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Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her)<p>Reminder that I'm hosting an online <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a> bookclub this week--we'll be discussing ALL WE CAN SAVE (fiction and non-fiction essays about the <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatecrisis</span></a>). Come even if you haven't read the whole thing!</p>
Brent Toderian<p>When he was Prime Minister, Harper was the worst national leader in the democratic world. He was THE global dinosaur &amp; obstructionist on the <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ClimateCrisis" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a>, attacked science &amp; evidence by muzzling scientists &amp; gutting the census, &amp; more. And that was all BEFORE MAGA. Poilievre will be much worse.<br><br>RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ny5w2k6brb2kdubxnevke6li/post/3lmfevvzatc2v" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ny5w2k6brb2kdubxnevke6li/post/3lmfevvzatc2v</a></p>
Aure Free Press :verified:<p>"To the Benefit of Elon Musk" <br>- Aure </p><p>Documents reveal Trump’s plan to gut funding for NASA and climate science</p><p>Critics say Nasa faces ‘extinction-level event’ with budget plan, with climate research funding also to be gutted <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AureFreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AureFreePress</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/headline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>headline</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatecrisis</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/11/trump-climate-science-nasa-noaa-cuts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/science/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/11/trump-climate-science-nasa-noaa-cuts</span></a></p>
Aure Free Press :verified:<p>Farming In The Age of Global Warming</p><p>These 5 Top Corn-Growing States Report Extreme Drought, or Worse, as Planting Kicks Off</p><p>According to the U.S. Drought Monitor published April 10, these states reported the most intense drought conditions.<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AureFreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AureFreePress</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/headline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>headline</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatecrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/farmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>farmers</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agriculture</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drought</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.agriculture.com/these-5-top-corn-growing-states-report-extreme-drought-or-worse-as-planting-kicks-off-11712940" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">agriculture.com/these-5-top-co</span><span class="invisible">rn-growing-states-report-extreme-drought-or-worse-as-planting-kicks-off-11712940</span></a></p>
US news | The Guardian<p>The rise of end times fascism <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int</span><span class="invisible">eractive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Artificialintelligence</span></a>(AI) <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Trumpadministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpadministration</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/GretaThunberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GretaThunberg</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climatecrisis</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Farright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Farright</span></a>(US) <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/SteveBannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SteveBannon</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/PeterThiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterThiel</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/KristiNoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KristiNoem</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/NaomiKlein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaomiKlein</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/USnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USnews</span></a> <a href="https://halo.nu/tags/Race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Race</span></a></p>
Pedestriansfirst<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@RichardJMurphy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RichardJMurphy</span></a></span> With unaddressed climate change it’s not if but when. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Agriculture</span></a></p>
Ken S<p>A reminder about the critical importance of conservation and biodiversity for bluesky research. </p><p>We literally don’t know about what exists on our world, and what potential it has on medicinal development.<br> <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-13/stonefish-toxin-could-help-fight-parasitic-worms-in-livestock/105160120" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-04-13/sto</span><span class="invisible">nefish-toxin-could-help-fight-parasitic-worms-in-livestock/105160120</span></a> <br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusSci</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusSci</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AgChatOz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgChatOz</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicine</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Livestock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Livestock</span></a></p>
