@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social & @rory-stewart.bsky.social unfortunately couldn’t make the National Emergency Briefing. Would they consider having @mikebernerslee.bsky.social on #Leading?🙏 Mike chaired the NEB and sets out the threats - and the choices ahead - with exceptional clarity. #NEB2025

Insects seem to be swarming all around us, so it's no wonder we don't seem to to notice that they're disappearing at a rate of 2% per year. And this has massive implications, as environmental journalist Oliver Milman explains.

‘Gross abuse of state power’: defiance grows over UK ban on Palestine protest group At 81, Deborah Hinton, a former British magistrate who was honoured by the late Queen Elizabeth II for services to the community, seems an unlikely terrorist suspect. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Full Frankly: www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-orig...

Myth #9: Humans are rational decision-makers Reality: We act from emotion, status, and social cues Implication: Models built for robots will fail real people

Earth Overshoot Day arrived earlier than ever this year.The late Prof. Herman Daly once asked: “Where’s the ‘when to stop’ point? Where’s the Plimsoll Line?” We’ve already crossed the line. Time to act with real courage, and compassion. 🧭 Read the full piece here: 🔗 www.linkedin.com/company/ukfo...

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2025 The latest climate science at a glance — all the key metrics, in one infographic. eciu.net/analysis/in...

Your 'double bonus moment of doom' for today: "The team concludes with a sentiment that is becoming more common in this field: It may be worse than we think. It’s not an uplifting thought, but one that should be confronted" www.404media.co/scientists-r...

Only a matter of time before a wildfire wipes a major city from the face of the planet Will people sit up and take notice then? Will governments and fossil fuel corporations act to slash emissions? Will they hell www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Privatisation broke our water system. @labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it. Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: ​https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&​

The Open Championship must not give in to the UK government's lobbying and allow Donald Trump to host one of the world's biggest, oldest and respected golf tournaments at any of the golf courses he owns in the UK. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

From the intellectual & ecological to the spiritual & psychological, these ideas might be considered waypoints for navigating the human predicament, and – in aggregate – help build ‘scout teams’ of humans working on the upcoming cultural transition away from infinite material expansion.

Privatisation broke our water system. @labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it. Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: ​https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&​

Intentional, stupid and criminal This will cost many lives and the new CEO should join previous ones on trial www.theguardian.com/business/202...

From today, Govt only has 100 days to publish a new climate plan, a task made infinitely more difficult by its own approval of rampant airport expansion. How credible can any climate plan possibly be with a third runway at Heathrow and the most expensive train tickets in Europe?

In the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, I reflect on how nature protection needs to be stronger. And that we must stop destroying elements of nature we're also trying to restore #Biodiversity #PIB

This was NOT unexpected There were 4 warnings/alerts for this event, starting Wednesday afternoon The forecasters got it right, but the local authorities/disaster responders did not do enough - if anything - to warn those in danger This was NOT inevitable www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There’s been surprisingly little attention paid to a basic question: do we even have the technical capability to guide where any of this is headed? And if not, should we slow the pace of innovation until we better understand how these complex systems actually work?

Three years ago, my team and I created a 30-minute movie that provides a comprehensive systems analysis of the human predicament. This beautifully animated film aims to help viewers understand the interconnected crises defining our era. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xr9...

The Government's proposed #cuts to #disability benefits, threaten to push 290k people in #yorkshire into deeper poverty, losing up to £5,700 annually We need local campaigns now, so the voices of those that these cuts affects, are heard. @yorkshirebylines.co.uk #WelfareCuts #TaxTheRich

We are sleepwalking into this catastrophe. AI is dominating our children’s lives and removing the need to read, write,and most importantly, to think. This is the cohesive and controlling behaviour of billionaires we are normalising. A superb insight from @natehagens.bsky.social

Visualization of global annual temperatures from the BBC www.bbc.com/news/article...

⏳ Final call! Join us Tomorrow at 9:30am for a free online session with Climate Outreach CEO Rachael Orr, exploring Britain Talks Climate - essential insights on how people in the UK think and feel about climate change. 🔗 Book your place now www.tickettailor.com/events/ukfor...

