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Robin Boardman
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· Nov 28
After the dark billionaire circus of robots and censorship, it’s time to join the light, Bluesky.
Hi I’m Robin - the youngest cofounder of Extinction Rebellion and a disabled writer on revolution, strategy and community.
Here’s a thread all about how fossil fuels flipped my life upside down 🧵
Hi I’m Robin - the youngest cofounder of Extinction Rebellion and a disabled writer on revolution, strategy and community.
Here’s a thread all about how fossil fuels flipped my life upside down 🧵
Newly uncovered documents show Exxon funded a network of “think tanks” across Latin America to spread climate denial and derail UN climate talks.
This is what we’re up against.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is what we’re up against.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Newly uncovered documents show Exxon funded a network of “think tanks” across Latin America to spread climate denial and derail UN climate talks.
This is what we’re up against.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is what we’re up against.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Incredible news from Poland. 🇵🇱
After five days of civil disobedience, Last Generation's climate transport bill was finally accepted for consultation, and 94.3% of respondents supported it!
The people have spoken: they want trains, not traffic. Now we’ll see if the government listens.
After five days of civil disobedience, Last Generation's climate transport bill was finally accepted for consultation, and 94.3% of respondents supported it!
The people have spoken: they want trains, not traffic. Now we’ll see if the government listens.
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Incredible news from Poland. 🇵🇱
After five days of civil disobedience, Last Generation's climate transport bill was finally accepted for consultation, and 94.3% of respondents supported it!
The people have spoken: they want trains, not traffic. Now we’ll see if the government listens.
After five days of civil disobedience, Last Generation's climate transport bill was finally accepted for consultation, and 94.3% of respondents supported it!
The people have spoken: they want trains, not traffic. Now we’ll see if the government listens.
Reposted by Robin Boardman
“What happened here is crazy,” said Cristina Santin, a biologist from northwestern Spain who studies fire impacts. “Suddenly you get up one day and your home region is burning on a scale that is completely unprecedented.”
#Spain 🇪🇸
#ClimateEmergency
www.reuters.com/investigates...
#Spain 🇪🇸
#ClimateEmergency
www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“What happened here is crazy,” said Cristina Santin, a biologist from northwestern Spain who studies fire impacts. “Suddenly you get up one day and your home region is burning on a scale that is completely unprecedented.”
#Spain 🇪🇸
#ClimateEmergency
www.reuters.com/investigates...
#Spain 🇪🇸
#ClimateEmergency
www.reuters.com/investigates...
Reposted by Robin Boardman
An analysis of the Amazon’s lakes found that a "simultaneous heat wave and severe drought" killed masses of river dolphins and fish in 2023, with lake temps hitting 41°C.
The Amazon isn’t just burning, it’s boiling.
The Amazon isn’t just burning, it’s boiling.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Reposted by Robin Boardman
'Despite that urgency, analysts and some COP30 participants have said they don’t expect any major new agreements to emerge from the talks, which conclude on November 21.'
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
'Despite that urgency, analysts and some COP30 participants have said they don’t expect any major new agreements to emerge from the talks, which conclude on November 21.'
An analysis of the Amazon’s lakes found that a "simultaneous heat wave and severe drought" killed masses of river dolphins and fish in 2023, with lake temps hitting 41°C.
The Amazon isn’t just burning, it’s boiling.
The Amazon isn’t just burning, it’s boiling.
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
An analysis of the Amazon’s lakes found that a "simultaneous heat wave and severe drought" killed masses of river dolphins and fish in 2023, with lake temps hitting 41°C.
The Amazon isn’t just burning, it’s boiling.
The Amazon isn’t just burning, it’s boiling.
Italian oil giant ENI is suing history teacher Michele Giuli for calling them out on climate crimes. They’ve plundered Italy & Nigeria for decades and now they want to silence dissent.
But we have raised €15,000 in a week for his defence. The people stand with truth, not oil.
But we have raised €15,000 in a week for his defence. The people stand with truth, not oil.
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Italian oil giant ENI is suing history teacher Michele Giuli for calling them out on climate crimes. They’ve plundered Italy & Nigeria for decades and now they want to silence dissent.
But we have raised €15,000 in a week for his defence. The people stand with truth, not oil.
But we have raised €15,000 in a week for his defence. The people stand with truth, not oil.
Reposted by Robin Boardman
THE FORCES FUNDING ECOCIDE
And the propagandists' tentacles.
And the propagandists' tentacles.
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
THE FORCES FUNDING ECOCIDE
And the propagandists' tentacles.
And the propagandists' tentacles.
Reposted by Robin Boardman
In 2017 I was a student minding my own business when suddenly my language studies brought me into contact with Noam Chomsky. His writings on power, foreign policy and climate inspired me to act. So I joined the university fossil fuel divestment campaign.
We won a £2m divestment in 8 months 🎊
We won a £2m divestment in 8 months 🎊
November 28, 2024 at 9:48 AM
In 2017 I was a student minding my own business when suddenly my language studies brought me into contact with Noam Chomsky. His writings on power, foreign policy and climate inspired me to act. So I joined the university fossil fuel divestment campaign.
