New School of the Anthropocene
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Founded in 2022. Addressing biopolitical emergency & climate justice through art-critique-experiment. Building a new society in the shell of the old. Join us at the Art Workers' Guild in London or across seven continents online! www.nsota.org
“I can call [the climate crisis] out as a political leader, but you [the media] also has a role to play... the contrast between how much we hear about whatever Nigel Farage or Reform want to talk about versus how little we hear about the climate and nature crisis is pretty glaring.” Quite.
Burnham failing public over heat threats, says Green leader
Zack Polanski has accused ministers of a "dereliction of duty" in response to this summer's heatwaves.
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"No human-caused extinction has justification, but the ongoing eradication of the Malayan tapir packs a gut punch unlike most others. It is the slaughter of a creature doing no harm, for the benefit of absolutely no one - not even the poachers killing them . . ."
This is heartbreakingly needless.
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Spot-on from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social. The psychotics aren't just on the unhinged Right. Burnham's Labour knowingly accelerates ecosystem depletion & trashes even the mechanisms of adaptation & managed decline. (New runways! Pragmatic oil drilling!) These idiots are killing us. We must wake up!
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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3,400 people die on a single extremely hot day in India. 30,000 in 5 days. Most of the poor aren't even counted. The study calls that a conservative estimate. Mass death is here. My heart is breaking. www.euronews.com/2026/06/10/h...
Extreme heat causes 3,400 excess deaths per day in India - study
Experts warn that official heatwave death figures are grossly underestimated.
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A first year above 2C in the mid-2030s now looks plausible. 0.5C was first passed in 1980, 1.0C in 2010 and 1.5C in 2024. The 15-year trend runs at 0.42C per decade. The 2026 and 2027 points for the current El Nino are estimates. We're not remotely ready!
The UK Gvt is forcing through data centres against wishes of local communities and regardless of environmental impact. We must resist. Imposing one on the vibrant community in Brick Lane is shocking.
Robin Boardman@robinboardman.com · 4d agoMeta tried to build a 200-megawatt data centre on farmland in Zeewolde. Twice the electricity of the entire town. 20 rebels occupied the council. "We want Greta, not Meta." They won, and then the Dutch banned hyperscale centres over 70MW. Direct action works! wagingnonviolence.org/2026/07/the-...
History will not smile kindly upon the politicians, judiciary & police for executing such brutal suppressions of democracy in the cause of facilitating genocide.
“Poetry is not terrorism” Defend our Juries condemns mass arrests outside Westminster court.
Photo: Marly Lyman Chaotic scenes unfolded on 30 July outside the London court which had been scheduled to hold hearings for 1500 people charged during Lift the Ban actions protesting the proscript…
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Eight of the biggest oil companies amassed profits of $90bn+ (£67bn) in 3 months as the US-Israel war in Iran inflated energy prices & the fossil-fuelled climate crisis caused deadly heatwaves. And BP's Meg O'Neill assumes the right to moral & political authority? She should be tried at the Hague.
BP boss urges Burnham to prioritise UK oil and gas even as firm exits North Sea
Meg O’Neill says ‘where we generate jobs, we generate tax revenue’, as company’s profits more than double
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And Heidi Alexander celebrates the coming of 2 new UK airport runways to service millions of holidaymakers, as they fly to a hellscape partly of their own making. The politicians and business visionaries might consider sticking their meat-filled heads outside their air-conditioned office windows...
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · yesterdayCrop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
2026 fossil-fuel quarterly profits update: BP doubles to $5.73bn; Shell posts second-highest on record ($10bn); Aramco rises 44% to $32.69bn. HSBC is up 60% to $10.1bn, a good proportion of which is oil yield. The earth burns & species die in their service. Better pile-on the immigrant blame.
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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An acute reading of a spectacular production of racist distraction, engineered by Morocco as punishment for Spain's engagement with Algeria over the illegal occupation of Western Sahara & with 175k Sahrawi refugees forced into camps. Note the ghoulish presence of Yusuf, fascism's useful idiot.
