@martinwatters.bsky.social
Working to expose those most responsible for climate change, environmental harm and greenwashing | Strategic comms with @globalwitness.org | @adfreecities.bsky.social trustee | he/him | Opinions mine
PSA: Here's how the anti-net zero sausage gets made:
1. Oil companies fund climate denial groups
2. which incubate fake experts
3. who write policy papers for 'think tanks'
4. which get blurbed by politicians
5. & reported uncritically by right-wing media.
Voila!
www.desmog.com/2026/01/28/c...
On the flipside to this, I'm sure it's just a coincidence that lists of the UK's nicest places to live all seem to show vibrant walkable town centres with not a car in sight? archive.ph/3pSug
Great @olliemilman.bsky.social + @dharna.bsky.social piece feat @patrickgaley.bsky.social and others
“So long as governments continue to rely on fossil fuels in energy systems, their constituents will be hostage to the whims of autocrats"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...
A new investigation from @globalwitness.org finds that AI chatbots’ personalised answers risk inflaming climate conspiracy and misinformation, with disinformation and known denialists recommended to users modelled as conspiratorial user personas.
British multi millionaire émigrés to an Islamic authoritarian petrochemical state funding a propaganda channel that tells its audience Britain is becoming an authoritarian Islamic state and petrol cars shouldn’t be banned. 🤔
Just a reminder the media org that has been trumpeting that it cares about kids and their futures and wants social media banned is the same that worldwide has been running climate change disinformation and lies, ensuring the kids will live in a worse world
"According to data from Media Radar, The New York Times took in more than $20 million in advertising revenue from fossil fuel companies from Oct 2020 to Oct 2023, twice what any other outlet earned from the industry" - @amywestervelt.bsky.social, Matthew Green & @joeygrostern.bsky.social
#NYT
This really needs emphasizing. The entirety of the UK media ecosystem is utterly fixated on a 100% fabricated "crisis".
No oil peak until 2035, even under stated policies (pink line). No gas peak in sight. Grim stuff
"A fire-sale of the world's rainforests, with big banks profiting from the ashes."
Banks and asset managers have made $26 billion in income from financing deforesting companies since the Paris Agreement: new @globalwitness.org investigation reveals.
Full report out today 👇
This should be a fairly simple political concept to understand. But it's one UK Labour seems intent on ignoring until it's too late.
Re the new Reform pledge, a sports writer has already got to the heart of the matter better than the politics commentators www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The clearest take yet on why relatively small, top-down organised protests against immigration are currently dominating UK political discourse right now.
Am hoping democracy about the name is not standing in for democracy about how it will be structured
There is now 50% more plastic in all of our brains than was there 8 years ago, thanks largely to Big Oil.
With demand for oil slowing the industry is betting big on creating more plastic, everywhere.
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/m...
Five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza were civilians as of May, according to Israel's own military intelligence.
"In Gaza we are talking about a campaign of targeted assassinations, really, rather than battles, and they are carried out with no concern for civilians.”
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
(Bloomberg Green): Hedge funds are betting against oil stocks and winding back shorts on solar in a reversal of positions that dominated their energy strategies over the past four years.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
War crimes, genocide, forced famine, displacement and now ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
Keir Starmer - who once called himself a human rights lawyer - should know that platitudes aren't enough when the UK is still exporting weapons helping cause these horrors.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
The US oil industry is facing huge liabilities for environmental damage and that bill keeps getting higher as we learn more about the damage they are doing (e.g PFAS, radioactivity, leaking injection wells, etc)
Add more to the list.
shame on me for missing the 10yr anniversary of the best climate social posts ever
By @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social -->
“We have long criticised UK terrorism law for being excessively broad and vaguely worded and a threat to freedom of expression. This video documents one aspect of exactly the kind of thing we were warning about.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Paris Marx on why tech feels increasingly at the center of geopolitical fights:
"Now more than ever, we need to challenge the domination of US tech and the power it gives an increasingly belligerent United States."
Looking at progress in emissions reductions from 2023 to 24, the aviation sector is setting off alarm bells:
"... aviation now contributes a greater share of total UK emissions than the entire electricity supply sector. Continued emissions growth in this sector could put future targets at risk."
"If killing 23 civilians at an aid distribution site is not terrorism, how can we possibly be expected to accept that spray-painting a plane is?"
Sally Rooney on the absurdity of UK Labour reserving its fiercest sanctions for those speaking out against genocide, rather than those most responsible.
"Old fashioned print media is in decline everywhere but in the mind of the nation’s political class. The result is that our leaders are getting a very warped sense of what the average voter thinks, reads and cares about."
A German court has dismissed a case brought by a Peruvian farmer and mountain guide against the fossil fuel giant RWE.
Amid the dismissal, the court confirmed something momentous: private companies can be held liable for their share in causing climate damages.
theconversation.com/one-lawsuit-...