Norman Pater

Kaya from Wadandi Noongar land. Activist entrepreneur, decarbonising and restoring. What we must do immediately:
1) End the use of fossil fuels…

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design.

As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them.

We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.

[Pete Milne @PeteMilne4]

National gas reservation gives WA the gas it needs without drilling near Scott Reef for Woodside's Browse or fracking the Kimberley
Instead @RogerCookMLA relies on an uncertain Browse and for @WoodsideEnergy and @Chevron to "do the right thing"
https://t.co/N0Y2oWbywf

[Datsun200B @Datsun200BCoupe]

@MrRexPatrick This is what the NACC was supposed to expose and tbh probably why they put a defence lifer with a solid record of conflicts and protections at the head. Keep going Rex!!!

[Norman Pater @Normpater]

@roweafr @FinancialReview Gold. But How come Joyce is the least fugly animal in the circus??

[Norman Pater @Normpater]

@algore Thank you Sir. You opened my eyes to the causes and dangers of climate change, and this changed my life in every way.

[Norman Pater @Normpater]

Diseasals indeed!

[Gavin Shoebridge @KiwiEV]

This Aussie trucking firm (Centurion) switched their fleet to electric last year, eliminating the cost of 30 dirty diseasels.
They've since built 2 charging sites powered by 4.4 megawatts of solar + battery storage, plus 15 rapid chargers.
Electric tech ain't slowing down (but diesel is) so come join the winning team. We have potatoes. 😊

[Bob Brown Foundation @BobBrownFndn]

The relentless burning of fossil fuels is threatening our future. What’s needed is a fundamental shift, but as @RelentlessReese says, many of those shaping policy have very poor scientific literacy, continuing to ignore the urgency. Have a listen ⬇️ https://t.co/h0MUwK6EPY

[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

[Risk Expert tells the Truth about Climate @MarkCranfield_]

This entire civilisation has been built during the delays between the production of greenhouse gases and the effects of those gases on the oceans and other climate systems.

The amounts of GHGs in today's atmosphere are ABSOLUTELY STAGGERING. They make humans extinct before the planet achieves even half of its necessary equilibrium warming.

100ppm CO2-equivalent caused around 7 degrees C of global warming during the last deglaciation. The world's best climate scientist has calculated, by 4 separate methods, that the GHGs already in the atmosphere cause 10 degrees C of global warming.

This warming itself massively increases atmospheric GHG concentrations.

[Evan @EvanWritesOnX]

I am surprised how my tweet below entered the political spheres of Australians.

It means that many Australians actually care about their country. But if you want to do something about it, the first thing to understand is that the answer is not the other party.

The two parties run the visible layer. The operators underneath is the same regardless of who is in office.

Same mining multinationals. Same four banks. Same supermarket duopoly. Same media owners. Same property speculation engine. Same gas exporters paying almost no resource rent. The faces rotate. The arrangement does not.

So voting harder for Labor when the Liberals disappoint you, or harder for the Liberals when Labor disappoints you,

is not resistance. It is the trap.

It is the pressure-release valve doing exactly what it was built to do.

The way to move the operators in Australia, is how you move any operator in any country.

Stop voting tribally.

Strengthen the cross bench. Vote for community independents and minor parties willing to put structural questions on the table that the majors have agreed never to discuss.

A senate full of crossbenchers extracting concessions is worth more than another majority for either side.

Learn who owns what.

Find out who owns your bank, your supermarket, your toll road, your energy retailer, your superannuation, your media.

Most Australians have no idea how much of the country routes back to a small handful of foreign asset managers and resource multinationals.

Once you see it, the arguments between the parties stop looking like a contest and start looking like theatre.

Build parallel structures. Move your money to a credit union or mutual bank. Buy from local cooperatives where you can. Read independent media. Put solar and battery on your own roof so you stop buying back your own gas at a markup from the people who exported it.

Demand specific reforms, not vague good intentions.

Ask every candidate, federal and state, whether they will support a real Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.

Whether they will support a Norway-style sovereign wealth fund built on actual resource royalties.

Whether they will support ending negative gearing and the capital gains discount.

Whether they will support breaking up the media monopolies.

Whether they will support foreign investment screening with teeth.

Whether they will support rebuilding domestic refining capacity and downstream processing of the minerals that's shipped out raw.

Vote on the answers. Politicians respond to specificity.

They absorb and neutralise vagueness.

Tell the truth in your daily conversations.

The deepest defense of the system is the conditioning that tells Australians their own sovereignty over their own resources, their own currency, their own land and their own future is the unrealistic option.

Norway did it. South Korea did it. Singapore did it. Australia chose, repeatedly, through both parties, not to. That is a choice.

Choices can be made differently. Saying so out loud, in private and in public, in conversations with family and friends and colleagues, slowly breaks the spell.

Australia is managed. That is the bad news and that is also the good news.

Anything that can be managed can be unmanaged.

But not by waiting for the next election to deliver a saviour from inside the same recruiting pipeline that produced the current arrangement.

The change starts when enough citizens stop voting for the marketing departments and start asking who actually owns the building.

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

@HortusApricus90 If you read the short article I put in the thread you'll see it's not about krill, or Chinese fishing vessels. We are all responsible—although some far more than others.
Here it is again: Why Are Gray Whale Deaths Increasing Along the Pacific Coast?
👉https://t.co/qIXYEdDkGr

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Yvon Chouinard, the founder of Patagonia, has made the planet itself the sole beneficiary and effective "shareholder" of his company.

