the treemugger
@treemugger.bsky.social
in search of climate futures #ClimateJustice
Environmental news from the colony called australia, interested in #EconomicJustice, #SocialJustice, networks empowering people to adapt
no trees actually harmed
#auspol #feminist #socialism #greenpolitics
Environmental news from the colony called australia, interested in #EconomicJustice, #SocialJustice, networks empowering people to adapt
no trees actually harmed
#auspol #feminist #socialism #greenpolitics
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DAY TWO OF ME ENDLESSLY PROMOTING SOMETHING I'M PROUD OF
Here's a new video summary, focusing on the flimsy evidence behind the claim AI tech will make global emissions plummet by gigatonnes and how similar that is to something you might recognise.....
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...
Here's a new video summary, focusing on the flimsy evidence behind the claim AI tech will make global emissions plummet by gigatonnes and how similar that is to something you might recognise.....
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...
February 18, 2026 at 8:25 AM
DAY TWO OF ME ENDLESSLY PROMOTING SOMETHING I'M PROUD OF
Here's a new video summary, focusing on the flimsy evidence behind the claim AI tech will make global emissions plummet by gigatonnes and how similar that is to something you might recognise.....
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...
Here's a new video summary, focusing on the flimsy evidence behind the claim AI tech will make global emissions plummet by gigatonnes and how similar that is to something you might recognise.....
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...
Exactly so.
Then she does the little performance of I sincerely dialling it back, after a few days of solid media coverage on MSM and social media.
Rinse repeat.
She needs to be treated as a grifter and fascist media manipulator, not someone to seriously argue with
Then she does the little performance of I sincerely dialling it back, after a few days of solid media coverage on MSM and social media.
Rinse repeat.
She needs to be treated as a grifter and fascist media manipulator, not someone to seriously argue with
Don’t forget, when Pauline drops racist bombshells into the media for everyone to react to, she’s now being funded by Gina Rinehart, major contributor to racist propaganda group Advance and inspired by MAGA-guru Steve “flood the zone with bullshit” Bannon.
The offence is the point.
The offence is the point.
February 18, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Exactly so.
Then she does the little performance of I sincerely dialling it back, after a few days of solid media coverage on MSM and social media.
Rinse repeat.
She needs to be treated as a grifter and fascist media manipulator, not someone to seriously argue with
Then she does the little performance of I sincerely dialling it back, after a few days of solid media coverage on MSM and social media.
Rinse repeat.
She needs to be treated as a grifter and fascist media manipulator, not someone to seriously argue with
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Nearly half of Fire Rescue Victoria trucks are “out of date, dangerous, and should be off the road," says Peter Marshall. "Fire trucks are failing daily. Firefighters’ lives [are] being put at risk – as well as members of the community and their families.” satpa.pe/7sLD0ad
The case for up-to-date bushfire detection and suppression
Bushfire experts say Victoria’s firefighting strategy is in urgent need of upgrading, given its overreliance on back-burning and underinvestment in early detection.
satpa.pe
February 17, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Nearly half of Fire Rescue Victoria trucks are “out of date, dangerous, and should be off the road," says Peter Marshall. "Fire trucks are failing daily. Firefighters’ lives [are] being put at risk – as well as members of the community and their families.” satpa.pe/7sLD0ad
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🧵Note #Auspol. We now have as Shadow Treasurer someone who was not only an Atlas Network partner actor, and also on the Mont Pelerin Society, but someone who was shortlisted for the top 🌎 Atlas Network prize for betraying Australia for fossil fuel. He led a team rewarded for killing the carbon price
February 17, 2026 at 9:23 AM
🧵Note #Auspol. We now have as Shadow Treasurer someone who was not only an Atlas Network partner actor, and also on the Mont Pelerin Society, but someone who was shortlisted for the top 🌎 Atlas Network prize for betraying Australia for fossil fuel. He led a team rewarded for killing the carbon price
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Environmental reforms rushed through parliament at the end of last year in a deal between Labor and the Greens were welcomed as a “net positive for the oil and gas sector,” according to a senior government bureaucrat.
New from me.
New from me.
