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It doesn’t matter if they’re “coming for you next.” Even if your position and your privilege will ALWAYS protect you and everyone you love, it is your job as a conscious human being to fight for justice. That’s just the way it fucking is. You don’t get to abdicate that responsibility.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Sverige missar samtliga klimatmål så som det ser ut nu. 2030., 2040 och 2045. SAMTLIGA. www.naturvardsverket.se/496e4f/globa...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

This is what #Leadership sounds like > Legal & General are “deeply concerned” about BP’s decision to pivot back to oil and gas and away from a radical investment in renewables. “We believe that climate change represents a financially material and systemic long-term risk to our clients’ portfolios.”

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NEW How Trump is misusing emergency powers in his tariffs policy And the implications when a ruler gains a taste for misusing emergency legislation By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-trump-... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Out of 55.2m UK adults 17.8m have annual income of less than £12,570. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. FOUR Britons have more than 20m people combined. Failure of economic/political policy. Govts still squeeze the poor. Good society can't be built on economic injustice.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Fascinating data for those into income distributions. Including nobody thinks they are rich.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Dystopia...

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Oh....

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Ofgem's energy pricing formula enabled companies to make £514bn operating profit. Price of electricity determined by the most expensive input i.e. gas. Electricity from wind, solar, nuclear, biomass, hydro cheaper but price determined by cost of gas. Customers ripped-off. Companies make billions.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

“Clear-cutting leads to long-term loss of soil carbon in the organic layer, and the losses are greatest in the most carbon-rich forests—such as high-productivity spruce forests, which are also particularly important for biodiversity.” #Forestry #ClimateCrisis 🌲 www.nina.no/english/Abou...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Ignorance is bliss apparently

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"Jag vill inte titta bort när jag ser döda barn och jag vill inte se ett dött barn till. Hur kan barn få mördas på det här sättet och inget händer?" www.dn.se/insandare/va...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Imports are things you either can't get locally, are better quality than you can get locally, or are cheaper than you can get locally. When you put the highest tariffs on the people that export most to you you maximise the pain for your own citizens and companies. Smart 🙄

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

submitted 4 days ago • 396 comments

⏰ If 1/3 of humans managed to replace cow 🐄 products, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4.1 to 1.3 billion hectares. Why does this matter, you ask? How much are a 3 billion hectares, you ask? The US is less than 1 billion ha. Russia is 1.7 billion ha. The EU is 0.4 billion ha.

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In their open letter to the prime minister, they write: “Now is not the time to play into the hands of those seeking to build them-and-us division between local communities and refugees. It is the time to move away from the hostile politics, racist rhetoric and demonising language of the past".

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Markets update: And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

America - where dollars get to vote... (and there are a lot more of them than people)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Indeed. This isn't the end of globalisation, as I may have said about a million times. It is populist trade politics ignoring the world as it is. And if the UK is afraid of the US then we can't be an open trade leader or significantly deepen EU trade relations.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”

submitted 9 days ago • 35 comments

Fun tidbit for those celebrating the return of protectionism over globalisation, you know, the same people who spend a lot of time making out migration is all a bad thing, while ignoring the number of their own citizens who migrate elsewhere, protectionism will increase global migration. 1/ #r4today

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment