Susan Board, PhD
@suseboard.bsky.social
Open University associate lecturer (the environment, global devt, international relations). Not afraid of science: global heating is accelerating; Covid is airborne. Cyclist. Yogi. Not at the same time. 💚
Enough is enough. Demand those fuelling the climate emergency pay for climate action here: foe.uk/7rpsi
Make polluters worldwide pay for a greener future
The world's most polluting companies are actively working to block climate action – all for the sake of profit. We've had enough. From extreme weather to energy and food prices, the climate emergency’...
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I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …
Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups
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My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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How polluters create a Circle of Denial on the climate & nature crisis. We need politicians with vision and courage to break it.
War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
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Heatwaves expose nuclear power’s water risk As river levels drop in heatwaves, many nuclear plants can't cool or discharge water so are facing reduced output or shutdown across Europe www.energylivenews.com/2026/08/03/h...
Heatwaves expose nuclear power’s water risk - Energy Live News
As river levels drop in heatwaves, many nuclear plants can't cool or discharge water so are facing reduced output or shutdown across Europe
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A first year above 2C in the mid-2030s now looks plausible. 0.5C was first passed in 1980, 1.0C in 2010 and 1.5C in 2024. The 15-year trend runs at 0.42C per decade. The 2026 and 2027 points for the current El Nino are estimates. We're not remotely ready!
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.
Beyond the battlefield: should we be rethinking National Security in an age of drought? aoav.org.uk/2026/beyond-...
Beyond the battlefield: should we be rethinking National Security in an age of drought? - AOAV
As drought exposes the fragility of Britain’s water and food systems, the government’s defence-spending surge raises a larger question: whether national security is still being defined too narrowly fo...
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Today university fees rise again, while thousands of academics across the country face job cuts, crushing workloads and shattered morale. Students deserve better than this broken system of unfair repayment that widens inequality. Abolish fees and fund universities properly!
A deeply destructive and inexpert management consultancy class has emerged whose sole purpose is to shrink Anglosphere universities and to undermine their future - all the better to secure more work. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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The penny drops. Climate change will break our economies. Fragment our societies. Undermine our governance. And erode our security. "Ecosystem services" are our life support processes. Destroying them destroys the foundations of human civilisation.
ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’
Exclusive: As wildfires rage across Europe, Frank Elderson tells the Guardian nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy
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Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in already water stressed areas. They have no legal obligation to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness
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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And note how the frontpage of the Telegraph juxtaposes news of her comment piece with a huge image of wildfires burning close to Sizewell nuclear power plant. One of her promises: "We will build nuclear power"
The sec of state who has seen at least 15000 academics lose their jobs just said this. Out loud. Mercy me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘It hurts to lose a job you love’: Starmer loyalist Bridget Phillipson fights on despite cabinet demotion
Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities
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Argh. Trying to find a recent article about how the #ClimateCatastrophe could trigger a cascading nuclear power station apocalypse, as plants are flooded, melt down because of lack of cooling water, etc. The fires in Suffolk aren't that far from Sizewell. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce.... Scared, yet?
Suffolk wildfire updates: Blaze grows to size of 140 football pitches
A major incident has been declared as an area about the size of 140 football pitches is on fire.
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"...Andy Burnham risks getting stuck in a ‘derailment’ doom loop if he doesn’t tackle #climate adaptation." This piece, co-authored with @carolinelucas.bsky.social, examines the two quite different conversations taking place around this topic. rupertsreads.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...
A Tale of Two Adaptations
Reflections on the Climate Change Committee’s Well-Adapted UK report, in the light of this summer’s heat storms and the Burnham ascendancy
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"This may well be our last chance to turn things around; to help politicians grow the backbones they need to stand up to vested interests." | @profbillmcguire.bsky.social
Wildfires are raging – and the world has junked 45 climate pledges. Disaster looms, and little wonder | Bill McGuire
Five years ago, I wrote an open letter asking climate scientists to speak out. Now governments are in retreat, it is surely time to act, says climate professor Bill McGuire
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Large areas of 'very' and 'extremely' poor air quality recorded due to wildfires in Spain and France - landscape fire smoke kills an estimated 1.5 million people a year #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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.
When I discuss huge systemic issues, people say "but what I can I do?" When I mention something meaningful you can do immediately, people say (as the replies here show) "but what's the point, in the face of the huge systemic issues?" There are, it seems, plenty of people who want to be helpless.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last wk.It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens
Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests
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Wildfires: why media coverage doesn’t always make the climate connection A fire is an event. Climate change is the story behind the event. Journalism has to tell both. theconversation.com/wildfires-wh...
Wildfires: why media coverage doesn’t always make the climate connection
A wildfire can be explained by today’s barbecue, yesterday’s wind direction, a dry spring, four decades of land use change, or a century of emissions.
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‘The heat took him from me’: India’s death toll rises amid escalating heat crisis
‘The heat took him from me’: India’s death toll rises amid escalating heat crisis
As extreme heat claims the lives of workers in India’s poorest areas, many fear the true mortality rate is being dangerously undercounted
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"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.
