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Dr Christine Winter

@winterchristine.bsky.social
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Political theory - decolonial, intergenerational, multispecies, environmental, & planetary relations & responsibilities. Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka | University of Otago | Aotearoa

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Save 30% on #NewBook "Worlds Beyond Bios," edited by Sophie Chao, @winterchristine.bsky.social & @dschlosberg.bsky.social, which builds on recent theoretical and ethnographic approaches to the more-than-human to offer new ways of thinking toward planetary repair. buff.ly/EAmIgbM
Cover of Worlds Beyond Bios: The Life of Matter and the Matter of Life edited by Sophie Chao, Christine J. Winter, and David Schlosberg. The cover features a photograph of a sandy beach with a city skyline stretched out in the distance. The foreground shows wet sand, footprints, and a large pile of organic material. The title is written in a bold sans serif font in grey blue aligned left. The subtitle is written in black and all caps above and aligned right. The editors names are in white in the bottom left.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This month we're releasing many exciting new titles, including "Worlds Beyond Bios" edited by Sophie Chao, @winterchristine.bsky.social, and @dschlosberg.bsky.social. See the full lineup: dukeupress.wordpress.com/2026/09/01/n...
Cover of Worlds Beyond Bios: The Life of Matter and the Matter of Life edited by Sophie Chao, Christine J. Winter, and David Schlosberg. The cover features a photograph of a sandy beach with a city skyline stretched out in the distance. The foreground shows wet sand, footprints, and a large pile of organic material. The title is written in a bold sans serif font in grey blue aligned left. The subtitle is written in black and all caps above and aligned right. The editors names are in white in the bottom left.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"Worlds Beyond Bios," edited by Sophie Chao, @winterchristine.bsky.social, and @dschlosberg.bsky.social, explores how entities not traditionally recognized as “alive” play active roles in shaping multispecies worlds. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/Gjsa8v2
Cover of Worlds Beyond Bios: The Life of Matter and the Matter of Life edited by Sophie Chao, Christine J. Winter, and David Schlosberg. The cover features a photograph of a sandy beach with a city skyline stretched out in the distance. The foreground shows wet sand, footprints, and a large pile of organic material. The title is written in a bold sans serif font in grey blue aligned left. The subtitle is written in black and all caps above and aligned right. The editors names are in white in the bottom left.
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 27/12/2025
Surging demand for construction sand threatens Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake. Research shows Mekong sand mining has deepened channels and halved wet-season flows into Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, the river’s “heartbeat,” underscoring urgent calls for coordinated basin governance.
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Mekong sand mining risks collapse of SE Asia’s largest freshwater lake, study finds
Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, new research indicates. The Mekong’s annual wet…
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 14/12/2025
A microbial matt leading down to the partially frozen lake Yellowstone.
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Alan Rockefeller @alanrockefeller.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
This is the second time I have photographed one of my favorite Mycena species - this one is found on leaves and has regular water droplets along the stem for a reason which remains a mystery to me. From the Chocó Andino region of Ecuador. #mycology #fungi #mycena #fungifriends
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/12/2025
“I’ve been amazed by the groundswell of grassroots, bipartisan opposition to this....everyone is affected by this, the opposition has been across the political spectrum. A lot of people don’t see the benefits coming from AI and feel they will be paying for it"
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More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters
Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis
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Columbia University @columbiauniversity.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Scientists at @climate.columbia.edu say regenerated ecosystems, designed to regrow foliage and absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, create fewer climate benefits than previously thought.
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A New Study Indicates Forest Regeneration Provides Climate Benefits, but Won’t Offset Fossil Fuels
Effective climate policy must treat forest regeneration and emissions reductions as complementary strategies, not alternatives, according to a new paper.
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
📢 WE'RE GOING TO RE-POST our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and better for everyone. Thank You! 👍♥️✊
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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Ahead of COP 30 I’ve been thinking about the irony that the critics of our 1.5 IPCC report are many of the people now saying it’s too late to act because we’ve going past 1.5 & we must focus on instead on technological fixes to address overshoot - here’s why I think these arguments are distractions
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Penny Tangey @pennytangey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/11/2025
Is that good
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
A climate protestor was charged in WA with public nuisance for playing the violin too loudly outside the Woodside office.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/11/2025
This @skynewsrss.bsky.social analysis confirms that X's algorithm is blatantly boosting far-right content If you are still posting or engaging there, you are volunteering your time and effort towards actively assisting a racist, white supremacist project STOP ALREADY news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
the neutral users saw twice as much right-wing content as left-wing content
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“Why Bill Gates’ climate memo is being celebrated by skeptics while frustrating scientists" | Article by Ryan M. Katz-Rosene for @us.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/why-bill-gat...
