Nigel Pugh
@nspugh.bsky.social
Let’s see a positive future for our global children. Masto: https://toot.wales/@nspugh
New: The US is enduring one of its worst wildfire seasons in years, with blazes scorching millions of acres. It’s part of a global pattern of hot, dry conditions that favor fires becoming more common with climate change. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Global Wildfire Surge Hits US, Propelled by Rising Temperatures
Blazes in the Western US and Europe point to a global shift: Climate change is making fire weather more extreme and more widespread.
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Average FTSE 100 CEO pay up 8.6% last year to over £5,000,000. While most people's salaries are struggling to to keep up with inflation. This is obscene. observer.co.uk/news/busines...
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tfw you say you're willing to work cross-party on a total reform of social care but then rule out any of the revenue-raising steps needed to pay for it. #Cakeism is clearly alive and well.
Kemi Badenoch tells PM not to raise taxes to fund social care
In a letter to the PM, the Conservative leader offers to work with him on adult social care reform.
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And this is why disabled and older people in England are currently forced to sit in their own urine because they can’t get to the toilet.
So many of our problems stem from humankind treating nature as though it's something separate from themselves.
When it does pours with rain, you can help it soak into the ground, from mountains to coast. Wildfires & droughts are getting far worse, we need landscape scale Natural Flood Management delivered by landscape scale boots on the ground, now. @llyrgruffydd.bsky.social @anthonyslaughter.bsky.social
Nigel Pugh@nspugh.bsky.social · 2mo ago🧵 Farmers are now expected to plant trees as part of the SFS, and placement matters. To deliver real outcomes for farming, climate, and nature - trees and NbS can be located in the most strategic places, where they make the greatest difference. END
When it does pours with rain, you can help it soak into the ground, from mountains to coast. Wildfires & droughts are getting far worse, we need landscape scale Natural Flood Management delivered by landscape scale boots on the ground, now. @llyrgruffydd.bsky.social @anthonyslaughter.bsky.social
Nigel Pugh@nspugh.bsky.social · 2mo ago🧵 Farmers are now expected to plant trees as part of the SFS, and placement matters. To deliver real outcomes for farming, climate, and nature - trees and NbS can be located in the most strategic places, where they make the greatest difference. END
The public are tired of hearing about change and not feeling it. If the new Prime Minister is serious about a circuit breaker, he knows what he needs to do 👇
The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · last mo.The Green Party is clear on what real change looks like: • Proportional representation • Taxing billionaire wealth • No new oil and gas • Public ownership of water • Rent controls • Ending arms sales to Israel
Transforming the nature of economy @green-alliance.org.uk ✅ Replace GDP with inclusive community wellbeing ✅ Enable inclusive meaningful democracy ✅ Deliver a #WellbeingEconomy that accounts for environmental & nature impacts & thinks future generations green-alliance.org.uk/publication/...
The nature of our economy: implementing the Dasgupta Review » Green Alliance
Green Alliance is an independent think tank and charity focused on ambitious leadership for the environment
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Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Britain's Juries
Juries have had the right to acquit based on their conscience for centuries. Now, a barrister is facing jail just for mentioning it in court. Add your name to help save Britain's juries.
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www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... Because of course, why would we think active enablers of ethnic cleansing and genocide would hold to their agreements and actually behave like actual human beings? There isn't a hell hot enough for these creatures...
Trump’s Board of Peace drops full Gaza recovery plan in favour of tiny pilot scheme
Revised plan aims to ‘keep something going’ amid fears Netanyahu may gamble on new all-out offensive before Israeli elections
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Western Countries have so much ‘global responsibility‘. 1. For their historic disproportionate climate emissions 2. Corporate abuse of the global south’s human and natural resources 3. Destroying global nature rich habitats and carbon sinks, will trash western countries with climate impacts
Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 3w agoUK withdraws millions in funding from world’s second-largest rainforest in Congo ✍️ Written by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/8DZEd49
Western Countries have so much ‘global responsibility‘. 1. For their historic disproportionate climate emissions 2. Corporate abuse of the global south’s human and natural resources 3. Destroying global nature rich habitats and carbon sinks, will trash western countries with climate impacts
Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 3w agoUK withdraws millions in funding from world’s second-largest rainforest in Congo ✍️ Written by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/8DZEd49
Did you know U.S.'s conservative power broker Leonard Leo got a $1.6 billion gift to back right-wing anti-climate groups? Now he's influencing Europe. Read DeSmog's latest. buff.ly/7Dmw3jS #GeoffDembicki #FederalistSociety
Leonard Leo's Anti-Climate Network Makes a European Debut
Leo-linked operatives were among a who's who of the international right that gathered for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in June.
