Peter McCartney

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

God bless the Streisand effect

I'm sorry wat

Had a great chat to one of the best climate journalists in the world, @amywestervelt.bsky.social, about criminalisation & repression of climate & environmental protest around the world the other day. Here’s the result.

People often ask me why I left the U.S. and there are various reasons but the thing that made me start really making an exit strategy was when journalists covering Standing Rock were being arrested. Historically a very bad sign for democracy. Seeing it get worse and more blatant is scary and sad

Abolish ICE.

There’s no reforming it.

There’s no compromise.

There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

1 day left. This is it!

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It's weird how after every good thing/gain (even if we don't call it a victory) people circle up to insist we shouldn't celebrate. Celebrating is not how people give up, in my experience; believing we can't win, never win, and have no power is (with a side of joylessness).

Happening now: “ICE out” protests from East Coast to West Coast in solidarity 🔥

Meme: Tina Fey says “what a year, huh? Alec Baldwin replies “Lemon, it’s January.”

This January is already more January than any January has ever Januaryed.

Dear Climate Bluesky,

1️⃣ Learn about the arrest of Harjeet Singh and his wife, Jyoti Awasthi, by the Indian government this week.

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Solidarity and awareness matter more than ever. ✊

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

Your periodic reminder that the US is a petrostate, has been governing like one for decades, and ending the fossil fuel era can't come fast enough.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

Canadian political leaders celebrate, condemn U.S. strikes on Venezuela and Maduro capture | CBC News Canadian political leaders are celebrating and condemning the United States over its nighttime strikes on the capital city of Venezuela and the subsequent capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Madur...

I simply cannot believe we are doing this all over again. America must be stopped. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Saw Bluesky described as where elder millennials go to retire from the internet, and immediately felt the peace that passes all understanding wash over me. None of have to struggle any longer. We completed our time.

I admire Zelensky's composure. This is beyond infuriating.

The person who made the decision to hold this story has never been a news reporter or a news editor. Really sickening.

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane | Mia Mottley The oil and gas industry must be legally bound to cut methane emissions. With climate tipping points approaching, time is running out, says the prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley

The only way to get back on track to the Paris Accords — which aims to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2.0 C — is to pull the “Emergency Brake” climate solutions.

Towards the top of the list is curbing methane emissions as quickly as possible.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We had so much fun postering around Amazon's offices to show that Amazon corporate workers are pushing back on the company's reckless AI plans. Sign our letter if you work at Amazon or sign our solidarity statement if you don't, link in bio!

TY to friends at @stand.earth @troublemakers.bsky.social!

This is why BC’s housing crisis hasn’t been solved yet The magnitude of the housing shortage is huge, the problems chronic, but the housing crisis is solvable. Throughout the province and country, the housing crisis is marked by high rents and prices, a scarcity of homes, displacement, homelessness and the quiet exclusion of people from entire neighb

The magnitude of the housing shortage is huge, the problems chronic, but the housing crisis is solvable: latest research by @1alexhemingway.bsky.social.

Reforms from a flurry of government announcements gesture at the right ideas but fall short in scale and implementation.

I understand the impulse to relocate to places perceived climate havens. My concern is how this leads to places (and people) being seen as expendable and not worth fighting for. Who will be left behind? Taken to the extreme, it's the billionaire fantasy of fleeing to Mars while Earth burns.

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

UN climate talks and Canadian policy can't ignore fossil fuels COP30 ended with an astounding contradiction: an agreement to get to net-zero emissions by 2050 without acknowledging the need to wind down use of the fossil fuels.

@greenprofgreen.bsky.social and I reflect on #COP30's failure to even mention fossil fuels. In its silence Canada hides behind petro-states like Saudi Arabia and Russia. It's time to join more constructive fossil fuel producers in a coalition of the willing.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/02/o...

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

Minister apologizes for 'poor choice of words' about meeting with B.C. First Nations group | CBC News Federal Energy Minister Tim Hodgson says he has apologized to Coastal First Nations for what he says were a “poor choice of words” regarding a meeting he offered to have with the group on Friday.

What a dick. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Pipeline deal is not a ‘baked cake,’ Canada's energy minister says Tim Hodgson urges patience as critics pan a plan that lacks a route, an investor and support from key players.

Oh it's half-baked alright www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson

Gotcha. That explains a lot.