We won a £2m divestment in 8 months 🎊
We won a £2m divestment in 8 months 🎊
Yo @davidho.bsky.social, thanks for all you do!
Please could you add me to your climate writer starter pack?
I’m the youngest co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and regular writer here.
Would love to connect more with this blue place 💙
Please could you add me to your climate writer starter pack?
I’m the youngest co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and regular writer here.
Would love to connect more with this blue place 💙
November 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Yo @davidho.bsky.social, thanks for all you do!
Please could you add me to your climate writer starter pack?
I’m the youngest co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and regular writer here.
Would love to connect more with this blue place 💙
Please could you add me to your climate writer starter pack?
I’m the youngest co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and regular writer here.
Would love to connect more with this blue place 💙
Yo @katharinehayhoe.com, thanks for all you do!
Please could you add me to your climate activist starter packs?
I’m the youngest co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and regular writer here.
Would love to connect more with this blue place 💙
Please could you add me to your climate activist starter packs?
I’m the youngest co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and regular writer here.
Would love to connect more with this blue place 💙
November 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Yo @katharinehayhoe.com, thanks for all you do!
Please could you add me to your climate activist starter packs?
I’m the youngest co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and regular writer here.
Would love to connect more with this blue place 💙
Please could you add me to your climate activist starter packs?
I’m the youngest co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and regular writer here.
Would love to connect more with this blue place 💙
An emissions scandal is unfolding in Britain’s countryside.
A Guardian investigation found that intensive pig and poultry farms are being approved illegally without declaring their massive climate impacts.
They’ll pump out over 600,000 tonnes of CO2 a year. So much for a climate emergency!
A Guardian investigation found that intensive pig and poultry farms are being approved illegally without declaring their massive climate impacts.
They’ll pump out over 600,000 tonnes of CO2 a year. So much for a climate emergency!
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
An emissions scandal is unfolding in Britain’s countryside.
A Guardian investigation found that intensive pig and poultry farms are being approved illegally without declaring their massive climate impacts.
They’ll pump out over 600,000 tonnes of CO2 a year. So much for a climate emergency!
A Guardian investigation found that intensive pig and poultry farms are being approved illegally without declaring their massive climate impacts.
They’ll pump out over 600,000 tonnes of CO2 a year. So much for a climate emergency!
Democracy is being dismantled in Sweden.
Researcher David Alcer has been arrested twice without cause — denied a lawyer, and threatened with deportation — for peacefully protesting genocide and environmental destruction.
The right to protest, to speak, to defend life is non-negotiable.
Researcher David Alcer has been arrested twice without cause — denied a lawyer, and threatened with deportation — for peacefully protesting genocide and environmental destruction.
The right to protest, to speak, to defend life is non-negotiable.
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Democracy is being dismantled in Sweden.
Researcher David Alcer has been arrested twice without cause — denied a lawyer, and threatened with deportation — for peacefully protesting genocide and environmental destruction.
The right to protest, to speak, to defend life is non-negotiable.
Researcher David Alcer has been arrested twice without cause — denied a lawyer, and threatened with deportation — for peacefully protesting genocide and environmental destruction.
The right to protest, to speak, to defend life is non-negotiable.
In Oslo, activists staged a “People’s Council” right in the middle of a busy junction, demanding democracy over Norway’s trillion-dollar Oil Fund.
The police shut them down within minutes. But repression only proves the point: democracy ends where profit begins.
The police shut them down within minutes. But repression only proves the point: democracy ends where profit begins.
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
In Oslo, activists staged a “People’s Council” right in the middle of a busy junction, demanding democracy over Norway’s trillion-dollar Oil Fund.
The police shut them down within minutes. But repression only proves the point: democracy ends where profit begins.
The police shut them down within minutes. But repression only proves the point: democracy ends where profit begins.
I hate telling good people bad news.
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I hate telling good people bad news.
Brazil’s state oil giant Petrobras just got the green light to drill for oil 500 km from the mouth of the Amazon River.
We’re watching governments approve new oil beside the planet’s lungs, even as they collapse.
We’re watching governments approve new oil beside the planet’s lungs, even as they collapse.
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Brazil’s state oil giant Petrobras just got the green light to drill for oil 500 km from the mouth of the Amazon River.
We’re watching governments approve new oil beside the planet’s lungs, even as they collapse.
We’re watching governments approve new oil beside the planet’s lungs, even as they collapse.
Reposted by Robin Boardman
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
🔥 Audible = Amazon = climate chaos + tax dodging.
Every listen there bankrolls Big Tech’s destruction.
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Sign up with this link and you gift me a free book for my migraine days. Solidarity listening 🎧
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With Libro.fm your audiobooks keep indie shops alive.
Sign up with this link and you gift me a free book for my migraine days. Solidarity listening 🎧
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November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
🔥 Audible = Amazon = climate chaos + tax dodging.
Every listen there bankrolls Big Tech’s destruction.
With Libro.fm your audiobooks keep indie shops alive.
