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There’s another emergency warning for a #bushfire in Victoria and it’s not even front page news. How did this happen? How did we get here?
Is this how we will live now? #ClimateChange
emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/

Another coal approval, more climate harm for Australians | Climate Council The Albanese Government’s approval of the expansion and extension of Queensland’s Middlemount Coal Mine will lock in millions of tonnes of additional climate pollution and intensify heatwaves, bushfir...

Action against coal mind approvals

Climate groups are taking snap action in response to the approval of yet another coal mine extension.

www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/co...

If you’re in the Merri-Bek area and would like to help, contact climateactionmerribek@gmail.com for information

Hope they have some good independents standing

It’s absolutely irrelevant what Albanese personally thinks of the women in Syria and he should know that. What is he now, some kind of tinpot dictator?

I understand the OP was about the granularity of temperatures in F vs C, but somehow it sounded like fiddling while Rome burns

I spent some of my teenage years living near Renmark in South Australia. In those years the average January maximum was around 32 - pretty hot - but this year it was 37.

I think a lot of people have got no fucking idea what’s actually happening

Yes but what does this even mean? Is this some hypothetical range of some hypothetical country? Or is it extremes that we can’t live below/above? Because sorry but we are already (not that it’s good, it’s terrible, but let’s face reality)

So funny ❤️

Every now & then I get so fed up - just want to get out there & protest our hopeless politicians - but also important to keep promoting what’s worked.

I come back to my modest 1960s apartment on these hot days in Oz & it’s so cool & energy saving because of what I’ve done - it can be done

Yep this is what so many people are looking for - we want to do this, we want a sustainable future for our kids and grandkids, but how do we do it? What’s the best way?

People sometimes think boomers started the high consumption/ environmentally destructive life style.
But my seniors’ climate change/sustainability group today was all about reducing consumption/reducing waste/“radical simplicity”
Love it ❤️

Not forgetting of course that our green city and state is under threat from climate change - in January in Victoria, Australia, we had heatwaves, fires, flash floods and the hottest day ever recorded. Still, as you say, let’s also celebrate what’s working and what we love

A section of the Upfield Bike Path in Naarm, showing a cyclist, overhead rail, green space and growing trees

Rode my bike on the Upfield bike path yesterday, Valentine‘s Day in Naarm/Melbourne.

Unlike the photo, there were people everywhere - riding, walking, having coffee, in playgrounds, walking dogs, playing games.

And I was genuinely thinking ‘this is Paradise’

Snap

Sometimes what people specifically want is a simple answer to a complex question, so when you say ‘there are no simple answers to complex questions’ it’s just infuriating to them

One thing I’ve learned through my years of higher education is that there are certain topics you shouldn’t talk about in public forums if you know a lot about them.
Because there are people who have Strong Opinions and you will just annoy the shit out of them with your evidence and stuff

Fantastic. Great move.

Thank you I am policing the threads to make sure that someone has said it. It’s compulsory

No one should ever be able to talk about Angus Taylor without doing the whole Angus Taylor thing. Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus.

Yeah Namibia! Are they good squirrels or bad squirrels though?

I think I have to learn to be a person who rejoices in my mistakes instead of being devastated by them.
I’m sure it’s possible
As long as they don’t hurt anyone

And the US made these weapons.

This is beyond evil. If someone can prove to me that this is not true, I would be glad, but sadly I believe that it is almost certainly true that Israel is doing this. It is like a nation gone mad.

Make Big Polluters Pay

Insurance costs are rising due to climate change. Some bushfire victims are not covered because they can’t afford insurance.
Yet the big companies most responsible for climate change pay very little tax. Will you join the campaign to make big polluters pay?
www.makebigpolluterspay.org.au

New Documents Reveal Japan LNG Industry’s Influence on Australian Politics A new report from Influence Map shows employees from Japanese companies involved in major Australian gas projects have been regularly meeting with Australian ministers, directly shaping policy.

Japanese companies have been lobbying to lock in fossil gas production and its enabling infrastructure, even as they resell Australian cargos while they're still on the water for geopolitical advantage.

I pulled the camera back to look at how they've done it for @drilledmedia.bsky.social.

One of my friends (late 70s) had sepsis and she told me later one symptom was very gloomy thoughts of impending doom or death - clearly something not to be ignored although I don’t know how common it is.

I wish people would stop saying things like this. I understand the feeling, but patriarchy as we know it is a relatively recent system historically. It‘s not timeless or inevitable - it was created by people and we can change it.

Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Jaw dropping

Yep that is the real expose - as Marina Hyde says it’s somehow all been turned into a political expose about men - but it’s the treatment of women and girls that’s the real story and the real horror of this