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Writer. Envisioning a carefully-placed twist in the tale of humanity.
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It’s almost as though ecologists and food scientists haven’t been warning for years about sustainable farming!
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Environmental Audit Committee
2 days ago
Tomorrow at 2.30pm we're hearing evidence on the Government's Revised Environmental Improvement Plan. Does it do enough to ensure the UK meets its legally binding environment and nature targets? Read more:
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Nicholas Beuret
3 days ago
Chile - 18ppl have been killed and more than 50,000 have been evacuated due to wildfires Southern Africa - 100 killed and 200,000 affected by flooding Australia - over a 1000 ppl displaced and impacted directly by first fires then flooding Another week after 1.5C
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Tony
6 days ago
The other parties are either hijacked by economic neo-liberalism or fascism, so there's definitely a demand for Green Party politics.
#VoteGreen
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ZNetwork.org
7 days ago
After declaring his second presidential victory on 6 November 2024, Donald Trump said of his first term: ‘You know, we had no wars for four years. We had no wars. Except we defeated ISIS, we defeated ISIS in record time...
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Venezuela – ‘War Is Peace’
After declaring his second presidential victory on 6 November 2024, Donald Trump said of his first term: ‘You know, we had no wars for four
https://f.mtr.cool/kzjvxljteb
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Absolutely clear.
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Page by Jason Hickel | @jasonhickel.bsky.social
It's not hypocrisy, it's capitalism. The bizarre behaviour of Western states and leaders often seems to betray a moral double standard. But in fact it is all perfectly consistent with a single sta...
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:mwvvoxbu6j76obtign7dh4pr/post/3mci4wuzysu26
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Norm Charlatan
7 days ago
On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.
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Andrew B. Watkins
8 days ago
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
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Caroline Lucas
9 days ago
Utterly damning report from Office for Environmental Protection - the Govt’s not only missing its targets to protect wildlife in England, it’s also failing on *almost all* environmental measures - and in some cases actively destroying the natural world through its obsession with growth at all costs
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Government’s wildlife targets will be missed in England, watchdog says
Seven out of 10 targets have little likelihood of being met by 2030, Office for Environmental Protection says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/13/wildlife-targets-missed-england-northern-ireland-watchdog?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Jeremy Corbyn
9 days ago
More than 35,000 people in Gaza have completely or partially lost their hearing due to explosions during the genocide. Israel’s crimes against humanity will be felt for generations — and we will never give up until we have brought about justice for the Palestinian people.
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Carl Quintanilla
13 days ago
Corporate margins up. Employee share of corporate income down. Tells you everything you need to know about the fight between capital and labor. (via EPB)
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14 days ago
Israel Is Banning the 'Last Foreign Witnesses' to Its Genocide in Gaza In a likely deadly move, the Israeli government told 37 foreign aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders, they could no longer operate in Palestine. Where is the outrage?
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The app for independent voices
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George Monbiot
15 days ago
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot
The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/07/palestine-action-hunger-strikers-government
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Danny Fearns
15 days ago
If I had to choose between these three, I would definitely choose Zack Polanski.
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16 days ago
Tired of Imperialist Bullshit? The old system is dying, and a new one is struggling to be born. Whatever you can do to help the new one be born, do that. Whatever you can do to deprive the old system of oxygen, do that. Degrowth is the Answer.
degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/tired-of-t...
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Tired of This Imperialist Bullshit?
Degrowth is the Answer.
https://degrowthistheanswer.substack.com/p/tired-of-this-imperialist-bullshit
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Humanity Must Win
10 months ago
Similar to what happened to Nazi Germany, there should be a global goods embargo on Nazi America and Nazi Israel to stop the genocide for the good of humanity.
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Climate Foundation
22 days ago
🦸 Be a hero for our planet! 60% of Earth's land is beyond safe limits. We're regenerating oceans through marine permaculture—restoring kelp forests that absorb CO₂, cool coasts & rebuild ecosystems. Every donation & volunteer hour helps us turn the tide 🌊💚
ClimateFoundation.org
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Phil Free
24 days ago
“Capital has transformed modern civilisation into a hyper-dissipative entroplex, an energy-intensive megamachine dumping massive amounts of gases, liquids & solid wastes into our natural environment…”
#PostCapitalism
#Degrowth
#PostGrowth
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The Hyper-Dissipative Entroplex: Capitalism as a Catastrophic Shock to the Biosphere
Humanity stands at a critical moment.
https://open.substack.com/pub/eraldkolasi/p/the-hyper-dissipative-entroplex-capitalism?utm_source=direct
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Paul Eric
24 days ago
Israeli channel i24 reports that Israeli troops are erasing evidence of their war crimes in Rafah and other Israel-controlled areas in the Gaza Strip before international journalists can get in. Where is the outrage from international journalists?
