Annie Mitchell 💙💚🌈

Climate progress is gaining irreversible momentum, say researchers - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Key elements of climate action are difficult to reverse. From policies and technologies to the stories we tell ourselves, we are putting climate progress on a path where there is no turning back.

Stories, laws and technology: Together, they lock-in progress on #ClimateAction. Our new article shows why recent gains may be more resilient than political turbulence suggests.

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

“…much of what appears to be novel [incl media fuelled justification for prejudice] has deep historical roots. If we fail to understand those roots and the soil in which they grow, we will fail to resist the assaults on our humanity.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 👌 @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

We face more pandemonium with war, climate & nature destruction, unregulated AI. Yet we are all human: we need safety, mutual aid, ethics of politics and care, shared responsibility, collective agency, equality of access to resources, time, respect & dignity; hope for future generations . 4/4

It is beyond regrettable that politics, when dominated by the rich and powerful, mitigates against collective resilience, as we saw happen through the Covid pandemic. 3/4

We need ways to rapidly mobilise and collectivise at the start of a catastrophe - and preferably before - good evidence based guidance here 2/4 www.adph.org.uk/wp-content/u...

‘A new normal’: inquiry’s key findings on how Covid changed UK society Final module focuses on legacy and impact on mental health, particularly for key workers, vulnerable and bereaved people

We’ve so much to digest from the Covid enquiry re psychosocial aspects of public health, as we face the likelihood of future catastrophes 🧵1/4 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Ohhhh thank you for posting this. I was at my grandchildren’s UK village school today, helping them learn to read. Imagine this happening to us there, - a school full of beautiful little ones looking trustingly to life ahead, all snuffed out. It’s utterly unbearable, unconscionable, inhuman.

National Emergency Briefing A 45-min film centred around the National Emergency Briefing. Taking the message across the UK with the frank facts, but also the huge opportunity if Government steps up and leads a WW2-scale response...

Thank you to the nearly 1,000 people who've already registered to host a screening of the People's Emergency Briefing film in their community, and the many others who've done the same via our partners - and to the many organisations planning screenings.

Incredible momentum building. #NEB2025

Very evocative. This was my community, growing up, and is wonderfully illustrated in the wonderful Mining Art Gallery in Bishop Auckland.

Who Owns South West Water? And How Much Do Its Executives Earn? South West Water is the regional water and wastewater company serving around 1.8 million customers across Devon, Cornwall, and parts of Somerset and Dorset.

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South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak Firm admits supplying water unfit for human consumption after nearly 150 people fell ill

This was horrible for my south Devon neighbours - should never have happened. Will shareholders cover the fine, & CEO bonuses be recouped & totally reined in for the future? Profiteering from basic life-support utilities is incomprehensible to ordinary mortals. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

So good. “reason, cooperation, and compassion are not optional add-ons; they are prerequisites for action at the necessary scale.” We’ve known this forever.

Focused clear evidence based messaging, demanding clear principled leadership for survival in the face of the climate & nature emergency. Meanwhile, the current global leadership’s warmongering is a distraction from what matters most & is making our environment indescribably worse.

1️⃣ The #climate & #nature crisis isn’t a future issue. It threatens all aspects of British life now and demands urgent action.

Ten top experts briefed MPs and other influential people at the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster.

Clips from each talk in this thread. 🧵👇
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

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UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries Exclusive: Schemes worth hundreds of millions of pounds to protect biodiversity and oceans likely to be substantially reduced

There’s apparently money for global war but not for global climate and nature security. Our world & UK leadership is in a big mess. And see at the end of the piece reference to the very recent & vital biosecurity warnings that have been muffled 🧵1/2 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🥁💚 Very valuable, well evidenced, set of resources/ guidance for everyone (that should be all of us) wanting good conversations & better action about the climate and nature emergency. www.oxfoe.co.uk/talking-clim... 🙏 @friends-earth.bsky.social

Shattered windows, broken rules... and victory! The medics who protested against the climate emergency

The case of the six medics who broke the windows of JP Morgan during the heatwave of 2022 and were last month dramatically acquitted of causing criminal damage. The story was put on stage by Empathy Museum - In Case Of Emergency.

Thanks 👏 @thenerve.news. In Case of Emergency audience members felt as if we were being addressed as jury. I was a post-performance conversation facilitator: one person said- “the defendants were inviting us to be moral.” Indeed. And wonderfully, the actual jury did make a moral decision.

No more illegal wars. Introduce a prevention of military intervention act and put human rights at the heart of foreign policy. Review all UK arms sales and make us a force for international peace and justice.

The majority of people in this country do not want us to be involved in this war.

Keir Starmer of a few years ago wouldn't have supported this war.

The only reason he does now is he will do anything Donald Trump wants - and it makes us all less safe.

Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversation, says Guardian columnist John Harris

“Politics needs to change in some huge way” Yep: cd listen to ordinary people & act on our priorities, hold peoples’ assemblies, work together with parties that care for our health & wellbeing, replace first past the post, act now as if future generations matter. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Defensive? When US was the instigator?

Yes - they say that - Covid was handled in a very harsh & unequal way & unfair way.

Hospiscare - Hospiscare Doctors

Devon folk (& beyond) Hospice Care are having a big fundraising push this weekend. Could you give? We so need good palliative care at home, not only in hospices & hospitals … and it’s pretty much down to us who can afford it to support it. www.charityextra.com/keepingcarea...

The decline in healthy life expectancy in Britain should shock us all | Letters Letters: Alan Walker and Ian Garner respond to the news that healthy life expectancy of both women and men has fallen

The decline in healthy life expectancy in Britain should shock us all

Omg

Yes. And in clinical psychology we lost our pluralism with the rise & takeover of (follow the money) one particular brand of psychological practice - a specific type of individual therapy, all well & good in its way but shouldn’t have been allowed to dominate given the social determinants of health.

Renationalise water!💦

Are you listening Starmer & #Labour ?

So much this. A curriculum & educational ethos that values obedience over thinking or creativity is how authoritarianism maintains a grip.

Surpressed UK govt report warns #ClimateChange risks ecosystem collapse, water & food insecurity - loss of arable land, severely reduced crop yields, fisheries collapse - & novel zoonotic disease, driving mass migration, political extremism & even nuclear conflict
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