'Regulation, redistribution & #reparations' - Great commentary on fossil fuel industry PR with a twist on the slogan 'reduce, reuse, recycle' from @alexlenferna.bsky.social. theconversation.com/reduce-reuse...

Bill Gates may have a plan to not die rich, but he sure has lived incredibly rich, primarily through problematic monopolistic practices. Even his philanthropy has often served his own business ends. This is another salvo in the propaganda campaign to paint Gates as a benevolent billionaire.

When the times get tough, the super rich drop the facade that they actually care about climate change. Now is an urgent time to double down on climate spending, instead Gates, Bezos, and company are slashing it, under the cover of and in step with Trump's darkness. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...

Time to use Amazon like they used to use brick-and-mortar book stores!

Last week we had the leadership handover meeting for the South African Climate Justice Coalition. The outgoing elected leadership, myself included, put together a podcast of lessons learnt. In it we discuss the difficulties, lessons & rewards of building leaderful movements. pod.link/cjc/episode/...

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

🚨BREAKING: While targeting federal education contracts, Elon Musk just scored a new deal for more government cash, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. The new "supplemental agreement" adds millions to SpaceX's already huge $3.9 billion deal.

Tembeka Ngcukaitobi does a brilliant job (as always) of explaining and historicising South Africa's new Expropriation Act, dispelling the terrible misinformation that racist right-wingers have been levelling against it. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Petrostates and oil & gas corporations are celebrating Trump's return. There's no doubt that this is a victory for the fossil fuel industry & connected rapacious forces. Like the last time Trump was elected, it's key that we use this moment to build resistance. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

There's an exciting new special issue of the Journal of Political Ecology on the Colonialities of climate change & action. I contributed a paper on how oil & gas corporations are appopriating the language of decolonization, with a case study of Shell in South Africa grassrootsjpe.org/categories-s...

Apparently, you can take the boy out of South Africa, but you can't take apartheid out of the boy. mronline.org/2024/12/24/g...

1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing: A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for. I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵

Made a starter pack for folks who want to learn more about the intersection of the climate crisis, Global South debt, and a climate reparations approach to these serious challenges. Definitely not comprehensive, no offensive meant if I missed you- comment to be added! go.bsky.app/92HS9cA

Will Shoki from @africasacountry.bsky.social on the miners currently trapped in South Africa. "Cruel indifference" to the "unbearable spectacle of death".

Oil and gas corporations are appropriating and perverting the language of decolonisation and sovereignty to push forward their extractive and harmful neocolonial agenda. A nice piece in @africasacountry.bsky.social calling out this duplicitous propaganda. 1/2 africasacountry.com/2024/11/libe...

Israel destroyed 83% of plant life in Gaza by June this year. It destroyed 70% of its agricultural land. It damaged or destroyed 65% of water tanks and 47% of groundwater wells. Israel has deliberately tried to make Gaza uninhabitable. This is genocide.

Hello Bluesky world, I'm new here and wondering if anyone knows good starter packs made up of climate and environmental justice voices, especially more radical ones & from the global south? Would much appreciate any recommendations as I am not sure how best to find them. 🙏

For my first legit post on BlueSky, I thought I'd share this book chapter I am about to publish, titled: The 3 Radical R's of Environmentalism: From “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” to “Regulation, Redistribution, and Reparations”. Thoughts and comments are welcome! www.academia.edu/122985988/Th...

It's overdue but I left X, and this will be my micro-blogging space to talk climate justice, movement building, and creating a better, more just world. It's sad to leave X as I had previously built a good community there, but Musk has turned it into dangerous vehicle for right-wing propaganda.