Extinction Rebellion Oxford held a demonstration in Cornmarket yesterday as part of a global day of climate action, coinciding with the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP30. The protest focused on stopping further exploration of the North Sea Rosebank oilfield.

The economic sense is so extremely in favour of renewables now, Pakistan is even paying Qatar penalties to rather NOT deliver the fossil gas that Pakistan already placed orders for, because their Solar PV and batteries make much more sense. It saves them money to cancel their gas imports and pay!

Horrendous #plastic #pollution on the south coast. Thanks to the greedy and incompetent Southern Water www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Governments are backtracking on climate action, driven by media inaccuracies and a “feedback loop between scientific denialism and political inaction”. The impact is clear at #Cop30, where rich nations are showing a “reduction in enthusiasm” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Indigenous activists block entrance to #Cop30 #ClimateJustice for Indigenous Peoples, let them be heard!! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good morning everyone. I wanted to share this petition: I cannot believe that only 1866 people have signed. Maybe we can get it in the right places before it ends in December ✊ @pscupdates.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk @quaker.org.uk @cjaourpower.bsky.social @just-stopoil.bsky.social

Totally insane. Our leaders have a deathwish #COP30 #ClimateBreakdown

That all means: 🛢️the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe 🛢️drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa 🛢️lethal heat and humidity “This is not a good place to be. You want to stay away from that.”

Back in September, Banksy painted a powerful image of a judge striking down a protester on the Royal Courts of Justice. They scrubbed it off, but they can’t make us forget. And they can’t stop us from wearing it. Buy a t-shirt and join the movement 👇 https://bit.ly/488U2pH

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2.6C World means global disaster… triggering major “tipping points” 😡key Atlantic Ocean circulation collapse 😡coral reefs lost 😡Amazon rainforest converts to savannah Already combined effects of global heating & tree felling have turned tropical forests from overall CO2 sinks into sources of CO2 😡

3/ Deforestation in the Amazon basin has been linked to declines of rains be8ng transported South towards Sao Paulo... www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/...

2/ In 2015, Sao Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷 the largest city in South America, saw its taps nearly run dry. The main reservoirs had reached just 6% capacity after an extreme drought

9/ and today in 2025 the President of Iran 🇮🇷 has warned that the capital city Terhan, home to nearly 20 million, is almost out of water and could need to be evacuated! Will this the first city to reach day zero? www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

8/ A @wwattribution.bsky.social concluded that the 2024 heat wave in Mexico was made many times more likely by #climate change from fossil fuel burning www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-heat...

7/ Last year, Mexico City, Mexico 🇲🇽 faced its day zero own crisis www.latimes.com/world-nation...

6/ In 2019 Chennai, India 🇮🇳 home to 10 million people faced crisis as its reservoirs ran dry www.theguardian.com/world/2019/j...

5/ A subsequent study of this the Cape Town drought concluded that " #climate change made this event five to six times more likely relative to the early 20th century" A risk that continues to grow. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

4/ In, 2018 Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 came within a few days of 'Day Zero' where the water supply of the city would be completely empty. www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/...

In 2020 @wwf.panda.org identified the 100 global cities expected to suffer the greatest rise in water risk by 2050- home to at least 350 million people! We've already seen several megacities just days away from running dry. Here's a🧵 with eg's

Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.

Next Friday 14 Nov 5 - 6pm in front of Highbury and Islington Station join Islington Trades Council, and Islington environmental and #climatechange campaigners to support the Trade Union Year of #ClimateAction, which is also supported by the TUC and linked to the #COP30 in Brazil

Teresa made this beautiful embroidery for Ed Miliband, recognising the immense pressure he must come under from his colleagues, & encouraging him not to sink billions into carbon capture & storage & to put money instead into a mass insulation scheme & solar panels on every suitable roof 💚🙏🏽💚🙏🏽💚🙏🏽💚🙏🏽💚

The @tuc.org.uk has voted to back a Year of Trade Union Climate Action & #COP30 in Brazil is a key moment of global solidarity. The 14th November is a day for taking workplace action, coming together to demand action to tackle the climate crisis @cacctu.bsky.social www.cacctu.org.uk/year_of_clim...

Poisoning people & nature with toxic plumes is fine, says the Court of Appeal 💔 Incinerators are climate-destroying, polluting monsters, the last thing our precious Jurassic coast needs. Huge love to everyone in Portland, Dorset who fought so hard. We honour you. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Planting the AMOC Bomb 💣 outside Parliament on Guy Fawkes Day #AMOC 💣You refused to warn the people💣

Today, EXTINCTION REBELLION TURNS 7 YEARS OLD 💚 Love & rage

Hurricane Melissa’s historic journey to becoming one of the most intense tropical cyclones ever recorded on Earth. A storm we won't forget anytime soon.

