A society whose government repeatedly ignores these emergencies is not going to survive. We can no longer allow ourselves to be led by politicians bought & paid for by the arsonists.
Insanity of course, & it highlights the greatest challenge we face. The power of stories outweighs the power of truth. We’re on track to lose everything precisely because the stories we tell ourselves about our lives & the world are completely at odds with scientific reality.
1. Double down 2. Say they don’t care 3. Keep fucking quiet 4. Admit they were wrong The options for high-profile deniers as our climate collapses before their very eyes. None, so far, have had the balls to choose option four.
Excellent as ever from @kevinclimate.bsky.social. But it is obscene that just decades - if not just YEARS - from catastrophic collapse, crystal clear & accessible analysis like this is still only happening on the fringes of our media & politics (IF it happens at all).
Ex Oil-Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: We Face COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson
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As we approach 1.5C. Parks become deserts. Forests are turned to ash. We are losing the things that give life meaning. Picture our world at 2C in 2035. At 3C in 2050. At 4C+ by this century’s end.
Wildfires, drought, then floods. Then worse fires, worse drought, then worse floods. Then even worse fires, even worse drought, then even worse floods. And on & on & on… Though, TBF, most of us are on track to be too hungry to notice.
2026: “I’m gonna be the hottest year in 125,000 years.” 2027: “Hold my beer!”
Paul Marshall, the co-owner of GB News, has tripled his hedge fund investments in fossil fuel companies in the first quarter of 2026 to £2.1bn. They're a propaganda channel cashing in on destroying our future. Always follow the money.
1856: Eunice Foote shows CO2 emissions cause global warming. 1954: Oil industry’s own research proves they’re cooking the planet. 2022: Explicit fossil fuel subsidies reach $1.5 TRILLION. 2026: The world burns as Big Oil earn $93 BILLION in 3 months. Trajectory of a suicidal civilization.
BEFORE this summer’s drought the UK had already lost a whole year’s worth of bread this decade, & the government’s own report warns of catastrophic food system failure by 2030. We must support farmers while urgently changing what we eat & how we grow it. OR WE WILL RUN OUT OF FOOD!
Drought-hit Britain heads for worst cereal harvest in four decades
Britain's cereal harvest is on track to be the worst since comparable records began in 1984, according to an analysis published on Wednesday, as crops wither after one of the driest and hottest spri...
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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.”