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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️
@philsturgeon.com
Co-founder of @protect.earth, a registered charity (England & Wales) creating/restoring woodlands and other knackered ecosystems to sequester carbon and fight the biodiversity crisis. Electric van/boat life, bikepacking, and boycotting fossil fuels. he/him
Farmers don’t want more oil and gas drilling. They want to produce food, and they can’t do that with all these raging infernos caused by folks like @andyburnham.bsky.social.
Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 4d agoThe signs of collapsing harvests are coming thick and fast now, but still @andyburnham.bsky.social plans to suck up more oil and gas, pump more CO2 into the atmosphere, and add to the heat, drought, and wildfires that compromise UK food production www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
Fossil fuel companies give huge sums of money to far-right fascist politicians. Those far-right fascists start wars to make fossil fuel companies richer and slash funding for renewable projects & policies. With all the extra money FF fund more far-right fascists. Stop buying fossil fuels.
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 6d agoShell’s quarterly profits up from $4.3bn to $9.8bn, jump in price of oil/gas due to wars . Customer bills hiked, industries crippled, economies damaged, planet burns from fossil fuels pollution, corporations profit from catastrophies. Another $3bn share buyback. Must levy 100% windfall tax.
Shell’s quarterly profits up from $4.3bn to $9.8bn, jump in price of oil/gas due to wars . Customer bills hiked, industries crippled, economies damaged, planet burns from fossil fuels pollution, corporations profit from catastrophies. Another $3bn share buyback. Must levy 100% windfall tax.
Shell’s profits more than double after jump in oil and gas prices
Environmentalists renew calls for windfall tax to support households after Q2 earnings rise to almost $10bn
theguardian.com
Last month I sold/donated all my large tops and 36” trousers/shorts. My 34” trousers/shorts are getting loose, so they’re going next. I’m back into 32”! My secret diet? Part discovering i’m lactose intolerant. Part giving up booze for a month, then restricting to 20 units/week for 2 more months.
British cishet men especially never compliment each other. “Bants” generally just means bullying each other, alpha male posturing with a vaguely velvet glove. “Dude I love your hat.” “Your beard is absolutely majestic.” Makes people beam and it’s not hard at all to do.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 6d agoA thing I learned a while back that blew my mind is that men almost never receive compliments, especially cishet men. Giving a man a compliment will literally make their year
But as LBC itself reported today, the *systems* impacts of global heating on the UK will be exponentially worse. Food production and distribution networks are just one set of systems that are at severe risk of collapse under a warmer climate.
Tesco, Sainsbury's and Aldi sound alarm over food supplies as Britain imports nearly 80% of fresh fruit and veg - as heatwaves and wildfires sweep Europe | LBC
Food industry giants including Tesco, Sainsbury's and Aldi are urging Andy Burnham to make Britain's food security a national priority alongside energy and defence.
lbc.co.uk
The River Avon is so thirsty that the flow is basically non-existent. I’m floating home up-river on the faintest breeze.
I could set 100+ acres of grassland on fire with a lighter that’s in my pocket right now. It would be incredibly easy. There’s no reason to believe it would stop at 100 acres. It would go and go. In previous years it wouldn’t go at all. Would I be the cause of that fire, or climate change?
This is fucking amazing. They’re blaming the left for their own idiocy but apart from that it’s unbelievable to see anything like this is in The Daily Telegraph. They’ve gone back on it since but still, read it and have just a little hope.
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last wk.++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."
People ask what’s the point of planting trees if they could burn in a wildfire. Which trees? Where? What’s the woodland creation plan? What’s the management plan? This is a really interesting guide that will absolutely get you thinking about woodlands differently. protect.earth/articles/wha...
An hour on the Fish Quay, working with my hands and a dustpan and brush. No idea how many nurdles this is. There are about 60 people working down here, all doing similar.
Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · last wk.Lots of action on the North Tyneside coast again today, trying to collect as many of the billion spilled nurdles as possible, in the absence of an organised, council/corporate-led effort. This is what the Fish Quay, right at the mouth of the Tyne looked like this morning (not my pics).
