ApaulD

ApaulD, 2 hours ago to auspol

If you wanted to write today about vested interests, about the groups (and their networks) that are preventing governments from pursuing the reforms needed for Australia's economy to flourish, you'd have different targets.

You'd start with "The Property Investors' Club" and "The Fossil Fuel Club." #auspol #politics #australia #AtlasNetwork #society #economy #reform #democracy

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-26/vested-interests-self-interest-and-australias-economy/103883756?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

ApaulD, 1 day ago to auspol

Great letter.

• methane up 150%
• methane caused 30% of heating
• reducing methane will quickly reduce emissions
• can we listen to scientists, not CEOs of gas companies?

#auspol #australia #gas #gaslighting #politics #climate #science #climatechange #climatecrisis

ApaulD, 3 days ago to Victoria

#victoria #melbourne #australia
Please boost - Wombat State Forest 1 hr 15 mins from Melbourne is being trashed. Write to your MP #auspol #politics
#forest #trees #environment #nature
This is about #air #water #biodiversity
Same logging - different names

ApaulD, 14 days ago to psychology

‘Shifting baseline syndrome’ is whats wrong with our brains. That’s why “we can’t understand how grave this is”.
#psychology #neuroscience @largess
Ruthlessly exploited by #fossilfuels plastics, factory farming industries disinformation & #government capture. #neoliberalism #politics #democracy #environment #climate #climatecrisis #climatechange
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

ApaulD, 17 days ago to auspol

“In a reverse takeover, federal Labor has now become a branch office of the rotten WA Labor Party, an outfit owned and run by the fossil fuel and extractive industries, its climate denialist billionaires and their propaganda outlets,” writes Bernard Keane in today's Crikey. #auspol #politics #statecapture #AtlasNetwork #gas

ApaulD, 17 days ago to climate

100s of world’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target Planet is headed for at least 2.5C heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of 100s of scientists finds
#scientists
Numerous experts said they had been left feeling hopeless, infuriated & scared by the failure of governments to act despite the clear scientific evidence provided.
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #nature #environment #science #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

ApaulD, 21 days ago to Energy

Disinformation follow up!
https://youtu.be/8ONGuJCIkpQ?si=fGQE-JAHD4k1wbfo
Highlighting fear campaign by
Atlas Network (interestingly not mentioned by name)
The #fossilfuels industry:
• manufacture doubt
• thrive on our fear
• promote idea they are the only thing between us & dystopian chaos eg promote #gas as #energy transition
• created myth they are working for us
• fuel fear of the other eg anti immigration
#politics #statecapture #auspol

ApaulD, 24 days ago to australia

We need to do this in #australia #auspol
#uspol #politics #fossilfuels #AtlasNetwork
Cities & states have filed a slew of lawsuits against big oil for alleged deception.
#climate #environment #nature #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateaction #ClimateDiary
#crime
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/big-oil-danger-disinformation-fossil-fuels?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

ApaulD, 24 days ago to climate

😭
@firstdogonthemoon on our grief & sadness at our environmental destruction of our planet as we’ve known it: A cup of tea and a biscuit for the end of the world #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #nature #environment

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/apr/29/a-cup-of-tea-and-a-biscuit-for-the-end-of-the-world?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

ApaulD, 25 days ago to environment

Simply believable.
#methane #coal #gas #emissions
#environment #pollution #climatechange #climatecrisis #climate #nature #fossilfuels
https://reneweconomy.com.au/simply-astounding-australian-coal-mine-methane-emissions-may-be-twice-offical-data/

ApaulD, 27 days ago to environment

“Why don’t we react in unbridled outrage to the devastation of the natural world taking place before our eyes?
A major reason is that we don’t realize what we’ve lost. It’s called “shifting baseline syndrome”
👇
#extinction
“next time you go for a hike in nature, & marvel at its beauty, take a moment to realize that you are looking at a pale, shrunken wraith of what it once was. An accumulation of studies around the world measuring the declines of species & ecosystems indicates that overall we’ve lost around 90% of nature’s profusion.”
#environment #climatechange #nature #greed #climatecrisis #extinction #ecology #ClimateDiary #nature
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-07-06/the-ideology-of-human-supremacy/

ApaulD, 29 days ago to climate

A good simple explanation of why the indefinite delay in reforming the Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act matters in terms of new coal approvals - and presumably the same applies to gas.
#climate #climatechange #ClimateDiary
#climatecrisis #environment
#ecology #habitat #extinction
#protest #activism
#politics #auspol #australia
#fossilfuels

https://youtu.be/zQsA8NsvTPA?si=S46kjYoURzOdBsFL

ApaulD, 28 days ago to climate

2021, Stuart Capstick, deputy director at the Centre for Climate Change & Social Transformations in Cardiff, wrote a letter to his children. Benedict Cumberbatch reads it at Letters Live in March 2024 at London's Royal Albert Hall
#climatechange #climatecrisis #climate
#environment #ClimateDiary
https://youtu.be/2w945eNXt0c?si=puADMX2k0WtyJwHQ

