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🇨🇦 Mark Carney’s Goal Is to "Increase Our Oil Production," Says Former Chief of Staff
https://www.desmog.com/2026/01/27/mark-carneys-goal-is-to-increase-our-oil-production-says-former-chief-of-staff

Quelle surprise: energy agenda at odds with prime minister’s previous stated commitments to addressing climate change.

#MarkCarney #corporatism #FossilFuels #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalDestruction #OilSanda #NaturalGas #duplicity

#capitalism #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice
Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change

Mark Carney’s Goal Is to ‘Increase Our Oil Production,’ Says Former Chief of Staff

It’s an energy agenda seemingly at odds with the prime minister’s previous stated commitments to addressing climate change.

DeSmog

SydneyJim Jan 31

I came across this fishing equipment that had washed up on the beach. It’s far too heavy for anyone to remove & carry 3km out of the National Park. Likely it will stay here, slowly degrading & distributing plastic particles into the environment for many years to come. Unless a huge storm washes it out to sea, in which case it will degrade in the ocean.

#PlasticPollution #FishingPollution #Microplastics #EnvironmentalDestruction #Environment #pollution #NudeBeach #Nude #Naked #Naturism

SydneyJim Jan 31

Bunnings urged to withdraw Aussie plant after claim 'people are being misled' https://au.news.yahoo.com/bunnings-urged-to-withdraw-aussie-plant-after-claim-people-are-being-misled-014413782.html

These tree ferns date back to the Cretaceous Period. Some today are up to a hundred years old.

#EnvironmentalDestruction #Logging #Unsustainable #Environment #AusPol #Nature

Bunnings urged to withdraw Aussie plant after claim 'people are being misled'

Suppliers of the product say they're actually helping the planet. Find out more.

Yahoo News Australia

SydneyJim Jan 14

Ten Sydney Harbours’ worth of threatened species habitat approved for destruction in 2025 by PM Anthony Albanese https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/13/threatened-species-habitat-destruction-australia-15-year-high

#Deforestation #EnvironmentalDestruction #ExtinctionEvent #Australia #Logging

Ten Sydney Harbours’ worth of threatened species habitat approved for destruction in 2025, report finds

ACF analysis finds amount of habitat approved by Albanese government for land-clearing hit a 15-year high last year

The Guardian

SydneyJim Jan 13

#EnvironmentalDestruction is not separate from #social harm. #ClimateCollapse intensifies conflict, displacement, & hunger. Those least responsible suffer first. This reveals the ethical failure of concentrated wealth. (1/2)

Fenris Lorsrai Jan 3

I'm listening to the audiobook of "Daring to be Free" on resistance to slavery, which is great. There's a lot more depth on some regions than others, but just got to a bit about St. Thomas (now part of US Virgin islands)

Most of the slaves they were bringing in during early settlement were competent sailors and shipbuilders, brought direct from Africa. And they were NOT going to stay. Fuck this, we're stealing anything sailable and getting out of here. And if we can't steal one, we're escaping into the interior and we'll MAKE one.

So governor at time has every single tree of a size suitable for dugout canoes cut down. On the entire island.

The sheer amount of EFFORT that had to go into maintaining this system. Sure, you were doing some ongoing deforestation to build plantations, but then to upgrade to full on massive deforestation to try and keep those enslaved people's ON those plantations is a whole nother level.

Surely that did not contibute to all the ecological problems you had in the following century. surely

IDK, there's a less here about hyperconcentration of wealth just leads to even greater concentration and more and more destructive methods of maintaining said system until it devours itself.

Interesting book overall!

#slavery #history #colonialism #plantations #environmentalDestruction #genocide

Bob Jamieson Dec 8

Two massive data centres are being planned for the outskirts of Edinburgh. Each one would emit more than 200,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. That’s roughly the same as all the emissions from Edinburgh Airport.

Thankfully, Edinburgh Council has now told Foxglove that it is willing to “re-evaluate” its decision not to require an Environmental Impact Assessment.
Email to ask for environmentalassessment:

https://www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/edinburgh-council-require-eias/

#Edinburgh #DataCentres #EnvironmentalDestruction