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Thinking about what Charlie Sheen said in his documentary, he wasn't paying for the sex, he was paying for the girls to leave afterwards. These men don't want the relationship or any kind of responsibility to anybody else

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

You may’ve seen coverage of a new report on the threat to national security from environmental collapse.

A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!”

A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉

Template letter to the commune Here is an abridged version of the email I have sent to Watermael-Boitsfort commune. Feel free to use it as a template for your own message to your commune. I’ve included the English version …

Template letter to the commune to ask them to inform their residents about the harms of wood fire burning - in my case I sent it to Watermael-Boitsfort #WB1170 #airpollutionkills #dontburnwherewebreathe #wherethereisfirethereissmoke dontburnwherewebreathe.com/2026/01/23/t...

A graphic with dark blue background showing orange smoke‑cloud icons and text about Clean Air Night. The message reads: ‘We all want to stay warm this winter… but cosiness shouldn’t cost the health of our communities. This #CleanAirNight share the uncomfortable truth about wood burning.’ Logos for Clean Air Night, Global Action Plan, and Impact on Urban Health appear at the bottom, along with the date 22 January 2026.

Many aren't aware that burning wood at home can seriously impact indoor and outdoor air quality. Tonight is Clean Air Night - learn about how to protect your health and your home:

www.actionforcleanair.org.uk/campaigns/cl...

How much does this PM 2.5 pollution have to do with wood fire burners? I was very surprised watching 'Selling Manhattan' how many luxury apartments came with fireplaces, how can they not know how bad they are for air quality? And how is it fire safe in an apartment? #airpollutionkills

How screen time affects toddlers: ‘We’re losing a big part of being human’ In the UK, 98% of two-year-olds watch screens on a typical day, on average for more than two hours – and almost 40% of three- to five-year-olds use social media. Could this lead to alarming outcomes?

"19% of children aged three to five had their own mobile phone in 2024, and that 37% of children this age – more than 800,000 kids – were using at least one social media app, up from 29% in 2023" www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This link climateuncensored.com/national-eme... takes you to the video recording of my 15-min' presentation at the National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social & a 10-min' interview I gave to wedonthavetime.org immediately after the event (Nov. 2025). Selected slides attached for reference.

How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change

I published This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate in 2014. Lots of serious people explained that we didn't have time to tackle capitalism, climate was too important. Let the market fix it for us.

The track record is 12 wasted years and a world on fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/c...

Rana Dasgupta: Trump Is Only a Symptom of a Deeper Problem This analysis of the changing American nation-state argues that Trump's presidency is a distraction from bigger problems.

"AI makes money worthless" after ratcheting up emissions and dismantling the US, it looks like.
yalereview.org/article/dasg...

Wood Is Not a Carbon-Neutral Energy Source Treating it as such – and supporting it with subsidies, as the UK and many other EU member states do – is a flawed path to climate action.

Burning wood damages our #Climate.

👍 Planting a new tree is great but...
👎 ...it takes decades of growth before that new tree is mature enough to absorb the carbon emitted from the one burnt last night.
#WoodBurning #AirPollution

William Davies · Anticipatory Anxiety: Generation Anxiety To be young today is to face the future – the planet’s as well as one’s own – at a time when social safety nets...

But reckoning with that means protecting and investing in spaces for kids to hang out unsupervised outside of the home and school, which hasn't been happening (as I discussed in my review of his book here www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... )

Making a note to myself to buy the book! Can't help thinking that a terrestrial down to earth vision can only be obtained and achieved if flying is cut by somewhere in the region of 95%. If speedy escape from local constraints is physically possible that's how people will view the world

Forest in Brussels covered in snow

You can go for a walk without a dog! It's actually nicer not having to stop to pick up poo! .. and so ends my most unpopular opinion rant

Mechanical ventilation filters. LHS is the inlet filter covered in soot. RHS is exit filter which is less black with soot but still a dark grey.

Changed out mechanical ventilation filters today after 3 and a half months of them being in. The inlet filter (LHS) is black with soot from wood fire burners that our neighbours use, and worryingly the exit filter (RHS) is also still fairly dirty :( #dontburnwherewebreathe #airpollutionkills

To be clear what I'm saying is people are getting dogs instead of making friends, not that dogs are causing the problem.I've been depressed before, but never so depressed I thought I needed a creature that will love me unconditionally and I wld be willing to pick up the shit of for its entire life.

