Max Opray

Writer and editor focused on solutions to the climate crisis

[Max Opray @maxopray]

The energy hunger of AI is supercharging global electricity demand at a pace the renewables rollout can’t match.

But there are ways to reprogram AI to reduce its impact and accelerate climate action instead of climate breakdown: https://t.co/P1o9pVybgJ

[Max Opray @maxopray]

New research finds that the climate crisis is accelerating the aging process. Here's how to protect yourself and the people you care about from withering in the sun. https://t.co/QpYkvDU4gb

[Max Opray @maxopray]

USAid has been extinguished by the Trump Administration, with a raft of other Western nations also slashing support for those most vulnerable to the climate crisis. My latest edition of Climactic looks at the fight to save these critical initiatives: https://t.co/IFoH6mlw9p

[Max Opray @maxopray]

Mass firings of scientists, deleted data, scrapped research projects - Trump’s repression campaign could leave us unable to even understand climate crisis, let alone fix it. Citizen scientists are racing to back up the data before it's lost for good: https://t.co/s9Rt573vno

[Max Opray @maxopray]

Independent candidates like @elliesmithqld, who is aiming to take down Dutton in his seat of Dixon, could deliver real climate progress. Here’s how to tell if your local indie is strong on climate: https://t.co/2NwGFaCTEc

[Max Opray @maxopray]

There's much excitement about independents transforming Australia’s climate agenda. But some independents are about as climate-friendly as a gas leak: here's how to tell whether your local indie believes the science or has “done their own research”. https://t.co/2NwGFaCTEc

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

I wrote about Chinese climate policy. And I said that Trump's gutting of US climate science and governance is a gift to China.

Why?

Because China has already enacted the most comprehensive climate policy in the world.

Yes, really.

🧵

[SolarQuotes @Solar_Quotes]

We've taken a deeper look at how much money Australian households could actually save by getting off gas, and the amount will make your head spin worse than a leaky stovetop.

https://t.co/lUJ5nkMOle

[Max Opray @maxopray]

Peter Dutton's first day on the campaign trail yesterday was shaken up by a climate protester with a message. It's all part of the plan to 'bird-dog' the election: https://t.co/kJ1M87WUSY

[Max Opray @maxopray]

Second edition of Climactic out now: The Flames Of Petromasculinity - as men refuse to let go of their fossil fuels, do climate movements need to appeal better to traditional macho norms, or leave them behind completely? https://t.co/uyPwr1Rx6A

[Max Opray @maxopray]

2025 has gotten off to an ominous start, with Los Angeles ablaze and another major climate record shattered. The first edition of my newsletter Climactic looks at how to cure climate anxiety by transforming it into climate anger: https://t.co/1Y3bZOBvq1

[Max Opray @maxopray]

After 5 1/2 years of 4:30am wakeups, its time to rediscover out what sleeping past sunrise feels like - my final edition of Post out today:

[The Saturday Paper @SatPaper]

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will today release costings for a $331bn nuclear power plan, based on budgets and timeframes that defy CSIRO projections. https://t.co/IBUtf8bFf3

[Stephanie H Convery @gingerandhoney]

Before I got a fulltime job at Guardian Aus, I freelanced. I expect that if I left the company, I'd freelance again. Why is one group of workers allowed to bargain collectively and the other not? GA's @withMEAA house committee stands in solidarity with freelance colleagues today.

[The Monthly @THEMONTHLY]

With politics increasingly catering to the interests of older Australians, the push is on to lower the voting age to 16. Activists can look to how the voting age was reduced to 18 at a time when people too young to vote were sent off to the Vietnam War: https://t.co/eH9zKk91WE

[The Monthly @THEMONTHLY]

With the AFL and NRL grand finals on this weekend, Australians will be effectively subjected to a two-day long gambling ad. Sport once was just as beholden to tobacco sponsors, until a bold plan in the 1980s forced clubs to quit cigarettes for good: https://t.co/q2ud9QaFYx

[The Monthly @THEMONTHLY]

The culture wars around climate change are a roadblock for the transition to electric vehicles. Australia however once before overcame resistance to progress and led the world in an even bigger transformation: the leap from horse-and-carriage to motor cars https://t.co/euaTduSWqH

[The Saturday Paper @SatPaper]

Rupert Murdoch has announced he will step down as leader of his vast right-wing media empire, anointing his son Lachlan as successor. Today in Post with @maxopray: https://t.co/DIk1VrbJlB

[The Monthly @THEMONTHLY]

Across Australia’s history, work-life balance has been a story of continuous improvement — until in the 1980s. Labour rights experts say the reason why progress has stalled is obvious, and that history offers clues on how to get back on track: https://t.co/YIGSWuG0bY

[The Monthly @THEMONTHLY]

A private sponsorship scheme in Canada saw the country welcome in hundreds of thousands of refugees. A similar proposal could reshape how Australians relate to asylum seekers: https://t.co/xvF3X6PlXR

[The Monthly @THEMONTHLY]

In the 1980s, Australia helped lead the way in phasing out CFCs to save the ozone layer. Those involved in this environmental success story say we need the equivalent of a “Slip Slop Slap” campaign for the climate crisis: https://t.co/AUHkNieFWY