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K. A. “Kick Åss” Pillë
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Your move, Hemingway
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Patrick Galey@patrickgaley.bsky.social |
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Anthropocene chronicler. Journalist investigating the fossil fuel industry and its role in the climate, energy, and cost of greed crises. Other than that, mainly dogs and cycling
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K. A. “Kick Åss” Pillë
@keithpille.bsky.social
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Your move, Hemingway
51 replies 745 reposts 2868 likes
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Patrick Galey
@patrickgaley.bsky.social
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Day Whatever Number It Is of oil companies continuing to plan for increased supply amid terminally declining demand and trying to convince shareholders that's a good plan www.theguardian.com/business/art...
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Patrick Galey
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Latest exhibit of Male Oil Executives Failing Upwards:
Former BP boss Bernard Looney, who was forced to resign after failing to disclose staff relationships to the board, is now being courted by ADNOC, the fossil fuel industry's new poster child 🤮 www.cityam.com/disgraced-fo...
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Patrick Galey
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I still think the fact that we are now living in a world as hot as when sea levels were 7 metres higher globally and deeming that to be somehow economically or socially successful, desirable even, is the most bonkers news story in Earth's history
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Patrick Galey
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Far-right wins 1st round: Journalists: OMG it's an EARTHQUAKE Broad coalition of leftists wins 2nd round: Journalists: Hmmm it's complicated now
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Patrick Galey
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For the UK I'd argue this was a binary: 14 years of managed decline, or literally anyone else I just think this time around, in this context and given what's in play, this was a good result (not the best, but better than the only realistic alternative)
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Patrick Galey
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Don't ever let anyone tell you your vote doesn't matter
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Patrick Galey
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I hear you. Just in the binary pragmatism of UK elections, I'd choose "treated like slightly more like a human being" over, you know, not. But each to their own
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Patrick Galey
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Outside of online grousing about FPTP and Labour’s failure to transform society in its first 3 hrs in power, there’s a sensible majority of voters who value integrity, competence - and bolder climate action
These people spoke yesterday eciu.net/media/press-...
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Patrick Galey
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I can't understand people who say "no party perfectly represents me" and don't vote Surely that's the essence of what democracy is as experienced by voters within a given society: agreeing that our differences are so profound that we need to divine preference from the imperfect every so often?
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Patrick Galey
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Appear to have been banned from the bird app for posting about this election but: You're totally free to do what you want today. Vote, don't vote, moan, don't moan, spoil your ballot, wear a bin on your head. And that makes you lucky. You can not vote, absolutely. Just check your privilege
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Patrick Galey
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“Biden, apparently sick with a cold, struggled to land lines on the former president, who lied with nearly every answer he gave”
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Patrick Galey
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Oh, nothing really
Just the head of one of the world's largest food traders warning that we are all heading for "food wars" amid spiralling inflation and climate induced crop failures
www.ft.com/content/64ee...
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Patrick Galey
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If you get the sense the Tories are treating this election as a self-enriching sport, that’s because they’ve spent the last 14 years gambling with our money for their own advancement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Patrick Galey
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Letting the Market Decide, One Lost Generation After Another www.theguardian.com/society/arti...
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Patrick Galey
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This will for obvious reasons make headlines today.
But I think it's important to flag the proximate cause of these microplastics: Fossil Fuels.
This is a Fossil Fuels Are Exterminating Us study. Be interesting to see how often it's messaged that way www.ciel.org/issue/fossil....
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Patrick Galey
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Alexa, show me Late Stage Anthropocene
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Patrick Galey
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Gen Z/Zoomers: I can forgive you the influencers, acting like you just discovered 90s music, and that weird way you make a heart shape with your fingers But if you don't REGISTER TO VOTE then I'll hold it against everything your generation ever does
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Patrick Galey
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It would be almost inconceivable to hear an England player come out like this against the Far Right
We need more role models like Thuram and Mbappe to point out the basic truth that politics affects everyone, footballers included www.theguardian.com/football/art...
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Patrick Galey
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ADNOC, which spent the year the UAE hosted global climate talks drastically expanding its oil and gas production capacity, just announced a $5.5bn EPC deal to allow it to export 9.6 MT/year of LNG from Ruwais - its biggest ever LNG supply project
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Ketan Joshi
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Fun fact: one of the authors of this absolute garbage study that somehow made it into Nature owns stock in Nvidia
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Patrick Galey
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🚨NEW INVESTIGATION🚨
The oil company ran by #COP28 Sultan Al-Jaber used the UAE's year as host of global climate talks to pursue oil and gas deals worth a potential $100 bn
How much longer will we let industry co-opt climate negotiations? www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
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Ketan Joshi
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Equinor getting caught up in conflicting stories around COP28........one hell of a piece here exploring in detail every single country's dealings at COP28 to expand fossil fuel supply
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Patrick Galey
@patrickgaley.bsky.social
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🚨NEW INVESTIGATION🚨
The oil company ran by #COP28 Sultan Al-Jaber used the UAE's year as host of global climate talks to pursue oil and gas deals worth a potential $100 bn
How much longer will we let industry co-opt climate negotiations? www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
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Patrick Galey
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I'm riding the Ride Across Britain 2024 to raise money for the Brain Tumour Charity
If any of you lovely people would like to contribute you can do so here. Thank you! www.justgiving.com/page/patrick...