Does the 'male loneliness epidemic' (that's also just a general loneliness epidemic') rise in tandem with dog ownership? Feel like the number of dogs and the obsessiveness of their owners has gotten somewhat out of control. Met someone today who takes their dog for monthly acupuncture

A Stealth Heat Tax Has Already Cost Americans $1 Trillion A hotter planet is making life more expensive. There’s the big-ticket stuff, of course, like the property losses and higher insurance premiums that come with supercharged natural disasters. But a deep...

Temperature changes alone cut US incomes by 12%, between 2000-2019, per a new study - on top of disaster and insurance losses.

Call it a stealth heat tax

Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

financialpost.com/pmn/business... 'If we were to treat 1.5C as a solvency event, we would want only a 0.5% chance of breaching that solvency,” Trust said in an interview. Instead, “many carbon budgets only give a 50% or two-thirds chance of limiting warming,”'

GM's CEO Just Admitted An Uncomfortable Truth About Plug-In Hybrids As the auto industry looks to plug-in hybrids as a solution to uneven EV adoption, General Motors CEO Mary Barra points out a user issue that must be addressed.

"They don't plug them in."

insideevs.com/news/784328/...

Yes absolutely be up in arms about this and ALSO stop using your wood fire burners (unless they are your only source of heat) as burning solid fuels creates more fine particle pollution PM 2.5 than burning liquid fuels and so wood is the most polluting fuel bar coal #dontburnwherewebreathe

Heat map of annual excess deaths per 100k people per year from illnesses rellated to fine particulates and ozone. The map is darkest (worst impacts) in Asia, North and Central Africa, and South and Central America.

Heat map of annual excess deaths per 100k people per year from illnesses rellated to fine particulates and ozone with the effects of fine particulates and ozone from fossil fuels removed. The map is much lighter almost everywhere, with the remaining dark regions centered in desert areas with lots of non-human-caused fine particulates in the air.

Fine-particulate and ozone air pollution from fossil fuels causes 4-6 million avoidable deaths per year: 7-10% of all deaths worldwide. At an ~$11 million statistical value of life, this is a 44-66 trillion $/yr (38-56% of ~117 T$/yr global GDP) cost that appears nowhere in fossil fuel economics.

‘Fear of the next deluge’: flood-scarred Britons join forces to demand help As climate breakdown puts millions more people at flood risk, traumatised homeowners are finding common voice

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As highlighted above and themed in the National Emergency Briefing www.nebriefing.org/briefings/ti... Climate/eco/social trauma is going to become endemic.

Why flight emissions are way higher than the results carbon calculators give you, part XXX #staygrounded

Opinion | The New Food Pyramid, Brought to You by Big Meat

"Eating less meat remains one of the fastest, easiest and cheapest ways to cut emissions. It requires no new technology, no congressional approval, no subsidies or tax credits."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/o...

Cartoon drawing of a Brussels street covered in chimney smoke

www.dontburnwherewebreathe.com is the link to all the info I've collected on the harms of wood fire burners for anyone who is interested!

..on the facts when we all seem to live in different versions of reality and yes my brain is now broken too.

..a rabbit hole? Are they looking at me the way I look at people who espouse the harms of vaccines? wHAT IS REaL???? ... I know I've gone direct to all the sources and not used ChatGpT and there are so many peer reviewed papers on the harms on PM2.5 so it is real isn't it? It's getting hard to hold

..with her about it, and at dinner with a bunch of friends who started on about the horrors of seed oils and just not knowing how to bridge the algorithmic gap of information we are being served ... And I've been doubting myself on how het up I've become about wood-burners- have I gone down ...2/

“My Brain Finally Broke” with Jia Tolentino Happy New Year! Given the holidays, we're re-sharing one of our most memorable conversations. You’ve probably come across content online that seems real but is actually fake. And that experience is be...

Really enjoyed this podcast “My Brain Finally Broke” with Jia Tolentino www.podbean.com/ea/dir-f29ff... , had some of the moments they describe over the holidays having to bring normal milk with us to my sister-in-law who only has raw milk and not feeling able to even start a conversation 1/..