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Wim Carton

@wimcarton.bsky.social
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Political Ecology @ Lund University. Climate mitigation politics, carbon removal and offsetting 🦄 / Books: Overshoot (Verso, 2024); The Long Heat (Verso, 2025)

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Fabian Dablander @fdabl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a huge scandal, yet the "IPCC said there was no process currently under way to amend its conflict of interest policy". Good moment to plug the fantastic book "The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It's Too Late" by @wimcarton.bsky.social & Andreas Malm. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"And inch by inch, we move towards a future with echoes of the past that too many people will have failed to understand. And this time, there will be no books to burn, because we will have stopped reading them." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John Harris
While fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Svante Thunberg @svantethunberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
”Far right” as in founded by nazis. Yes, proper nazis. And ”enter the government” as in forming the majority of the government coalition. Including - quite possibly - prime minister. Neo liberalism has truly worked its wonders once again.
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Kolbjörn Guwallius @kolbjorn.se · 12/09/2026
Om man i stället hade behållit elbilsbonusen hade det alltså räckt till bonus för cirka en miljon sålda elbilar i stället för att gå upp i rök?
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Så mycket har de lägre bränslepriserna kostat staten
De senaste årens skattesänkningar på drivmedel har resulterat i drygt 67 miljarder kronor i uteblivna skatteintäkter, visar DN:s genomgång.
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Seriöst, vad är poängen med att ha en ny opinionsmätning varje dag - och varför ger DN de så mycket uppmärksamhet? Och varför är det överhuvudtaget tillåtet att köra opinionsmätningar så tätt intill valet när det är uppenbart att de kan påverka hur folk tänker rösta?
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DN/Ipsos: Dött lopp mellan blocken – valrysare väntar på söndag
Det är dött lopp mellan högerblocket och oppositionspartierna inför valet på söndag. Samtidigt ser Liberalerna ut att kunna hänga sig kvar i riksdagen.
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Frida Hylander @fridahylander.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
När Åkesson nu säger att MP ”gett barn klimatångest” så har han inte bara fel, han återanvänder den klimatförnekande retorik som SD körde också inför valet 2022, där de uppenbart förvanskade resultat från studier som undersökt barns känslor inför klimatkrisen. En rent farlig retorik.
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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I Arbetarens sista väljarintervju berättar Moaawia om hur han såg svärdet och sprang – men flera gånger var på väg tillbaka in för att försöka övermanna gärningsmannen. Han berättar också om hur rasismen påverkar hans framtidsplaner – och hur han resonerar inför valet. Hoppas ni vill läsa!
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Han räddade liv i Fagersta – ”Kristersson borde lämna över till någon som bryr sig”
I sista delen av Arbetarens väljarintervjuer möter vi Moaawia Albriki som röstar för första gången.
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Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Jag bodde i ett villaområde, gick i skolan vid ett gammalt miljonprogramsområde. Mina skolkamrater hette Falmetta, Alfred Yusuf, Lisa, Binyam, Erik, Lisa. Nu vill SD köra en bulldozer genom min barndoms Sverige och kalla det ”assimilering” Nej Åkesson det är du som ska låta oss leva våra liv i fred
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Mentalt handikappat boskap @toebias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Här är en lista på nazism i partiet som Simona Mohamsson kramas med, vill regera med och tigger röster ifrån partigranskaren.se/nazistsympat...
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Nazistsympatier (SD) – Partigranskaren
Granska arkiverade händelser och uttalanden relaterade till Nazistsympatier inom SD på Partigranskaren.
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Alec Luhn @alecluhn.com · 11/09/2026
The UN says we’ll overshoot 1.5C & come back down with carbon dioxide removal. But that’s easier said than done. For one, the ocean will start releasing the extra CO2 it’s absorbed. “It’s like crashing a car into the wall & then you back up…It’s not the same car” www.newscientist.com/article/2588...
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The world’s biggest carbon sink may start emitting CO2 after net zero | New Scientist
If the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere declines, the Southern Ocean is likely to begin emitting more carbon than it absorbs, prolonging global warming
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Niklas Blomqvist @blmqvst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Vi behöver rösta bort Tidö. För våra vänners skull. För våra kollegor. För våra grannar. För hon i kassan. För hon som tar hand om våra gamla föräldrar. För hon som tar hand om våra barn. För vår skull. www.dn.se/sverige/musl...
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Muslimer vittnar om påhopp: ”Det har blivit mycket värre nu under valrörelsen”
Islam har seglat upp som en av de stora valfrågorna. DN har frågat tre muslimska kvinnor hur det känns att hamna i fokus. – I går när jag…
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Canada is for sale to .... BlackRock, Saudi Arabia, .. Brookfield? Carney's colors shine through. As @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has said for years, the goal of our current oligarchy is to dismantle a country and sell it for parts.
