Really glad to see this - I have felt a bit lonely trying to think through editing AI pieces, though my job on this front is way more contained, itβs increasingly challenging
06.12.2025 20:39 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0@timsmedley.bsky.social
That environmental writer. Editor of The New Climate (medium.com/the-new-climate). Author of The Last Drop (https://a.co/d/i5grqa9) & Clearing the Air (https://a.co/d/6AynmFZ). Climate columnist for @prospectmagazine.co.uk (https://shorturl.at/eCU5h).
Really glad to see this - I have felt a bit lonely trying to think through editing AI pieces, though my job on this front is way more contained, itβs increasingly challenging
06.12.2025 20:39 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
05.12.2025 16:35 β π 3261 π 1258 π¬ 36 π 0And HEEEERE it is!!
The REAL solutions to fix immigration for all - for a system we can be proud of!
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Unseen Tours trains people with experience of homelessness to become walking tour guides of London. They're currently running a Crowdfunder to help support their guides through winter - but are only at 29% of target. So do give if you can.
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Kelly Latimore artist. Holy family as immigrants from Latin America
FIRST WEEK OF ADVENT
"For I was a stranger and you welcomed me".
Sick of constant demonisation of migrants on #bbcqt & failed cruelty being the only answer from spineless politicians?
Look out for my report launching at 11am with 9 evidence-backed proposals to ACTUALLY fix the immigration system!
With @anothereurope.bsky.social & @fesonline.bsky.social
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I suspect the real reason Nigel Farage is getting so rattled by the racism allegations is that:
1) He knows he said all these things so can't properly deny them
2) He knows that he carried on saying them well into adulthood
Bad journalism has real-life consequences.
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04.12.2025 17:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Vladimir Putin "must have authorised" the 2018 Salisbury novichok attack and bears βmoral responsibilityβ for the death of a British mother who was accidentally poisoned with the nerve agent that was intended to kill a former spy Sergei Skripal, an inquiry has found
www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/w...
This hasn't aged well.
04.12.2025 14:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is the image for the latest The New Climate newsletter a little too on-the-nose? Oh well.
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So many think-pieces this year on how the 'public' is over climate and that's why there's been backsliding. Couldn't possibly be that actually, as soon as real momentum was building, an industry with more money than God started acting behind the scenes on governments and media to stop that momentum
04.12.2025 10:24 β π 17 π 8 π¬ 1 π 1It was auto industry execs.
So far I have:
Ford CEO Jim Farley
General Motors Co. plant manager at the Orion Assembly site, John Urbanic.
Michigan U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
Lots of kids speak 2 languages at home - including presumably his own when they were young.
03.12.2025 22:49 β π 191 π 13 π¬ 11 π 0This month's newsletter from The New Climate: COP-ing mechanisms, celebrating the Chinese New Era, Solastalgia, and Solutions...
medium.com/the-new-clim...
The stories leading on The New Climate @medium.com homepage today, are... [1/4] medium.com/the-new-clim...
02.12.2025 11:35 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0pros and cons list of Putting in protected mobility lanesPros reduce fatalities, reduce injuries, more people biking, less pollution, economic boost, less congestion, healthier population, kids biking/rolling to school, safer sidewalks, helps address the climate emergency, increase active transportation, more inclusive spaces. Cons: A driver might get mad.
If only the pros outweighed the cons.
02.12.2025 16:45 β π 333 π 120 π¬ 3 π 8(All above links are unapologetically $Β£. It's punishingly hard for freelancers to make money writing nowadays. That said, if desperate to read or share any, let me know and I can send you a gift link).
02.12.2025 11:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And finally, 'Searching for The Lost Amazon'.
Taking part in an AI competition to discover ancient Amazonian cities became my education in modern climate catastrophe. By Subramanimokkala.
medium.com/the-new-clim...
'Getting Lost in one of Europeβs Last Remaining Rainforests'.
Montenegroβs Biogradska Gora is a healthy, complex ecosystem that mitigates climate change and points to a working conservation approach. By Joel Zachary Down
medium.com/the-new-clim...
'Reviving Life in the Planetβs Harshest Places'.
Lessons from the UAE, Africa, and India show that solutions to desertification can be simpler than you think. By Durkha @ Terra Palss
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'So I Guess Weβre Going to Adapt to Climate Change'.
Plan B is now Plan A, by George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social
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The stories leading on The New Climate @medium.com homepage today, are... [1/4] medium.com/the-new-clim...
02.12.2025 11:35 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in todayβs @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
We have a rainy season now, not winter in most of the UK.
01.12.2025 12:57 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence π₯
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