1/ For those of us keeping an eye on systemic #climate risks, these aren’t difficult dots to connect. I find it downright frightening. We need to brace for impacts and spring into preparedness now. This thread outlines 6 key papers and what we can do in response. ⬇️🧵

In 2020, the scientist John Abraham observed that the amount of heat being added to the oceans was equivalent to about five Hiroshima bombs of energy every second. Last year, the WMO figures suggest, it was closer to 11 Hiroshima explosions per second. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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At @chathamhouse.org #CHClimateEnergy @elpinchbeck.bsky.social just trailed that the @thecccuk.bsky.social is poised to drop a major adaptation report in a few weeks - “headed to printers”. Reminder that UK govt has failed to make real progress on any adaptation & resilience front.

AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do

The closer we look, the more we see how much worse our predicament actually is. Millions of coastal dwelling humans will be on the move soon. We are absolutely NOT prepared. #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise

Here's a finished version of my report 'Growing an Effective Earth Crisis Response in the Cultural Sector' tinyurl.com/jchhsnbp and a summary is in the posts below...

I keep seeing people diminish Epstein, like “we’re focusing on a single sex offender but it’s a distraction.” He trafficked 1000+, ran a kompromat factory likely trading to Israel & Russia. It’s a lens onto a conspiracy of extreme colonisation of bodies & lands with devastating impacts on all life.

People get hung up (reasonably) on the "walkable" cities frame because many people cannot walk or have problems walking I propose: human scale cities as in: a city where the spaces I am in are built for human bodies, and not two ton high speed murder machines

⚠️🐦 Nature loss is risk to our security and prosperity, and a new government report has confirmed it. Published after a Green Alliance FOI request, the report must now prompt action. As @ruthchambers.bsky.social sets out below, the government and parliament must urgently address its findings.

A friend pointed me to a post on social media of a letter by Kerry McCarthy MP (Labour, Bristol East) about a request for a televised emergency briefing on the #ClimateEmergency I was stunned by how casually the idea & its urgency were dismissed. Let’s unpack why this response is so wrong-headed 🧵

I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

Pleased to join @rupertread.bsky.social @bridgetmck.bsky.social @npjbrooks.bsky.social calling for an international protectorate for #Greenland to address defence and climate risks; and to restart international cooperation in the Guardian today 👇👇

A prose-poem & collage exploring links in time & space, between Nazi propaganda, underwater photography & coral reef bleaching, to understand representation, complicity in and denial of great harms. bridgetmck.medium.com/black-white-...

Oh, pleassseee! What could possibly go wrong if you were sailing nuclear reactors around increasingly stormy, little regulated, politically unstable seas? Has anyone thought about pirates? 🤦 #NoNewNuclear www.thetimes.com/business/com...

“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 🧪 IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍

The world’s 500 richest people have total wealth of $11.9tn. Their wealth up by $2.2tn in 2025. 8 billionaires accounting for a 25% of the gains. No one becomes this rich by working. They fund right-wing parties, oppose worker/human rights, cause more pollution than normal people.

Mark Zuckerberg settles $8bn lawsuit to avoid testifying under oath over Cambridge Analytica and walks away without public accountability This is surveillance capitalism in action: law-breaking treated as cost of doing business, executives shielded, power untouched. www.france24.com/en/americas/...

The Green party is becoming known for hope, for climate justice, for people and planet. But we haven't lost sight of the emergency, the Green surge is a surge to tackle the most important issues, to make sure that we get a government for the real world, not for billionaires' fantasies. It matters

The Hodge review for Arts Council England is welcomed. But there’s a problem in the section on tackling the funding crisis. “ACE also has an important role to play in ensuring that prevailing attitudes & practices in arts orgs do not discourage corporations & individuals from donating to the arts…

My film Fires and Fascism at Norwich (Cinema City) on Wed 19 Nov with a great panel to discuss the far right afterwards: @rupertread.bsky.social @helenb92.bsky.social @bridgetmck.bsky.social Get your tickets from Picturehouse: www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail... Trailer: fires-and-fascism.co.uk

Thank you @raechelkelly.bsky.social and it was also great to learn from your empathetic and observant ways, as with the exemplary @lornaprescott.bsky.social and Jo Orchard-Webb

I’ve been exploring this question: What is the state of capacities in the UK Cultural sector for an alert, full-spectrum and effective response to the Earth Crisis? And some related questions:

Wild About Essex will refresh Colchester’s Natural History Museum. What would make the space feel more accessible and relevant to you? Tell us here: buff.ly/uS4spfx #WildAboutEssex #HaveYourSay

www.edp24.co.uk/news/2552664... Great piece from @bridgetmck.bsky.social

I'm helping to organise the #FestivalofPeopleandPlanet in Norwich, reimagining our City’s future in global solidarity. It's part of @globaldonut.bsky.social Days. And as part of it, I'll deliver my creative workshop 'How It All Connects'. See reimaginenorwich.org.uk/festivalofpe...

