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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WATCH — Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social on Trump’s insider trading: “If you pay Trump $100,000 a month, he will give you early access to White House announcements on economic and trade policy. None of this is normal, and a lot of this is illegal.”

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia

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En 30 ans, le niveau de vie médian en France a augmenté de 27% : 1 750€ mensuels en 1996 contre 2 228€ en 2024. Mais cette hausse a surtout concerné les catégories moyennes et aisées. Les plus pauvres, eux, voient leur niveau de vie stagner depuis 20 ans. Détails ⬇️ www.inegalites.fr/Riches-pauvr...

Riches, pauvres et classes moyennes : comment évoluent les revenus en France ?

En vingt ans, les 10 % les plus aisés se sont nettement enrichis. Les revenus des classes moyennes ont moins progressé. Ceux des 10 % les plus pauvres ont stagné.

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‘Immediately stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature - 42.5C #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

‘Stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature

Authorities issue alert saying indoor spaces without airconditioning are ‘dangerous’ as temperatures pass 40C for fifth straight day

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Author @georgemonbiot.bsky.social: "Their massive tax cuts for the rich, crushing of trade unions, reduction in public housing, deregulation, privatisation, outsourcing and competition in public services were all proposed by Hayek and his disciples." Read more: evonomics.com/ruthless-net...

“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/...

Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn

Wheat is half normal height, while England is seeing earliest ever harvest as farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops

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Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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We may hit 3.5C sea surface temperature anomaly in September. The planet you were born in no longer exists

Entrepreneur @nickhanauer.bsky.social: "Our economy is 1% competition, 99% cooperation. We can be selfish, yes—even cruel. But it is our highly evolved prosocial nature that has enabled our species to dominate the planet...cooperation is our economic super power." evonomics.com/how-to-destr...

The IMF says we pay $5T/year to subsidize fossil fuels — that's $13M per MINUTE to destroy our future. Meanwhile solar & wind fight for scraps. We don't have a funding problem. We have a priority problem.

Economist @mazzucatom.bsky.social : "My book The Entrepreneurial State is an open call to change the way we talk about the State, its role in the economy and the images and ideas we use to describe that role." Read essay: evonomics.com/economist-de... #capitalism #economics

Selon des chercheurs en sciences de l'attribution (qui mesurent la corrélation entre une catastrophe et la surchauffe planétaire), le changement climatique d'origine humaine a rendu au moins deux fois plus probables les conditions météo extrêmes qui ont alimenté les récents mégafeux en France.

World Weather Attribution@wwattribution.bsky.social · 5d ago

Human-induced climate change made the extreme fire weather that fuelled the recent destructive wildfires at least twice as likely in France and at least 20 times more likely in Spain, according to our new study.

'Completely Transformed My Understanding': Scientists Uncover Hundreds of Hidden Structures Beneath The Amazon www.sciencealert.com/completely-t...

'Completely Transformed My Understanding': Scientists Uncover Hundreds of Hidden Structures Beneath The Amazon

Today, the Amazon rainforest is revered as one of Earth's most immaculate wildernesses.

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You can't make this up: the Trump administration is arguing in court that even a cancer diagnosis isn't enough to claim an exemption from his draconian new Medicaid work requirements. Sickening — and all to fund even more tax cuts for the ultra-rich.

'“The Mediterranean of our grandfathers, of our elders, and of the Greeks, of ancient Greece is lost forever. So many of those changes are irreversible,” said Ernesto Azzuro, a marine biologist with the Italian National Research Council’s Institute...' www.independent.co.uk/news/mediter...

Invasive fish are flooding the Mediterranean – and they are traveling north

1,000 invasive species have been identified in the Mediterranean

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Big Oil getting laws passed to make it immune from prosecution Imagine if ordinary people wielded that power to kill hundreds of thousands and make themselves immune from prosecution www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Big oil is getting sued for heat deaths. It's fighting back with an army of immunity laws.

As lawsuits near trial, oil companies race to win immunity in statehouses and Congress.

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Augmentation de la mortalité en raison de l'exposition aux fumées, problèmes de santé pulmonaire et artérielle, symptômes dépressifs... Des travaux scientifiques montrent que les incendies impactent après leur extinction encore durant de longues années les populations touchées par ces catastrophes.

Past fires suggest effects of Europe and North America wildfires may linger for years

Three years after Maui wildfires many still struggle with ‘biological, emotional and social consequences’, study says

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"I think we're all in a state of fear because of what this government's doing to us."

High School Teacher Arrested for Clapping in Support of Anti-Data Center Activists

A local high school physics teacher was hauled out by four police officers for clapping six times during a city commission meeting.

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Repost by @Rainmaker1973 RT by @Rainmaker1973: The apocalyptic images taken from a Canadair show the scale of the fire ravaging Gironde, France, just 15 km from the Bordeaux metropolitan area. Click to see original repost

New research shows how biodiversity has not yet recovered on Chilean seamounts despite more than two decades since bottom trawling occurred geographical.co.uk/news/damage-...

Damage from bottom trawling in Chilean waters still visible more than 25 years later, study finds

New research shows how biodiversity has not yet recovered on Chilean seamounts despite more than two decades since bottom trawling occurred Bottom trawling carried out on Chilean seamounts more than 2...

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North America is essentially one giant hellscape #ClimateEmergency

#Communiqué 🗞️ Une équipe internationale menée par deux chercheurs du CNRS met en évidence, pour la première fois, les effets neurologiques d’un PFAS chez des embryons de goélands ainsi que chez des souris adultes. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/pf...

Another excellent @monkemma.bsky.social debunks on that shameful Telegraph Article twisting a scientific paper to climate denying end. And the clue that they knew that what they were doing was misleading lies in their final little statement. monkdebunks.substack.com/p/heatwaves-...

Heatwaves Caused by Fall in Pollution? Not really...

What a study on European warming actually found and how it got twisted into a climate-denial talking point.

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www.sudouest.fr/economie/agr... La France perd 20 000 km de haies par an.Ce gouvernement vient de pondre ds le cadre de la loi d’urgence (à détruire) agricole et de la simplification administrative souhaitée par la FNSEA et la CE,un texte favorisant la destruction des haies.LES SALAUDS.

Tribune : Un nouveau décret pour simplifier l’arrachage des haies

C’est une situation pour le moins paradoxale : alors que diverses aides financières incitent depuis quelques années à la plantation de haies, les autorités françaises viennent d’en faciliter grandemen...

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Dans le désert, les températures augmentent tellement que les dromadaires en meurent 👉 slatenow.link/44ImkVM

Jason Hickel: "This new study finds that the total death toll in Europe during the June heatwave exceeds 20,000 people." "This result highlights the accelerating threat of mass heat mortality events in Europe despite previous adaptations to heat." Pre-print below.

EXTRAORDINARY EVENT 40c IN WINTER WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN Insane mind blowing winter heat in SOUTH AFRICA 40C in Namibia,36.1C in South Africa coast at Alexander Baai (MINIMUMS 22/23C !). Records pulverized Temperatures are 10C ABOVE MID SUMMER AVERAGES More summer heat next days.

Le feu de Gironde présente désormais toutes les caractéristiques d'un méga-feu, à commencer par la formation d'un pyrocumulonimbus. 1/3

Il paraît que regarder de superbes vidéos de l'espace permet de s'évader un peu. J'espère que ce lever de Terre depuis l'orbite de la Lune vous aidera à passer un bin début de weekend !