Sylvia Davidson
@sylviad.bsky.social
Wanderer through the Sussex countryside by foot, bus and train. Bit of an obsession with lichens
If corporations paid ‘where they play’ not ‘where they say’, the UK would be up £13 billion a year. It's time we ended the corporate tax scam. 👉 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Heat & drought records keep falling. Reform promote denial. The Tories want to ditch our targets. The new PM still hasn't said a word. Such a relief to hear a politician actually name it. Should be ordinary. End the #climate hushing! Thanks for your #ClimateLeadership @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Zack Polanski delivers an urgent message to the Prime Minister
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Zack Polanski, "If we decarbonise by 2050, that would cost less than a single (fossil-fuel) energy shock" "We've now had two energy shocks in just a few years" "We cannot keep waiting, we cannot keep hoping for magic technologies - it already exists, what is lacking is the political will"
After the devastating wildfire at Dunwich Heath, plans for recovery are underway and your donations are helping make that possible. We've raised over £350,000 already thanks to your generosity.
Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies
🚨 Horse Hill oil expansion plans are back! Have your say and object to the Horse Hill application today Every objection counts Surrey County Council has another opportunity to make the right decision. Let's show them that opposition remains as strong as ever. Guidance: tinyurl.com/HorseHill-2026
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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Most of the UK is farmland – and bumblebees are struggling to find enough food on it 🐝🍽️ New research from 20 English farms shows that pollen and nectar levels are far too low for bumblebees to thrive. Leo Fordham and Prof Elli Leadbeater tell us more in our guest blog: https://ow.ly/2coK50Zu6xA
Fruit to produce jet fuel: another greenwashing scam, directly from the fossil fuel industry, that will turn an area of Brazilian countryside the size of LA into a monoculture. 🧵
Jet Fuel Made From Tropical Fruit Gets $3 Billion Backing
A Brazilian company owned by Mubadala Capital plans to make sustainable aviation fuel out of macauba fruit, which grows on palm trees.
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Stop calling them "data centers." Start calling them pollution centers. 🧵👇
BP's quarterly profits more than doubled to £4.2 billion in the three months to the end of June. These are the profits of war and climate chaos. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.
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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Call to ban disposable barbecues in England and Wales over wildfire risk
Call to ban disposable barbecues in England and Wales over wildfire risk
Lib Dems and many Labour MPs join farmers, landowners and firefighters in urging temporary prohibition
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Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d agoBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
Why is Britain a tinderbox? Because: 1) The climate crisis, obvs; but also - 2) *6.4 million hectares* of farmland in England & Wales is riddled with field drains - draining water from the land where it could be retaining it. Make Britain Wet Again! ahdb.org.uk/drainage
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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.
Victory! 🎉 thank you to every single one of you for getting behind this campaign! So many Gannets saved!
Dear All. Government is reviewing how money from the National Lottery Good Causes is used in the UK. £53billion has been raised since 1994 with around £2billion awarded by Heritage Fund for land, sea and nature projects. This is your chance to have you say by 23 Sept. www.gov.uk/government/c...
National Lottery Good Causes: Fund what matters to you
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Preserve Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve... www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/campaigns/pr...
Preserve Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve
Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve is one of Kent Wildlife Trust’s flagship nature reserves, providing a haven for wildlife and a place where people connect with nature every year. However, proposals in Seven...
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Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
Meta tried to build a 200-megawatt data centre on farmland in Zeewolde. Twice the electricity of the entire town. 20 rebels occupied the council. "We want Greta, not Meta." They won, and then the Dutch banned hyperscale centres over 70MW. Direct action works! wagingnonviolence.org/2026/07/the-...
The data center fight is going global
As local communities around the world unite around a shared enemy — AI data centers — a powerful new direction for climate action is emerging.
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People are scared about climate change, 70% of the electorate sees the causal link with our dismal summer, the government has a strong Net Zero message that most voters want to hear, the Tories and Reform message is 'let everything burn'. Result from government comms:
Cricket Chirp Breaks the Silence
ALT: Cricket Chirp Breaks the Silence
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How many warning signs do we need before we take action? Force this government to step up on climate, before it's too late 👇 https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/time-for-the-uk-to-step-up-on-climate/
Most lowland woods in England are criss-crossed with drainage ditches, dug to help intensive forestry exploitation. Most woods no longer managed, but drainage still maintained for convenience of dogwalkers etc., losing ponds, bogs. Re-wetting woodland to buffer against droughts should be a priority.
Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 4d agoAustralia has a completely different set of ecosystems to the UK. In Britain, you don’t fight fire with fire: you fight it with water. We have allowed landowners to comprehensively drain our peat bogs, remove farmland ponds, riddle landscapes with field drains. Make Britain Wet Again!
Plant species richness is key for restoring grassland butterfly assemblages.. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Plant species richness is key for restoring grassland butterfly assemblages
The results indicate that successful restoration of grassland vegetation and butterflies is strongly linked. To fully restore target butterfly assemblages, future grassland restoration should aim to ...
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