BBBruce @Didaho@qoto.org

Strong words for us from three climate scientists, James Dyke, Wolfgang Knorr, and Robert Watson:

"Current net zero policies will not keep warming to within 1.5°C because they were never intended to. They were and still are driven by a need to protect business as usual, not the climate. If we want to keep people safe, then large and sustained cuts to carbon emissions need to happen now. That is the very simple acid test that must be applied to all climate policies. The time for wishful thinking is over."

Read more here -- https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/109891430822137160

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming #Emissions #Science

Roses are red.
Roses are blue.
Depending on their velocity
relative to you.

Did the NYT really publish an Opinion speculating that young girls today are more depressed than ever because of _phones_?

In a world where they lost the right to control their own reproductive healthcare? Where states are pondering making them report their periods? In a world debating genital inspections to play school sports? While banning books? Where they practice school shooting drills? With climate change? Where sexual assault isn’t disqualifying for public office?

Sure, it’s the phones.

Rather than holding a Royal Commission into #Murdoch, Labor should revive Gillard's proposed media legislation arising from the Finkelstein Review, and let Murdoch howl about it.

@wall0159 @waitnwallflower
My story is that the corporate oligarchs, the plutocracy who already own the major political parties & most of the press, media, want to destroy our society & use the people as feudal serfs or slaves.
Not the same feudalism as before, not the same fascism as before, not the same leaders as before, but an end result where the plutocrats own the people & use them for whatever their ends may be.
I have no interest in comparing anyone with Hitler or Mussolini or Franco or Genghis Khan or Hannibal point by point, there have always been people who act in the same way as the fascists & I use the term fascist because people have an idea of what I mean when I say that.
It is not the Coalition that Labor is unable or unwilling to hold accountable, but the plutocrats.
The Coalition are just as much puppets as is Labor.
#auspol

The heat is being turned up on Australia’s latest legislative response to the climate crisis: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/18/australia-cant-blow-another-decade-of-climate-action-its-now-up-to-labor-and-the-greens

I truly hope that both Labor and the Greens can find an amicable compromise so that we can finally move forward on the issue.

#climatecrisis #climatechange #auspol

"A slam dunk for families:” Pilot launched to kick gas out of homes and communities"
https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-slam-dunk-for-families-pilot-launched-to-kick-gas-out-homes-and-communities/
The bid to kick fossil gas out of Australian homes, electrify everything and power it with solar is off and running in New South Wales, with the launch of an $8 million pilot to decarbonise three local communities across the state.

According to its [Rewiring Australia's] modelling, it will be cost effective for households to entirely replace conventional gas and other outdated appliances with EV, solar and efficient alternatives by the mid-2020s.

#AusPol #Renewables #Solar #Wind

Last boost - the FIFA board should reverse their decision to make Saudi Arabia a key sponsor of the women's world cup or the FIFA board should be replaced immediately

The comparisons keep getting better, lol.

Senior Twitter employees admit under oath that Twitter made exceptions to its racism policies to accomodate racist tweets by Trump, even going so far as to change their polices to avoid having to enforce them on Trump's tweets.

It took a while to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon because when the missiles were programmed to target an enormous white Chinese-owned gasbag they kept veering towards Mar-A-Lago. #ChineseSpyBalloon #Trump #Politics #BadJokes

Let me get this straight. Republicans spent Friday cosplaying machismo by encouraging their supporters to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon, which was 11 miles up in the atmosphere, a balloon so large it could hold an entire football stadium inside of it. No consideration of the danger of their useless bullets falling back to earth.

Meanwhile, Biden had already given the order to the military to shoot it down when it was safe to do so back on *Wednesday.* They had already jammed their signals so it couldn’t send any info back to China, and instead was collecting info on the satellite.

So as usual, we have Republicans acting like idiots, encouraging actions that posed danger to the American people, all the while hoping to “stick it to Biden,” when in actuality, Biden had already handled the situation days before by involving the military who had neutralized the threat and then ultimately shot down the balloon over the waters past South Carolina.

Vote blue, people. #news

Ron DeSantis’ Florida, by Clay Jones #cartoon

Discovered during the week I was unable to access a Kindle book purchased in 2013. Reason? The order was “too old”, and refund issued to buy again. Which was pointless as the book is now more expensive than when I bought it.

Subsequently discovered 66(!!) other ebooks no longer available for download.

Currently 40 minutes in to a support chat with Amazon.

About to learn, I think, whether we purchase ebooks, or rent them…

The Auckland rain bomb is almost the perfect example of climate change. Cities - even the most modern - are built with climate infrastructure based on dealing with historical climate patterns, and cannot handle the future. Yet the 'future' is right now.

“It’s been a hell of a dark week here in Ron DeSantis’ Florida. Don’t believe me? See what he’s done this last week.”
Samuel Vilchez Santiago

BREAKING NEWS: Russian Spy Balloon Spotted Over Florida
#TraitorTrump

In the U.K. the Government have announced they’re raising the retirement age to 68!

Whilst in France the population get off their arses & oppose the raising of their retirement age to 64!
What wrong with the people of the UK?
Also remember that the U.K. Pension is lowest in the developed world.
People PLEASE wake up, ignore the mendacious media, street power matters!

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-retirement-age-rise-68-state-pension-2023-kprvlmzg8

Billionaires should not set climate policy.
Billionaires should not set water policy.
Billionaires should not be setting any policy.
Billionaires should not be platformed to give opinion on crises & injustices they helped create & have financial stakes in monopolizing policies on.
Billionaires should not exist.