David Fickling
@davidfickling
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Climate & energy columnist at @opinion. Migrant. These are my views. If you don't like them, well, I have others.
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined January 2011
Personal note: I am doing my first full Ironman triathlon in April. I’m raising money for WaterAid, to provide the billions who lack access to it with the clean water I will be gulping as I swim 3.8km, bike 180km, and run 42.2km! Please click the link! https://t.co/m6JMiJozft
mycause.com.au
Around the world today, 2.2 billion people still lack routine access to clean drinking water and 3.5 billion lack access to sanitation. Diarrhoeal disease is the leading killer of children under 5 and
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Well, I did it! Exhausting race in horrible windy conditions but I finished and we raised A$1,620 for WaterAid! Thanks for all who donated!
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The biggest climate impact of a second Trump administration may well be in China, writes @davidfickling. It's a perfect opportunity for Beijing to present itself as the clean alternative https://t.co/ZWwpWBD8rv via @opinion
bloomberg.com
Beijing has the perfect opportunity to present itself as the clean alternative.
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Just obsessively typing "[state]" + "county" + "2020" into this website looking for some crumbs of low-quality information to break the tension
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Entrenched sexism is very Australian, and it needs to change, writes @ACPapuc. To say we’re frustrated by this bad behavior is an understatement https://t.co/1uN5w2VzsC via @opinion
bloomberg.com
To say we’re frustrated by this epidemic of bad behavior is an understatement. The corporate old boys’ club is no longer fit for purpose.
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IN MY DAY we didn't have all this incel malarkey, we just wore a lot of black clothing and obsessed over the NME letters page
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"How Soon Is Now?" just came up on my playlist and I just realised for the first time how incredibly incel it is
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Peak beef could already be here, writes @davidfickling. For climate doomers and denialists alike, this is good news in the quest to rein in emissions
bloomberg.com
For climate doomers and denialists alike, this is good news in the quest to rein in emissions.
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China's biggest clean power machine is misfiring, writes @davidfickling. Climate change is coming for the water that fuels hydroelectric plants https://t.co/J9xs3jWeLW via @opinion
bloomberg.com
Climate change is coming for the water that fuels hydroelectric plants, putting decarbonizing plans at risk.
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We’ve been relying on natural environments to suck up our fossil carbon, writes @davidfickling. But a hotter planet could be losing its ability to absorb our pollution
bloomberg.com
A hotter planet could be losing its ability to absorb our pollution.
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Wakanda’s Afro-Futurist dream is more remote than ever, writes @davidfickling. Economic growth is powered by energy, and Africa just doesn’t have enough of it
bloomberg.com
Economic growth is powered by energy, and Africa just doesn’t have enough of it.
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Japan is hoping electric cars were just a bad dream, says @davidfickling. Even Europe is ahead in the contest with China
bloomberg.com
A tale of two auto shows in Tokyo and Paris offers a surprising verdict about who’s better prepared for the future.
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Prices of uranium are sliding as investors buy and hold it, writes @davidfickling. If we want less fossil fuels, price discovery in the clean nuclear alternative is necessary https://t.co/TMeSoEGkmC via @opinion
bloomberg.com
If you want less fossil fuels, use the uranium rather than buy and hold it.
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There is actually a good reason for this, "manger le vache enragée" ("reduced to eating the meat of rabid cows") is a French idiom for destitution and poverty. Still makes me laugh.
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TIL the first French edition of George Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London" was titled "The Angry Cow"
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#India's #renewableenergy growth is finally taking off! @davidfickling's insightful piece for Bloomberg News, which features key stats from @Mercom, explores the factors driving this growth. https://t.co/Nco2vwmxyn
@opinion
bloomberg.com
The nation has emerged from years of policy chaos, and the implications for the world’s carbon footprint could be profound.
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India is finally becoming a clean energy superpower, writes @davidfickling. The implications for the world’s carbon footprint could be profound https://t.co/KyITbNrX31 via @opinion
bloomberg.com
The nation has emerged from years of policy chaos, and the implications for the world’s carbon footprint could be profound.
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It's ok to mine the rainforest for car batteries, writes @davidfickling. Any attempt to reverse deforestation needs to acknowledge that growing palm oil kills way more trees than extracting nickel
bloomberg.com
Any attempt to reverse deforestation needs to acknowledge that growing palm oil kills way more trees than extracting nickel.
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