There are quite a few cynical and sinister figures in British public life. But Tony Blair is among the very worst. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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There are quite a few cynical and sinister figures in British public life. But Tony Blair is among the very worst. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.
Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Access to nature shouldn't be for the lucky few.
The Charter for Community Rights includes the right to roam and swim, because we all should be able to enjoy rivers, coasts and countryside, safely, responsibly, and without being shut out.
Sign the Charter:
charterfordemocracy.org
In the #XRGlobal Newsletter #104, you’ll see solutions at work. You’ll see direct actions, better ways to spend money, and resources to learn about what the real world really looks like.. and how we can make it look together.
Read The Full Newsletter in multiple languages at :
bit.ly/xrnews104
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Rhetoric framing minoritised communities as an existential threat - and falsely framing this as genocide - is notoriously dangerous.
This is what advertisers are associating with by supporting GB News www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...
Such myopic hate speech is an indicator that they have already lost the debate and rely on binary racism as their stand in for a rational reason for why we should swallow their lies. #HopeNotHate
Image is a screenshot of a reasoned amendment to the Courts and Tribunals Bill. It is signed by Siân Berry, Hannah Spencer, Carla Denyer, Dr Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay. It reads: That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Courts and Tribunals Bill because it is an inadequate and dangerous response to the challenges faced by the courts; it does not provide the correct solutions to the chronic backlog of cases in the Crown Court; it would not address the long-term underfunding that has led to the degradation of court systems, infrastructure and buildings; it would limit the crucial civil liberty and constitutional protection of trial by a jury of one’s own peers by removing defendants’ right to elect the Crown Court for all triable either-way offences; this change would cover a range of protest-related offences, and because protest rights and free speech, which act as safeguards against authoritarianism, have already been eroded by this Government and should not be limited further; jury trials build public trust and confidence in the courts and act as a space of shared civic responsibility that builds social cohesion; more effective interventions could be implemented that do not roll back fundamental rights, including expanding the use of ‘blitz courts’, increasing the number of sitting days, removing from the system cases that are no longer in the public interest to prosecute, increasing investment in legal aid, improving court case management technology, and bringing in more efficient processes to ensure defendants are brought to court and to the dock on time; and removing rights to judgment by one’s own peers may have the unintended consequence of increasing court backlogs through a rise in appeals.
🚨We have tabled an amendment to reject the Government’s sinister attempt to remove jury trials including for many protest related offences.
Our civil liberties have already been eroded by this Govt and should not be limited any further.
Greens are standing up against Labour's toolkit for tyrants.
Emissions (grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour) from North Sea gas vs LNG imports. Source: Carbon Brief analysis
Factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive
Read here: buff.ly/IoMIeUt
*Half* of all UK media reports about Muslims contain negative bias, according to a new study, together with widespread "sweeping generalisations".
"The highest rates were recorded by GB News (39%), The Telegraph (32%), Daily Express (24%), The Times (22%), The Sun (21%) and the Daily Mail (20%)"
Chart showing the exponential collapse of the lag, extrapolated to 2.0C. Reference points show 10, 20 and 30 year lag scenarios projecting 2033, 2043 and 2053 respectively.
1/🌡️ Global warming passed a milestone on 17th Nov 2023 that barely made the news
For the first time ever, the world's daily average temperature was 2.0°C above pre-industrial levels
Here's what the data says about when that becomes the annual norm, & whether it's coming sooner than anyone expects🧵
Corbyn's call for parliamentary approval for foreign use of UK military bases for armed conflict is backed by our newest MP, the Greens Hannah Spencer
War is the biggest environmental crime on Earth. Every bomb dropped poisons the air, the soil, and the water. Cities burn, ecosystems collapse, and generations inherit landscapes filled with toxins, rubble, and trauma. War doesn’t only kill people. It destroys the living systems that sustain life itself. In a time of climate and ecological emergency, escalating conflict is a direct assault on the planet and on our shared future. Extinction Rebellion stands against war. Extinction Rebellion stands against ecocide. A livable world cannot be built on endless violence. Peace, justice, and ecological protection are inseparable.
