Monika Sobiecki
@cybersobiecki.bsky.social
Barrister and Partner @BindmansLLP | Postgraduate researcher @QMUL on surveillance and climate justice | Lawyers Are Responsible (http://www.lar.earth) | Digital rights are human rights |
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An odd choice of headline when you discover the same report also predicts billions of deaths.
But the belief that money trumps life runs deep in this suicidal system.
But the belief that money trumps life runs deep in this suicidal system.
Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries
Exclusive: Report by risk experts says previous assessments ignored severe effects of climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
“At 3C or more of heating by 2050, there could be more than 4 billion deaths, significant sociopolitical fragmentation worldwide, failure of states (with resulting rapid, enduring, and significant loss of capital), extinction events… there was no realistic plan in place to avoid this scenario”
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“The entire financial system, including government bonds and mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not.”
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
“The entire financial system, including government bonds and mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not.”
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Voices in the Global South say that AI computing (whose producers remain principally in the Global North) is evolving as a new form of extractive colonialism. Some Indigenous people say it is time to question limitless technological innovation with its heavy environmental and social costs.
AI data center revolution sucks up world’s energy, water, materials
In 2024, the state of Querétaro in north-central Mexico suffered its worst drought in a century, impacting crops and communities. Seventeen of the state’s 18 municipalities were affected, putting…
news.mongabay.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Voices in the Global South say that AI computing (whose producers remain principally in the Global North) is evolving as a new form of extractive colonialism. Some Indigenous people say it is time to question limitless technological innovation with its heavy environmental and social costs.
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Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100.
Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
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Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100.
Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
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Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.
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Important thread.
"I don't think many folks, apparently including Gates & advisors, appreciate just how radically transformed a 2.5-3C warmer world would be."
Indeed that is the key problem. They don't get it. But whenever we try to state it clearly, it's dismissed as alarmist. Catch 22.
"I don't think many folks, apparently including Gates & advisors, appreciate just how radically transformed a 2.5-3C warmer world would be."
Indeed that is the key problem. They don't get it. But whenever we try to state it clearly, it's dismissed as alarmist. Catch 22.
I strongly agree--both because I personally believe that it's the right thing to do and also because the evidence supports it--that rapidly addressing poverty, health inequity, and food/water insecurity should be a first-order priority. Full stop. No argument there. [3/n]
October 31, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Important thread.
"I don't think many folks, apparently including Gates & advisors, appreciate just how radically transformed a 2.5-3C warmer world would be."
Indeed that is the key problem. They don't get it. But whenever we try to state it clearly, it's dismissed as alarmist. Catch 22.
"I don't think many folks, apparently including Gates & advisors, appreciate just how radically transformed a 2.5-3C warmer world would be."
Indeed that is the key problem. They don't get it. But whenever we try to state it clearly, it's dismissed as alarmist. Catch 22.
“Derailment can result from climate impacts, like how worsening disasters…sap resources [for adaptation]…lead[ing] to more expensive disasters. Derailment can also result from the consequences of climate action, like how the impacts of green policies can be exploited…to drive a political backlash.”
We have ****ed the climate. Dressing this up as temporary overshoot is indefensible. But this does not mean we are doomed, & it certainly doesn't mean there is no point in trying to turn off the fossil fuel spigot. It's time to get real with climate risks.
www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...
www.technosphere.earth/derailment-w...
Derailment warning as world faces threats to its ability to act on climate change
We may have seriously underestimated the risks of climate change. This includes derailment risks. This does not mean we are doomed, and it certainly does not mean there is no point in trying to turn o...
www.technosphere.earth
October 31, 2025 at 9:17 AM
“Derailment can result from climate impacts, like how worsening disasters…sap resources [for adaptation]…lead[ing] to more expensive disasters. Derailment can also result from the consequences of climate action, like how the impacts of green policies can be exploited…to drive a political backlash.”
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🥳🎉 “This is a major step forward. It’s a relief to see the Court recognise... that new oil and gas fields threaten our most basic human rights. Requiring governments to assess the global #climate consequences of oil &gas combustion before approving new fossil projects is common sense,& long overdue"
European human rights court sets climate limits for the oil industry - Greenpeace International
Today, The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Norway must assess the global climate impacts of oil and gas before opening new oil fields on the Norwegian continental shelf in order ...
www.greenpeace.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🥳🎉 “This is a major step forward. It’s a relief to see the Court recognise... that new oil and gas fields threaten our most basic human rights. Requiring governments to assess the global #climate consequences of oil &gas combustion before approving new fossil projects is common sense,& long overdue"
Can’t think of any possible historical parallels at all involving starving your own populace…
October 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Can’t think of any possible historical parallels at all involving starving your own populace…
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🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met."