The fact that we went nearly 20 years without a sub-900 mb Atlantic hurricane and now we’ve had two in just the last two seasons.

NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.

“For any of the defendants to be convicted, you have to be sure not just that they committed the elements of the offence but you also have to be sure that a conviction … would be a proportionate interference with their human rights to express their opinions & protest against government inaction”

Hey @laylamoran.bsky.social 🙏🏽🙏🏽Please attend in person! 🙏🏽🙏🏽 @nickoldridge.bsky.social @nebriefing.bsky.social @zero-hour.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk

🛢️GLOBAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION 🛢️ Saturday 15 Nov 12-2 Cornmarket, Oxford 🛢️World-wide campaign to raise awareness of critical failures to cut fossil fuel emissions Join us! 🎶singing, drumming, leafletting & talking to people 🛢️UK Government must stop fossil fuel production @stopcambo.bsky.social

OUTREACH DAY OXFORD! When? Saturday 1 November What? An outreach stall & leafletting Where? Cornmarket, Oxford ⏰ 12-2pm Why? to alert people about the next COP in Belem, Brazil (10-21 November) & to encourage writing to MPs about the necessity of taking action for the Climate in the UK

Our addiction to #fossilfuels causes toxic air #pollution, #wildfires and the spread of #diseases such as dengue fever, with millions of people dying each year due to the failure to tackle global heating. And that's at just 1.5°... #ClimateEmergency www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This summer, Baroness @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social & I were invited to join a Durham Union debate arguing the proposition that we ought "Prioritise Environment Over the Economy" Making the case against were the Deputy Leader of the Opposition & Reform's only London AM I'm glad to say our side won

In only interview before Cop30 António Guterres says: “World leaders should be schooled by Indigenous peoples in how to achieve a balance with nature” “Political leaders more concerned with day-to-day problems of society….so no notion of the importance of a harmonious relationship with nature”

Only 62 / 197 nations have sent in their climate action plans (NDCs) under Paris agreement 😢😡 Donald Trump: abandoned process Europe: promised but failed to deliver China: undercommitting So can only expect 10% emissions reduction BUT Need 60% [to stay within 1.5C] ‼️Overshooting inevitable‼️

“We are looking for seismic shift in law & policy making,” “We need to encode new consciousness in law, with laws that protect nature as very basis of life.” The initiative comes amid growing concern re shortcomings of technology & markets approach to climate crisis @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Can a network of features such as ponds & wetlands form a "smart water grid" ? Westcountry Rivers Trust, alongside 21 other organisations in 13 European countries, is leading a €8m project on how "water batteries" can be used to hold on to water when it rains & then be used during summer droughts

Lastly, Andrew & I will be co-hosting an online launch event on *October 14 at 12 noon (UK time)*. Do join us for a presentation & discussion of the latest Doughnut update - bring your questions, comments & suggestions! More info & registration👇 7/ doughnuteconomics.org/events/launc...

Big Doughnutty News. Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And absolutely staggering inequalities between countries, with rich countries causing most of the ecological overshoot and poorer countries suffering most of the ecological shortfall.

This new study in Nature provides a comprehensive update to the "doughnut" framework.

Here's the paper, open access: nature.com/articles/s41... And here is an interactive website with time-series data from 2000 to 2022: doughnuteconomics.org/doughnut

Don't let anyone ever tell you that Zionism is about the protection of Jewish people. Zionists reserve special hatred for Jews who reject their genocidal project and who insist on the equal humanity of Palestinians.

Kissinger helped prolong the Vietnam War for political gain. In 1968, while peace talks were underway, he secretly leaked details to Nixon’s campaign - helping sabotage the talks to boost Nixon’s election chances. The war dragged on for years. Hundreds of thousands more died.

The Nobel Peace Prize was won by one of the worst war criminals of the 20th century. The year was 1973. His name was Henry Kissinger. This is his thread of shame. #RedHotHistory

Destabilising impact of climate & nature crises on national security is: “one of the biggest risks facing Britain” ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ “food import supply chains are coming under pressure” “prices of commodities increasing” @xrglobal.bsky.social @scientistsforxr.earth @ecioxford.bsky.social

‼️‼️Seminal report ‼️‼️ -on THREATS TO UK SECURITY- ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ -of the COLLAPSE of critically important ECOSYSTEMS - -being swept under carpet- -by government- -embarrassed by its failure- -to provide any leadership on the issue 😡😡😡😡 ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ @zero-hour.bsky.social @juststopoil.bsky.social