supplemental agreement" adds millions to SpaceX's already huge $3.9 billion deal.

The new Expropriation Act: Our chance to face SA’s imperial past Donald Trump claims that South Africa’s expropriation law is aimed at ‘seizing ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation’. This is a falsehood. Some historical perspective...

Tembeka Ngcukaitobi does a brilliant job (as always) of explaining and historicising South Africa's new Expropriation Act, dispelling the terrible misinformation that racist right-wingers have been levelling against it.

www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Saudi Arabia Says It Will Increase U.S. Trade and Investment by $600 Billion The Saudi media reported that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had spoken with President Trump, who made the kingdom the first stop on his first overseas presidential trip in 2017.

Petrostates and oil & gas corporations are celebrating Trump's return. There's no doubt that this is a victory for the fossil fuel industry & connected rapacious forces. Like the last time Trump was elected, it's key that we use this moment to build resistance.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

There's an exciting new special issue of the Journal of Political Ecology on the Colonialities of climate change & action. I contributed a paper on how oil & gas corporations are appopriating the language of decolonization, with a case study of Shell in South Africa
grassrootsjpe.org/categories-s...

German politicians criticize Musk backing for far-right AfD | MR Online After Elon Musk posted his support for Germany’s far-right AfD, the party’s leader Alice Weidel expressed her gratitude. Other German lawmakers have criticized “interference” in the country’s upcoming...

Apparently, you can take the boy out of South Africa, but you can't take apartheid out of the boy.
mronline.org/2024/12/24/g...

Thanks. The piece was quite a while back. It was a sad display by Mass throughout.

1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing:
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵

Made a starter pack for folks who want to learn more about the intersection of the climate crisis, Global South debt, and a climate reparations approach to these serious challenges. Definitely not comprehensive, no offensive meant if I missed you- comment to be added! go.bsky.app/92HS9cA

Screenshot from a newsletter of the news outlet "Africa is a Country".

Will Shoki from @africasacountry.bsky.social on the miners currently trapped in South Africa. "Cruel indifference" to the "unbearable spectacle of death".

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

The piece draws on some of my earlier research on how Shell and South Africa's Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, misappropriated decolonial language to unsuccessfully try and push through their extractive agenda. 2/2
journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...

Liberation is not propaganda At Africa Energy Week, the language of resource sovereignty disguised a new form of climate denial that appropriates progressive rhetoric in service of fossil fuel companies.

Oil and gas corporations are appropriating and perverting the language of decolonisation and sovereignty to push forward their extractive and harmful neocolonial agenda. A nice piece in @africasacountry.bsky.social calling out this duplicitous propaganda. 1/2

africasacountry.com/2024/11/libe...

Israel destroyed 83% of plant life in Gaza by June this year.

It destroyed 70% of its agricultural land.

It damaged or destroyed 65% of water tanks and 47% of groundwater wells.

Israel has deliberately tried to make Gaza uninhabitable. This is genocide.

Thank you. There's some great accounts there.

Thanks. I found some great ones there!

Hello Bluesky world,
I'm new here and wondering if anyone knows good starter packs made up of climate and environmental justice voices, especially more radical ones & from the global south?

Would much appreciate any recommendations as I am not sure how best to find them. 🙏

The 3 Radical Rs of Environmentalism - From “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” to “Regulation, Redistribution, and Reparations” This is a draft chapter that has been accepted to be part of a book collection on Community Psychologies for Climate Justice. Comments are welcome at alexlenferna@gmail.com Summary: Reduce, reuse, and...

For my first legit post on BlueSky, I thought I'd share this book chapter I am about to publish, titled:

The 3 Radical R's of Environmentalism: From “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” to “Regulation, Redistribution, and Reparations”.

Thoughts and comments are welcome!
www.academia.edu/122985988/Th...

It's overdue but I left X, and this will be my micro-blogging space to talk climate justice, movement building, and creating a better, more just world.
It's sad to leave X as I had previously built a good community there, but Musk has turned it into dangerous vehicle for right-wing propaganda.