ktc
@ktcita.bsky.social
Just transitions, decarbonisation, and community-led planning researcher. She/her Ph.D.
This is massive. Years ago a friend worked at an ad agency who was approached by Monsanto to advertise Roundup. Apparently the ad agency said they’d take the job if Monsanto took out phosphates from their products. Who would have thought an ad agency would be more ethical than a chemical company!!
#Oops: The seminal paper that has been used for 25 years to justify that the use of #Glyphosate is safe has been retracted.
▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper, validity of the research findings…"
▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Concerns were raised regarding the authorship of this paper, validity of the research findings…"
December 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This is massive. Years ago a friend worked at an ad agency who was approached by Monsanto to advertise Roundup. Apparently the ad agency said they’d take the job if Monsanto took out phosphates from their products. Who would have thought an ad agency would be more ethical than a chemical company!!
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Huge congratulations to the wonderful Donna Haraway for winning the 2025 Erasmus Prize:
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
December 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Huge congratulations to the wonderful Donna Haraway for winning the 2025 Erasmus Prize:
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
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"In the past few hours Israel has conducted multiple attacks across the Gaza strip violating the ceasefire.. at least 366 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire came into effect 8 weeks ago"
December 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
"In the past few hours Israel has conducted multiple attacks across the Gaza strip violating the ceasefire.. at least 366 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire came into effect 8 weeks ago"
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For capitalism to keep operating it has to convince you that you are thing that ends at the boundaries of your body rather than a flow connected to uncountable others. After all, you can't really profit off extracting from yourself.
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
For capitalism to keep operating it has to convince you that you are thing that ends at the boundaries of your body rather than a flow connected to uncountable others. After all, you can't really profit off extracting from yourself.
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Governments ignore the science and prefer to just focus on climate change as an energy transition: as a spur to kick start a still completely unsustainable capitalism. We’re in breach of multiple planetary boundaries and they - and we - are deeply interdependent. It’s one hell of a category error.
‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study
- Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study
Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say in unexpected finding
www.theguardian.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Governments ignore the science and prefer to just focus on climate change as an energy transition: as a spur to kick start a still completely unsustainable capitalism. We’re in breach of multiple planetary boundaries and they - and we - are deeply interdependent. It’s one hell of a category error.
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This is great research! It shows with data that a lot of what we hear about the "unpopularity" of radical socioecological ideas is not about people, but rather the lack of popularity with mainstream policymakers and market agents.
There's a lot of ground on which to build!
There's a lot of ground on which to build!
I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is great research! It shows with data that a lot of what we hear about the "unpopularity" of radical socioecological ideas is not about people, but rather the lack of popularity with mainstream policymakers and market agents.
There's a lot of ground on which to build!
There's a lot of ground on which to build!
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Victoria has made history, with the first Treaty with First Nations people in the country!
It’s time to celebrate this huge moment! Join @firstpeoplesvic, First Nations people and allies from all walks of life next Friday 12 December to celebrate the incredible journey to Treaty.
It’s time to celebrate this huge moment! Join @firstpeoplesvic, First Nations people and allies from all walks of life next Friday 12 December to celebrate the incredible journey to Treaty.
December 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Victoria has made history, with the first Treaty with First Nations people in the country!
It’s time to celebrate this huge moment! Join @firstpeoplesvic, First Nations people and allies from all walks of life next Friday 12 December to celebrate the incredible journey to Treaty.
It’s time to celebrate this huge moment! Join @firstpeoplesvic, First Nations people and allies from all walks of life next Friday 12 December to celebrate the incredible journey to Treaty.
Anyone know where exactly in the Hunter they plan to build this?
A company headed up by one of the legends of Australian solar R&D has won Solar Sunshot funding to build a PV panel manufacturing plant in a former coal hub.
reneweconomy.com.au
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Anyone know where exactly in the Hunter they plan to build this?
