More trees and fewer cars please

IPBES (2019):1 million animal & plant species are threatened with extinction, many within decades. Current extinction rates are tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the last 10 million years. Habitat loss, overexploitation, pollution, invasives, and climate change are key drivers.

There is *no* justification - environmental, financial, moral or practical - for the supply and guardianship of water to be in private hands, and conducted for profit. I am 100% confident that Zack Polanski will not compromise this fundamental principle! 👏👏👏

For three days in a row the heat record for June has been broken in the UK. The same story right across Europe. Any attempts at this key moment to slow climate action is utterly indefensible. We need day one action to accelerate our climate ambition from Andy Burnham.

Every minute of this podcast, William says something thoughtful and interesting. And just as he's coming to the end of his point - he then sparks off another thought. It really is a brilliant conversation where we discuss India, Pakistan, Palestine and so much more! 👇🏼

26 Celsius at midnight in Bristol, England. Unheard of. 🥵🥵🥵 This breaks all records for the highest midnight temperature ever recorded in the uk. Prior to this, 25.8°C was recorded at Kenley Airfield, in July 2022.

ICYMI London has cut premature deaths from air pollution from an estimated 6,400-8,000 in 2019 to 3,800-5,100 in 2024 So around 2,700 people having longer lives, almost certainly because of the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone reducing polluting traffic www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Most UK farmland is used for meat production. If we ate a little less red meat, we could easily gain In biodiversity by re-wilding a small percentage, or moving to less intensive/industrial farming.

It's just one long stream of BS from these fossil fuel-backed clowns. Adopting their policies would destroy a million jobs (see next post) while creating almost none in return. Total environmental and social vandalism. The absolute state of "conservatism". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hi Barbara, Good for you! Nice work. #Following.

This is our incredible 🌎 Amazing bait ball footage with a humpback whale and sharks We kill 100 million sharks per year And whales almost went extinct Why do we kill everything? #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis #Nature

Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 4th lowest on record (JAXA data)... • about 190,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 840,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,420,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,960,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

The Amazon & Congo Basin forests are vital for climate action & sustainability. 🌿🌍 Say NO to deforestation & ecocide! Protect these ecosystems for our planet’s future. 🛑 Be the 1st to like, comment & repost if you agree! 💚 #SaveOurForests #ClimateAction

Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick

🌿 At Coill na Luise (Wicklow), something special is happening What was once a green field is now being seeded with trees grown from nearby ancient woodlands — planted, protected, and nurtured by volunteers 🌳 ARTE joined us this weekend to capture the work

Green economy growing well www.edie.net/global-green...

Environmental damage caused by thd richest 10% www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The World Tonight & Crossing Continents were the last BBC programmes that dealt in depth with global affairs. Their demise says everything you need to know about priorities in British public life, which is mired more than at any time in monolingual mediocrity and insularity. You reap what you sow.

Looking forward to being back on the road tomorrow with wildarts.org.uk after a couple of days off meeting friends and starting to think about casting and creative team for Don Giovanni next year.

The Great Dartmoor Pony Cull Conspiracy of 2026 is such horseshit. Nobody is proposing a cull, FFS! Currently being whipped up on Musk's hellsite by the Leader of the Opposition, who clearly has nothing better to do. Reality: www.dartmoornature.org.uk/post/ponies-...

On hottest May day recorded, reanimated corpse funded by fossil fuel interests recommends abandoning efforts to tackle climate crisis www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The way medicine used to be.....

Trump is going after public officials who oppose him while rewarding allies, convicted fraudsters, and January 6 rioters with pardons and favors funded by taxpayers. That’s not justice — it’s political retribution. We won’t be intimidated, and we won’t be silent.

Discarded and abandoned fishing gear— kills hundreds of thousands of marine mammals and millions of seabirds annually An estimated 640,000 to 800,000 tonnes of fishing gear are lost or discarded into the world's oceans every year www.wwf.org.ec?365018/Ghost...

