David Merner

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

There is a massive corruption scandal unfolding in the US, with top American executives abandoning a $25 billion gas project over allegations of secret Russian investment and control.

​All of this is happening just as the US administration moves to ease sanctions on Russia.

​It is exactly what it looks like: blatant corruption. An attempt to sell out Ukraine in exchange for lucrative deals out of pure greed. Meanwhile, it is Ukraine that continues to endure constant, baseless accusations supported by nothing. Madness.

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

More than a third of the world’s river basins had below-normal flows in 2025.

When rivers run dry, crops fail, food becomes scarce and livelihoods suffer.

As climate change makes droughts more severe, here's how countries are building resilience: https://t.co/ZYRxC6tLLa

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

Good news. Greenland’s parliament has voted unanimously to halt all seabed mining until 2029, when the ban can be renewed. The decision is being hailed as a slap in the face for Donald Trump

https://t.co/ojA6QtrJ8D

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

We can not wait to address the climate crisis.
We can not wait to address the climate crisis.
We can not wait to address the climate crisis.
We can not wait to address the climate crisis.
We can not wait to address the climate crisis.
We can not wait to address the climate crisis.
We can not wait to address the climate crisis.
We can not wait to address the climate crisis.

#ActOnClimate

#climate #renewables

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

Exceeding 1.5°C of warming is now unavoidable.

But how much further temperatures rise depends on how quickly we cut emissions.

The new #EmissionsGap Report shows how deep those cuts must be to limit warming and make a return to 1.5°C possible.

Explore the findings: https://t.co/LLYdQydA8U

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Repeat after me: fossil fuel companies will not lead us out of this crisis.

No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables

[Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @FairVoteCanada]

Encouraging to see @Conservative_BC Leader @LDoerkson open-minded on proportional representation.

As a former BC United MLA, he knows how vote-splitting hurts the right.

@Dave_Eby is now the only leader ruling out PR, despite asking BC Greens to vote NDP for "shared values."

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

The US should be excluded from peace negotiations for several reasons:

Europe bears the overwhelming share of the financial burden, and US diplomatic efforts have failed pathetically over the past two years

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

This Mexico City food market doubles as a solar farm. It's covered in 35,000 solar panels and could generate 27 million kWh per year.

Isn't it time for all commerical buildings to get a solar upgrade? #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables #renewableenergy #GreenNewDeal

[Mitt Romney @MittRomney]

Churchill could have shortened WW2 by years if he had just “done a deal” with Hitler. George Washington could have done a deal to end the American Revolution. Zelenskyy is in good company.

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: One of the things that I find mind-boggling is that whenever we want to expand health care in this country, Medicare in this country, education, everyone’s first question in Washington is: How are we going to pay for this?

Yet every single year, the United States Congress rubber-stamps trillions and trillions of dollars in current and expanded spending without anyone asking at all: How are we going to pay for this?

By the way, the Pentagon has continued to fail every audit. They are paying for it with your health care and lack thereof.

So it’s about time that we flip the equation and start asking, How can we afford war after war after war?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

A new survey reveals a record-high 92 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured.

Why? Trump and Republicans made massive cuts to Medicaid and the ACA to pay for tax breaks for the 1%.

Thousands will die because they can’t afford healthcare.

We must pass Medicare for All.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Weidel: "Prolonging the war and shooting drones into the hinterland of Russia, destroying refineries, houses, and buildings near Moscow, is a huge provocation."

Host: "It's defending itself."

Weidel: "No, it's not."

Host: "Every night, drones and ballistic missiles rain down on Ukraine..."

Weidel: "This strategy is very risky, and we've been criticizing it. We want to end this war.

It doesn't help if a country [Ukraine] launches drone attacks against a country [Russia] that has nuclear weapons. It doesn't make sense, it's very risky and very stupid.

We need to end this, and we need to actually put pressure on Ukrainian president to have the willingness to end the dying and stop this very risky strategy for all of Europe."🔚

Folks, here is Weidel's imaginary reality: black is white, the victim is to blame for the crime against them, and defending your home against a bloody, illegal invasion that murders children and razes towns is "stupid," while letting Russia occupy you and carry out a country-wide Bucha massacre is probably smart.