Thank you to @bridgetmck.bsky.social who delivered an inspiring talk, full of resources and frameworks to give ‘people courage to be planetary citizens, or inhabitants of a biosphere in trouble. Not as consumers for culture…’ 💫 #GEMConference2025 #sustainability

Earth Talk is a community of practice, a series of courses and gatherings, a playbook and more offering a rich set of tools to hold effective conversations and creative activities about the Earth Crisis. There are now 50+ members of the community and 135+ creative tools shared.

4/4 of Earth Crisis Acknowledgement

That corn, though, a lot is processed to corn syrup and oil, cornstarch and alcohol. So, that’s a teeny tiny amount of fibrous whole plants.

By me: Trump’s spending bonanza for the Pentagon will produce an additional 26 megatons of planet-heating gases – on a par with the annual emissions generated by 68 gas power plants or the entire country of Croatia, new analysis by @cplusc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

More than 80% of UK farmers worried about climate crisis harming livelihood, study finds: Farmers warn of risk to Britain’s food supply as more than three-quarters take hit to income from extreme weather More than 80% of UK farmers are worried that the “devastating” effect of the climate ...

Earth Crisis Acknowledgement: I acknowledge that Earth’s systems are in a state of overshoot, signalled by global heating, biodiversity loss and pollution, and worsening shortfall in meeting needs equally. 1/4

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

Jason Hickel posts on Insta new research that lower US income groups want environmental protections more than higher income groups. The assumption otherwise has been constructed by the propagandising lobbies trying to kill protections & delay action. Tx @bridgetmck.bsky.social!

I've made a short video and a blogpost to go into some reasons why we need #EarthTalk and why this programme could really help you. bridgetmck.medium.com/why-do-we-ne...

A new #EarthTalk course is coming up on 17 June. There will be a Discovery session this Friday if you want to find out more before deciding. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discover-e... Or just sign up to join the community with the form in the post below.

I was one of the first founders of the Culture Declares Emergency, which over 6 years has grown to c.2000 organisations & individuals committed to addressing the Earth Crisis through Culture. In that time, we've never asked individuals to donate. Until now! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

In early March, a group of Musk-affiliated staffers from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) arrived at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency responsible for protecting workers’ rights and handling union disputes.

@bridgetmck.bsky.social has written an insightful piece for the EDP about issues involving our seas, prompted by the exhibition at Sainsbury Centre @sainsburycentre.bsky.social www.edp24.co.uk/news/2507199...

I’m showing some work in a pop-up for the post-grad art course I’ve been doing at the Art Depot in Norwich. My winter project was a reconnaissance of emotions of witnessing the Earth Crisis. See part of this project, an illustrated poem... bridgetmck.medium.com/being-with-t...

How do we overcome limited framings of the word ‘environment’? How do we help people hear ‘our precious biosphere & its sentient inhabitants are in trouble’ rather than ‘the team that tells us off for not recycling’? And to hear that without feeling so overwhelmed that they switch off?

If you'd like to receive news, latest articles, resources & upcoming courses, sign up to my mailing list here (trying to transition from the dodgy platforms) bridget-mckenzie.kit.com/cbde1db065

Earth Talk is my course, community & playbook offering tools to hold effective conversations & creative activities about the Earth Crisis, which is Ecological Overshoot (e.g. global heating, pollution & ecocide) + Social Shortfall (e.g. inequalities, structural racism, authoritarian governments).

I've annotated in 'green ink' on the Interim Report of the Curriculum & Assessment Review, calling for more acknowledgement of the Earth Crisis. @beckyfrancis.bsky.social bridgetmck.medium.com/green-ink-on...

We’re at the UEA climate week inviting people to add their future change-maker selves to our museum of change.

"The future that is still possible will be one where we care for those most in need and collaborate to build safe, healthy and fair ways of living." Read the column by @bridgetmck.bsky.social inspired by the book I co-edited on Transformative Adaptation.

"The story that we are separate from nature has led to an economic system that exploits it and destroys what sustains our livelihoods." Great column by @bridgetmck.bsky.social talking about the new book I co-edited on Transformative Adaptation.

Check out this piece by @bridgetmck.bsky.social about the launch of #TransformativeAdaptation at Caracol Books in Norwich last week! 📙 It includes details on the community climate safety pillars shared by @rupertread.bsky.social👇 www.edp24.co.uk/news/2499787...