Tina Leonard 🧡💙

@leonard3tina.bsky.social

Retired research biochemist. Quaker. Climate activist. Co-founder Quaker Support for Climate Action (QS4CA), Networker, Green. #NotMyKing #TogetherWithRefugees

A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?

💀mass death of animals 💀sloths & other mammals found on forest floor or hanging dead from understorey trees 💀reductions in the size of bird populations 💀changes to bird lifespans, appearance & behaviour 🔥extensive forest fires 🔥extreme heat & drought 🔥megafires 🔥air pollution 🔥drying rivers

As El Niño looms, study finds rapid growth in climate extremes are hitting an unexpected region of the Amazon hardest

A new study with over 50 scientists, led by Lancaster University, reveals that Amazonia is experiencing rapid growth in extreme temperatures and water stress.

sei.org

💀mass death of animals 💀sloths & other mammals found on forest floor or hanging dead from understorey trees 💀reductions in the size of bird populations 💀changes to bird lifespans, appearance & behaviour 🔥extensive forest fires 🔥extreme heat & drought 🔥megafires 🔥air pollution 🔥drying rivers

As El Niño looms, study finds rapid growth in climate extremes are hitting an unexpected region of the Amazon hardest

A new study with over 50 scientists, led by Lancaster University, reveals that Amazonia is experiencing rapid growth in extreme temperatures and water stress.

sei.org

"Mike Kane, an architect and university lecturer specialising in carbon in construction, said the development was "the worst example of unremitting hostility to the planet" in terms of its carbon emissions." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "UK's second-tallest residential building approved" 👀

UK's second-tallest residential building approved for Vauxhall

The £2bn development at Vauxhall Square comprises seven buildings ranging from two to 69 storeys.

bbc.co.uk

Tonight begins the Jewish new year of 5787. When we reflect on the past year, we acknowlege that we lived through the crushing conditions of expanding facism and we witnessed the brutality of the Israeli military’s ongoing genocide. Our grief, rage, and heartbreak know no end.

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Every license we grant to drill more oil and gas in the North Sea will contribute to more wildfires, more heatwaves, and more loss of life. Today I asked the First Minister to join me in condemning the climate-wrecking behaviour of the UK government, and say no to drilling at Jackdaw and Rosebank

“The sanctions are the UK’s commitment to a two-state solution. The Anglo-Jewish community is committed to a Jewish state that is founded, not on oppression & violence, but, in the words of Israel’s declaration of independence, ‘on freedom, justice & peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel’.”

Senior UK rabbis come out in support of sanctions on Israeli settlements

Spiritual leaders stress diversity of views within Jewish community and warn against inaction on settler violence

theguardian.com

“This decision is precisely what the state of Israel should have received in order to remove the disgrace of Jewish terrorism from the face of the country” -President of Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities -a former prime minister - an ex-head of the army -former ministers & diplomats

‘It’s a good start’: prominent Israelis welcome UK sanctions on illegal settlements

Ed Miliband’s intervention was ‘inevitable’ after Israeli government and security failures, say former ministers and diplomats

theguardian.com

The backdrop to the horrific scenes in Dover and Portsmouth is Reform encouraging fear and division and the Home Office helping with hostile policies. So now we have massed fascists dressed in black on our streets. The Govt must name hard right fascism and then stand up to it.

A Philadelphia nun named Sister Rose Kuhn drives to a Texas immigration court weekly to sit next to unaccompanied children as young as 4 who are facing deportation hearings alone without relatives or an attorney so that they won’t have to face the judge by themselves. Heartbreaking and horrific.