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Tom Steyer’s climate pivot signals new playbook for Dems The billionaire environmental activist is leaning hard into economic populism.

The real absurdity in California: no one’s proposing to build a green Shenzen by the Sierra.

California has the universities, the market, and the Pacific coast to become a global green industrial powerhouse. Unions like UAW are down. But politicos have zero vision.

www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Over a third of animals lost in test deep sea mining - scientists The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.

It’s Friday. May I be blunt? F*ck this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The reason articles like this are so important is because if we get more of them, it creates the permission structure to talk about it and it makes it seem like 'not a conspiracy theory.' If you're the only one saying something, you're a crank. If lots of people are saying it, it's more accepted.

Hell yes we need far more 'Sources say that the billionaire has plans to build a thing' journalism and way more 'THESE FUCKERS QUITE LITERALLY WANT TO KILL US ALL'

Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity - The Shot It really is the 1% versus the rest of us. The stakes couldn't be higher. And the enemy could not be more depraved. Still, we'll win.

Here's me. "Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity"

The current batch of conservatives are so vile and purely destructive that it almost makes you long for the Peter Dunnes 🫠

Is this growth...good?! The point.com.au

The shape of the economy matters as much as the size…investment in renewables & coal mines both lift GDP, but one improves the future & one harms it…our MPs should talk as much about the shape of economic activity as its rate of growth

Great podcast

thepoint.com.au/podcasts/251...

AI Will Only Intensity Climate Change. The Tech Moguls Don't Care. The AI phenomenon may functionally print money for tech billionaires, at least for the time being, but it comes with a gargantuan environmental cost.

"AI Will Only Intensity Climate Change. The Tech Moguls Don’t Care" | Great commentary in @thenation.com by @jricole.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/envi...

resharing this because both:
cool etruck
its an example of my favourite visual of how we fit energy transition tech within the frameworks of our existing tech, ie the person (totally unnecessarily) holding onto the charger plug when its plugged in like one would if one was putting liquid fuel in

Love this as a nice, simple introduction to resistance

Ah but you can't SEE the nitrate as it kills you. Fires are so rudely visible

Same in NZ. Our press are failing; the people who don't follow politics are assuming good faith based on the National of years past (who were awful but not like this mob).

Our institutions and mental priors weren't remotely ready for the fossil-fuel funded smash and grab we're seeing. #nzpol

They always think there's some mythical 'waste' to cut; or they go 'pay yourselves less and then we'll be able to afford it' as though saving a few thousand or million on salaries will fund billions in services or infrastructure. Endlessly frustrating stuff.

The Cost of Climate - The American Prospect Extreme weather and changes in seasonal patterns are fundamentally altering the landscape, in cities and in farming communities. You’re going to pay for it.

The latest in our series on drivers of the affordability crisis: climate change.
Too often we neglect how weather patterns affect crop yields, how hurricanes and floods raise the cost of everything from food to water, how colony collapse makes things more expensive. @gurleygg.bsky.social reports.

The biggest climate stories often aren’t labelled ‘climate’ – so newsrooms miss them Budgets are now climate policy. But mainstream media hasn’t caught up.

"The result is that detailed climate analysis exists, but in a specialist niche that mass audiences do not access."
@theconversation.com

The bit about climate being a beat not a lens is one I bang on about all the time.

See also this excellent piece from @madisoncondon.bsky.social

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See also:

bsky.app/profile/timm...

So many think-pieces this year on how the 'public' is over climate and that's why there's been backsliding. Couldn't possibly be that actually, as soon as real momentum was building, an industry with more money than God started acting behind the scenes on governments and media to stop that momentum

'Why aren't we doing more on climate?' has lots of answers but shit like this is one of the big ones.

The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU’s human rights and climate law - SOMO Leaked documents reveal how a secretive alliance of eleven large multinational enterprises has worked to tear down the EU’s flagship human rights and climate law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Dili...

I get there's scandal fatigue at this point in 2025 but you really should be readying pitchforks for this one:

US fossil fuel ghouls Exxon and Chevron have been actively watering down EU climate and human rights laws.

These people have names and addresses, you know www.somo.nl/the-secretiv...

loved this conversation. Anyone need a crash course on why the intersection of AI, fascism and climate breakdown? We tried to cover it all!

To be fair I think we'll see collapse or revolution or some other drastic circumstances long before then if we keep just burning stuff. For the sake of us all it'd be good to dodge those outcomes though 😬

So many people convince themselves they need these tanks at any cost to keep them or their kids safe

The New Zealand government today basically kicked the climate can to 2050; well, "2050" in climate terms might be arriving in just a couple of years #nzpol

As I said over in LinkedIn where Simon posted the longer explanation, this speaks volumes about where this government is at on climate policy.

Is it a threshold for death? Or just a catch-all term for devastation but nothing specific in your heads?

I'd appreciate thoughtful responses- I'm not trying to denigrate anyone here, just genuinely seeking some thoughts for a few things I'm working on.

Hey #greensky and climate Bsky in general; I have a climate comms question:

When you use the word 'doom' or 'avoid doom' and terms like that in relation to climate change, what are you referring to? Is it a specific event, like the end of civilisation or human extinction?

Why is this 'Greens say....' ?? Pretty sure as a journo that's a figure you can investigate and then either state as a fact or say it's not true

The Climate Movement Should Become a Human Movement It needs to tap into our emotional life in ways that will link us to material struggles rather than distract us from them.

From this piece (had to cut down the full, amazing quote) which I thought of when I read your comment (and it's not intended as a criticism of you at all, we're all learning here).

hammerandhope.org/article/clim...

'One problem the climate movement has is that it’s led by a lot of people who are most motivated by climate, people who have the space in their lives.... a lot of our appeals are toward people for whom climate can be a foreground problem, who might be able to spend their days thinking about ppm.'