Ceuta was a carnival of anti-migrant content for hateful opportunists on the right – and a lesson for the left | Jonathan Liew
It was framed as a perfect storm because nativists dearly wanted it to be. Looking on, progressives failed to meet the moment too, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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Ooh, six 'affordable' new homes as the trade-off for a water-depleting, culture-wrecking data centre in Brick Lane to service the deals of the billionaire City spivs on the other side of Spitalfields. Imagine!
Controversial Brick Lane data centre and office plans approved
The proposals include a data centre, offices and 44 homes of which six would be available for social rent.
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Kuenssberg didn't ask about the dire climate emergency; Burnham didn't think to allude to it. Are these people barking mad? Does anyone still believe that we can entrust our destiny on earth to the political-media class?
Panorama - Andy Burnham: The Laura Kuenssberg Interview
What kind of prime minister will Andy Burnham be? Laura Kuenssberg has been behind the scenes with him during his first week in power.
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BOOK REVIEW – ‘Railroaded: A Motorman’s Story of the New York City Subway’
Bob Dylan sang “all night girls whispered escapades out on the D Train.” Billy Strayhorn told us to take the A Train and “Listen to those rails a-thrummin.” Author Fred Naiden has his own story to tel...
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I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.
On the utter uselessness, if not depravity, of governmental, institutional and business responses to the scientific evidence of irreversible climate breakdown. And the necessity of the collective citizen refusal to simply wait for change. We need a mass resistance and autonomy uprising now.
Silversprite@silversprite.bsky.social · 2d agoGeophysical Research Letters, March 2026: Global Warming Has Accelerated Significantly (G. Foster, S. Rahmstorf). agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
'For the past half-century, the dream of American modernity seemed to capture the world’s imagination [and] it likely owned the future. But less than 20 years later, as Donald Trump presides over gaudy celebrations of America’s 250th anniversary, the world has stopped believing that story.'
Mystic Chords of Memory • EQUATOR
As the allure of American exceptionalism fades, Western liberals still cling to illusions about the nation’s past and present
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Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
"Over the decades, the guerrilla garden came to symbolise a rebel spirit in dark times, the ingenuity of immigrants who are often made to feel unwelcome, and the tragedy and absurdity of great-power confrontation in a city where citizens on both sides just wanted to breathe free." Polis is this.
‘A symbol of resistance’: the fight to save treehouse built on no man’s land next to Berlin Wall
Supporters fear structure could be torn down as safety hazard and want it to become memorial to postwar foreign labourers in honour of its Turkish creator
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Rosebank forced to admit its climate impact would be 50x greater than it initially claimed. Clear evidence that this climate-wrecking oil field must never be developed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Controversial UK oil field reveals climate impact if approved
The impact from the Rosebank oil field is estimated at nearly 250 million tonnes of planet warming CO2.
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While we've been living through extreme heat, wildfires and climate disruption, Equinor made £8.6bn in 3 months. Now Equinor and Shell want the go-ahead for the climate-wrecking Rosebank oil field. Andy, stop Rosebank and tax polluters. Protect our future, not private profit.
Rosebank would produce almost 250 MILLION TONNES of carbon emissions - greater than the annual emissions of Ireland, Belgium and Greece combined. UK taxpayers would PAY for this polluting project, which will NOT lower our bills. #STOPROSEBANK ONCE AND FOR ALL. Pass it on. ♻️
“Every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous & our world less secure.” António Guterres, UN secretary-general "I'll be pragmatic," says Burnham. Toward what? The interests of oil billionaires who unleash ecocide & erase the future? We prepare to rise up!
Burnham risks first revolt as PM over apparent support for North Sea drilling
Labour MPs fear No 10 team lack up-to-date energy insight and don’t fully recognise voters’ climate concerns
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