Mark Richards

Today, EXTINCTION REBELLION TURNS 7 YEARS OLD

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Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

Wind power has cut at least £104bn from energy costs in the UK since 2010. #justsaying

Plaid Cymru and SNP to join forces Emily Price The Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru have pledged to join forces in a bid to ensure that Westminster respects the wishes of both Wales and Scotland. Scottish First Minister John Swi...

The Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru have pledged to join forces in a bid to ensure that Westminster respects the wishes of both Wales and Scotland ✍️ Emily Price

🚨NATURE IS UNDER ATTACK!

The government wants to scrap vital nature protections and allow companies like theme park operators to destroy natural habitats!

👉 greens.scot/DefendScotla...

99.6% of key materials recovered from retired EV batteries under China’s new dismantling standards China enforces dismantling standards for retired EV batteries, achieving 99.6% nickel-cobalt-manganese recovery and advancing global standard participation.

China implements national standards for recycling EV batteries.

Pilot programs report nickel-cobalt-manganese recovery rates of 99.6% & lithium recovery rates of 96.5%!

Recycling batteries will be universal, skyrocketing economic, climate benefits.

carnewschina.com/2025/10/18/9... #energysky

Drakeford says new Senedd voting system will keep Reform UK out of power Martin Shipton Mark Drakeford has defended the fully proportional new voting system he has introduced, saying it will prevent the far-right Reform UK party forming the next Welsh Government with less ...

Mark Drakeford has defended the fully proportional new voting system he has introduced, saying it will prevent the far-right Reform UK party forming the next Welsh Government with less than a third of the total vote ✍️Martin Shipton

Whilst the super-rich pinball between their golf courses and holiday homes on their private jets, our planet is left paying for the damage.

New planning bill could jeopardise UK’s trade deal with EU, ambassador warns Exclusive: Proposed legislation removes EU-derived nature protections as government hopes to boost economic growth

So much for "boosting growth".
All this vandalism will do is leave us with devastated ecosystems, fewer green spaces, worse quality of life, while neither solving the housing crisis (because the problem IS NOT AND NEVER WAS "bats and newts") nor creating "growth".
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Scotland's nature is in crisis. 🌍

Today MSPs will have a chance to vote on Green proposals to force large landowners to restore our nature.

New poll shows public want energy prioritised for housing and essential services, not data centres | Friends of the Earth New poll shows public want energy prioritised for housing and essential services, not data centres  People see data centre growth as threat to Ireland’s energy and water supplies, and …

New poll shows public want energy prioritised for housing and essential services, not data centres.

People see data centre growth as threat to Ireland’s energy and water supplies, and ecosystems, and want Big Tech to be regulated

www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/new-pol...

The UK must hold Israel to the ceasefire Israel is continuing its genocide - we must take action.

There is no ‘ceasefire’ in the Gaza Strip – Israel is still committing genocide against the Palestinian people.

The UK must hold Israel to account – rather than continuing to arm and trade with it as normal.

Demand action from the UK government: secure.waronwant.org/page/180455/...

Live updates: Hurricane Melissa to make landfall in Jamaica People are evacuated to higher ground as US meteorologists warn of

Politicians must act. The powerful hurricane bearing down on Jamaica is evidence of the folly of continuing to burn fossil fuels. Climate change increases the intensity of hurricanes. Politicians denying climate change or dragging their feet are putting lives at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

Scotland’s land ownership is some of the most unequal anywhere in Europe, with around 400 people owning half our land.

This won't improve as long as the large landowners are allowed to keep buying up even more of our country.

We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Spectator and others have chosen (deliberately I suspect) to interpret this article as a desire to stop a future Reform UK government from legislating. My purpose is to stop *any* government crushing our fundamental rights. It’s just more urgent now. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New Poll: Should Scotland be an independent country? Bar chart. Yes 55% - No 45%. Join the movement. Greens.scot/join

🚨NEW POLL - Majority back Scottish independence!

YES - 55%
NO - 45%

‘Disappointed’ Starmer in firing line over historic by-election defeat ‘We clearly need to do much more’ admits prime minister

An Independent Scotland will be one of the Richest and Fairest Countries in Europe.

‘We have to book bigger rooms’: Green membership surge causes novel problems Party rides high with new leader Zack Polanski winning media plaudits and supporter numbers doubling to 140,000

"We have to book bigger rooms": Green membership surge causes novel problems

Party rides high with new leader Zack Polanski winning media plaudits and supporter numbers doubling to 140,000

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Please give link to that footage if true as I haven’t seen any but that hardly justifies the hours of video by IDF/IOF soldiers doing the same?

So Westminster, invite him over to kiss the ass of the orange Oompa-Loomp, then he wants a wee game of golf where no one in Scotland wanted him apart from Labour
But the Scottish public pay the price for his wee trip. And labour refused to pay for his wee trip.
Aye that's fair! Isn't 😡😡

It’s great when companies like British Airways openly express their support for a genocidal nation…….it makes it much easier to know who to boycott!

👋 Netanyahu: See you in The Hague He’s got the blood of thousands on his hands but leaders still shake it. Join the people’s global call for justice now!

Please sign

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Astounding vision and artistry. Initially thought how pretentious yet what was revealed is beautifully seen and shared. Quite masterful!

YouTube video by Owen Jones This man is ON FIRE! 🔥

Yes & Polanski is making a good fist of it in Britain too😊
youtube.com/shorts/--cQS...

Is Shell to blame for a ‘super typhoon’? Philippines survivors to sue oil giant in legal first Typhoon Rai killed more than 400, displaced nearly 3.2 million, and destroyed more than a million homes in 2021

In a groundbreaking lawsuit, Filipino communities devastated by increasingly powerful storms are saying enough is enough—and they're holding Big Oil responsible.

#ClimateJusticeNow #REImagineAsia

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

GOOD NEWS 🎉: A French court has ruled that oil giant TotalEnergies misled the public about its climate promises.

@greenpeace.fr and @amisdelaterre.org took the company to court for greenwashing and won. It is the first ruling of its kind against a fossil fuel giant in France!

Friday’s giggle……

‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code

Just when honest and truthful reporting on climate change is most urgently needed, Ofcom under its current chair has effectively suspended its accuracy rules on this life-and-death issue. /1

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

#Fossilfuels are an economic dead end, says economist Nicholas Stern - "high carbon growth self-destructs.” Are @mark-carney.bsky.social & @davidebybc.bsky.social listening? www.theguardian.com/environment/... @granthamlse.bsky.social #cdnpoli #bcpoli