Michaela Girvan

This begs the question if there's a point where international data law is becoming a spaghetti like law, the same way international financial & investment law is 🍝

It's the people who use the environment and spend time in it who care the most. 🌊

5/ Where do you go & what do you dream next, when you’ve arrived at the end of your own list of "impossible things" as your "impossible self"?

Impossible me.

When I find and reach a conclusion to answer that? I'll share it.

4/ What do you do after becoming the person you once thought you could never be?

After doing each and every single thing that you once thought was equally as "impossible," one after the other?
That's just how life went.

3/ These boxes once labelled, each as an individual impossible solo “pipedream” now are like lived life chapters.

So, here’s the question that’s been echoing for a long while since:

2/ That I’ve become someone I once considered an impossiblity.
A version that would have felt more like a brilliant work of fiction or fantasy than a future.

The university graduate?
The Oxford student?
The Tax Barrister?
The EU diplomat?
The UN environmental advocate?

Each of these? A pipedream.

1/ Caught up with an old friend the other day—someone who knew me when I was all sharp edges and shadow.

I told her something I never thought I'd say out loud:

If your peace depends on everything going right, it is not peace. That's control.
Learn to be steady in uncertainty.

That's real growth.

A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for.

Kudos, Sir.🌦️

Judi Dench-backed rebels seized a nature site 250 miles north of the capital today.

Working on finishing a paper for my LL.M.

Entertained a side-thought and now accidentally have detailed 10-page-answer for whale-climate financing as "Climate Mitigators." With "Mock Scenarios."

& everyone laughs at the wanabe-tax-barrister turned environmentalist.

My papers still not finished 😅

Free online conference on creating nature towns and cities. 5 June. Supported by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social, @nationaltrust.org.uk and @naturalengland.bsky.social naturetownsandcities.org.uk/event/creati...

Returning after a hiatus 🤣

I would caution people to stop relying on the Constitution as written to have any meaning other than what the people Trump put on the Supreme Court says it means.

"He can't do that" is not a useful response to the things he's going to do. The correct response is "Will the Court uphold that?"

11 Years To Act: Scientists Unveil Countdown To Save Oceans From Plastic Pollution Researchers have determined that reducing plastic littering by 32% by the year 2035 is necessary to prevent further water pollution. A report published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin by researchers ...

⚠️25.3 million tons of plastic enter oceans each year. Without a 32% reduction in littering by 2035, microplastic pollution will skyrocket!🚀⚠️
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Art for The Ocean is an awesome initiative aimed at raising public awareness on ocean conservation and issues our ocean faces. 🌊💙

Get to know your mutuals: in no particular order, post 10 things you like:

Autumn 🍂
Nature 🌊
Rugby 🏉
Acrylic Painting 🎨
Rock climbing 🧗‍♀️
Photography 📸
Culture 📜
Iron Maiden 🎸
Mythology 🔱
Writing ✍️

Call for Young Ocean Advocates: Bringing Blue Citizenship to the UN Ocean Conference 2025 Join the Youth4Ocean Forum’s call for Young Ocean Advocates! Become an EU Young Ocean Advocate and champion Blue Citizenship at the 2025 UN Ocean Conference in Nice. This is your chance to help shape ...

Ocean advocate from 🇪🇺 and <30 years old?
@ec.europa.eu sponsors some tickets to #UNOC3 👇. Maybe something for your networks @oceansteinmann.bsky.social & @oceanthyrza.bsky.social?
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Support the Climate and Nature Bill One of our new MPs calls for a new perspective and serious action on the threats to our natural environment. She speaks from experience

Roz Savage, newly elected MP for South Cotswolds, writes "To the readers of West England Bylines, your support is crucial. As stewards of our landscapes, you play a central role in combating climate change and biodiversity loss."

westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

Art for The Ocean is an awesome initiative aimed at raising public awareness on ocean conservation and issues our ocean faces. 🌊💙

1 thing that COP29 is doing: Spurring on my recent line of new climate law research.

Resulted from asking, what I believed to be a simple question, to which no one had an answer.

England’s national parks facing financial peril due to budget cuts, say CEOs Leaders warn cost savings will lead to mass redundancies and that spaces could become ‘paper parks’

All the evidence shows importance of greater access to nature, so cuts to England’s national parks are short-sighted & self-defeating. Instead Govt should reform them, give them a strong nature recovery focus & recognise their contribution to health & wellbeing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is a great tool…
Enter your Bluesky handle below to find people followed by lots of the people you follow (but not you) bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

A short 🧵 on the imperialist geopolitics of climate and ecological breakdown while #COP29 goes on:

The ruling class of the West and Global North knows that food and resource scarcities and unlivable conditions leading to mass migrations and geopolitical turmoil are inevitable and imminent.

1/

a four panel comic: first panel: a bunch of grey beings say "you do not fit in here" to 3 red beings second panel: the three red beings are now in a yellow square and say "okay we will make our own place" third panel: the grey beings say "why are you excluding us" to the 3 red beings in their box who reply "fuck off" fourth panel: a zoomed in view of the red beings in the yellow box but now there are 12 of them and they're vaguely smiling

lmao, this is very much bluesky

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Much of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest has happened to produce beef to export to the US.

These ecocidal and genocidal imperialists should be allowed nowhere near the places they have helped destroy.

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I see that a collection of MPs have taken it upon themselves to “launch” a private prosecution, in relation to a case which is still awaiting a CPS charging decision.

What might be the problems with this? 🧵

Taika Waititi was right, NZ is racist AF.

Dunedin Hospital rally, NZ Media "35,000 march"

#HikoiMoTeTiriti NZ Media "oh looks like 17-19,000 marching"