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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 3d

Who actually reads that, do you know? It's about as entertaining as that low-energy hunched over the desk chalky-voiced tired drab nonsense he spewed at the UN and in front of the generals.

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 4d

Sunday thought stimulation from @himself.bsky.social:

"small shifts on the margin towards collective good provision can have outsized consequences"

www.programmablemutter.com/p/in-praise-...
and
www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-aaron-...

In praise of negativity

On average, we're better at criticizing others than thinking originally ourselves

www.programmablemutter.com

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 4d

Einen Reset-Button!

Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 4d

die Falle der angeblich unstoppbaren rechtsradikalen Woge endgültig zuschnappt.

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 4d

Nun brauchen wir nur noch
Politiker:innen, die sich auf die Aufgabe besinnen zu ermöglichen, was die Mehrheit sich wünscht, und eine Methode finden, damit gehört zu werden.
Wählende, die das Machen unterstützen statt blockieren, weil sie den Nagel woanders hinsetzen würden.
Schnelligkeit, bevor -

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 4d

...they believe that Greens are anti-economy. Other progressive parties tend to capitalize on that notion, i.e. work against each other. There's also a tendency on the left to squabble and nitpick, leading to stuff like not voting for Kamala Harris. I think we must drop what we're doing & regroup.

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 4d

As clarification: it does not look like specific policies are what makes most voters tick, or tick ballot boxes. Arguably, parties converging on shared goals (see post) & are clear on what they oppose and why have a better chance to get through.
Hereabouts, some progressives don't vote green bc...

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Matt McGrath @mattmcgrathbbc.bsky.social · 4d

Thorough reporting on the scale of the loss of Switzerland’s glaciers

Before and after images show glaciers vanishing before our eyes

They are melting like never seen before, changing landscapes around the world beyond recognition.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 4d

Not saying fusion or giving up their own policies. But working together as staunchly democratic, progressive parties against the tide. Show how pro-economy and pro-ecology and climate enhance each other. Instead of fighting each other for progressive votes. Just an idea though, from a Swiss to boot!

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 4d

"sabotages TV to check paranoia"

"realizes his mistake"

At least the paranoia thing is settled though.

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 4d

If you don't yet, do follow @amywestervelt.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social @maxboykoff.bsky.social @drkatemarvel.bsky.social on why people seem so deaf to our climate predicaments. Spoiler: they don't get told how the solutions would benefit them while delay costs them and benefits the few.

Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 5d

Said it before, will probably die saying it, we are never going to solve the climate disinfo problem if we don't fix media. As @maxboykoff.bsky.social notes here, the public by and large learns about climate change via the media, so if the media trades in false equivalence, it's damaging!

Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 5d

Today, a look at the role the media has played in climate obstruction, with @maxboykoff.bsky.social and Melissa Aronczyk: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 4d

They should be growing together, as partners, showing how an inclusive, just, responsible economy and nature-positive, climate-stabilizing, people-empowering politics result in win-wins for the country, ending the destruction of natural and social capital for the sake of crackpots and billionaires.

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 4d

It's Lake Zurich, Switzerland. But we do get waves from boats... I hear it's way too calm for serious sailing :-)

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 4d

Question that needs to get asked of politicians much more...

Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 5d

'tis indeed! Lucky to be living in a place of beauty.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 5d

"My biggest concern is that we are starting to see changes cascading through different parts of the Antarctic environment" - Dr. @edoddridge.bsky.social

#ClimateEmergency

youtu.be/Lwn329y7-AI

Emergency in Antarctica as fears grow that we passed a tipping point

YouTube video by New Scientist

youtu.be

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 5d

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 5d

We need widespread deployment of sun and wind to limit the climate crisis
But it could limit the oligarch crisis too

Earth Agora @earthagora.bsky.social · 5d

Here comes the sun! The solar energy revolution – podcast.
Why might authoritarians fear the rise of green energy? With @billmckibben.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Here comes the sun! The solar energy revolution – podcast

Why might authoritarians fear the rise of green energy? With Bill McKibben

www.theguardian.com

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 5d

Watcha want... baby we got it 🎶

Out with the polluting stuff and its cost dumped on our health and our communities, and in with clean renewable energy and the independence it grants us.

Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 5d

Hmm. With solar energy, the big explosions take place 93 million miles away

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

A fireball lit up the sky across the Los Angeles area on Thursday night after an explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, alarming nearby residents who said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the explosion was not clear. No injuries were reported. nyti.ms/42pPCaW

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Patrick Marques @pmarques35.bsky.social · 5d

[1/3] Le 9e rapport #Copernicus mené par #MercatorOceanInternational révèle qu’à l’échelle planétaire, toutes les zones océaniques sont désormais affectées par la triple crise du climat, de la biodiversité et de la pollution, menaçant les équilibres écologiques et humains. #geography

Copernicus Marine Ocean State Report 9: A Triple Planetary Crisis is Affecting the Ocean - Mercator Ocean International

As implementors of the Copernicus Marine Service, Mercator Ocean has unveiled the ninth edition of its flagship Ocean State Report. The report provides evidence that every part of the ocean is now aff...

www.mercator-ocean.eu

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?

We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

www.theguardian.com

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 5d

Huh... perhaps it's that those who did the work for those hapless leaders are no longer doing it? That would indeed be biting one's a...

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 5d

Hope it felt better to write than to read! Nodding vigorously doesn't make up for the aftertaste of being unable to answer why we've come here after so many hundreds of years of hapless rulers on thrones and at the head of the kitchen table, right when it felt safe to think we're past that?

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 5d

😃

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Bettina Schwarzen @bettinaschwarzen.bsky.social · 6d

I learned a new word 😃