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David Hall

@dvdhll.bsky.social
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• Co-Founder + Executive Director, Toha Network: www.toha.network • Creator of The Transition(s) Lab: the-transitions-lab.ghost.io • Industry Fellow, Te Whare Tūroa AUT Regenerative Environments Research Network: regen.aut.ac.nz

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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
WEBINAR: Climate Tort Prohibition. The NZ Government is seeking to shield major emitters from liability for climate change-related damage through the Tort Prohibition Bill. Join Lawyers for Climate Action NZ on Thursday 9 July to hear from Mike Smith, Laura MacKay, Bjørn-Oliver Magsig, and me.
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Webinar: Climate Tort Prohibition
Join us at 1:30pm on Thursday 9 July to hear from the experts who will explain the Tort Prohibition Bill and its implications. The Government is seeking to shield major emitters from liability for ...
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A new post for The Transition(s) Lab – this time with a focus on policy mixes and industrial strategy. A few choice cuts in the thread below... the-transitions-lab.ghost.io/pointillist/...
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The Pointillist #11
In this week's edition of The Pointillist, a focus on the carrots and sticks of climate mitigation policy – with a special focus on emerging science of policy mixes and policy interactions. Insights i...
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Join me with esteemed writer Amitav Ghosh (Nutmeg's Curse, Great Derangement) and novelist Charlotte McConaghy at the Auckland Writers Festival – to talk about confronting the #climate #crisis. Free event as part of the Auckland Writers Festival. www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
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Writing the Climate Reckoning • Auckland Writers Festival
Explore the 2026 Auckland Writers Festival programme — discover author sessions, panel talks, workshops, free events, and special activities for all audiences.
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Join me with esteemed writer Amitav Ghosh (Nutmeg's Curse, Great Derangement) and novelist Charlotte McConaghy at the Auckland Writers Festival – to talk about confronting the #climate #crisis. Free event as part of the Auckland Writers Festival. www.writersfestival.co.nz/programmes/e...
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Writing the Climate Reckoning • Auckland Writers Festival
Explore the 2026 Auckland Writers Festival programme — discover author sessions, panel talks, workshops, free events, and special activities for all audiences.
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BlueShiftNZ @blueshiftnz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Science-folks: If we run 100 experiments, we might find 1 or 2 of them may have results that can make many dollars. NZ Govt: Excellent. We will fund those 1 or 2 experiments.
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
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Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New essay for the Transition(s) Lab on #narrative #strategy in the midst of a global commodities #crisis and a #backlash against #climateaction. the-transitions-lab.ghost.io/the-shift-3-...
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The Shift #3: A matter of strategy
This is an essay I had planned to start the year with: a few words of encouragement for anyone feeling demoralized by the backlash against climate action. However, climate action got in the way of cli...
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Sam Crawley @samcrawley.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
If you missed my thread/blog post on the growing left-right climate divide in climate opinion in Aotearoa, it's now available to read for free on Newsroom. #nzpol #climatechange
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Australia and New Zealand can chart their own AI path, learning from India’s experience while avoiding centralization and exclusion risks, writes Archana Atmakuri.
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India’s AI Middle Path Offers Lessons for Australia and New Zealand
India’s AI middle path offers Australia and New Zealand lessons in sovereignty, governance, and building national AI advantage, writes Archana Atmakuri.
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Quite a week for us! 1/ our podcast is launched: “Electric World Order” is a short series about the geopolitics of energy transition; ep 1 is about how China’s industrial strategy kinda accidentally created Pakistan’s solar boom:
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The Polycrisis
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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
People like to say that oh, NZ has 90% renewable energy but that's only electricity. Our total energy consumption is something like 60% fossil fuels ie we use a LOT of oil.
