"We need an exit ramp off the highway to climate hell. We have control of the wheel. The 1.5 degree limit of global warming is still possible. But we need to fight harder. Now." @antonioguterres No time to wait. #ActOnClimate
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In 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise. Imagine if we had listened to him them. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate
Instead of airport expansion, the government should be taking action to bring down the cost of living, boosting our public services, and ensuring we cut the emissions that are currently causing droughts and wildfires. Read our full statement here: neweconomics.org/2026/08/gatw...
Gatwick expansion will suck jobs out of wider regions
New Economics Foundation responds to the Gatwick airport expansion
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Gatwick is set to go ahead with a second runway - but doing so is unlikely to improve the lives of people across the country. There are much better ways to boost our economy that don't threaten our climate targets...
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Our government's response, including its ability to respond to our climate crisis is woefully inadequate. We need the right people, voices, knowledge and experience at the table, and we needed them years ago, so we'd better get a move on...
Richard Murphy@richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 3d agoThere is no news from a government that’s in office but on holiday during a crisis www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08... Where is Burnham's government as the climate crisis hits home?
More than half of Britain identifies as something other than Christian. Depending on which survey we look at, up to half of Britain identities as no religion.
Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3d ago📌 ICYMI Max Colbert Organisers of the "Make Great Britain Christian Again" conference include preachers linked to far-right rallies, prompting warnings that faith is being used to provide moral cover for nationalist politics
Nearly 3 years of a genocide, and this morning Israel killed a number of children and adults in Gaza yet again. The video is shared by Mosab Abu Toha (obvious trigger warning: substack.com/@mosababutoh...) Nearly 3 years of dead children, every single day
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
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Much talk of the desperation to enter Europe and reducing the factors that drive it after the mass crossing into Ceuta. Reduce economic, global, historic, social, structural and systemic inequality. Maximise global equality of capacity, connection, freedom, opportunity, resources and wellbeing.
Leave oil and gas in the earth. Invest in wind and solar. It's a win for human and planetary wellbeing.
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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Why did the British government suppress a report warning that ecosystem collapse must now be treated as a core national security threat? That’s what Caroline Lucas explores in a column for the Nerve and in her new podcast When Nature Becomes A Security Threat, from The Rest is Politics.
Globally, millions are on the move - because of climate change, war, poverty etc - and the numbers are mushrooming. Pulling up the drawbridge cannot work. A solution requires rich countries to confront the causes rather than descend into populism. We must find a way to reduce global inequality.
Half the country officially in drought - the 3rd in 5 years. Fires raging across Europe. Battles being fought over AI data centres, New episode of *When Nature Becomes A Security Threat*,my podcast series for @therestpolitics.bsky.social, out now. It couldn’t be more timely. Pls do give a listen
Data Centres vs. Drinking Water: What Matters To Us Most?
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 30 July · 16min
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At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Just watched the BBC 10 O'clock news @bbcnewsunofficial.bsky.social Two stories - one on the Suffolk wildfire and another on the countrywide Welsh drought - with not a SINGLE mention of the climate Just beyond belief www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Drought declared for whole of Wales amid sustained high temperatures
Wales is on course for its driest July on record in almost 190 years.
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The best measure of how America is doing isn’t the unemployment rate, or the stock market, or GDP growth. It’s how well most Americans are living. And the reality is that most Americans are struggling.
The Incredibly Shrinking American Workforce
The official unemployment rate tells us less and less
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🚨BREAKING: More than 100 peaceful protestors have been arrested today under terror laws. Amnesty legal observers attended to document the arrests and any human rights violations.
Sharp analysis in a one post nutshell from @purpleelectric.bsky.social
Purple Electric@purpleelectric.bsky.social · 6d agoYes capitalism has become about shoving people right to the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, so that they cannot care about anything beyond their immediate needs, and the rich and powerful can keep looting the country.
@rachlke.bsky.social How much does your cat look like this stray tomcat I'm befriending? We're just getting to the point where he's comfy eating in my kitchen, so long as I keep the front door open at all times...
Twenty minutes in. More real deal perspective than twenty hours of mainstream news. A quantitative expression of qualitative sentiment but I think it's fair comment. Time for me to sleep but more time for these two tomorrow. Thanks and love to @jasonhickel.bsky.social and @michaelmezz.bsky.social 🙏🏻
michael mezzatesta@michaelmezz.bsky.social · 7d agowatch the full episode of the Better Future Podcast: youtu.be/X5WU51sVn3Y
watch the full episode of the Better Future Podcast: youtu.be/X5WU51sVn3Y
How to Overcome Capitalism | Jason Hickel on Socialism, China, and the West
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capitalism has always required cheap labor and resources from a periphery, and the West has maintained that imperial arrangement through violence. it’s imperative that we transition to a post-capitalist economic system. @jasonhickel.bsky.social on the Better Future Pod:
I'm very much with @elliechowns.bsky.social and @greenparty.org.uk on this one...
Dr Ellie Chowns MP@elliechowns.bsky.social · last wk.Given our consistent engagement on the adult social care crisis and willingness to work together to solve it, it's deeply disappointing that the Greens weren't invited to today's cross-party talks. We need all hands on deck to tackle this issue - the Greens remain ready to work cross-party to do so.
And too much profit being sucked up by investors, instead of reinvested into infrastructure and services, plus too much climate denying and antisocial wealth being channeled into media and political influence...
Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · last wk."This drought isn't just about a lack of rain," said Prof @hayleyjfowler.bsky.social of @newcastleuni.bsky.social University. "It's the result of hotter temperatures from a #climate, rising water demand, ageing infrastructure and too much water being lost through leaks."
A Nature study of 15,000 people found that playing a game teaching the six tactics used to spread misinformation, even just once, made them better at spotting and resisting falsehoods online immediately afterward. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Can ‘Pre-Bunking’ Cure the Health Misinformation Infodemic?
As health misinformation fuels public mistrust in medicine and science, a small but growing number of clinicians, researchers, and health institutions are searching for an antidote.
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Woah! This thread is a shocking example of grossly inappropriate use of AI. Its capacity to sometimes make mistakes and make things up is well known and well documented. How on earth did it get to this? Someone, somewhere has been grossly negligent in their implementation of AI...
Colin Yeo@colinyeo.bsky.social · last wk.1/2 This and similar incidents should be called out for what it is. A Home Office official manufactured country information to refuse an asylum case. Some lawyers have been doing the same to try to win their cases. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
"You can't deny the seriousness of the threat that's facing us. Europe is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the world. The Cairngorms are on fire and there are fires in Sussex and in Greater Manchester." Rachel Millward, Green Party co-Deputy Leader, on LBC's Cross Question.