Nathan Ross

Virtually all of the technological, policy, economic and behavioural solutions exist to tackle the climate and nature crises, and they're not being deployed at sufficient speed and scale because there isn't enough demand for reform. That's the primary solution now: Building demand for reform.

Closed for Business: A Beer Store in Buka, Bougainville © me, c. 2023 #photography #blackandwhite #papuanewguinea #bougainville

Join me at "Inspired by Nature", an afternoon at Macquarie University on 11 November, with: great speakers; the excellent documentary, "Becoming Nature Positive"; and a panel discussion, "What Does Nature Positive Mean for Us?"*. (*psst, I'm on the panel) events.humanitix.com/nature-inspi... 🦇🦎🐳

I'm only too happy to sponsor Natalie, a teenage family friend, and one of her buddies. They're going to shave their heads and climb the highest peak in Tararua Ranges to raise funds for Endometriosis New Zealand! #Legends endometriosis-new-zealand-fundraising.raiselysite.com/getting-sendy

Lula’s win is the first good news for the planet in a while! I bet it shaves a tenth of a degree off how hot our earth eventually gets, which will save millions of lives Thank you Brazil!

Overseas vote for #nzpol done ✅ With climate change and nature, the solutions already exist. But, to get them delivered quickly and at scale, we all need to back politicians who understand, care, and act ambitiously. theconversation.com/nzs-climate-...

"Older Takatāpui and Rainbow New Zealanders experience abuse at almost twice the rate of the general older population, with new research exposing family rejection, discrimination in aged care and people being forced back into the closet." gayexpress.co.nz/2026/10/one-...

Went to a few shops this weekend to buy a birthday card and was depressingly unsurprised to see AI slop on the stands. Sigh.

If you are in Wellington please go and see “Arohanui, Carmen xx” I’m just back and my heart is full. www.museumswellington.org.nz/arohanui-car...

This is where the “capture and storage” plant that we were promised that has NEVER worked

Since we're already at 1.42 degrees of warming, and possible 1.5 degrees, the political agreement to permit 2 degrees of warming always meant that some people and some places could be sacrificed for the fossil fuels investors and their political puppets.

Stop giving Pauline Hanson, Barnaby Joyce, Matt Canavan, Peta Credlin and the rest of the hatemongers a platform, ABC. Give it to the crossbench, who are doing good work. Put positive pressure on Labor, instead of stoking division

Coming to a forest near you... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Whenever someone says that electricity is expensive because of decarbonisation, there are only two possibilities Either they are knowingly lying to you Or they are the victims of disinformation, and have been fooled by someone who was lying to them

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Excellent. Australia already suffers from bigots driving social division. We don't need yet another one. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

Someone's doing ok out of this cost-of-living crisis... www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

I don't want this capability to replace the staff, but I wouldn't be upset if it disrupts the subscription fees model - aka the price-gauging tax - used by @photoshop.adobe.com, @mscommunity.bsky.social, etc. etc. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

One of my daughters recommended the book, "Braiding Sweetgrass", by Robin Wall Kimmerer, and it was a great suggestion. Kimmerer weaves together modern science and Indigenous ways of knowing, and has created a beautiful, illuminating book about how we can understand and relate to #Nature 🍁

Global warming caused Australia's bushfire (wildfire) season to lengthen by 21% since 1979, costing the economy AU$ 6 billion per year, and half of all homes are now at risk. Stop fossil fuels and deforestation, and get prepared for disasters. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10... #auspol #climatechange

Expensive gas behind ‘nearly 90%’ of rise in UK electricity bills, new analysis from @nesta_uk in @CarbonBrief Contradicts idea, which has become embedded in UK media and political narratives, that UK’s net zero target is to blame for high energy bills www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-ex...

147000 kiwis are not enrolled to vote. this election, you CANNOT enroll on the day. don't let your apathy allow the billionaires get their way. enroll, NOW: www.webworm.co/elections/

#nzpol remind everyone you meet to register (why didn’ this get more air time earlier?- if you recall the govt’s chaos strategy was to flood the zone with changes so while everyone was focused on the Fast Track legislation & Regulatory Stds this voter suppression act passed at Xmas 19 Dec 2025 😔)

I know fact checking Matt Canavan and Angus Taylor on coal is a mugs game, but I couldn't let this one go. Stopping coal mines in NSW helped South Korea phase out coal. Stopping coal mines in Australia WORKS!! thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

The Australian, demonstrating how you bring the temperature down

Port Lincoln fishermen rescue kangaroo found 3km out to sea

"the Minister’s decision to promulgate the Regulations ... was discriminatory and disproportionate" The New Zealand High Court declared the Government's attempted ban on puberty blockers for young #trans people as unlawful 🎉🏳️‍⚧️ Full decision: www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases... #nzpol

LEGO is, in effect, an oil company.

Em nau! 🇵🇬 Rugby league means so much to so many Papua New Guineans, so this milestone would be huge in PNG! ... but slightly marred by the Waikato Chiefs' pointless, pitiful and mean spirited law suit.

"One Nation is commonly referred to as an anti-establishment populist party, but in reality it looks more like a clutch of mining and corporate lobbies in a trenchcoat." 💥 #auspol

Meta's net profit for 2025 was US$ 60.458 billion (~NZ$ 106.5 billion). Meta's new fees are exploiting its market dominance and doing price gauging to exploit SMEs to vacuum up yet even more grotesque wealth. It's a kind of sickness.

Good.

Redirecting the ~$1 trillion spent on the recent AI data center boom into utility-scale solar and wind ($1M/MW) could have added roughly 1,000 Gigawatts of clean power to the grid—enough to power hundreds of millions of homes. ​

Eight of China's richest tycoons, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, could see a combined $140 billion of their overseas wealth exposed to the country’s new offshore tax policy. Read more: bloom.bg/4jxozUr 🎨: Carolina Moscoso

Similarly in Australia, "ASIO chief Mike Burgess says elevated levels of grievance, intolerance and polarisation have continued to create a 'permissive environment of violence'." Yes, but what is the disease that causes the symptoms of "grievance, intolerance and polarisation"? #auspol

For something a bit nicer, here's a #4x5" still life I made for a friend "Mum's Sewing Machine with a Photo of Dad" © me #5x4 #largeformatphotography #stilllife #analogue #analog #filmphotography

BREAKING WaPo: The Trump admin has not approved the transfer of interceptor missiles to Ukraine that are needed to protect the country from Russian missile and drone attacks — a delay that comes as Trump embraces Russia and slams Ukraine.

Goodness. Instead of comparing it to a sparkly bra, ... How much renewable electricity could we have created if we'd used all the money invested in the data centre boom of the last couple of years; if we'd invested that same money on solving, rather than worsening, the climate crisis?