Once you means test, you cut off the oversight of the wealthier and often more educated population. If you think govts will fund the poorer disabled just look at public Ed. Also forcing disabled people to rely on family funding gives them no independence.
A prime-time TV report on renewables and EVs fell apart at the first fact-check.
Misinformation is distorting Australia’s energy debate – and being amplified in mainstream media, Giles Parkinson writes.
#auspol #Energy #Climate #Renewables #Media
As diesel prices surge, freight operators face mounting pressure, highlighting the urgent need for immediate support and a longer-term shift to electrified transport.
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04...
Overheated cows, flooded highways, and now a fuel crisis: why Australia’s food system is in big trouble
theconversation.com/overheated-c...
Hilariously, there are some on the New Left who think it's regressive and anti-democratic to villainize oil and gas companies and the elected officials they collude with. No, really.
AI lobbying is skyrocketing. Meta spent more on lobbying in 2025 than America’s three largest oil and gas companies combined.
By 2030, data centers will consume as much energy as 41 million US homes.
Many people in coastal communities in + near the Strait rely on the fish + shellfish the mangroves, reefs, seagrass meadows in the region to survive.
Oil + war, + wars for oil: devastating to people, devastating to wildlife.
www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s...
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A wildlife disaster unfolds alongside the human tragedy in the Strait of Hormuz
@greenpeace.org reports Iranian vessel Shahid Bagheri, stuck by a US warplane in early March, is still leaking oil near the Strait, with nearby wetlands at risk:
www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/s...
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Many men just want to get away with rape, of course, or see others do so. But for other men who consume "sleep" porn passively, think it's also about getting women's shaming gaze off men's faces katemanne.substack.com/p/why-men-ar...
Revealed: Scientists tell Colombia fossil-fuel transition summit to ‘halt new expansion’
✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org
💬 With comments from @frankjotzo.bsky.social
Read here ⬇️
TV program looking at appalling mining practices in #Congo says it is a blight on the #renewables and storage industry. But it falls over at the first fact check.
The answer is clearly YES. It should have happened years ago. This invasive plant is an environmental and cultural disaster, and we should throw as many resources as possible towards its suppression or, where possible, eradication.
theconversation.com/should-this-...
Letting one person's 'concerns' prevent a life-saving release of environmental water for wildlife, including turtles, is truly fucked up, and those responsible should all be ashamed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
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“For decades Big Oil’s final riposte in any debate was: ‘well, you can’t do without us if you want hot showers and cold beer.’But now we can.”
billmckibben.substack.com/p/big-oil-br...
If you read one thing today ...
An essential article by the great @billmckibben.bsky.social
billmckibben.substack.com/p/big-oil-br...
Fears of a ‘coal comeback’ triggered by the Iran war energy crisis are not supported by the data.
➡️ https://l.euronews.com/uqy5
A graph showing the rise in citations for our 2023 motonormativity paper, up to 101 in total today
Given the considerable lags in the academic publishing process, I'm surprised and gratified by how rapidly motonormativity is becoming a thing in the literature
Burning wood for power worse for climate than gas equivalent, report finds
Research casts doubt on plans by UK government to offer subsidies for carbon capture attached to the power source
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If only they knew how angry we truly are
“We are on the cusp of vast, cascading shifts in energy supply and storage. Any country that fails to respond will remain trapped in the fossil age, facing high bills and insecurity, while others transform their economies.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Keep the pressure up. Victim-Survivors of sexual assault & abuse should have safe access to counselling & support, without it being exposed to the abusers that caused the harm in the first place. #auspol #politas
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/do...
I want the names. Of every mane who visited the online ‘rape academy’. I want their next of kin. I want their place of work. I want their headshots on every billboard, I want them in the town square. Right where we can see them. I want them fearful. I want them second guessing every woman they know. I want them looking over their shoulders. Harried. Hurried. Nervous and afraid. I want their palms sweaty. Their breathing shallow. I want them to taste the fear that we have lived with for all out lives. I want them to wonder if their next step will be their last. Then, I’ll gently tell them that it’s not all women and we’ll see if that appeases them. If they sleep easier. If they can relax. Knowing that not all women want to drag a knife across their throat for what they’ve done. Only some. ~ salmaelwardany
The US attack on Iran has made the need for renewable energy inarguable. Environmentalists are now being seen for the pragmatists that they are
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"In retrospect, basing the entire global food system on fossil fuels may have been a poor idea." -- @benehrenreich.bsky.social
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