Extinction Rebellion Plymouth

Banksy on the walls of the Royal Courts of Justice: A judge attacks a protestor with a gavel

Why are jury trials under attack by the UK government?

Let's look at some of the things juries have decided recently for clues. 🧵

The Limits To Growth front page

It has been called “the most prophetic work of humanity”. In 1971, it told us why collapse is coming and how to avoid it.

It was denounced by almost every leading economist - but it was right.

This is the story of The Limits To Growth. 🧵

Please ask your proprietor this:

Mark Rylance speaking

Celebrities like Mark Rylance is pushing for film and TV to tell fewer stories about greed and revenge and more about community, climate, and inspiration.

We are in a crisis of imagination and Film and TV need to show us some light.

Nathalie Seddon speaks to the audience

Professor of Biodiversity Nathalie Seddon @biology.ox.ac.uk says only 7% of our forests are healthy, and depleted marshes and soils put over 5 million homes at risk of flooding.

@wwf.org.uk showed over half of voters think the gov is not doing enough to protect nature.

"The cost of silence in Sudan’s civil war is too high" As Sudan’s brutal civil war rages on, more than 12 million people have been displaced — deepening an already devastating protection and humanitarian crisis. In this episode of The Humans in Human Righ...

"What makes Sudan's crisis even more alarming is its invisibility. The world is not watching closely enough"

The Sudanese civil war is creating the world's worst humanitarian disaster with 12 million people now displaced

This 🧵traces the deep connections b/w this conflict & the #ClimateCrisis 1/n

Calling @lukepollard.bsky.social did you attend the recent gathering Harding the AMOC collapse and are you aware of this science.

For the attention of #LukePollard did you attend ?

National Emergency Briefing An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names.

"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."

Please share with your MP. #NEB2025

Heathrow airport’s £33bn third runway plan chosen by government Scheme includes plan to move the M25 and could mean up to 760 more planes in the skies around London every day

We need Heathrow airport expansion like the dinosaurs needed an asteroid

☄️✈️ ☄️✈️ ☄️✈️ ☄️✈️☄️

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Who do you trust more, Lords or Citizens? Watch to see why I've just signed a petition calling for a House of Citizens: bsky.app/profile/sort...

As I write my last column, the facts on climate crisis speak for themselves Since 1995, when the first Cop was held, carbon levels have increased from 360.67 parts per million to 426.68 parts now

"The carbon level has reached 426 parts per million – well over scientists’ “safe” limit of 350. According to them, the planet is heading to oblivion. All that time news editors have told me not to be too downbeat.

This is my last column. I think the facts speak for themselves.”

A man in a business suit in handcuffs representing the bankers jailed in Iceland after the 2009 financial crash.

Iceland did something after the 2008–09 crash that the US, UK and EU pretend is impossible as Trump and his vile ilk ride rough shod over our democracies.

It confronted and punished its corrupt bankers and failed politicians.

And rebuilt a fairer society from the rubble. 🧵

Frederick Douglass, born a slave, died a global icon of resistance to tyranny

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

This is the unbelievable story of the man who said those famous words, Frederick Douglass.

Born a slave. Died a global resistance leader. 🧵

#TaxTheBanks Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing. The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...

Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks

World leaders are meeting in Brazil for the #cop30 UN climate talks.

Yet Britain’s tax system enables climate wrecking industries & undertaxes the profits they make.

It’s time that changed. Let's rewire the tax system to improve lives, protect the climate and restore nature.

Copenhagen 2009. Humanity's last chance to avoid collapse?

Obama claimed partial victory. The ambassador for 130 developing countries' responded with "the most important briefing the world never heard".

Obama's deal meant "Certain death for Africa, certain devastation of island states".

Rescue democracy in Devon! Instead of snatching decisions away from local people, we demand that Citizens’ Assemblies form the beating heart of Devon’s new council so ordinary people decide what happens, not out of touch politi...

actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

Our local democracy is being attacked, ensure we have a say in the future by insisting we have citizen assemblies as part of the new way of working, sign this petition and pass it on. #LocalDemocracy #CitizenAssemblies

We're delighted that tireless advocate for the natural world, @chrisgpackham.bsky.social CBE, will be opening the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster Central Hall on 27th November.

Chris speaking with @bbclaurak.bsky.social earlier👇

Please make sure your MP is attending: nebriefing.org
#NEB

How could Tropical Forest Forever fund proposed at Cop30 tackle deforestation? Scheme aims to raise $125bn to invest in bonds, with returns used to reward tropical countries for conservation

While governments consider proposals to protect forests, UK banks continue to fund their destruction.

UK banks have provided over £1 billion to "forest-risk" companies since the COP26 agreement to end deforestation.

#Deforestation
#COP30

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.

Sometimes you just have to say it as it is. #DeathProject #CopOut30 #TaxTheRich

1/3 COP. THE SITUATION. ABOUT THE DEATH PROJECT.

There is no "dilemma" - there is a crime
There is no "we" - there is them - the rich - and then the rest of us
This is not "moral failure" - it is psychotic evil

There are no "leaders" with "courage" - there is only one solution...

When your on the team your protected by the leader of the gang. These days of bloated corruption and never ending excesses will go down in history as the beginning of the end of neoliberalism and its cronyism. #EndDays #Coruption

For #MediaLiberationDay activists targeted billionaire media owners who pump out print with division and disinformation by disrupting the headlines of news stands.

Each #CoverStory warns people of the dangers of disinformation and division by billionaire media owners!

Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us

Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yet again the framing of this report is set up to make people on benefits the problem. The reason for more than one named driver is down to availability not luxury. Yes some people put more into their vehicle allowance to upgrade their travel arrangements and that’s their choice. #TaxTheRich

Local fossil fuel ad ban as a catalyst for global change - Nature Climate Change The Hague in the Netherlands was the first city in the world to enact a law prohibiting advertisements for fossil fuel products and services. Although the ban is restricted to The Hague’s jurisdiction...

"The Hague’s fossil-fuel advertising ban is more than a policy- it’s a signal. By rejecting the normalization of fossil fuel promotion, the decision to implement a ban locally can challenge entrenched norms globally... FF advertising bans present a compelling opportunity for governments to act"

Who do you trust more, Lords or Citizens? Watch to see why I've just signed a petition calling for a House of Citizens: bsky.app/profile/sort...

Why Reform UK hates net zero … follow the money! Most Reform UK voters don’t object to green policies, so who is its climate crisis denialism designed to serve?

Thank you Yorkshire Bylines..hooray for citizen journalism. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/why-...