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Stop climate and ecological breakdown. Work to sustain all life
Police to get new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to
#Gaza
So the government plans to curtail the
#humanrights
of British citizens to protect a foreign state committing
#genocide
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office
Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/05/police-to-get-new-powers-to-crack-down-on-repeated-protests-says-home-office
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World
about 20 hours ago
CHINA OCTOBER HEAT WAVE Temperatures up to 37.5C and 5 more October records broke 浙江 普陀 → Zhejiang, Putuo 33.2 浙江 玉环 → Zhejiang, Yuhuan 31.8 浙江 洞头 → Zhejiang, Dongtou 31.0 浙江 大陈 → Zhejiang, Dachen 30.5 吉林 通化县 → Jilin, Tonghua County 27.3 40C on Monday! Kudos:Xinxin & Qwen
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Jonas Algers
about 20 hours ago
Thunberg has been detained in international waters, humiliated, and imprisoned in unacceptable conditions. She has not been accused of any crime, nor taken to any court - in violation of intl and domestic law This is however but a taste of Palestinian daily life
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell infested with bedbugs
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/04/greta-thunberg-israel-gaza-sweden
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National Emergency Briefing
2 days ago
Is your MP attending the definitive briefing on the climate and nature crisis? Go to our bio, lookup your MP, email if they are not confirmed. Then please SHARE this post 🔥
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Overshoot Podcast
3 days ago
“An essential guide to a critical issue. Please tune in.” -
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Listen to the trailer on
overshootpod.com
Episode 1 coming soon
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For
#Gaza
London Parliament Square 2 Oct 5.30pm
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
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Total solidarity to the
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
trying to break the siege of
#Gaza
🇵🇸 These brave humanitarians from many different nations are being intercepted right now by the Israeli military.
#FreePalestine
#StopTheGenocide
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Truthout
5 days ago
As boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla prepared to set sail toward Gaza, a representative of Genoa’s Dockworkers’ Union declared that if anything happened to the flotilla, workers would “block everything.” When the flotilla was attacked, the reaction was swift: a 24-hour general strike was called.
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We Said “We Will Block Everything” and We Did: Inside Italy’s Strike for Gaza
Following a 24-hour general strike on September 22, the country is now gearing up for a national protest on October 4.
https://truthout.org/articles/we-said-we-will-block-everything-and-we-did-inside-italys-strike-for-gaza/
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"Europe is losing green space that once harboured wildlife, captured carbon and supplied food at the rate of 600 football pitches a day"
#climatecrisis
#nature
#environment
#wildlife
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day
Investigation shows extent of green land lost across UK and mainland Europe to development from 2018 to 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/01/revealed-europe-losing-600-football-pitches-of-nature-and-crop-land-a-day
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"Where
#climate
breakdown is concerned, there is no alternative. The climate doesn’t recognise pragmatism. We either slash
#emissions
now or we are in deep, deep trouble."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Our world is hurtling into climate disaster and what do politicians give us? Oilfields and new runways | Bill McGuire
In the name of ‘pragmatism’, green measures are being ditched, net zero derided. Be very clear: without slashing emissions we are in deep, deep trouble, says UCL professor Bill McGuire
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/30/climate-disaster-oilfields-runways-pragmatism-emissions
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🚨📣🚨📣🚨📣🚨 **Arson attack on Barbican Thistle Hotel.* *Solidarity picket with asylum residents* **THIS SUNDAY 2pm Thistle Hotel EC1V 8DS* *This is a horrific escalation of the racist campaign against
#asylumseekers
Please come and share widely -
#refugees
do not stand alone**
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Tom Hardy
8 days ago
More specifically, where is the fear for their children?
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BP raises oil and gas outlook in response to AI boom and slowing efficiency gains | James Murray
The bleakest thing about the bleak af Global Energy Outlook from BP is that it doesn't seem to realise how bleak it is. Your upgraded forecasts for continuing fossil fuel demand and projections for ...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jamessmurray_bp-raises-oil-and-gas-outlook-in-response-activity-7377336808134709248-juw-?utm_source=share
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Natalie Bennett
8 days ago
Concerning reminder: nuclear power is not safe in a war zone. Which means it is not safe anywhere.
#NoNewNuclear
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Safety fears as external power to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant still out after three days
Ukrainian officials among those concerned Russia is manufacturing crisis to keep hold of frontline plant
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/27/safety-fears-as-external-power-to-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-still-out-after-three-days
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Britain's nuclear expansion breaches nonproliferation treaty
cnduk.org/legal-opinio...
