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We underestimate one another on climate change! Such a brilliant important explainer from @dpcarrington.bsky.social on how we underestimate one another's willingness to address climate change and as a result we end up doing less. Correcting this = more action! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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I often get asked by friends/colleagues "how do you enjoy the landscape once you know how naturally deprived it is?" My answer? I imagine the stunning transformations over short periods and the huge potential across the UK - it's exciting! & I send these sorts of pics (before/after restoration)

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Climate change, food systems, diets, and pathways to resilience: informative, thought-provoking 🧵 #Food #Farming #Health #Climate ⬇️

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Scientific studies and later reporting are revealing efforts made by vested interests to sow doubt and misinformation about the EAT-Lancet report. We don't see as much effort by ag at the COP, perhaps because the EAT-Lancet report touches more on healthy diets... www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Climate impacts means lower yields and less land for food in the future, but what can we do? How do we provide healthy food using fewer inputs, less land, less capital etc? I argue that biophysical limits mean we'll likely go much more plant based in this keynote 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2nl...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Great thread covering the keynote lecture at #OxLEAP2025, with a video of the lecture if you missed it. And you even get about 20 seconds of my awkward introduction at the start!

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Climate impacts means lower yields and less land for food in the future, but what can we do? How do we provide healthy food using fewer inputs, less land, less capital etc? I argue that biophysical limits mean we'll likely go much more plant based in this keynote 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2nl...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

This piece in @forbes.com describes the keynote I gave at the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social LEAP conference this week I make the case that biophysical limits and a shrinking safe climatic space means an inevitable plant-based shift. Video of the talk coming soon! www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

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Despite being advised by the Climate Change Committee to reduce the production & consumption of meat/dairy, the UK government has funded, every year, campaigns to increase their consumption: shorturl.at/mWMkq So here's a petition to ask for the promotion of plant-based foods: shorturl.at/HS5Ig

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This piece in @forbes.com describes the keynote I gave at the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social LEAP conference this week I make the case that biophysical limits and a shrinking safe climatic space means an inevitable plant-based shift. Video of the talk coming soon! www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

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Very pleased to have filed a new, second legal challenge to Net Zero Teesside with @goodlawproject.bsky.social 🙏 Govt chucking £10bn subsidy to make climate change worse - the plant’s total emissions would far exceed any carbon stored under the sea See 🚨£59bn CCS subsidies: tinyurl.com/DESNZ-SUBS

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🚨BREAKING🚨 I have a new, second legal challenge to Net Zero Teesside with @goodlawproject.bsky.social Did you know the Govt have already allocated subsidies for over £59bn for carbon capture? See: tinyurl.com/DESNZ-SUBS Pls repost 👇 @sioldridge.bsky.social @rupertread.bsky.social

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Labour's cut in nature-friendly farming support is shockingly short-sighted. Nature is on the edge, threatening our food security. Restoring it is the best way to protect against flooding—and a far cheaper way to absorb CO₂ than carbon capture #CCS. Article by prof @paulbehrens.bsky.social and me👇

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Good grief! The whole point is that returns on capital - the money the rich make on assets - is generally very high. Unless you tax it the rich who hold all these assets break away from the rest of society and no one can afford somewhere to live etc!

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

"Official reject the idea" of a 2% wealth tax, by... pointing to what people pay in income tax. A tax on wealth is not the same as a tax on income, FFS! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

I spoke with the BBC re: Euro councils giving out chickens, partly for food waste. I raised a few issues: 🗑️ People could end up wasting more 🐓 The breed matters for welfare 🚑 Bird-flu: this adds another type of human-bird mixing in between wild and intensive farming. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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This is another hard to model climate impact on food systems. One of the key regions of concern is the Hindu Kush Himalayas where you have 1.9 billion-ish people relying on glacial water. I wrote about how this might play out (in yellow) and it's also an area of large political tensions.

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Thursday 20th March, 3.00pm Radio 4 - This Natural Life.... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Excellent turn of phrase - "double climate dividend" - in this paper by @paulbehrens.bsky.social et al. Shifting high-meat diets toward plants benefits the climate in 2 ways: 1. Reducing emissions from ag production 2. Reducing ag land needs, enabling ecosystem restoration/avoiding deforestation 🧪

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Richard Tice criticises net zero but his party has net zero economic credibility. The green sector is growing three times faster than the wider economy. And it will cost far less to tackle climate breakdown than to deal with the consequences. Read more: www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-r...

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"A major flaw in Carbon Capture, especially for gas-fired plants and blue hydrogen, is its failure to address upstream emissions, including methane leakage, which forms the bulk of a plant’s carbon footprint and cannot be captured" Letters on CCUS in Guardian👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Adrian Ramsay, "Let's good at why Richard Tice was interrupting me so much" "Could it be that since the 2019 election, Reform UK have received £2.3 million in donations from fossil fuel interests, climate deniers and polluters" #BBCQT

submitted 48 days ago • 25 comments

If the world's ten richest people lost 99% of their wealth, they’d still be billionaires. And still they'd prefer to go down with the ship

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FRIGGIN' WILD: In email obtained by TPM, White House claims that the Appointments Clause of the US constitution conflicts with Trump's "inherent authority" ... EXCLUSIVE: Trump Makes Aggressive New Claim of Executive Power To Circumvent The Senate talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...

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The president of the United States thinks indiscriminately killing men, women and children is “what anybody would do” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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