Andy Prentice
@andyprentice.bsky.social
retired accountant - green campaigner. Born 317.73 ppm Also a fascist oligarch in my spare time
Climate change isn't a choice It's happening, accelerating, destroying property, killing people So policy decisions to drill more oil, gas or coal rescind climate emergency targets go back on net zero withdraw renewable subsidies in effect aids & abets mass murder the death of human civilisation
Wait, aren't we still probing all the fraud from stripping back or ignoring the procurement rules during COVID?
Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 21h agoEXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...
11 social housing apartments in Majorca Spain Gotta love those mint green shutters and terracotta floor tiles! By Oliveras Boix Arquitectes and Cati Mestre
#FactoryFarming, on sea and land: many reasons to stop it. #AMR is a big one. What could go wrong, tossing antibiotics at scale into the sea?😟 phys.org/news/2026-08...
Antibiotic-resistant seafood bacterium found in Vietnam fish farming waters near popular island destination
A bacterium linked to seafood-related illness and capable of resisting multiple antibiotics has been detected in fish-farming waters near Cat Ba Island, Vietnam, according to a new study highlighting ...
phys.org
The way the cladding looks to peel off the facade to provide shading for the windows Apartments in Isfahan, designed by Masih Fazile Studio
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore. When your SpaceX rocket hits the moon like a big piece of junk and you don't give a shit, you're a moron.
"Much of what is said about economics is little better than gaslighting that is meant to confuse us and keep us in our place, using narratives like these…" via Richard Murphy
There is a danger that by arguing the amount, we end up conceding the framing. Britain's welfare is ungenerous, the spend in total is mid-to-low table, and below past peaks. Benefits need reforming because they're unfit for purpose and trap, instead of enabling people. Not to make fantasy savings.
Nuclear Security Is A Hidden Public Cost Of Nuclear Power open.substack.com/pub/michaelb...
Nuclear Security Is A Hidden Public Cost Of Nuclear Power
Security costs stretch across regulators, weapons-adjacent agencies, intelligence, policing, international safeguards and plant sites, but only part appears on utility books.
open.substack.com
The main reason for developing our El Niño prediction capabilities is to mitigate its severe negative consequences.
El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year
UN forecasters warn of worsening conditions in 45 countries currently experiencing severe food insecurity
theguardian.com
So much to #Unlearn in many subjects. Economics is the standout leader in needing to abandon disastrous, failed ideas theconversation.com/decolonizing...
Decolonizing economics means questioning where its ideas came from — and imagining new ones
Calls to decolonize economics challenge the discipline’s foundational assumptions about development, markets and inequality.
theconversation.com
Anyone who has seen the utter terror on the faces of children in villages, towns, cities all over the world being bombed by the USA (and its Irrseli ally) knows who the real terrorists are meme via Rob Handsomeness
Presenters on #r4today have no apparent interest in the hundreds of thousands of people in the UK who died prematurely due to austerity www.theguardian.com/business/202... Making a single death part of a right-wing campaign-Well that's a different story isn't it?
Over 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain linked to austerity, finds study
Research comes as government signals fresh round of public spending cuts
theguardian.com
Imagine how many solar panels you could install, how many homes you could insulate, how many reservoirs you could build for $93 billion. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
Bacton Village Fayre has been going for over 100 years, celebrating the local community. I was there with Green councillors Andrew Stringer and Andy Mellen, talking to fayre-goers about what we're doing in Bacton and beyond.
I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …
Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups
theguardian.com
Study Finds Cities That Kept Building Bike Lanes Saw Cycling Continue to Grow After the Pandemic. momentummag.com/study-finds-...
Electric Buses Point of no return - have gone from 12% to 56% of new city bus sales in Europe in just 6yrs Europe's 2035 target of 100% zero emission bus sales could be reached as early as 2028 Bravo Europe 🇪🇺!
"it's stupid to drive a car for trips under 1 mile" Our man, Mike, here gets it and he hasn't even ridden an E-bike for transportation. Welcome our newest borrowers who are living the dream of trips with zero traffic or parking woes. #hoodriverebikelibrary #ebikelibrary #hoodriver
And still people come out in public to defend speeding, whining that "people get caught out".
I suppose Justin Webb will only put the climate emergency front and centre once the lives of his family and friends are threatened. As long as the victims are poor and outside his social circle we can expect major political interviews to not include a question about the issue of the age. #r4today
This is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms
Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · yesterdaynews.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · yesterdayBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Andy don't burn 'em 🔥 The realistic approach to the climate emergency is investing in renewable energy and saying NO to new drilling in the North Sea. Stop Rosebank, Stop Jackdaw. @greenparty.org.uk @stopcambo.bsky.social @fossilfreeldn.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social
“Ooh, this heatwave is awful, isn’t? Can’t wait for my trip to Marbella!” Join the dots, dumbkopf.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdayGatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails
For GOD'S SAKE. Massive landowners call for ban on disposable BBQs, but at the same time call for "a lifting of the ban on controlled burning" 'You oiks shouldn't burn moorland - that's OUR job' Entitled double standards. Ban both. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Calls to ban disposable barbecues in England and Wales over wildfire risk
Lib Dems and many Labour MPs join farmers, landowners and firefighters in urging temporary prohibition
theguardian.com