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Legal opinion finds Britain’s nuclear expansion breaches nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - CND
A new legal opinion has found that Britain’s plans to expand its nuclear weapons programme by purchasing nuclear-capable F-35A fighter jets from the US is in breach of its disarmament commitments unde...
https://cnduk.org/legal-opinion-finds-britains-nuclear-expansion-breaches-nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty/
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As well as
#genocide
Israel is committing
#ecocide
in
#Gaza
After all the destrction and annihilation of life "reconstruction alone would produce
#greenhousegases
equivalent to the annual emissions of a medium-sized country" War = ecocide
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#ClimateCrisis
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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/27/israel-ecocide-gaza-bombs-agricultural-land-genocide
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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne
9 days ago
🔥 Bank on a Better World! Banks are funding climate chaos & war with OUR money. Switch fast. 📍This Saturday morning, Wimborne. Meet the 💕Pink Rebels & the Bad Banker. Check your bank – deadly or ethical? 🌱 👉 more info
eepurl.com/jnTukl
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Hands off the
#flotilla
Emergency demo today 6pm Foreign Office London SW1 2AH
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2025 is becoming a year of dangerous
#climate
U turns
theconversation.com/the-uks-year...
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The UK’s year of climate U-turns exposes a deeper failure
Breaking free of the dangerous pretence that current efforts suffice demands a fundamental rethink of the UK’s climate policy consensus.
https://theconversation.com/the-uks-year-of-climate-u-turns-exposes-a-deeper-failure-254499
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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne
10 days ago
The Global Sumud Flotilla is trying to deliver much-needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza, but Israel is threatening to block it. The British government must protect it and support its mission. Write the FCDO using PSC's online action
palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/globalsumudf...
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Write to the FCDO: protect the Global Sumud Flotilla
https://palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/globalsumudflotilla
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Labour pledged no new drilling for
#fossilfuels
in their manifesto - and are now set to break that pledge. Along with trashing regs protecting
#nature
and expanding air travel this is both shameful and dangerous from the British government.
#ClimateCrisis
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Ed Miliband looking into more North Sea drilling despite Labour pledge
Exclusive: Energy secretary examining ways to allow oil and gas exploration without breaking manifesto promise
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/25/ed-miliband-looking-into-more-north-sea-drilling-despite-labour-pledge
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Always say No to
#genocide
Protest continued British spy flights over
#Gaza
Sun 28 Sept 2pm, MoD, London
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Make Them Pay
13 days ago
Make. Them. Pay! On Saturday, we brought together thousands of people and hundreds of organisations to demand a better future for us all. Check out our video 👇 And sign up to our mailing list to get involved in what comes next 👉
makethempay.org.uk/get-involved
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Prof Bill McGuire
13 days ago
Let's be absolutely clear what's up for grabs We can no longer dodge climate catastrophe A Pliocene climate (3C hotter, sea levels 20m higher) is now certain We are now fighting to stop a return to the Middle Miocene: 7-8C hotter than PI, sea levels up to 50m higher
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Red Hot World
14 days ago
➡️ Charlie Kirk ➡️ “Tommy Robinson” ➡️ The PR machine defending the Israeli government ➡️ The war on climate science What have they got in common? Their funders - a small clique of American billionaires. 💰 It sounds like a conspiracy theory - but it’s true. 🧵
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Reeves: "This extra runway at Gatwick will mean lower costs for a family holiday." More happy holidays while you help burn your children's future, thanks to the lunatic UK government which is in hock to
#fossilfuel
lobbyists
#flightfree
#climatecrisis
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Another dreadful climate-wrecking decision by UK government. It will mean 100,000 more flights a year at a time when we urgently need to reduce air travel and preferably go
#flightfree
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Gatwick given green light for £2.2bn second runway plan
Transport secretary Heidi Alexander approves expansion to allow 100,000 more flights a year
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/21/gatwick-given-green-light-for-22bn-second-runway-plan
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Media Tell The Truth
15 days ago
For every 1°C increase in global temperature, the atmosphere can hold approximately 7% more moisture. We’ve known this for 175 years. Many more football games are going to be abandoned in the coming years.
#itfc
#brfc
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XRUK-Actions
15 days ago
Those who’ve made trillions from destroying the climate must foot the bill for the damage they’ve caused. The economy should work for the people who keep the country running, not corporations and billionaires.
