Miles & miles of maize
but 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 insect—in 2 days of 🚴‍♀️🚴in Brittany.

Maize is mainly 🐄 feed.

Linked to high pesticide use—and damaging soil erosion.

Governments must be honest about the hidden costs of meat.

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social warned about maize a decade ago 👇

#OtD 2 Aug 1939 Walter Altmann and Gunther Mann, two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, were deported from the UK back to Belgium where they had crossed the Channel in a small dinghy which capsized. Both were likely sent to the concentration camps stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9167...

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🎉 Huge welcome to three brand new Green Party councillors!

💚 In Bridlington, Tim, Rick and Andy have left the Yorkshire Party to join the Greens.

🙌🏼 Lots of new people joining us every single day:

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Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security

Green growth 😀

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There is a clear Trump doctrine. Those who can’t see it won't have a say in reshaping the world | Nesrine Malik The sooner the US’s former friends realise the old global order is over, the sooner they can organise to regain power and agency – the only language Trump understands, says Guardian columnist Nesrine ...

Building a new world order

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Liz Truss called solar farms a “blight on the landscape”, but researchers have found they are actually better for birds than farmland

Solar farms in East Anglia had greater bird diversity & bird abundance than nearby arable land, a study finds

Paper here later www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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What is motivating Trump’s reckless trade war? | Robert Reich The point is to show the world – not just Canada and Mexico – that he’s willing to mete out big punishments

The pursuit of power

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

German elections in full swing: Stop Fascist Climate Denial

Here’s how Trump’s vengeance machine works | Robert Reich Trump’s vengeance machine isn’t only about retribution. It’s also intended to intimidate Trump critics

Trump: fear and violence keeps compliance in the land of the mobster king

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Really nice thread, giving an idea of the direction a clean European electricity grid is heading towards.

Also makes a good point on nuclear: it can be a good complement to renewables, even if not a good replacement for them.

If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares We could reduce the amount of land used for grazing and croplands used to grow animal feed.

"If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares"

Imagine 3 billion more hectares for fully wild ecosystems.

Diet is THE elephant in the room when it comes to reversing nature collapse.
ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

This example couldn’t illustrate more effectively the costly, inefficient madness of swapping triage by highly trained & skilled GPs with a whole cacophony of unnecessary scans, radiation, appointments & bureaucracy.

If this is really Labour’s vision of the future NHS, it’s wildly misguided.

'It is beyond broken' - inside our terrifying NHS crisis Special report: Patients waiting in ambulances for 24 hours, exhausted and desperate staff feeling helpless and a health service now on life support

Devastating from @liamthorp.bsky.social on the hellish conditions for patients & staff alike inside our A&Es.

This is why the crisis in social care needs fixing now. Not in 2028 - now.

Because when hospitals run out of beds, the results are catastrophic 😔

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

All Starmer’s failings play into the hands of Farage – the prime minister is the gift that keeps on giving | Aditya Chakrabortty From rightwing rhetoric to a lack of action on the cost of living crisis, Downing Street is only fuelling the rise of Reform, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Hugely important piece - please do read: “Through his speeches, how he frames debates & most of all in his shrugging acceptance of how limited & slow his political powers are, time and again the Labour leader makes Farage’s case for him” @adityachakra.bsky.social

On a day when house building is in the news, we publish a new report - LOST NATURE.

In it, we asked if housing developers have been delivering their ecological commitments.

Answer: NO.

Read the report here: wildjustice.org.uk/general/lost...

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Gregg Wallace: why it’s so hard to challenge ‘cheeky chaps’ and ‘loveable rogues’ (even for middle-class women of a certain age) Gregg Wallace is only the latest example that illustrates the need for us to move beyond the ‘few bad apples’ narrative.

Gregg Wallace: why it’s so hard to challenge ‘cheeky chaps’ and ‘loveable rogues’ (even for middle-class women of a certain age)

Keir Starmer – a man without a plan First, Labour had “missions” and then it came out with “milestones” – but what it doesn’t have is a plan for government, and it seems incapable of making one

A focus on inputs and misplaced outputs when people want outcomes and meaningful change

www.theneweuropean.co.uk/james-ball-k...

Britons favour proportional representation (PR) over first past the post (FPTP), with support highest among Reform UK and Lib Dem voters

All Britons: 44% PR / 23% FPTP

Reform UK: 62% / 17%
Lib Dems: 58% / 22%
Labour: 48% / 24%
Conservative: 39% / 41%

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

The only clue that it's a parody is that Johnson is too bone idle to write two articles in a week.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament Official online petitions in response to issues of the day, listing the number that got a Government response, and those that have been debated in the House of Parliament

507 signatures in last hour - we are (thanks to you) on a roll. petition.parliament.uk

UK towns that saw rioting last summer have ‘torn social fabric’, report claims Majority of areas where violence broke out have below-median scores on index of community cohesion and resilience

The importance of social fabric in holding society together.

Towns that saw rioting last summer have ‘torn social fabric’ www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...

Let’s join Amsterdam , Sydney , Edinburgh and France in banning fossil fuel advertisements and sponsorships , sign my petition to force a debate in Parliament on the issue .

lovera.ge/ban-ffa