ApaulD, 1 month ago to tech

Some optimism.
#tech #technology #techno #climatechange #climatecrisis #climate #climatediary #solutions #environment
Net Zero Will Be Harder Than You Think. And Easier

https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-net-zero-will-be-harder-than-you-think-and-easier-part-ii-easier/

ApaulD, 1 month ago to journalism

Peter Dutton continues to spread toxic pro-nuclear lies – constantly amplified by the Murdoch Press.
#media #journalism #news
Despite staunch community opposition to radioactive waste dumps. And despite the big #electricity companies joining experts to oppose Dutton's plan for slow, expensive nuclear reactors – which would delay the transition from polluting coal & gas to clean renewable energy.
#ClimateDiary
#energy #auspol #australia #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
https://youtu.be/q9UaQZRvqq0?feature=shared

ApaulD, 1 month ago to climate

#climate #climatechange #ClimateDiary
#climatecrisis #environment
#ecology #habitat #extinction
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/athens-dust-storm-orange-sky-greece?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Athens in an orange haze

ApaulD, 1 month ago to australia

Today’s damage. So much. 🤬
Please write to @tanyaplibersek federal environment minister. Labor just reneged on strengthening #australia #auspol environment law. Meanwhile states continue destroying environment her ministry is supposed to protect.
#forest #biodiversity #ecology #ecosystems #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis note the size of the logs, corpses of mature #trees .
RIP mature forest & its endangered #animals

Piles of large logs - corpse of mature trees
Destroyed forest

ApaulD, 1 month ago to climate

#AtlasNetwork pops up again re far right Christianity, a partnership made in hell.

“In order to understand why people who call themselves #Christians also oppose #government welfare, public schools, gun control & action on #climatechange, I decided to follow the #money.
What I discovered was an unholy alliance between evangelical Christians affiliated with the New Apostolic Reformation’s Seven Mountains strategy and a league of ultra-wealthy libertarians who operate a complex, #international network of #rightwing think-tanks – many of which fall under the umbrella of a group known as the ATLAS NETWORK.
https://chrysstevenson.com/tag/atlas-network/

ApaulD, 1 month ago to auspol

Interesting read.
There was an attempted infiltration of the SA #auspol Liberal Party by 500 Pentecostals as part of this plan to take over the 7 pillars of power.
Also that the proposed Religious Discrimination Act is a part of this ploy for a takeover. It’s a serious movement and well underway in #australia.
Atlas Network is at the heart of it.
#news #media #journalism #newscorp #murdoch #disinformation

https://chrysstevenson.com/tag/atlas-network/

ApaulD, 1 month ago to journalism

Useful: 5 of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest #disinformation tactics
proudly funded by the [#AtlasNetwork]
UNDERSTANDING the fossil fuel industry’s classic narratives is a good starting point.
DEBUNKING false claims is a critical next step.
#media #journalists please debunk
#climatechange #pollution

1. Energy security
2. The economy versus environment
3. We make your life work
4. We’re part of the solution
5. We fund museums, sport, art
   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/14/climate-disinformation-explainer?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

KarunaX, 1 month ago to auspol

#auspol #gaza "Just how much more horrendous than the deliberate creation of famine for 1.5 million people and the killing of 32,000 civilians do acts of barbarity need to be to get a response from our government which is anywhere near proportionate to the crimes being committed?" https://johnmenadue.com/gaza-australias-disgraceful-diversion-of-responsibility-over-war-crimes/

ApaulD, 1 month ago to climate

This poor bloke is chronically starved due to habitat destruction & fragmentation. Koalas, once widespread, are now endangered.
Thank you amazing animal rescue people 🙏
#climate #climatechange
#climatecrisis #environment
#ecology #habitat #extinction
#forest #ocean #soil #trees #science
#protest #activism
#politics #auspol #australia

ApaulD, 1 month ago to auspol

This tree is nearly 10 metres in circumference. It would take at least six people stretching fingertip to fingertip to circle its massive trunk. It's survived for hundreds of years. It’s perfect habitat for Greater Gliders, Leadbeater's Possums and Powerful Owls.
#vicpol #auspol #australia
#environment
And soon the bulldozers and chainsaws will hack it down and haul it away.
#trees #forest
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
https://vnpa.org.au/action/adopt-the-big-21-for-our-big-trees/?mc_cid=aa70598dc4

ApaulD, 1 month ago to auspol

You have to love the headline:
#auspol
#australia collects more money from the Higher Education Contribution Scheme than from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.
It just so neatly encapsulates some of our country's problems. Will you sign the Australia Institute petition to greatly increase the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax? The Institute also has a good video summarising their position on this issue.
#climatechange #climatecrisis
#environment
#taxtherich #fossilfuels #gas #coal
#education
https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the_prrt?utm_campaign=increase_the_prrt&link_id=8&can_id=33ada08614a488c414b6ad5656c102b7&source=email-pecan-whats-up-issue-17-april-2024&email_referrer=email_2183424&email_subject=pecan-whats-up-issue-17-april-2024

ApaulD, 2 months ago to climate

What a wonderful letter
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #protest #activism #politics #auspol #fossilfuels
#media