Uncontrolled wildfires tore through communities in southern Chile, leaving charred ruins in their wake and at least 18 dead, authorities said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/19/world/chile-emergency-wildfires/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #chile #wildfires #southamerica #climatechange
Japan’s latest row with Beijing has brought fresh calls for the country to reduce its reliance on China for cleantech, a sector in which its neighbor is dominant. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/01/18/energy/china-solar-supply-chain-issues/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #solar #energy #china #chinajapanrelations #sanaetakaichi #renewables #climatechange #emissions
Chewie
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BlackRock’s ‘game changer’ climate fund exits without ever breaking ground
A flagship $2 billion climate infrastructure fund hailed as a breakthrough for New Zealand’s clean energy ambitions is being shut down by BlackRock
Less than three years after being promoted as a model for the world, the fund is closing with no confirmed investments ever publicly disclosed
https://centrist.nz/blackrocks-game-changer-climate-fund-exits-without-ever-breaking-ground/
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
BlackRock’s ‘game changer’ climate fund exits without ever breaking ground
A flagship $2 billion climate infrastructure fund hailed as a breakthrough for New Zealand’s clean energy ambitions is being shut down by BlackRock
Less than three years after being promoted as a model for the world, the fund is closing with no confirmed investments ever publicly disclosed
https://centrist.nz/blackrocks-game-changer-climate-fund-exits-without-ever-breaking-ground/
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Houses with more bathrooms than bedrooms bug me. Bathrooms and kitchen require a lot of resources compared to living or sleeping spaces, but you spend less time in them. So I don't understand why you'd have more of those spaces in a building than multi-use living or sleeping spaces.
Anyway, there's my thoughts on #AffordableHousing and #ClimateChange for this morning.
Carlo Gubitosa :nonviolenza:
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President Trump himself has made it no secret that he’s not a fan of offshore wind. His administration suffered a series of legal setbacks this week after judges allowed work to restart on several offshore wind farms on the east coast of the U.S. Read more from @Techcrunch:
President Trump himself has made it no secret that he’s not a fan of offshore wind. His administration suffered a series of legal setbacks this week after judges allowed work to restart on several offshore wind farms on the east coast of the U.S. Read more from @Techcrunch:
Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why
#HackerNews #EarthWarming #ClimateChange #ScienceResearch #GlobalWarming #EnvironmentalImpact
dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker:
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@ai6yr An article about fire risks in Australia (including a shout-out to climate change) you might like. Nothing really new but interesting to see it from an Australian firefighter's perspective.
@ai6yr An article about fire risks in Australia (including a shout-out to climate change) you might like. Nothing really new but interesting to see it from an Australian firefighter's perspective.
hypebot
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Climate change has already made the United States poorer.
And the costs are continuing to rise.
#climatechange
Climate change has already made the United States poorer.
And the costs are continuing to rise.
#climatechange
Jonathan Schofield
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Intruguing analysis about how water shortages and climate change are partly behind the protests in Iran.
#iran #water #ClimateChange https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/how-day-zero-water-shortages-in-iran-are-fuelling-protests
Intruguing analysis about how water shortages and climate change are partly behind the protests in Iran.
#iran #water #ClimateChange https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/how-day-zero-water-shortages-in-iran-are-fuelling-protests
Rob Whittaker
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/the-oceans-just-keep-getting-hotter/
"“What people often don’t grasp is that it’s taken 100 years to get the oceans that warm at depth,” he says. “Even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it’s going to take hundreds of years for that to circulate through the ocean. We’re going to pay this cost for a very, very long time, because we’ve already put the heat in the ocean.”"
#climate #climatechange #ocean #wereallgoingtodie #climatecrisis
Seth of the Fediverse
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Again and again, I see the notion that humanity is committing "collective suicide" because we are not acting on #ClimateChange and other forms environmental destruction.
I do not accept this thesis. This is not suicide, it is murder - perpetrated by the oligarchs of this world and others who want the #FossilFuel economy going for their own profit.
And they have invested _massive_ amounts of money into propaganda to keep this system running. Not just by funding climate change denial - but also by promoting the concept of the individual "carbon footprint". Essentially, they have socialized the risks and privatized the profits, tricking us into believing that _we_ are to blame for not doing enough as individual persons, rather than _them_ for creating and perpetrating the system.
This is part of the "personal responsibility" ideology pushed by those who already own most of the world, but still want more. If _we_ as individuals share in the blame for _their_ decisions, even though _they_ gain all the benefits from them and we do not, then that means we would have to fight _ourselves_ to save the world - rather than the true villains of this story.
So let's put the accountability where it belongs, okay?
Again and again, I see the notion that humanity is committing "collective suicide" because we are not acting on #ClimateChange and other forms environmental destruction.
I do not accept this thesis. This is not suicide, it is murder - perpetrated by the oligarchs of this world and others who want the #FossilFuel economy going for their own profit.
And they have invested _massive_ amounts of money into propaganda to keep this system running. Not just by funding climate change denial - but also by promoting the concept of the individual "carbon footprint". Essentially, they have socialized the risks and privatized the profits, tricking us into believing that _we_ are to blame for not doing enough as individual persons, rather than _them_ for creating and perpetrating the system.
This is part of the "personal responsibility" ideology pushed by those who already own most of the world, but still want more. If _we_ as individuals share in the blame for _their_ decisions, even though _they_ gain all the benefits from them and we do not, then that means we would have to fight _ourselves_ to save the world - rather than the true villains of this story.
So let's put the accountability where it belongs, okay?
@juergen_hubert But we DO bear responsibility. Are we without agency? Who is it who allows the oligarchs to continue with their exploitation? Who allows them to maintain their wealth, their power & their privileges? If we don't rise up in revolt against them, we acquiesce in the system that creates the #climatechange, the environmental destruction, the loss of #biodiversity, & the social injustice.