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Climate Defiance Doc 'Just Look Up' Enlists Adam McKay, Billie Eilish The Climate Defiance doc 'Just Look Up,' premiering at CPH:DOX, is boosted by E.P. Adam McKay and songs by Billie Elish, Chappell Roan, and Doechii.

“In the end, this isn’t simply a film about protest. It is about the stubborn human impulse to fight for a livable future. It is also about the odd mix of defiance, humor, and sheer determination it takes to do it.”

The ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Brewing in Pennsylvania’s Waterways - Inside Climate News Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of fracking waste, some of it radioactive.

Fracking waste has a mix of chemicals from fracking fluid + others leached from underground.

Arsenic, lead, cancer-causing benzenes, radioactive radium can all be present.

It's being dumped in Pennsylvania landfills.

Mounting evidence says it's getting into rivers:

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B.C. Doctors Flag Alarming Health Trends Near Fracking Sites Researchers met with the city of Dawson Creek in British Columbia to share insights about how fracking in the region is affecting public health.

- Cancers
- unexplained scarring on the lungs
- impaired fetal growth
- premature birth
- heart disease

Canadian doctors warn of alarming health trends near fracking sites:

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New research from Leeds Uni this week backs up your fears...

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As always, this is essential reading. If your MP is on this site, share George’s post and ask what they are doing about it.

The Hunger Gap A gulf in public understanding prevents us from seeing how and why our food supply is at risk.

In 2023, I sought to explain to a parliamentary committee what a structural collapse of the global food system would look like, and why this this is plausible - even likely. I think the likelihood has just ratcheted up a notch. I beg you to read and understand. Thanks
www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...

Campaigners who thought they'd won the battle to prevent fracking in Lincolnshire dismayed to learn mayor Andrea Jenkyns is courting fracking firm, Egdon -

- vow to keep fighting to protect their homes from pollution:

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They treat their "pets" the same way they treat the citizens of the countries they colonise.

Objectively correct today, and it was true at the turn of the century. If believed people in e.g. Lebanon, Syria or Iraq were real people whose lives matter, we would’ve stopped doing this stuff decades ago.

Dramatic rise in water-related violence recorded since 2022 Experts say climate crisis, corruption and lack or misuse of infrastructure among factors driving water conflicts

As we witness the horror of attacks on desalination plants, we need to be aware, on a warming planet, conflict over water, using water as a weapon of war, & targeting people seeking water is on the rise

- in the past 4 years, it's nearly doubled:

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And then, of course, there’s climate change. The piece makes no mention of the additional emissions that would result from more North Sea drilling, nor the associated carbon capture and removal costs of trying to deal with them.

Energy security rests not with the US but in the North Sea We must be able to keep the lights on and our houses warm without relying on the goodwill of Donald Trump

This is much better than the usual ‘drill, baby, drill’ editorials. But it still overstates the case for new licenses by a sizeable margin and is guilty of a very big omission.
observer.co.uk/news/busines...

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

This happened. The print interview was edited in ways that feel very jumpy, but I got to say some things. Like: Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war. [and then there's a crazy jump-cut w/out transition.]

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything. We don’t have to surrender.” 💯

- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

We are back to “Israel” says in the news cycle

It is appalling to reflect that the death of far right influencer Charlie Kirk precipitated an orgy of “national mourning” while the deaths of US servicemen in an illegal war barely even register.

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

As if this week's news wasn't intense enough...

Global warming is now speeding up. Quite a lot, as it happens.

2) Overshoot will not be temporary or even reversible. Some of the proposed plans to reverse temperatures are, upon inspection, extremely threadbare, serving as little more than mood music intended to maintain optimism. The reality is that large-scale carbon dioxide removal, does not exist. 5/11

Yes we can no we didn’t Those who cannot learn from past failures are condemned to repeat them (apologies to Santayana)

I've been fortunate enough to meet many formidably smart, fully committed, & thoroughly decent people who, for years, have strived to try to avert dangerous climate change.

They failed.

Saying that does not lessen my gratitude to them, 1/11

www.technosphere.earth/yes-we-can-n...

Labour is losing voters to progressive parties disproportionately. And they are not mainly "lanyard" professional or working classes, the oppositional forces of Blue Labour and right discourse. It's squeezed millennials in service careers. Which our politics ignores. • Demographically, most progressive defectors are frustrated lower middle class Millennials - not affluent urbanites or a PMC 'lanyard class. Though they have liberal social values, many are frustrated graduates; Millennials with a mortgage or rent they are struggling to afford - primary school teachers, IT support or clerical workers. In short, the face of the modern social democratic voter.

Speaking as a lower middle class graduate with an office job and a mortgage, born in the late seventies, I would say: this is half my social circle and most of the people I worked with for years. How in the name of Christ did nobody in politics or media see this coming?

Yes we can no we didn’t Those who cannot learn from past failures are condemned to repeat them (apologies to Santayana)

We failed to avert dangerous climate change. That has consequences. Here I discuss three that, alas, no government seems to want to publicly acknowledge. My latest for Technosphere Earth
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"Yes we can avoid further dangerous climate change, we can stop the destruction of nature, we can begin the transformation of our societies so that they live in balance with the Earth system"

Great post as always. That we haven't prevented it doesn't make it unpreventable

Good news: Scientists were wrong about how bad sea level rise is.

Bad news: It’s even worse than we thought.

The sea is higher than we thought and millions more are at risk, study finds A new study in the journal Nature says most sea level rise research may have underestimated coastal water heights by an average of 1 foot or about 30 centimeters.

Good news everyone!

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I don't think I'll ever recover from the media and political classes receiving a cornucopia of evidence that the world is ruled - still, today - by a global paedophile cabal and carrying on as if it was a regular Tuesday

We will soon have an interactive map so you can find a screening of the film in your area and invite your MP to that… please keep an eye on our website in about 2 weeks

Has your MP joined the Parliamentary Call for a televised emergency briefing to the nation on the threats from climate change and nature loss?
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Have they watched the expert briefings?
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