Climate-friendly alts to beef aren't just limited to veggies, and legumes? Replacing beef with fish, chicken, or other animal proteins can go a long way in reducing the carbon footprint of your diet. Learn more from Research Associate, @enviroem.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4x2yGnz #plantbased
NEW | California just reached a world-first solar milestone Over HALF (51%) of electricity generation across the whole month of May came from solar power. Battery storage is the big difference maker, enabling California to push the share of solar generation to this level.
With the climate crisis clearly getting worse year on year, these long dry summers mean more and bigger wildfires. What does this mean for our woodlands and natural habitats, as is there anything we can do to limit the size of wildfires in the future. protect.earth/articles/wha...
What do wildfires mean for British woodlands? | Protect Earth
The UK is baking. In successive rolling heatwaves, the number of recorded deaths is rising.
protect.earth
More evidence of both climate change and terrible infrastructure management over a prolonged period.
Jonathan Calder@lordbonkers.bsky.social · last wk.An announcement will be made soon affecting the South Western Railway line between London and Exeter, BBC News understands. The issue is soil shrinkage on rail embankments, which causes the tracks on top to buckle.
Infuriating, especially when crushed aggregate is readily available from demolition waste, and can easily be diverted from landfill as part of the circular economy. The last concrete building I demolished weighed 3,155.6 tonnes, of which 99.64% didn't go to landfill.
Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️@philsturgeon.com · last wk.Remember the “108 ancient woodlands” HS2 was going to destroy? The actual ancient woodland loss for HS2 in full would be 39 hectares. This one ancient woodland that Reform wants to destroy is *40 hectares* This quarry will produce mostly crushed aggregate. www.bbc.com/news/article...
The latest on this story to destroy ancient woodland for aggregate, is that Kent's Reform council have indeed backed it. This is ecocide, pure and simple. Promises to "put back the topsoil afterwards" are derisive. #OakenWood www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oaken Wood campaigners to continue quarry plan fight
Kent County Councillors voted for plans at Oaken Wood to be put forward for government approval.
bbc.co.uk
Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️@philsturgeon.com · last wk.Remember the “108 ancient woodlands” HS2 was going to destroy? The actual ancient woodland loss for HS2 in full would be 39 hectares. This one ancient woodland that Reform wants to destroy is *40 hectares* This quarry will produce mostly crushed aggregate. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Remember the “108 ancient woodlands” HS2 was going to destroy? The actual ancient woodland loss for HS2 in full would be 39 hectares. This one ancient woodland that Reform wants to destroy is *40 hectares* This quarry will produce mostly crushed aggregate. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Kent council accused of 'ecocide' over Oaken Wood quarry plan
Campaigners are "horrified" by the plans but the council says "no decision has been made".
bbc.com
Anyone thinking Burnham might be alright… he’s immediately coming after disabled people like Starmer tried and failed to do. Anyone thinking he might focus on wealth tax is deluding themselves. It’s just more of the same old austerity and let them eat cake just with a different accent.
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · last wk.#GMB: "On welfare.. [Burnham] says he wants to make it harder for people to claim benefits.. so in his words 'you might increase the conditions required to receive benefits'"
You see everything is connected. The marine heatwaves off the coasts of Europe make heatwaves on land more intense, which in turn dries out vegetation, which then creates perfect fire weather conditions. Brought to you by the world's refusal to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels.
Ongoing marine heatwave in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea | EU Space Support Office
In late May 2026, several countries in Western Europe faced above-average temperatures. During the same period, large areas of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea also recorded above-average ...
eu-space.europa.eu
Limped out of bed in a state to get over the the weekly Warleigh Nature Reserve volunteer day. Nobody turned up, which used to make me sad, but I am excited to work on projects! Sharpened, sanded, and oiled everything. Played with my new draw knife. Built half a stool with a settlers wrench.
"Sunny Jim" in Private Eye nails the Tories' new approach to climate change...
May have ripped my legs off yesterday on some silly scrambles, but I am rewarded with a bronze medal on “Crap bridleway” which is just such an honour for me and my entire family.
Heatwaves bad for the economy.
Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 3w agoThe 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....
11 people tracking cyclosporiasis sounded woke and soy to gigabrain Elon Musk. DOGE chopped that down to 3 people, and now everyone has diarrhoea in a heatwave. This is what “running a country like a business” gets you, especially when run by the dumbest people alive.
