Data shows you're 11% more likely to die in a crash while *driving* an SUV, largely because the false sense of indestructibility leads you to drive more recklessly around others. Antisocial behaviour is baked into the design of these monstrosities.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d agoClimate science denial in physical form. The Land Rover Defender X (yup - they've gone full Musk). Price: £103,460, plus a few kids' lives. 🧵
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 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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See the alternating warm and cold patches in the Northern mid-latitudes? That's the imprint of a quasi-stationary Rossby wave (i.e. oscillations in the jet stream). It's rare to see it so clearly in a monthly-average temperature map.
It's not quite "gobsmackingly bananas" but monster forecasts for the record El Nino brewing the Pacific Ocean get pretty close. Here's what to make of it in my first for @nature.com: 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’
Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.
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Definitely. But also, his lies are being repeated. All he cares about. And he's not trying to win; he's trying to undermine and claw power. Unfortunately, it cannot be ignored how that works.
Trump doesn’t lie to be believed. He lies to be repeated.
It’s time to stop giving him what he wants.
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Ivan the K ™@ivanthek.bsky.social · 3w agoTrump is getting his ass kicked all over the media today. I don't think Fox News is even indulging The Fantasy.
AI and Ecocivilization: Exploring the Perils and Unexpected Opportunities open.substack.com/pub/jeremyle... AI and Ecocivilization are both deeply transformative to our world system: one is occurring now, the other is a vision and invitation. How do they relate?
AI and Ecocivilization: Exploring the Perils and Unexpected Opportunities
AI and Ecocivilization are both deeply transformative to our world system: one is occurring now, the other is a vision and invitation. How do they relate?
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Starmer's nature plan is pathetic. Burnham must do better. I've written about the government's '30by30 Delivery Plan', out today, which isn't a plan & won't deliver 30by30. I suggest some policies Burnham should pursue instead, amidst Blackadder gifs: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/starmers-n... 1/🧵
Starmer’s nature plan is pathetic. Burnham must do better
Today's 30by30 Delivery Plan isn't a plan, and it won't deliver 30by30.
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If you want to know exactly how big the problem we face in terms of climate mitigation is, then Kevin Anderson is the person to listen to. Clear, concise, honest and direct. 👍
Kevin Anderson@kevinclimate.bsky.social · 4w agoRecent interview at: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx6w... (the biog’ is from many moons ago, but is still languishing in various places on the web).
And if you want to learn more about Labour’s new anti-nature regulations which could also leave home owners liable for developer damages you can read more here... open.substack.com/pub/danicapr...
The New Nature Regulations are Worse Than we Thought
The Nature Restoration Fund? More Like The Bureaucracy Restoration Fund.
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Sorry to re-up this, but the media silence on the massive, country-changing shift towards arbitrary justice and authoritarianism is almost the most astonishing aspect of the case. The new dispensation is being normalised even as it's happening. Please spread it far and wide. We need to know. Thanks
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2mo agoBoth the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have resigned from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Independent Standards Board. The Protocol is openly violating its own rules and has effectively delegated forest carbon accounting standards to a secret, industry-led working group. ghgpolicy.org/s/2026-06-08...
The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming
"Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes" - Wes Streeting, in a private message. So it turns out that government ministers were not, after all, incapable of understanding what is happening there. Just incapable of saying it in public, and of acting on that knowledge. #MorallySupine
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2mo agoLooking through the Mandelson files, has Wes Streeting said in public Israel is committing war crimes, or does he just keep that sentiment for DMs? www.gov.uk/government/p...
Journalists - what do you really care about? We’re running a free online 2-hour workshop for journalists on 11/06 exploring exactly that; starting with your own values, before looking at how values shape coverage. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/commo...
Register here – What do you actually care about? A workshop for UK journalists about values – Zoom
What do you actually care about? A workshop for UK journalists about values – Zoom, Thu 11 Jun 2026 - Research consistently shows that most people value things like equality, community and connection....
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Rewilding: Ten Years of Evolution and Development 🌎🌐🧪 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Rewilding: Ten Years of Evolution and Development
Rewilding has matured into a mainstream approach in nature conservation. More than 450 academic papers on rewilding have been published since the term first appeared in print in the early 1990s. Rewil...
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A quick new blog for you all: Anthropic's dirty deal with Elon Musk is not surprising because (a) Anthropic already openly loves pollution-based computer buildings (b) Colossus is VERY far from the worst; the whole industry is moving to gross, bloated megaprojects ketanjoshi.co/2026/05/13/w...
Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at all
Perfect little Anthropic did the dirty with Elon Musk’s ultra-filthy pollution bomb fossil fuelled data centre. I am here to tell you why this is not surprising at all.
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The government’s new assault on the right to challenge planning decisions is another example of its authoritarian reflex. We very much need a fast green transition, which means large-scale renewables. But instead of bringing people along, it goes straight for coercion.🧵1/8 www.gov.uk/government/n...
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If you care about climate change, here are the four most important charts you need to understand first. They explain where the climate problem starts, and why we need to take a broad view of climate solutions. First: it's more than CO2. There are many greenhouse gases.
The BBC News homepage has now COMPLETELY removed its Climate section?! It has now been relegated to a sub-menu via the "More" button in the right-hand corner.
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 6mo agoWow?! BBC News homepage has just significantly downgraded the placing of its "Climate" section on its menu bar Climate is now ranked last, lower than Tech. Earlier this month "Climate" was ranked above World, UK, US&Canada, Business and Tech
Things are actually worse than shown in the below picture of the biomass of land mammals on earth. A more recent study (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) has found that wild mammals only represent 2% of the total. Everything else is us and our domestic animals.
Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
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Trash the natural environment and make a fortune but when you work to try and look after it you do it for peanuts. How hard can it be for them folk who claim to govern us work out something just ain’t right?
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4mo agoAnother triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The global food system is systemically fragile in the same way that the global financial system was before the 2008 crash. If it goes it down, we’re looking, as complex societies, at a potential termination event. This week's column. Please read it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out | George Monbiot
The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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On Monday, Johan Rockstrom spoke at PBL in The Hague. His presentation was perfect, the science well explained. It’s bad, worse than we think (as usual), we need to take measures, it can be done, tipping points, acceleration of acceleration, food systems, move away from fossil fuels. Questions from
Awfully telling account about stumbling attempts at prioritisation in the Labour hierarchy. If you don't stand for something you can fall for anything open.substack.com/pub/peterhym...
Diamond Nine
Bringing a teaching technique into politics - with unpredictable results
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