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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mycket relevant information i denna enkät inför söndagens val!
arbetaren.se
Blåbrun ignorans om helvetet i Gaza
Enkät till riksdagens partier: Anser ni att det pågår ett folkmord i Gaza? • Se hur partierna svarar
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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Skrev om en ny valkompass - som baseras på partiernas faktiska politik. Tips! Själva kompassen finns här: mindemokrati.se
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Forskaren bakom ny valkompass: ”Trött­nat på den politiska medie­bevakningen”
minDemokrati visar hur partierna faktiskt röstat i riksdagen, i motsats till andra valkompasser.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/09/2026
The technology of text generation based on a database of writing doesn't work the same as writing. That is true for the same reason it is true that putting 8 Michelin-star meals in a blender doesn't make a Michelin-star milkshake.
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Jonas Sjöstedt @jonassjostedt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Se till att Magdalena inte hamnar i dåligt sällskap som statsminister - rösta på Vänsterpartiet.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think the way to read the UNEP report isn't "we'll miss the 1.5°C target so we need CDR to reach it", but "we'll miss the 1.5°C target, and we need to decarbonize ASAP because wherever we end up is where we will stay for a long time." www.unep.org/resources/li...
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
This is why I do not and will not subscribe to your Substack.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Svante Thunberg @svantethunberg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Svensk media i ett nötskal. De rödgröna ökar i den sista opinionsundersökningen före valet - men spinnet är snarare det motsatta…
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/09/2026
I see a lot of these pieces that are pretty clearly trying to mask and downplay what feels like active advocacy for geoengineering deployment. Not Musk-like move-fast-ism but still a position that basically implies that scientists and governments could do it well if we just let them
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As global heating heads to 1.8C, is it time to consider the ‘Voldemort’ of climate policy?
The case for large-scale technologies that reflect solar radiation back into space rests on global warming’s grim reality.
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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/klima...
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Friedrich Merz macht keine Klimapolitik – auch nicht nach über 16 000 Hitzetoten
Friedrich Merz will die Hitze nicht zur Chefsache machen. Seine Regierung wickelt den Klimaschutz ab, statt ihn voranzutreiben. Ein Essay.
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Kolbjörn Guwallius @kolbjorn.se · 05/09/2026
Mördade tjejens bästa vän: ”Han var ju klädd som mannen i Trollhättan som öppet sa att han gick på invandrare. Det är ett stort problem här i Fagersta med just högerextremism. Här har Aktivklubb blivit ganska stor. Man ser ju nästan överallt när man går ute på gatan en massa klistermärken.”
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Elenas bästa vän dödades på Brinellskolan
De fann varandra på Tiktok, intresset för samhällsfrågor förde dem samman. Men den 21 augusti dödades Elena Makars bästa vän i dådet på Brinellskolan. Mitt i sorgen finns ilskan över vad hon misstänke...
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"With independent journalist and human rights activist Mohammad Hesham Huraini, from Masafer Yatta." No Other Land Won An Oscar. Then Israel Came For Them www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcvZ... #BDS #BoycottIsrael #FreePalestine #Israel #IsraelNews #MiddleEast #Palestine #PalestineNews #WestBank #Zionism
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No Other Land Won An Oscar. Then Israel Came For Them
YouTube video by Owen Jones
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In one morning, Khirbet a-Taban was erased. Israeli forces demolished every home in this Masafer Yatta community — 12 families, about 70 people, including 28 children — and left them with nowhere to go. Residents say they were given no time to save their belongings. Homes, water cisterns, sheep
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Overshoot:
How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown
by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 04/09/2026
My latest for Technosphere Earth. I eagerly awaited @unep.org new Overshoot report. It delivers in many respects & should serve as an important reference. But it missed a major opportunity to frame the overshoot moment. www.technosphere.earth/overshoot-sh...
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Overshoot should mark the end of the road for supposed 'policy relevance'
But UNEP's Limiting Overshoot report keeps plodding along the same timid route
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
One election cycle. Every generation of politicians that fails to bring about the rapid phase-out of fossil fuels is responsible for 0.1°C worth of irreversible damage.
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than 1100 people." Interesting, and entirely justified. We can expect this to become a lot more common.
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Nepal Seeks Climate Compensation From China, US and India
Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left even more missing.
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 02/09/2026
“Exceeding 1.5°C and ‘managing’ overshoot is not a strategy. It is a moral and political failure. It locks us into irreversible harm, while those least responsible for the climate crisis are forced to bear its worst consequences.” – @lilifuhr.bsky.social
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yes, but neither was 1.5 with overshoot. If we just stick to what is politically/economically realistic, we might as well forget about the PA goals. The task has always been to do whatever we can to move the goalposts on what is realistic, and make the impossible not so. All else is inadequate.
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today: It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering. www.versobooks.com/products/331...
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The Long Heat
The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/09/2026
Tech companies don’t understand scholarship. ‘Quickness’ and ‘efficiency‘ are not always the right values. Sometimes you don’t want to “answer your research queries faster” and when you do, existing search technology is more than adequate to help you do scholar.googleblog.com/2026/08/quic...
Answering a research question often requires reading through several papers and figuring out how each of them might be useful. You need to track down what each paper says about your question, what methods the authors used to arrive at the relevant results, and what caveats to keep in mind to understand the boundaries.

