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Elon Gates

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PhD in game theory and economics

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 21h
Defra is gathering evidence that could shape the future policy on gamebird shooting. Have your say! Have you experienced issues such as gamebird collisions, dumped dead birds, illegal traps, suspicious raptor deaths, disturbance, damage or loss of access to land? For info, visit buff.ly/TGjrkrK
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 14h
“Unlike A.I., climate change’s existential threat is not hypothetical. It is killing people now." Amidst the AI-pocalypse, we can't lose sight of the climate crisis and the urgency of electrification. Gift link! shorturl.at/On4Jk
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The Big Threat Has Been Climate Change. Now Comes A.I. (Gift Article)
Both are human-caused, both are frightening, and one of them has raced to the forefront of the global conversation.
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Alexander J. Stein @ajstein.bsky.social · 23h
If animal food products in #Canada were replaced with high-protein plant food products, agriculture's #landuse could decrease by 80%, as crop production is much more efficient than animal production. The land could be put to better uses. Such a switch of #protein sources… doi.org/10.1088/2976... +
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Reduction in land area devoted to agriculture from a hypothetical universal vegan diet in Canada
Reduction in land area devoted to agriculture from a hypothetical universal vegan diet in Canada, Harvey, L D Danny
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I didnʼt become vegan just because of my health. I became vegan for ethical reasons. Iʼm vegan for the environment.” - Jane Goodall www.cnbc.com/2025/10/04/w...
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Jane Goodall adopted a plant-based diet back in the 1960s: It was key to her activism and a long, healthy life
In the 1960s, Jane Goodall stopped eating meat. "I became vegan for ethical reasons," she said earlier this year.
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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026
This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An essential conversation. Moving towards plant-based diets is a vital part of rewilding, as is eating more venison in places with too many deer, like Ireland and the UK.
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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 28/09/2026
With just 38 launches fully loaded with the new v3 sat, the Starlink constellation will have the same bandwidth as the entire terrestrial internet. Having all of that under the control of a fascist is pretty bad.
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Elon Gates @strawdogs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#rewilding in rich countries may simply export the problem if human diets don’t change in tandem with the rewilding. It’s called biodiversity leakage. And we shouldn’t consider rewilding without taking “food” demand into account! e360.yale.edu/digest/biodi...
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Push to Rewild in Wealthy Countries Fueling Destruction in Poorer Ones
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We do people constantly frame the security report about ecological collapse as being about climate change? It is misleading and ignores the fact of biodiversity loss & ecosystem degradation as an existential threat in its own right www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?
Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For the first half of this year, Melania Trump was doing everything in her power to get me to shut up. I wasn’t sure I wanted to talk about this. I didn’t know how to talk about it. And if I’m being fucking honest, I’m scared to talk about it right now.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Big Tech Won’t Let You Advertise a Movie About Elon Musk Here’s a sentence that should worry anyone who cares about free speech: you can’t buy an ad for a movie about Elon Musk. According to The Hollywood Reporter, YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all declined to run the trailer for Musk, Alex
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New Trump slogan just dropped www.etsy.com/shop/AntiTru... or www.teepublic.com/user/funny-a...
red baseball cap embroidered with the phrase "WE ALL DIE ANYWAY" in white, capitalized text, styled similarly to a "Make America Great Again" hat. At the bottom of the image, two URLs are displayed: 

