I was a bit horrified when I watched the first of Maggie Aderin-Pocock's @rigb.org Christmas Lectures last night, and I've sent an email to the RI explaining why (below). 🧵 1/12

'If you just take the good models, even for the intermediate emissions scenario, the probability of shutting down the AMOC is way above 50% ... we will probably pass the point of no return for an AMOC shutdown in the next 10, 20 years or so.' Odds on! Wd mean massive problems for food supply etc.

Just watched these. The speakers collectively knocked it out the park, and the whole thing was brilliantly put together. Each talk succinct and compelling. Would love to know who was there - a great reference resource, anyway, for anyone who wasn't.

I commend this budget to the house pca.st/episode/1013...

I felt physically ill all through listening to this interview. It was surreal alongside the horrible cruelty and suffering that's still happening. I am so thankful for the adults crossing the room - the flotilla, and @standing-together.bsky.social. pca.st/episode/9418...

I've been trying to think of an example of a creative non-fiction thrutopia, and I think Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is a candidate - through braided essays, she describes a culture which, if shared more widely, could alter the climate trajectory. @rupertread.bsky.social

This job of working out how to respond to planetary capacity is a welding job, isn't it? The job is to heal up the splits in our thinking.

This translates to: 'Sweden's richest 0.1% emit 198 tons of carbon dioxide per person per year. Sweden's poorest 10% emit 3 tons. "It takes an average Swede an incredible 30 years to emit as much as one of the ultra-rich does in a year, it's not fair"'

Such brave, enlightening and necessary conversations going on in this podcast from Standing Together between Sally and Jess, Palestinian and Jewish citizens of Israel. This is peace work. @standing-together.bsky.social pca.st/episode/3482...

The artwork keeps moving about

Been holding out for this episode. Even though I listen to @richardjmurphy.bsky.social regularly, I still needed to slow it down and keep rewinding. So good to hear this stuff in the conversation. I also recommend Murphy's bite-sized daily podcast Funding the Future. pca.st/episode/e1a6...

'Neoliberalism is collapsing under the weight of its own failures' pca.st/episode/2572...

This one's a cracker. Richard Murphy for chancellor.

Having read @georgemonbiot.bsky.social's Regenesis and The Invisible Doctrine, I went back and listened to 'Feral'. OMG. Was expecting reasoned argument, and of course I got that, but really Feral is the heart to the Regenesis head. Didn't want it to end. So beautifully read by George too ... 1/3

Is this article correct that there are calls to block a speaker from @standing-together.bsky.social at the @greenparty.org.uk conf? ST are an incredible movement, representative of both peoples, unwaveringly focused on peace. Help @zackpolanski.bsky.social! bright-green.org/2025/09/15/b...

Hey @gndmedia.bsky.social where is Ads?? I miss him! pca.st/episode/16d9...

This is big! Someone tell the politicians and the fossil fuel companies! Remember how we used to always hear, 'There's no magic money tree?' Now we must say: there's no magic geological carbon store.

Finally!

Loved this, great listen!

Brilliant breakdown of the human rights we currently enjoy, and absolutely chilling invocation of life without them

'When you have an elite class, you are devoting your society's labour and energy and materials to servicing their desires, however perverted they may be. This is an irrational thing to be doing.' @jasonhickel.bsky.social

'Money is command over labour ... there's very good reasons to tax rich people' @jasonhickel.bsky.social pca.st/episode/16da...

I wish I'd never read @richardjmurphy.bsky.social's Taxing Wealth Report. Every time wealth tax comes up, I think: what about all the other options Murphy suggested for taxing wealth? And they're hardly ever discussed. It's most infuriating. taxingwealth.uk

This is interesting, and has implications for voting in @greenparty.org.uk leadership elections. I really thought I'd settled on E&A because I want to fight the system not the people in it - but E&A couldn't rule out capitalism being compatible with sustainability, and that's serious. Round I go...