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Why Bill Gates’ climate memo is being celebrated by skeptics while frustrating scientists
Gates recently called for a ‘strategic pivot’ in climate strategy. That appears to have hit a nerve.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:
excerpt from linked commentary
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Climate Action Tracker @climateactiontracker.org · 28/10/2025
📣 Today we have updated our summary of net zero targets across 40+ of the world's largest emitters. What do we see? 🛑 Ten years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the design of most net zero targets remains inadequate. 🔗 climateactiontracker.org/global/cat-n...
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I discussed how climate change supercharged Hurricane #Melissa + Bill Gates latest climate comments with Chris Jansing on @msnbc.com: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ5O...
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Michael Mann discussed Hurricane Melissa +Bill Gates climate comments with Chris Jansing on MSNBC
YouTube video by Michael Mann
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 28/10/2025
A Category 5 hurricane slams into Jamaica as climate change fuels stronger storms, and as environmental advocates call for fossil fuel companies to pay for damages.
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‘Catastrophic’ Hurricane Hits Jamaica as Risk of Climate Change-Fueled Tropical Storms Rises - Inside Climate News
Environmental advocates call for fossil fuel companies to pay for damages as climate change fuels more destructive hurricanes.
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 28/10/2025
"The warm waters that fueled its intensification were 500 to 700 times more likely as a result of climate change." Hurricane Melissa is being supercharged by abnormally warm ocean temperatures. This is not normal. This is what a climate crisis looks like.
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Why Hurricane Melissa is one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever
The monster hurricane pummelling Jamaica is powered by abnormal sea surface temperatures in the Caribbean, which were made at least 500 times more likely by global warming
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Not since 1935 has anyone experienced a storm like Melissa. Melissa's record wouldn't have happened without climate change, which made the hurricane's winds about 10 mph stronger, according to a rapid attribution analysis by Climate Central. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/cata...
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Catastrophic Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica as the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane on record » Yale Climate Connections
At landfall in western Jamaica, Melissa’s 185 mph winds and 892 mb pressure tied with the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 in the Florida Keys as the strongest on record for the Atlantic.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 28/10/2025
To quote my friend @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, climate change won't make humanity extinct but we can do better than "not extinct". Raise your standards people!
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 26/10/2025
Yes, solutions for nature are also solutions for health! This new analysis finds urban greening is "associated with a wide range of positive health outcomes including improved physical and mental health, increased physical activity, improved childhood development, and reduced exposure to harms."
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Will biodiversity actions yield healthy places? A systematic review of human health outcomes associated with biodiversity‐focused urban greening
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Learned a ton fr this mindblowing episode❗ @amywestervelt.bsky.social in a rich, wide-ranging conversation w the phenomenally knowledgeable @profsecchi.bsky.social & @kat-lauber.bsky.social unpacking the history of multi-layered climate obstruction strategies & operations of the animal ag industry
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S14, Ep7 | How the Animal Ag Industry Obstructs Climate Policy
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
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Quite Interesting @qi.com · 25/10/2025
For a pilot study in 2022, scientists fitted 5 Australian magpies with tiny trackers that could only be removed with a magnet or scissors. Within 10 minutes, a female had successfully removed the tracker from a younger bird, and 3 days later, all of them had been removed.
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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
📢 "Plaid Cymru’s message of hope beat Reform’s hate. Where Reform shouted division, we talked about belonging. Where they peddled blame, we talked about community ... The populist right can be beaten when people are offered hope and a vision of a fairer future." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How did we beat Nigel Farage and Reform in Caerphilly? We stood by our convictions | Rhun ap Iorwerth
Welsh voters have rejected Labour and Starmerite managerialism. By offering hope and not division we showed the populist right can be beaten, says Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru
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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Now THIS is a mission the National Guard can be proud of. 🙌 Via @voteinorout.bsky.social
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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Rick Harp @mediaindigena.bsky.social tonight at the BFF symposium at UBC-Vancouver: "Indigenous language revitalization is climate change solution." A glorious possibility. And we have also to deal with oligarch nihilism for our planet and for all of the Peoples. Begin by disbelieving them.
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Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes - UBCevents
How have Indigenous narratives helped Indigenous peoples cope with and confront climate change? What does it mean to see and story climate change not so much as a problem, but […]
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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Join us for reading Carson and also seeing how her comments in the 1960s are… spot on for today 👀
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Since Bill Gates is back in the news dismissing the urgency of climate action, here's my evergreen commentary in @newsweek.com on why his approach and framing is so misguided: www.newsweek.com/right-path-f...
newsweek.com
The Right Path Forward on Climate Change
Whether we have a climate crisis is no longer a matter of worthy debate. Precisely how we solve it is.
