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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

From the Government's National Security Assessment on biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse: “the UK does not have enough land to feed its population and rear livestock: a wholesale change in consumer diets would be required”. Keeping quiet about that... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wow, pretty stark to see this graph of how the media are pushing net zero scepticism... just when we really really need the opposite.

@carbonbrief.org
@nebriefing.bsky.social
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social

This must add to the case for a nationally televised @nebriefing.bsky.social. Be interesting to see what if any coverage it gets in the news when the BBC etc will be paying attention to Davos, Greenland etc.

Tories pledge to scrap landmark climate legislation Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says her party would axe legally binding targets to cut emissions.

Climate change is already damaging the nature, beauty and heritage we care for. Without deep and sustained cuts to emissions, nature faces an even more perilous future and the places people love will continue to suffer.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1/4 Do you know what a SLAPP suit is?

Israeli officers and soldiers have revealed they’ve been ordered to deliberately shoot at unarmed Palestinians trying to get aid.

That’s in Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

Israel is deliberately massacring civilians it’s deliberately starving.

There are few crimes more depraved.

A TIMELINE OF A GENOCIDE
Under siege for 75 years

Together with Palestine Action, we have compiled a Timeline of a Genocide detailing colonialism, dispossession, and the decades-long genocide of the Palestinian people.

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Shocking stats in today's FT: "England faces driest year this century."

April rainfall more than 50% below average across most of the country…

What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped? The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.

Your 'doom quote' for today:

"If you’re younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth—massive crop failures, apocalyptic fires, imploding economies, epic flooding, hundreds of millions of refugees..."

www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

I oppose facial recognition Facial recognition is dangerous and we need safeguards!

action.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/167674/...

UK must spend £1.5bn a year on flood defences to protect public, experts warn Researchers cite £2.4bn annual cost of flooding and say a third of England’s critical infrastructure is at risk

As usual, all about hard defences

Bugger all being done to reforest uplands, unstraighten rivers, manage retreat from coastlines and other measures designed to tackle the CAUSES OF FLOODING in a #climate changed UK

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Environment, Pollution, Thames Water, CEO, Citizen's Arrest, Thames Water executives citizen's arrested for crimes of public nuisance. Woman in blue jacket seen leaving the offices of Thames Water in Reading UK Tuesday 18th March.

BREAKING NEWS: Thames Water executives citizen’s arrested at their offices this morning.

It’s time someone held these criminals to account for the harm and disruption they are causing to our lives.

Follow for updates.
#CitizensArrest #ThamesWater

On climate protest, a superb point from @richarddenniss.bsky.social. If protest wasn't effective, govts wouldn't try to ban it. And as much as politicians like to talk about parliamentary logjams, as soon as fossil capital is threatened, they mobilise with extraordinary rapidity and efficacy.

🚨 BREAKING! 🚨

LORD WALNEY DUMPED (and on Valentine’s Day, no less)

EXCLUSIVE from @bylinetimes.bsky.social - The Home Office confirms that Walney, who was appointed by Boris Johnson, will leave Government.

Read: bylinetimes.com/2025/02/14/k...

#SackLordWalney #SackedLordWalney

Follow the Money Podcast Episode · Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring · EP8 · 44m

NEW: Explosive new revelations from ex MI6 spy.

Why *did* Boris Johnson block the publication of the Russia Report before 2019 Gen Election?

Finally some answers..

Russian military intelligence - the GRU - targeted the Brexit vote.

"Money changed hands"
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I’m really looking forward to reading this 2nd edition. The writing is incredibly entertaining and informative. #ClimateEmergency #WhatCanIDo

Rachel Reeves holds newts in contempt, it seems.
So I thought I'd post this glorious painting of a "lion of the duckweed" by Jackie Morris + my paean to these "kings of the pond", both from The Lost Words.
Newt-lovers, unite!

The irony of it all. . . . .

We need to make work pay.

LA wildfire damages set to cost record $135bn Some of the most expensive properties in the US have been wiped out by the fires.

If you think slowing or stopping #climate change is too expensive, you have it backwards.
Failing to slow or stop #climatechange is what's expensive.
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‘We’re still in survival mode’: anger persists in Valencia weeks after floods Wreckage from Spain’s worst natural disaster this century may have been cleared but life for many remains in disarray

They weren't prepared. Nor are we.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Scrambled weather cycle prompts meteorologists to rethink models Top forecasting agencies in discussions after ‘uh-oh’ moment on key readings of Pacific Ocean temperatures

Scrambled weather cycle prompts meteorologists to rethink models

- Top forecasting agencies in discussions after ‘uh-oh’ moment on key readings of Pacific Ocean temperatures

#ClimateCrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/4c5d...

Government’s ‘Independent’ Extremism Adviser Who Backs Palestine Protest Crackdown Has New Links to Defence Industry The former MP, who was appointed as a Government adviser by Boris Johnson, faces calls to quit over his potential conflicts of interest

Widespread calls for the compromised Lord Walney, who takes money from oil & arms while advising the government against peaceful climate and anti-genocide activists, to resign!

TL;DR #SackLordWalney

bylinetimes.com/2024/12/09/g...

Massive away win for the little fella.

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys Yes, it's a genocide

"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent."

Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on)

youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as

“Yes, it’s a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Amos Goldberg, Israeli Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
(Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)

🚨BREAKING: #ExtinctionRebellion activists spray fake oil & occupy fossil fuel enabling law firm

#CutTheTies

We're demanding an end to A&O Shearman's $285 Billlion+ fossil fuel deals.

Sign Up to Take action ➡️ JoinXR.UK

Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land

“Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax”

🚜🌾 vs. 🧐💰

Tim Stanley, in what now appears to be a weekly slot on one or other BBC flagship politics programme, reels off a huge amount of absolute, provable nonsense about immigration.

And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA

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