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
time.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met."
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
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When a collaborator is targeted because her scientific findings that attribute extreme weather to human-caused climate change is being used (effectively) in climate lawsuits against oil companies, you know times are dark indeed.
ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social
www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social
www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming
Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.
www.eenews.net
October 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
When a collaborator is targeted because her scientific findings that attribute extreme weather to human-caused climate change is being used (effectively) in climate lawsuits against oil companies, you know times are dark indeed.
ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social
www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social
www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
“Oil companies may seem invincible but they are more vulnerable than you think” says climate justice litigator Melinda Janki
Watch here:
www.ted.com/talks/melind...
Watch here:
www.ted.com/talks/melind...
How we took on an oil giant — and won
Oil companies may seem invincible, but they are more vulnerable than you think, says climate justice litigator Melinda Janki. She tells the story of how she took on ExxonMobil in her home country of G...
www.ted.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
“Oil companies may seem invincible but they are more vulnerable than you think” says climate justice litigator Melinda Janki
Watch here:
www.ted.com/talks/melind...
Watch here:
www.ted.com/talks/melind...
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Securing access to minerals essential for the green transition will in the 21st century will be a resource curse, just like fossil fuels were in the 20th Century.
Steve Rushton reports on the new mineral curse in our latest blog.
ccccjustice.org/2025/09/25/m...
Steve Rushton reports on the new mineral curse in our latest blog.
ccccjustice.org/2025/09/25/m...
September 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Securing access to minerals essential for the green transition will in the 21st century will be a resource curse, just like fossil fuels were in the 20th Century.
Steve Rushton reports on the new mineral curse in our latest blog.
ccccjustice.org/2025/09/25/m...
Steve Rushton reports on the new mineral curse in our latest blog.
ccccjustice.org/2025/09/25/m...
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Each year >$550billion is invested in oil & gas. 90% of that is just to offset natural declines. If it were to stop, tight oil & shale gas production would decrease 35% within 12 months. We could be on track for Paris Agreement. What is stopping us?
www.technosphere.earth/fossil-fuels...
www.technosphere.earth/fossil-fuels...
Fossil fuels are ending
They would end faster if we stopped being complete suckers
www.technosphere.earth
September 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Each year >$550billion is invested in oil & gas. 90% of that is just to offset natural declines. If it were to stop, tight oil & shale gas production would decrease 35% within 12 months. We could be on track for Paris Agreement. What is stopping us?
www.technosphere.earth/fossil-fuels...
www.technosphere.earth/fossil-fuels...
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They are literally canceling culture
September 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
They are literally canceling culture
See what you did there, Yvette Cooper & @teamlabouruk.bsky.social?
Start proscribing protest groups you don’t like as “terrorists” in the UK…
…And you encourage authoritarian governments to crack down on their own
Is this what you think exporting British democratic values around the world means?
Start proscribing protest groups you don’t like as “terrorists” in the UK…
…And you encourage authoritarian governments to crack down on their own
Is this what you think exporting British democratic values around the world means?
Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”.
They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left.
This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...
They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left.
This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...
Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organization | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday mor...
www.cnn.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
See what you did there, Yvette Cooper & @teamlabouruk.bsky.social?
Start proscribing protest groups you don’t like as “terrorists” in the UK…
…And you encourage authoritarian governments to crack down on their own
Is this what you think exporting British democratic values around the world means?
Start proscribing protest groups you don’t like as “terrorists” in the UK…
…And you encourage authoritarian governments to crack down on their own
Is this what you think exporting British democratic values around the world means?
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this
this is ugly energy
this is ugly energy
September 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
this
this is ugly energy
this is ugly energy
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Today we launch a major new report that reveals how British investors profit from the destruction of the third largest rainforest in the world, in West Papua.
Those investors are implicated in a brutal campaign of political repression.
Read the report here 👇👇👇
ccccjustice.org/publications/
Those investors are implicated in a brutal campaign of political repression.
Read the report here 👇👇👇
ccccjustice.org/publications/
September 9, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Today we launch a major new report that reveals how British investors profit from the destruction of the third largest rainforest in the world, in West Papua.
Those investors are implicated in a brutal campaign of political repression.
Read the report here 👇👇👇
ccccjustice.org/publications/
Those investors are implicated in a brutal campaign of political repression.
Read the report here 👇👇👇
ccccjustice.org/publications/
“At 3C or more of heating by 2050, there could be more than 4 billion deaths, significant sociopolitical fragmentation worldwide, failure of states (with resulting rapid, enduring, and significant loss of capital), extinction events… there was no realistic plan in place to avoid this scenario”
An odd choice of headline when you discover the same report also predicts billions of deaths.
