Extinction Rebellion BCP

The government spends £2.7 BILLION a year on TAX BREAKS for oil and gas companies

Those companies pay billions to their shareholders

And then lay off their workers

Think that's unfair?

Tell Rachel Reeves to stop propping up oil and gas companies and back workers instead…

Are the advocates for net zero losing the fight? The cost of misunderstanding: How public perception shapes the net zero debate

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"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"

Today, EXTINCTION REBELLION TURNS 7 YEARS OLD

💚 Love & rage

🌍 The new Climate and Nature Crisis Caucus has launched in Parliament! The CNCC is calling for a renewed consensus on climate and nature action; giving practical solutions that work for people, the planet, and the economy.

To stay updated on the CNCC 👉 thecncc.org

How to Defeat Nigel Farage The Reform leader is a deeply flawed politician who is leading an even more flawed political party. It's time for his opponents to finally start taking him on

Recent events have shown how deeply flawed a politician Nigel Farage really is.

It's time for his opponents to stop being so afraid and finally start taking him on.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-to-def...

📚 Join the Climate Action Reading Group

📅 Sat 25 Oct, 2pm
📍 Bournemouth Library, The Triangle

We’re going to chat about Love, Anger & Betrayal by Jonathon Porritt 💚 We have copies to borrow

Haven’t read it yet? No problem — bring your thoughts, ideas on whatever you’re reading or listening to. 🌱

🌍✊ XR BCP Monthly Meeting – November ✊🌍
“Courage is contagious. Once one person stands up, others stand up too.” – Greta Thunberg

📅 Thurs 13 Nov | 🕢 7:30pm | 📍 The Branksome Crafthouse, Bournemouth

Join us to plan bold, creative actions for 2025 💥
New faces always welcome – come find your people 💚

🌍✊ March for Climate Justice! ✊🌍
From Poole Park to Poole Quay, we stood in solidarity for people, animals & planet, calling out Perenco’s harm and demanding justice for communities from Dorset to the Global South.
There is no climate justice without decolonisation, reparations & animal liberation 💚

Revealed: Labour-run council using legal loophole to serve families with no-fault evictions Exclusive: London council created an arm’s-length body to manage some of its housing stock

“The people outside looked from Tory to Labour, and from Labour to Tory, and from Tory to Labour again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Apologies to George Orwell (Animal Farm)

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

🖤🌍 IT’S TOMORROW! 🌍🖤
March for Climate Justice – XR BCP & Friends
📅 Sat 11 Oct | 🕛 Midday | 📍 Poole Park

If you care about justice for people, animals & planet — be there.
This #BlackHistoryMonth we march in solidarity with communities worldwide. 🌿
All welcome. United, we are powerful. 💚

Millions in England face higher water bills after regulator backs more price rises Competition watchdog agrees to requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, South East, Southern and Wessex to increase charges

💩 WESSEX WATER: DUMPING SEWAGE, RAISING BILLS, PAYING DIVIDENDS 🚨

In 2024:
43,931 sewage spills
404,880 hours = 47 years of pollution
🤑 £4.25 BILLION to shareholders since privatisation
£69.9M in 2023 - £188 per hour of sewage

#WaterBills
#WessexWater

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

YouTube video by Byline TV Meet the Ex-Goverment Lawyer Arrested under the Terrorism Act...

Tim Crosland offers a first-hand account of his recent treatment by police and reflects on what these escalating clampdowns mean for democracy and justice in the UK.

- @BylineTimes

youtu.be/VeGEKQ1SLRI

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

UK intelligence chiefs warn that the climate & nature crisis poses a severe threat to UK national security.

Food shortages and economic turmoil around the corner.