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​<p><a href="https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8939915/opinion-what-peter-dutton-got-right-about-gas/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">canberratimes.com.au/story/893</span><span class="invisible">9915/opinion-what-peter-dutton-got-right-about-gas/</span></a></p><p><strong>QUOTE BEGINS</strong></p><p>It's not often I agree with Peter Dutton, but I can admit when he's right and he's right about two things.</p><p>Australia doesn't have a gas shortage, Australia has a gas export problem; and putting a levy on gas exports will help fix the problem.</p><p>Unfortunately, Dutton's wrong on almost everything else.</p><p>Gas is driving up the cost of living. After Australia started exporting gas, wholesale gas prices in Australia tripled.</p><p>You now pay global prices for Australian gas. For over a decade the gas industry has been pushing the lie that Australia has a gas shortage, but the problem is we export around 80 per cent of our gas.</p><p>No matter what crap the gas industry tries to feed you - Dutton has correctly identified Australia has a gas export problem.</p><p>For the first time in over a decade, all sides of politics in Australia agree that we're exporting too much gas, including the Labor government, the Liberals and Nationals, the Greens and most of the independents who sit on the crossbench.</p><p>It's a remarkable political consensus. Politicians now have the opportunity, in the middle of a cost-of-living election, to finally put a stop Australians getting ripped off by the gas industry. It would be a win for the economy, a win for your back pocket and a vote winner for politicians.</p><p>To fix Australia's gas export problem, the Coalition is proposing to tax gas exports to ensure our gas flows first to Australian businesses and households.</p><p>This, too, is a huge shift in Australian politics. For too long, governments have let multinational gas export companies get away with windfall profits exporting our gas, while paying no company tax and no royalties, and charging Australians a fortune for gas to boot.</p><p>There is plenty of surplus gas that isn't under long-term contract. Basically, if gas companies choose to supply the lucrative global spot market instead of Australian consumers, Dutton will put a levy on the exports.</p><p>Unlike Donald Trump's tariffs, which are paid for by American consumers domestically, Dutton's proposed tax on Australian gas exports will be paid by the multinational gas companies who have been ripping off Australians for years.</p><p>Gas companies will pass that cost onto other countries who import Australian gas on the spot market.</p><p>Putting a tax on gas exports is an easy way to ensure that more of Australia's gas flows to Australians at cheaper prices.</p><p>Gas companies will whinge that this will dry up investment.</p><p>Firstly, good.</p><p>The United Nations, the International Energy Agency and the world's scientists are all clear, there is no room for new gas fields on a warming planet.</p><p>Secondly, this is plain rubbish. The gas is here underneath Australia. Gas companies can't just move it overseas along with their headquarters. Where would they go? To Norway or Qatar, where taxes and royalties are way higher?</p><p>The gas industry impoverishes Australia when, at the very least, it should be making us richer.</p><p>Australia collects a pathetic $1 billion or so a year from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. In comparison, Qatar collects around $50 billion a year and Norway around $20 billion.</p><p>Multinational companies are making ridiculous profits exporting Australia's gas while paying diddly squat in taxes and royalties.</p><p>Young Australians pay more in HECS repayments than the gas industry pays in the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. Zero royalties are paid on over half of the gas exported from Australia.</p><p>Australia Institute research shows that over the last four years, multinational gas export companies made $170 billion - that's billion with a B - exporting Australian gas while paying zero royalties. </p><p>Gas companies $170 billion; Australia $0. It's highway robbery. Many gas export companies pay no company tax either. When Australian teachers and nurses are paying more tax than the entire gas export industry, something is seriously wrong.</p><p>As two-time Nobel prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz says "As an economist, that makes absolutely no sense. The result of this is that is Australia as a whole is becoming a poorer country."</p><p>Do you have any idea what Australia could do with an extra $20 billion a year?</p><p>According to the Parliamentary Budget Office, Australia could put dental into Medicare and we'd still have $6 billion a year in spare change. If we made as much additional gas revenue as Qatar, there is basically no problem Australia couldn't fix if we chose to.</p><p>The Coalition also says it will also speed up the approval of new gas projects.</p><p>To be clear, this would be disastrous for the climate, the environment, farmers, and Australia's cultural heritage. These new approvals will only increase gas exports, further exacerbating gas price problems.</p><p>Peter Dutton won't admit it, but renewable energy is far cheaper than gas, even with the cost of firming and additional transmission. It is far cheaper to heat houses, provide hot water and cook with efficient electrical appliances than with gas.</p><p>Dutton's gas export levy is probably the most popular policy the Coalition has proposed this election. Attacking working-from-home arrangements went down like a fart in a lift, especially with women. </p><p>His nuclear power plan, always a distraction, has disappeared without a trace. Sacking 41,000 public servants in Canberra has been clocked as more cruel than efficient and few believe it won't impact on front-line services.