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Defend Our Juries
24 days ago
In a statement on Boxing Day, the UN’s human rights office (OHCHR) highlighted the UK government’s harsh treatment of the hunger-strikers. The OHCHR also made clear that Starmer and his ministers are legally responsible for their wellbeing.
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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UN experts demand action from Labour to protect Palestine hunger-strikers
UN experts have criticised the treatment of pro-Palestine hunger strikers, underscoring Labour’s responsibility to ‘protect life’
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/12/28/un-experts-question-treatment-palestine-hunger-strikers/
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FreePalestine
24 days ago
#GazaGenocide
, 28 Dec 2025 The sharp decline in media coverage of Gaza is not because the genocide has ended, but because they want you to believe it has.
#NetanyahuWarCriminal
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Alarming. And wrong.
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Fiona Wallace
24 days ago
This year the British establishment covered up this new Banksy. Can we get it Retweeted 10,000 times to show that they can never cover up their complicity in war crimes?? Protect the right to protest! RT!
#Banksy
#RightToProtest
#WarCrimes
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
24 days ago
Our living planet is being relentlessly annihilated on a scale that's beyond any understanding. It is literally the apocalypse, in our time. Is that *all* we humans collectively amount to? I believe we have the power to change.
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Nice juxtaposition …
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😮 amazing! Me too, obviously
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chiller
25 days ago
'Don't be evil' really went down the toilet, then.
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BladeoftheSun
25 days ago
You would have to wait until year 125,206 to have as much money as Elon Musk.
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Jeffy 🌿
25 days ago
The Express directly associating a gay man they don't like with a notorious paedophile in a headline. That's not an accident. It'd be a terrible shame if such an egregious smear backfired and increased support for the Greens!
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Phil Free
25 days ago
“No European country meets the needs of its residents while remaining within planetary boundaries. Europe’s ecological overshoot is severe, with resource us & emissions exceeding planetary boundaries on average by between 88% & 354%”
#PostGrowth
#Degrowth
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals
Amid mounting geopolitical, socio-economic, and ecological crises, industrial policy has returned to the forefront of policy debates. However, the EU’s industrial policy framework – centred on Sing...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2025.2501821
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Willy De Backer BE
27 days ago
I reviewed the new book by Nicholas Stern "The Growth Story of the 21st Century"
#ClimateEconomics
#PostGrowth
#Omgroei
#ThermodynamicLimits
www.linkedin.com/pulse/stern-...
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Not stern enough: why green growth's best advocate still evades the hard questions
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones." John Maynard Keynes wrote that nearly a century ago.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stern-enough-why-green-growths-best-advocate-still-evades-de-backer-rd2qe
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Phil Free
26 days ago
“What is driving the climate crisis? It’s overconsumption… Gift economies are an invitation to the economy of the commons, rather than private property & individual ownership. It creates a sense of sufficiency that puts the brakes on consumption.”
#degrowth
insideclimatenews.org/news/2512202...
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Lessons on Scaling Gift Economies—and How It Can Help the Planet - Inside Climate News
Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “The Serviceberry,” offers ideas rooted in nature for creating sharing economies as a way to bind communities, offer purpose and reduce strain on the Earth.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25122025/gift-economies-can-help-the-planet/
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Zack Polanski
29 days ago
I think The Express needs to find their Xmas spirit. We're paying £476m for a regime that tear gasses babies & destroys shelters in freezing conditions. We should divert that money to a functioning and fair migration system. Tune in to
@boldpolitics.bsky.social
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John Clarke
30 days ago
Starmer's wretched government can't be allowed to let these courageous people die.
#HungerStrike
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Humanity Must Win
2 months ago
The people should just create their own debt jubilee and stop paying. The system has been rigged so a small criminal elite could steal everything. The 99% is more powerful - start making new rules.
