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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 1h

It’s simply false to conclude that we can’t overcome climate change by creating a just & prosperous sustainability that enhances wellbeing for everyone and everything. What we lack right now is will to do it — something the Climate Mvt must provide.
#climateaction #climatehope #gatesclimate

Mr. Gates, Here’s A Better Way to Think About Climate Action & Human Wellbeing

First Take on What Bill Gates Gets Right and Wrong in His Latest Missive

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 23h

The Climate Mvt and Climate Action Supporters, along with the accelerating rate of tech change or ARTC, will make such projections look as foolish as so many others. At least the Rhodium Group basically admits it. climateoutlook.rhg.com/reports/rhod... #climateaction #climatehope #climatemvt

Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 1d

We need more terrific communicators and influencers like Sarah Aubrey spreading the word about clean energy. #climatehope #climateaction #cleanenergy

Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 5d

It’s both/and, not either/or.

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 5d

If @billgates.bsky.social were to read #ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & myself, he would know that climate change is amplifying deadly pandemics. Only someone ignorant of the science adopts the fallacy that we can treat global health and the climate crisis as separate threats

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 5d

“Bill Gates Calls for Redirecting of Climate Funds to Global Health” by John Koutroumpis for #GreekReporter:

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 6d

Ah, solar, how I love thee, let me count the ways: vertical floating, sheep grazing, it’s all so amazing. #climateaction #climatehope #climatemvt #solar #cleanenergy

Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope: October 29, 2025 - DRAFT

Vertical floating solar!

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 6d

But if you are looking for climate hope, I’m your guy. www.climatehopetogether.com/publish/post...

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 7d

The future cannot afford for us to dream small. Ours is a time for regular folk to choose to become heroes together. Nothing less than greatness is our calling. #climatehope #climateaction #climatemvt

Getting Where We’re Going With Climate Action

Our Story Together Subseries Post #1.7

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 8d

A blah, listless life? Find purpose in a cause greater than yourself like the Climate Movement. Life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness. #climatemvt #climatehope #climateaction

Column | A 6-year research project found a surprisingly simple route to happiness

How can we stay happy in an age gone mad, when it feels as though all is unstable? A study out of Cornell suggests a practical way to keep ourselves on a meaningful path — a happiness hack for our cha...

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 8d

Faith leaders in India are becoming more involved in climate action. #climatemvt #climatehope #climateaction #indiaclimate

India: Climate awareness, advocacy and action

India Peace Center leads conversations on faith and action ahead of global climate conference in Brazil (LWI) - In preparation for COP30, to be held in Belém, Brazil, from 10–21 November 2025, the Ind...

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 8d

What do Nobel Economist Paul Krugman and Prof. Heather Cox Richardson have in common? They both know that government investments in renewables have paid off handsomely. #climateaction #climatehope #cleanenergy #solar

October 26, 2025

Economist Paul Krugman probably didn’t have the Erie Canal in mind today when he wrote about the rise of renewable energy, but he could have.

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 10d

Golly jeepers, who knew that fulfilling the Great Commandments would have such a big payoff? It’s as if we were created that way or something.

Column | A 6-year research project found a surprisingly simple route to happiness

How can we stay happy in an age gone mad, when it feels as though all is unstable? A study out of Cornell suggests a practical way to keep ourselves on a meaningful path — a happiness hack for our cha...

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 10d

I use Chenoweth’s findings to explain how big and broad and active the Climate Movement must be. Their research suggests that if a mvt includes 3.5% of a population it can be successful. Given speed/scale, I argue that we must become 5% by 2030 — 400 million worldwide! #climatemvt #climateaction

Talking With Erica Chenoweth

Civil resistance: Does it work, and when?

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 10d

The future we bequeath to them is a reflection of who we are. Our Values call us to be & become the forebearers who will be lauded by our children and generations to come. This is our time for their sake, our time to stand up and be counted. #climateaction #climatemvt #climatejustice #climatehope

Climate Change and the Vulnerable; Children and Subsequent Generations

Hope and Justice Series Post #2.6, part of The Who of Justice Subseries

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 11d

Together, in living in and living out our Movement Values of love, justice, beauty, freedom, creativity, wisdom, pragmatism, non-violence, sustainability, and success, we become who we are meant to be. #climatemvt #climatehope #climateaction

The Climate Movement Must Be Together Enough — Introduction

Olympian Fields of Action Series: Post #10

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 11d

Paige who? #paigebueckers

Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 12d

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 12d

Central Europe is giving a thumbs up to the planet and a big middle finger to Mr. Putin. Solar is beating fossil fuels, creating local jobs, reducing air and climate pollution, & creating home-grown clean energy. #climateaction #climatehope #climatemvt #cleanenergy

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 13d

Everywhere where solar-plus-batteries can compete without hostile political interference it is crushing the fossil competition. The economics will win out, but for climate we must accelerate this transformation. #climateaction #climatehope #solar tinyurl.com/4s93b37b

Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope: October 22, 2025 - DRAFT

Solar surges from California to Australia!

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 14d

Microsoft’s Word for IPad app has been freezing and crashing for days now, significantly hampering my work. Do they care? Very frustrated. #microsoft #microsoftcrasing

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 14d

In our time we must choose to create a future worthy of those who have come before us, a future worthy of our struggle, a future worthy of today’s children and those of a million tomorrows to come. We are not past-dwellers, we are future-makers. Join us! #climatemvt #climateaction #climatehope

Climate Change and Where We Are Today: Promise and Peril

Introductory Subseries of the Our Story Together Series — Post #1.6

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 17d

When those will less power band together & demand justice they create moral power. Not only that, they can create economic & political power if they stand together; and their power can grow as others with power join them. Together, the powerless can become powerful. #climatemvt #climateaction

Climate Change and The Powerless and Less Powerful; The Marginalized

Hope and Justice Series Post #2.5, part of The Who of Justice Subseries

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 18d

Today you have a chance to make history, to put your values to the test & join something bigger than yourself, to become a part of the greatest & most long-lasting social change mvt in the history of the world, to wake up with your mind on climate freedom. #climatehope #climatemvt #climateaction

Organic and Strategic Change in the Climate Movement, Part Three: The Birmingham Children’s Crusade

Olympian Fields of Action Series Post #9.3

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 18d

Cruelty and stupidity don’t have to be the last word. New, promising, and successful approaches to poverty & social issues are breaking through to alleviate suffering and help folks help themselves. As Emily Dickinson said, “Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.” #foreignaid

The End of Aid

The old model is dead. We spent a week watching a new one being born.

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 18d

Climate action & Nobel Econ Winners — a connection? Yes. #climateaction #climatehope #climatemvt #climatenobel #climatechange

Climate Action & Nobel Econ Winners

First Take — News in Climate Action Context — Strategic ARTC

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Jim Ball @jimballcht.bsky.social · 19d

Excellent news on global health. Thanks to public health efforts infectious diseases like COVID-19 & TB are no longer the leading causes of death. Chronic conditions like heart disease are. In middle & low income co.s that’s our next focus, along with climate impacts. #climatehealth #climatehope

Fix The News (@fixthenews)

Global health has entered its most hopeful phase in decades. A sweeping new analysis by The Lancet of 204 countries shows that between 2021 and 2023, COVID-19 fell from the world’s leading cause of ...

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