Robbie Blake

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

😡Reason #38367 to hate fossil fuel companies… They are bankrolling the anti-trans movement.

80% of anti-trans organisations receive funding from fossil fuel companies or their billionaires.

Whipping up hatred is a tactic to distract the public from action on climate change.

YouTube video by LadyGagaVEVO Lady Gaga - Abracadabra (Official Music Video)

Gaga giving us what we need and deserve
#abracadabra
youtu.be/vBynw9Isr28

Makes me proud to see @peopleandplanet.bsky.social publishing another University League - still one of the most impactful campaign actions I ever did when I created the first one back in 2007.

Still going strong holding UK universities to account for their eco performance & ratcheting up standards.

Industrial agriculture & ultra processed food is responsible for mass disease, 1/3 of global warming emissions, & mass destruction of nature. All while starving 2.8 billion people of access to a healthy diet.

The idea that we need more of the same (but better) is deeply troubling.

#Agroecology

Evidence is abundant that #agroecology can produce resilient, healthy, abundant food while protecting biodiversity, carbon, livelihoods & soil.

Overcoming #hunger must be about providing access to food - not further industrialising the countryside (while BigAg profits).

OK folks. Day 2 of our @bsky.app adventure. We really want to grow and be part of a community of #foodsystems transformation thinkers, doers and supporters.

Are there some good starter packs to recommend?

#agroecology #food #hunger #farming #soil #climate #health

OK friends. Please go follow @ipes-food.org : it's where the real content is at
#foodsystems #climate

bsky.app/profile/ipes...

Tackling the harms of ultra-processed foods Consumers need clear information to make healthier choices about what they eat

The FT misses the mark here. Tackling the harms of UPFs is not just about helping consumers exercise willpower to resist them. It requires government willpower to pursue stronger regulations on Big Food corporations and to counter corporate lobby power.

www.ft.com/content/cf42...

Fuel to Fork podcast A new podcast exposing the fossil fuels in our food. Fossil fuels are the lifeblood of our food system. What are the options to phase them out? Subscribe to find out. Brought to you by IPES-Food, TABL...

And for my second ever [not tweet] let me heartily recommend this 7 part podcast series I've been working on:

#FuelToFork. Exposing the hidden ingredient in our food – #FossilFuels – at every step of the food chain.

Spoiler alert: #Foodsystem transformation is urgent.
ipes-food.org/fuel-to-fork/

Were you part of the team that made this? If so, you guys knocked it out of the park.

Oh thanks a lot Jeremy! Yeah I’m part of the super team - i helped conceive the series, then came in again at the end for proof listening and comms. So glad it resonates! Please help spread the word

Nobody ever planted a tree in this photo. It was a working gravel pit 30 years ago.

We need to get over our obsession with planting trees and let nature do the job. The results are just SO much better.

It's also about realising we are not, in fact, central to everything. 🌍

Stand with Georgia!

The language of stakeholders “reduces the relationships between people & place to financial or economic transactions that ignore the cultural & spiritual significance of the land & the non-human species to which people are inherently connected… legitimis[ing] extractive policies”

Super paper

Love this! Using everyday vocabulary over specialist specific wording is not unintelligent!

The impact of language: rethinking the term “stakeholder” - Laridae A candid discussion of the process we are going through, as we rethink using the term "stakeholder" in our work.

“European settlers literally “staked” land to claim their ownership, displacing (or worse) the Indigenous people who originally lived there. These settlers have been described as “stakeholders,” and this association makes it an especially destructive choice of words”
laridaemc.com/the-impact-o...

Looks like the gambling definition indeed came first. But it was later used in business and land acquisition.

“It would have been plausible to use the word stakeholder in the context of acquiring land originally inhabited by indigenous peoples.”

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“Stakeholder” always felt a fishy.

An awful piece of jargon to make top-down exclusionary processes sound democratic.

Now I know why. The term has colonial roots: denoting a person who drove a stake into the (indigenous) land they were claiming as their own.

it's a bad day for the international network of dictators who live in similar palaces

Cartoon showing a carnival attraction, where (white) people are standing in line to throw balls at a bullseye, which will cause a migrant family to be dunked in a tank with a shark swimming in it, while a man with a megaphone is egging them on. The balls are actually angry emoticons. A sign says 'The blame game'.

The blame game. Cartoon made for the European Network Against Racism.

#populism #migrants #refugees

Look at this terrifying scene: happy, healthy animals running through co-located wind and solar energy farm cranking out clean energy in a grassy field.

I can see now why people would rather have a field of oil pumps and pipelines instead 🤦‍♂️
#energysky #🔋 #⚡️job

Economists have written tons of papers about how Walmart achieved retail dominance through superior efficiency. They don’t even mention this let alone address it.

"Net" zero is the most self harming Pandora's box. Open by a slit and the lid gets blown off - just another excuse for more carbon "whataboutery" and foot dragging. Terrible for real #climateaction. And for human rights & communities' land rights too. #realzero

Opening up "net zero" was a Pandora's box. Open the possibility by a slit and the lid gets blown off - just another excuse for more "whataboutery". Damaging for the climate. And for human rights & community land rights too.

🚜🇪🇺Farmers protest demanding fair pay & an end to unfair competition.

EU: slashes green standards

Also EU: signs pact to import cheaper low-standard beef from Central-South America with lower standards

You see the pattern?

@BEUC.bsky.social, representing 43 consumer organisations across the EU, says the #Mercosur trade deal will stimulate imports of food products from Central-South America that do not meet high EU standards 🥩

-Secret talks
-Sidelining of public concerns
-Undercutting European farmers & consumer standards
-More trade in damaging beef, toxic (& banned!) pesticides & animal feed
-Disaster for the Amazon, climate, human rights

❌This deal will be rejected by Euroepans
#Mercosur

-Secret talks
-Sidelining of public concerns
-Undercutting European farmers & consumer standards
-More trade in damaging beef, toxic (& banned!) pesticides & animal feed
-Disaster for the Amazon, climate, human rights

❌This deal will be rejected by Euroepans

Liberty back in court against Government’s unlawful protest legislation - Liberty

The brilliant @libertyhq.bsky.social who have spent this week in court #DefendingDemocracy have now arrived on BlueSky. If you are not yet following them & the vital & important work they do please do so
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...