</p><p>And all the Coalition's policies to make housing more affordable will only push up the price of housing, benefiting existing homeowners and no one else.</p><p>In the lead-up to the election, it looked like Dutton would ride the wave of Trump-led populist politics to victory. Around the world incumbent governments fell election after election and the polls had the Coalition drawing ahead of Labor.</p><p>But now that Australians have seen firsthand the carnage of Trump's policies unleashed in real time, Dutton's Trump-like policies have turned from populist to perilous. But a levy on gas exports? Dutton's on a winner.</p><ul><li> Ebony Bennett is deputy director for The Australia Institute and a former Greens media advisor and a regular columnist for The Canberra Times</li></ul><p><strong>QUOTE ENDS</strong></p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensRights</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShitParty1</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShitParty2</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FsckOffDutton</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhyIsLabor</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoteGreens</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProgIndies</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OzElection2025</span></a></p>
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​<p><a href="https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8941018/mark-kenny-peter-duttons-alliance-gamble-amid-us-tariffs/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">canberratimes.com.au/story/894</span><span class="invisible">1018/mark-kenny-peter-duttons-alliance-gamble-amid-us-tariffs/</span></a></p><p><strong>QUOTE BEGINS</strong></p><p>Peter Dutton said only what most Australians were already thinking after Donald Trump flatly penalised America's most dutiful ally.</p><p>Tellingly though, the plain-speaking indignation from Australia's political class was reserved for the Liberal leader.</p><p>By raising the US alliance during trade frictions, Dutton had broken the major-party omertà.</p><p>Defence Minister Richard Marles called him "reckless". A former DFAT trade negotiator told the ABC it might be "dangerous".</p><p>Even John Howard, when asked about the Liberal leader's comments, raised his famous eyebrows, saying, "...we should never treat that [the US-alliance] with contempt that using it as a bargaining chip would represent".</p><p>Anthony Albanese jumped in too, declaring the Liberals "simply aren't up to" national leadership.</p><p>"They are reckless and there is a huge risk from Peter Dutton," Albanese intoned.</p><p>Risky. Dangerous. Reckless. The hyperventilations came from everywhere. From all the men of unbreakable US devotion, all the serious men of defence, all the president's men.</p><p>Dutton's sin?</p><p>"Resolving this matter [tariffs] will centre around the defence relationship," he had said. "We have troops in the north of our country, we have the AUKUS deal, we have the ANZUS treaty."</p><p>Presumably, Dutton believed such comments were of a piece with his breathless refrain that Albanese had not muscled up against Trump's tariffs whereas he, Dutton, would've played hardball and secured exemptions.</p><p>But it wasn't Dutton's unprovable boast that brought reproach. It was the terrified thought that an offended America would fold its tent and withdraw.</p><p>Summoning his trademark piety, Marles accused Dutton of engaging in "reckless and dangerous thought bubbles".</p><p>"What we will do," Marles reassured quaking voters, "is engage Australia's national interest".</p><p>The "national interest" is a political term of art. As an unquantified "good" it can justify anything - holding or denying negotiations, joining or not joining wars, and even signing up to alliances unscrutinized by the people or their parliament. It also validates keeping schtum in the face of economic harm and insults lest a powerful "friend" takes offence.</p><p>A case in point. Foreign Minister Penny Wong was asked on Melbourne radio if she trusted Donald Trump. The short answer, of course, is no. This would also be the sane answer.</p><p>Yet sane can also be crazy. Touching off a Twitter war with the man-child in the White House would be "unhelpful" in an election campaign and could even spark more punitive sanctions on Australian goods.</p><p>Wong's answer then? "I trust him to do what's in America's interests." Invited to say something negative, Wong cleverly finds something positive instead. At one level, this is a skilful diversion. At another level, it is not even correct. There are no credible economists, trade experts, foreign governments and non-cult Americans who believe Trump's mayhem serves US interests.</p><p>What they do accept reluctantly is that Trump alone gets to define those interests right now. They accept, too, that MAGA America has changed the world, fundamentally and irreversibly.</p><p>In Australia, we seem much slower on the uptake. Dutton's indiscretion, however, has invited us to do some fresh thinking.</p><p>In its unvarnished disdain of friend and foe alike, Trump's belligerence offers an insight to security ties as well. Bluntly, it is this: if attacked, the US will come to Australia's aid if, and only if, such involvement serves Washington's perceived advantage at that time. That's it. End of.</p><p>Emotion plays no role. Or, to paraphrase the great British statesman Lord Palmerston, a country has no friends, no enemies, only interests.</p><p>Fretting about America's feelings in the way Howard and others insist we must misses the real basis of US defence ties with Australia - the projection of American power in the Western Pacific through an ongoing allegiance with Australia, its unsinkable aircraft carrier.