A useless politician ⬇️ who can’t do the right thing to give us a hope in hell of a safer future. He should be sacked.
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 16h agoClimate Act curbs could be considered to avert infrastructure ‘paralysis’, Chambers says
Mark Robins
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Semi-retired ecologist/nature restoration advocate. Not retired from working to restore nature. Enjoying loads of good projects in West Cork.
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 16h ago
"If we have to burn every tree and poison every river to deliver more concrete and tarmac, it's a price we're ready to pay"
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 16h agoClimate Act curbs could be considered to avert infrastructure ‘paralysis’, Chambers says
We hold the US government is responsible for collaborating in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. The US is bankrolling it with a minimum of $3.8 billion to the Israeli military each year. In 2025 alone, at least $12 billion more.
"I arrived at a clear conclusion: the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aims to make Palestine disappear physically, economically, culturally and politically. "This is happening on our watch." — Mary Robinson johnmenadue.com/post/2026/08...
What I saw in the West Bank
Former Irish president and UN human rights chief Mary Robinson says Israel’s annexation of Palestinian land is unfolding in plain sight, enabled by impunity and a lack of international political will.
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Painting 1 of 3 rotor blades black on 4 Norwegian turbines cut bird collisions by nearly 72%, and the white tailed eagles under them stopped hitting the rotors altogether www.ecoportal.net/en/painting-...
Painting 1 of 3 rotor blades black on 4 Norwegian turbines cut bird collisions by nearly 72 percent, and the white tailed eagles under them stopped hitting the rotors altogether
Smøla is a low treeless island off the northwest coast of Norway, and 68 wind turbines stand on it.
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My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Muammar al-Gaddafi predicted it: "I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this. They are getting decadent. Zionists will use this to destroy them."
Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸@bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · yesterdayA thought just struck me finding out U.S has burned through over half of its weaponry in past 6 months… If an enemy wanted to pick a fight with them now… how vulnerable might they be?? Trump is a fool, who is allowing Netanyahu to lead him in the destruction of America. youtu.be/1ghsckm9EzE?...
Israel currently burning huge amounts of money on losing candidates Everything about this is awesome and I love it. AIPAC is losing.
"Rewilding is not land abandonment; it requires carefully considered action to restore natural processes and functions" theconversation.com/how-rewildin...
How rewilding could help stop the spread of Britain’s wildfires
Done properly, rewilded landscapes are more fire-resistant.
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This should be the biggest news of the week. www.npr.org/2026/08/02/g...
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns
The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...
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“Why is climate action so difficult?” Mainly because the people who benefit most from not acting just made $93 billion, about $700,000 per minute, in three months. 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
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War is a failure of diplomacy. The only winners in a war are the military industrial complex (#MIC). Everyone else, especially the poor, loses. War is always a waste of young men's lives and their children's futures. Wise leaders know this and instead work for peace. Let's elect some wise leaders.
If anyone is weaponising anything, it is our own officials and politicians, who continue to fuel the most destructive force of all: runaway climate change. My letter to the editor this morning.
Weaponising climate laws: Ireland’s politicians and officials fuel the fire
It is unfathomable to learn that officials proposed scrapping the ‘linchpin’ of State climate legislation
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BirdLife International has received a £7.5m grant from the Ecological Restoration Fund to support conservation along the African–Eurasian Flyway, one of the world’s most important migration routes. Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/.../article/... 📸Christian Gelpke
Corporations, Not Immigrants, Responsible for Most Healthcare Fraud theintercept.com/2026/07/31/i...
Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows
Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.
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And on every beach/dune system in Ireland! ⬇️
Gracie12 📎@gracienlucy.bsky.social · 2d agoThese signs should be on every hiking trail in Oregon and across the US .
“War”. What “war”? It’s a massacre, a genocide, a slaughter of defenceless civilians, including tens of thousands of children & babies, doctors, nurses, teachers, journalists sanitised by “balanced” media reporting of Western media outlets. Was Auschwitz a “war” too? www.rte.ie/news/2026/08...
Mass funeral held in Gaza for family killed during war
In a cleared plot of land between buildings flattened by airstrikes in Gaza City, row upon row of Palestinian flags were laid out neatly over the remains of dozens of people to be buried.
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The pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC has spent a jaw-dropping $30M+ in tomorrow's Democratic primaries in Michigan and Missouri. But if you saw their attack ads, you'd never know it was them. Watch.
Meet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026
Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou
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Why is Britain a tinderbox? Because: 1) The climate crisis, obvs; but also - 2) *6.4 million hectares* of farmland in England & Wales is riddled with field drains - draining water from the land where it could be retaining it. Make Britain Wet Again! ahdb.org.uk/drainage
Indeed, IPCC models also assume the large-scale deployment of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, a totally unproven technology to suck carbon out of the atmosphere and would require a land area twice the size of India! I would put nuclear in the same false hope category.
Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
NEW: An unusually widespread outbreak of the foodborne parasite Cyclospora has been causing illness across the U.S. this summer. Regulatory neglect, corporate consolidation in the food system, and poor labor conditions for farmworkers helped drive the outbreak. www.iatp.org/industrial-f...
Contamination by Design: How an industrial food system has driven the Cyclospora outbreak
Regulatory neglect, corporate consolidation, and poor labor conditions contribute to the spread of a diarrhea-causing parasite.
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Beef is the coal of the food system. It's one of the most emissions-intensive things we consume, and Americans eat a lot of it -- the equivalent of 6 burgers a week. Cutting back to one serving of beef a week (similar to EAT-Lancet) in all high-income countries would be a huge win for climate.
Job opportunity: Irish Bird Atlas Project Manager BirdWatch Ireland is seeking an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to lead organisation of the upcoming Bird Atlas 2027-31 across the Republic of Ireland. Closing date 11th Sept. Find out more: birdwatchireland.ie/get-involved...
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