“I find that, in 2019, the bottom 50% of the world population emitted 12% of global emissions, whereas the top 10% emitted 48% of the total.” It is not enough to question the GDP obsession; we also need to discuss how pollution and wealth are connected. www.carbonbrief.org/top-1-of-emi...

Wonderful day in Tipperary in @scohaboybog.bsky.social with local Cloughjordan community leader Gearoid O'Foighil and getting an opportunity to witness the amazing transformation in this landscape through bog restoration work. A real credit to the community, public and private landowners. #LoveBogs

This is a shocking blow to Ireland’s climate ambitions.

Racist, fascist USA regime www.rte.ie/news/us/2026... imagine not being able to say he apologises for such a profoundly racist insult not just on a former President and his wife but all African Americans. He keeps telling us who he is - he keeps showing us.

why would anyone want to go - given the shift to fascism ?

Freshwater ecosystems are critical for Europe. They underpin biodiversity, water security, flood protection, climate mitigation and public wellbeing, yet are among the most degraded ecosystems in the EU. This makes scaling up restoration urgent – here's how: project-merlin.eu/deliverables...

Set up Paypal - made a killing on it - Big investor in Stripe - Palantir - Open AI - consider what you are supporting when you use tools fuelling billionaires - dangerous and deluded billionaires.

This says everything about our Irish Government #spéirghorm ambition to fail on #climate action - happy to face €30 billion in fines for non action - and to shell out further billions to mop up extreme weather impacts - but not take the systemic policy action needed to protect our future

Government 'Gas Bill" is a trojan horse for fossil fuel growth and ensures climate action failure - stripping people, places and nature of the potential for a positive, viable future - @antaisce.bsky.social www.antaisce.org/news/gas-eme... #LNG @aideenod.bsky.social @autofac.bsky.social

Balcony power! #Ireland 's extremely poor at using its roof or balcony space for solar generation - much more likely to use arable land which is such a poor use of limited resources.

Government 'Gas Bill" is a trojan horse for fossil fuel growth and ensures climate action failure - stripping people, places and nature of the potential for a positive, viable future - @antaisce.bsky.social www.antaisce.org/news/gas-eme... #LNG @aideenod.bsky.social @autofac.bsky.social

What its really about for Trampy - cancelling the mid-terms and "nationalising" elections - ie a rigged form of dictatorship \https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/us/politics/trump-save-act-elections.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JlA.T-G1.ih7vijKfgw1b&smid=url-share

Together with Prof. Aideen O'Dochartaigh, I will be representing @antaisce.bsky.social at the Oireachtas Committee for Climate, Environment & Energy on Wed 4 Feb, discussing the planned IE "Strategic Gas Reserve" (LNG FSRU). More info here: www.antaisce.org/Handlers/Dow...

NEW member benefit: An Taisce is delighted to have a special reciprocal membership arrangement with Tuatha As a member of An Taisce, you can enjoy 30% off Tuatha membership, or if you're a member of Tuatha, you can enjoy a 30% discount to join An Taisce www.antaisce.org/news/members... @tuatha.ie

Trampy revenge - is to close the Kennedy Center - ! www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02.... shows protest and action by artists including Philip Glass worked

"Politicians need scapegoats when their inability to make hard strategic decisions is exposed." - Prof. John Sweeney

US regime state departments use extreme right 'white supremacy' messaging and narrative in social posts www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u... #giftarticle #fascism

It is irresponsible of @irishtimes.com to allow legal civil rights to be called 'misinformation' - information, knowledge, talking openly saves lives. Silence and secrets, shame and denial has caused suicides.

Part of reason we have public disconnect on climate change cause and required action is business reporting like this - puff job for Ryanair boss; manages to ignore climate crisis, or even question idea that continuous aviation growth is good #spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Politicians again refusing to connect cause and impact. you can't separate health of people, places and nature (can someone in @rte.ie figure out it's 'flood plains' not 'planes' -:):) imagine writing this story without mentioning #climate ? www.rte.ie/news/2026/01...

