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‘There are the lofty-sounding promises to reach “Net-zero emissions by 2050,” as if 24 years from now was soon enough. There are the queries of “What’s your carbon footprint?,” as if individual people with plastic bags or straws were the problem and not gigantic multinational corporations.’ 👏🥵⏳

The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate

Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...

currentaffairs.org

Bottom trawling, delivering on the promise of 30x30 marine-protections, deepsea mining - it's all on the agenda at this week's UN Ocean Summit in Nice. Here's why the outcomes matter to all of us... 🐋🐚🏄‍♂️🦈🦑 shorturl.at/IIr3u

A deepsea SOS – will the UN summit save our seas?

Scientists, campaigners and heads of state meet in Nice this week, to talk about ways to protect our hard-pressed seas and oceans from pollution, over-fishing, exploitation and climate change

shorturl.at

How do we protect our waters from canal to coast? ➡️ Use less plastic personally ➡️ Join a litter pick ➡️ Get water firms to clean up their act ➡️ Tackle fishing industry ghost nets ➡️ Don’t buy trawled fish ➡️ Ban trawlers from MPAs and high seas #Earthfest

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People power is pushing government and business to clean up our waterways and create cleaner, greener riversides. Showing our waterways some love during London Rivers Week could just be the start... ⤵️

Let’s show our rivers some love

Diverted, polluted and cased in concrete... our rivers are struggling. Many are too clogged with waste and sewage for wildlife to thrive or for people to swim. Changing this starts with people power

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“I’m fascinated by the ways in which the drive to eliminate the dissenting autonomy of water – of running water, of rivers, of springs – has marched often in lockstep with power that seeks to eliminate all forms of spiritual relationships with land and water, replacing the sacred with the fiscal.” 💙

Robert Macfarlane: ‘Sometimes I felt as if the river was writing me’

The writer and poet on reimagining rivers as living beings, the ecological crisis near and far and why copyright laws should protect nature

theguardian.com

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

Chris Williams@chrisw100.bsky.social · last yr.

Another record year for the Green Party 👏 859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk