Iain Robinson 🌳
@iainrobinson.bsky.social
Writer, lecturer, and accidental activist. Trees, woods, nature, landscape, environmental matters, guitars, and fictions of all sorts, though I’ll mostly just upload cat pics and undertake academic moaning. https://thispartysover.substack.com
2/7 We support Monbiot’s central point. UK carbon capture is not chiefly about cleaning up unavoidable industrial emissions. It is being used to justify a major new expansion of fossil-fuel infrastructure, underwritten by decades of public subsidy - when it is not needed. www.lut.fi/en/news/rese...
Researchers agree: The world can reach a 100% renewable energy system before 2050 | LUT University
Research from LUT University and 14 additional leading international universities suggest that the new system would be based largely on solar and wind energy, energy storage, sector coupling, and dire...
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1/7 After @georgemonbiot.bsky.social exposed deep flaws in carbon capture &storage—and the extraordinary sums this Govt is committing to it—CCS industry lobbyists and pro-CCS scientists responded. @sioldridge.bsky.social &I answer them here www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵
Carbon capture is a fig leaf for fossil fuel expansion | Letters
Letters: The predicted £264bn cost by 2050 could be even higher, plus renewables avoid a far higher total of emissions than can be captured, writes Andrew Boswell, while Simon Oldridge calls out veste...
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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4w agoDespite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“We are now at a critical juncture. We are at or very close to human caused environmental change that will fundamentally unpick the life-sustaining systems on Earth.” theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
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🧵/1️⃣ Is the UK's next climate target actually legal? On Wednesday Parliament votes on the Seventh Carbon Budget. Our evidence shows the Govt hasn't met its legal & scientific duties. Help us challenge it in court. #CarbonReckoning www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Carbon Reckoning: Holding the Government to Its Own Climate Law
Carbon Reckoning are a science based group, committed to the strongest possible action to require the UK sets climate policy commensurate with the scale of the crisis we face.
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1️⃣ International Court gave unanimous advice (photo) last July that states must have "highest possible ambition" in tackling climate change 2️⃣ Is that really the case for UK? ❌#CarbonReckoning think not 3️⃣ Pls give to our legal campaign to change this if you can 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-...
Dr Andrew Boswell #CarbonReckoning@drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 3mo ago1/5 Today Carbon Reckoning launches — a forensic legal campaign to challenge the UK's proposed Seventh Carbon Budget before it's fixed in law by June 2026 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... The budget fails two legal tests required by UK law. A thread. 🧵 @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
1/5 Today Carbon Reckoning launches — a forensic legal campaign to challenge the UK's proposed Seventh Carbon Budget before it's fixed in law by June 2026 👉 www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... The budget fails two legal tests required by UK law. A thread. 🧵 @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
The Wensum Valley is an incredibly special area of biodiversity and any major road route across it is going to run into the same insurmountable problems faced by the previous plans. Let's hope that common sense sees a less disruptive set of solutions.
Wensum Woodlanders@wensumwoodlanders.bsky.social · 4mo agoTalk about flogging a dead horse! Norfolk C Council threw £50m down the drain pursuing a project that was doomed from the outset. Now they seem doomed to repeat their mistakes. www.edp24.co.uk/news/2597231...
Talk about flogging a dead horse! Norfolk C Council threw £50m down the drain pursuing a project that was doomed from the outset. Now they seem doomed to repeat their mistakes. www.edp24.co.uk/news/2597231...
Alternative Norwich Western Link route hopes raised after announcement
Council leaders hope they will soon get their hands on almost £1m to help come up with alternative routes for the Norwich Western Link road.
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From ITN — the government report that views nature loss as an existential security threat. | We uncovered the redacted climate report the government didn’t want you ... youtu.be/59DZiPdsOc8?si…
We uncovered the redacted climate report the government didn’t want you to see
YouTube video by ITV News
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“The report warns that multiple ecosystem collapses are now likely, not merely hypothetical. These failures, it states, will have “dire implications” for national security and will require serious strategic adaptation merely to limit the damage.” eastangliabylines.co.uk/opinion/a-su...
A suppressed warning finally appears: ecosystem collapse as a national security threat
A government report on the national security implications of ecosystem collapse is finally out, and it’s even more shocking than feared
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👏 Great to see Climate and Nature Crisis Caucus Vice-Chair @pippaheylings.bsky.social introduce a Bill to protect chalk streams today in Parliament. We urge the Government to support her plan before we irreversibly harm these globally rare habitats. 👇 Hear more about Pippa's Bill below.
What the betting that this does not get roundly condemned by the British government? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump’s EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’
Rollback of government’s ability to limit climate-heating pollution will make families ‘sicker and less safe’, environmental advocate says
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My son had been tasked with writing a poem for school, so we had sat down and written together. It is a poem against cynicism and the mess we are in. It is about love (and doughnuts in ice cream).
Written by an actual adult in politics. I wonder what Trump’s reading age is? Going by this I doubt he’s even middle grade.
We’ve been warning for weeks that the Trump Administration’s dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to public safety.
“The survey, involving 20,000 people from more than 27 leading democracies, including the US and Europe, suggests that Britons are the most pessimistic about their nation’s future. And the UK’s disillusioned Gen Z are losing faith in democracy.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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🧵 /1 Hi @tessakhan.bsky.social - You and Uplift have succeeded here - you deserve huge credit 🙏🙏 However, there is a dark side to this new North Sea plan in which the fossil fuel industry &lobbyists win - lock-in to gas based carbon capture 🧵 Thread continues here: bsky.app/profile/dran...
Tessa Khan@tessakhan.bsky.social · 8mo agoHuge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵
A wonderful, insightful piece by @iainrobinson.bsky.social in latest issue of @hinterlandnf.bsky.social. “GLOAMING” describes a woodland under threat from the (currently shelved 🤞) Norwich Western Link and its barbastelle #bat inhabitants. I’m touched to feature in the piece! 📹🦇🌳
I am living in such fear of what the Planning & Infrastructure Bill will mean if passes unamended into law. How then to speak for old trees, the bats who encircle it at night or the birds that live in this hedge? www.wildlifetrusts.org/all-you-need...
“Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing, nothing,” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Developers met ministers dozens of times over planning bill while ecologists were shut out
Exclusive: Leading ecologists say warnings over threat to wildlife have been ignored in drive to build 1.5m new homes
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Can somebody please start hanging EU flags off lampposts?
Do you think this planning bill is worth it? This government is selling out our nature and wildlife to benefit wealthy property developers. We were promised change with Labour. Sign our petition to scrap the destructive Planning and Infrastructure Bill 👇 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...
“Mr Jassy said in June that the increase in AI tools will likely lead to job cuts as machines take over routine tasks.” As Amazon cut 30k white collar jobs, you have to wonder about the mythical new jobs the techno-capitalists say will be created by AI. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amazon prepares for major layoffs among office workers - reports
If confirmed, the cuts in Amazon's corporate ranks could mark the company's biggest layoffs in several years.
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