etsy.com/shop/AntiTrumpResistance

teepublic.com/user/funny-anti-trump
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Palestinian villagers wailed over the mangled remains of their olive trees on Wednesday after Israel’s ‌military uprooted them with bulldozers, days before the annual olive harvest, normally a source of joy for Palestinians ​in the occupied West Bank." via The Irish Times
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There are 2% of #sparrows left in Europe compared to when I was born. There are only 0.7% of #spiders left compared to 1980. Shifting baseline syndrome is over. There never was a baseline to begin with. The disease has now killed the only host there is. #NTHE pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Where Have All the Spiders Gone? Observations of a Dramatic Population Density Decline in the Once Very Abundant Garden Spider, Araneus diadematus (Araneae: Araneidae), in the Swiss Midland
Aerial web-spinning spiders (including large orb-weavers), as a group, depend almost entirely on flying insects as a food source. The recent widespread loss of flying insects across large parts of wes...
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Elon Gates @strawdogs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Moved to tears. This is really heart wrenching youtu.be/CHABgTqqrz0?...
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Luiz Antonio Why He Doesn't Want to Eat Octopus
YouTube video by Julia P.
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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I spoke with @owenjones.bsky.social recently about the withheld Joint Intelligence Committee report on food system pressures, and more. I mentioned that one report makes the point that "a wholesale change in consumer diets would be required" Full conversation here: youtu.be/nTYISpFTIq8?...
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ellynsong @alienbeach.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
These guys, who did great work and built a comprehensive analysis, agree. They also say a 3C rise by 2050 will result in 4 billion (with a b) deaths ( I think that’s optimistic). actuaries.org.uk/media/ni4erl...
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reminder: #Technology is NOT natural #science. The tale of #Icarus explains the difference between being able to build wings that fly and accepting physics, like melting points. We cannot decouple from natural laws. We can’t conquer gravity. To live and thrive, we have to accept nature. #NTHE
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Elon Gates @strawdogs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Surely the triumphal arch needs to be called the Trump 4 US Mon Arch
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Plant more Aspen trees to provide a natural buffer against wildfires, even as fire season intensifies, study shows Buffers made of aspen trees could help protect communities from worsening wildfires In other places bring in the Beavers www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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Aspen trees provide a natural buffer against wildfires, even as fire season intensifies, study shows
Buffers made of aspen trees could help protect communities from worsening wildfires.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Our food system has a climate problem. Between a quarter and a third of our emissions come from it. Fortunately, we have solutions — especially by shifting diets, reducing food waste, protecting forests, and farming better. Learn more about the actions we can take: go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24
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The problem with food and climate — and how to fix it
Global food production — from meat to grains — accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions, says sustainability scientist Jonathan Foley. He presents a portfolio of data-backed solutions to build a better food system world-wide, starting with four key steps to cut emissions.
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SCOTLAND: The Big Picture @scotlandtbp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The doors are open, the seats are filling and there’s a real buzz at The Big Picture Conference this morning. Hundreds of people are here at @ @perthtch.bsky.social for a day of big ideas, challenging questions and conversations about what it will take to make more rewilding happen across Scotland.
High-angle, medium shot of a large, crowded indoor venue with hundreds of people milling around. The venue has glass walls, a staircase and various informational booths with tables and banners.
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
The evidence for Homo sapiens playing the dominant role in the global #megafauna #extinctions constitutes one of the clearest, well-supported patterns in #ecology. See our 2024 review www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #paleobiology #archeology #hunting #ecosystem #Pleistocene #defaunation #rewilding
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The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction | Cambridge Core
The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene - Volume 2
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 12/09/2026
A friend writes: “We’ve now had over 3 decades of this bullshit and every year we get a new IPCC report and every year reality keeps getting worse and every year we keep hearing from the IPCC to focus on the good scenarios…”
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Sums up the present situation perfectly. Time to roll it back a bit... #Rewilding 🌎
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
RFK Jr: "We are also looking at chemtrails"
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First of the Month @whigman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Everything that was forecast for Earth’s climate is occurring, with one exception: The onset is much faster.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Proposed revisions to the leading global standard for measuring and managing planet-warming emissions would make cutting down trees look good for the climate, as strange as it sounds... IKEA could brag that the more wooden furniture you buy, the better it is for forests and the climate..."
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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"if you want to screw up the world a little, do a bad thing; if you want to screw up the world a lot, set up accounting rules that incentivize everyone to do that bad thing." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/o...
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Opinion | The Latest Corporate Climate Ruse (Gift Article)
Making deforestation look climate-friendly will encourage a lot more deforestation.
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Elon Gates @strawdogs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
F*** you USA
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I wish ill on ___ @monicarooney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
America isn’t the way it is because he’s president. He’s president because America is the way it is. - David Cochrane
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If only prices were linked to far cheaper solar & wind energy instead of gas ...
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
'"The 'wild cards' of Antarctic mass loss continue to pose a challenge for human management of the planet…" said Uni of Colorado ice scientist Ted Scambos, who wasn't part of the study. "We are now as a society smart enough to know the future, but not prudent enough to act upon the knowledge."'
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Thomas/Thom @thomasfein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
September 12, Dublin. Thousands of “vicious Irish bastards” show up to unwelcome America’s warmongering-genocidal-rapist- paedophile President in Dublin.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026
I know this'll ruffle feathers but I agree with this Food/Water watch analysis. Diverting renewable energy away from fossil phase-out and climate adaptation and towards melting graphics card to power chatbots is the formal end of moral purpose for clean technology.
Data Centers With Renewables Aren’t the Answer
So all these power plants and “temporary” turbines are raising power prices and polluting our communities. Why don’t we just power data centers with renewables?