EPBC reforms a ‘net positive’ for oil and gas, according to Department
Environmental reforms rushed through parliament at the end of last year in a deal between Labor and the Greens were welcomed as a “net positive for the oil and gas sector,” according to a senior gover...
thepoint.com.au
February 18, 2026 at 3:54 AM
Environmental reforms rushed through parliament at the end of last year in a deal between Labor and the Greens were welcomed as a “net positive for the oil and gas sector,” according to a senior government bureaucrat.
New from me.
New from me.
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March in March for Forests! ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿 @bobbrownfoundation
"📣 On 22 March, rise up with thousands of people around the country to call for an end to native forest logging.
RSVP or sign up to volunteer — marchforforests.org
#MarchForForests #EndNativeForestLogging"
"📣 On 22 March, rise up with thousands of people around the country to call for an end to native forest logging.
RSVP or sign up to volunteer — marchforforests.org
#MarchForForests #EndNativeForestLogging"
February 17, 2026 at 5:26 AM
March in March for Forests! ✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿 @bobbrownfoundation
"📣 On 22 March, rise up with thousands of people around the country to call for an end to native forest logging.
RSVP or sign up to volunteer — marchforforests.org
#MarchForForests #EndNativeForestLogging"
"📣 On 22 March, rise up with thousands of people around the country to call for an end to native forest logging.
RSVP or sign up to volunteer — marchforforests.org
#MarchForForests #EndNativeForestLogging"
See also, Petro-fascism.
Fascism bankrolled by fossil fuel billionaires, who would rather see fascism destroy democracy, than face growing democratic demands for economic and climate justice.
Fascism bankrolled by fossil fuel billionaires, who would rather see fascism destroy democracy, than face growing democratic demands for economic and climate justice.
Just learnt a new term:
Petro-masculinity
Where burning down the planet is a strong thing
Petro-masculinity
Where burning down the planet is a strong thing
February 17, 2026 at 8:49 AM
See also, Petro-fascism.
Fascism bankrolled by fossil fuel billionaires, who would rather see fascism destroy democracy, than face growing democratic demands for economic and climate justice.
Fascism bankrolled by fossil fuel billionaires, who would rather see fascism destroy democracy, than face growing democratic demands for economic and climate justice.
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Even now, I see people acting like Elon killed USAID out of ignorance & wondering how he could have made such a mistake
Folks, he believes in the White Genocide Myth
Mass death in affected countries was the desired outcome. He didn't just happen to accidentally make the same choices a Nazi would
Folks, he believes in the White Genocide Myth
Mass death in affected countries was the desired outcome. He didn't just happen to accidentally make the same choices a Nazi would
As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN
It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...
www.cnn.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Even now, I see people acting like Elon killed USAID out of ignorance & wondering how he could have made such a mistake
Folks, he believes in the White Genocide Myth
Mass death in affected countries was the desired outcome. He didn't just happen to accidentally make the same choices a Nazi would
Folks, he believes in the White Genocide Myth
Mass death in affected countries was the desired outcome. He didn't just happen to accidentally make the same choices a Nazi would
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The opening lines of the VFA submission to the forest fire management consultation process that's open now.
Head to our website to read the submission and craft your own - they close on the 20th.
www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/ffmv-strateg...
Head to our website to read the submission and craft your own - they close on the 20th.
www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/ffmv-strateg...
February 17, 2026 at 6:28 AM
The opening lines of the VFA submission to the forest fire management consultation process that's open now.
Head to our website to read the submission and craft your own - they close on the 20th.
www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/ffmv-strateg...
Head to our website to read the submission and craft your own - they close on the 20th.
www.victorianforestalliance.org.au/ffmv-strateg...
The billionaires and their cronies are into eugenics, climate denial and white supremacy for the same reason: to mass cull populations they deem inferior to them, populations they also see as resource competition and a political threat.
"Maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation ... potentially a good thing for the species." - Jeffrey Epstein
"From: "jeffrey E." <[email protected]>
To: Joscha Bach
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016
re taboo , maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation. the earths forest fire. potentailly a
good thing for the species".. 1/2
To: Joscha Bach
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016
re taboo , maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation. the earths forest fire. potentailly a
good thing for the species".. 1/2
February 17, 2026 at 8:32 AM
The billionaires and their cronies are into eugenics, climate denial and white supremacy for the same reason: to mass cull populations they deem inferior to them, populations they also see as resource competition and a political threat.
