Thanks to @heyjohnryan.bsky.social for a great article about Seattle's cruise business, and some of the multitude of harms it causes.
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Elizabeth Burton
@elizabeth-burton.bsky.social
PhD mathematician; climate and anti-cruise activist; pro-democracy & degrowth. Co-founder Seattle Cruise Control. Fond of parsnips.
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@ketanjoshi.coReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.social40% of *everything being shipped everywhere on Earth* is fossil fuels
Just an absolute laughing-stock clown-show of an energy source. This is laughably absurd, why do we treat this like it's normal and good
Fossil fuels are a satirical fuel
@taothirdactoregon.bsky.socialReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialHere is an irresponsible industry that needs to be shut down entirely and completely.
@robynne-limoges.bsky.socialReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialWill travel-lazy people ever wake up to the total environmental and marine devastation being caused by these behemoths? Could you, would you, will you please educate yourselves?
@portcruisecontrol.bsky.socialReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialCruise ships are not a given.
@kevinclimate.bsky.socialReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialSpeaking tomorrow at New Scientist Live with Profs Behrens & Seddon.
The Paris climate challenge is no longer a matter of urgency, but of emergency. Urgency seeks to accelerate change; emergency demands & fundamentally different policy & technology agenda.
@ketanjoshi.coReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialOracle is sending 30 TRUCKS OF GAS A DAY to one of its data centres due to delayed gas pipeline
🩻 still waiting for AI to solve climate change🩻
@bencollins.bsky.socialReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialSam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
@theicct.orgReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialShipping's biofuel demand could hit 40% of marine fuel by 2050. Without stronger land-use rules, that scale risks pushing agriculture into forests and driving up food prices. ⚓️
The window to get this right is narrowing.
@whitehouse.senate.govReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialWith all the Republican-condoned methane leakage along the way, on top of the cost of transporting, liquefying, shipping, re-gassing, and more transport, yes, it starts to look more polluting than local coal. Polluters don’t care.
@markgongloff.bsky.socialReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialThis may shock you, but many banks who joined the Net Zero Banking Alliance (RIP) kept right on making money on coal investments
@timguinee.bsky.socialReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialGas stove companies have known about dangerous emissions for decades. Here's hoping @governor.ny.gov signs the S1280b into law. New Yorkers deserve to know about dangerous emissions. #IndoorAirQualityAwarenessMonth @lizkrueger.bsky.social @solagesny.bsky.social grist.org/accountabili...
@maxfawcett.bsky.socialReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialBehold, a column by the @theglobeandmail.com's Tony Keller that cries out for a debunking.
Allow me. 🧵
@loveisphere.bsky.socialReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialHow Scrubbers Work
@stand.earthReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialICYMI 🚨 Gas stoves and asthma don’t mix.
@extremetemps.bsky.socialReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.social45C IN SOUTH AMERICA Brutal heat specially between Paraguay,Bolivia and Argentina. MONTHLY RECORDS ARGENTINA 43.9 Las Lomitas PARAGUAY 43.6 Mariscal Estigarribia 40.2 Encarnacion HIGH MIN:28.0 Asuncion BOLIVIA HIGH MIN:25.2 Concepcion GUYANA 38.1 Lethem Even hotter tomorrow !
@bryangodbe.bsky.socialReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialAugust 2026 was the hottest ever, even before the Godzilla El Nino!
berkeleyearth.org/august-2026-...
@jasonhickel.bsky.socialReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialNever forget that the clowns who are currently saying “we can’t stop climate change, just accept it” are the same people who spent the last decade doing everything possible to prevent us from stopping climate change.
@zoomoo.bsky.socialReposted by @elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialThis is such an uplifting list. To see what we have already achieved for the common good ✊️
@elizabeth-burton.bsky.socialThis is amazing; not sure I read it when it first came out.