Rob Hattersley
@robhattersley.bsky.social
Escapee primary teacher, child safety/lifeskills, charity CEO. Researching @reconnection.org.uk. RHS L2 horticulture student. Books, cycling, piano, French, history, places, esp. Dorset & Orkney. Born 327ppm. Exvangelical, now just human. Be kind always.
'Brutal' harvest could be worst on record Dire forecast has sparked calls to factor domestic food production into the current debate about Britain's national security, as it currently relies on imports for 40% of all food consumed news.sky.com/story/bruta...
These profit making companies need to be held accountable for their littering of space as well as of Earth. No excuses. apple.news/Al81KGXnhQ-C...
SpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision — The Guardian
Four-tonne piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket believed to have hit lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles an hour
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How to deal with ‘doomism’ when it feels like the world is ending. “The more educated you are around it, the more anxious you can get.” apple.news/AEdtFAXefQse...
How to deal with ‘doomism’ when it feels like the world is ending — The Independent
As wildfires rage across Europe, many of us are feeling helpless and anxious about the state of the planet. Katie Rosseinsky explores the mental toll of climate change and asks the experts how to cope...
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‘It’s too fast, too big’ Yup - the penny is dropping Across the entire geological record, our world has NEVER heated up as rapidly as it has in the last hundred years or so www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers
Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable
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PUFFLING!!! Some great views of 'Pufflings' at Sumburgh Head this week including this individual taking its first wing stretches outside its burrow yesterday evening watched by mum or dad! #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife
Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” (1970) is a song about carbon opportunity cost
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They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em
[Chorus]
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop Shoo-bop-bop-bop-bop)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ukbntaoabnmfpvnhxx7fpemj/bafkreibqaecqrepbnwn4uc6az6chju5mmeok3hmk5fauqj6syasuzuj6pm)
Is “pragmatic” the new, “grown up” word? Andy, there’s nothing “pragmatic” about drilling for more oil & gas - to even consider it with the planet literally on fire is total madness. How many times must we say it will do nothing for energy bills or security? It would be an act of utter recklessness
Burnham promises ‘pragmatic’ approach to North Sea oil and gas
PM tells reporters the government cannot ignore the energy resource ‘when people are struggling’
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“I saw a 20ft fireball burning through the trees, with nightjars flying away from the fireball. Last night I stood on the heath and it was apocalyptic, the sky was orange, the smoke was billowing, it could be seen and smelled 20 miles to the north.”
Hundreds evacuated after ‘apocalyptic’ wildfire near Suffolk nuclear power station
Major incident declared with Sizewell B power station monitoring blaze and RSPB nature reserve badly hit
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V. pleased with #Ecosia latest news. An AI-free option in search, plus investment in more biodiverse fire-resilient forests. If you've not switched yet, you should now. #Hope www.ecosia.org
Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees
Ecosia uses 100% of its profits for the planet and produces enough renewable energy to power all searches twice over.
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Coupled with a Government target of 60% of children walking or cycling to school by 2035, the Safe System Approach with its implicit adoption of survivable limits on urban/village streets of 20mph will be mandatory if both targets are to be achieved.
Evidence shows that setting 20mph as an urban/village norm reduces casualties by 25% and this has to be the future direction of setting speed limits England. Note that Wales and Scotland have already done so.
🧵UK media has been duped about net-zero (again) The playbook is identical: 1️⃣ Find a big scary number 2️⃣ Speed-dial non-specialist hacks 3️⃣ Do say “serious economic damage” 4️⃣ Don’t say “we pretended gas is free” 5️⃣ That's it! Many papers still fell for it 🤷
A perfect pictorial metaphor for climate breakdown and its devastating ramifications www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Giant iceberg turns over near Greenland's coast
Video captured by a passerby showed the moment the iceberg collapsed creating a big wave.
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The NFU is right. This is the new climate reality. It doesn't matter whether people believe it's climate change. It won't care when we run out of water, food costs rocket & wildfires spread. We need a Climate Adaptation Minister to lead cross-govt action www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Half of England in drought as farmers warn food prices could soar
Producing crops becoming harder and more expensive and prices could rise, farmers warn
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BLOG ✏️ | What if our #highstreets were shaped not just by retail, but by community life, local enterprise, culture & care? Across the country there are promising examples; the challenge is not proving that the model works, but pulling together to realise the vision ⬇️ bit.ly/3Ro2MTD
Welcome to the Civic High Street Collective - Power to Change
Across the country community, public and commercial actors are already demonstrating a successful civic model for high streets and town centres. The challen ...
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This 💯. We’re muddling means and ends again. Exams, essays, qualifications are NOT the end outcome. Skills are. Including critical thinking. Outsourcing this to machines is an avoidable disaster.
Charlotte Weatherill@ckweatherill.bsky.social · last wk.The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.
Half of England officially in ‘exceptionally serious’ drought - The Guardian apple.news/ADDjS09fqSoa...
Half of England officially in ‘exceptionally serious’ drought — The Guardian
Environment Agency names seven regions affected by unusually hot and dry weather and shortage of water
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The Prime Minister of Spain: “This climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about.” This is the realistic climate discourse the world needs. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...
Found out why our Ukrainian guest has been so quiet. Her best friend’s son and family have been killed in Kiev. Two young children. No words.
Waving Ukraine Flag
ALT: Waving Ukraine Flag
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I wonder if @yougov.co.uk explained how heatwaves could be the norm in future years? And whether or not people would be happy to not just see them as the norm, but for them to keep getting hotter. And hotter. And hotter. And what the consequences of this ‘new norm’ would be?
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last wk.Would you be happy if this summer's weather became the norm? Happy: 38% Neither: 22% Unhappy: 38% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
STOP USING DISPOSABLE BBQS "a spokesperson for the National Fire Chiefs Council urged the public to avoid using disposable barbecues in parks, the countryside and other green spaces, and to take care with cigarette butts..." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Britain braces for fourth heatwave of year as fire chiefs issue public appeal
Temperatures up to 35C forecast, triggering heat health alerts and pleas to take care in parched parks and rural areas
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It is very clear to me that the economy / immigration / drilling in the North Sea / the doubling of the Neasden Dual Carriageway / the unavailability of my favourite soya bread at my local supermarket is THE issue facing our country, From the new Private Eye, out now.
Wildfires are raging across France and Spain, engulfing green spaces, threatening homes and forcing evacuations. This isn’t a faraway crisis. It's already happening on our doorstep. The climate emergency is here. And the need for action has never been clearer.
London faces 'exceptional' threat of wildfires this week
The capital faces a ‘perfect storm’ of rising temperatures, parched land and lower humidity
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Media all part of the deranged madness which is spreading like a… wildfire…
Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2w agoWhen 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.
Continue to hope & work for 1. But increasingly think 2 more likely. Conversations make me I feel *I’m* the nutter to be worried: friends, family, colleagues continue to fly, barbecue/ eat meat; buy plastic tat etc & fail to make the link with the smoke/drought. Bad day, sorry. Back to my garden.
Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2w agoIt beggars belief that we still carry on as normal - still sucking up and burning more oil and gas - still pretending everything is fine Will anything make us change? Or will we march glassy-eyed and grinning into oblivion? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
9/ One hell of a photo to symbolize the second hottest summer of our lives. @katemac.bsky.social al and I used a similar photo in 2023 and wrote about the shock of the hottest year in recorded history. Read it here as we scorch in 2026. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo... bsky.app/profile/rahm...
Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf@rahmstorf.bsky.social · 2w agoHoliday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
