Simon Lewis

I also think the same. AI is a revolution like writing or computing. But on a much shorter timescale.

Huge new work in the central Congo peatlands, showing that the peatlands began forming 42,000 years ago. Culmination of around 15 major expeditions over the past decade, and a huge effort by many people.

It’s not OK for the UK to continue oil and gas exploration. And my advice to DRC, as basic economics, is not to try build what is a new industry in DRC, that is also a dying industry. Invest effort in the industries of the future.

It is!

Gorilla habitats and pristine forest at risk as DRC opens half of country to oil and gas drilling bids Government launches licensing round for 52 fossil fuel blocks, potentially undermining a flagship conservation initiative and affecting an estimated 39 million people

Democratic Republic of the Congo, again, opens its forests and peatlands for auction for oil exploration. Shockingly reckless. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The business secretary Jonathan Reynolds says the racist protesters intimidating asylum seekers in Epping are "upset for legitimate reasons.”
I don't remember any Labour frontbencher saying the same about people protesting the genocide in Gaza. On the contrary, they've criminalised peaceful dissent.

🌍 BREAKING: Climate impunity ends today - by order of the world’s highest court.

The International Court of Justice has spoken:
✅ States are legally obliged to act
✅ Inaction = human rights violation
✅ Polluters must be held accountable

This is a legal revolution for our planet.

Wonderful thread.

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.

This opinion is a seismic win for climate justice - brought about by tireless organising by young people from frontline communities.

Polluting states will be held accountable for the harm they have caused.

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

The same system that is poisoning our rivers is poisoning our minds. Great line in this video:

"Shell and other leading energy groups have abandoned a six-year-long attempt to define a “net zero” emissions strategy after being told that such a standard would require them to stop developing new oil and gas fields, according to documents seen by the Financial Times."

Building wrap of Jabaliya camp in Gaza opposite Labour Party HQ reads "Protesting this isn't terrorism"

🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London.

We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

Across the UK the police are arresting people for terrorism offenses, but there is no word from the government, police or media about ANY terrorism or any terror being stopped. Everyone knows that the outlawing of Palestine Action is merely a cynical tool to silence criticism of the government.

We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales.

This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.

We are doing this and history will never forgive us.

Gaza:

Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels sign declaration of principles for a permanent ceasefire in the east Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels have signed a declaration in Qatar to end decades of conflict in eastern Congo.

BREAKING: Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels signed a declaration of principles in Qatar to end a decades long fighting in eastern Congo that commits them to a permanent ceasefire and a comprehensive peace agreement to be signed in one month.

Being against genocide cuts across class barriers.

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

The video is wild.

And of course this will be front page news across the UK about the curbing of free speech. Not.

Haven’t read this, no doubt a thoughtful read. (Suspect there will be no mention/analysis of class, capitalism or colonialism that fundamentally shape the world we live in, including nature and our collective aspirations).

Here's the total attention to 2025 publications on both X/Twitter and Bluesky. Bluesky has two thirds of Twitter's attention with >10 times fewer users.

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv

They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

BREAKING 🚨: We've just dropped a massive banner off Westminster Bridge to demand the UK Government #StopRosebank

It's time for Keir Starmer make the right choice 👀

Finally something us Brits excel at.

It’s power and capital, not click-bait articles, that have severely limited meaningful climate policy.

The reason we have made too little progress is we are up against a ruthless and amoral multi-billion $ fossil fuel industry that had/has the ears of policy makers.

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

DEADLY HEAT WAVE IN CHINA 48 DEGREES

Heat indexes >55C in the Shaanxi Province where 14 stations broke their all time records (see list) including the provincial record with 42.8C at Xingping
Waterfall of monthly records too

Next days it will be much worse:50C dry in the West,
THIs 60C in the East

Because people value fairness, so climate policy needs to be perceived as fair. (Of course also needs to reduce emissions substantially).

This is so George, making a powerful statement carefully and eloquently.