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COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT IN RAJASTHAN, INDIA REJECTED AS BIDS TO BUILD IT WERE MORE $$$$$ THAN RENEWABLES BUNDLED WITH BATTERIES
RISE & ☀️☀️☀️
(share with 'we dig coal to alleviate energy poverty in poor countries', 'but what about baseload?', 'firming capacity' fossil fuel apologists)
RISE & ☀️☀️☀️
(share with 'we dig coal to alleviate energy poverty in poor countries', 'but what about baseload?', 'firming capacity' fossil fuel apologists)
The Indian state of Rajasthan produces more solar than any other. It has rejected a 3.2 GW coal power plant, because the bids to build it were more expensive than bundling renewables with batteries.
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
India’s Desert State Reignites Coal-Fired Power Debate
The competitive cost of batteries is making clean energy a viable alternative to coal in parts of the country.
www.bloomberg.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT IN RAJASTHAN, INDIA REJECTED AS BIDS TO BUILD IT WERE MORE $$$$$ THAN RENEWABLES BUNDLED WITH BATTERIES
RISE & ☀️☀️☀️
(share with 'we dig coal to alleviate energy poverty in poor countries', 'but what about baseload?', 'firming capacity' fossil fuel apologists)
RISE & ☀️☀️☀️
(share with 'we dig coal to alleviate energy poverty in poor countries', 'but what about baseload?', 'firming capacity' fossil fuel apologists)
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The government announces the closing of all government offices and schools as weather conditions grow worse.
Death toll from Sri Lanka landslides and floods rises to 56
The government announces the closing of all government offices and schools as weather conditions grow worse.
bit.ly
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The government announces the closing of all government offices and schools as weather conditions grow worse.
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What does it tell you about the state of metallurgical coal markets when one of the country’s most bullish miners pulls back on an approved 60 year extension?
reneweconomy.com.au
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM
What does it tell you about the state of metallurgical coal markets when one of the country’s most bullish miners pulls back on an approved 60 year extension?
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BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels.
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Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A piece from a voice in the environment movement that I greatly admire: “There is no abundance without reciprocity and we will learn this, to our sorrow, in the years to come if we continue treating the natural world as a magic pudding that can be cut and cut and cut and will come again.”
The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws come as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding | Georgina Woods
The rewriting of Australia’s nature laws come as a relief, yet I can’t help feel a sense of foreboding | Georgina Woods
The minister says quick approvals can happen while protecting the environment, but my experience tells me that haste brings unintended consequences
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I got a text from a biodiversity advocate around midday on Thursday asking me: are you glad, or sad?
I wasn’t sure how to reply. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
A piece from a voice in the environment movement that I greatly admire: “There is no abundance without reciprocity and we will learn this, to our sorrow, in the years to come if we continue treating the natural world as a magic pudding that can be cut and cut and cut and will come again.”
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The “debate”.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The “debate”.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
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I loved this episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social with @triofrancos.bsky.social so much! Incredibly insightful and intellectually courageous discussion of the geopolitics of the green transition and the tough trade-offs it involves - and an excellent reminder that technology *is* material.
Extraction w/ Thea Riofrancos
Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this disc...
thedigradio.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I loved this episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social with @triofrancos.bsky.social so much! Incredibly insightful and intellectually courageous discussion of the geopolitics of the green transition and the tough trade-offs it involves - and an excellent reminder that technology *is* material.
Tariq Ali will be delivering the annual @cssgj.bsky.social lecture on Gaza and the demise of international law and order. It’s a terrible time for Australia (5am start) but worth it. December 12. #FreePalestine
Eventbrite link:
Eventbrite link:
Gaza and the Demise of International Law and Order
Tariq Ali delivers the CSSGJ Annual Lecture 2025: Gaza and the demise of international law and global order
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Tariq Ali will be delivering the annual @cssgj.bsky.social lecture on Gaza and the demise of international law and order. It’s a terrible time for Australia (5am start) but worth it. December 12. #FreePalestine
Eventbrite link:
Eventbrite link:
OMG this is awful.
The images are apocalyptic
Dozens killed in Hong Kong high-rise residential fire
www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
Dozens killed in Hong Kong high-rise residential fire
www.npr.org/2025/11/26/n...
Death toll in Hong Kong high-rise fire rises to 36, with 279 reported missing
Hong Kong leader John Lee has said 36 people were reported killed in the fire that spread through a dense high-rise residential housing complex Wednesday. He said another 279 people were reported miss...
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
OMG this is awful.