</p><p>US strategic bombers now operate permanently out of RAAF Tindall 300 kilometres south of Darwin. There are also US Marine rotations in the NT, and other air and naval assets routinely positioned around the country. US nuclear submarines regularly visit and will operate permanently out of Submarine Rotational Force-West and from a new east coast submarine base in coming years. With the crucial Pine gap facility, all would be early targets for the Chinese in the event of war with the US.</p><p>Australia needs to get real. Trump's lack of sentimentality articulates a cold truth - what America feels for Australia is not amity but utility. This is why AUKUS is so iffy. Australia's major parties make out this $368 billion multi-decade punt to be somewhere between an article of free-world faith and the only certain path to national survival. But is it?</p><p>MAGA Republicans are not interested in safeguarding liberal values, democracy, free trade and the rule of law. They detest these things.</p><p>The British Parliament has initiated a review into AUKUS in light of the wooliness of its obligations, its large costs and distended timelines, and the changed geo-strategic environment - to wit, a rising China, a resurgent Russia and an unreliable America.</p><p>A parallel Australian inquiry is a must.</p><p>Ordinary Australians know America has upended the global trading system and weakened the international settlement.</p><p>Sometimes, in foreign policy, it serves a useful purpose to remind a partner "democracy" that Australia has voters, too. If they lose confidence in the value of an alliance, it will affect American interests.</p><ul><li> Mark Kenny is The Canberra Times' political analyst and a professor at the ANU's Australian Studies Institute. He hosts the Democracy Sausage podcast.</li></ul><p><strong>QUOTE ENDS</strong></p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensRights</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShitParty1</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ShitParty2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShitParty2</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckOffDutton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FsckOffDutton</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WhyIsLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhyIsLabor</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/VoteGreens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoteGreens</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ProgIndies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProgIndies</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OzElection2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OzElection2025</span></a></p>
Trevor McLeod<p>"Extinction level event for NASA"</p><p>I don't have the words ...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatecrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/noaa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noaa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/11/trump-climate-science-nasa-noaa-cuts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/science/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/11/trump-climate-science-nasa-noaa-cuts</span></a></p>
Paolo "grad" 🌳🐝 🐛♻️🌞🌐<p>"Il costo dell’inazione: conviene fare la transizione ecologica?"<br>Il rapporto del World Economic Forum<br><a href="https://www.micromega.net/il-costo-dellinazione-conviene-fare-la-transizione-ecologica" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">micromega.net/il-costo-dellina</span><span class="invisible">zione-conviene-fare-la-transizione-ecologica</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/ecologia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecologia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/sostenibilita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sostenibilita</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/cambiamentoclimatico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cambiamentoclimatico</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/GreenTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenTransition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatecrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/WEF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WEF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/WorldEconomicForum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldEconomicForum</span></a></p>
Dr. Seltsam 🌎🎶🌳<p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/deforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deforestation</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amazon</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ecuador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecuador</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/oildrilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oildrilling</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://amazonfrontlines.org/chronicles/amazon-frontlines-and-avaaz-unite-to-support-local-resistance-against-oil-drilling-in-the-ecuadorian-amazon/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amazonfrontlines.org/chronicle</span><span class="invisible">s/amazon-frontlines-and-avaaz-unite-to-support-local-resistance-against-oil-drilling-in-the-ecuadorian-amazon/</span></a></p>
