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This is EXACTLY why the Matlock to Buxton line needs to be reopened - linking Manchester, Derby and London and allowing people to get to the heart of the national park without driving. Bridleway will meet each station plus cycle hire Everybody wins 👍😊 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Another snippet of good news amongst the wall-to-wall gloom And boy do we need it www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Massive changes needed to have any chance of meeting the next UK carbon budget - even though this too little too late I really don't think Starmer and Co have the balls to do it Hope I'm wrong www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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DON'T BUY A SWASTICAR 👍 This is something I am very happy to endorse 😊 bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

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"A banker, a social welfare recipient and an asylum seeker are sitting at a table. There are 12 cookies in front of them. The banker takes 11 cookies and says to the social welfare recipient: “Watch out, the refugee wants your cookie" Our world - in a nutshell www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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And yet government and business is turning away again - the new default to pretend that nothing is happening Hothouse Earth is coming and will soon be unstoppable Societal collapse is likely to be the least worst option www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Yet one more obscene Starmer policy And this man was apparently a human rights lawyer Really? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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It wasn't always like this I was once an advisor to HSBC on geophysical hazards and #climate breakdown Then they decided they couldn't care less Obscene and criminal www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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So, the rise of the right is actually the fault of the left? Bollox The reason the left is not keen to work with political rivals is because they have something the others don't Principles www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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All well and good, but by the time we discover a tipping point is about to tip, it will be too late And a complete waste of time if we don't ACT ON EMISSIONS NOW Almost certainly too late for a number of TPs anyway www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Absolutely brilliant and COMPLETELY ACCURATE by John Davis Enjoy and repost www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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And another one - studies that pretend climate breakdown isn't happening just keep on coming Meaningless and irrelevant ttps://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/feb/18/europes-population-crisis-see-how-your-country-compares-visualised

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“Spain needs to choose between being an open and prosperous country or a closed-off, poor country" ..........like the UK www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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With children in the mills and up chimneys no doubt Vile, ignorant and dangerous..... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Read all about a future AMOC collapse and register for updates about my next book (link is at bottom of the article) - THE FATE OF THE WORLD: HOW OUR FUTURE IS WRITTEN IN THE PAST It's a win - win 👍😊 inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

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Another eruption at my old volcano Nothing to be concerned about - so far at least - but some nice images coming through www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Very pleased to inform this great piece on AMOC shutdown in the i-newspaper The sting in #climate breakdown's tail that UK and European governments are barely aware of and certainly not preparing for inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

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Uhhmm....don't peacekeeping troops have to be neutral? Sounds to me like a perfect recipe for a 3rd WW Yet one more example of Starmer's complete and utter ignorance of domestic and world politics, and how they work www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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This woman is certifiably insane She should be in a padded cell, not leader of one of the principal political parties of Great Britain www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Rocks made into stuff and materials, the environmental cost, global warming, and climate change. A short video telling the story of "Extraction to Extinction" @saraband-books.bsky.social @profbillmcguire.bsky.social youtu.be/yU_PzaAv5HM?...

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Funny. Nothing even remotely approaching an 'emergency mindset' in relation to #climate breakdown Ah - the glamour of bombs, tanks and missiles really turns heads www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Just spot-on !

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This is exactly what capitalism is designed to do

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Richard Tice, you are a fu*king idiot Simple as that

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Damn right. This whole thing is a complete farce

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"Ministers are known to favour handing over large tracts of development land to the new breed of corporate landlords in order to speed up the delivery of new housing" Anything to avoid allowing councils to build their own housing Mind-numbingly stupid www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

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After the fires, the mud #climate breakdown in action www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Ludicrous that this nasty piece of work should ever have come within a million miles of @royalsociety.org fellowship Kick him out - NOW www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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1. Ever more concentration of wealth in a few people's hands means governments cannot look after everyone else 2. Ground swell of anger at failing services and increasing poverty 3. Voting in of ever more populist/autocratic regimes 4. Repeat until society collapses time.com/5888024/50-t...

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I can understand Zelensky's concern, but this is just scare-mongering Putin is having trouble enough fighting Ukraine, why would he take on more problems by attacking a NATO country Putin may be mad, but not that mad www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Another utterly stupid and irrelevant study that pretends #climate breakdown is not actually happening What planet are these people on - seriously www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Expect much more of this as staple crop yields are hammered by exploding extreme weather in the years ahead www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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I suppose that like a room full of typing monkeys eventually putting together a Shakespeare sonnet, Trump is bound to come up with a sensible policy at some point www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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An excellent and damning analysis of the government's complete failure to understand what the country needs to begin to get back on its feet Unfortunately, I don't see any prospect of change until Starmer and Reeves go Please make it soon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The fact she accepted it is bad enough, and says everything about Reeves' complete ignorance of #climate breakdown and its coming collision with the global economy Only one will come out on top, and it won't be the economy

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Revelation after revelation today, on top of the BBC investigation into CV lies and (alleged 😊) expenses fiddling I suggest, Ms Reeves, that you do us all - and the climate - a favour, and jump before you are pushed

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