Bridget McKenzie

AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do

Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments - Nature Meta-analyses on a global scale show that the measured coastal mean sea level is higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments.

The closer we look, the more we see how much worse our predicament actually is.

Millions of coastal dwelling humans will be on the move soon.

We are absolutely NOT prepared.

#ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise

The limited framing does not afford safety and support to visible and vocal cultural activists, particularly people with characteristics that are under attack at a time of rising far-right and ecocidal agendas. Read more in the report...and do let me know what you think.

The framing of Cultural Environmental Responsibility could expand to:
- Shifting the framing of human-nature relations
- Collaborating for community safety and resilience
- Inspiring the imagination of alternative life-ways.

Barriers & limited frames include:
- A global backlash vs eco action
- Inadequate public resources to respond to impacts.
- Cultural sector entanglement with harmful bodies
- Sector underfunding, funds too siloed & short-term
- A lack of diversity, + precarity for artists & low-paid workers.

Also needed is advocacy for the new roles of Culture, its value lying, for example, in an integration of Inner and Outer Resilience (although it's often understood to be valuable mainly for Inner Work or Inner Resilience).

The Cultural sector can play a leading role in imagining alternatives, shaping narratives, & supporting communities in the face of great challenges.
The capacities needed for this response include: - Ecological values & frames - Practical preparation & resilience - Skills for public activation...

As everywhere, the UK faces significant risks due to rapid Global Heating, as well as unpredictable reactions by power-holders. Resilience and adaptation to these impacts have not been prioritised in the UK in most sectors. In turn, the UK’s Cultural sector fails to demonstrate adequate alertness.

By the Earth Crisis, I mean ecological overshoot and social shortfall. Human interdependence with Earth systems is overlooked. Indeed, environmental decisions are systemic decisions on every topic beyond the most trivial.

What's the state of capacities in the UK’s Cultural sector for an effective Earth Crisis response - alert, full-spectrum & systemic?
- Is there appetite to expand Cultural Environmental Responsibility to prioritise radical action? What capacities are needed & what are the barriers & opportunities?

Growing an Effective Earth Crisis Response in the Cultural Sector Growing an Effective Earth Crisis Response in the Cultural Sector March 2026 Bridget McKenzie Illustration from my artist book Water Falls, Springs Rise (in Fluid Earth exhibition at GroundWork Gal...

Here's a finished version of my report 'Growing an Effective Earth Crisis Response in the Cultural Sector' tinyurl.com/jchhsnbp and a summary is in the posts below...

It would be good if you could point out your sponsors Adani and BP are causing the problem in this exhibition too.

It’s like kicking open a vast termites nest except that to use an ecological metaphor feels in bad taste. Maybe like exploring a dictator’s palace after liberation, while the world is still captured by his cronies. It exposes the sufferings of violent patriarchy, racism, power grabbing & ecocide.

I keep seeing people diminish Epstein, like “we’re focusing on a single sex offender but it’s a distraction.” He trafficked 1000+, ran a kompromat factory likely trading to Israel & Russia. It’s a lens onto a conspiracy of extreme colonisation of bodies & lands with devastating impacts on all life.

People get hung up (reasonably) on the "walkable" cities frame because many people cannot walk or have problems walking

I propose: human scale cities

as in: a city where the spaces I am in are built for human bodies, and not two ton high speed murder machines

YouTube video by GreenAllianceUK Nature loss is risk to UK security and prosperity | Ruth Chambers

⚠️🐦 Nature loss is risk to our security and prosperity, and a new government report has confirmed it.

Published after a Green Alliance FOI request, the report must now prompt action.

As @ruthchambers.bsky.social sets out below, the government and parliament must urgently address its findings.

Thanks! I’m co-organising a NEB event in Norwich with the second part being about imagining what it means and how we can apply creativity to the NEB challenge locally. (Reimagine Norwich, Norwich Writers Rebel). I’ll share that idea with Culture Declares for wider take-up.

I mean MP Watch members can take up with MPs using your points. I’ve shared with them on our chat. Also, people are asking me how the Cultural sector - arts, design, heritage - can support the NEB. I’d welcome any ideas to feed to my networks.

Totally agree. This is something @mpwatchnesh.bsky.social could McCarthy & other relevant MPs. The last bit ‘we’re already doing this’ implies messaging by stealth to consumers not strategic engagement with civil agencies/local govt/business. It treats it like tooth-brushing or speed limit driving.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glenn-vowles-a6b61a388_see-the-reply-from-my-mp-in-bristol-activity-7416987108285947904-_yYD/

A friend pointed me to a post on social media of a letter by Kerry McCarthy MP (Labour, Bristol East) about a request for a televised emergency briefing on the #ClimateEmergency

I was stunned by how casually the idea & its urgency were dismissed. Let’s unpack why this response is so wrong-headed 🧵

I was a White House ethics lawyer.

I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.

I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

Pleased to join @rupertread.bsky.social @bridgetmck.bsky.social @npjbrooks.bsky.social calling for an international protectorate for #Greenland to address defence and climate risks; and to restart international cooperation in the Guardian today
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Black & White, and the Colour of Coral Links in time and space, between Nazi propaganda, underwater photography and coral reef bleaching, as a way to understand representation…

A prose-poem & collage exploring links in time & space, between Nazi propaganda, underwater photography & coral reef bleaching, to understand representation, complicity in and denial of great harms. bridgetmck.medium.com/black-white-...

Britain is planning nuclear-powered ships. Will they be safe? Inside the plan to build merchant ships powered by a new generation of atomic reactors

Oh, pleassseee! What could possibly go wrong if you were sailing nuclear reactors around increasingly stormy, little regulated, politically unstable seas? Has anyone thought about pirates? 🤦

#NoNewNuclear
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“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 🧪

IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍

“Most of the time” 🤣 What an enormous navel, a kind of kangaroo tail, and a stance like the Tories starting doing on stages to make themselves look like Henry VIII.

Billionaires added record $2.2tn in wealth in 2025 Just eight billionaires accounted for a quarter of the gains, led by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Larry Page

The world’s 500 richest people have total wealth of $11.9tn.

Their wealth up by $2.2tn in 2025. 8 billionaires accounting for a 25% of the gains.

No one becomes this rich by working.

They fund right-wing parties, oppose worker/human rights, cause more pollution than normal people.

Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying Mark Zuckerberg and current and former Meta executives agreed on Thursday to settle a $8 billion shareholder lawsuit alleging the company’s directors failed to prevent billions of dollars in fines and...

Mark Zuckerberg settles $8bn lawsuit to avoid testifying under oath over Cambridge Analytica and walks away without public accountability

This is surveillance capitalism in action: law-breaking treated as cost of doing business, executives shielded, power untouched.
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The Green party is becoming known for hope, for climate justice, for people and planet. But we haven't lost sight of the emergency, the Green surge is a surge to tackle the most important issues, to make sure that we get a government for the real world, not for billionaires' fantasies.
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I think it’s general, referring to any kinds of sponsors or individual donors that have raised alarm bells. The attention in the report is focused on the alarm-bell-ringers and their behaviour not those that profit from harms.