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Ryan Brightwell @ryanbrightwell.bsky.social · 19h

A new study shows how much the global oil and gas industry is contributing to renewable energy. And it is ... 1.42%.

scienmag.com/fossil-fuel-...

This kind of melts away a lot of arguments from the finance sector about why they should keep propping up these companies so they can "transition".

Fossil Fuel Firms Oversee Just 1% of Global Renewable Energy Projects,

A recent comprehensive study conducted by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) delivers a sobering assessment of the fossil fuel

scienmag.com

Ryan Brightwell @ryanbrightwell.bsky.social · 4d

It's almost as if we can't rely on the global banking sector to solve climate change

BankTrack @banktrack.bsky.social · 4d

The Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) has officially dissolved, but little changes — it had already lost credibility. Banks won’t align with climate goals voluntarily, regulation is now essential.
#NZBA #ClimateFinance

www.banktrack.org/article/bank...

BankTrack’s statement on the dissolution of the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA)

The announcement of the immediate dissolution of the Net Zero Banking Alliance finally puts an end to its sad spiral of decline. But very little will change in practice, as the NZBA had already…

www.banktrack.org

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Oxfam Novib @oxfamnovib.bsky.social · 5d

🖍️ Wij trekken de Rode Lijn. We eisen met 250.000 mensen actie van onze regering tegen de genocide in Gaza! #WijZijnMetMeer #RodeLijn

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Ryan Brightwell @ryanbrightwell.bsky.social · 5d

Rockefeller Brothers Fund provides funding to a huge number of good campaigning organisations, including ones working directly and fearlessly against Israel's genocide. So I don't agree with your analysis here.

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Ryan Brightwell @ryanbrightwell.bsky.social · 14d

"The increases in fossil fuel production [in governments' current plans] would lead to global production levels in 2030 that are 500%, 31%, and 92% higher for coal, oil, and gas, respectively, than the median 1.5ºC-consistent pathway."
productiongap.org/2025report
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2025 Report - Production Gap

productiongap.org

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Andrew Simms @andrewsimms.bsky.social · Sep 9

We asked the UK advertising watchdog, the ASA, to investigate its own ads for being misleading. Then, to use the universal language of clickbait, this happened (they said their own rules didn't apply to them)
@badvertising.bsky.social @adfreecities.bsky.social

theecologist.org/2025/sep/09/...

The watchdog living beyond its rules

Advertising regulator in Britain asked to investigate its own adverts...

theecologist.org

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Ryan Brightwell @ryanbrightwell.bsky.social · 19d

Minor spoiler alert...

They have money. There is childcare in the US for people who can afford it, I assume.

The whole reason for the break up seems to be that one of them has to sacrifice their career on the altar of their marriage & kids.

But shit, just get a child minder. What am I missing.

Ryan Brightwell @ryanbrightwell.bsky.social · 19d

We went to see The Roses.

I need someone to tell me, why didn't they just get childcare?

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Ryan Brightwell @ryanbrightwell.bsky.social · 19d

A majority in the Dutch parliament wants "antifa" banned. Including the "grown-ups" of the VVD.

This despite there being no such organisation as "antifa", and a complete absence of debate about the proposal.

The slide to authoritarianism is happening here too.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Fact Check: Netherlands Did NOT Officially Label Antifa A Terrorist Group On September 18, 2025 -- Parliament Made Request To Government

Did the Dutch government officially label Antifa as a terrorist organization on September 18, 2025? No, that's not true: The Dutch parliament only passed a motion requesting that the government do tha...

www.yahoo.com

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CUEB: The Customer Union for Ethical Banking @cuebcustomerunion.bsky.social · 19d

💡 Did you know the Customer Union has a formal recognition agreement with The Co-operative Bank?

🤝We met with the bank to represent our members and ask their questions.

📖Read our update on the meeting in our latest newsletter:
saveourbank.coop/newsletter-2...
#union #coops #ethical #banking

Newsletter September 2025 | Customer Union for Ethical Banking

saveourbank.coop

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21d

"Because someone died, we have to take away your rights" -- the same pretextual rationale that authoritarians always use

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

Kayleigh McEnany on Jimmy Kimmel's suspension: "For all the concern about the 'the First Amendment, the First Amendment,' what about all the amendments that Charlie Kirk lost? Because Charlie Kirk has no amendments right now. None."

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 22d

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today.

Charlie Kirk was no exception.

Charlie Kirk's extremism was fossil fueled

Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.

heated.world

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BankTrack @banktrack.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 Fighting harmful bank finance? We just launched a Users' Guide for communities & their allies on how to use bank human rights complaint channels: 👇
www.banktrack.org/campaign/hru...