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Sustainable Water Network (SWAN) @swanireland.ie · 25/10/2025
Lough Derg is drifting towards the fate of Lough Neagh, that once great lake now all but dead. Great article by @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social 👇 www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
irishtimes.com
Ella McSweeney: Lough Derg is drifting towards the same fate as Lough Neagh
Lough Derg has been so reshaped by pollution that its original character is almost impossible to discern
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Jodie Bettis @jodiebettis.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
🤔 ‘One day it struck me that the world would be a very different place if environmental crimes were treated in the same way as murders. So, why aren’t they? And should they be?’ #ecocidelaw #greencrime www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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Should we treat environmental crime more like murder?
Serial killers and violent criminals dominate the headlines. What if we covered ecocide and pollution in the same way?
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Financial institutions fund ongoing production of fossil fuels. But it's govs backed by their relationships w the fossil fuel industry that permit & enable it. & worse, trap other countries into ff lock-in & dependency when they could otherwise develop renewable energy options @billhare.bsky.social👇
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Australia fiddles with fossil gas while the country swelters in record heat. It doesn’t make sense | Bill Hare
Australians have an obvious interest in action against global warming. Focusing on gas instead of renewables for the energy transition risks sabotaging our future
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/10/2025
Fantastic report covering what I would say is the single most important idea in the world of renewable development processes: avoiding failure, delays, conflict and friction by just sharing the benefits of resources like sun and wind
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Guy Walton..."The Climate Guy" @climateguyw.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Main Topic: Mosquitoes Found in Iceland for First Time as Our Emissions Warm Country via @theguardian.com On The Extreme Temperature Diary SAT 10/25/2025 At: guyonclimate.com + #climate and record temp reports via @extremetemps.bsky.social/ @katharinehayhoe.com @drpauldorfman.bsky.social
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
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President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 24/10/2025
Prominent climate scientist, @katharinehayhoe.com, argues it's time to ditch the 'myth of neutrality.' www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks... 💯 ... The other side has done that a long time ago.
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Prominent climate scientist argues it's time to ditch the 'myth of neutrality' | CBC Radio
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks to Bob McDonald about the polarization of science and why she thinks scientists should stop pretending to be neutral when it's our planet at risk.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
"Two Top Scientists Tackle Trump’s Idiocracy" | Great review of my new book with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, #ScienceUnderSiege, by @danfalk.bsky.social for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Two top scientists tackle Trump's idiocracy
In a new book, Michael Mann and Peter Hotez examine the risks posed by entrenched beliefs, corporate greed, and regressive governments.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Update: www.eenews.net/articles/cli... #RogerPielkeJr #ScienceUnderSiege
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Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming
Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2025
Hey lovelies: here's part 2 of my @crikey.com.au series on Meta's massive new effort to wildly worsen their climate damage but mask that by lobbying to change the way emissions are measured. IT IS EXTREMELY SNEAKY
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Inside Meta's fight to change climate reality... all so it can frantically expand a risky AI program
Everyone is ignoring the science on what Meta’s generative AI investment really costs, even though there's no evidence of a single, significant societal benefit.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/10/2025
Secrecy is a huge factor in the tactics of tech companies carpet-bombing communities with oversized and destructive data centres. Go listen to this pod feat @keshaunpearson.bsky.social @ambakak.bsky.social and others to get a very, very compelling overview --> csm.transistor.fm/episodes/nyc...
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Computer Says Maybe | NYC Live: Let Them Eat Compute
This just in with data centers: Energy grids are strained, water is scarce, utility costs are through the roof — ah well, let them eat compute, I guess!More like this: AI Thirst in a Water-Scarce W...
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Christine Hentschel @chrhentschel.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Honoured to moderate this exciting panel on climate turbulence, justice and democratic experimentation next Thur, 6pm @fos-uhh.bsky.social with @dschlosberg.bsky.social @kuebra.bsky.social @winterchristine.bsky.social, Fatim Selina Diaby. www.zukuenfte-nachhaltigkeit.uni-hamburg.de/kolleg/newsr...
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Dr. Crystal A. Kolden @pyrogeog.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires
Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...
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Futures of Sustainability @fos-uhh.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
We kindly invite you to the upcoming Keynote by David Schlosberg, 09 October, 18:00-20:00. Register for in person participation or participate via Zoom Webinar streaming: bit.ly/time_justice @dschlosberg.bsky.social @kuebra.bsky.social @winterchristine.bsky.social @chrhentschel.bsky.social
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 05/09/2025
A new Forests and Finance Coalition report finds top financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and BlackRock, support mining companies linked to deforestation, land-grabs, contamination and Indigenous rights violations.
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Report links world’s top banks to social & environmental harms from mining
A new Forests and Finance Coalition report finds top financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and BlackRock, support mining companies linked to deforestation, land-grabs,…
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
"The decarbonization agenda is not simply about reordering markets or industrial policies, but in fact represents the crucible for a new geopolitical order." @nilsgilman.bsky.social in FP foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...
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The Coming Ecological Cold War
Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets—it’s a geopolitical revolution.
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