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Settler in so-called New Zealand. West Auckland. Oppose Ford Rangers.

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Israel’s genocide in Gaza is a horrifying demonstration of what societal collapse looks like: mass death, starvation, disease, displacement and the deliberate destruction of the systems people need to survive.

As climate breakdown, ecological collapse, famine and conflict intensify, the rest of the 21st century risks bringing unimaginable suffering and mass death.

It is not radical to want a livable future free from genocide, mass atrocities, ecological destruction and the horrors of societal collapse. It is the bare minimum.

Your life and the life of everyone you love is at stake.

Stop doomscrolling.

Join @4billiondead which has monthly international calls and actions because the UK security assessment warns ecosystem collapse could drive food shortages, mass migration, conflict and even nuclear escalation as soon as 2030.

The IFoA/University of Exeter Planetary Solvency report warns combined climate and ecosystem collapse could put billions of lives at risk, including over 4 billion deaths in an extreme 3°C scenario.
Join the @4billiondead public call on October 21. Register now at 4billiondead.org.

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While techno-feudalist Elon Musk debuts his flying car, the United States is giving a giant middle finger to future generations by abandoning climate science and key international bodies.

This includes the IPCC, UNFCCC, International Solar Alliance, International Renewable Energy Agency, UN Oceans and UN Water, as the Trump administration moves to withdraw from 66 international organisations it calls “anti-American, useless, or wasteful.”

This move undermines U.S. participation in tracking emissions, coordinating climate action, accelerating renewable energy and protecting vulnerable communities worldwide.

As the climate and ecological crises accelerate, the world's largest historical emitter of CO₂ is walking away from international cooperation when it is needed most.

The climate crisis does not recognise borders. Neither will its consequences.

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The collapse of Earth’s life support systems is accelerating. The fundamental crisis is not only climate change, it is ecological overshoot: humanity is consuming, polluting, and transforming the planet faster than Earth’s systems can recover.

Overshoot is driving climate disruption, biodiversity loss, freshwater depletion, soil degradation, pollution, and the breakdown of the natural systems that sustain civilization.

The risks are profound. Actuaries warn that under severe warming scenarios, combined with ecological and societal stresses, billions of lives could be at risk, with increasing chances of political instability, state failure, economic disruption, and irreversible damage to ecosystems.

Feeling overwhelmed is understandable, but doing nothing guarantees nothing changes.

Start somewhere:

• Support efforts to reduce humanity’s ecological footprint.
• Challenge systems built around endless extraction and consumption.
• Pressure governments and businesses to protect the living world.
• Reduce reliance on fossil fuels, plastics, and high impact consumption where possible.
• Support restoration of ecosystems and biodiversity.
• Choose lower impact food systems where you can.
• Talk about overshoot and ecological limits with others.
• Support independent environmental journalism and organizations doing the work.
• Donate, volunteer, organize, vote, and keep showing up.

No single action is enough on its own. But millions of people working together can change the systems driving overshoot.

The greatest challenge in human history is not humanity versus humanity. It is whether humanity can learn to live within the limits of a finite planet.

Video: Changchi Plaza—in Rongjiang County, Guizhou Province, China, on June 24, 2025

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@christopherluxon's government has now formally disestablished the standalone Ministry for the Environment, folding it into the new Ministry of Cities, Environment, Regions and Transport alongside housing, transport and local government functions.

Before the merger, sceptical public servants had already nicknamed the proposed mega ministry “METH” — shorthand for the Ministry for the Environment, Transport and Housing.

The merger comes after nearly three years of climate and environmental rollbacks, including scrapping the clean car discount, cancelling the NZ Battery Project, cutting billions from emissions reduction programmes, cutting the Environment Ministry’s baseline funding, abandoning dozens of actions from the first Emissions Reduction Plan, weakening climate reporting, expanding fast track development powers, backing new fossil gas supply and coal use, and weakening protections affecting wetlands, freshwater, forests and biodiversity.

The Government says the new mega ministry will reduce duplication and better coordinate housing, transport, infrastructure and environmental policy. Critics warned that burying environmental functions inside a development focused super ministry risked sidelining environmental protection.

A standalone Ministry for the Environment existed for more than half a century.

Under Luxon, it is gone.

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Greenpeace Aotearoa has joined a trade complaint to the European Union, over the New Zealand Government's backtracking on climate action.