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David Veloz
@3daydog.bsky.social
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There is no demand for AI. It’s being shoved down our throats, and it’s an ecological nightmare.
“US slows plans to retire coal plants as power demand from AI surges”
on.ft.com/3yGcvuD
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Patrick Galey
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AI will kill us, just not in the way you might think
AI doesn't pose humans an existential threat because of the machines (self-awareness etc). It's more boring than that
AI poses humans an existential threat because of the humans (resource over-extraction) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Patrick Galey
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Another month, another four weeks of oil companies incoherently increasing upstream volumes (in order, they say, to meet demand), while mid/downstream output continues to fall EVs and less flying means oil demand is (or would be without fossil fuel subsidies) in terminal decline
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Patrick Galey
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Reminds me of oil majors making "carbon intensity" gains, then wiping that out by simply Drilling A Bunch More Oil
It's... not smart www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-ben...
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Patrick Galey
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Ah yes the campaigning equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears. Can't fail
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Patrick Galey
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Might just be me but if I was exec of an oil company responsible for the biggest oil spill in US history - one which cost me and my shareholders $64 bn - I wouldn't be pitching drilling for oil in the Same Precise Shelf
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...
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Patrick Galey
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"That's how it works"
Just double checking that a market requiring govts to spend $50 bn a year destroying the only climate-regulating, water-cleaning, food-producing resource we have... is "working"?
www.carbonbrief.org/eu-spending-...
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Patrick Galey
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Images from Afghanistan are a harrowing reminder of the impact of our collective inability or unwillingness to force governments to decarbonise value chains
Comfort for the 1%, catastrophe for everyone else www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Ketan Joshi
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The responses in this are so telling. The white French scientist basically saying "this is a population control thing" and the Indian scientist basically saying "this is an ethical decision about fairness and equity"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Patrick Galey
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Influencers are a whole other story, as they are quite often paid by industry to spout this denialist nonsense jalopnik.com/big-oil-tikt....
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Patrick Galey
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World, meet The Stock Problem.
Climate change is a stock problem - the amount of GHG in the atmosphere is directly equivalent to how warm things get.
And we are constantly increasing the stock
To solve a problem, first you must stop making it worse www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Patrick Galey
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Another reason why the petrostate-hosting-COPs "1.5C is our north star" is such performative bullshit
We are blasting past 1.5C, positively sailing over it, thanks to ever higher fossil fuel emissions
Does that mean we should give up?
Of course not www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Patrick Galey
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The Tories are breaking the law again www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Patrick Galey
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Labor Day 2024: Peaceful protestors are being beaten and dragged off campuses across the developed world for demanding an end to a genocide that their tuition fees help to fund
The only thing Orwell whiffed was the date #May1st #LaborDay2024 #DiaDelTrabajador #1erMai
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Patrick Galey
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I am constantly amazed/appalled how chattering classes debate or deride the merit of what useful idiots for the extreme right such as Truss actually say, and spend so little time asking: Why?
Why does anyone say this shit? Because they've been bought www.linkedin.com/pulse/liz-tr...
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Ketan Joshi
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Man - after all the criticism of 'traditional' carbon markets from these folks, look what they're turning into
heatmap.news/technology/c...
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Patrick Galey
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Our governments are so addicted to fossil fuels they are planning to sacrifice 20 percent of all global wealth to keep using them
Money for fossil fuel shareholders, misery for the rest of us
There is another way apnews.com/article/clim...
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Patrick Galey
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Cause, meet effect
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Patrick Galey
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First JHB then Rachel Riley
Happy Karens Outing Themselves as Islamophobic Week I guess www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Patrick Galey
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Thanks I hate it here
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Patrick Galey
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What you CAN do is connect flooding in Dubai to the global heating that the UAE's mass extraction of hydrocarbons is contributed to in ever greater percentages
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Patrick Galey
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Ooh yes that's a helluva a Dumb Thing
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Patrick Galey
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What's your nominee for Dumbest Thing In The World? I'll go: 80 percent of Earth's agricultural land is used to feed animals, which in turn provide just 17 percent of global calorie supply for humans
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Patrick Galey
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I know life etc but it's important to point out that Antarctica this month was close to 40 DEGREES CELSIUS hotter than normal
That would kill millions if in Europe, but that's never happened before
Only, it had never happened in Antarctica, either, until it did www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Patrick Galey
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What is your plan for when the food system collapses?
Because this is going to happen, every year, ever more accutely, until we reduce emissions to zero
And not a single country or fossil fuel producer is planning to do that www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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