How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
Thanks Tadzio, fascinating - hard to argue with any of it!
Actually, something *has* changed: the more climate catastrophe we experience, the less we want to deal with it. The traditional assumption that being negatively affected by climate catastrophe will lead to more climate rationality has been thoroughly falsified.
steady.page/de/friedlich...
War in Iran exposed that Europe failed to stand up to a business lobby that slowed decarbonisation
It committed a "strategic error of slowing a transformation necessary for security & independence....truth is that rearguard action on fossil dependence is bad for business"
www.ft.com/content/a6be...
When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
As we're plunged into an oil crisis, let's take a moment to remember the countless denialists, delayers and obstructionists who have worked so hard to keep us hooked on oil and gas, and slow our transition to a safer energy system
historical oil demand vs secnarios
On the second fossil fuel crisis of this decade (and likely to be worse than the last, fair to say), a few small thoughts
First: global oil demand would be so much lower without climate delay, fossil corruption, oversized SUVs, western overconsumption. Everyone who pushed these holds responsibility
I have a magical device in my driveway that protects me from oil price shocks, emasculates petrothugs, slows the rising seas, and powers my car. During times like these, worth considering!
Virtue signalling has become a dirty word, a sneering taunt, but I think it's really important
It's how we normalise doing good things
(Hmm... maybe that's why it was turned into a dirty word? 🤔)
“Met Police may want to intimidate us into contributing to gov’s closing off of the right to protest”
“But Quakers have been accustomed to oppression by the state for over 350y. We will continue to hire space to explicitly nonviolent groups, with appropriate checks in place, just as we always have”
Le rassemblement Stand Up for Science à l’institut Pasteur
One year after, we Stand Up for Science one more time at @pasteur.fr
#StandUpForScience
@standupforscifr.bsky.social
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I can sort of understand people treating climate breakdown as a distant, peripheral issue when they thought it was just a future threat to polar bears and Pacific Islands
But we're seeing these sorts of warnings all the time now, and little seems to have changed
Restraint is an under-regarded virtue.
Just because you can doesn’t mean you must.
Labour just announced energy price cap dropped.
Oil just spiked, completely undoing that.
Given 50% of UK energy is from renewables, now is the time to renationalise and drop the dumbass marginal price system that makes green energy needlessly as expensive as gas.
Good piece about a transnational trend in reactionary politics
Following in Murdoch's footsteps, we have seen countless reactionary billionaires building media empires, almost always at a huge loss
Profit is not the point, power is and weakened democratic institutions are unable to resist
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Climate Emergecy Fund supports radical climate groups like Just Stop Oil, Climate Defiance and Scientist Rebellion
Their grantees have stimulated 5% of all media coverage of climate, worth $4 billion in advertising terms - for just $12.8 million
Funding activists > better than funding NGOs
Where, indeed, is the sabotage?
In the 80s and 90s radical environmental movements used arson and property destruction to change the economics of things like old-growth logging, whaling, and the fur trade
But if there's one thing the authorities won't stand for it's destruction of capital...
Time to redouble our efforts then...
The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This new paper by @zeitzoff.bsky.social looks at the evolution of tactics in the environmental movement in the US, finding that repression has a substantial affect. Read all about it here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
This paper's from 2019, but increasingy pertinent to researchers in the USA and elsewhere as science comes under growing political attack
I've been fortunate enough to meet many formidably smart, fully committed, & thoroughly decent people who, for years, have strived to try to avert dangerous climate change.
They failed.
Saying that does not lessen my gratitude to them, 1/11
www.technosphere.earth/yes-we-can-n...
nature Article Open access Published: 04 March 2026 Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments Katharina Seeger M & Philip S. J. Minderhoud M Nature (2026) | Cite this article
“Measured coastal sea level is higher than assumed in most hazard assessments…the measured values suggest that with 1 m of relative sea-level rise… 48–68% more people (increasing estimates to 77–132 million) would fall below sea level.”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The closer we look, the more we see how much worse our predicament actually is.
Millions of coastal dwelling humans will be on the move soon.
We are absolutely NOT prepared.
#ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise
Interesting, I hadn't thought of that - but yes, makes sense, and the pull is strong!
“taking care of oneself should not be viewed as a weakness but “an act of social justice.”
“Looking after yourself is part of the work. It’s part of caring for the planet. … It’s the same act of resistance,”
Important reading ⬇️
People see conservation as an exciting, romantic field to work in
But it's a tough life watching the places you love, study and fight for being destroyed
The positive effect of experiencing repression on disruptive activism highlights that policymakers' efforts to restrict protest, e.g. the 2023 Public Order Act in England & Wales, may in fact strengthen committed activists’ resolve rather than weaken it.
Open access: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
When will [X climate impact] reach a tipping point? “We can say 20 to 30 years. It’s enough time that any normal politician can think: ‘Not my problem,’ but it’s not enough time for someone who’s aged any less than 60 to ignore it.”
The temporal paradox of climate breakdown
