Mitra Ardron

@renew_economy Which is great to see - but hardly suffient given that Australia's export emissions are more than double the domestic ones.

More than 350 Australian businesses petition the federal #government to set a 75% 2035 #emissions reduction target, as a new report argues a strong economic case for high #climate ambition.. reneweconomy.com.au/big-business-b…

Good presentations at #WaWF2023 about collecting data to inform climate change adaptation needed now, never mind what will be needed under 2,3 or 4 degrees expected due to the inaction of governments and continued approval of more fossil fuels inc in Australia

@WASHFutures @PatConroy1 Good to see the ministers speech. I find it interesting to put it in context. Australia’s Aid budget is around $5b. I wonder how much more security we’d get if we cancelled even one of the $10b submarines the same minister was talking about last week and tripled the aid budget!

#HappeningNow – a video message from the Hon @PatConroy1 - Minister for International Development #WaWF23 "The Climate Crisis is a Water Crisis"

#HappeningNow – Water and WASH Futures Conference 2023 has officially begun with a welcome from @GriffithUniVC #WaWF23

@danmiller999 I thought the Corn->Ethanol program had a different efficiency measure - converting subsidies into votes :-(

Solar PV + EVs is 180X better at converting sun to motion than ethanol + ICE vehicle. "The current net efficiency to produce motive power from silicon photovoltaic modules is estimated at 5.4%, much higher than 0.03% efficiency for corn-based ethanol. " pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

@EBourgeois I'm much more concerned about the #ReFi space having fallen in the blockchain mess. ReFi is essential to scaling Regeneration, but with most of the discussion stuck in crypto-fantasy I'm not holding my breath.

Why did the #ReFi movement fall so easily into the carbon offset/credit mess initiated by the status quo as the global corporate reductionist solution to climate? Missed opportunity to seek out and join efforts by those working on true regenerative and decentralized solutions.

@simonahac A target they won't hit - when compared with actual actions, of approving more fossil fuel projects theguardian.com/australia-news…

yeah, sure.

@Matt_KeanMP A target that they won't hit .... when compared to their actual actions of approving more fossil fuel projects - theguardian.com/australia-news…

Today we announced our emissions reduction target of 70% below 2005 levels by 2035.   This new target is expected to attract $39bn in private investment and support more than 13,000 jobs by 2035.   Days like today deliver real action to benefit the economy and the environment.

@chriswaterguy @mitra@social.coop

Not ready to bail on Twitter yet, but it's time to set up a Mastodon as backup. Where are my people at? For rationality community/LW/ACX/EA the most promising I've seen is Schelling dot pt. It's the perfect name for the community, and a good name is 50% of branding.

@realNoniH Everything Albo has achieved will, and should be, overshadowed by his approval of more fossil fuel projects, even after we've lost towns to fires and floods.

Labor's achieved more in six months than the LNP did in 10 years open.substack.com/pub/capturedst…

If you think Twitter will survive the layoffs of core infrastructure peeps then read this. Its spot on from my own experience.

@PatConroy1 @SprepChannel @dfat @SenatorWong Being responsible for over 4% of world emissions disqualifies Australia from hosting COP31? Especially since even under Labor we are still approving more coal and gas! Just because we ship it overseas and the magic of carbon accounting counts them elsewhere doesn't absolve us.

Good to meet ten Pacific leaders, ministers, heads of regional organisations and climate champions at #COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, including PMs of Cook Islands, Tonga & Palau, & DG of regional org SPREP. Together we are fighting to keep 1.5 alive & to argue for a Pacific COP31.

@DavidShoebridge Tony Abbott showing his irrelevance. And anyway - since when is training to kill other people being of "service" to the country or the planet.

What a weird way to force yourself back into relevancy- propose to make training and fighting in wars compulsory for teenagers.

@US_Stormwatch Hard to comprehend that in Australia we still have a federal and state governments from both ALP and LNP that are approving MORE fossil fuel projects in the face of current, not future climate change. This is not just elsewhere, we lost Lismore to the floods, and others to fires

Hard to comprehend the scale of the flood disaster in Pakistan, the 5th most populated nation in the world. Nearly 1400 dead, 1 million houses damaged or destroyed, and 50,000,000 people displaced. 1/3 of the country is underwater.

@abcnews Takes a Christ to preach that we should love our neighbor, takes a Xtian church to split over arguing which neighbors its ok to love.

Conservative bishops split from Anglican Church over same-sex marriage abc.net.au/news/2022-08-1…

@AnnieKia @parambulator101 @energylocal @originenergy It was a delightful conversation since after I switched Origin called to offer me a better deal. After she'd based the whole pitch on the numbers I told her I couldn't care less about the numbers and was leaving because of ethics, i.e a care for the next generation.

After EnovaEnergy were squeezed out by the big predatory energy companies, we switched to @energylocal. We’ve now had 2 letters from @originenergy thanking us for ‘signing up’ to new account numbers !!! I hate that unethical fracking company. #FrackOffOrigin

@DrCameronMurray The electricity transmission lines is the worst example I can think of - they are a natural monopoly and so should be owned by the people, and their operations contracted out.

What's the most unexpected thing a government has privatised? I think the land titles office of NSW and Vic are up there for me. VicRoads licencing and registration too. I'm keen to hear other examples where you thought "Huh, can you even privatise that?"

@victorklineTNL Which is why, if called for a jury, you need to consider the access to funds of the two sides - that one side might not have had the funds to properly counter the other sides arguments, and may also get bankrupted by the bill if costs are awarded against them.

Anyone who has been to court knows that equality before the law is a joke. The system of legal costs means the wealthy litigate their opponents into the ground. I worked for Australian Legal Aid, a Gough creation. It evened the playing field. It is gone. We need to bring it back.

@rev_cornbread @SeanFlan45 @ninaturner Sacrificing the next generation's future is not the action of a "moderate".

@SeanFlan45 @ninaturner As a West Virginian, I SOLIDLY disagree. Progressives do well here. Unfortunately, your mentality is that of the WV democratic establishment. So they only run moderates, and democratic presidential candidates don’t even campaign here.

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@abcnews Given that facebook's data goes to the US, and that Australia has even more draconian laws around giving data to authorities, why should we be worried about data going to China ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surv…

TikTok admits Australian data can be accessed in China, prompting concerns it's being sent to Beijing abc.net.au/news/2022-07-1…