And defending yourself is risky! Risky, did you hear that? Well, no shit, just standing there and catching Russian ballistics with your face is risky, too. So we may as well take the risk and, hear me out, fight back?

​Please don't vote for this evil Russian appendix in Germany!

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

Global warming will overshoot 1.5°C in the coming years.

There’s still a chance to bring temperatures back down, but the window is closing fast.

This is the point of return.

#EmissionsGap

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

"The 1.5-degree limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels.

Not reduce.

Not abate.

Phaseout."

@UN Secretary General @antonioguterres
| #ActOnClimate #climate #energy

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

How a fake Loch Ness Monster helped bring a dammed-up river back to life -- and how climate change is coming for your pumpkins. Read on!

🌊 Good news: In Grand Rapids, they're ripping out century-old dams to bring the rapids back to the Grand River - and this 15-year initiative was catalyzed by a Nessie art installation.

🎃 Not-so-good news: This year the pumpkins took a beating worldwide, with drought, heat and flood decimating crops from North America to the UK.

📣 What you can do: In Australia, there’s still time to join Climate for Change’s Challenge for Climate: ten climate actions over ten days, through October 24. And in Canada, enter Canadian Geographic’s Live Net Zero Household Challenge by writing in the climate actions you’re already taking at home!

Even if you're not in Australia or Canada, tell someone why climate change matters to you this week. Most of us already care, we just have to say so out loud - and by doing so, we're "unsilencing the majority"! 💚
https://t.co/zhO4gVIfrP

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Ocean heating is - literally - off the chart.

No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables #go100re

[Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @FairVoteCanada]

Alberta's vote is over, but first-past-the-post keeps separation alive: it gives a separatist leaning UCP power provincially and locks in near one-party opposition to Ottawa federally.

Proportional representation breaks this two-party trap and restores balance at both levels.

[Treemissions @treemissions]

One mature tree absorbs about 22 kg of CO₂ a year.
Plant 1,000 trees and that's 22 tonnes pulled from the air, every year, for decades.
Small seeds. Big math. 🌱

[Jon Wiltshire @JonWiltshire_]

This latest article from Thomas Pikkety, the renowned French economist and leading authority on wealth inequality, should be essential reading here in the UK.

His argument is simple.

France has never been wealthier. Yet education funding per student has fallen by 20% since 2017, public services are struggling, and inequality is deeply embedded in the system.

Sound familiar?

The problem isn't that our countries have run out of wealth. It's how that wealth is distributed, who controls it, and the political choices made to protect it.

For decades, we've been told that austerity, declining public services and falling living standards are unavoidable consequences of economic crises, yet those same decades have seen extraordinary concentrations of private wealth.

Socialise the costs. Privatise the gains.

This is the reality we all need to wake up to.

These aren't inevitable economic outcomes. They're the consequences of political choices, made over time, that have prioritised the accumulation of private wealth over the needs of society.

And as public anger grows, we're seeing a deeply concerning response: The rise of the far right, directing that anger towards immigrants, disabled people, those claiming welfare and other vulnerable groups, rather than towards the economic structures responsible for the inequalities people are rightly furious about.

As @NaomiAKlein describes fascism, "it's capitalism's most ferocious threat response. A way of directing public anger downwards at the vulnerable, rather than upwards at the system."

Fascism doesn't challenge the status quo. It protects it by giving people someone else to blame.

The fundamental question isn't whether our societies can afford something better. It's why, when we've never been wealthier, we're repeatedly told we must accept less.

We need to fundamentally rethink an economy built around extraction, exploitation and wealth concentration, and start building one that delivers equitable, sustainable prosperity for everyone.

And with the UK Budget next week, this should be a serious warning to @UKLabour.

If the Budget fails to acknowledge this fundamental reality, and instead offers another round of "difficult decisions" that protect concentrated wealth while asking ordinary people to shoulder the burden, then @andyburnham really hasn't understood what's happening across Europe.

What's unfolding in France isn't an isolated protest. It's a warning of what happens when people stop accepting that a society growing ever wealthier somehow can't afford to give them a better life.

This isn't something politicians can keep kicking down the road.

The warning signs are everywhere. The question now is whether those in power are prepared to confront the causes, or continue defending the very system that's driving the anger.

@ZackPolanski @jeremycorbyn @KemiBadenoch @Nigel_Farage