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Christopher Wright
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Professor University of Sydney. Author of Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations (2015) & Organising Responses to Climate Change (2022)

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
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Christopher Wright @chriswrightau.bsky.social · 1d
So the US government is basically an ally of Russia and hostile to Ukraine and the future of Europe! youtube.com/live/tHZuwrg...
Peace Deal or Surrender? Rory and Alastair React
YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics
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City Atlas @cityatlas.bsky.social · 1d
They have bunkers, megayachts, backup yachts, and a rich fantasy life in which someone repairs all these things as the world descends into chaos
luxurylaunches.com/transport/ma...
Forget Mark Zuckerberg's superyacht; his 'little' support vessel that carries his jet skis, helicopter, and boats, is so big that when docked in Greece, it overshadowed everything at the harbor with i...
luxurylaunches.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 1d
I'm seeing claims that progress was made at #COP30, but it really wasn't. Each passing year with no fossil fuel phaseout comes at great opportunity cost as we further burn through the vanishing carbon budget that remains for averting dangerous warming. See my commentary: michaelmann.net/bad-cop/

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 1d
Reuters has confirmed that King Donald the Mad's "28-point Ukraine peace plan" was written by Russia, handed to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff during a Miami hotel meeting with sanctioned Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev, then pushed as US policy.

Oops.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 1d
This graphic predicts future temperatures, based on continued accelerated warming:

1.50°C by 2026
2.00°C by 2036
2.50°C by 2045
2.85°C by 2050

Of course, a lot of non-linearities are possible before 2050. Like a net-zero, carbon-free, sustainable vegan utopia. Or the other ...

Reposted by Christopher Wright, Stacy D. VanDeveer

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 2d
It is very hard to overstate the evil of the fossil fuel industry.

When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
U.N. climate talks fizzle out 10 years after Paris accord
Nearly 200 countries at the U.N. climate summit reached a deal that didn’t include a road map to curtail use of fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.
www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Christopher Wright

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 2d
Anyone remember that cease fire?

"Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as airstrikes continue"
Gaza hospitals running out of supplies as airstrikes continue, medics say
‘Severe lack’ in territory where Israeli strikes have killed more than 50 people and injured over 100 in recent days
www.theguardian.com

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 2d
The fossil fuel industry’s calculated effort to deceive the public into thinking climate change is a hoax is one of the most successful mass manipulation campaigns in history. And it will doom us all.

Reposted by Christopher Wright

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d
Gaza Government Media Office says Israel fully responsible for humanitarian, security repercussions from its violations.
Israel has violated Gaza truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killed hundreds
Gaza Government Media Office says Israel fully responsible for humanitarian, security repercussions from its violations.
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