"Droughts and heavy rainfall are both increasing due to #globalwarming. Do you know why? The German physicist Rudolf Clausius, who discovered the second law of thermodynamics and after whom a lunar crater is named, also described the law behind it in 1834 ...'

In the @greenparty.org.uk deputy leadership race, we can vote for someone who says they'll platform diversity, or put our vote where our mouth is and just vote for @mothinali.bsky.social. I support Mothin.

Outside the Bodleian library last night, remembering Palestinian and Israeli children killed since October 2023. UK Friends of @standing-together.bsky.social. www.facebook.com/UKFOST/posts...

'Divide between haves and have nots ... creates unrest ... therefore real serious questions like climate change, biodiversity, resources are not taken seriously enough because it makes people think more short term' [What @zackpolanski.bsky.social has been saying] (1/2) pca.st/episode/9105...

Thank you @channel4news.bsky.social ! @standing-together.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

"The No10 communications team has banned any official from speaking at events that include question and answer sessions, or where the media are expected to be in attendance" Refers to:"Mid-ranking and senior officials from the civil and diplomatic service, other public bodies, and the military"

So now GS, age 5, who never stops exploring and questioning, and who is never without an idea, has tearfully declared that he "hates school" and "doesn't like learning". Here we go again.

Absolutely spot on from Jamie Oliver, cheering all the way having seen my kids with dyscalculia, dyspraxia and sensory seeking get hammered at school with ongoing mh consequences. Brilliant job. www.channel4.com/programmes/j...

If UK gov has a pathway fr clean energy by 2030, why has it commissioned Sizewell C which 'will allow it to start generating power by 2032 at the earliest'? Good thing about the 2030 target was it didn't allow time for costly, sea-level/storm-sensitive nuclear :/ www.theguardian.com/business/202...

'We actually don’t have the carbon budget to retrofit Sheffield’s housing.' - Indy Johar accidentalgods.life/brilliant-mi... This is why the centre ground is dissolving. There's no position we can take that at this point that isn't radical.

#fastforgaza #standingtogether

I'm fasting for Gaza #fastforgaza

It seems that when future Pope Leo XIV made the sweeping remarks about religion that were reported in The Guardian today, he had not read the book to which my grandmother contributed: Towards a Quaker View of Sex (1963). exhibits.lgbtran.org/exhibits/sho...

@jeremylent.bsky.social just chaired a deeply inspiring session with @standing-together.bsky.social and so [1/3] ...

OMG this is good! Scrambled eggs packed with a load of sorrel and a few leaves of wild garlic, served on seeded bucket flour soda bread.

Just finished The Language of Climate Politics by @doctorvive.bsky.social. It's about more than just language! Great primer on political machinations re climate in recent years, background to economic perceived wisdom etc. Great read and useful reference. Anthropocentric & US-focused, but that's OK!

Felt weird reading this article in @observeruk.bsky.social, which seems to present the idea of spending the Easter holidays doing things like going to the park as a novelty. That's exactly what we'll be doing. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

In these tree pollen hayfever days and nights, I long for Orkney

If you are near Leamington Spa, Canalside community food has space for new veg share members - waiting list had been a couple of years in the past www.facebook.com/share/p/1Fhr...

Just finished reading @mandascott.bsky.social's Any Human Power. Fabulous, and thought provoking. It ends with a gauntlet thrown, with a nod to @rupertread.bsky.social, who started me on this writing journey: create your own thrutopia.

'We human beings are not born with prejudices. Always, they are made for us. Made by someone who wants something. Remember that when you hear this kind of talk. Somebody is going to get something out of it. And it isn't going to be you.'

Dana Meadows lives on!

As a creative writer studying climate change, I love exploring @cambecc.bsky.social's earth.nullschool.net to see the shapes of winds and currents around Earth. The Met Office uses it too. Got a notice on there today: 'Much of the data on this website is downloaded directly from NOAA's servers.'

Good for you, Anneliese Dodds!! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Peanut and seaweed curry for lunch. Lots of roots and of course an apple. Recommend

This will be fabulous