Many data center companies are pledging to (eventually) do just that. But even if these pledges weren’t just empty greenwashing promises, powering data centers with clean energy is utterly unrealistic. It also threatens the progress of our already dangerously slow energy transition.

Continuously powering a 1 GW data center would require nearly 20,000 acres of solar panels or 185,000 acres of onshore wind power. We cannot afford to waste the time, space, or money to build renewables for Big Tech’s profit machines. 

Already, data center growth is outstripping available renewable energy supply and redirecting renewables from other industries. It’s drawing urgently needed renewables from existing technologies and resources. We need to focus our renewable energy resources toward thos
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Elon Gates @strawdogs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just your daily reminder that a world with animal agriculture is a world without a liveable future.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
To the otherwise excellent @billmckibben.bsky.social, who writes he doesn't know how to turn the world vegan: perhaps by explaining why moving away from meat/dairy is so crucial, rather than supporting it? Two different takes - Bill's from today, George's an earlier post:
A post from Bill McKibben today, which includes: "Dairying is hard, skilled work; we should be grateful for the people who undertake it"A post fro George Monbiot (actually from 2022, but it's a message that he has often repeated, in one form or another): "Ending animal farming is as important as leaving fossil fuels in the ground. Eating meat, milk and eggs is an indulgence the planet cannot afford. This is an emergency. We must stop p*ssing about, and treat it as such."
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Elon Gates @strawdogs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So when are they inventing everything else needed to live in space? Gravity for example
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 06/09/2026
If this data was about the cash flow of a major economy, it would be covered by media everywhere. But as it 'only' shows global heat flow, it won't be covered anywhere..
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Elon Gates @strawdogs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
@telegraph.co.uk Talks about food shortages and El Niño. But doesn’t mention the role of anthropogenic climate change. Nor the distinction between food we need, and the animal products we don’t need, which may be the cause of up to 60 percent of climate change! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Increased transparency in accounting conventions could benefit climate policy
Increased transparency in accounting conventions could benefit climate policy, Wedderburn-Bisshop, Gerard
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Elon Gates @strawdogs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Would love to hear your take on this @ketanjoshi.co “In recent weeks a number of large utilities have linked data centres to reductions in bills. Many data centres are also helping finance new sources of generation.”
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The FAO has made everything worse but has managed to hide the problem better.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Animal agriculture is a HUGE part of the story, but not all of it. Here's a good overview: drawdown.org/insights/we-...
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We can’t ignore the largest source of methane
Food is the largest source of human-caused methane – we ignore it at our peril
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The ONLY way to return to 1.5 C is not through CDR or SRM. It’s by slashing methane (and other SLCPs) as much as possible. But that’s a conversation people don’t want to have, because it means huge changes to fossil fuels and animal agriculture…
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
of the global ecosystem: come back in 20 million years time and prepare to be amazed. However, on a human time scale - decades to millennia - I fear we're headed for disaster. Mad Max territory but without the cool vehicles and flame-throwing guitars. And many of the great clades that dominate the
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