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“A recent study published in The Journal of Pediatrics adds yet another data point…finding that suicidality scores dropped significantly an average of two years and up to five years after patients received gender-affirming treatment.”
Gender affirming care helps save young trans lives. It’s simple.
Gender affirming care helps save young trans lives. It’s simple.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
“A recent study published in The Journal of Pediatrics adds yet another data point…finding that suicidality scores dropped significantly an average of two years and up to five years after patients received gender-affirming treatment.”
Gender affirming care helps save young trans lives. It’s simple.
Gender affirming care helps save young trans lives. It’s simple.
Elizabeth Farrelly is (as usual) a fairly lone media voice in critique of the NSW Government planning reforms that were quietly approved this month.
Prohibiting the public interest
The new New South Wales Environmental Planning and Assessment (Planning System Reforms) Bill 2025, which slid through parliament in November with bipartisan support and little press coverage, is “trus...
architectureau.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Elizabeth Farrelly is (as usual) a fairly lone media voice in critique of the NSW Government planning reforms that were quietly approved this month.
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Australia’s new Guarantee of Origin scheme gives Traditional Owners and First Nations groups a new set of tools to hold clean energy developers accountable and to leverage an emerging policy framework for lasting value.
Our fact sheet assets.nationbuilder.com/fncen/pages/... #auspol #cleanenergy
Our fact sheet assets.nationbuilder.com/fncen/pages/... #auspol #cleanenergy
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Australia’s new Guarantee of Origin scheme gives Traditional Owners and First Nations groups a new set of tools to hold clean energy developers accountable and to leverage an emerging policy framework for lasting value.
Our fact sheet assets.nationbuilder.com/fncen/pages/... #auspol #cleanenergy
Our fact sheet assets.nationbuilder.com/fncen/pages/... #auspol #cleanenergy
Highly recommend this book for you or anyone you know with interests spanning climate change, ecological protection, industrialization, and modern art. You know, the usual stuff.
Taking a cue from @onceatrophic.bsky.social to let you know this would be a great time to purchase my Van Gogh book, now 30% off. Beautiful full-color reproductions of Van Gogh's art & a completely new view of this iconic modern artist. Use code GIFT30 thru Dec. 5: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Highly recommend this book for you or anyone you know with interests spanning climate change, ecological protection, industrialization, and modern art. You know, the usual stuff.
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‘A landmark report, The Right to Power — Keeping First Nations' communities connected on prepayment, found nearly 9,000 households were impacted by frequent disconnections that are "undermining health, wellbeing and economic participation".’
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Constant power denied to 65,000 customers forced to pay upfront or disconnect
Communities on prepaid power meters face regular disconnections amid 40 degree-plus heat, meaning no aircon, food rotting in the fridge and long, hot walks to get reconnected.
www.abc.net.au
November 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
‘A landmark report, The Right to Power — Keeping First Nations' communities connected on prepayment, found nearly 9,000 households were impacted by frequent disconnections that are "undermining health, wellbeing and economic participation".’
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Three actions you can take – you choose. knittingnannas.org/2025/11/24/a...
Action of the Week 24th Nov 2025
Welcome to a momentous week in the Australian Senate – and that’s no exaggeration. The Albanese government is hoping to do a deal to rush the Environmental Protection Reform Bill through the Senate…
knittingnannas.org
November 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Three actions you can take – you choose. knittingnannas.org/2025/11/24/a...
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Read @roycerk2.bsky.social to find out how #cop30 ended
One of Australia’s best journalists, covering an issue that is still not getting enough attention #climate
One of Australia’s best journalists, covering an issue that is still not getting enough attention #climate
The #COP30 text commits to following the science and embracing information integrity while stripping away all mention of fossil fuel phaseout @roycerk2.bsky.social reports.
drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
COP-tastrophe: How the COP of Implementation, Truth, Forests, and Indigenous Peoples Failed on All Counts
COP30 began full of promise but ended as yet another reminder that the mechanism for global climate governance is broken.
drilled.media
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Read @roycerk2.bsky.social to find out how #cop30 ended
One of Australia’s best journalists, covering an issue that is still not getting enough attention #climate
One of Australia’s best journalists, covering an issue that is still not getting enough attention #climate