Sign up with this link and you gift me a free book for my migraine days. Solidarity listening 🎧
Every listen there bankrolls Big Tech’s destruction.
With Libro.fm your audiobooks keep indie shops alive.
Sign up with this link and you gift me a free book for my migraine days. Solidarity listening 🎧
A new report by the Climate Transition Centre on “net-zero” banking found that *not a single major bank* is willing to stop funding new oil, gas, or coal projects.
Zero.
Across 36 banks, the average climate score was just 18%.
They’re literally banking on collapse and calling it sustainability.
Zero.
Across 36 banks, the average climate score was just 18%.
They’re literally banking on collapse and calling it sustainability.
November 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A new report by the Climate Transition Centre on “net-zero” banking found that *not a single major bank* is willing to stop funding new oil, gas, or coal projects.
Zero.
Across 36 banks, the average climate score was just 18%.
They’re literally banking on collapse and calling it sustainability.
Zero.
Across 36 banks, the average climate score was just 18%.
They’re literally banking on collapse and calling it sustainability.
Reposted by Robin Boardman
*1.4 million displaced. One of the strongest storms the country’s seen in years. I ache for the poorest—those with nowhere to run, their cardboard homes and fragile hopes washed away overnight. Nature doesn’t choose its victims, but poverty makes sure the same souls suffer most.
Typhoon Tino has torn through the Philippines -- killing over 200 people, displacing 400,000 displaced, and washing away whole towns.
And still our governments fund oil, gas, and coal: the fuel behind every storm like this.
And still our governments fund oil, gas, and coal: the fuel behind every storm like this.
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 AM
*1.4 million displaced. One of the strongest storms the country’s seen in years. I ache for the poorest—those with nowhere to run, their cardboard homes and fragile hopes washed away overnight. Nature doesn’t choose its victims, but poverty makes sure the same souls suffer most.
Reposted by Robin Boardman
Goodbye.
The Slender-billed Curlew, once flying freely from North Africa to Siberia, is now extinct.
People have ignored warnings of this since the 1940s, killing them off by hunting, overgrazing, and draining wetlands.
That's another precious voice and fine beak gone from our skies.
People have ignored warnings of this since the 1940s, killing them off by hunting, overgrazing, and draining wetlands.
That's another precious voice and fine beak gone from our skies.
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Goodbye.
Istanbul, a city of 16 million, could run out of water by 2050.
Iraq’s biggest reservoir has already hit “dead water” for the first time in half a century.
This is what collapse looks like: rivers drying, cities thirsting, and leaders lying that we still have time.
Iraq’s biggest reservoir has already hit “dead water” for the first time in half a century.
This is what collapse looks like: rivers drying, cities thirsting, and leaders lying that we still have time.
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Istanbul, a city of 16 million, could run out of water by 2050.
Iraq’s biggest reservoir has already hit “dead water” for the first time in half a century.
This is what collapse looks like: rivers drying, cities thirsting, and leaders lying that we still have time.
Iraq’s biggest reservoir has already hit “dead water” for the first time in half a century.
This is what collapse looks like: rivers drying, cities thirsting, and leaders lying that we still have time.
The Slender-billed Curlew, once flying freely from North Africa to Siberia, is now extinct.
People have ignored warnings of this since the 1940s, killing them off by hunting, overgrazing, and draining wetlands.
That's another precious voice and fine beak gone from our skies.
People have ignored warnings of this since the 1940s, killing them off by hunting, overgrazing, and draining wetlands.
That's another precious voice and fine beak gone from our skies.
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The Slender-billed Curlew, once flying freely from North Africa to Siberia, is now extinct.
People have ignored warnings of this since the 1940s, killing them off by hunting, overgrazing, and draining wetlands.
That's another precious voice and fine beak gone from our skies.
People have ignored warnings of this since the 1940s, killing them off by hunting, overgrazing, and draining wetlands.
That's another precious voice and fine beak gone from our skies.
China just hit 37.5°C, its hottest mid-October day ever.
Japan broke dozens of heat records too, and Indonesia set a new minimum temperature record.
October is supposed to be cooling. Instead, the world is still burning.
Japan broke dozens of heat records too, and Indonesia set a new minimum temperature record.
October is supposed to be cooling. Instead, the world is still burning.
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
China just hit 37.5°C, its hottest mid-October day ever.
Japan broke dozens of heat records too, and Indonesia set a new minimum temperature record.
October is supposed to be cooling. Instead, the world is still burning.
Japan broke dozens of heat records too, and Indonesia set a new minimum temperature record.
October is supposed to be cooling. Instead, the world is still burning.
Typhoon Tino has torn through the Philippines -- killing over 200 people, displacing 400,000 displaced, and washing away whole towns.
And still our governments fund oil, gas, and coal: the fuel behind every storm like this.
And still our governments fund oil, gas, and coal: the fuel behind every storm like this.
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Typhoon Tino has torn through the Philippines -- killing over 200 people, displacing 400,000 displaced, and washing away whole towns.
And still our governments fund oil, gas, and coal: the fuel behind every storm like this.
And still our governments fund oil, gas, and coal: the fuel behind every storm like this.