Over the last three years, we've seen this Government undermine pretty much every climate policy to exist, often explicitly to benefit polluting industries like the oil and gas sector, or the agricultural industry.

TAKE ACTION: share this post, and head to the link in our bio for more.

#nzpol #newzealand #climate #environment #toomanycows

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NZ's PM @christopherluxon is a criminal.

New Zealand’s treatment of climate change in its new school curriculum has been called “incomprehensible” by University of Waikato climate education expert Professor Chris Eames.

Eames says the central problem is not whether fragments of climate-related material can technically be found somewhere in Years 4–10. It is that the curriculum fails to clearly and coherently connect human behaviour with the climate crisis students are already growing up in.

He says climate-related lessons are “scattered” across different years, while the role of human activity in causing climate change remains absent from the science curriculum until Year 11.

“It’s incomprehensible why climate and climate change aren’t mentioned in the science curriculum ... it’s there at year 11 and beyond, but that’s way too far down the track,” Eames said.

He warns that failing to explain what is actually driving climate change can leave young people without the systems thinking, critical thinking and agency required to understand what they are witnessing and how society can respond.

The curriculum change also comes amid a much broader reversal of New Zealand climate policy. Greenpeace has documented the Government cancelling the Government Investment in Decarbonising Industry fund, ending the Clean Car Discount, moving to reopen offshore oil and gas exploration, weakening vehicle-emissions settings and abandoning plans to price agricultural emissions.

And this is not only Greenpeace’s assessment of the direction of travel. In July 2026, the independent Climate Change Commission found that recent Government actions intended to reduce emissions were likely to be outweighed by other actions that may increase them. It concluded that current policies are insufficient to meet the third emissions budget or the 2050 target without further action.

Against that backdrop, Eames’s question becomes difficult to ignore: if schools do not clearly teach young people the human causes of climate change, “where are they going to get that when they leave school?”

Source: RNZ, 17 September 2026; Climate Change Commission, 2026; Greenpeace Aotearoa.

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GOOD NEWS SATURDAY ✨
🩸 Every year, a neighboring church and mosque co-host a blood drive in remembrance of 9/11. Since Heartsong Church and the Memphis Islamic Center’s first blood drive in 2011, more than 600 pints of blood have been donated.

⚖️ A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a block on the Trump administration’s restrictions on mail-in voting, as the Supreme Court considers the case. Three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit concurred with U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, who last week blocked the U.S. Postal Service from implementing President Trump’s executive order on mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterms.

🌳 Maryland just opened a new state park: 55K acres free to the public. Once a private resort, the new Savage Highlands State Park includes a large central lodge, 18 cabins, eight luxury yurts, and nearly 6 miles of hiking trails.

🗽 NYC had its ‘safest summer on record, with historic lows for shootings, shooting victims, and murders. In August alone, shooting incidents dropped 21% and shooting victims nearly 38% vs. August 2025.

✈️ Heart Aerospace’s Heart X1, the largest all electric plane, flew for 27 minutes, running on battery power the entire time. The aircraft reached 1,100 feet with one pilot aboard and no passengers. The company plans to apply the success of this test aircraft to a 30-seat hybrid-electric aircraft it hopes to bring into service by 2031.

@goodgoodgoodco @thehill

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Tree rhododendron for Nepal // Himalayan poppy for Tibet

I only just got a chance to respond properly to the horrific floods on the Nepal- Tibet border last week. All the more horrifying is that this is yet another instance of the climate crisis impacting hardest those who’ve contributed to it the least. Climate collapse is not a disaster, it is a crime, and the people perpetrating it - the oil executives whose profits continue to soar while our world crumbles - have names and faces and addresses.

Follow @domipalmer @mikaelaloach @itsthegarbagequeen @earthlyimagine @climatejustice4nepal

Take action (uk) @just.stopoil @stopcambo @climate_resistance

Please share your favourite climate accounts for education and action for others to follow in the comments 💚

#nepalfloods #rasuwa #climatejustice

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This November, we can elect a new Government who will take action to reduce our power bills and build a climate safe future for the people and the places we love.
Link in bio!

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National MPs axing years of climate progress🪓🌲

This election, let's axe their time in government✊❌

Take action via the link in our bio!

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Third Reading of Fonterra Citizen Rights Extinguishment Bill. Apple Earth speech Part 2 of 3. #4billiondead #Fonterra #climate #nzpol

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And its kinda NOT chic to vote for politicians who disrespect your mother. Enrol to vote y’all.

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