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Professor Euan Ritchie

@euanritchie.bsky.social

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Dad, ecologist & conservation scientist living on unceded Wurundjeri Country in Narrm. He/him.

Research: https://euanritchie.org/
The Conversation: bit.ly/2rjBg9A

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Nov 12

Ok, here’s my starter pack! go.bsky.app/4ASwaLv
Non-exhaustive list!

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks, Lyndall :)

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 12h

Yep, including destroying housing affordability.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 12h

‪At ~ 7:45 tonight I'll be discussing the impacts of the Victorian fires on native wildlife, on 774 ABC Melbourne.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 16h

Well done.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 18h

Easily Australia's worst ever PM, by a long, long way.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 19h

"Newly released cabinet papers, prepared by the federal public service and experts at the Bureau of Meteorology, were largely ignored by the Howard government...”

So, when do we start talking about duty of care and criminal negligence www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Confidential advice undercooked climate change to Howard government

Cabinet briefings in 2005 warned of climate change, but did not anticipate the scale and severity of the impacts now playing out.

www.smh.com.au

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Debbie Miller @debbiemchiro.bsky.social · 1d

Houses under ember attack in Victoria and the CFA saying they don’t have enough flying assets to attack the fires. FFS we’ve been through this often enough. These services that fight these fires know what they need YIYO. From here on in, listen to them. We need a national fire fighting squadron

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

Naive or selfish af.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly I don’t think the economic arguments matter anyway, our plutocracy is run by big business and far too many politicians are beholden to their political masters, cough, I mean ‘donors’.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

Many don’t, but they love a drink on a hot day.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

Bingo. It’s actually been mentioned a lot, just very rarely in legacy and mainstream media.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

That’s great to hear :) Love for all creatures, great and small.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed, AUKUS is among the stupidest things our government has signed us up to, and that's saying something!

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. Also, economics ain't a science.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, but my simple point is that we frequently find $$$$ for war games but not sufficient $ for increased and effective protection of Australian lives, human and otherwise.

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Stacey @staceycassels.bsky.social · 1d

Two fire trucks broke down while trying to fight a fire near Benalla late last year.
A lack of funding for regular maintenance apparently.
You would think this would be a priority, you know with all the fires we have, and not putting people's lives at extra risk.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly, it's an utter disgrace.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

To the many caring, thoughtful and courageous people in the U.S. and globally fighting a fascist orange predatory felon and pathetic excuse for a President, we see and thank you. Freedom, diversity and inclusion can never be assumed, we must defend what we cherish. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmo3...

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

A question for fearless journos out there to put to Australia's political leaders. Why do we have > $300 billion to attempt to buy submarines but not enough $ to pay more fire fighters & support staff & to buy more urgently needed firefighting equipment, so we have sufficient resources when needed?!

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

Memo to the legacy and mainstream media, this is what relevant, insightful, and timely political commentary looks like. Join the dots, put hard questions to politicians.

By @jessharwoodart.bsky.social.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

Just after 5pm today, I'll be discussing the impacts of the Victorian fires on native wildlife, with Richelle Hunt, on 774 ABC Melbourne.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

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LyndallTerrier @lyndallterrier.bsky.social · 1d

🦗🦗🦗, & you'll be waiting a v long time 💀

It's down to the citizens now & the good few with integrity in politics & inde media who must force change. Our votes still remain v powerful weapons against this short-sighted, self-interested climate change suicide mission our govts are taking us all on.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 1d

Let's see how many genuinely hard questions about the links between fossil fuel approvals/climate change/extreme weather events/fire are put to said politicians by the legacy- and mainstream-media...

The Fourth Estate must be accountable too.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

Scores of fires, many that are huge, spanning the state of Victoria. Thank you to all the firefighters, you are heroes!

No thanks to politicians that continue to ignore scientists & our evidence-based & urgent warnings about climate change, placing the lives of humans & others species at risk.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 2d

I have to say, as a man with two mothers, I find the derisive deployment of language like "lesbian" and "lover" by those on the far right who are trying to justify Renee Good's death particularly disgusting and dehumanizing. These women. They are wives. They are a family. That's it.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

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Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 2d

For AoNZ context, Upper Hutt is 54,000 hectares.

Or larger than Porirua and Wellington combined.

Burning.

All of it.

Map of Territorial Authorities in the lower North Island.

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LyndallTerrier @lyndallterrier.bsky.social · 2d

It's very sad - & I think avoidable in theory.
There doesn't seem to be an aerial response to that new fire in the sth (ground crews responding); and the Wyperfeld fire which started at Boinka yesterday only got little air tractors to help ground crews.
Too little too late. Fires build & get away.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

Sadly the dunes in that region are quite vegetated and will absolutely burn. Sorry to hear about Liyanganyuk :(

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