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Looking Up, trying to be a good ancestor Life&Planet over £, agnostic to #Growth #DoughnutEconomics & #MMT for 21st C economies fit for wellbeing/nature.Paul Scholes’s Tweets
Come on ! Why on earth cancel #Autumnwatch! It's a vital show to help people to connect with nature in what is a very nature impoverished country! Please rethink this ridiculous decision!
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This needs to get mainstreamed. And not only hand waving but real. World’s biggest investment fund warns directors to tackle climate crisis or face sack
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Scientists urge caution over reports of a large Liz Truss which has been spotted wandering into British political airspace again. Military sources say the Truss, which was thought to have deflated after causing Havoc last September, may need to be shot down properly this time.
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"Mummy, Daddy, why didn't you do something to stop us passing all those tipping points?!"
"Well darling, we were busy watching the share prices and counting our dividends"
#YouCantEatMoney twitter.com/FT/status/1621
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Just finished a great planning session for this briefing with UK MPs - effects of climate change, pollution and loss of biodiversity are already impacting on health of people in UK and across the globe. I hope to see many MPs attending given the urgency with which we must act. twitter.com/KevinClimate/s
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I'm hugely looking forward to this timely radio conversation with and - we'll be talking capitalism, crises and Doughnuts. Join us live #StartTheWeek or catch it later on . We'll be live in the studio so I'll definitely bring...
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Shell and other oil companies say they won’t invest unless they are given tax subsidies despite making record level profits. Are they incompetent? Or do they just think that we are stupid? Or is it that our government can always be taken for a ride? One of these has to be true.
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On with interviewing Gates justifying his huge carbon emissions by investing in a carbon removal facility that wastes huge quantities of energy & $ to suck 30 seconds of the world’s annual emissions. BBC correspondents need educating
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Important letter by putting across a perspective that's almost entirely absent from the media.
Of all the BBC's biases, its bias in favour of economic growth may be the most entrenched.
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💚 17 out of 20 councillors in Bristol West are now Greens – every part of the constituency now has a Green councillor.
’s chances of becoming the next Green MP just went up! 📈
#GetGreensElected
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Short, direct and hard to argue with.
There will be those who don't like the message, but that is very different from arguing that it is wrong.
Argument requires reason and clear assumptions - whilst dislike does not require any such logic.
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My letter to @guardian has now been published – it'll hopefully be in print edition tomorrow theguardian.com/environment/20
@ProfBillMcGuire @RHarrabin @XRebellionUK @money_rebellion @gailbradbrook @JKSteinberger @jasonhickel @GeorgeMonbiot @KevinClimate @ClimateDad77 @ClimateHuman
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"Please report the truth about this in every article on economic growth–make clear to readers that alternative economic models exist, eg degrowth, & that the current system is not inevitable, but that if we continue with it then suffering, collapse & mass death are."
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A heartfelt plea to recognise that not only did our obsession with infinite economic growth get us into the planetary & ecological mess, but it's the last thing that will ever get us out of it.
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My letter to @guardian has now been published – it'll hopefully be in print edition tomorrow theguardian.com/environment/20
@ProfBillMcGuire @RHarrabin @XRebellionUK @money_rebellion @gailbradbrook @JKSteinberger @jasonhickel @GeorgeMonbiot @KevinClimate @ClimateDad77 @ClimateHuman
This was intro’d on #bbcnews10 mentioning Bill Gates’ work on climate change - a man whose carbon impact is perhaps 15K x that of the average Kenyan, interviewed in situ by who has yet to get to grips with Zoom. Unbef’inglievable.
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🚨 BREAKING: Shell has just announced record breaking annual profits of more than £32 BILLION.
So we paid their HQ a visit to deliver a message: STOP DRILLING, START PAYING.
#MakeShellPay
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Please when discussing new oil & gas exploration can you consider what science, and your own corporation, tells you?
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Can you believe that we, in the developed and supposedly “civilised” world, are having to ask for for clean air to be regarded as a human right?
