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Krispijn Beek<p>De <a href="https://social.sargasso.nl/tags/BBB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BBB</span></a> wil eerherstel voor analoge fotocamera, maar dan in de vorm van de verbrandingsmotor. Kiezen voor <a href="https://social.sargasso.nl/tags/petrolstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>petrolstate</span></a> in plaats van <a href="https://social.sargasso.nl/tags/elektrostate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elektrostate</span></a> <a href="https://www.ad.nl/opinie/opinie-bbb-eu-zorg-voor-eerherstel-van-de-verbrandingsmotor~a53e09e7/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ad.nl/opinie/opinie-bbb-eu-zor</span><span class="invisible">g-voor-eerherstel-van-de-verbrandingsmotor~a53e09e7/</span></a></p>
Thor A. Hopland<p>So yeah, <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a> might leave the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/parisagreement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>parisagreement</span></a> and I'm sort of fine with that.</p><p>Let's face facts, <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Equinor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Equinor</span></a> has put Norway into the luxury trap of being a <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/petrolstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>petrolstate</span></a> , and as such most people are not willing to give it up.</p><p>It makes us seem tone-deaf too when <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/western" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>western</span></a> leaders told the global south to ditch <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a> and <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a>, which the global south replied to with a "you first."</p><p>Now the only thing I'm telling my countrymen is they'd better get ready to welcome <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/ClimateRefugees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateRefugees</span></a> with open arms.</p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Rueben George "We Are People of the Water" Voices from the Salish Sea</p><p>Faced with the economic smallpox of oil pipelines, Rueben George says hold tight to your spiritual intention</p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, November 20, 2024 </p><p>SEATTLE -- "They never stopped fighting. Even when they cut off his grandfather's finger as a child in residential school because he couldn't speak English, even when they put them in jail for protesting the Trans Mountain pipeline, they never stopped fighting. Even when the appeals court decided that shipping the dirty tarsand oil was more important than the survival of the Orca whales, they did not surrender. </p><p>"'Even though we're almost extinct, we are still here," said Rueben George, səlilwətaɬ, Tsleil Waututh Nation.<br>'We're People of the Water. That's our First Mother,' George said at the Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle.</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/rueben-george-we-are-people-of-water.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11</span><span class="invisible">/rueben-george-we-are-people-of-water.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransmountainPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransmountainPipeline</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SalishSeaAssembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SalishSeaAssembly</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResidentialSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResidentialSchools</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificNorthwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PacificNorthwest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PetrolState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PetrolState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PetroState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PetroState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResidentialSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResidentialSchools</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StolenChildren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StolenChildren</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RuebenGeorge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuebenGeorge</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TsleilWaututhNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TsleilWaututhNation</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Coast <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Salish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Salish</span></a> Water Warriors: Voices for the Water at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SalishSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SalishSea</span></a> Assembly in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Seattle</span></a></p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a> at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indybay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indybay</span></a>, Nov. 8, 2024</p><p>"The defenders are battling the dirty energy <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporations</span></a> poisoning the land, water and air in western <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WashingtonState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonState</span></a>, and the waters of the Salish Sea. The rivers from British Columbia in Canada and Washington State come together in the Salish Sea on their journey to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PacificOcean</span></a>. </p><p>"The dead birds floating in the Alberta tar sands <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TailingPonds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TailingPonds</span></a>, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ManCamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ManCamps</span></a> linked to missing and murdered Indigenous girls, and the increased oil tankers in the Salish Sea -- are all parts of the dirty oil business of the Trans Mountain pipeline pouring out of Alberta's dirty tar sands in Canada, bound for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilTankers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OilTankers</span></a> in the Salish Sea. </p><p>"The destruction, and theft of land, is a continuation of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocidal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocidal</span></a> residential school system. Native children were kidnapped, ripped from their families, and incarcerated in the abusive schools operated by Canada and the churches.</p><p>"'We can't drink water from there any more,' said Jean, who lives close to the Alberta tar sands in her homeland. 'I was born into this destruction.</p><p>"'Thousands of birds are dead in the tailing ponds.'"</p><p><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/coast-salish-water-warriors-voices-for.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11</span><span class="invisible">/coast-salish-water-warriors-voices-for.