Linda Vergnani

Freelance journalist and editor. Tweets on environment, climate crisis, wildlife, media and human rights.

[Linda Vergnani @ecowrite]

@Jeff_Sparrow @ConversationEDU Brilliant article by @Jeff_Sparrow that puts the use of AI by students and academics at Australian universities into a broader context. Irony is @ConversationEDU does not pay academics for articles, so undermines freelance #journalism. Exceptional and illuminating essay.

[Linda Vergnani @ecowrite]

Protesting against fossil fuel expansion, older people gather at the Sydney City Hall to support the Sydney Students for Climate march today. The students slogan “No cop out at COP 31”. climatecrisis #carbon #pollution

[Linda Vergnani @ecowrite]

How can @AlboMP and @murrayWatt allow more coal and gas mining and export when they know #fossil fuel emissions create uncontrollable fires, floods, glacier collapse, coral reef death? Living the hellfire future now. Endangering our kids, #climatecrisis https://t.co/ZbzV142OcO?

[Linda Vergnani @ecowrite]

Disgraceful, heartbreaking #humanrights abuse. ⁦@AlboMP⁩ why is Australia meting out extra-judicial punishment to #pregnant women? Shackling women giving #birth is traumatic for both mothers and babies. Medically indefensible.⁦@normanswan⁩ https://t.co/hJ4IyDSsN1

[Linda Vergnani @ecowrite]

Ludicrous Environmental “Protection” Agency that approves extension of coal mine to 2055 amid #climatecrisis. The approval said the company must not clear more than 132 hectares of ornamental snake habitat and 11 ha of #koala habitat. #ecocide #nature https://t.co/4p5LC49HUw

[Prof. Nick Talley @Prof_NickTalley]

Welcome to climate change in real time. Australian ski resorts smash July climate records with temperatures 12C above average | Australia weather https://t.co/KfgFwfbPAb

[Linda Vergnani @ecowrite]

Melting snow and dying reefs - Aus environment and tourism suffer. We head into a monster hot summer and mega fires. Yet @AlboMP⁩ government still approves new #coal and gas mines. Why push more fossil fuels amid #climatecrisis? ⁦@MurrayWatt⁩? https://t.co/JGJINpoKGf

[Linda Vergnani @ecowrite]

In 2013 Sydney #climate protest, Labor officials including @tanya_plibersek⁩ joined march. Now they could be arrested under Minns government’s anti-protest laws that target environmental activists. Restore right to protest especially about #climatecrisis that threatens kids.

[Linda Vergnani @ecowrite]

Disgusting that @NSWWater - a government agency - is deliberately drying out key Gwydir wetland, killing #turtles and #birds. It refuses to release dam water to save wildlife in this #Ramsar wetland, because a landowner complained. #wildlife #endangered https://t.co/e3c7RaK4fs

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

The Ice Is Melting
The Land Is Flooding
The Ocean Is Dying
The Trees are Burning
The Living Planet Is Unraveling
It's happening on our watch.

We can't solve this emergency if we keep expanding the problem. #ActOnClimate

#Climate #energy #renewables #go100re

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

The majority of earth's scientists now believe we are headed for at least 2.5°C of warming.

We're in a climate emergency. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables #go100re

[Linda Vergnani @ecowrite]

Angry at proposed shooting of 430 #elephants as trophies in Botswana. @DonPinnock says a foreign #hunting lobby is “at the centre of Botswana’s #wildlife policy machinery” influencing how many elephants, leopards and lions can be killed each year.” https://t.co/o4JVOctpUD

[Bill McGuire @ProfBillMcGuire]

For those out there who still think of anthropogenic climate breakdown as a blip

It takes around 400,000 years for nature to completely remove a tonne of CO2 released by human activities

[Linda Vergnani @ecowrite]

Dismayed that once enlightened New Zealand has decided to adopt the Trumpian approach of ignoring the deadly perils of climate change and reject emissions targets. #climatecrisis https://t.co/lMr0Sxri0y

[Gregory Andrews @LyrebirdDream]

Science isn’t a belief space like religion or politics.

Atmospheric physics doesn’t care about what climate denialists think and say.

Climate chaos is here and will accelerate until emissions go down.👇🏽

https://t.co/ruPHmnTUzr

[Linda Vergnani @ecowrite]

@JaneCaro Disgraceful view of women as men’s passive possessions. But please do not repost video footage of this man’s violent views as it gives him more air time. Like reposting videos of Trump. Prefer no live coverage.

[Robin Boardman @RobinBoardmanUK]

Two-thirds of Ningaloo Reef wiped out. A World Heritage site turned to graveyard in months.

Remember this every time a politician tells you we’re “on track”.
https://t.co/pZ1xxfvz8Q

[Quentin Dempster @QuentinDempster]

Encrypting lobbyist-to-Cabinet ministers so interactions are un-FOI-able. Unminuted verbal communications preferred. Our duopolist PM @AlboMP has no intention of reforming the Commonwealth culture to TRUST through ethical transparency. See also distressing failure of @NACCgovau

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Why does the Albanese govt seem to have so much to hide & seem so afraid of scrutiny?

Transparency, different perspectives & robust policy debates build a stronger democracy.

This culture of secrecy is deeply concerning & risks repeating failures of administrations past like Robodebt.

We need safeguards & better practices to document govt decision-making in the digital age so our integrity doesn’t disappear along with the signal messages.
https://t.co/RdiZqptPS0

[Linda Vergnani @ecowrite]

Disgraceful that the ⁦@AlboMP⁩ government keeps shrugging off its responsibility to asylum seekers and ships them off to starve or suffer endless imprisonment. Cruel and lacking all humanity. Refugees should be processed fast onshore. #humanrights https://t.co/5XYFKhubji