War is the biggest environmental crime on Earth. Every bomb dropped poisons the air, the soil, and the water. Cities burn, ecosystems collapse, and generations inherit landscapes filled with toxins, rubble, and trauma…
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Built on stolen land just like apartheid Israel
Dirty Water Facts🤮
English water companies have racked up nearly 1,200 criminal convictions for pollution🤢
Paid £88bn dividends💰
Dumped raw sewage in rivers & seas for 35 years💩
Caused hospitalisation of swimmer with sepsis🏥
Yet not one CEO ever charged 🤷
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Ocean Regime Shift 🦠
Most climate talk is about land, forests, floods, fire. But the oceans? Barely mentioned.
Seaweed blooms have exploded, damaging the fragile balance of our world.
Oceans produce half the oxygen we breathe and absorb a third of our carbon
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just the BBC’s Clive Myrie and Justin Webb rationalising an @theonion.com headline as if it were a valid viewpoint rather than satire 🤯
#Iran.
Now there is hope! It's no longer a choice between grim and grimmer. We can vote for who we want and win. Anywhere.
It's just one constituency, but the Green victory in Gorton and Denton is an electric shock to our political system.
"I really want to encourage more people from backgrounds like mine to get into a system that has always shut us out."
Hannah Spencer MP: plumber, plasterer, parliamentarian
The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member.
We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Greens win shows the old system is cracking 🎉
But voting isn’t enough, real change comes from people who refuse to accept climate destruction. We need resistance, non-violent disruption and mass action.
#GortonandDentonByElection
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
satellite image of snow covered Britain from 2010
New York underwater.
Agriculture in Northern Europe wiped out by a big freeze.
Southern Europe plunged into drought.
That’s what's coming if the AMOC current in the Atlantic keeps slowing or shuts down altogether.
How can we be so sure? Because we got a preview in 2009. 🧵
What a piece of work…full of vitriol and lies. We hope her children can see beyond the propaganda and profiteering.
Heat extremes caused an estimated 546,000 deaths every year between 2012 - 2021, a 63% rise on rates in the 1990s, reports @thelancet.com. “That's the equivalent of a fully loaded jumbo jet full of people going down once every 7hrs throughout the year,” Prof Ollie Jay, Heat & Health Research Centre
Palestine Action activists are finally being released from jail today. This is Heba Muraisi who was on hunger strike for over 2 months in protest against jail conditions. None have been convicted of any crime and should never have been locked up. They are heros.
Utter shame on the UK government
APA Division 34 (Society for Environmental, Population & Conservation Psychology) invites abstract submissions for its Virtual Conference “Advancing Sustainable Development Goals Through Psychological Research” June 5–6
Abstract Deadline: March 1st
More information: www.sepcp.org/virtual-conf...
Bristol Climate Choir and Switched Campaign sing outside Bristol University in a downpour.
Switch to a climate friendly bank today! It's one of the most impactful things an individual can do (obv joining a mass movement is even better.) See bank.green and @switched_campaign #boycottbarclays
Anyone in the news talking about this?
Anybody?!?
🚨BREAKING NEWS!
Medics that broke windows at JP Morgan HQ to expose fossil fuel financing links to climate devastation found NOT GUILTY today by jurors.
The climate crisis is a health crisis and health professionals have a duty to act when lives are at risk.
Read more here:
healthforxr.com
The @ScienceMuseum.org.uk is hosting an exhibition on climate breakdown in Latin America while accepting sponsorship from BP and Adani, 2 of the world’s biggest polluters.
How can we take their message seriously when they’re funded by the very companies driving the destruction? #ClimateJustice
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This channel has been lying about CO2 saying that all the additional outputs from anthropogenic sources don’t add to “a hill of beans”. They’ve probably using the flawed logic from a “think tank” that more CO2 come from “natural sources” !