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificNorthwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PacificNorthwest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PetrolState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PetrolState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PetroState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PetroState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResidentialSchools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResidentialSchools</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StolenChildren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StolenChildren</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MMIW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIWG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MMIWG</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GretaThunberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GretaThunberg</span></a> Won't Attend <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UNClimateTalks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNClimateTalks</span></a> in 'Yet Another <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PetrolState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PetrolState</span></a>'</p><p>"We can't legitimize <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COP</span></a> meetings in their current form," Thunberg said. "The last three years, they've taken place in authoritarian regimes, and holding them in such places leads nowhere."</p><p>by Olivia Rosane<br>Nov 05, 2024</p><p>"Thunberg expressed concerns about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Azerbaijan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Azerbaijan</span></a>'s record of stifling internal <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dissent</span></a> as well as its ethnic cleansing of Armenians. The U.N. summit comes a little over a year after Azerbaijani forces entered the disputed, ethnic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Armenian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Armenian</span></a>-controlled territory of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NagornoKarabakh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NagornoKarabakh</span></a>, prompting most ethnic Armenians in the area to flee across the border to Armenia. Armenia told the International Court of Justice in April that Azerbaijan had 'completed' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EthnicCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EthnicCleansing</span></a> in the territory and was 'erasing all traces of ethnic Armenians' presence' there.</p><p>"At the same time, Thunberg added her voice to the many <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> advocates who have called out Azerbaijan for planning to expand its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> production. Azerbaijan's selection was especially controversial because it came on the heels of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedArabEmirates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedArabEmirates</span></a>' hosting of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COP28" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COP28</span></a>, which also prompted backlash due to the country's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> record and reliance on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OilAndGas</span></a>. Both COPs also came under fire for selecting presidents with close ties to state-run oil companies.</p><p>"'It is a slap in the face to all the people who are suffering from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> and from the repression and oppression of the Azerbaijani regime,' Thunberg said."</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/greta-thunberg-cop29" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/greta-th</span><span class="invisible">unberg-cop29</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsAreNeverWrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsAreNeverWrong</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COP29" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COP29</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Farce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Farce</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivistis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalActivistis</span></a></p>
MotorizedVehicleHegemony<p>Putin has endless war funding thanks to worldwide fossil fuel slavery and millions more people to slaughter.</p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/petrolstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>petrolstate</span></a><br><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/PetroleumKills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PetroleumKills</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-economy-oil-export-revenue-price-cap-war-dark-fleet-2023-12" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">businessinsider.com/russia-eco</span><span class="invisible">nomy-oil-export-revenue-price-cap-war-dark-fleet-2023-12</span></a></p>
Pauline von Hellermann<p>24/n But the biggest - most important but also most difficult - task at <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/COP28" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COP28</span></a> will be to make real progress on the phasing out of <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a>. This is the crux of the matter- and so many forces stacked up against this, what with it taking place in <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/petrolstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>petrolstate</span></a> and all!</p><p>For the next few days, this is what I will focus on in this 🧵 - what’s at stake, but also how some parties are deliberately delaying action.</p><p>For today, will end with this useful <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/COP28" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COP28</span></a> scorecard: </p><p><a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/cop28-agenda-global-warming-climate-change-paris-agreement-pledges-united-states-uae-island-nations-china-g77-european-union-sauidi-arabia-russia-india/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.eu/article/cop28-agen</span><span class="invisible">da-global-warming-climate-change-paris-agreement-pledges-united-states-uae-island-nations-china-g77-european-union-sauidi-arabia-russia-india/</span></a></p>
LesleyB<p>Petrostate windfall tax would help poor countries, says Brown <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/25/petrostate-windfall-tax-oil-gas-climate-crisis-gordon-brown" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">23/sep/25/petrostate-windfall-tax-oil-gas-climate-crisis-gordon-brown</span></a> <br>When we lost <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Brown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brown</span></a> as PM we gained a man who wanted the job because he thought he would be good at it. He was wrong. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/petrolstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>petrolstate</span></a></p>