Small rivers, big problems - with insights from @megafloods.bsky.social Prof Conor Murphy of @maynoothuniversity.ie and thanks to all who took time to talk in a very difficult week www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

#Amazon - next time you click on it to buy something 'cos you think its cheaper - remember they paid $40m to placate a fascist by doing a puff job for the mafia family while thousands took to the streets to protect their neighbours and protest the gunning down of two of them

Impressive the role music, musicians and artists playing in standing up to Trampian fascism. There's no middle ground in the face of the hellish descent of the USA. Springsteen proving that values - and putting it into a song - a story - are your North Star and can help navigate the darkness.

Trampian Texas is adopting Orwellian approach - erasing gender and race studies - 'we're all equal, just some are more equal than other' - the pigs mantra wins out. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

www.irishtimes.com/environment/... Latest (and very rapid) attribution study from @clairebergin.bsky.social @lionel-swan.bsky.social & Met Éireann @wasitusie.bsky.social

Powerful video piece. These elderly neighbours helping the children left behind when their mum was taken by ICE www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/b.... Another reason ($40 mill worth one) if you need another - why Amazon should not be getting your business #Amazone

We’re not serious about tackling flooding as long the arterial drainage scheme continues to be treated as untouchable. It was built for mid‑20th‑century land drainage, not 21st‑century climate change charged flooding. Its time to store flood water in flood plains not in towns.

We need to get real. Met Éireann is not to blame for flooding damage - poor planning, building on flood plains, not implementing over 20 years of remedial action are. We were warned decades ago winter rain would increase, but continued doing nothing and built on space needed for water #spéirghorm

Trampy regime will scapegoat a few legmen to attempt to escape the moment but nothing changes its culpability for strategy which has directed the killing of civilian citizens and smeared their reputations, names and lives www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

What do you think of the new Dublin City Council logo? I like it!

Amazon = bad for people, places and nature.

French Government flexing its user power - which we all have - to seek alternatives to the tech bro billionaire propping up fascism

Wonderful group in #Mountbellew Men's Shed - full of stories, songs and chats. Part of our community storytelling work with Tóchar Wetlands Restoration - under Just Transition Fund. #LoveBogs

Last year we worked with Kilteevan NS in Roscommon as part of #Tóchar on a butterfly and bog project with the children - here's the story : vimeo.com/1145629717?s...

Hitler and the Nazis used art, music and artists as a veneer to normalise fascism - good to see artists like Renee Fleming and Philip Glass declining to play the role for Trampy regime - and support degradation of the Kennedy Center #giftarticle #KennedyCenter www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/a...

Homes built with "sustainability' tagline a year ago -https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0127/1555398-kiltiernan-flooding-chandra/ completely flooded - developers called Waterloo Homes - are we still building on flood plains? is planning resilience? #spéirghorm www.waterloohomes.ie/our-projects

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

The sheer destructive chaos of the Trampy regime #climate #energy

When we get to Nuremberg stage - Bovino will be on the dock along with his bosses www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

somewhere and at sometime Karoline Leavitt will have to face the responsibility and consequences of her role as propagandist for the Trampy fascists - and truly look at herself in the mirror and what she has said about those killed by ICE - the Nuremberg Trials put paid to "I was just doing my job"

But it won't be. The draft strategy has been with Seán Canney for 9 months. Even if it's approved soon, there's nothing to suggest that it won't be implemented at the same glacial pace. Meanwhile, they've cancelled the pilot which was supposed to deliver cameras last year.

Tragedies are often accidents of fate. What is happening in Minnesota is federal directed oppression and assassinations of civilians, in both recent cases citizens.

This is where we are?

A timelapse of the enormous anti-ICE, anti-Trump protest in Chicago yesterday (Sun Jan 25, 2026). They’re trying to tell you it’s a Minneapolis story, that protests are small and confined. They’re lying. (🎥 Craig Shimala)

US regime proving what Trampy once said that he could shot someone and still get away with it - repeating the 'big lie' for their base, victim-blaming echoes Nazis and how it justified not only mass murdering jews, but gypsies, gays, communists, intellectuals and literally anyone who opposed them.

depressing listening to @rteradio1.bsky.social Morning Ireland on ryanair and zero challenge or mention of climate and environment cost of of aviation as they call for a dropping of 'environmental taxes' and the cap on airport. Business needs to reflect reality of regenerative economics #climate

Spending time listening to community stories and finding ways to tell them - is a gift of a job @tocharstories