Stuart Capstick

Transformative change for a just and sustainable world is possible. The PLOS Biology paper I co-authored with the co-chairs of the @ipbes.net Transformative Change Assessment Karen O'Brien, Lucas Garibaldi and Arun Agrawal explores how to make it happen.

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"We can no longer pretend that we are sleepwalking into climate catastrophe. We are doing it consciously, with our eyes wide open."

@profbillmcguire.bsky.social focuses on politicians, but what about the rest of us? Or did we open our eyes briefly, then decide we'd rather just keep them shut?

Yeah, I always skateboard to the cake shop too so that probably evens things out 😇

I'm sorry to hear that, it's not pleasant when the big car people act that way. The bloody things are everywhere and seem still to be getting larger. Still as we both know the real danger is people sitting holding cardboard signs.

Maybe you believe this govt is acting in good faith on climate - and yeah we all like Ed M, but there is no way allowing and encouraging airport expansion across the UK makes any sense when emissions should instead be falling off a cliff.

Gatwick airport second runway approved by transport secretary There has been strong opposition against the airport wanting to use its northern runway.

This is in line with the govt's commitment to climate action, in much the same way me eating a massive fucking cake every day is in line with my commitment to lose weight.
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Young woman protestors faces down an English Defence League thug

It’s easy to despair when Tommy Robinson and 100,000 far-right marchers fill London + Reform is surging in the polls.

But the UK — and other countries — have stopped the far right in its tracks in the recent past. Here’s how 🧵

A photo of the front cover of issue 1658 of Private Eye magazine with the caption "on shelves now." The cover headline reads "Mandelson Crisis Starmer Acts!" and shows two images of Keir Starmer waving outside Number 10. In the first, he says “Goodbye, Peter – we can’t have anything to do with a friend of a paedo.” In the second, he says “Welcome, President Trump!”

Mandelson Crisis
Starmer Acts!

The new Private Eye is out now.

FAKE NEWS WELCOMES TRUMP

Trump today… Netanyahu tomorrow?

Sir Keir, would you mind awfully closing that stable door please?

If you say so, but.. there's no horse in there.

Yes, that's because the horse bolted months ago while you were sleeping, and was last seen wandering about in a flag at the UK's largest ever far-right march, cheers anyway though.

I've been working on #climate issues for years, but every now and then I step back & think how unbelievable (and sad) it is that scientists have shown for decades we're literally changing — in a bad way — the climate of the entire planet and yet society refuses to deal with that existential threat.

There is one Irish tricolour in the image on the right for some unknown reason 🤷🏼‍♂️

Odd that a 'unite the kingdom' march seemed to have only union jacks and England flags. Could it possibly be that Wales, Scotland and N Ireland want absolutely nothing to do with this bullshit?

A rainbow in the sky above a small St George's flag hung from a bridge.

Proof that a rainbow beats a St George's flag any day of the week.

When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?"

So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

If I stop looking at the news will it just go away?

Politics latest: Nine arrested amid 'significant aggression', Met says, after 110,000 'Unite the Kingdom' marchers rally in London Roughly 110,000 protesters have been in London for a 'Unite the Kingdom' rally and 'March against Fascism' counter-protest. Meanwhile, local parties and trade unions can start choosing between Bridget...

I thought that said “nine hundred arrested” for a second. I then realised it was a march of violent racists bent on trouble as usual, and not a horde of pensioners wanting an end to genocide, and it was actually nine arrested.

Thanks Starmer, you utter prick.

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Why does he - and all the shits on the extreme right - never ask this question of themselves and arson attacks on migrant hotels, riots, beatings, vandalism etc?

2/3 We have seen in real time how those with resources & determination can redirect politics and popular beliefs against invented scapegoats (the “woke”) and real ones (antiracist activists, transgender people and above all immigrants) …

Oh FFS...

Thanks Larry, yes I'm ok thanks - was quite a whack into my side but no lasting damage.

Someone just cycled at speed into me on the pavement as I was waiting at a bus stop, got off, yelled at me, threatened me and wanted to start on me. Even so, on reflection I think he's still less dangerous than most Range Rover drivers.

Thanks for posting this Marcus, as good and succinct response as any. This exchange otherwise is as, I feared it might, quickly getting into sealioning territory.

The serious risk of complete collapse of the Amazon, warm water coral ecosystems, ocean currents that sustain life in the north, and loss of habitable zones across much of the world is not what's been before just manageably a bit worse. All the money in the world will not deal with these things.

Abstract from 2015 Nature Geoscience paper by Kevin Anderson where he states: delivery of palatable 2°C scenarios depends on speculative negative emissions or changing the past.

Excerpt from paper by Kevin Anderson where he states: negative emissions technologies are not an insurance policy, but an unjust and high-stakes gamble.

As @kevinclimate.bsky.social has pointed out till he's blue in the face, including overshoot in scenarios and policy + relying on tech to deal with it, has always been about what's politically palatable / kicking can down the road (including by scientists) not what is known to be effective and fair.

But sure, let's go ahead and expand Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton etc etc etc...

⚡Calling all environmental researchers and members of the climate movement - big news! ⚡

We’ve just released our new book, The Psychology of Collective Climate Action - and it’s Open Access!

You can download the book from Routledge or on our Wandelwerk page: www.wandel-werk.org/en/materialien

Meanwhile in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, Starmer is having disabled Royal Air Force veterans arrested: #UK

Farage has only ever been on the side of his grotesque, braying, monied class cohort. He isn’t really a politician of any kind, but a lobbyist by nature whose ego led him to short circuit the system. There is no excuse at this late stage: normalise him, you’re inviting & enabling catastrophe.

Chris Mason: Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before The conference feels like that of a big party - but retains the insurgency vibe that the party is seeking to channel.

Incredible piece from BBC's political editor.
Breathless wonder and awe, unashamedly thrilled to be there.
No mention that star guest today, greeted with a standing ovation, was convicted of incitement to racial hatred for calling for asylum seekers to be burned alive.
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