New: The number of days where extreme heat makes it too dangerously hot to walk the dog, sweep the porch and engage in other ordinary pursuits has doubled since 1950. Older people experience a month a year when heat prevents them from routine activities. Free link.
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2/2 and with no insurance, no mortgages; and with no mortgages, no property market. Insurance protects investments against loss and is therefore a pillar of the economic system. If it goes, economies are destabilised."
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Do rich people not know they need to breathe too? After binge watching The Agency and Selling Sunset and seeing so many high end properties with open fire places/inserts (even in LA??!!! It's not cold!) it would appear not. #airpollutionkills #PM2.5
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
“Thanks for the explanation.” = If you had told me this last week, you would’ve saved me a lot of time.
“Perhaps there was a misunderstanding.” = You didn’t fucking listen to me.
“I suppose that’s one way to go about it.” = Stop improvising and just do what I asked you to do.
🧠🌍New EEA briefing: Pollution exposure linked to depression, anxiety and suicide risk.
#MentalHealth disorders are among the leading causes of disease burden in Europe. While their origins are complex, a growing body of scientific evidence points to pollution as a contributing risk factor [...]
This is nuts and my take away is that I shouldn't play football with my nephew anymore (which happens about once a year and is the most intense 20 minute exercise of my year-he is 6) because I will blatantly tear my ACL
'Amsterdam passed a world-first motion seeking to end the "excesses" of unsustainable advertising, such as "flying vacations at rock-bottom prices". And the city's newly passed ban goes even further by restricting advertising for meat as well as fossil fuel products.'
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An EU report from 2017 showed that 85% of schemes were ineffective, and an investigation in 2023 showed that 90% of rainforest offsets were worthless.
A tree doesn’t instantly absorb the carbon of your flight – it takes a lifetime for one tree to absorb an estimated tonne of CO2.
“Now we will wait for the fires in summer.”
There are problems with a geoengineering techno-fix for the climate crisis | Mike Hulme
If Krakow can do this so can Brussels - ban wood burning to save lives (and save me four thousand sodding euros to install a special filter on our mechanical ventilation system to filter out the pollution from all our neighbours wood burners which currently enters our house)
www.latimes.com/environment/... as someone who writes letters to politicians to try to get them to enforce a ban on wood fire burners this is depressing reading #airpollutionkills #AIslop
Please read this, your life, and that of your children's lives, depend on understanding this. It is all unrolled on one page, and fully supported by references. Please do not just ignore it, and if you think I have it wrong, then please say so. But please support it?
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We've updated our research on the precise extent of aviation emissions. Need some solid stats to back up your flight free conversations? Look no further. flightfree.co.uk/post/what-ha...
Your house needs to quit smoking #airpollutionkills #woodfireburners #cosykiller #dontburnwherewebreathe #PM2.5
NEW: Have your say on DEFRA’s solid fuel burning consultation.
If you're affected by #WoodBurning, this is a critical moment to get your views across to the government. We've created some guidance to help you respond - the deadline is 19th March. Please share far and wide!
#AirPollution #Health
Wood Burners & Open Fires - The Cosy Killer
#AirPollution #WoodBurning #Health #Environment
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I'm listening to The Discomfort Practice | Episode #125: James Murray on Climate Change, Tipping Points & Practicing Optimism on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/ea/dir-z88wd...
“It is believed to be the first time anywhere in the country that such drastic measures have been taken as a result of the climate emergency, earning the road’s residents an unenviable moniker: they are the UK’s first climate evacuees.”
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SALES DIRECTOR: Why no kitchen table?
DESIGN LEAD: Because kitchen tables are for fucking Candyland. We’re selling a political mode of thinking: deduction as power. Think less “family night,” and more “I will find the hidden structure of your choices, and then I will destroy you.”
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
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Just burning candles is a dementia risk and affects cognitive function, so imagine the risk from open fires and wood-burning stoves in your home #airpollution #dontburnwherewebreathe #PM2.5 #woodburning
Thinking about what Charlie Sheen said in his documentary, he wasn't paying for the sex, he was paying for the girls to leave afterwards. These men don't want the relationship or any kind of responsibility to anybody else
You may’ve seen coverage of a new report on the threat to national security from environmental collapse.
A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!”
A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉
Template letter to the commune to ask them to inform their residents about the harms of wood fire burning - in my case I sent it to Watermael-Boitsfort #WB1170 #airpollutionkills #dontburnwherewebreathe #wherethereisfirethereissmoke dontburnwherewebreathe.com/2026/01/23/t...
A graphic with dark blue background showing orange smoke‑cloud icons and text about Clean Air Night. The message reads: ‘We all want to stay warm this winter… but cosiness shouldn’t cost the health of our communities. This #CleanAirNight share the uncomfortable truth about wood burning.’ Logos for Clean Air Night, Global Action Plan, and Impact on Urban Health appear at the bottom, along with the date 22 January 2026.
Many aren't aware that burning wood at home can seriously impact indoor and outdoor air quality. Tonight is Clean Air Night - learn about how to protect your health and your home:
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How much does this PM 2.5 pollution have to do with wood fire burners? I was very surprised watching 'Selling Manhattan' how many luxury apartments came with fireplaces, how can they not know how bad they are for air quality? And how is it fire safe in an apartment? #airpollutionkills
