1/4 The Government's own National Security Assessment identifies biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse as imminent risks to our security, resilience and prosperity.
8 CORPORATIONS amassing obscene profits by fueling war & climate catastrophe. 8 BILLION PEOPLE on track to lose everything & everyone we love. Our children are screaming at us from the ashes of the future: “WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU LETTING THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS?!?”
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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Scientists say we’re heading for 2-3C by mid century. Risk assessors & insurers say this means 2-4 BILLION deaths. Governments & the media say pretty much nothing.
Climate science denial in physical form. The Land Rover Defender X (yup - they've gone full Musk). Price: £103,460, plus a few kids' lives. 🧵
The UK government tried to bury its own 2024 report warning of food & water system failure as early as 2030. This is now starting to look a bit optimistic.
Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn
Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue
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Our world is a tinderbox as we approach 1.5C above preindustrial temps. We’re locked in for at least 2C, & on track for 4C in our children’s ‘lifetimes’. Tumbleweeds as we wait for governments, the media & the public to provide a proportionate response to this information.
“If there wasn’t any wildlife there wouldn’t be any wildfires!” The brain-rot these climate denying, fossil-fuel-shilling rags will spout to distract their readers from the obvious truth.
It WILL reduce the cost of living insomuch as it will help accelerate us to a point where a great many of us will cease to live.
The coming years are going to be an excruciating exercise in watching men in expensive suits with important sounding jobs suddenly ‘realize’ the blindingly obvious.
ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’
Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy
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I’ve been saying for a long time, this is going to be a ‘food price’ crisis, then a ‘food shortage’ crisis, then a ‘watching the people you love starve’ crisis.
‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers
Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable
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If future historians exist (& that’s a pretty precarious IF) they’ll write endlessly about the psychological conditioning that left BILLIONS of people feeling ‘powerless’ when a handful of elite psychopaths decided to trade a liveable planet for a bit more meaningless wealth.
A ‘Pragmatic’ approach? @andyburnham.bsky.social At 1.5C above preindustrial temps our world is on fire. In Europe, tens of thousands are dead. New oil & gas means our children face 4C+. Scientists warn BILLIONS will die. Pragmatism is suicide. Bold leadership means an EMERGENCY APPROACH!
Burnham promises ‘pragmatic’ approach to North Sea oil and gas
PM tells reporters the government cannot ignore the energy resource ‘when people are struggling’
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We’re going to be hearing the word ‘Unprecedented’ quite a lot, right up to the point we no longer hear anything at all.
The country that was the scene of tentative hope in 2015 with the signing of the Paris Agreement has shown us a glimpse of the horrors set to define the rest of our lives, thanks to our leaders’ cowardice & grotesque failure to honour that agreement.
Blazes burning with the intensity of ‘atomic bombs’: Europe enters a new era of mega fires | CNN
The vast blazes ripping through southwestern France burned so intensely they created a powerful, fire-generated thunderstorm. This rare phenomenon is sometimes seen in the kinds of megafires that affl...
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EVERYONE should be aware of 1972’s ‘The Limits to Growth’ & its 2020 update - given that we’re closely tracking these lines & show no sign of diverging from them. Collapse by 2040? That’s possibly optimistic.
"...Andy Burnham risks getting stuck in a ‘derailment’ doom loop if he doesn’t tackle #climate adaptation." This piece, co-authored with @carolinelucas.bsky.social, examines the two quite different conversations taking place around this topic. rupertsreads.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...
A Tale of Two Adaptations
Reflections on the Climate Change Committee’s Well-Adapted UK report, in the light of this summer’s heat storms and the Burnham ascendancy
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The UK will be in drought until at least October. But there’s no such thing as a ‘new normal’ on a planet hurtling past 1.5C, on the way to 3C by 2050 & 4C in our children’s ‘lifetimes’. Without unprecedented societal change, we are in the beginning stages of a fairly rapid end.
Major incident declared after large wildfire breaks out - as UK warned of 'new normal' after drought declared
Firefighters in Suffolk were battling the biggest wildfire of Wednesday, but other crews were kept busy elsewhere in the country too. It broke out just hours after half of England was declared to be i...
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“Provide for your children by working a meaningless job that exists solely to perpetuate a system that necessitates the destruction of everything your children need for a survivable future.”
2015: World leaders promise to limit warming to 1.5C above preindustrial temperatures. 2024: Earth breaches 1.5C for an entire year. 2050: We’re on track for 2-3C. Scientists & insurers warn BILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL DIE. The most obscene betrayal in the history of our species.
1856: Scientist Eunice Foote publishes paper showing CO2 emissions trap heat & warm the Earth. 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On The Origin of Species. Climate science is older than evolutionary science. We’d still be debating Adam’s rib if capitalists could profit from it.
Capitalism built this wall. Now we get to see what happens when capitalism crashes into it. Extreme heat Wildfires Floods Crop failure Food shortages Collapse The words on track to define our future.
Europe burns but this is just the beginning. BILLIONS of lives are at risk. The fossil fuel industry has known for 72 years. It has spread lies & denial & received TRILLIONS in taxpayer subsidies. A sane society would be handing out prison sentences, not new oil & gas contracts.
Clicked the video & had to watch an advert for an airport before the clip played. Our media, politics, culture & LIVES are owned by an industry that’s made $3 BILLION in profits EVERY DAY for the 50 years it’s been deliberately leading us here. And this is just the beginning.
14,000 killed by Europe heatwave in a single week. 300,000 flee wildfires in France & Spain. 70 MILLION in the US to be hit with third heat dome in a month. This is our world as it approaches 1.5C above preindustrial temperatures. Our kids face 4C+. We claim to love them. But we do nothing.
Its not just me & Angela Rayner. If this Labour government rule out rent controls, a wealth tax, refuse to nationalise water companies, drill for oil and gas, continue to arm Israel - The country will be asking what's the point of a Labour Government? www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Zack Polanski and Angela Rayner clash as she rejects London rent controls
Housing Secretary Ms Rayner took a stronger stance on rent limits than new Prime Minister Andy Burnham
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The UK Government’s OWN 2024 REPORT warned our food & water systems face CATASTROPHIC FAILURE as early as 2030. That was BEFORE this summer’s devastating heat & unprecedented drought. A report suppressed by Starmer’s government & yet to be acknowledged by @andyburnham.bsky.social
Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe
Analysis shows how heatwaves are making atmosphere thirstier, damaging water supplies, food production and power generation
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9 million tonnes of food destroyed. A ‘food price crisis’ becomes a ‘food shortage crisis’ becomes a ‘watching-your-family-starve crisis’.
Food price fears after Europe’s heatwave destroys estimated €2bn of crops
Record June temperatures expected to cut grain harvest by 9m tonnes to its lowest level since 2018
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“William Nye, the secretary general of the archbishops’ council, said the motion was inconsistent with the church’s legal obligations & responsibility to ensure ‘long-term capital growth’.” Expect the church to prioritize a livable planet over profit? Not a prayer.
Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030
Campaigners criticise C of E for failing to show moral leadership as one of country’s biggest landowners
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The relentless heatwaves & wildfires aren’t standalone ‘events’. They are steps along a path. A path that the UK’s top risk assessors warn leads to societal derailment & 2-4 BILLION global deaths within decades. Where is the leadership at the most precarious moment in history?