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@promich.bsky.social

Canadian Swede. Multilateral Civil Servant. Information systems, tech ethics, data science, design research, multimodal mobility, social democracy, climate mitigation, just energy transitions, socio-techno-economic theory enthusiast. Opinions mine.

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The state of nature and #Climate: Where do we stand? Our Director Johan Rockström has been at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik this month, delivering an update on #PlanetaryBoundariesScience & what policymakers should know about #GlobalWarming. 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co5e...

youtube.comJohan Rockström - Ástand náttúru og loftslags: Hvar stöndum við nú?Johan Rockström, forstjóri Potsdam-stofnunarinnar um rannsóknir á áhrifum loftslagsbreytinga (PIK) og einn fremsti vísindamaður heims á sviði sjálfbærni og loftslagsmála, flutti erindi á málþingi í…

The BC election results are the culmination of half a century of too-little-too-late reactive urban non-planning, which allowed land-speculators & flippers to suburbanise the Fraser and Okanagan valleys into socially isolated, car-centric, culturally underserved, white-supremacist shitholes. #bcpoli

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So here we have far-right militia attacking protestors and when the protestors defend themselves, the police charges them... Montpellier. These images are crazy and show where France is at regarding its fascist turn.

David Hutin Photo@davidhutinphoto.bsky.social

Les militants fascistes ont attaqués des manifestants rue de la Loge sous les yeux de la police, quand les manifestants ont répliqués, la police a chargé pour les protéger et les miliciens ont frappés les gens à terre ! #Montpellier #24octobre #ViolencesPolicieres @info.gouv.fr

As premier of BC, Eby could suspend their business license today to prevent this tech from being used in the mass slaughter of innocent children and civilians by the genicidal regime. That he instead chooses the coward’s path of silence speaks volumes. #bcpoli

Alex Cosh@alex.readthemaple.com

NEW: A Canadian company newly acquired by Israeli arms dealer Elbit Systems has received nearly $1 million in federal grants through the Department of National Defence's "IDEAS" program. www.readthemaple.com/israeli-arms...

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Canadians can only dream of having a corporate news media as pro-science as this. These basic questions are simply never asked in Canada. The level of journalistic self-censorship and extinctionist extremist narrative parroting In Canada is globally unmatched. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social

On going ahead with Jackdaw "@zackpolanski.bsky.social.. says this is a betrayal of all of our futures.. do you really think this is the right thing to do?" Miatta Fahnbulleh: "Well look I do.. we have seen that climate change is here.. heat waves, wild fires, drought.. its a pragmatic decision"

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“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.... Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — Dr. Gustave Gilbert, U.S. Military Chief Psychologist in the Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Diary

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Conservatives propose additional health care privatization in full platform: patients to receive a voucher for a private surgery if waits exceed the benchmark Why not reduce surgical waits in the first place rather than pay 2-3x premium for privatized surgeries? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #bcpoli

cbc.caB.C. Conservatives promise to shrink deficit to $10.8B while adding $2.6B in revenue | CBC NewsThe B.C. Conservatives say their platform will create $2.6 billion in new revenue over three years, while shrinking the deficit to $10.8 billion by 2030.

Two years ago, the BCNDP ran for re-election with what I assumed would stand as the worst, most hopeless, visionless, economically illiterate campaign in progressive Canadian history – truly an incompetent, incoherent mess for the ages. In 2026, I stand corrected. #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.caEby calls on B.C. Green voters to beat Conservatives by voting NDP | CBC NewsBritish Columbia NDP Leader David Eby is appealing to Green voters as the snap election slated for Oct. 24 enters its final week, but Green Party Leader Emily Lowan says he is trying to scare voters i...

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Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

There isn’t even a timeline for completing the UBC skytrain! So the BCGreens are just recycling the BCNDP’s vague promise from 2 years ago and decades before that. How can all political campaign strategists be THIS incompetent? All they had to do was create a distinction through tiny bit of ambition

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3 out of 10 Canada Pension Plan board members also serve on boards of oil and gas companies, which Chief Public Affairs Officer Michel Leduc says is “not a conflict of interest.” Last year it made at least $6 billion in new fossil fuel investments and dropped its net zero target.

nationalobserver.comAdvocates call for climate action and Indigenous rights at CPPIB meetingAdvocates confronted Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) executives at a meeting in Ottawa yesterday, urging them to strengthen their approach to the climate crisis and Indigenous rights.

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i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:

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The winner of Nobel peace prize doing what the Government of the United Kingdom will not do: calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social

"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?" Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize

Alberta could have this, but the Smith-Carney axis of extinctionist extremism prefers to power their grid by burning methane - which has globally contributed to 25% of greenhouse gases.

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Lithuania, Canada, and EEAS pulled out of #Disinfo2026 at such short notice they didn't have time to redo the signage.

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Replying to @samuelhayat.bsky.social

On me demande les sources. 1949 pour le 1er octobre 2026, source ministère. Pour la série, je l'avais collectée pour verifier que le pic d'arrestations des GJ le 8 décembre 2018 (1750 interpells) dépassait la plus grosse journée de mai-juin 68. C'était le record, et il n'a pas été dépassé en 2023.

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Recommended reading: "Renewables are just being added on top of fossil fuels." Wrong comparison. Demand grew 75% since 2005 regardless. Without wind and solar, power sector CO2 in 2025 would have been 28% higher. Excellent analysis by @zekehausfather.com www.theclimatebrink.com/p/what-if-th...

theclimatebrink.comWhat if the world hadn't built wind and solar?Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.

Eby: "We're gonna stand up to the oil & gas companies." How? By gifting them more handouts? Eby couldn't stand up to banker daddy when he demoted BC to a sub-tier province & imposed another pipeline on BC territory on behalf of treason weasel Smith. #bcpoli #VoteBCGreens www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.caANALYSIS | David Eby's re-election bid pivots from Trump talk to domestic populist promises | CBC NewsOver three days of events in 10 electoral districts across the Kootenays, Okanagan and Vancouver Island, David Eby developed an unambiguous campaign pitch, fleshed out beyond his original justificatio...

The average Carney bootlicker is now far to the right of the average USian on a host of pressing issues. Let that sink in. #cdnpoli

Matthew Dowd@matthewjdowd.bsky.social

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

Eby & Carney’s industrial strategy is premised on the belief that BCians and Canadians have no competitive advantage to offer besides extracting planet-killing fossil fuels. It’s insulting, false and deserves more rebuttal. Sadly, our lobotomised sycophantic media offers none. #bcpoli #VoteBCGreens

Funny how predictably the ‘Zionism is friendly and diverse’ crowd ignores Muslim-hate, never talks about about the kids still being killed everyday in Palestine by Zionists, and how quickly they pivot to the liberal horseshoe theory of the “far-left being as bad as the far-right.” 🤔 Racist fuckwits.

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Whenever someone legitimizes harmful shit with the importance of achieving "dominance" you have a fascist at hand.

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The oil industry is unwilling to pay for this pipeline because even they know the world is moving away from fossil fuels. This project leaves Canadians bearing all the risks of a bad investment without any of the rewards.

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Fun facts: 🔥Since 2007, BC’s climate pollution has decreased by 2.3 million tonnes. 🔥Approved LNG export projects will increase BC’s climate pollution by 21.2 million tonnes by 2035. 🔥This is ten times more pollution than we’ve managed to cut in nearly 20 years.

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Eby’s strategy seems to riding on the fear-based, low info worship of banker daddy, despite Carney demoting BC to a de facto subtier province in his exinctionist axis with racist treason weasel Danielle Smith. It’s not a good strategy. BCians aren’t quite that dumb or cowardly.