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Thought for the day:

www.rolandberger.com/en/Insights/...

Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $394.2 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $241.9 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $254.1 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

This is fascism.

More than 1,100 people a year in the UK are developing the most prevalent form of lung cancer as a result of #AirPollution. This should be a wake-up call to Steve Reed and Wes Streeting. @emmahardymp.bsky.social

If only there were tried & tested renewable energies like wind, solar, tidal, geothermal (and maybe a bit of tree planting) for the government to subsidise with £22billion ...

New Rivenhall Airfield incinerator will start pumping out air pollution in Essex from August 2025

“Trump is not a normal politician…he is not worried about re-election. He is, after all, engaged in running a coup, not a government…can alienate who he likes. His assumption is they will never have the means to fight back. Being re-elected is not on his agenda because elections aren't either.” - RM

Rivenhall Airfield waste incinerator starts emitting air pollution in Essex from August 2025. Well done Essex County Council

Effectively paralyzing all new solar and wind development – even on private land – seems pretty contrary to conservative deregulation and free market values and non-sensical given our declared "energy emergency". This is bad: heatmap.news/plus/th...

What happens when corrupt governments are funded by fossil fuel billionaires Almost all governments will "miss a looming deadline to file vital plans that will determine whether or not the world has a chance of avoiding the worst ravages of climate breakdown" www.theguardian.com/environment/...