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Feeling the extreme heat? Surfaces beneath tree shade can be over 20°C cooler, this makes a massive difference to life quality and more. Are you living without trees, check your postcode 👇 www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/protecting-t...
At the moment, water stress is being felt more in arid parts of the world but, even in rainy England, a shortfall in water supply is predicted by mid-century. And we, too, have a system that can reward businesses for high water use. We need to act now to fix this: share.google/5DhXdRylGY7Z...
How England’s outdated water tracking system leaves regulators in the dark
Experts warn accurately monitoring consumption by bulk users such as farmers, datacentres and businesses can be all but impossible
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In the face of the threat of a lawsuit over locals' exposure to internationally-banned, cancer-causing PFOA, AGC Chemicals announces it will close the plant, placing jobs at risk: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lancashire chemicals factory facing potential legal claim announces closure
More than 90 residents have expressed interest in contamination claim against AGC Chemicals Europe
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Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis Analysis by @eciu.net; story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social - www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis
Exclusive: Analysis of nearly 2,500 articles finds almost three-quarters made no reference to global heating
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And where will England want to make up that shortfall from, Wales. U.K. we have to start naturalising the entire landscape - and soak deluge up, to recharge aquifers & reduce drought impacts.
WATERSHED Investigations@watershed-i.bsky.social · last mo.England is predicted to have a 5bn litre a day shortfall of water supply within the next 3 decades. Currently, we're losing 3bn litres a day in leaks - fixing that would take us a long way toward water security. 🧵
Data centres place a huge, possibly underestimated drain on water stores. share.google/vvUstRmrwJmS...
UK’s largest proposed datacentre ‘understating planned water use’
Analysis suggests consumption at Northumberland site could be 50 times higher than US operator QTS estimates
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35°C is normal, we used to just call that summer! Here's how many summers topped 32°C 70s 4 80s 2 90s 8 2000s 6 2010s all of them 2020s all of them And here's how many summers topped 35°C 70s 1 80s 0 90s 2 2000s 2 2010s 3 2020s 4 (out of 6 so far)
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Feeling the extreme heat? Surfaces beneath tree shade can be over 20°C cooler, this makes a massive difference to life quality and more. Are you living without trees, check your postcode 👇 www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/protecting-t...
1/2 This is a heat map of London in the drought, and prolonged extreme heat of 2022 - when the UK saw an additional 3,000 heat related deaths, impacting less green, poorer areas.
Ed Miliband has been the most effective minister in this Government. And his policies ARE leading to one of the few areas of real job growth Diluting these policies will lead to loss of GDP and a greater loss of jobs so a wise PM will stand up to Unions wrong headedness on this very very robustly
Andrew Sissons@acjsissons.bsky.social · last mo.It seems to have become commonplace to blame net zero for Britain’s high energy bills and/or weak job market… … and I guess I’ll have to explain again why there is very little evidence of this. Britain has plenty of economic problems; net zero is not high on that list (though climate change is) 🧵
When I was born this would have been the UK's hottest ever day by more than 3C, now it's just yet another brutally hot day on the way to another temporary record
Concentrate on collaboratively marketing wellbeing economics to the electorate. That’s why global billionaires don’t want us to have basic income. Ordinary people having time and opportunity to meaningfully participate in democracy, hell no!!
Basic Income Action ↗️@basicincomeaction.org · 8mo agoHonest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it? Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
