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Hugely important warning: allowing cheaper US food imports that don’t meet the same environmental & animal protection standards as British farmers would sound a death knell for UK farms & rural communities. It must not be part of any future trade deal

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I am sick of the google AI thing that has just started appearing and am permanently switching to Ecosia for my internet searches. I find it really depressing that google thinks we want the AI nonsense first, not to mention the emissions that generates.

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This is bloody awful from Toby Carvery, who have deliberately felled a 500 year old oak in Enfield. It goes together with the wider redevelopment of a very ecologically sensitive area to make a football ground for Tottenham. Again, these are not the right priorities folks.

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The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly NO it's not due to net-zero YES it is due to GAS Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵

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Sorry, Katy

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This is my experience of central government in the UK - completely hollowed out, with basic functions under- or even unstaffed. Marie Celeste effect. inews.co.uk/news/inside-...

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Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

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Bologna has recently published a Report on the first year of implementing the 30 km/h speed limit in the city. For the first time since 1991, no pedestrians were killed, road deaths decreased by 50%, crashes by 13% and urban traffic pollution by 30%. 👍 www.comune.bologna.it/notizie/citt...

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3 years ago, when I wrote The Lost Rainforests of Britain, I talked about the importance of expanding fragments of temperate rainforest like Wistman's Wood Well now the Duchy of Cornwall is actually doing it. (And through natural regeneration, not just planting!) duchyofcornwall.org/article/firs...

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Government to extend ban on moorland burning - closing loopholes in existing rules Great news for nature, carbon, & people who’ll be spared from acrid smoke & flooding Bad news for dukes & billionaires who own grouse moors 🎻 Here's my quote running on PA newswire: 1/ www.gov.uk/government/n...

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“The world has changed” says Chancellor on #bbclaurak. Yes it has - so why stick to outdated counterproductive austerity agenda & arbitrary fiscal rules? You can’t cut your way to growth. Taxes on extreme wealth of super rich would be fairer & more effective than more cuts @patmillsuk.bsky.social

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FFS, this is getting beyond belief Either Starmer & Reeves are certifiably insane or they actively want to lose the next election www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Here’s the first instalment of our "Fireside Carbon Chat" series, hosted by @cemusuppsala.bsky.social and available as both a podcast & on YouTube: www.cemus.uu.se/fireside/ We borrowed the "Fireside" concept to reflect our goal of fostering informal, candid conversations on climate-related issues.

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Today's #SpringArrivalSpotlight: the Little Ringed Plover! These sweet little waders return from March, favouring gravelly riverbanks & wetlands. Spot their bright yellow eye-ring & swift, darting movements as they forage.

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Choosing to take money from disabled benefit claimants rather than levy a wealth tax is simply immoral 👇

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We're announcing a brand-new RSPB nature reserve! 🌿 Roundbarrow Farm is set to transform from a former intensive dairy farm into a flourishing chalk grass & woodland reserve - creating vital habitat for rare birds, butterflies, and wildflowers. A huge win for wildlife!

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There is a new study out in Nature about the Atlantic overturning circulation. I will be curious to see the media reporting on this. If you wonder why, read my blog article on it! 🌊 www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

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HOT RESEARCH NEWS! Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people making rational judgements about driving en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor... Our new study shows where this bias comes from AND how it makes people think they're odd for supporting changes to the transport system 🧵

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New data shows all bad news for England's priority wildlife habitats. ❌big drop in monitoring: Natural England needs funds to keep up ❌fall in favourable management in & outside SSSIs ❌fall in SSSIs in good condition: better incentives & enforcement urgent. 🧵1/3

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Sheffield tried to prioritise housing in sustainable, city centre locations in the Local Plan. But the Planning Inspectorate has now ruled the council has to build on greenbelt. They have also increased housing targets, which means there's no chance for the city to escape the tilted balance.

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Some good news

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Nothing to see here, just a Blackbird keeping an eye on things. Carry on... 📷 @kiransimpson.bsky.social

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Sunday share This time from Chris Grey in @bylinetimes.bsky.social Worth a read & a subscription 'Fiscal Nimbyism Makes It Far Harder to Fix Public Services' bylinetimes.com/2024/12/23/f...

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I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

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This ten year old paper by my friend & colleague Eugenia Kalnay and colleagues modeling the combined effects of environmental degradation and wealth disparity on societal stability didn't get much attention at the time. It feels especially relevant now: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Excellent.

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Sheffield looks set to miss its 2030 net-zero target by a massive margin, according to new UK decarbonisation figures. Is it time to start asking difficult questions about whether our economic system is up to the challenge? @sammgreg.bsky.social reports, with comment from @richsulley.bsky.social ⬇️

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www.kcl.ac.uk/news/wealth-...

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Here's my thoughts on the latest round of discussion about the slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation. It's a bit nerdy - but the short summary is: in my view the balance of evidence strongly suggests that the #AMOC has slowed since the late 19th C. 🌊 www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

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This is why you don't design curricula around "jobs of the future". We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.

submitted 81 days ago • 93 comments

Paying attention. . .

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Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

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If you're interested in post-growth economic thinking, this newly published article will be right up your street. It was a big pleasure to work on it with such a fantastic group of co-authors. Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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#curlews at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, Sussex

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My letter in today's @theguardian.com on the government's rampant enthusiasm for so-called AI. Many reasons for concern, from embedding our current failed systems to environmental impacts #Discrimination #Inequality #ClimateEmergency

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I am invoking Brandolini's Law until further notice. en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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@guyshrubsole.bsky.social - great book! Just finished. As someone who often walks on the Downs and lived near the Peaks it someways not surprising but nonetheless shocking.

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Indeed, and Jevons etc.: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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Thrilled to announce the official publication of my new book — The Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism Grab my book to go beyond the vaporous hype and get the real material analysis of technological capitalism that we all need! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-me...

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Lucy Grossmith, Mumurations over Fields

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Great report from Ecosocialism 2024 ❤️‍🔥

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Our government is sleepwalking into climate catastrophe. My piece for @theguardian.com on another broken pledge slipping under the radar. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Very good to see Labour will strengthen the mandate of National Parks & National Landscapes to "recover nature". This will require primary legislation, and was something the Glover Review proposed way back in 2019 - but the Tories never did it. 1/ defraenvironment.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/16/7...

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