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Tessa Vincent and I joined the inimitable Kathryn Ryan to discuss climate action today. Listen in here. 👇
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Thirty Kiwis share their take on climate solutions
There's scientists like Jim Salinger, farmers who say there's an alternative to traditional agriculture as well as politicians who talk about localising climate action in communities
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Rohan MacMahon @rohmac.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Coming up next on Radio NZ, Kathryn Ryan previews the new "Kiwis in Climate" book. I'm honoured to be a co-author of this effort to invigorate climate response in Aotearoa. Listen in at www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro... #nzpol #greensky
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Nine To Noon
Smart, in-depth and relentlessly curious, host Kathryn Ryan dives into the stories shaping New Zealand and its people. Interviews and expert analysis from around the world and at home. It’s where big ...
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Te Whare Tūroa AUT Regenerative Environments Research Network @tewhareturoa.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Hot off the press: New tips for establishing forest giants Your forest restoration project could benefit from: - planting nurse and big canopy species at the same time - using 2m spacing - paying attention to local site conditions eg soil, exposure & ground cover regen.aut.ac.nz/news/new-tip...
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Actually people are still talking and caring about #ClimateChange... 💚🗣️ Come to a book launch for Kiwis in Climate, an essay collection on #climate solutions in #Aotearoa #NewZealand. I'll talk about my chapter on impossible economics & economic possibilities on 19 March in AKL. Details in link. 📆
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Kiwis in Climate Book Launch (University of Auckland) · Luma
Kiwis in Climate – Voices for climate solutions in Aotearoa New Zealand brings together bold and practical visions for Aotearoa to lead on climate…
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Te Whare Tūroa AUT Regenerative Environments Research Network @tewhareturoa.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
These living labs are already starting to store carbon and reduce the risk of landslides, erosion and flooding . . . all while teaching us how to restore native forests quickly, effectively and cheaply. Video below for more info 👇 youtu.be/O2jnHuNzZvk @dvdhll.bsky.social @autnews.bsky.social
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AUT Living Labs and Whakatupu Aotearoa Foundation
YouTube video by Whakatupu Aotearoa Foundation
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Kirsty Johnston @kirstyjohnston.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
NZ has fallen into a 'crisis and response' pattern on climate disaster, experts say. Billions have been spent on storm recovery since 2023, while key climate adaptation funding and planning tools have been cut. My story looking at last week’s storms www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
My comments for Carbon News on the withdrawal of BlackRock from its proposed $2bn #CleanTech fund in #Aotearoa #NZ, plus the wider political economy of #ClimateFinance. Also h/t to @brettchristophers.bsky.social for his due diligence at the time. www.carbonnews.co.nz/news/36390/f...
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Carbon News
Carbon News NZ Climate Policy Carbon Markets
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This week in The Transition(s) Lab, I've tried to get my head around the issue of the non-equivalence of biological removals and fossil emissions, specifically in the context of #Aotearoa #NewZealand. I welcome feedback to improve future versions!
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The Brief #1: Non-equivalence in carbon markets
Welcome to the first edition of The Brief, which summarizes the state of knowledge on various transition-related topics. Today's subject is the non-equivalence of biological removals and fossil emissi...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This thread responds to Prof. Christian Dunn’s Telegraph piece on #climate communication. I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Want a quick brain-dump on some of the reports published over the last few weeks around #COP30? The Transition(s) Lab has you covered with a special COP30 edition of The Pointillist, a quick-fire collage of reports, charts and links that caught my eye. the-transitions-lab.ghost.io/the-pointill...
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The Pointillist #4: COP30 Special Edition
In this week's edition, a selection of new reports and charts that coincided with COP30. This includes charts on emissions and climate ambition, the economics of adaptation, just transitions, insuranc...
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I’ve written about #COP30 for The Transition(s) Lab. When the gavel came down in Belém, there was no major diplomatic breakthrough, but that’s not all that COPs are about these days. In a multipolar world, that’s likely a good thing. Read more here: the-transitions-lab.ghost.io/the-shift-2-...
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The Shift #2: COP30 in a multipolar world
These are my reflections on COP30, the first climate COP that I have attended. I would like to thank the Toha Network for supporting my travel, Brazil's Ministry of Finance for the invitation to pre-C...
