Wildfire damages in Europe have already topped €3B this year, crushing our annual average before the season is even over. EU climate adaptation funding is lagging behind reality, and the economic shocks are mounting. Latest roundup link below! tinyurl.com/5n8h8935

"The wholesale price of tomatoes is up by more than 60%, iceberg lettuce by 90% and potatoes by more than 40% as a number of farmers struggle to grow in consistently high temperatures. Even those with irrigation systems and reservoirs on their farms say water is running low."

We talk a lot about "climate denial," but the bigger issue might be the perception gap. Research shows most people support climate action, yet far fewer act. We systematically underestimate public support for green policies, while overestimating how many people are actually "giving things up". 1/3

The wildfires across Europe aren’t just a climate spectacle, they’re an organising crisis While rightwing denialists peddle misleading stats, the real fight is about who gets protected, who absorbs the loss, and how we live through climate chaos tinyurl.com/2nynyz42 1/2

The Burn

Scenes from a world seemingly on fire

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The Right's climate rhetoric is shifting. Reform, Le Pen, and now Badenoch are dropping outright climate denial for a new angle: framing climate policy as national decline. Badenoch calling Net Zero a "political fiction bankrupting the country" is just the start. 1/7 🧵

Le Pen is trying to use Reform's playbook and set climate adaptation against climate action. Based on the common sense idea the govt only has limited funds, they both argue its either air con and fire fighters or climate action 1/2

Data centre resistance in the UK is building, with Scotland very much in the front line. The 24 planned hyperscale data centre developments in Scotland would require one and a half times Scotland’s peak electricity demand. And they will produce just a handful of jobs

ew Weekly Round Up! AI's questionable productivity and how its business model might rest on mass not rate of profit; O'Conner's second contradiction of AI-Capitalism; water and mining fails; and the EU's continuing backsliding on enviro protections. tinyurl.com/3k7kpa6r

Heavy snowfall and flash flooding killed 13 ppl and shut down a copper mine that produces 2.5% of Chile's copper. Snow also impacted ops at the Codelco copper mine. Chile produces 25% of the world's copper, and the world is now in a structural shortage of the material 1/2

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The AI business model isn't just an attack on labor: it’s targeting consumers. Companies are building an inescapable automation layer that sabotages our cognitive abilities and the service economy, locking us in. Our cognitive damage is literally their business model 1/2👇

@semafor.com has a piece on the US push for more propane exports to Africa, built around the shift to "clean cooking" - that is, using gas instead of charcoal or wood. It is "technically" cleaner, but it is also a captive market for fossil fuels masked as green development 1/3

Housing or data centres - either way, drought is killing British development faster than local opposition can

With Burnham keeping Mahmood as Home Secretary, and presumably the "hostile" approach to immigration, the news the Greens in local govt are planning on refusing to cooperate and act against companies that do should be bigger news. tinyurl.com/mvy6u3c5

I only need one more subscriber to make it to my summer target of 150 - it could be you! --> nicholasbeuret.substack.com (that is the total extent of my ability to self promote)

📣 New date for our book club confirmed! Hope you can join us on Tuesday 28 July, 6-8pm to discuss “Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition” with author @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social. If you haven’t already, sign up here: londonminingnetwork.org/2026/06/resi...

Resisting Mining Book Club: "Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition" with Nicholas Beuret - London Mining Network

We welcome Nicholas Beuret to the Resisting Mining Book Club as we discuss Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition.

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New weekly round up! Green Party refusals to collaborate with Home Office raids, balloting for heat strikes, flooding across West and Southern Africa, bee congestion and fisheries collapse. And anti-net zero activists turn on data centres. tinyurl.com/ceznjmw2

Weekly round up

20 July 2026

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Called it -> nicholasbeuret.substack.com/p/jobs-jobs-...

"Jobs, jobs, jobs" It’s the ultimate political shield for fossil fuel giants and anti-green campaigns alike. But how much of this rhetoric is factual, and how much is just using workers as Human Shields for Capital? tinyurl.com/mj3cf6f9

Meanwhile...

The UK's June heatwave caused a £2.4bn hit to productivity, says a new report It says the cost of extreme heat could reach £6bn/yr by 2030 Interesting, bc we tend to focus on the cost of cutting emissions, rather than cost of failing to do so… www.verdantthinking....

Good news! Heat Strike! "With another heatwave forecast for next week Arriva bus drivers across North London are balloting for strike action over ongoing frustration at the company’s failure to address dangerously hot working conditions" --> unitelive.org/boiling-over/

Boiling over - Unite Live

Bus drivers across North London are balloting for strike action over the company's failure to address dangerously hot working conditions.

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More North Sea oil and gas licences won't create jobs or revive industry. It's not just the geological reality of a declining field, but the process of extraction that has changed. i.e., its automation, not net zero

This is a great project - excited for the print edition!

Prometheus Magazine@prometheusmagazine.bsky.social · 3w ago

Introducing: Prometheus in Print. The time has come. Prometheus Magazine is launching its print edition – built to break the left from its fragmentation and renew communist politics. Pre-order your annual subscription now: www.ebb-books.com/shop/p/prome...

New weekly round up, now with added heatwave doom! Surging deaths and early harvests BUT also pushes by Unite the Union and the Green Party on working temperatures. Reform's failure to oppose climate action, and commodity traders making bank from El Niño tinyurl.com/mry52wxt

"Union reps were nearly three times as active in terms of volunteering and more than eight times as active in terms of civic participation [than average]. Moreover, they also gave over more of their time to these activities than members of the general populace"

"An average of 80,000 people visited A&E every day in June for the first time ever, as record temperatures hit the UK" “summer is now putting the NHS under just as much pressure as winter, with staff facing an onslaught of demand" - NHS national medical director Professor Frankie Swords

The release of the latest Statistical Review of World Energy is a reality check on the climate transition. While we debate whether 'net zero' costs or create jobs, we need to come back to why we need to reduce emissions. We're on track for 3C tinyurl.com/5d4wymfy

Direct action gets the goods - NIMBYs of the world unite!

'Mobility, maladaption and the market for carbon' - on the MMB blog, @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social, @matildaf.bsky.social and @davidharvie.bsky.social explore the ways in which refugees are becoming entangled in the global carbon credit market. Read the full post here 👉👉 https://bit.ly/4wwa32A