That’s why national security is central to the National Emergency Briefing, 27 Nov.
👉 nebriefing.org
Forewarned is forearmed

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ and systemic problems, study says

- Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🖤🌍 THIS SATURDAY! 🌍🖤
DECOLONISE NOW: March for Climate Justice
📅 Sat 11 Oct | 🕛 Midday | 📍 Poole Park

We march for people, animals & planet — and against the colonial roots of the climate crisis.
Bring your banners, drums & love for justice. 🌿 United, we are powerful.

🌍✊ XR BCP Monthly Meeting – Oct ✊🌍
📅 Thurs 9 Oct | 7:30pm | Southbourne

Join us to plan bold actions + community activities for 2025. Open to all – new or returning. Acting together makes a difference and helps ease climate anxiety.

🌱 If not you, who? If not now, when?

Don't suppose she's worked out how to motivate and mobilise everyone? 🤔

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

HEATQUAKES Climate change isn't just heating the planet, it's shaking the Earth's foundations

HEATQUAKE!

Originally published this month in BBC Science Focus magazine, you can now read my new piece on how climate change drives earthquakes on my substack #CoolEarth blog here

billmcguire.substack.com/p/heatquakes

⏰ Only 2 weeks to go!
🖤🌍 MARCH FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE 🌍🖤
📅 Sat 11 Oct | 🕛 Midday | 📍 Poole Park → Poole Quay

Join XR BCP & friends to march in solidarity with communities worldwide fighting climate colonialism & injustice. Bring banners, drums & voices — all are welcome. United, we are powerful. 🌈✊

Downton — The Coalition Against Factory Farming Intensive farming of fish in Downton, Salisbury, Wiltshire

Save the River Avon‼️ Object to Intensive Fish Farm, Wiltshire.

This is about a fish farm near Salisbury which will pollute the Avon - a precious chalk stream. (Hold down the send email button until it generates an email - takes a few seconds)

www.caff.org.uk/downton

New Report Raises Alarm Over BCP Council’s Use of Harmful Pesticides – 96 per cent of Chemicals Used are Toxic to Aquatic Life A new independent review of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council’s weed management programme has raised serious concerns about the widespread use of pesticides and herbicides across Bourn...

Why, @bcpcouncil.bsky.social ?
westcountryvoices.co.uk/new-report-r...

Ministers tell Environment Agency to wave planning applications through Exclusive: Officials say they have been told to do as little as legally possible to prevent approvals for housebuilding

The obscenity of the Starmer government's campaign to wipe out British nature continues

Expect thousand of new homes to be built on flood plains too - and flooded out within a decade

A perfect lesson in how not to govern

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

YouTube video by Daily Express IN FULL | Trump-Epstein projection on Windsor Castle with complete commentary as four arrested

Share like there's no tomorrow (which there might not be if the monsters stay in charge)
@thebulwark.com @adammockler.com @davidpakman.bsky.social @meidastouch.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEeS...

How do we fix this mess?

“Private Jets = Public Deaths”: the environmental impact highlighted by XR BCP at Bournemouth Airport's private jet terminal According to Oxfam, private jets are the most polluting form of transport per passenger. A single flight from London to Paris on a private jet emits six times more CO₂ per passenger than a commercial ...

THE most polluting form of transport.
@xrbcp.bsky.social
westcountryvoices.co.uk/private-jets...

BREAKING: Climate protesters on the roof of #WinchesterCathedral dropping a banner with 'Stop Crucifying Creation' - a message for the Church of England to take real action on the climate and ecological emergency.

Residents call for end to 'climate timebomb' at UK wide day of action BOURNEMOUTH residents gathered together calling for an end to a 'climate timebomb' as part of a 'nationwide day of action'.

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2544698...

Rachel, Zack and Mothin smiling together on a rooftop.

💚 Started this morning with the first formal meeting of the new Leadership Team!

🙌🏼 Working alongside our brilliant MPs, Assembly Members and councillors across England & Wales - @greenparty.org.uk are unstoppable.

👏🏼 Please give @rachelmillward.bsky.social & @mothinali.bsky.social a follow!