But the belief that money trumps life runs deep in this suicidal system.
But the belief that money trumps life runs deep in this suicidal system.
Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries
Exclusive: Report by risk experts says previous assessments ignored severe effects of climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“At 3C or more of heating by 2050, there could be more than 4 billion deaths, significant sociopolitical fragmentation worldwide, failure of states (with resulting rapid, enduring, and significant loss of capital), extinction events… there was no realistic plan in place to avoid this scenario”
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Yesterday the police raided the houses of our close colleagues in Defend Our Juries. They are facing very serious charges just for protesting against a genocide.
We demand their immediate release.
Read our statement here 👇👇
ccccjustice.org/2025/09/03/e...
We demand their immediate release.
Read our statement here 👇👇
ccccjustice.org/2025/09/03/e...
September 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Yesterday the police raided the houses of our close colleagues in Defend Our Juries. They are facing very serious charges just for protesting against a genocide.
We demand their immediate release.
Read our statement here 👇👇
ccccjustice.org/2025/09/03/e...
We demand their immediate release.
Read our statement here 👇👇
ccccjustice.org/2025/09/03/e...
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End the Genocide now
End the Occupation now
Isolate Israel
End the Occupation now
Isolate Israel
September 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
End the Genocide now
End the Occupation now
Isolate Israel
End the Occupation now
Isolate Israel
So this is what we call DEMOCRACY in the UK in 2025
Citizens with a CONSCIENCE arrested for calling out the UK Government’s authoritarian crackdown on a civil society group opposing Israel committing the international crime of GENOCIDE
All while our Government openly supports a GENOCIDE !
Citizens with a CONSCIENCE arrested for calling out the UK Government’s authoritarian crackdown on a civil society group opposing Israel committing the international crime of GENOCIDE
All while our Government openly supports a GENOCIDE !
🚨 BREAKING - FIVE Lift The Ban key spokespeople arrested in dawn raids.
Arrested for addressing Open Calls during which legal information on the risks of opposing Labour’s absurd ban on Palestine Action have been shared.
Video: Paddy Friend, a law student, arrested at home.
Arrested for addressing Open Calls during which legal information on the risks of opposing Labour’s absurd ban on Palestine Action have been shared.
Video: Paddy Friend, a law student, arrested at home.
September 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
So this is what we call DEMOCRACY in the UK in 2025
Citizens with a CONSCIENCE arrested for calling out the UK Government’s authoritarian crackdown on a civil society group opposing Israel committing the international crime of GENOCIDE
All while our Government openly supports a GENOCIDE !
Citizens with a CONSCIENCE arrested for calling out the UK Government’s authoritarian crackdown on a civil society group opposing Israel committing the international crime of GENOCIDE
All while our Government openly supports a GENOCIDE !
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People have embraced authoritarianism in large part because they've been sold individualistic explanations for social problems. If you think people are poor or unhoused because they've made "bad choices," then you'll see appeal in authoritarian leaders who promise to punish those who are "bad."
August 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
People have embraced authoritarianism in large part because they've been sold individualistic explanations for social problems. If you think people are poor or unhoused because they've made "bad choices," then you'll see appeal in authoritarian leaders who promise to punish those who are "bad."
For this type of egregious SLAPP (strategic litigation against public participation), imho “Marzulla Law LLC” should be reported to their regulator for further investigation
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
For this type of egregious SLAPP (strategic litigation against public participation), imho “Marzulla Law LLC” should be reported to their regulator for further investigation
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For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them.
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 7:17 AM
For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them.
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Just published!!!!
CCCCJ member @billspence.bsky.social reviews 'Overshoot', a book which seeks to explain why the world is carrying on as if climate change is a conspiracy (if though we all know its real)..
👇👇👇
ccccjustice.org/2025/07/31/t...
CCCCJ member @billspence.bsky.social reviews 'Overshoot', a book which seeks to explain why the world is carrying on as if climate change is a conspiracy (if though we all know its real)..
👇👇👇
ccccjustice.org/2025/07/31/t...
August 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Just published!!!!
CCCCJ member @billspence.bsky.social reviews 'Overshoot', a book which seeks to explain why the world is carrying on as if climate change is a conspiracy (if though we all know its real)..
👇👇👇
ccccjustice.org/2025/07/31/t...
CCCCJ member @billspence.bsky.social reviews 'Overshoot', a book which seeks to explain why the world is carrying on as if climate change is a conspiracy (if though we all know its real)..
👇👇👇
ccccjustice.org/2025/07/31/t...