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Christopher Wright

@chriswrightau.bsky.social

3.1K followers 1.1K following 300 posts

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

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John Fasullo @jfasullo.bsky.social · 14h

"By most metrics, 2025 has been the worst year for the American scientific enterprise in modern history". The result - we are "essentially ending America’s longstanding role as the world leader in science and innovation,” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows

www.nytimes.com

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 17h

Call me old school, but I don't think a person illegally blowing up boats and unleashing masked goons on his citizens would be a serious candidate for a peace prize.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Christopher Wright @chriswrightau.bsky.social · 1d

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows

Report looks at White House nominees and appointees and agencies dictating energy, environment and climate policy

www.theguardian.com

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d

This is Gaza now and the world is silent.

(Mohamad Safa)

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.bsky.social · 1d

We probably need to go back to ~350 ppm CO₂ equivalent for temperatures to stop rising.

We are now above 573 ppm (GHG forcing of +4.1 W/m²).

That's without aerosols cooling things down.

There's too much uncertainty to be sure, but going back to 350 ppm is already a Herculean task.

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Reposted by Scott L. Greer, John McLaren, Christopher Wright , and 9 more Scott L. Greer, John McLaren, Christopher Wright, Megan L. Ranney, Rosemary A. Joyce, Philip N. Cohen, James M. Graham, Gerald Friedman, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Terence Wood, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Nathan P. Kalmoe

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 2d

To all those who comment about subsidies for renewable energy, what are your thoughts on the $500,000,000 we taxpayers will fork over to bail out Glencore, who paid $0 tax in Oz, but posted a record profit? At least with renewable we are buying cheap endless energy security.

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Christopher Wright @chriswrightau.bsky.social · 2d

Charlie Kirk: The Manufactured “Boy Wonder” of the Right: brentmolnar.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

🧴🐍 Charlie Kirk: The Manufactured “Boy Wonder” of the Right

The myth goes something like this.

brentmolnar.substack.com

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Christopher Wright @chriswrightau.bsky.social · 2d

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children in Gaza killed by Israel: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2d

Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems.

Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago.

SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2d

"Without aggressive and concrete efforts to curb carbon dioxide pollution, most of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh will by the end of the century experience temperature levels well beyond those considered safe for humans"

#ClimateEmergency

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2d

" #India plans to increase its coal power capacity by 46% from 210 GW currently to 307 GW by 2035"

##ClimateEmergency

Indian states sign more coal power deals to meet rising demand

Indian states are signing new long-term deals for coal power. This is to meet rising evening electricity demand. This comes as clean energy capacity grows. States like Uttar Pradesh and Assam are seek...

m.economictimes.com

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Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) @accr.bsky.social · 2d

Prof Christian Downie points to the Business Council of Australia and News Corp newspapers as examples of deliberate obstruction. A playbook honed over decades around the world by fossil fuel interests. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Media and political attacks on Australia’s emissions targets ‘straight out of the climate obstruction playbook’, expert says

Prof Christian Downie points to the Business Council of Australia and News Corp newspapers as examples of deliberate obstruction

www.theguardian.com

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Reposted by Anna O. Law, Rebecca Solnit, Jonathan A. Eisen , and 27 more Anna O. Law, Rebecca Solnit, Jonathan A. Eisen, Erich Fromm, Brendan Nyhan, Paul R. Bierman, Patrick A. Jansen, Patrick Dunleavy, Steve Peers, Christopher Wright, Steven French, Lisa M. Thompson, Laura K. Taylor, Marina Jirotka, Kevin J. O’Brien, Juan Cole, Erwin Dekker, Brian Medeiros, Silvia Secchi, W. Andy Knight, Michael Zimmer, Christine Kooi, Erica Weintraub Austin, Mark Rice, Ann Bartow, Henry Jones, Blair Fix, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Francesco Nicoli, Colin Woodard

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 3d

On rare occasion there’s an accurate headline about rapid climate warming
and it’s always jarring as hell
and a reminder how much we’re being lied to on a daily basis.

Headline reading “Atlantic current at risk of collapse - plunging U.K. into never ending winter”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

this feels like forty years ago but it was 2023

www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi...

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