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  1. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    A habitable climate?

    Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds

    "Australian federal and state government subsidies that encourage fossil fuel use and help drive the climate crisis will reach $16.3bn this year after leaping by nearly 10%, according to a new analysis."

    "It found federal and state governments will pay or forgo the equivalent of $31,020 each minute in 2025-26 to subsidise companies producing and using coal, gas and especially oil, mostly in the form of diesel." >>
    theguardian.com/environment/20

    How much have our summers changed over three generations?

    “What we’re seeing now is the rate in which the climate is changing is faster than any part of our Earth system can keep up with — our plants, our animals, our infrastructure, us." >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-03-12/aus
    #FossilFuels #climate #FossilFuelSubsidies #oilandGas #ClimateCrisis #mining #extractivism #HotPlanet #heatwaves #habitability #HabitableClimate

    #oilandgas #habitability #habitableclimate #fossilfuels #climate #fossilfuelsubsidies
  2. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    Excessive heat:
    Storing children and dogs in cars
    Exposing workers to heat stroke
    Roasting livestock in paddocks

    * "Prison and fines for leaving dogs in hot cars among proposed changes to NSW animal welfare laws. The legislation will also focus on owners who travel with dogs on the back of utes...On a 30 degree Celsius day, the interior of a parked car could reach 70°C..." >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-01-18/pri

    * Working in excessive heat - Is there a set maximum temperature for workers?
    "Calls for an industry-standard heat policy to be implemented on worksites as summers get hotter" >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-01-19/cal

    * "Forgotten baby syndrome" - "Number of children left in cars increasing. Children being left alone in cars had become more common, with about 5,000 children rescued from locked cars across Australia each year." >>
    abc.net.au/news/2023-09-12/fat

    * 100 cattle die in southern NSW heatwave >>
    mastodon.au/@Bellingen/1159028

    #FossilFuels #ClimateDisruption #heatwaves #HotPlanet #children #workers #pets #dogs #welfare #cars #utes #motorists #autopilot #heatstroke #mortality #regulation #governance #HeatPolicies #workers #OHS #HeatStress #Heatstroke #CompanionSpecies #habitability

    Image: Dog on the back of a ute, tied up on a hot metal tray, Mid North Coast, NSW

    #fossilfuels #climatedisruption #heatwaves #dogs #hotplanet #children
  3. BellingenNSW @[email protected] ·

    The planet is boiling and burning

    “Human activity helped make 2025 third-hottest year on record…The atmosphere is sending us a message.” >>
    theguardian.com/environment/20
    #FossilFuel #pollution #energy #consumption #denial #ExistentialThreat #Heat #HotPlanet #MobilityDesign #HomoSapiens #biodiversity #SocietalCollapse #ClimateBarbarism

    #fossilfuel #pollution #energy #consumption #denial #heat