Bank Human Rights Complaints Channels: A Users' Guide

About this Users’ Guide This Users’ Guide is designed to support rights-holders and their representatives, civil society organisations, and other stakeholders, in understanding how to raise…

www.banktrack.org

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Ryan Brightwell @ryanbrightwell.bsky.social · 22d

Proud and happy to launch our new Users' Guide to bank human rights complaints channels.
We hope it makes these channels more accessible and widely used, and that banks take action as a result!

BankTrack @banktrack.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 Fighting harmful bank finance? We just launched a Users' Guide for communities & their allies on how to use bank human rights complaint channels: 👇
www.banktrack.org/campaign/hru...

Bank Human Rights Complaints Channels: A Users' Guide

About this Users’ Guide This Users’ Guide is designed to support rights-holders and their representatives, civil society organisations, and other stakeholders, in understanding how to raise…

www.banktrack.org

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · Sep 10

Here are 10 provocations on climate and energy. Tell me if you agree, disagree or have a nuanced take. Drop your own provocations in reply or quote post.

Start:

1. By 2030, the use of air conditioning will lead to greater increase in electricity demand than data centers. And it's not even close!

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Ryan Brightwell @ryanbrightwell.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thanks. I'm no climate scientist, but it's not so reassuring that the worst tipping points are only around 3C, since earlier tipping points may well push us there anyway. Being "directionally correct" is still terrifying.

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Ryan Brightwell @ryanbrightwell.bsky.social · Sep 10

Trump's aid cuts in Uganda and Tanzania are leading to babies being born with HIV because mothers could not get medication and a rise in life-threatening infections.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Trump’s aid cuts in east Africa led to unwanted abortion and babies being born with HIV – report

Doctors, nurses, patients and other experts describe the loss of decades of progress in beating the virus in 100 days after Pepfar was disrupted

www.theguardian.com

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Ryan Brightwell @ryanbrightwell.bsky.social · Sep 10

All super interesting, but missing the wood for the trees? A provocation then - big picture, we're already at 1.5 degrees, and even with a rapid solar build-out the likelyhood of avoiding 2 looks slim. Past 2 degrees, tipping points lead to an unlivable climate within a few hundred years or less.

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Ryan Brightwell @ryanbrightwell.bsky.social · Aug 31

That's a spurious statistic, as a quick bit of online research will show. Also, what's your point? This doesn't matter as other things kill more people?
healthjournalism.org/blog/2023/07...

Medical Error Is Not the Third Leading Cause of Death

In the first episode of the television show The Resident, a nurse tells the young protagonist that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States after cancer and heart disease...

www.mcgill.ca

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · Aug 29

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it.

ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures.

Losers with power become the most dangerous kind.

(c/o Caroline Codsi)

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Ryan Brightwell @ryanbrightwell.bsky.social · Aug 29

Air pollution from the oil and gas sector causes 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of illnesses in the US each year. Communities of colour face the greatest burden.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study

Study analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harm

www.theguardian.com

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Hannah O’Neill @hannahoneill.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is wild, and topping the list is Raiffeisen Bank International. RBI currently earns nearly 50% of its profits from its Russian subsidiary, which has allegedly invested in Russian sovereign debt. But Austria’s Finance Ministry sees no problem here - and just announced it won't take action.

BankTrack @banktrack.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨 New research from @b4ukraine.org, Squeezing Putin, and the KSE Institute finds that international banks handed over >$1.2 billion in tax revenues to the Kremlin in 2024.

That's enough to finance over 65,000 contract soldiers for the Russian army.

b4ukraine.org/pdf/B4Ukrain...

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Ryan Brightwell @ryanbrightwell.bsky.social · Aug 28

Of 33 minerals the UK calls 'critical':

⛔6 are not needed at all for a green transition;
🔽15 are only needed in small amounts;
⛏️Only 7 need significant production increases for a move to net zero.

Overall, a net zero transition "can be accommodated" with existing mineral production levels.

Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · Aug 7

"We can’t build a green future on the exploitation of poorer countries, and we don’t have to. We can achieve a green transition, but there’s a need to transform how our economy works." - @cleodierickard.bsky.social

Our latest report covered in @theecologist.org 👇🏽

theecologist.org/2025/aug/07/...

Military diverting critical materials from renewables

Campaigners say green transition must not be hijacked by military industries or used to undermine the economies of developing countries.

theecologist.org

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Ryan Brightwell @ryanbrightwell.bsky.social · Aug 27

So, the Labour govt reaction to Farage's plans to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers was to say it was "pie in the sky".

Their problem with this abhorrent plan is that it's ... impractical? Simply not realistic?

I'm so much more stunned by this than Reform UK's performative cruelty.

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Ryan Brightwell @ryanbrightwell.bsky.social · Aug 27

So, the Labour govt reaction to Farage's plans to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers was to say it was "pie in the sky".

Their problem with this abhorrent plan is that it's ... impractical? Simply not realistic?

I'm so much more stunned by this than Reform UK's performative cruelty.

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