Shannon Ray

A figure showing all ghg emissions rising

Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.

This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.

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My feeling is: I knew they wouldn’t be terrific, but what I never expected was that Labour, upon election, would just inexplicably become a hard right party whose main thing is to contemptuously shit on everything people hold dear?

The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right | Aditya Chakrabortty For too long, the centre has been adopting the language of the right but deploying it with greater civility – to disastrous ends, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right | Aditya Chakrabortty

Oh look at that it’s just Keir Starmer being an actual comic book villain again

Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this

Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan

“This is one of the most immaculate small-screen entertainment formats ever devised.” Totally absurd and yet absolutely true. This show somehow continues to be a wildly unserious, uniquely compelling work of art

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🌐 Program Manager, Global Strategic Partnerships (deadline: Nov 7)
🔬 Research Fellow (deadline: Nov 2)
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The 20th-century economist Robert Solow created the theory of infinite economic growth by substituting "technological innovation" for the productivity of land in his model, thereby decoupling the economy from any limits imposed by land or ecosystems.

The world took his theory as gospel.

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His name is Kshamenk A whale lies motionless behind concrete walls on Argentina’s coast. His name is Kshamenk.

He has been captive for thirty-three years: for more than twenty he has lived entirely alone.

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

📣 Calling all UK scientists.
Please sign a letter urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing on the threats from ongoing damage to #climate & #nature - alongside positive actions.


A non-partisan high-level summary of the science.

Details in the reply 👇

When does daylight saving time end and how do I adapt? Experts explain how to reset your body clock and why permanent standard time makes sense

When does daylight saving time end and how do I adapt?

“Nature connectedness is not just about what we do, but how we feel, think, and value our place in the living world.”

Interesting that the suggested solutions are nature prescriptions, RoN, and BNG. Seem inadequate when the causes are (as ever) capitalism and the ideology of human exceptionalism.

Low nature connectedness associated with biodiversity loss, inequality, diminished wellbeing, and the prioritisation of material gains.

“Factors found by the study to be linked to a lack of connection with nature included levels of urbanisation, mean income and internet use.”

💚 Greens are in second place for (I think) the first time ever in a poll.

🥀 First we replace Labour. Then we overtake Reform.

📩 Help us get there: join.greenparty.org.uk

The two party duopoly is dead and buried.

But sadly the civets in question are taken from the wild and made to live in cages to produce it 😬

“Keir starmer insists human, not robot”

1. It's fascinating to see, as you can from the responses to the post below, how many daft things people believe, to justify their continued meat eating. So let's examine a few of the common myths in the following thread. 🧵

For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type.
By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.

Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar Antibiotic use in farming is now rampant. How meat is produced in China may mean the drugs you need here won’t work, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburg...

Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!"
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I have a rep as a party pooper when it comes to fires but I will (not) die on this hill (unless it’s second degree because my neighbors clearly dgaf)

They’re at all the supermarkets in the UK but I’m not sure where/if you can get them in the US 🤔

Braeburn are a fab honeycrisp dupe

When you see the cold numbers -- 8% cuts in emissions needed per year, every year, from now -- it's clear that even 2° is a fantasy

(Emissions only fell 5% during covid, when much of the world economy shut down)

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

This is very sad, but also not surprising. The science has warned for a long time, including in IPCC reports, that even modest levels of global warming will devastate virtually all coral reefs.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why All Animals Are Sentient, and Machines Will Never Be Even the smallest sea slug feels pain. That means we have a responsibility not to inflict it.

Link for the lazy: www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-all...

Everything in here is spot on—

“The reign of the ancien regime is finally over…It is essential to reach voters where they are, knocking on doors, listening to what they say about what matters to them, then turning out a stream of TikTok and Instagram videos, delivering messages that resonate.”

@aptshadow.bsky.social just finished Children of Ruin - “and invite them on the journey, if they wish to come.” Surely “and invite them on the adventure, if they wish to come”!!???? Was there a reason you went for “journey” instead?

If Labour is no longer a tactical vote, think what we could do if we united behind the @greenparty.org.uk 💚

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.