Gary F Dunn

Retired teacher, union activist, pro Palestine; posting about climate change, inequalities globally, healthy living, anti-war strategies, & socialist analysis.

[Gary F Dunn @GaryDunngf]

@AlanRMacLeod The Philippines delegates walked out.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Before we had the fake "trickle down" idea we had "make the rich pay high taxes and use that money to help other people."

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Prior to 1982, the SEC considered stock buybacks to be illegal stock manipulation. But under President Reagan, stock buybacks were made legal. Now, instead of investing profits into people, big corporations use them to line the pockets of wealthy shareholders. They're a scam.

[Li Andersson @liandersson]

In Finland, the Left Alliance Just Trounced the Far Right

The Nordic left-green parties combine ambitious environmental and climate policy with traditional themes of the Left: workers’ rights,investment in welfare services and equal distribution of income https://t.co/SYJTPWycP8

[Sofie Karasek @SofieRKarasek]

We have proof now from Finland that the approach used to win numerous campaigns in the USA, Switzerland, & Australia — grounding in our progressive values and naming our opponents’ divide & conquer strategy — is a winning one.

Huge opportunity for the Danish left to lean into.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

We live in a world where migrating out of the periphery to escape imperial plunder is a crime, but systematically plundering the periphery is considered perfectly normal and legitimate. (1/2)

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

With half the month now behind us, June 2024 is very likely to be the warmest June on record.

It is on track to beat 2023's record by nearly 0.2C, and may represent an ominous sign that global temperatures are not falling very quickly despite the fading of El Nino conditions.

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

This is the right image to use for a heat wave; not one of children playing in the fountain or people frolicking on the beach.

[EthicsInTech @EthicsInTech]

'Scandalous': G7 Nations Spend 62 Times More on Military Than Humanitarian Aid https://t.co/rImv06QlUi @BrettWilkinsSF @VFPNational @Roots_Action @VahidRazavi @ousmannoor @CivilianAgenda @codepink

[David Fickling @davidfickling]

This is INSANE:

Seven Chinese solar companies most people haven’t heard of are ALREADY providing more energy for the global economy than Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP and the other Seven Sisters who once dominated oil production:

https://t.co/gExjouWZvs via @opinion

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

This is a huge deal - regular working people are finally realizing we’re in a climate emergency and refusing to go along with the fossil death wish of the sociopathic bankers and execs and judges and politicians still in power

[Gary F Dunn @GaryDunngf]

"Noam is the most influential U.S. intellectual ever. Period," Rutgers School of Communications Professor Andrew Kennis—whose book Digital Age Resistance contains a foreword co-authored by Chomsky—told Common Dreams.
https://t.co/hHzRB2cdvT?

[Matt Huber @Matthuber78]

Since I wrote my comments for @wcstudies conference panel, I figure I'd post them here.

Instead of a 'movement of movements' we need to recognize the centrality of a revived labor movement to climate & pretty much everything else.
https://t.co/3JBmgbNTCM

[Gary F Dunn @GaryDunngf]

“There has been no one else like him in our lifetime.”
Noam Chomsky has suffered a stroke and is recovering in hospital, his wife has confirmed.
The 95-year-old famed linguist has not been seen in public since June last year,
https://t.co/31AWq6Jw4R

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

BREAKING: In a landmark victory for human rights, a US jury just found ⁦@Chiquita⁩ guilty of funding death squads in Colombia that were killing people near the company's banana farms.

First time US courts hold major corporation accountable for human rts abuses abroad.👊🙏

[Jacobin @jacobin]

The history of twentieth-century revolution and anti-colonial movements largely hinged on land and land reform. Marxism provides us the tools to continue addressing these questions today, in a time of profound ecological crisis. https://t.co/I8YpIIgmeW

[Pilita Clark @pilitaclark]

Extremely interesting analysis here from @laurimyllyvirta - notwithstanding the caveats on future clean energy growth https://t.co/vnuyxagM9I

[Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta]

China's solar&wind capacity additions in Jan-Apr are still ahead of the record levels of 2023. April was a slow month for new wind farm connections; solar steamed along at last year's rates (220 GW/year!).

[Professor Mark Maslin 👋 𝕏 @ProfMarkMaslin]

#ClimateChange is about consumption of richest people in our global society

50% global emissions are emitted by top 10% of population = anyone earning >$37k/yr

90% of global emissions just 50% of population

We need climate justice to save our planet.

The rich need to step up

[Dr Sam Burgess 🌍🌡🛰 @OceanTerra]

Every single month in the last 12 months has broken temperature records for the respective month. For ocean surface temperatures - it's now a 14 month streak

Until we reach net-zero global emissions the climate will continue to warm

More: https://t.co/GHDQRVrh8q
#ClimateCrisis