Troy

Reading, responding, media & comms. Plus some dreams of a beach. These are my personal opinions etc

[Wilderness Society @Wilderness_Aus]

Thanks to independent MPs @KyleaTink @SophieScamps & @helenhainesindi for raising & supporting amendments to the EPA Bill in Parliament. 🌳 💚
The government did not accept any of the amendments—we are now looking to the Senate to support stronger nature law reform. #auspol #EPBC

[Emergence Magazine @emergence_zine]

While not always tangible, the ways we are intimately linked with forests through the greater respiration of the Earth are ever-present. In an eternal cycle of reciprocity, the world flows into us and we flow into the world. Read more in our newsletter. https://t.co/Hn2N15MWu3

[Wilderness Society @Wilderness_Aus]

Have you seen our bike billboards around Sydney today? 👀

Nature is in crisis and needs #NatureLawsThatWork.

The community is calling on Kingsford Smith MP @MThistlethwaite to push the @AlboMP government for strong nature laws. #auspol #EPBC

[Prof. Euan Ritchie (@euanritchie.bsky.social) @EuanRitchie1]

Remember, Australians, @Tanya_Plibersek & @AustralianLabor lied to win votes.

They have no interest in timely & meaningful environmental law reform & no interest in providing the adequate $ to stop Australia's extinction crisis.

Ending the neglect? Yeah, nah. #Budget2024

[Troy @tbreezie]

Is the government taking more from students through HECS than it collects from the Petroleum Resources Rent Tax? YES
https://t.co/AUGRsmwY2g

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“We’re all one beat away from becoming elevator music.” —Don Delillo https://t.co/MjHjqz6bQ2

[Troy @tbreezie]

1971 #donDeLillo content with 2023 advertising feed #nothingchanges #excess #overconsumption

[Troy @tbreezie]

Sign the #HealthyTransport petition: I'm calling on the Commonwealth Transport Minister to ensure a healthy future for all Australians by taking pollution out of our public transport system. @healthy_climate https://t.co/CNTiX4CWmO

[Troy @tbreezie]

"I love my birth country deeply but until we lose our colonial shackles, engage in Treaty-making with our First Peoples, commit to truth-telling about our history and embrace a post-colonial republic, I cannot be proud of my nation.” - Shane Howard
https://t.co/GLVKdXOwKO

[Troy @tbreezie]

How New York Could Help Save Forests (everywhere) #biodiversité #BiodiversityCrisis https://t.co/9dlJa0kEIU

[Wilderness Society @Wilderness_Aus]

URGENT: We only have 5 days to stop a deadly #seismic blasting project being considered between Victoria & lutruwita/ Tasmania! 💥 Blasting disrupts whales, who depend on sound to hunt & navigate

Add your name to this petition to say NO to this project!! https://t.co/ig5NiPqcr7

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

Rich countries and the remaining carbon budget.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Shakespeare's best (and strangest) insults, a thread:

[Royce Kurmelovs @RoyceRk2]

Given the speed with which the SA Labor government rushed through its changes to the Summary Offences Act to increase penalties for protest, I thought I'd do a quick thread looking at what it actually says. /1

Here's the bill:

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

This is a real place. It is a housing estate called Les Espaces d'Abraxas, built near Paris in 1982.

And it's one of the most important buildings in the world...

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Class inequality explains a lot.

*The four richest schools in Melbourne and Sydney, spent more than the poorest 1,800 schools.*

Rich school, poor school: Australia's great education divide - ABC News https://t.co/q8Q80StFlL

[Lewis Pugh @LewisPugh]

Below are the two most important metrics of our time. Top: the decline of biodiversity between 1970-2018. Below: global temperatures between 1850-2022.

[Lewis Pugh @LewisPugh]

Learn more 👇
ℹ️: https://t.co/udcrWIgU3h
ℹ️: https://t.co/ZOP3sdz9g1

[Wilderness Society @Wilderness_Aus]

Find out what the Wilderness Society is doing about it: https://t.co/lRjD6DQPnl

[Troy @tbreezie]

What is Aust’s position on deep sea mining? We contribute money to the @ISBAHQ #auspol should have a voice.
Is it @tanya_plibersek, @bowenchris portfolio issue?
'It's alarming, it's reckless': UN body prepares to accept deep-sea mining applications
https://t.co/hnBpC2PjaA