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OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
February 17, 2026 at 6:48 AM
OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
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Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing
Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing
Industry using ‘diversionary’ tactics, says analyst, as energy-hungry complex functions such as video generation and deep research proliferate
Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report.
Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools driving the sector’s explosive growth of gas-guzzling datacentres, the analysis of 154 statements found. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing
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We need more stories that help people learn from what’s working.
Not just what’s going wrong.
Not just what “has to happen by 2050.”
Real examples of action that others can see, understand & build on.
Here's a 🧵on advice & tips for sharing #climate stories that actually inspire action.
Not just what’s going wrong.
Not just what “has to happen by 2050.”
Real examples of action that others can see, understand & build on.
Here's a 🧵on advice & tips for sharing #climate stories that actually inspire action.
February 16, 2026 at 8:14 AM
We need more stories that help people learn from what’s working.
Not just what’s going wrong.
Not just what “has to happen by 2050.”
Real examples of action that others can see, understand & build on.
Here's a 🧵on advice & tips for sharing #climate stories that actually inspire action.
Not just what’s going wrong.
Not just what “has to happen by 2050.”
Real examples of action that others can see, understand & build on.
Here's a 🧵on advice & tips for sharing #climate stories that actually inspire action.
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This, @albomp.bsky.social is a disgrace. We can find 100's of $billions for obsolete war toys that we'll never see
Want to discuss national security?
Nothing makes us more secure than advanced research, science and developing technology
Give 'em enough $ & they might be able to grow you a spine
Want to discuss national security?
Nothing makes us more secure than advanced research, science and developing technology
Give 'em enough $ & they might be able to grow you a spine
The CSIRO is nearing the end of a long road of diminishing returns and may not be able to survive without significant intervention, reports Rick Morton. satpa.pe/CeGYR6Z
CSIRO funding falling short by ‘at least’ $1 billion
Internal correspondence and Senate submissions show the CSIRO is running out of money and may lose its position as a leading research agency.
satpa.pe
February 17, 2026 at 1:24 AM
This, @albomp.bsky.social is a disgrace. We can find 100's of $billions for obsolete war toys that we'll never see
Want to discuss national security?
Nothing makes us more secure than advanced research, science and developing technology
Give 'em enough $ & they might be able to grow you a spine
Want to discuss national security?
Nothing makes us more secure than advanced research, science and developing technology
Give 'em enough $ & they might be able to grow you a spine
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THE SACRED KINGFISHERS HAVE TWO BABIES!!!
They were quietly chattering away on our power line and I managed to photograph one of them before they retreated to a neighbour's TV antenna to glare at me.
They were quietly chattering away on our power line and I managed to photograph one of them before they retreated to a neighbour's TV antenna to glare at me.
February 17, 2026 at 1:33 AM
THE SACRED KINGFISHERS HAVE TWO BABIES!!!
They were quietly chattering away on our power line and I managed to photograph one of them before they retreated to a neighbour's TV antenna to glare at me.
They were quietly chattering away on our power line and I managed to photograph one of them before they retreated to a neighbour's TV antenna to glare at me.
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The world is so very bad, but this week we hung in our house a tapestry my mother wove, my father made the wooden hanger for with salmon-shaped hardware my brother cast out of copper, based on a photo I made on the middle fork of the Koyukuk River. It feels like the confluence of many homes.
February 16, 2026 at 11:22 PM
The world is so very bad, but this week we hung in our house a tapestry my mother wove, my father made the wooden hanger for with salmon-shaped hardware my brother cast out of copper, based on a photo I made on the middle fork of the Koyukuk River. It feels like the confluence of many homes.
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BREAKING: The federal court has dismissed a greenwashing case against Australian oil producer Santos, with the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility ordered to pay the company's legal costs. The reasons for this are unknown, with publication of the decision deferred to 23 February.
February 16, 2026 at 10:38 PM
BREAKING: The federal court has dismissed a greenwashing case against Australian oil producer Santos, with the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility ordered to pay the company's legal costs. The reasons for this are unknown, with publication of the decision deferred to 23 February.