In an extraordinary move that redefined corporate ownership, Chouinard transferred full control of the $3 billion outdoor apparel brand away from his family. He placed 100% of the company into a carefully designed structure consisting of a trust and a nonprofit organization, both dedicated to combating the climate crisis and protecting the natural world.

Under this new arrangement, the Chouinard family gave up any claim to personal profits. Instead, all earnings not reinvested in growing the business—roughly $100 million each year—now flow directly to environmental causes, funding the preservation of wild lands, conservation efforts, and initiatives to fight climate change.

In essence, Patagonia now exists to serve Earth as its only true shareholder, placing planetary survival above the accumulation of private wealth.

The model has already delivered significant results. As of 2025, the company had channeled an additional $180 million into nature-protection projects. The structure relies on two key entities: the Patagonia Purpose Trust, which safeguards the company’s original mission and values, and the Holdfast Collective, a nonprofit that directs the profits toward high-impact environmental work.

Rather than selling the business to the highest bidder or taking it public, Chouinard chose this radical path—creating what many see as a groundbreaking template for purpose-driven capitalism. Patagonia has shown that a for-profit company can become a powerful force for ecological restoration while remaining financially successful.

[Chouinard, Y. (2022). Patagonia's Next Chapter: Earth is Now Our Only Shareholder. Patagonia Works]

[S͎a͎l͎a͎d͎i͎n͎🇸🇴⚖️🕋✍️ @InaHassan3]

Netanyahu sent his son to campaign for Orbán. Netanyahu sent a personal video to Orbán's rally. Orbán just lost by 14 points, the biggest landslide in Hungarian democratic history.

Why did Netanyahu care so much?

Because Orbán was the only EU leader who vetoed sanctions on Israel. Every single time. That veto is gone. The ICC withdrawal is reversed.
The EU firewall is dead.

Israel's own Ynet News headline, two days ago: "If Orbán falls, Israel could lose its EU firewall." He didn't just fall.
He was buried.

[Javed Hassan @javedhassan]

So, a couple of the boys have been texting me: “Why the hell would Trump drop the Hormuz blockade bomb on a Sunday? It’ll send oil screaming past $120, maybe $130 if the algos really panic. Makes zero sense if you actually want cheaper barrels.”

But it makes perfect sense. Beautiful, even.

See, Tokyo and Hong Kong are already humming by the time the East Coast is still nursing its coffee. Those futures pits—Dow, S&P, the whole equity complex, plus Brent and WTI on the screens—never really sleep. You’ve got fourteen, fifteen hours of runway before the New York bell. Plenty of time for the right hands to lean in: long the indices in Hong Kong, short the crude in Tokyo, riding the fear wave as the blockade tweet lights up every terminal from Singapore to Sydney.

Then, right on cue, before the U.S. opens, comes the pivot. Something about “there’s regime change in Tehran,” “we can do business,” “Talks were Good,” the usual art-of-the-deal baloney. Markets whip around like they’ve been Tasered. Oil gives back the spike, stocks rip higher. The boys in Asia unwind clean, pocket the spread.

A few hundred million, maybe more, conjured out of thin air on the back of one perfectly timed Sunday morning post. Not bad for a morning’s work. The Street’s been running these kinds of games for decades: information, timing, leverage. Just never quite so… presidential!!

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

In his strongest condemnation yet of the Trump-Vance war against Iran, Pope Leo XIV said today:

“We are surrounded by a delusion of omnipotence that’s becoming increasingly unpredictable and aggressive.”

“We are met by threats instead of invitations to come together.

“Those who pray don’t threaten death. Death enslaves those who have turned their backs on God and turned themselves and their own power into a mute, blind, and deaf idol.

“They demand the whole world bends their knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war!

“True strength is shown in serving life!”

[Joumanna Nasr Bercetche @JoumannaTV]

From Iranian state media Tasnim on why the talks didn’t succeed:

“The Americans intended to achieve concessions in the negotiation room that they could not obtain during the war, including issues related to the Strait of Hormuz and the removal of nuclear materials from the country, but the Iranian delegation prevented this.
The Iranian team made various initiatives to steer the American side toward reaching a common framework, but the Americans’ greed hindered their rationality and realism.”

[Prof Ray Wills @ProfRayWills]

In Western Australia, domestic customers don't have access to negative pricing events - because?
@SynergyEnergy
How about it @RogerCookMLA - a further incentive to put solar into batteries - and into batteries on wheels?

[Norman Pater @Normpater]

On your marks. Get set. GO!!

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

What we must do immediately:
1) End the use of fossil fuels
2) Build massive amounts of solar & wind
3) Electrify everything
4) Localize
5) Conserve
5) Find solutions for the last hard stuff (planes, cement)
6) Stop cutting down forests

#ActOnClimate https://t.co/2w5uwXTxMH

[Jonathan Pain @ThePainReport]

First response from Iran

[Harun Kimani @AllOddsmobile]

STRANGELY, nobody asks this question: What is so worrying about Iran having a nuclear bomb?

1. 'Because it is a Muslim country' - But Pakistan has the bomb.

2. 'Because it supports terrorism' - Fake News; Al Qaeda, ISIS et al have always considered Iran their enemy.

3. 'Because they are backward & uncivilised' - Propaganda, proved false by current war; Iran is one of world's top civilisations, with women more educated than in most countries.

India, North Korea & several other countries have nuclear weapons and have not used them to attack another country - Why is Iran different?

In fact, it is only Israel that shouldn't have nuclear weapons - as JFK believed.