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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 9h

💥BREAKING💥 Four young Canadians just launched a lawsuit against the Canada Pension Plan investment manager, #CPP Investments, for alleged mismanagement of climate risks.

Read more about the case brought by @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social and @gpllp.bsky.social

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10h

Potential CO2 emissions from new projects 11 times global "carbon budget" remaining to hit Paris Agreement targets.

NGOs note 28 new ‘carbon bomb’ projects since 2021

Potential CO2 emissions from new projects 11 times global "carbon budget" remaining to hit Paris Agreement targets.

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

this question being led by a private firm (and potential privatization of rollout) is a worst case scenario if you ask me

Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 3d

Major scoop from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social:

Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight as soon as the 2030s.

heatmap.news/climate-tech...

Exclusive: Stardust Solutions Raises $60 Million to Build a Solar Geoengineering System by 2030

A U.S. firm led by former Israeli government physicists, Stardust seeks to patent its proprietary sunlight-scattering particle — but it won’t deploy its technology until global governments authorize s...

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Jack McGovan @jackmcgovan.bsky.social · 4d

"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."

Taxing the rich works!

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 4d

It’s not just Conservative politicians who are pushing a new oil pipeline to the West Coast — a sprawling right-wing network of columnists, think tanks and companies are amplifying one another’s messaging. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/a...

The pipeline ‘petrobloc’ is pressuring Carney to cave on Northern Gateway revival

It’s not just Conservative politicians who are pushing a new oil pipeline to the West Coast — a sprawling right-wing network of columnists, think tanks and companies are amplifying one another’s messa...

www.nationalobserver.com

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 5d

Rather than think about desired destinations, we should instead think about climate change as an emergency - and act now to limit it as much as possible. That demands the rapid phase out of fossil fuels. If we do not do that we are cooked. 4/6 www.technosphere.earth/as-dreams-of...

As dreams of 1.5°C melt away, net zero’s reckoning is overdue

People’s inability to see past net zero shows it is no longer fit for purpose

www.technosphere.earth

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Heather Short @drshort.bsky.social · 5d

Read the entire thread. Just do it.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

1. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d

For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d

Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar

Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 6d

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 7d

Yay!
Supporters Cheer After Indigenous Land Defenders Avoid Jail.
Have a read: via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Supporters Cheer After Indigenous Land Defenders Avoid Jail | The Tyee

Judge rejects the prosecutors’ call for more jail time for protesters arrested at a Coastal GasLink pipeline work site.

thetyee.ca

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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 7d

Ecojustice Lawyers Reid Gomme, Danielle Gallant and litigant Alex Neufeldt will update you on how the groundbreaking youth-led Mathur et. al. v. Ontario case is moving forward.

REGISTER NOW 👉 bit.ly/42NVZF8

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 7d

From a 2022 piece by Gledhill, Shay, & @allardduursma.bsky.social: "campaigns that are more creative, humorous, cathartic, and/or fun are also more likely to be large-scale" civil resistance campaigns bc of the "feelings of empowerment, solidarity, catharsis, or glee that accompany these events."

Glee and Grievance: Emotive Events and Campaign Size in Nonviolent Resistance

While scholars of nonviolent resistance recognize that large-scale campaigns are more likely to be successful campaigns, scholars and policymakers currently have little understanding of why some nonvi...

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Heather Short @drshort.bsky.social · 7d

Reducing wealth inequality & greenhouse gas emissions are inextricably intertwined.

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 11d

"The richest 10% is responsible for almost half of our carbon pollution. But even more shocking? When you look at just the richest 1%, they're responsible for more pollution than half of Americans. That's about 65 million households."

h/t @cityatlas.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgA0...

How much carbon pollution does it take to create wealth for the richest Americans...a lot!

YouTube video by Jared Starr

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Heather Short @drshort.bsky.social · 8d

it comes down to human exceptionalism

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Should we treat environmental crime more like murder?

Serial killers and violent criminals dominate the headlines. What if we covered ecocide and pollution in the same way?

www.theguardian.com

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Heather Short @drshort.bsky.social · 9d

Ask for something 'sin carne' and they'll give you chicken.

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Building Left Podcast @buildingleft.bsky.social · 9d

In a time of market failure does Canada need a national public option for food, housing and Internet? NDP Leadership Candidate @avilewis.ca shared these big, bold ideas and others in our Candidate Spotlight on Building Left.

On Podbean or your fave podcast app!
www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-er...

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Heather Short @drshort.bsky.social · 10d

"Maslin said the environmental impact of tech consumption was estimated to account for 6% of the human-driven climate crisis; double that of the aviation industry."

Think about that one for two minutes.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Overconsumption and ruin: before and after images visualise how tech could harm our planet

From Venice to the Iguazu Falls, an exhibition in London illustrates the hidden cost of our gadgets and devices

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 10d

We are at a fork in the road. Crossing the first global tipping point should not be an excuse to lock in geoengineering, with its empty promises & spiralling risks. My latest for Technosphere Earth with @mandibissett.bsky.social
www.technosphere.earth/climate-tipp...

Climate tipping points should not be used to justify geoengineering

We are at a fork in the road. Crossing the first global tipping point should not be an excuse to lock in geoengineering, with its empty promises and spiralling risks.

www.technosphere.earth

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Heather Short @drshort.bsky.social · 10d

"Industry agendas – whether the industry is tobacco, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, or tech – rarely align with human welfare or disinterested research, especially when left unchecked and unregulated."

Project Syndicate @projectsyndicate.bsky.social · 10d

Tech companies want us to outsource all cognitive labor to their models. Instead, academics must defend universities by barring toxic, addictive AI technologies from classrooms, argue @olivia.science and @irisvanrooij.bsky.social .
bit.ly/48FNcJj

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

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Heather Short @drshort.bsky.social · 10d

What the hell is going on in the tech broligarchy's heads? Seriously?

Do they really think they can outsmart physics?

www.thenation.com/article/envi...

AI Is Going to Kill Everyone You Love. The Surprise Is How.

It’s not hostile super robots you should worry about—it’s the heat they’ll generate.

www.thenation.com

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 11d

“We’ve been jailed before for holding our potlatches and speaking our language and taking care of our territory since contact. And that never stopped us,” said Jen Wickham, spokesperson for the Gidimt’en Checkpoint. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/15/n...

Sentencing of land defenders tests Canada’s commitment to Indigenous rights

Three Wet’suwet’en land defenders face sentencing this week for protecting their unceded territory against a controversial pipeline — one of the longest ongoing Indigenous land rights struggles in Can...

www.nationalobserver.com

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The Planetary Security Initiative @plansecu.bsky.social · Mar 12

🔥 A journal article by Tristram Dick Wyatt, Charlie Gardner, and Aaron Thierry, published in @royalsociety.org Open Science, argues that scientists must go beyond research and take a stand against fossil fuels.

📖 Read the full article here 👇
www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/news/role-sc...

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Jun 19

In the past year we've had a series of papers with results that've shocked #climate scientists - the globe is heating #FasterThanExpected & we don't fully know why

The public discourse is not keeping up.

Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵

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Heather Short @drshort.bsky.social · 11d

Yes and people also should take care to not rest on personal consumption changes if they can also work towards systemic change through collective action.

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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 12d

Of course, we need system-level changes! But under no circumstances should we discourage people from changing high-impact behaviors like eating less meat, reducing air travel, or consuming less. If people can change now, they should. There’s no reason to wait for the perfect system to arrive first!

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