Terrence Loomis

Economic anthropologist, PhD Adelaide. Pol economy of oil & gas, climate change policy, community-led climate adaptation & transition planning.

[Terrence Loomis @TMLoomisnz]

Sorry fans and co-conspirators for climate action, my account has been hacked. I'm out of the game for now. Farewell.

[AI Evolution @AiEvolutio58513]

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt drops a chilling warning on AI's future

"Within 5 years, AI could handle infinite context, chain-of-thought reasoning for 1000-step solutions, and millions of agents working together.

Eventually, they'll develop their own language... and we won't understand what they're doing."

His final words: "Pull the plug."

This is the man who ran Google talking about the singularity.

[UN Environment Programme @UNEP]

The math isn't mathing. 

The world spends more than three times as much on fossil fuel subsidies as it would cost to transition to clean economies for a safe climate and air. 

The solutions are ready and the money is there. What’s needed now is action at scale. 

Here’s how: https://t.co/QPdj3iww26 #CleanAirDay

[Clint Smith @ClintVSmith]

I learned about climate change when the UN Framework Convention was being signed in 1992

As a kid, it was clearly the biggest danger we faced. But the adults were acting. Denialism wasn't yet a thing

34 years later, climate diaasters are constant & yet we have these denialists

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

"Kia orana, Winston, I am a descendant of the Cook Islands"

Greenpeace responds to puerile racism claim by Winston Peters

https://t.co/Tahs2VkD0R #nzpol #StopDeepSeaMining

[Sue Pugmire @HuiaSue]

DRINK SWIM FISH💦
Free GP, Dentist, Childcare, $395wk min guaranteed income, & LESS tax for 96% of NZers - & Green Party will
✅Protect drinking #water
✅Protect rivers & coasts
✅Protect our moana by phasing out destructive bottom trawling
💦Water IS life
https://t.co/Hm5FLhL1Yo

[Russel Norman @RusselNorman]

Finally got around to writing up the piece on how Simeon Brown crashed the NZ energy system. https://t.co/LLBfGfx3nC

[Bill McGuire @ProfBillMcGuire]

"In the UK, ministers are prioritising climate resilience after the UK’s hottest summer on record"

If this were true, they would be on a war footing

I see no sign of any serious effort to make the UK better prepared for the climate mayhem that's coming

https://t.co/KP6urRhD7a

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

The Trump White House has put into place a series of mechanisms to fix or invalidate the midterm elections. Congress will not save us. The courts will not save us. Our only hope — should the election be rigged or stolen — is nationwide strikes. Our only hope is to cripple the machinery of commerce and government, although this militancy will be met with savage state repression.

Otherwise, we are doomed. There will be no exit.

If the measures advocated by the Trump administration are implemented, emergency powers will be invoked to assert unprecedented federal control over voting. Federal agents will seize election materials. They have already seized ballots from previous elections.

The U.S. Postal Service will only send ballots to those included on federally approved eligibility lists drawn from state voter rolls. These rolls, subject to citizenship checks, will deny election-mail services entirely in states that refuse the administration’s demands for voter data.

Federal troops and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — with $113.5 billion in additional funding allocated by Congress through September 2029 — will be deployed to or near polling stations which have a traditional Democratic Party majority. Those branded as “anti-capitalist” and “anti-Christian” or charged with belonging to antifa will be intimidated or blocked from voting.

Trump told The New York Times in January he regretted not directing the National Guard to seize voting machines after the 2020 election. Trump not only wants to abolish mail-in ballots – Democrats vote by mail in higher numbers than Republicans – but voting machines and tabulators which allow election boards to post results on election night.

Trump and his supporters in Silicon Valley are acutely aware that the level of their corruption and disdain for democracy — unlike anything seen in U.S. history — makes them vulnerable if they lose power. They have no intention of allowing this to happen no matter how egregious the constitutional violations. They seek to extinguish the last vestiges of democracy. They believe, as PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel wrote in 2009, that “freedom and democracy” are not “compatible.”

Theil is sweeping up all our information gleaned from government tax, medical and law enforcement records. This information is being delivered to databases that can be exploited for state control and profit. Thiel and his coterie of technocratic billionaires are implementing the agenda he envisioned 16 years ago: to make technology an “alternative to politics.”

Read my full column, "The Next Election May be Our Last", at Substack — link below.

[Martyn Bradbury @CitizenBomber]

What can the Left offer TOP?

I think skepticism towards TOP by the Left is legitimate, but I would note they recently over turned their rule about the Board over ruling the Caucus and how do we get to 51% in an overhang election without TOP?

We don't.

Rather than doing the Tribal Left thing of rag dolling anything different, how about we consider what the Left could offer TOP so we can kick out this hard right Government with their anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-beneficiary, anti-renter, anti-worker and anti-environment agenda.

#nzpol
LINK BELOW ⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Terrence Loomis @TMLoomisnz]

Govts are failing us. Climate scientists and comms professionals "must find a deeper level of courage to call people to action on ...emergency adaptation, environmental restoration, and economic transformation, alongside the remaining challenge of carbon cuts and drawdown."

[Prof Jem Bendell 🌍☸️ @jembendell]

A few times over 8 years I promised myself Never Again would I give months to read climatology to publish an integrated view that might risk opprobrium from some vocal critics. With this essay, I'm feeling that Never Again again. So, please read & share:
https://t.co/m3w5tT89Xy

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

Once a leader, New Zealand now to become first country in the world to lock the courthouse door on climate change
https://t.co/xqWOjgvtue via @drilledtv
#ClimateLitigation #nzpol

[Bill McGuire @ProfBillMcGuire]

Nice to see the audience top a quarter of a million

If you are at a loose end.......

https://t.co/YMYBNIfxZr

[Terrence Loomis @TMLoomisnz]

NZ going backwards in reducing emissions. "Had New Zealand stuck with the [clean car] standards introduced in 2021, carbon dioxide emissions would be 500,000 tonnes lower each year and $650 million in annual fuel costs would have been avoided." https://t.co/pyc1zzYmPL

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

This is what all those 'Data Centers' are being used for.

To track your every movement and everything you do and say.

And if they don't like you, they will cancel you, shutdown your bank accounts, imprison you.

Or just kill you.

[Terrence Loomis @TMLoomisnz]

@GregPresland Must have missed reference to data centres. I kept looking at your reference. I'm sure it's in there somewhere if one reads between the lines...or ...? Maybe not.

[Russel Norman @RusselNorman]

NZ Govt blocked Gisborne Council from introducing rules to control forestry slash. Then gave them $115k to clean up mess from extreme weather in Jan 2026 - mess caused by ... forestry slash. https://t.co/vqc0XmqgG9 https://t.co/ZC45zNuU12

[Bill McGuire @ProfBillMcGuire]

You don't know the half of it

Nothing less than a war-footing will have any impact in relation to adapting to the all-pervasive climate mayhem that is coming

And even that will barely scratch the surface

@ChrisGPackham @ZackPolanski @novaramedia

https://t.co/zf8YZUEpmL

[Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei @HussainShafiei]

This

[Roger Hallam @RogerHallamCS21]

The MOST IMPORTANT ARTICLE of the year on "climate"

"This massive lie can best be summed up as 'when it comes to climate change... we have more time.'"

And this is why revolution is the only option we have - it is not a matter of politics, it's a matter of physics. Because we are out of time.

https://t.co/eFf0jvt5OU