Petra van Cronenburg<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@Nazani" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Nazani</span></a></span> I don't know. DeSmog investigated the reasons and how the Ireland-based consulting company <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RedFlag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedFlag</span></a> works and for whom: <a href="https://www.desmog.com/red-flag-consulting/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">desmog.com/red-flag-consulting/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>It began with Irish farmers and then became a big thing for the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/meat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meat</span></a> industry in Europe. The connections of industrial farming and meat trade and connections to the USA.<br>The "enemies" are an increasing number of people who are becoming more climate-conscious in their diet. These numbers grow in Europe.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/climateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climateCrisis</span></a></p>
Christopher Miller 🇺🇦<p>UK residents:</p><p>Chris Packham has started a petition against fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship. It is yet to pass the 100,000 signature threshold for forcing a parliament debate.</p><p>Please consider signing:<br><a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700024" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">petition.parliament.uk/petitio</span><span class="invisible">ns/700024</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Green" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Green</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GreenIssues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenIssues</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ChrisPackham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChrisPackham</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Parliament" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Parliament</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Petition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Petition</span></a></p>
Aure Free Press :verified:<p>BREAKING NEWS </p><p>Trump regime plans to dismantle the research division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shut down all weather and climate labs, and eviscerate its budget along with several other NOAA offices<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AureFreePress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AureFreePress</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/headline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>headline</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/noaa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noaa</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatecrisis</span></a></p>
David<p>🧵 Australian 2025 election scorecards thread</p><p>The Climate Council's scorecard on climate &amp; energy policies</p><p><a href="https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/election-policy-climate-scorecard-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">climatecouncil.org.au/resource</span><span class="invisible">s/election-policy-climate-scorecard-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ausvotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ausvotes</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberals</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Greens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greens</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ElectionScorecard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionScorecard</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a></p>
Voting is Your POWER<p>Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships...effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions. <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/climateemergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climateemergency</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/shipping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shipping</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/carbontax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>carbontax</span></a></p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/shipping-emissions-climate-change-98ff23ca4739d8b4fc5a8f941a7ca0c4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/shipping-em</span><span class="invisible">issions-climate-change-98ff23ca4739d8b4fc5a8f941a7ca0c4</span></a></p>
atomicker<p>It 'makes no sense to expand oil and gas infrastructure in the midst of growing worldwide climate chaos, especially when we have clean, affordable, job-creating alternatives. We must use the current crisis to wean ourselves off fossil fuels.'</p><p><a href="https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/03/27/Pipeline-Trump-Crisis-Green-Infrastructure" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/03/27</span><span class="invisible">/Pipeline-Trump-Crisis-Green-Infrastructure</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CDNPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDNPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a></p>
molily<p>“Amazon announced that it would use AI to help farmers in Aragon [Spain] use water more efficiently. But that is ‘a deliberate strategy of obfuscation’ that distracts from the company’s request to raise water consumption, said Gómez [of the campaign group Tu Nube Seca Mi Río].”</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Water</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Drought</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a></p>
molily<p>“New datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas […] SourceMaterial’s analysis identified 38 active datacentres owned by the big three tech firms in parts of the world already facing water scarcity, as well as 24 more under development.”</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Water</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Energy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Drought</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a></p>