Today, we are introducing Scholar Quick Read, to help you answer your research queries faster. Search results in Scholar Labs and Scholar search that discuss your question in depth now include a “Quick read” link.
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 02/09/2026
It cannot be stated enough: whatever your view of technology & policy development over the rest of this century & beyond, the rapid ending of fossil fuels is the most resilient & robust way to secure a liveable climate.
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 02/09/2026
Many thanks to @jksteinberger.bsky.social for leading this much needed call out to scientists & medics. Please read, share, and sign! framaforms.org/we-stand-wit...
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We stand with humanity: A scientist statement to confront climate destruction | Framaforms.org
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In a nutshell, the implications of formally entering 1.5C overshoot are straightforward. The absolute first and most important thing you need to do, are immediate and rapid emission reductions! Without it, adaptation becomes difficult, potentially impossible; carbon removal futile and infeasible.
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
UNEP has written a nice report on overshoot, though, perhaps 10 years too late. But I am somewhat surprised there is so little focus on the requirement of short-term action. Overshoot and non-overshoot both require deep & immediate reductions in emissions... www.unep.org/resources/li... 6/6
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you want 1.5C, 1.8C, 2C, overshoot, no-overshoot, etc, then they all require the same thing: rapid short-term emission reductions reaching net zero CO2 emissions as soon as possible. This has been clear from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5C, which depicts "overshoot" on its cover! 1/
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The UNEP report is a cautious on CDR: "Overall, even optimistic CDR scaling is unlikely to deliver a temperature reversal beyond a few tenths of a degree this century. This emphasizes the importance of focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions now." 2/
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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"UNEP’s Limiting Overshoot Spotlight Report examines the implications of entering an era of 1.5°C overshoot and the choices that remain available." As we argue in The Long Heat, all choices available lead us back to mitigation. Currently 30% off from Verso! www.versobooks.com/products/331...
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Limiting Overshoot - Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards return
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C remains a cornerstone of the Paris Agreement, yet under current policies and alternative near-term trajectories, exceedance of 1.5°C is now widely assessed as unavoida...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 01/09/2026
REVEALED: #BigTech and #BigOil are teeming up to push new gas-powered #datacentres, and greenwashing them with promises of carbon capture. But carbon capture is a paper tiger: new fossil gas just means new emissions, worsening the climate crisis' deadly impacts. corporateeurope.org/en/2026/08/d...
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A deadly alliance of Big Tech and Big Oil | Corporate Europe Observatory
Big Tech and Big Oil are teeming up to push new gas-powered data centres, and greenwashing them with promises of carbon capture. But carbon capture is a paper tiger: new fossil gas just means new emis...
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Svante Thunberg @svantethunberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Om det som framgår av den här tråden stämmer: dvs att media känner till att det rör sig om en invandrartät skola och att samtliga offer har någon form av invandrarbakgrund och inte rapporterar detta, så är det ju minst sagt anmärkningsvärt. Inte minst med tanke på regeringens retorik. Och politik…
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“People want to reclaim agency and opposing data centers is a symbolic —“ NO. There is ample public evidence of the downside and zero public evidence of an upside. People know the difference between a job-creating factory and a really fucking loud server room that poisons neighbors.
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Per Axbom @axbom.com · 28/08/2026
Mycket läsvärd granskning av GP:s Julia Lindblom gällande hur svenska universitet sätter sig i knät på OpenAI. ”[Jenny Wiik] har reagerat på att universitetet infört Open AI:s verktyg utan att fullt ut upplysa om säkerhetsrisker eller hur studenter och lärare ska använda sig av verktyget.”
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Miljonerna rullar när svenska universitet väljer OpenAI från USA
Oro när svensk forskning hamnar hos techjätten
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’
Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti
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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
En dag, när det sker en riktigt stor katastrof, då kommer klimatet få ta plats i medierna! Om något dramatiskt bara händer, DÅ kommer klimatkrisen toppa sändningarna! Som under pandemin, när krisen var själva utgångspunkten för all journalistik. Dessa människor begravs levande, allt finns på film.
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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It is the curse of the environmental campaigner to be continually proven right in retrospect - occasionally, as with the ULEZ, through success, but far, far more often through failure
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Ola Spännar @olaspannar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Våra utsläpp är så små det spelar ingen roll vad vi gör
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Jonas Sjöstedt @jonassjostedt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Den israeliska regeringen blir allt mer extrem. Offentliga avrättningar, olika lagstiftning för palestinier och israeler och öppet tal om fördrivning. Ministern Ben Gvir föreslog häromdagen att Israel helt enkelt ska döda 30-40 personer dagligen. Sanktioner mot Israel - återuppta stödet till UNRWA.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/08/2026
Tech guys: why do they hate us & our data centers so much? Also tech guys: hey, what if we built the biggest fossil fuel power plant ever?!
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Nvidia Backs OpenAI’s Plan to Build America’s Biggest Power Plant
On Belgium’s fire, African oil, and the Philippines’ trash
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