James Dyke

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I think that will be strongly determined by where you locate the solar farm.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

“But even if you don’t have hope, it doesn’t really matter.

This is about defiance.

It’s about doing the right thing, fighting for democracy & for people to not be exploited.

Even if we fail, at the very least, we didn’t contribute to the problem.”

@defendourjuries.bsky.social @quaker.org.uk

Climate change: new method can more accurately attribute environmental harm to individual polluters Claimants in climate liability cases will benefit from a new emissions attribution method.

Claimants in climate liability cases will benefit from a new emissions attribution method.

Like trying to adapt to climate change by building higher and higher sea walls to keep back the waters. Eventually the barricades will be breached and system collapses. What else will be brought down when this feedback loop transitions to reinforcing?

This example dispenses with even the window dressing of ‘clean coal’ by refusing to acknowledge the environmental impacts burning coal produces. This will work until it doesn’t.

And that’s not just the reality of human-caused climate change, but the reality of an accelerating deployment of renewable energy systems which the US gov seems determined to ignore. And so will be left behind. All that talk about China…

We can see this with increasing political spend of fossil fuels in politics and the reality-defying lengths needed to support fossil fuels.

It wasn’t inevitable, but it’s not a surprising result of the existential risk that the energy transition represents to fossil fuel interests. More and more work is required to justify fossil fuel use.

Plug-in solar panels are the latest green energy trend – here’s what you need to know Watts up with Balkonkraftwerk? A solar energy expert crunches the numbers.

Not sure if this is relevant, but might be helpful theconversation.com/plug-in-sola...

Motherfucking wind farms…

Cooper is the classic “good parliamentary performer, doesn’t mean they should be anywhere near power”

Not surprising that her star rose in the Boris era. She’s essentially Boris for FBPE liberals.

A forest garden project attempts to expand into the Sahel Drought, irregular rainfall, deforestation, and the legacy of unsustainable human activities have left vast areas across the arid and semiarid regions of sub-Saharan Africa degraded, causing major…

A project in the Sahel and East Africa claims to fight both soil erosion and poverty through regenerative agroforestry.

However, some experts say the potential for scaling up is limited, especially in the semiarid Sahel region, given the need for easily accessible sources of water.

Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public. Hundreds of documents show how researchers failed to notify officials in California about a test of technology to block the sun’s rays — while they planned a much huger sequel.

EXCLUSIVE: A team of researchers in California drew notoriety last year with an aborted test of a cloud-making machine.  

But behind the scenes, they were planning a larger and potentially riskier study of tech that could dim the sun's rays, internal documents show. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

World's top court opens door to compensation from countries responsible for climate crisis International Court of Justice rules that governments have a legal duty to prevent and repair damage to the climate system

The world’s top court has just opened the door to compensation from countries responsible for climate crisis

www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/23/w...

Top UN court says countries can sue each other over climate change The decision from the world's highest court has been welcomed by developing nations at most risk from climate change.

Landmark decision by top UN court clears way for countries to sue each other over climate change, including over historic emissions of planet-warming gases:

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

YouTube video by City Atlas Drew Pendergrass: physicist, climate scientist, writer, activist, game developer

A direct outcome of having the world's best system of higher education.
youtu.be/JWya0WuNyzI?...

The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...

Hot off the @propublica.org presses: We're publishing bios of all 238 of the Venezuelan men who Trump sent to CECOT in an interactive database: projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

‘Compassion and care are being stripped away’: a Just Stop Oil activist on her time in prison Louise Lancaster reflects on the unique challenges faced by neurodivergent inmates, raising concerns for those left behind

‘Compassion and care are being stripped away’: a Just Stop Oil activist on her time in prison www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Automakers Are Canceling Plans for New EVs. Here’s a List of What’s Been Killed So Far Shifts in economic policy and manufacturing have led major automakers to cancel upcoming electric vehicle launches in the US.

Carmakers announce EV plans loudly, cancel them quietly:

Sheep are destroying precious British habitats – and we taxpayers are footing the bill | Chris Packham Large parts of Dartmoor have been denuded of wildlife, harmed by farming and a mess of government schemes that are costly in every way, says naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham

0.1% of Dartmoor in good ecological condition. And each Dartmoor ewe loses its owner £16.90 – the ecological and economic craziness of the current sheep grazing regime well explained by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social. Time to change how this amazing place is managed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

The Trump administration is set to incinerate nearly 500 tonnes of emergency food, enough to feed 1.5 million children for a week. Despite repeated requests from USAID staff to distribute the food intended for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, they did not receive approval.

At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating
"I support
Palestine.
Action
must be taken."
My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people

Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann 'Simple physics’: How climate change is making natural disasters deadlier | My interview yesterday on @msnbc @ChrisJansing Reports: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NH8_EDxl9Ko&ab_channel=MSNBC youtube.com ‘Simple physics’: How climate change is making natural disasters... At least 119 are dead and over 170 people are still missing after the catastrophic flooding in Texas. NBC News’ Jay Gray and The Kerry County Lead Editor and... 12:23 AM · Jul 11, 2025 · 2,334 Views

Michael E. Mann ‪@michaelemann.bsky.social‬ 'Simple physics’: How climate change is making natural disasters deadlier | My interview yesterday on @msnbc.com #ChrisJansingReports: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH8_... ‘Simple physics’: How climate change is making natural disasters deadlier YouTube video by MSNBC www.youtube.com July 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM Everybody can reply 37 reposts 1 quote 97 likes 4 38

A little demonstration, using a @michaelemann.bsky.social posted both on Bluesky and on X

X: (208,100 followers) - 10 RTs, 19 likes

Bluesky: (88,800 followers) - 37 RTs, 97 likes

I don't know why so many are returning to MuskChan right now but it surely isn't for "the engagement"

George Retes pictured smiling in his US Army uniform with his arm around his wife, Guadalupe, who is also in Army uniform

UPDATE: Three days on, disabled veteran and US citizen George Retes is still missing after being kidnapped by ICE.

His wife has phoned every law enforcement agency in the area, they all say they don’t know where he is.

It was his daughter’s third birthday yesterday.

This is America now.

Compliance won't protect you from the UK's witch hunt Protesting genocide is now an act of terrorism in the UK

Compliance won't protect you from the UK's witch hunt: Protesting genocide is now an act of terrorism in the UK.

"Centralised power demands we police ourselves. We need to overwhelm the system by refusing to do their police work."

Read it now: www.planetcritical.com/p/compliance...

Please read this: what James says is profoundly important. I’ve crossed the line with these young people & alongside parents and grandparents, but where are the rest of you? Not only are you failing to stand up for the young, you’re condemning them to unjust treatment. There’s safety in numbers.

My latest inspired by a conversation with Jonathon Porritt during last week’s @gsiexeter.bsky.social Global Tipping Points Conference .
jamesdyke.substack.com/p/eco-grief-...

This is theft, plain and simple. They stole this from you. Every deletion, every erasure, every website that goes dark is a crime against the American public

The paperback for Saving Ourselves is OUT! As we face the polycrisis of democratic decline in our warming world and climate shocks like the floods in Texas hit harder and come more frequently, it's time for us to be the changemakers we need. www.danarfisher.com/pre-order-book