Dr Charlie Gardner

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
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This passage shocked me to my core.

The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!

It shouldn't be a zero sum game, there's plenty of money in society to do both, but yes understanding biodiversity does seem to be a bit of a displacment activity instead of conserving it. That might have been understandable a generation ago but we're deep in an emergency now!

Science's desperate attempts to catalogue the diversity of life before it's all destroyed

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Today marks 23 years of #GrassyNarrows Blockade.

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Ooh I missed that, thanks!

UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded

It's not just for future generations and other species that I've refocused my life and career around climate change

It's also because I want to be able to eat in future

Acting on climate isn't some noble altruistic quest - it's self defence

You're not wrong!

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UK using more wood to make electricity than ever, Drax figures show Giant biomass plant reveals burning of wood pellets made 9% of UK’s electricity in July, its largest ever monthly share

Burning trees is not a climate solution

We surveyed ecologists’ opinions on activism & advocacy in the biodiversity & climate crises

>100 responded; see our findings - incl this chart - in the @britishecologicalsociety.org’s Niche

We are the BES Cascade Network @bes-cascade.bsky.social. I’ll be at the BES Annual Meeting & happy to chat!

UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded

"The price of some foods hit by extreme weather are rising more than four times faster than others in the average shop...the price of butter, beef, milk, coffee and chocolate had risen by an average of 15.6% over the year"

Climate change is not a problem for our grandchildren, it's today's crisis

Not cheeky at all, much appreciated by all of us!

Quote: Charlie Gardner, PhD - 'Walking in water' Pic: Brede Valley, sunset. Lines of gulls pass overhead, from inland feeding to their nocturnal roost on the waters of Rye Bay.

Advent #3

"As an activist, I realised, I must do more than just ring the fire alarm: I must also detail the way out of the building, and show people how to find it."

'“Corporations regularly buy academics to do their bidding, recasting industry talking points to create the beginnings of an alternative scientific canon.”'

Key part of the corporate playbook along with manufacturing uncertainty; political lobbying; legal intimidation; funding bogus think tanks etc

What a great idea!

All very good points too!

I could argue some of them, but I tend to avoid these discussions as ultimately it doesn't matter about the probabilities - we have no choice but to try, regardless

But those legal changes are one of the ways that the beneficiaries of the status quo are preventing us from addressing stuff, no?

Still the same folk, but their battle is on multiple fronts and so our defence must be too I think

The point is, you won’t know without listening

But it might also be that they’re paralysed by the enormity of the challenge, or worried that their own footprint disqualifies them from speaking up

Or maybe they just don’t realise that there’s anything they can do, or think it’ll make any difference

Perhaps they dislike their idea of what the solutions may entail, whether that be greater government intervention, wind farms, or changes to their lifestyle

They may think it will only affect other people, and make no difference to the things they really care about

They might believe it’s only for people they don’t identify with, like environmentalists or, gasp, lefties

Perhaps they see the breakdown of climate and nature as a future problem and don’t realise the urgency

Maybe they think the government has it under control, that technology will fix it, or that some great hero will save us like in the movies

It would be naïve to think that’ll suddenly change if you hit them with your best statistics

So rather than jumping in with the scariest science, you’ll be better off trying to understand the mental barriers they’ve put up so you can address them directly

If your friends, neighbours and colleagues aren’t already doing much about climate change, there’s a reason for that

Like the rest of us they’ve certainly known about our crisis for a long time, yet they’ve chosen not to do much about it themselves

What’s the most valuable skill for talking persuasively about climate change and helping stimulate people into action?

It’s not the ability to debate or remember statistics. In fact it's got nothing to do with science at all

I think it’s listening
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Look at the Christmas tree my wife and her team made!

National Trust Peckover House & Gardens, Wisbech

Bleak AF! This mustn't come to pass.

'The Fingleton review states that overturning the Finch ruling “would establish that if a later indirect effect of a development will be assessed under a separate EIA... it does not need to be assessed as an indirect effect of the original development"'

The Finch ruling - which came about through Sarah's tireless campaigning - means that the environmental impact assessment of a fossil fuel project must include the emissions from all the fuel it produces, and not just the impact of the infrastructure itself

It's hugely important

Hi Bluesky 👋 I’m Oli, socialist vampire. I invented the climate crisis as a means to push through evil policies that will create a greener fairer world with more free-range organic humans (which as we all know, have the most delicious blood)