Editorial | Beet-red selfishness
#positivefeedbackloops
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https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/114941126730246543 Good! Much more of this pls!!
Chinwag SocialUnofficial ABC News Bot (@abc_bot@chinwag.org)About 500 jobs in doubt as coal mine owner enters administration https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-30/bowen-coking-coal-appoints-administrators-amid-price-slump/105590630 #MiningandMetalsIndustry
The science behind plastic recycling and why it needs a rethink. Plastic recycling is failing not just because of consumer habits, but also due to thermodynamic, chemical, and engineering constraints.
...even here in Goldstein, where the demographic is older than the national average, polling still consistently showed climate in the top three concerns of constituents.And yet, these execrable arseholes still chose to dump the excellent Zoe for The Odious Slimeball
#AusPol #WhyIsLabor #HahahahaLiebs #NatsAreNuts #GreensYEAH #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance
The Guardian · The attack on Australia’s net zero target is reckless and gutless. Voters expect more than ‘intergenerational bastardry’
Jack Waterford | If these climate extremists win, the Coalition can forget about getting into power ever again
He seemed to go all loopy & horrible during his NAB tenure, but before & subsequent, i reckon this is A Good Bloke.
https://insidestory.org.au/lets-just-get-this-done-shall-we/
#KenHenry #AusPol #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance
Inside Story · Let’s just get this done, shall we? • Ken HenryA former Treasury secretary lays down the environmental law
Australia’s protester crackdown didn’t start with Hannah Thomas — and it won’t end with her. The injuries sustained by the former Greens candidate are just the latest event in Australia’s crackdown on the right to protest.
citynews.com.au/2025/no-easy-a…
AFAICT this is a very real looming problem, yet our cretinous AusPol lack-of-leadership bullshit shemozzle is either exacerbating this, or at the very least, not helping. Eg... each time i begin again to ponder if i could possibly overcome my personal demons to fully electrify my home [ie, endure all the intensive peopling needed] when our gas prices rise [ie, increasing the economic desire to convert], what happens? Yep, our fucken electricity prices rise as well, thus reducing or eliminating the economic incentive.
Ofc all the climate, & moral, reasons remain to more than justify converting, but so far, w/o also the strong economic reasons, my demons keep winning the day. For normal, non-me, peeps, sans my demons, the confused economic signals alone prolly entirely prevent them converting.
Fuckheads, our govt. 
Canberra CityNews · No easy answers to gas network 'death spiral' | Canberra CityNewsLeaving a smaller and smaller customer base to carry the cost of a stranded gas network as households and businesses electrify is not without consequence.
Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News
Old king coal is spluttering as power plants age out of usefulness
The Sydney Morning Herald · Old king coal is spluttering as power plants age out of usefulness
Spectacular bit of Elbow gaslighting!
"The environment minister had to deal with the North West Shelf project under the existing EPBC Act, that we did try to change in the last election," he said.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-10/labor-laxale-climate-epbc-environment-laws/105394378
ABC News · Labor MP Jerome Laxale pushes to force climate considerations into environment laws
There's nothing new per se here, but it's nonetheless a saddening read, gaaaaah.
ABC News · As the planet warms and liberal democracy is attacked, does the government care?
I can just picture, if Jim Hacker had proposed this, Sir Humphrey responding with "that's a very courageous decision, Minister"
RenewEconomy · Death spiral of gas networks is the “500lb gorilla” standing in way of energy transition. Here’s a solution“We’re living in a state of denial.” Former regulator says no one has come up with a solution for the “death spiral for gas networks, so he has a suggestion.
Climate litigation isn’t ‘activist lawfare’, it’s democracy at work. The oil, coal and gas industries have strategically ducked and weaved litigation for decades, but the law is catching up with them.
Forget climate denial, Labor’s tactical fatalism will burn us all. The climate movement is ill-equipped to deal with a threat that looks like this. Any fantasy we had of a global moral pact of good intentions is dead.
Editorial | An oink of pure greed
This is a weird headline...
We can stop Labor wrecking Murujuga, climate
...considering that afaict the actual article itself provides no reason for optimism at all. IMO, given we have state & federal Labor governments so completely in thrall to the fossil fools, & who have repeatedly proven they happily ignore science & First Nations, i see no reason to hope here.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/we-can-stop-labor-wrecking-murujuga-climate
Green Left · We can stop Labor wrecking Murujuga, climateLabor’s decision to extend Woodside’s North West Shelf sends a clear signal to the gas industry that it will not let the concerns of scientists, Traditional Owners and ordinary working people stand in the way of corporate profits, argues Maz Misiewicz.
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@RenewEconomyRSSFeed Don't you give us any of this bullshit, Bowen... you mob are nothing but arseholic climate criminals, so fuck you.
https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/114564331284513164 Bollocks!
hard to believe that this is Australia right now
What genuinely IS hard is the bollocks so many peeps emit in "surprise" when the massive disasters predicted by ignored climate scientists for decades, not only arrive with a thump, but get increasing bigger & more frequent. Humans - stupid as all fuck
Chinwag SocialUnofficial ABC News Bot (@abc_bot@chinwag.org)It's hard to believe that this is Australia right now https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-25/nsw-floods-and-drought-in-australia-south/105308966 #ExtremeWeatherEvents #ClimateChange #Agriculture #Droughts
I happen to be of that particular genre of Stupid that thinks if one is claiming to be serious about climate, environment, & biodiversity protection & enhancement, such that one claims to be forming policy for it, then precisely none of the entities historically & currently doing all the fucking over of those things, gets to sit at the decision table. Instead, they simply get told afterwards that the rules of the game have changed, & all their fucking over shall immediately cease, otherwise it's the Big House for them. I'd prolly also include some appendix formally noting all these entities are fuckheads who can just fuck off.
https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/114513810850618005 And yet, here again, even after countless environmental disasters stemming from our escalating #ClimateCrisis, an immorally large chunk of Qld continues to support the Nats / LNP. It's almost impossible to feel sorry for peeps who behave so illogically & negligently.
Chinwag SocialUnofficial ABC News Bot (@abc_bot@chinwag.org)Outback Queensland faces $80m bill to rebuild fencing after floods https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-05-16/outback-queensland-faces-80m-fence-rebuilding-bill-after-floods/105272684 #LivestockFarming #DisasterRelief #Floods