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Michael Polanyi

@michaelpolanyi.bsky.social
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Faith-based activism for a livable planet

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Michael Polanyi @michaelpolanyi.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Happy to join Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke constituents on the fifth anniversary of BC's deadly heat dome to urge Liberal MP Stephanie McLean to sign the #PeoplesMOU and invest in clean energy and good jobs, not climate-destroying pipelines. @350canada.bsky.social
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Toronto Environmental Alliance @toenviro.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Our urban forests are irreplaceable! Trees bring shade, clean air, flood protection, climate benefits & health benefits. Toronto City Council will be voting soon on a plan for stronger private trees protection. 🌳 Speak up to help make sure this plan gets approved: loom.ly/sWXPztc 🌲
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Michael Polanyi @michaelpolanyi.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
@stephaniemclean.bsky.social As one of your constituents, I am joining my community in asking: do you support wasting our public dollars on a dying industry, instead of making the investments everyday people actually need? Will you stand for HomesNotPipelines? bsky.app/profile/lead...
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Michael Polanyi @michaelpolanyi.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
"We are motivated by love, not profit," says 80-year-old Anglican Minister Michael Van Dusen, one of a growing number of religious leaders risking arrest to nonviolently resist fossil fuels. www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...
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No faith in fossil fuels? Why some religious leaders are speaking out on climate change
Anglican Deacon Michael Van Dusen typically has plans for the Christmas season that do not involve a Toronto courthouse.
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Michael Polanyi @michaelpolanyi.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
People of faith have a role to play in calling on our leaders to show the courage and moral leadership to protect this one, sacred planet. This video captures one recent action in Toronto - on the first day of COP30 - to do so. youtu.be/2ie1ZBN-tqM?...
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No Faith in Fossil Fuels
YouTube video by VillagersMediaTV
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Michael Polanyi @michaelpolanyi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
LNG is not a solution—it's a climate catastrophe in disguise. Sign the petition today to tell banks to stop funding the LNG boom and invest in a healthy, sustainable future instead. act.stand.earth/page/88515/p...
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Stop Funding the Methane Menace: Tell Banks to End LNG Expansion!
LNG is not a solution—it's a climate catastrophe in disguise. Sign the petition today to tell banks to stop funding the LNG boom and invest in a healthy, sustainable future instead.
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Michael Polanyi @michaelpolanyi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Michael Polanyi @michaelpolanyi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
An accelerating new source of CO2 is adding to the already massive and growing emissions of CO2 caused by humans burning fossil oil, gas and coal. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/03/a...
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Canada’s out-of-control wildfire crisis in six charts
Canadian wildfire has quadrupled since the 1990s. That’s releasing billions of tonnes of CO2. The climate beast is waking up. When will we?
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