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Dr Ian McCormick
about 1 month ago
The sun is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rays; The world's whole sap is sunk; The general balm th'hydroptic earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the bed's feet, life is shrunk, ---John Donne, A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
#poetry
#solstice
#winter
#literature
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James Dyke
about 1 month ago
Thanks to all that shared and contributed - they reached their initial target last night! The stretch target is still in play so please do what you can do spread the word. These fine folks face serious risk of being imprisoned for a considerable amount of time, such is the state of UK protest law.
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Zack Polanski
about 1 month ago
Closing the year with one of our highest ever polls. Thank you everyone so much for your support and determination this year. We're all just getting started.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Tony
about 1 month ago
Looks like I'm sticking with the Green Party then. Quite frankly, Labour is dead to me.
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Transition Security Project
3 months ago
While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty. Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵
transitionsecurity.org
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Transition Security Project
https://transitionsecurity.org
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Outstanding and compelling visual essay by Eleanor Shearer
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social
- superb research and storytelling. I learned a lot.
visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
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Visualising Extractive Capitalism
From the formation of the plantation slave economy to the modern-day climate crisis, we map how empire and extractive capitalism shaped Barbados, Britain and the wider world.
https://visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org/
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Even in this damning, comprehensive report on the ongoing global corporate poisoning of all living systems and human health, the solutions have to be profitable. (OK I get the company's raison d'être, but still, so much good work, hijacked by a deadly system)
www.systemiq.earth/reports/invi...
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Invisible Ingredients | Systemiq
The report provides the most comprehensive global assessment to date of how four major chemical groups—phthalates, bisphenols, pesticides, and PFAS—affect human health, ecosystems, and economic stabil...
https://www.systemiq.earth/reports/invisible-ingredients/
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4 months ago
🌾Oxford Real Farming Conference 2026 tickets are now on sale! 🌾 Join thousands of farmers, activists, policy experts, and scientists who share your vision for a fairer food and farming system on 8-9 January 2026. In-person and online tickets available:
orfc.org.uk/book-orfc-20...
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🦋𝕏🦣 @ViaCampesinaBE 🇧🇪🇪🇺🌍 mastodon.social/@ViaCampesinaBE
about 1 month ago
🚜🌾✊🏽 ORFC - Oxford Real Farming Conference
@orfc.bsky.social
📅 8 & 9 January 2026 📍Oxford (UK) + Livestream 🛜 💢 In Person Programme:
orfc.org.uk/orfc-2026-in...
🔴 Online Programme:
orfc.org.uk/orfc-2026-on...
📷 Media Centre:
orfc.org.uk/media-centre
👉 +infos:
orfc.org.uk
#ORFC
#ORFC26
#ORFC2026
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Red Hot World
about 1 month ago
Want to see billionaire brainwashing in action? Seven out of ten Brits are big fans of renewable energy and want to see lots more of it. But they think the majority of people DON’T support it. That disconnect isn’t an accident. 🧵
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Revolution in The 21st Century
about 1 month ago
We’re told degrowth is “unelectable”. The science says otherwise. ~75% of people in the US & UK support degrowth principles once people hear what it really means. This is a messaging challenge, not a dead end.
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Phil Free
about 1 month ago
“We will like see tens of millions of unnecessary deaths due to environmental degradation & extreme weather, with climate change being the most noteworthy, but by no means the only environmental reason behind these deaths.”
#degrowth
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@mattorsagh.bsky.social
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Climate Change Will Bring More Death Than We are Used to Seeing
We will get used to it.
https://open.substack.com/pub/degrowthistheanswer/p/climate-change-will-bring-more-death?r=da5yr
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Compassion in World Farming EU
about 1 month ago
Climate change, fueled by big agribusiness and fossil fuels, is pushing food prices up. Agriculture makes up 12% of EU emissions, yet agribusiness lobbyists block real climate action, like controlling harmful and dangerous levels of industrial animal production.
#FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
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Max Koch
about 1 month ago
The UN's Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
@deschuttero.bsky.social
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www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-...
I am part of a consulting group about how to implement this roadmap that meets next week
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Roadmap - New Economies for Eradicating Poverty
https://www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-eradicating-poverty-beyond-growth/
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