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Memo to Sunak: air pollution targets aren't "world-leading" if they don't meet WHO guidelines & lead to tragic deaths like Ella Roberta. 2030 target isn't just achievable, it's *vital*. Meet with me & @EllaRobertaFdn - let's make clean air a human right
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At its core, climate change is a human health issue. So it's vital that MPs attend next week's Special Briefing on Health & Climate. Please use the attached template letter to pressurise your MP to attend, it takes no more than 30 seconds to complete
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have collaborated with to create a free 8-week course for students in Oxford based on Raworth's Doughnut Economics.
🍩Find out more about the success of the events in our latest blog post!
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Today we publish the 1st edition of the "State of Carbon Dioxide Removal" report, a global assessment of the current #StateofCDR, and the gap we need to close to achieve the Paris temperature goal.
Full report➡️stateofcdr.org
An ongoing 🧵
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BBC review of their econ coverage is up. First glance, looking decent:
"We think too many journalists lack understanding of basic economics or lack confidence reporting it. This brings a high risk to impartiality... it particularly affected debt."
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Sadly it's been very personal for those at the sharp end of our climate impacts for many years. But to our deep shame, they're typically poor, live far away, have little political influence & are mostly within the "global majority". Race, ethnicity & wealth remain taboo issues. twitter.com/Knutti_ETH/sta
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Govt decision to approve banned, toxic pesticide is utterly incoherent. Neonics are a poison so powerful that a single teaspoon could kill 1.25 billion bees. How on earth can Govt say it is "halting & reversing decline in nature", while pursuing such wanton destruction? 🐝
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There's a crucial meeting on 7 February on the health impacts of the climate emergency. Ask your MP to attend. ukhealthalliance.org/news-item/mps-
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Almost 2 years on, with the global carbon budget now 80GtCO2 smaller, the challenge for the EU is even greater than outlined here. Yet, nothing is being pursued at the necessary 1.5-2°C scale, so the uncomfortable reality is that the EU is just going backwards on climate change. twitter.com/KevinClimate/s
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superb stuff from the education secretary:
Gillian Keegan: The schools budget is now the highest ever.
Nick Robinson: It was actually higher in 2010.
Gillian Keegan: Well, 2010 was the highest year ever!
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Will you be there ? There were health professionals & citizens present at our action in Teignmouth on Saturday, advocating for clean water and noting your absence. Why aren’t you pushing harder for climate & ecological health? twitter.com/CarolineLucas/
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Listening to 'Meat Paradox' on R4 Book of the Week this week - so good to have this on the radio waves this week! I'll be listening and reflecting and sharing some thoughts via next week.
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Whatever you feed yourself with, this is food for thought, covering pretty much every aspect of how we got here and where we need to go to feed the world in the 21st century.
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Laura O’Brien, Partner in our who represents two of the women commented:
“Protest is the lifeblood of democracy, and it would have served no purpose to imprison the Barclays 7, as the suffragettes said before them – 'rather broken windows than broken promises'...
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A valuable thread on the lack of exposure to the other lens viewing climate change impacts & solutions. The same, if not more, exposure is needed for ecological aspects.
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Lack of social sciences and humanities in climate knowledge due to the domination of natural sciences, including modelling, has resulted in science that has not been implemented. Bypassing detail and contextual knowledge in the search for reductionist, simple messages...
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What side will your great granddaughters want you to have been on when they look back to our time in history? Helen Pankhurst speaking outside Southwark Crown Court solidarity with #Barclays7 #ClimateEmergency #suffragettes #climatecriminals
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Coal mega-giant , run by world's 3rd richest man, , is the company the London decide to go to for sponsorship. Does the complicity include support for brazen lawbreaking? 🤔 twitter.com/Lylamehta/stat
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You needn’t watch the video to know that there’s something seriously wrong here or to perhaps wonder if there might be many more examples of animal murder that you are encouraged to turn a blind eye to? twitter.com/JamesGDyke/sta
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