Just maybe because they understand the huge benefits of free-movement and trade? Or haven't had their brains eroded by years of right-wing, anti-EU media campaigning? Or maybe they're just not idiots.

Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · yesterday

Young people did not have a say in the Brexit referendum but have to live with its dreadful consequences. Of course, they want to rejoin the EU.

"We often talk about what climate change has wrecked in terms of what’s material, tangible, structures lost to fire, flood, or sea level rise, trees dying, species threatened, glaciers melting in warmer weather. But summer was an immaterial treasure and joy that belonged to all of us."

The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterday

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Brave New World. #ClimateChange

We are in the third drought in five years. We have the National Trust and NFU - those radical types - sounding the alarm on unprecedented temperatures. But so little from any single figure in politics talking about the climate crisis.

".. largely unchallenged" 💯☝️

James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Strait of Hormuz is still shut. The UK is at risk of yet another recession due to its reliance on oil and gas. And the Tories, Reform, and their media outriders have spent the past week arguing for greater fossil fuel reliance largely unchallenged. www.businessgreen.com/news/4533806...

Headline reads: "Scientists fear climate change by SST pollution." SST = Supersonic Transport. @allouryesterdays.bsky.social - recommended account to follow for both the present and historical context of what we're living through.

All Our Yesterdays@allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 4d ago

August 2, 1970 – LA Times runs #climate change front page story allouryesterdays.info/2023/08/01/a...

Take a careful look at this map. As these places begin to hit their adaptation physical limits, 100s of millions of people are going to be on the move. We are utterly unprepared.

apnews.com/article/hung... Hungary braces for a full shutdown of the Paks nuclear plant as the Danube River hits record lows

Hungary braces for a full shutdown of the Paks nuclear plant as the Danube River hits record lows

Hungary's only nuclear power plant is shutting down for the first time due to record-low water levels on the Danube River.

apnews.com

“There is a resource there. When people are struggling, we can’t ignore that. Hence, me indicating that to the president.” The resource is what's destroying us! Dear god, when will we wake up? Like saying heroin is a 'resource' for a smackhead. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Burnham promises ‘pragmatic’ approach to North Sea oil and gas

PM tells reporters the government cannot ignore the energy resource ‘when people are struggling’

theguardian.com

Another reminder that either Burnham doesn't get the climate crisis, or - as Keith says - is willing to ignore it for political expediency.

Keith Alexander@keithalexander.bsky.social · 6d ago

Why does he give a reason (more oil will help cost of living) so widely and frequently disproven? Cynically, because it builds his personal brand that he is focused on the cost of living crisis, even though he knows drilling for oil won’t reduce prices. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Quite something that Gianni Infantino managed to be a bigger tosser than Sepp Blatter. #UEFA #FIFA

We go live to Suffolk embracing Mediterranean life ...

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 7d ago

It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.

The depressing truth is that these, right-wing twats have been the most influential voices over most of my adult life. I suspect we're fucked as a species.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · last wk.

Nighty night.

Wind and solar have just overtaken fossil-fuel power in Germany www.carbonbrief.org/...

Highly recommended thread. Worth reading down to the 1000s of reader comments in response to the article. "I look out my window and it's raining" "The climate changes all the time and there is nothing we can do about it" Hard to believe people are still at this level of ignorance 🤦

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."

It's noticeable, too, that there wasn't a single question on the climate, at a time when Europe is experiencing catastrophic wild-fires & record-breaking heat. It's astonishing how low down the political agenda this remains in Britain, when all the environmental indicators are signalling disaster.

Depressing story, with some sober commentary form my colleague Geoff Abbott: "even without significant events like the South Shields nurdle spill, this was continuing to happen. Plastics are absolutely everywhere, they're in our clothes, they're in our buildings." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

North and South Shields nurdle beach spill and clean-up operation

As a major clean-up operation is under way, experts discuss the potential long-term impacts.

bbc.co.uk

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Jeff Goodell@jeffgoodell.bsky.social · last wk.

ExxonMobil will report second quarter earnings in a few days. Most analysts expect profits for the quarter will more than double compared to last year, from $7 billion to about $16 billion.

Experts who helped Burnham draw up Manchester carbon neutral pledge say backtracking would send wrong message amid wildfires and heatwaves (Guardian)

PM urged to uphold climate pledges made as mayor and ban new North Sea oil drilling

Experts who helped Burnham draw up Manchester carbon neutral pledge say backtracking would send wrong message amid wildfires and heatwaves

theguardian.com

Burnham talking about expanding North Sea drilling while Europe burns, and largely getting away with it in the media - we’re not looking up harder than ever.

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2w ago

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

Year after year now. Will it ever properly sink in that we're properlyscrewed without systemic change?

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wildfire situation in the EU - updated on 22 July 2026: 254,388 hectares (ha) burnt since the start of the year 1,254 fires detected since the start of the year 8.31 million tonnes (Mt) of CO₂ emitted since the start of the year

@tomflood.bsky.social

Mohamed Adow, Director of Power Shift Africa: "The UK helped cause the climate crisis by getting rich off fossil fuel-powered development. Climate finance is a debt owed by rich countries - not a debt to be collected from poor countries."

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2w ago

New UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham will use money allocated to helping poor countries deal with the worst impacts of climate change to fund a new cap on bus fares across England.

This is why many environmentalists can't support the Labour Party. Even if some in the Labour movement as a whole get the scale of the climate crisis, the PLP & Labour leadership simply don't. And they prove it time and time again with shit like this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Funding bus fare cap from aid budget will hit world’s poorest, Burnham told

Proposal ‘throws global south countries under the bus’, says ActionAid UK directorr

theguardian.com

UK's largest land windfarm will double its capacity to 1 GW from 539 MW during its repowering! 124 bigger, better turbines will replace 215 turbines installed in 2008! $1.5 billion for 1 GW of new wind capacity. Wow! Wonderful! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... #energysky

UK’s largest windfarm plans to double capacity with even taller turbines

Under the plans, the current count of 214 turbines could be reduced to 124

independent.co.uk

A.I. has heavily 'borrowed' from Wikipedia but is now diverting traffic away from it. Like the BBC, it's not perfect but we'd all be a lot worse off without it. I just donated a few quid. donate.wikimedia.org

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Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 2w ago

We can now see the smoke from the Canadian wildfires in the UK. Meanwhile, the rightwing press are pushing for more drilling in the North Sea, and Badenoch is banning Tory candidates who support net zero. Cool cool bsky.app/profile/meto...

Compared to highways, cycling infrastructure is cheaper AND takes cars off the roads. Also has more diverse benefits: Cleaner air Healthier populations Increased local footfall Prettier urban areas Safer streets And of course, still has the Keynsian public investment boost to local economies.

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett@modacitylife.com · 2w ago

A new report captures the breadth of Dutch-inspired global projects and partnerships that made it possible. From Latin to North America, Europe to Asia, it tells the story of how Dutch knowledge has been adapted, translated, and applied in contexts around the world. dutchcycling.nl/knowledge/do...

Increasingly colder countries being hit. Norway, Scotland, Siberia, Canada etc.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2w ago

An absolutely unbelievable amount of damage to homes in Drammen, Norway, after a fire that may have been ignited from a household accident spread with unprecedented speed and scale thanks to record heat and dry conditions. The worst fire in Norway during peacetime. www.nrk.no/norge/krimte...