If you too heard Jonathan Franzen’s interview on @RadioNational this morning, I want you to know this: HE IS WRONG.

He said something like “we are well beyond avoiding absolute climate catastrophe” and that we’re living in “end times”. Yes, this is a crisis. Things are very bad and will get much worse. But scientifically and politically there are still so many choices we can and must make to avoid all-out catastrophe, to avoid “end times.” So many of us are fighting for those options to be taken.

Mind-blowing thought.

The climate crisis is a severe, and, if unmitigated, worsening threat to organised civilisation. But it’s always been solvable. And it’s still solvable.

And yet, I don’t know what it’s like to live under government working to solve it.

None of us do. As the Earth’s life support systems collapse around us… is that when we will we see the kind of leadership that can really confront fossil fuels?

Because that is now. And I don’t see anything, *anything* of the sort.

In response to (acute) investor demand for serious, carbon overlay, equities-style research on key companies (the ones that need to transform if we've any shot at 1.5), @AustCCR has been building a team of experts [1/n] First cab off the rank for this team, Global Climate Insights, is @Shell

Despite climate-aware investor endorsement (over 85% support for the plan presented to the last AGM), our team found that @Shell isn’t forecast to achieve its goals after 2022
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“⁦@RioTinto⁩ will spend $US7.5 billion ($10 billion) over the next nine years to halve its carbon emissions in the belief that “radical”, immediate action is required for the world to decarbonise by 2050.”

Life comes at you fast, eh ⁦@bhp⁩? afr.com/companies/mini… For context, just over 2 years ago, global and local financial media was fawning over a $0.4bn investment by @bhp, over four years, in decarbonisation (while they were spending $10bn expanding oil and gas production, assets they’re now offloading to @WoodsideEnergy)

so dismayed at the protests, so dismayed at many people’s authoritarian instincts in response to the protests

wish people would keep their eye on the ball: a federal government that sacrificed an 18 month head start on a global pandemic, at the altar of the fossil fuels industry we’re not going to get out of this by policing and fining and jailing people

we’re going to get out of this by holding our leaders accountable for keeping us safe

we’re going to get out of this by clear public health messages, by educating people, by getting vaccinated

Among ⁦@bhp’s shocking deeds re the Mt Arthur coal mine is this: they are currently trying to secure a 20 YEAR extension of its life, to 2046. Owing to the brave plaintiffs and lawyers, this decision is likely delayed by Sharma v ⁦@sussanley⁩ abc.net.au/news/2021-08-1… Flogging a thermal coal mine for bottom dollar so it can avoid rehabilitation liability while seeking to extend its life by two decades, selling a petroleum business to a company that intends to expand it — not quite convinced @BHP deserves the praise being heaped on it.

can’t stop thinking about how our govt set up a covid recovery commission that did nothing about vaccine procurement and rollout, or protecting aged care residents and essential workers, in a health crisis BUT recommended subsidising the fossil fuels industry, in a climate crisis it's not *just* a fuck up. the soft corruption of our broken political system is killing people, right now