Damien Gayle

Dark Laboratory: groundbreaking book argues climate crisis was sparked by colonisation Tao Leigh Goffe argues climate breakdown is the mutant offspring of European scientific racism and colonialism

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Dark Laboratory is here!

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‘A new phase’: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest Tougher laws said to be inspiring clandestine attacks on the ‘property and machinery’ of the fossil fuel economy

‘A new phase’: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest - via @damiengayle.bsky.social

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Happy to follow up with you if you have time for a chat in the week

Hi Brandon, I appreciate your comments. I approached it as “rare earths” being Trump-speak for Ukraine’s wider mineral resources, which according to reports is what the US deal apparently sought access to …

Sixteen jailed UK climate activists to appeal against ‘unduly harsh’ sentences Protesters will gather outside court of appeal in support of activists, who say judges defied decades of precedent

Really useful article. The idea that we should be giving long sentences to climate activists is absurd!

We should be encouraging many more people to become activists to pressure the gov into faster and more meaningful action. @damiengayle.bsky.social

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According to War On Want's A Material Transition report: Producing one tonne of REEs leads to an estimated “60,000m3 of waste gas that contains hydrochloric acid, 200m3 of acid- containing sewage water, and 1-1.4 tonnes of radioactive waste.”

A picture of a strip mine that may or may not be in China

Apparently the main reason that China had a near monopoly on the extraction of rare earth metals for so long is that the process of mining and refining them is so environmentally destructive that no one else wanted to do it

World’s richest use up their fair share of 2025 carbon budget in 10 days Emissions caused by wealthiest 1% so far this year would take someone from poorest 50% three years to create

Climate change is a class war

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Every passing day just gets more dystopian, doesn’t it?

Hi. Journalist/ecologist here: We can’t stop wildfires that have been worsened by drying, warming climate change by JUST “cleaning up forests” without also losing the essential ecosystem services like seed dispersal and watershed filtering that allow us to survive on this planet.

Six big US banks quit net zero alliance before Trump inauguration Exodus from net zero target-setting group is bid to head off ‘anti-woke’ attacks from rightwing US politicians, say analysts

More corporate knee bending to Donald Trump as America's six biggest banks abandon the UN's net zero group for the global banking industry ahead of the inauguration in a fortnight

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Graph showing changes in bus usage since deregulation Thx to Hetan Shah

So many things could be said about this graph

But perhaps the most important is that if you want people to use buses you have to invest in them

The climate crisis demands more money for public transport outside the cities

More than a million vapes a day in UK thrown away, says research From June 2025 it will be illegal to sell single-use vapes to combat environmental damage

"all types of vape contain lithium-ion batteries which are dangerous if crushed or damaged because they can cause fires"

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Mayotte cyclone: health services in ruins as rescuers race to reach survivors Medical supplies airlifted to French Indian Ocean territory after Cyclone Chido leaves hundreds feared dead

Extreme weather once again strikes where people are least able to hand it. One third of the 320,000 people on Mayotte live in shantytowns

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Hello everyone, this is all playing out exactly as we warned: nuclear gets used as a rhetorical empty future promise while big tech companies actively and knowingly increase the climate damage they're enabling today

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‘It’s like a secret’: why do the leguminati want to change the way we eat? Fans of legumes say a worldwide shift towards eating beans rather than meat would hugely benefit human health and the environment

We only grow a few edibles, like blackberries and Chinese quince and Flying Dragon orange, Citrus trifoliata, (which really isn't edible, though we've tried some things. But we loved this @theguardian.com story from @damiengayle.bsky.social on "the Legumati."

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Beans Can Help Save The World!
Useful article by @damiengayle.bsky.social in Guardian re how beans insert nitrogen into soils naturally.
Artificial fertiliser NO2 is 300 times more polluting than CO2!
#YesWeCan

Private equity firms ploughing billions into fossil fuels, analysis reveals US public sector workers’ retirement savings invested in projects that pump out a billion tonnes of emissions a year

"Private equity firms are using US public sector workers’ retirement savings to fund fossil fuel projects pumping more than a billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere every year, according to an analysis."

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Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study Report says governments in global north increasingly using draconian measures while criticising similar tactics in global south

New report exposes Western governments' hypocrisy in their approach to climate protests
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Countries fueling Israel’s Gaza war may be complicit in war crimes, experts warn Exclusive: research tracks dozens of oil and fuel shipments that could have aided Israel’s war on Gaza

Israeli tanks, jets and bulldozers bombarding Gaza and razing homes in the occupied West Bank are being fueled by a growing number of countries signed up to the genocide and Geneva conventions ...

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