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Today is the day!!! Existential Politics is out in the world! Read about why we’re doing climate policy wrong (too focused on measuring emissions) & what we should do instead (focus on $$ to constrain fossil asset owners & expand green asset owners). Just in time for #COP30.
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Existential Politics
A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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Te Whare Tūroa AUT Regenerative Environments Research Network @tewhareturoa.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
One of our main goals is to support inter- and transdisciplinary work to achieve real-world impact. If you're interested in regenerative mahi and thinking outside the box, check out our website: regen.aut.ac.nz @autnews.bsky.social @dvdhll.bsky.social @mribo.bsky.social @lanipai.bsky.social
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Te Whare Tūroa AUT Regenerative Environments Research Network @tewhareturoa.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
What does #regeneration mean to you? We asked some of our steering committee and they had some great answers. Check it out and let us know if we missed anything! @autnews.bsky.social @dvdhll.bsky.social @mribo.bsky.social @lanipai.bsky.social #regenerate #regenerative #ecology #planning
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
When your government mandates an LNG import facility and allocates $200m in subsidies for new gas field developments...
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Five eyes: three half open, two closed shut?
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 04/09/2025
I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is. Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 10/08/2025
electrify coffee electrify beer an electrified future is deliciously near www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Heat Pumps: New Belgium Brewing's Ambitious Effort To Clean Up Its Emissions
New Belgium Brewing will use an electric boiler made by AtmosZero to ferment beer and clean cans and kegs.
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is why I feel ambivalent about *some* degrowth critiques of renewables. A shift to renewables is likely to reduce energy-related GDP (possibly following a temporary boost when everyone invests in the kit). Lesson: up or down, GDP is just an unreliable guide to much of what we want to do.
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
There are many good & necessary criticisms of the transition to renewable energy & electrification. There are also many bad types of criticism, one of which – I'm sorry to say – is the focus here for @newsroom.co.nz Come for energy politics, stay for Hannah Arendt! newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/22/n...
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No, it is not 'evil' to justify reducing energy consumption
Comment: The end goals of the global energy system are not so terrible that even more efficient forms of energy may be considered ‘lesser evils’
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
There are many good & necessary criticisms of the transition to renewable energy & electrification. There are also many bad types of criticism, one of which – I'm sorry to say – is the focus here for @newsroom.co.nz Come for energy politics, stay for Hannah Arendt! newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/22/n...
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No, it is not 'evil' to justify reducing energy consumption
Comment: The end goals of the global energy system are not so terrible that even more efficient forms of energy may be considered ‘lesser evils’
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
New research on the politics of climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand by @samcrawley.bsky.social & Ralph Chapman. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Resolution and resistance: what shaped New Zealand’s climate change policies under the sixth Labour government?
The sixth Labour government under Jacinda Ardern placed climate change at the centre of their agenda, referring to it as the ‘greatest challenge facing the world’. Definite progress was made on cli...
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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
All of our inflationary episodes have been driven by increases in global oil prices. Our country runs on diesel and petrol. It's an *input cost* for everything. But... to tackle inflation we increase the price of money, cos TINA. [2/n]
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Electricity means efficiency ⚡ which also means fewer materials and less energy than you might think. An explainer on materials and the energy transition for Rewiring Aotearoa: www.rewiring.nz/watt-now/ele...
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Electricity means efficiency
There are no free lunches in energy. But some lunches are far, far cheaper than others. Electrifying everything will massively reduce the overall material and energy requirements of the global energy ...
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Hi. I have an article in the new Policy Quarterly. Upfront, the article is about policy mixes. Backhandedly, it is about the narrow, flat-footed and highly idealising style of policy analysis that predominates in Aotearoa New Zealand. Link here: ojs.victoria.ac.nz/pq/article/v...
