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This week the UN backed a resolution from Vanuatu, a country losing land to rising seas, urging governments to speed up climate action and treat these commitments as binding duties under international law.
8 countries voted against it.
Against an appeal to save a planet whose deterioration threatens every living thing on it.
Who are these countries? What do they have in common?
I will list them 👇 one by one, and leave the conclusions to you.
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General Assembly backs historic World Court climate crisis ruling
A landmark General Assembly resolution adopted on Wednesday is “a powerful affirmation” of international law, climate justice and science, according to UN chief António Guterres.UN News
In memoriam: Marjan Minnesma
Wormerveer, 28 oktober 1966 – Noord-Beemster, 22 mei 2026
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biografie:
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condoleanceregister:
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#klimaat #climate #climatechange #climateAction
Marjan Minnesma
In memoriam: Marjan Minnesma. Marjan Minnesma was een visionair met een nuchtere, praktische en op samenwerking gerichte inslag.Marjan Minnesma
This is a little overwhelming, in a very pleasant way. About 20% raised within the first eight hours of this stretch goal to make a #solarpunk short film about a future without central governments, no politicians, and no #capitalism We start production in two weeks time and your support means a lot! Boost, or donate. 
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#mutualaid #sff #scifi #film #creativetoots #buyIntoArt #writing #writingcommunity #climate
Wind: A Solarpunk Short Film
I'll shoot this film in the first week of June. We had to create costumes, props, and construct sets from scratch, since it's set in the future and we can't use everyday items, and it punched a hole in the production budget, so I'm doing this last mi…Dilman Dila
1/ This announcement marks the Carney government’s official surrender to the oil and gas lobby.
By gutting carbon pricing to the point of irrelevance, it has dismantled the last federal climate measure standing. We now have a federal government that no longer even pretends to rein in big corporate polluters.
Die stille Korrektur der Klimapanik
Was jahrelang als wissenschaftlich unumstößlich verkauft wurde, verliert plötzlich seine Grundlage. Während Regierungen weiter an Verboten und Abgaben festhalten, kassieren IPCC-Autoren jene Szenarien, mit denen Angst und politische Eingriffe legitim…Haintz.Media
#Trump #MafiaState #Imperialism
Cuba's oil reserves have run dry, its government said, potentially plunging the country into more debilitating #blackouts.
A long-running #EnergyCrisis in the island nation reached a breaking point this week, when government officials said they had run out of reserves.
This whole world runs on #FossilFuels, how stupid is that?
#geopolitics #climate #ClimateCrisis
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AP: Trump administration cancels rule that made conservation a ‘use’ of public lands
"...The federal government’s vast land holdings are concentrated in Western states including Alaska, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Since taking office, Trump has pursued a flurry of actions aimed at boosting fossil fuel production from those taxpayer-owned sites. The Republican administration also has sought to sideline some renewable energy projects, claiming they were unfairly subsidized under Biden...."
PM Carney seems ready to suspend environmental regulation in Canada under the illusion that he can buy political peace with Danielle Smith (ie the oil industry).
The benefits will be real: for a handful of companies with already-bloated profits.
The costs will be real too: a rising tide of economic and ecological disaster that sinks all boats.
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Althia Raj: Mark Carney runs roughshod over the environment: ‘It’s worse than what Harper did’
The prime minister plans to make it easier to kill off endangered species and pollute waterways in the name of fast-tracking private-sector development projects, Althia Raj writes.The Toronto Star
‘The odds are not in our favour’: who sets the Doomsday Clock – and what can they tell us about the future of humanity?
With the war on Iran, Ukraine, AI and climate breakdown increasing the likelihood of a nuclear war, the clock stands closer to midnight than ever before. So who decides how many seconds we have left – and can we buy ourselves more time?Sophie McBain (The Guardian)
Trump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.
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In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering exempting even more.
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#News #Pollution #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Trump #AirQuality
The coming #ElNiño could be the strongest in over a century.
Warming water in part of the #PacificOcean is raising the odds for the biggest El Niño on record. The #weather pattern could fully form by July.
It could lead to record high global #temperatures & #food shortages, & shift patterns of #droughts, #floods, humidity & #SeaIce across the planet.
#ExtremeWeather #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
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Quitting #LinkedIn - it's scary as fudge, because my #climate / #nonprofit / #green network of 15000 is a source of inspiration, hope and jobs.
But I feel this is the hill to take a stand on. #Mastodon:
- win-win-win energy
- deeper connections
- joy of activism
So starting now, the only posts I'll be sharing on LinkedIn will invite people over here. And at the end of this paying cycle, I'll cut all ties.
Are you still in LI?
Having been part of a project attempting to measure the carbon footprint of serving web pages I can affirm that using the internet is not a trivial cost for the planet.