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The Australian govt hands out $26B per year in nature-harming subsidies
This represents ~4% of the total federal budget
Or twice as much as the federal govt invests in supporting government schools nationally
Or 25 times more than they spend on looking after nature
via @biodivcouncil.bsky.social
This represents ~4% of the total federal budget
Or twice as much as the federal govt invests in supporting government schools nationally
Or 25 times more than they spend on looking after nature
via @biodivcouncil.bsky.social
The Australian Government’s $26 billion per year nature-harming problem revealed by study | Biodiversity Council Australia
Groundbreaking research has uncovered that the Australian Government is providing $26 billion per year in financial support to activities that harm the nation's unique natural environment, known as bi...
biodiversitycouncil.org.au
February 16, 2026 at 11:25 PM
The Australian govt hands out $26B per year in nature-harming subsidies
This represents ~4% of the total federal budget
Or twice as much as the federal govt invests in supporting government schools nationally
Or 25 times more than they spend on looking after nature
via @biodivcouncil.bsky.social
This represents ~4% of the total federal budget
Or twice as much as the federal govt invests in supporting government schools nationally
Or 25 times more than they spend on looking after nature
via @biodivcouncil.bsky.social
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Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol
February 16, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol
The far right parties are pushing culture wars, because they get so thoroughly rejected once people see their actual conduct in office, or what happens in countries where their peers have more power.
They couldn't do it without enabling MSM.
They couldn't do it without enabling MSM.
‘Taylor went on to promise to scrap “bad carbon taxes” and appoint a shadow energy minister to fight Labor’s “ruinous” green energy policies.’
Angus Taylor wants to restart the climate wars.
Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus.
www.smh.com.au/national/aus...
Angus Taylor wants to restart the climate wars.
Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus.
www.smh.com.au/national/aus...
Australia news LIVE: Popular support for One Nation surges, draws level with Coalition; Police return to property where Gus Lamont went missing
Follow along as we bring you the latest live news updates from Australia and beyond.
www.smh.com.au
February 17, 2026 at 1:12 AM
The far right parties are pushing culture wars, because they get so thoroughly rejected once people see their actual conduct in office, or what happens in countries where their peers have more power.
They couldn't do it without enabling MSM.
They couldn't do it without enabling MSM.
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Speaking on an Australia Institute webinar, Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz has urged the Australian Government to “follow the money” and start imposing a “a very, very high tax rate” on the country’s natural resources.
Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qEs0bO
Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qEs0bO
February 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Speaking on an Australia Institute webinar, Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz has urged the Australian Government to “follow the money” and start imposing a “a very, very high tax rate” on the country’s natural resources.
Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qEs0bO
Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qEs0bO
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If you missed this yesterday , I am stoked that's now in Hansard with evidence, The Liberal Party was founded by a fossil fuel org.
@jeremywalker.bsky.social
Answers questions on his 182? Page submission to disinformation in climate..
www.youtube.com/live/Vwuqxfy...
@jeremywalker.bsky.social
Answers questions on his 182? Page submission to disinformation in climate..
www.youtube.com/live/Vwuqxfy...
Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy | 16/02/2026
YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal
www.youtube.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:15 AM
If you missed this yesterday , I am stoked that's now in Hansard with evidence, The Liberal Party was founded by a fossil fuel org.
@jeremywalker.bsky.social
Answers questions on his 182? Page submission to disinformation in climate..
www.youtube.com/live/Vwuqxfy...
@jeremywalker.bsky.social
Answers questions on his 182? Page submission to disinformation in climate..
www.youtube.com/live/Vwuqxfy...
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If this hot weather is not for you, join us tomorrow to think cool, green thoughts! We have two incredible forests experts lined up to tell us all about the complex and critically important role of forests for planetary health! RSVP below to get the Zoom link - this one is not to be missed! 🌳🌿🍃
February 17, 2026 at 12:21 AM
If this hot weather is not for you, join us tomorrow to think cool, green thoughts! We have two incredible forests experts lined up to tell us all about the complex and critically important role of forests for planetary health! RSVP below to get the Zoom link - this one is not to be missed! 🌳🌿🍃
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The Federal Court of Australia today found that Santos Ltd did not engage in misleading or deceptive conduct in its 2020 Annual Report, 2020 Investor Day Briefing and 2021 Climate Change Report. www.accr.org.au/news/accr-ca...
February 17, 2026 at 12:26 AM
The Federal Court of Australia today found that Santos Ltd did not engage in misleading or deceptive conduct in its 2020 Annual Report, 2020 Investor Day Briefing and 2021 Climate Change Report. www.accr.org.au/news/accr-ca...