Fungal networks act as the planet's underground circulatory system, but 90% of their biodiversity hotspots sit outside protected areas. @spun.earth has mapped Earth's mycorrhizal biomass to help prioritize below-ground conservation. Learn more 👉️ mongabay.cc/ffqDoN

Anyone telling you the UK needs to drill for more oil because fossil fuels are cheaper is lying "A solar panel that would have cost a family's entire annual income in the 1970s now costs less than a restaurant meal per panel." www.facebook.com/beyondscienc... meme via Beyond Science Facts

Yes probably ! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The case for Labour to introduce a wealth tax has never been stronger. 99% of us are paying, in total, 40% to 50% tax on our incomes, billionaires are paying 25% at most. 2% levy on fortunes above £100m could begin to reverse decades of rising inequality. But govts like to hit the poor.

Terrible news: the Court of Appeal has just ruled that the Government’s ban on Palestine Action is lawful. PA is now likely to lodge an appeal before the Supreme Court. So the mass arrests of peaceful people sitting with cardboard signs will continue. Because that is what terrorism looks like ...

Who funded every business venture Elon Musk has launched? US taxpayers, involuntarily. What have they gotten from the investment? Nothing whatsoever.

It seems inconceivable that only a decade ago, this was just species-poor grass. Now it's a wild mass of trees, flowers, flying insects and birdsong. That's the transformative power of rewilding.

1/3 Fishing gear kills more marine life than any other form of ocean plastic. Lost nets alone threaten 66% of marine species, every sea turtle species, 50% of seabirds, whales, sharks, dolphins. The fishing industry’s deadliest hidden legacy. 🌊

Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments. Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs

“But this isn’t just about Musk. Musk is the inevitable conclusion of a consumerist, neoliberal capitalist hellscape. So let’s learn from this” My latest article 👇 open.substack.com/pub/harryecc...

Solar power is now cheaper than coal, oil, or natural gas. The biggest barrier to widespread solar adoption is Public Utility Commissions that protect the utilities at the expense of the public

. Green economy supports more than a million UK workers | Friends of the Earth Find out more: friendsoftheearth.uk/media/... #ClimateAction

It's simple really.

Solar power generation increased 11-fold since 2015 Wind power generation has tripled since 2015, and wind and solar now provide 15% of the world’s electricity Battery storage prices are down by over 75% since 2015 You can read the whole thing here:

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

There is a reason why most of the world's stable and successful democracies use proportional voting systems. PR isn't just fairer and more democratic. It also leads to better, more popular and more effective governments. It's time to change the system and transform our politics for good.

Big accounting firms deliver dud audits, involved in numerous scandals. UK regulator will conduct fewer probes, will let firms self-report failures. Just like water companies they claim to have robust monitoring systems. Deregulation means failures will be covered up. archive.ph/IF35v

World Inequality Lab's policy proposals include: ▶️hefty wealth taxes on billionaires ▶️sharp reductions in working hours ▶️a change in diets ▶️a shift of investment from materially intense sectors like industry & mining to education & health... "At its core is the concept of sufficiency."

Excellent article www.change.org/p/ban-lion-t...

South West Water fined £1.853m for supplying contaminated drinking water. SWW is a serial offender, loses 107m litres of water daily to leaky pipes, dumped sewage in rivers for 407,006 hours. Still trades. No exec fined or charged. People fleeced. End the circus. Nationalise water.

"Hold your nerve and trust nature!" This should be the mantra all over Britain. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Solar and farming don’t have to compete. France is raising solar panels above farmland so crops can still grow underneath. Some vineyards saw grape yields rise by 60% while water use fell by 40%.

“When you invest in clean energy and housing, your energy bill goes massively down.” @ernesturtasun.bsky.social Wow, so many topics covered, so instructive and reassuring. In particular: 12:14 Eco socialism & Climate Followed by: 18:56 Walthamstow solar Power Station crowdfunder ad Genius.