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Peter McCartney
@climatepete.bsky.social
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Nerding out about Indigenous community planning these days. Still big on fighting fossil fuel extraction, protecting nature, defending Indigenous rights and building communities that don't pollute.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 1d
Something this book really drilled home (scuse the pun) is that we're not stalled out on climate because scientists didn't model hard enough or campaigners didn't come up with the perfect message, but because the world's most powerful spent gazillions to sabotage action.

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Climate Justice Victoria @climatejusticeyyj.bsky.social · 3d
🤦 Dawn Farrell, head of @mark-carney.bsky.social ’s Major Projects Office, sounds like one of Trump's wildly incompetent officials. 🤦 #elbowsup against 🦇💩 climate denial!
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n... #cdnpoli #climatecrisis
Head of Carney’s Major Projects Office thinks Trans Mountain is good for climate
Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate ch...
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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 4d
Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.
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Peter McCartney @climatepete.bsky.social · 5d
Such a barn burner talk from @naomiaklein.bsky.social. Our movement's response to Techbro/Christian fascism must be dreamy, hopeful, unapologetic visions of a better future. youtu.be/9rTkfoZiuvs?...
Naomi Klein: The Rise of End-of-the-World Fascism and Resistance from the Global South
YouTube video by Broadbent Institute
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d
My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
www.pilsencommunitybooks.com
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Peter McCartney @climatepete.bsky.social · 6d
Only Portland could respond to a fascist takeover with this level of absurdist mockery and I am hear for it
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6d
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 7d
Saying the quiet part out very loud
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7d
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 9d
From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the electric vehicle mandate, Prime Minister Mark Carney is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules — and complicating Canada’s progress on climate change. thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...
How Mark Carney is complicating Canada’s climate progress | The Narwhal
From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the EV mandate, Mark Carney’s government is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules
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Peter McCartney @climatepete.bsky.social · 8d
This country is such a one trick pony sometimes. You cannot tell me that nobody has a better idea than building pipelines during a climate crisis and energy transition 🤦
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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 8d
So Carney's "elbows up" strategy is to double down on our dependence on the US AND fossil fuel exports??

Basically a lose-lose proposition revealing just how short sighted he is

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News
Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 10d
Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 10d
This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10d
This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 17d
“It was a lightning rod of hope. We brought in thousands of new members to this party, many of whom were completely disillusioned with politics.”

Emily Lowan’s victory is a sign that the climate movement still has the energy to capture voters. Hugh Chan writes. #bcpoli
How a Zoomer Became Leader of the BC Green Party | The Tyee
Inside the campaign that scored a victory for 25-year-old Emily Lowan.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12d
"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah
Solar: main source of EU electricity in June with 22%
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13d
The main reason climate policy has failed is that it's opposed by an international coalition of fossil fuel incumbents, authoritarian governments, & oligarch-owned media.

That's it. It's the people who killed it who are responsible for killing it! Not the people who supported it! FFS.
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Peter McCartney @climatepete.bsky.social · 14d
To be clear, the First Nations and non-Indigenous communities on the North Coast have been crystal clear that this pipeline proposal is a non-starter. Danielle Smith ignoring them and putting public money behind this is classic colonial fuckery. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta to apply to Major Projects Office for new bitumen pipeline to northern B.C. coast | CBC News
The Alberta government plans to develop and submit a formal application to the federal Major Projects Office for a new bitumen pipeline to the northwest coast of British Columbia.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 16d
We often get asked, "What can *I* do to help climate change on a personal level?"

Here is a great resource, grounded in science, that tailors recommendations for *your* personal situation.

Check it out!

drawdown.org/news/project...
Project Drawdown and climate scientist Kimberly Nicholas, Ph.D., introduce SHIFT, a science-based guide to individual climate action
SHIFT is the go-to guide for climate-concerned individuals ready to take the most effective, science-backed personal climate action
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 20d
"Violent conduct includes anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, gender; hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality."

this is bad. very bad.
Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 22d
The former environment minister said carbon capture and sequestration — which Carney has thrown his support behind — is "not a get-out-of-jail-free card to continue increasing emissions.”
Catherine McKenna isn’t buying Carney’s carbon capture grand bargain
In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the launch of her memoir, former climate minister Catherine McKenna warns consequences are coming for the fossil fuel industry, even as the federal government purs...
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 23d
Today, we launched the biggest thing that Project Drawdown has ever done -- the Drawdown Explorer.

It is the world's *ultimate* guide to effective climate action.

The latest data, the best science... brought down to actionable *here and now* recommendations.
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Climate Action Network Canada @canrac.bsky.social · 23d
Tens of thousands in 70+ communities across Canada took to the streets in an unprecedented & historic cross-movement mobilisation to #DrawtheLine and demand Mark Carney & the federal government pick a side: injustice, violence, and climate destruction — or a just and safe future for all of us.✊
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UBCIC @ubcic.bsky.social · 29d
"The Province must not grant any tenures without first obtaining the free, prior and informed consent of First Nations and commit to working in partnership with First Nations to protect our lands and waters from exploitation.” Chief Don Tom www.ubcic.bc.ca/fnlc_provinc...
First Nations Leadership Council Calls on the Province to Obtain Free, Prior and Informed Consent Before Granting Land Tenures
Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights
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Sun Day @sundayofaction.bsky.social · 24d
Yesterday thousands of people organized the BIGGEST day of action to celebrate clean energy in generations. 🙌 THANK YOU for making Sun Day 2025 a huge success! ☀️ Here are some incredible pictures from across the country 📸🧵
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Amanda Follett Hosgood @amandafollett.bsky.social · 24d
Out of 20 major producers of fossil fuels around the world—including the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, Canada, Brazil, Australia and the UK—only the UK, Australia and Norway plan to reduce production of oil and gas by 2030.

11 countries surveyed increased plans for fossil fuel production.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24d
Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’
Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’
New data shows governments now planning more fossil fuel production in coming decades than they were in 2023 Governments around the world are ramping up coal, gas and oil extraction which will put climate goals beyond reach, new data has shown. Far from reducing reliance on fossil fuels, nations are planning higher levels of fossil fuel production for the coming decades than they did in 2023, the last time comparable data was compiled. Continue reading...
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 27d
The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today.

Charlie Kirk was no exception.
Charlie Kirk's extremism was fossil fueled
Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.
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350 Canada @350canada.bsky.social · 28d
Draw the Line is getting national media attention! Read & share this article and make a plan to join us in the streets THIS SATURDAY 📢

"We're living in historic times and it requires a historic unity of struggle ... We need a common front."

#DrawTheLine

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/pro...
Progressive groups rally 'common front' to march, challenge elements of Carney agenda
Canada-wide protests are planned this weekend, a coalition of progressive civil society groups say, in what organizers call an emerging "common front" to elements of the new Liberal government's agend...
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
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