Vanessa Spedding
@vanessaspedding.bsky.social
Writer. Envisioning a carefully-placed twist in the tale of humanity.
Things Elon has polluted so far: 1. Our night sky 2. Our social discourse 3. Our politics 4. The moon
Stop calling them "data centers." Start calling them pollution centers. 🧵👇
As entities, they are monsters, and murderous. They should be put in public ownership and wound down in accordance with degrowth and decarbonisation strategies designed to maximise survival and regeneration.
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 12h agoMajor oil firms make $93bn profits in just 3 months amid war and climate crisis. They shift profits, dodge taxes, fuel poverty and inflation. They don't bear the social cost of their business. Forever holding people/govts to ransom. Polluters must pay. Need windfall tax now.
As long as they remain - agree wholeheartedly
Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · yesterdayNo excuses at all not to make the banks pay more - a lot more These parasites use our hard-earned cash to make themselves richer, and to shower obscene amounts of money on their CEOs and shareholders www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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 · yesterdayBP 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...
“I have long believed that what the world needs is not just economic #degrowth but ecological regrowth. We need a system of trade, currency, taxation & incentives that rewards countries & companies for restoring the world’s battered ecosystems.” #PostGrowth www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘The obsession with endless growth can only end in tears’: your questions on extreme weather this summer answered
From Europe’s deadly heat to floods in Asia, it’s been a terrifying summer. Environment writers Jonathan Watts and Ajit Niranjan answered Reddit users’ questions about their work – and their sources o...
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Please sign and share this petition by French campaigners against large wood-to-bioenergy and biochar projects in the French Pyrenees which would cause severe harm to wildlife-rich forests: agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/no...
🛑 Ne rasons pas nos forêts pour faire voler des avions
Sommé par l’Europe de réduire son recours aux énergies fossiles, le secteur aérien n’a rien trouvé de mieux que de vouloir faire voler les avions avec du kérosène produit à partir de biomasse forestiè...
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Reminder: nuclear energy is not only dangerous, expensive and too slow to help with the climate crisis, it’s also increasingly unstable in an overheated world. To protect people and the environment, governments must develop decentralised, renewable energy sources.
Punishing heatwave exposes cracks in France's nuclear power fleet
Three French nuclear plants halted production during this week's record-breaking heatwave as rivers became too warm to cool them, raising questions over the long-term future of Europe's biggest nuclea...
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The signs of collapsing harvests are coming thick and fast now, but still @andyburnham.bsky.social plans to suck up more oil and gas, pump more CO2 into the atmosphere, and add to the heat, drought, and wildfires that compromise UK food production www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops
Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing
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Life Support is one of the most important documentaries you’ll see this year. Proud to have joined the Q&A after the Birmingham screening alongside director Daniele Rugo, whose work documents the testimony of doctors who witnessed genocide in Gaza firsthand.
The people who have facilitated it, are on the same team as those who have perpetrated it, and the courts and law enforcers, who are responsible for holding them accountable. No one was held accountable for the murder of native Americans, Africans, Aborigines etc. Do you see the pattern here?
socialistnan123@socialistnan123.bsky.social · 4d agoThe truth the whole truth
A crucial point that will send shockwaves through the complacentariat - coming horribly soon too
Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 3d ago“Those other countries around the world that we currently rely on to produce our food and vegetables, their climates are changing as well" As our harvests worsen and other countries hang on to what they have, we are going to get ever deeper in the sh*t www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Dutch doctors and activists displayed 1,400 pairs of white shoes in a square in the Netherlands in memory of fallen healthcare workers in Gaza. This is heartbreaking.
Can I say (and not just because I’m one of the editors) - @desmog.com has been on the right side of history on climate change for decades, taking on significant legal risk to expose Big Oil’s allies. And we’re gonna keep on doing it.
#WolffBites: In politics we replaced kings with democracies. Lets do same in workplaces: replace CEOs with workers' democratic voting.
With Karim Khan's dismissal, the elimination of the war crimes court is near-complete. Millions of people will now find themselves more exposed to criminal actions of predatory states. jonathancook.substack.com/p/with-karim...
With Karim Khan's dismissal, the elimination of the war crimes court is near-complete
Millions of people around the world will now find themselves even more exposed to the criminal actions of predatory states. Unlike Khan's accuser, they are unlikely to ever get their day in court
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What if our staple foods didn’t come from fields, but from trees? In this episode, Louis De Jaeger speaks with agroforestry pioneer Martin Crawford about the untapped potential of nuts and perennial crops in building resilient food systems.
Spiral Farm (Kootenay Permaculture)@spiralfarm.bsky.social · 7d ago
'El Niño Set to Upend the World Economy… In today’s incredibly connected economy, in other words, it doesn’t take a butterfly flapping its wings to make waves half a world a way — just some warm ocean water in the middle of the Pacific.' futurism.com/science-ener...
El Niño Set to Upend the World Economy
It doesn't take a butterfly flapping its wings to make waves half a world a way — just some warm ocean water.
futurism.com
Given our consistent engagement on the adult social care crisis and willingness to work together to solve it, it's deeply disappointing that the Greens weren't invited to today's cross-party talks. We need all hands on deck to tackle this issue - the Greens remain ready to work cross-party to do so.
Good piece on the importance of including the climate context in media coverage of the wildfires. I’d argue responsibility (ie culpability!) and what’s required if we’re to change direction are also critically important to the task of adequately informing people 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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"More than 120 millionaires.. have signed an open letter urging PM Andy Burnham to tax their wealth. The campaign, called 'Proud to Pay' says a 2% tax on wealth over £10m could raise £24 billion a year" #GMB
Shameful, both of them
Dan Grey@dangrey.bsky.social · 2w agoBadenoch just said, on national TV, that UK's carbon emissions have gone up "in total" because of the 2008 Climate Change Act. They have, in fact, declined by more than half. Did #Kuenssberg break in to point this basic fact out? Of course not
This is so, so bad. She’s taken the very narrow point that domestic drilling may result in oil and gas with a slightly lower carbon footprint than some imports and extrapolated it out to make sweeping claims about UK emissions increasing that are entirely false. So deeply unserious.
Dan Grey@dangrey.bsky.social · 2w agoBadenoch just said, on national TV, that UK's carbon emissions have gone up "in total" because of the 2008 Climate Change Act. They have, in fact, declined by more than half. Did #Kuenssberg break in to point this basic fact out? Of course not
England & Wales water firms lose 2.87bn litres a day, 20% of all water pumped through network. Hosepipe ban would save 577m(4%) litres a day. Violating hosepipe ban is a criminal offence, potential penalty of £1,000. No water execs fined or prosecuted. No new reservoirs built since privatisation
Water firms in England and Wales ‘leak five times what hosepipe ban would save’
Greenpeace UK says 2.87bn litres lost daily, a fifth of all water pumped through network
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"The consequences of climate collapse are increasingly visible and intrusive ... The space for populist, pro-climate politics will only get bigger – and if Andy Burnham doesn’t occupy it, Zack Polanski certainly will."
If Andy Burnham Ignores the Climate, He’ll Do So at His Peril | Ash Sarkar
The space for populist green politics is only getting bigger – and if the PM-in-waiting doesn’t occupy it, Zack Polanski certainly will, writes Ash Sarkar.
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Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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