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#AI #privacy #ePrivacy #Compliance #GDPR #Google #Chrome #Gemini #ESG #Environment #Sustainability #Climate #law
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it.Alexander Hanff (That Privacy Guy! — Hanff & Co. AB)
‘Wake-up call’: methane emissions from Australian coalmines more than double official estimates, report finds
International Energy Agency findings show government must commit to rapid cuts in emissions of greenhouse gas, climate experts say
theguardian.com/environment/20…
#ClimateChange #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Exclusive: Shell Subsidiary Paid Queensland Museum More Than $10m to Shape Children’s Climate Education - DeSmog
The educational materials distort how fossil fuel pollution has caused the climate emergency, new report finds.Ellen Ormesher (DeSmog)
On April 28, GOP Rep. Jim Jordan accused environmental law scholars of bias, conspiracy and colluding to influence the U.S. judiciary.
The next day, free-market conservatives kicked off a multiday climate skepticism event for more than 150 judges.
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#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Science #Oil #Gas #FossilFuels #Law
Event With Links to Oil Industry Teaches Judges "Healthy Skepticism" of Climate Science
As congressional Republicans accuse climate scholars and lawyers of colluding to influence the judiciary, a symposium hosted by a center funded by the fossil fuel industry educates judges about free-market views of climate science.Peter.DiCampo@propublica.org (ProPublica)
Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
#climatechange #climate #timeisup #theworstisyettocome
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It’s not enough to kill the land for what’s beneath it.
Spite for its own sake.
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I swore an Oath the Protect and Serve the Constitution of the United States.
But I have spent the last two weeks in purgatory on
“Administrative leave for investigative purposes”
While NASA pondered me speaking in my personal capacity.
I am back tomorrow.
More on the 1st Amendment for civil servants:
firstamendment.mtsu.edu/articl…
#nyc
Pickering v. Board of Education (1968) | The First Amendment Encyclopedia
Pickering v. Board of Education (1968), the seminal case on public employees' First Amendment rights, said they do not give up their right to speak on matters of public importance.Encyclopedia Team (Free Speech Center)
RE: mastodon.social/@climatenewsno…
Original article: insideclimatenews.org/news/230…
“No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus Christi, Texas, could be the first. Absent a biblical rainfall event, its reservoirs are on track to completely dry up by next year.”
But more than half of the water consumption in Corpus Christi goes to petrochemical industrial plants. Let’s see if people are willing to throttle down the water supply to machines before they do to humans.
#climate #weather #climateChange
Climate News Now (@climatenewsnow@mastodon.social)
A massive drought coupled with political mismanagement might fully deplete water in a major city: neither in West Asia nor Africa, but in the United States. The city of Corpus Christi, Texas could soon completely out of water in the next year.Climate News Now (Mastodon)
"We show that #climate litigation can lead to the implementation of significant policy changes. The paper concludes by arguing that with each successful climate case taken against a state, the corpus of international jurisprudence grows and reverberates, creating a ‘domino effect’ in climate litigation. Each judgment adds to the resource base of case law that can be cited in the future, serving to intensify the pressure on policymakers."
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#publicLaw #Ireland #NL #Germany
Taking Governments to Court | IIEA
The IIEA is Ireland's leading international affairs think tank. Independent, not-for-profit organisation with charitable status. Learn More. Learn About New Policy. IIEA. Leading Thinktank. Highlights: Independent Organisation, Integrated Approach.www.iiea.com
One thing about America: No modern city has ever run out of water. That could be changing in Texas. The reservoirs of Corpus Christi, a city with a population of around 317,000, are on track to completely dry up by next year. @InsideClimate has more:
#Science #Texas #Climate #CorpusChristi
Corpus Christi Plans to Declare a ‘Water Emergency.’ What Does That Mean? - Inside Climate News
City leaders intend to make unprecedented cuts to water use in September but aren’t sure exactly how, as schools and hospitals drill for water.Derek Harrison (Inside Climate News)
Much damage has been done to our societies and the #climate due to #fossilFuels
The alternative was always there, but it was systematically destroyed
Appreciate the irony though:
Big Oil's decline has been ensured by their greatest triumph, #Trump
The stupid war on #Iran means every country will move off #oil
#China's #EV makers are kings of the world now
"‘The damage is done’: global oil crisis has changed fossil fuel industry for ever, #IEA chief says"
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Prof Stefan Rahmstorf says the chances of a shutdown look like “more than 50%”. We could pass the tipping point, he says, “in the middle of this century”.
So why is this not all over the news? Why is it not the top priority for the governments that claim to protect us from harm? Well, in large part because oligarchic power has championed a model of #climate impact that bears little relation to reality (..)
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it
Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot (The Guardian)