#MakeThemPay
#SystemChangeNotClimateChange
#ExtinctionRebellion
@makethempay.bsky.social
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Graphic showing the inequity of
#rainfall
distribution in the UK. England increasingly at risk of
#drought
and water shortage. This may drive internal
#migration
as the
#climatecrisis
intensifies
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London 20 Sept 2025 It’s time to tax the super-rich & use the money to fund the services we all depend on. And to fix the
#climatecrisis
that threatens all of us. It's time to
#MakeThemPay
#MakePollutersPay
#TaxWealth
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Today. 12 noon. Portland Place, London. March with us to demand the billionaires pay. Tax wealth. Tax the big polluters. Fix the
#climatecrisis
www.makethempay.org.uk/march-with-us/
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Make Them Pay
Billionaires have broken Britain. Make them pay to fix it
https://www.makethempay.org.uk/march-with-us/
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Sustaining All Life
18 days ago
Our demands are clear: Shut down billionaires & fund our future. Shut down fascists & protect migrants + the global majority. Shut down polluters & defend Mother Earth. ✊ Join us to
#MakeBillionairesPay
& fight for justice for all.
#socialjustice
#climatechange
#SustainingAllLife
#unitedtoendracism
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🚨 TOMORROW SATURDAY 20th SEPTEMBER 🚨 Join the
#climate
bloc 📍 Portland Place, London 🕛 12pm SEE YOU THERE!
makethempay.org.uk
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Stop Trump Coalition
18 days ago
The real story about Donald Trump's UK visit is the British public hate him! We don't want his trickle-down trade deal - we want ACTION against billionaries & climate change!
#r4today
Here's a flavour of some of the work so far (thanks to
@politicalx.bsky.social
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youtube.com/shorts/wGQXv...
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Trump Protests Across UK
YouTube video by Political X
https://youtube.com/shorts/wGQXvN83w04
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Climate Dad
18 days ago
My son was 1 when leaders gathered in Paris & pledged to keep warming BELOW 1.5C. He’s now 11, & we’re spending our second year ABOVE 1.5C. They’ve doomed all our children because preserving a suicidal economy is more important. We. Should. Be. Furious.
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Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’
Researchers from Imperial College London say 16,500 deaths caused by hot weather brought on by greenhouse gases
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/17/human-made-global-warming-caused-two-in-three-heat-deaths-in-europe-this-summer-analysis-finds
18 days ago
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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction
19 days ago
🎥 We need to choose
#climate
resilient development pathways PL RP Thank you! 🩷💚💙 Learn more 📖
www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
original graph
@ipcc.bsky.social
#ClimateAction
#Video
#ClimateActionNow
#ClimateChangeIsReal
#Climatesolution
#ActOnClimate
#EndFossilFuels
#ClimateJustice
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Route of the Trump Not Welcome demonstration tomorrow. Meet 2pm Portland Place. Rally 5pm Parliament Square London
19 days ago
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Today 6pm Windsor
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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne
20 days ago
Is your community linked to genocide in Gaza? Check out the Campaign Against the Arms Trade interactive map
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#climatecrisis
is getting increasingly costly. It's made scorching fire weather 40 x more likely in Spain and Portugal. Death toll from the June heatwave is estimated to have tripled in 12 big cities because of planet-heating
#pollution
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Europe’s summer of extreme weather caused €43bn of short-term losses, analysis finds
Greatest damage from heat, drought and flooding done in Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Bulgaria
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/15/europes-summer-of-extreme-weather-caused-43bn-of-short-term-losses-analysis-finds
20 days ago
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Stop Trump Coalition
21 days ago
Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson. Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word. This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.
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Stay Grounded
22 days ago
‼️ Join 200+ organisations to
#BanNightFlights
👉
actionnetwork.org/forms/ban-ni...
Today, people in 10 countries are taking action for our right to sleep & a safe climate. Night flights are unnecessary, harmful & fueling climate chaos. Time to end them.
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Paul Behrens
23 days ago
This could be a tipping point for decision makers across the UK: we're holding a National Emergency Briefing on the Climate and Nature crisis for national leaders at Westminster Central Hall, and you can help!...🧵
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Solidarity from London, England "The road is open again, but the fight continues. We'll be back. Bigger, stronger, with much more. Until fossil fuel subsidies stop."
#StopFossilSubsidies
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Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌
23 days ago
What do we want? —
#ClimateJustice
!
#FridaysForFuture
Cologne, 12th Sept. 2025
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Jeff Berardelli
23 days ago
The North Pacific Marine heat wave is absurd. Most of the northern half of the basin is at/ near records. Some of this is natural oscillation, some likely aerosol / greenhouse forcing and feedbacks 1/
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Extinction Rebellion London Actions MoM (Movement of Movements)
22 days ago
Recent actions WORK FOR PEACE, NOT WAR ✌️
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