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Ben Stockton @benrst.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
NEW | @hajmedd.bsky.social and I spent the last several months digging into McKinsey's work with its fossil fuel clients. Here's our story with the Guardian, ft. Koch Industries, China and a controversial Saudi government program to hook poor countries on oil www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘A little dirty’: inside the secret world of McKinsey, the firm hooked on fossil fuels
Interviews and analysis of court documents show how the world’s most prestigious consulting firm quietly helps fuel the climate crisis
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
DISPATCH @katemac.bsky.social @thepolycrisis.bsky.social A Trumpist repeal of the climate portions of IRA, CHIPS would harm the US. Think of it as the opposite of global reaction after IRA passed. It creates billions of dollars in opportunities for other countries. buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 16/11/2024
There is no “game over” in the fight against climate change. Today, it remains our collective task to continue to bend the arc of global emissions towards net zero. The next battle begins today. heatmap.news/ideas/trump-...
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
We need to talk about #IndigenousDataSovereignty in nature markets. This is a message that the Toha Network will be taking to the UN Biodiversity Conference COP16 next week. #GreenSky #ClimateSky #adapt #AoNZ theconversation.com/nature-marke...
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‘Nature markets’ may help preserve biodiversity – but they risk repeating colonial patterns of Indigenous exploitation
Biodiversity credits could unlock new funding for nature restoration. But if this happens without consideration of Indigenous data sovereignty, it could create a new form of colonialism.
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
You've heard of 'carbon tunnel vision'... At Rewiring Aotearoa, we argue for 'electric-panoptic vision' – that is, an integrated view of opportunities, risks, interconnections and trade-offs. Read our explainer here: www.rewiring.nz/watt-now/peo...
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 10/07/2024
We need #ClimateAction now. As much as possible. As soon as possible. That’s why the Toha Network has hardwired its data economy with a sense of urgency. ⏱ How? Read Toha's new explainer, ‘Introducing the Time Value of Action’, here: substack.toha.network/p/introducin...
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Introducing the Time Value of Action
We need action now. As much as possible. As soon as possible.
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
I've got some comments here on an article that called for "behavioural manipulation" - i.e. the "engineering of consent" by marketing techniques - as maybe "our best chance at avoiding ecological catastrophe." My view, in short, is nah. news.mongabay.com/2024/03/ecol...
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Ecological overshoot is a ‘behavioral crisis’ & marketing is a solution: Study
A paper generated by the Merz Institute, an Aotearoa New Zealand-based think tank, and published in the journal Science Progress in 2023, hypothesizes that the environmental crises our planet faces to...
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
Inaugural report out by Rewiring Aotearoa. In short, electrifying your house will reduce your cost-of-living *and* your contributions to creating a fossil-fuel ravaged hellscape. www.rewiring.nz/electric-hom...
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
Inaugural report out by Rewiring Aotearoa. In short, electrifying your house will reduce your cost-of-living *and* your contributions to creating a fossil-fuel ravaged hellscape. www.rewiring.nz/electric-hom...
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Reports on 2023 GHG emissions and trends are starting to come out, please find attached the social media conversation you are about to have
EXTENDED American Chopper meme
1. Global GHG emissions are still going up
2. Emissions are coming down in this specific place and/or sector, or if I give you an intensity metric
1. Even there they aren't coming down fast enough
2. I didn't say they were, but there are important areas of progress
1. And even when global emissions start coming down that won't be enough, we need to get to zero or below
2. You are scaring everyone, you doomer! Thanks to you no one will do anything!
1. You are peddling hopium to the masses! Thanks to you no one will do anything!
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David Hall @dvdhll.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
“Your most truthful contributions to collective reasoning are unlikely to be your own individual arguments, but your useful criticisms of others’ rationales.” (Just the encouragement I needed to reboot one stalled writing project.) www.programmablemutter.com/p/in-praise-...
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Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
'Business suits of the future' Auckland Weekly News, 14 March 1929. I wish this had caught on, honestly.
Two businessmen attired in silk shirts and shorts. They both have cute socks. One gazes at his cigarette-smoking friend longingly.
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