Are you a scientist? Want evidence-based policies, for climate, Nature and, ultimately, survival? Then join 150+ including @mikebernerslee.bsky.social to "Bring Science to Politics" on Tuesday ⁉️ Info: tinyurl.com/Scientists2025 🥼 Make sure you sign up for full details: tinyurl.com/SciParl25

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Trump’s bullying must stop but the true costs of globalisation will remain | Richard Partington

SAVE THE DATE 📢 On 9th July 2025, we’re heading to Westminster to show MPs that climate & nature must be a priority. This is your chance to speak directly to your MP & call for urgent action. Stay tuned for details! RT & spread the word for people, climate & nature.

This is great news. For decades, @jasonhickel.bsky.social Tim Jackson, @kateraworth.bsky.social et al have been saying this. The message is remarkably simple: To create sustainable prosperity for all, we must live in harmony with nature and each other. And that requires a transformational shift. Now

"We can all do our bit" say RSPB, and of course they're right But not just by managing our gardens. We need to: - put climate and nature first in our lifestyle decisions - talk about them - transform our communities & workplaces - become politically active and push for change All of us

The correlation between the pursuit of eternal GDP and lifting communities out of poverty is a lie we have been force fed for decades. The system is broken. Time for a post-growth transformation.

4) Some of our PhD students led this brilliant editorial in the BMJ, on degrowth in the imperial core as key to a just transformation of the world economy, including greater democratic control over production, and national liberation in the global South. www.bmj.com/content/387/...

1) This is my top highlight. We found that the global North net-appropriates more than 800 billion hours of labour from the South per year. This occurs because Southern wages are 83–98% lower than Northern wages for work of equal skill in the same sector. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Easter is coming. Will your choc choice help or harm people and planet? 🍫🌍 Check the 2024 Chocolate Scorecard from Be Slavery Free www.chocolatescorecard.com Some big UK brands score badly. I’ll be choosing Tony's Chocolonely again 👏 #EthicalChocolate #BetterChoices #Easter #Impact #Cocoa

Ministers say they want to see the Climate & Nature Bill passed—the only way to protect our environment from short-term lobbyist-driven decisions. So why doesn't the Gov make time to properly debate the #CANBill? Otherwise it's just empty words. Nature isn't an optional extra.

Great to see UK territorial emissions fall again (see Simon Evans' post below). Though it's also worth considering the bigger picture, adding back the emissions we import or ignore. Unfortunately consumption emissions data lag by several years as they have to be assembled from trade data.

“Isolate growth from public good (let alone environmental security), and you are simply planning for breakdown: individual psychological collapse in varying degrees of seriousness & collective implosion as limited resources run out…”. Essential reading👇

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The daily CO2 number from Mauna Loa exceeded 430 ppm yesterday. This is the first reading above 430 ever recorded. CO2 levels have not been this high since the Pliocene epoch, 3 to 5 million years ago.

Humanity is responsible for the existence of some of the most abysmally ugly and depressing, hostile, toxic and dangerous environments on Earth, most of them created on lands that were once part of the richest, most habitable and biologically diverse zones of this planet.

Apropos of my post 🧵 two or three days ago on biodiversity loss and ecological overshoot through hyperconsumption, population growth and mindsets of the affluent, etc. Thanks @tsakraklides.bsky.social and reposters. The world doesn’t have to be this way. We can change it. Pass it on.

NEW: The Trump admin has informed NOAA that two buildings that are critical for weather forecasting will have their leases canceled. If this comes to pass, it's a really big deal. Includes weather fcst nerve center in College Park, Md.: www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

Join us on Thursday morning at 10am GMT for our online Fireside Chat with author and social philosopher Roman Krznaric. We'll explore how we can use lessons from the past to shape a cleaner, greener, fairer world. We have the solutions. Reserve your space here bit.ly/3D6KCOP

I ran Britain’s army. I know what it needs. Don’t cut aid to fund defence | Richard Dannatt

This is criminal, murderous, activity that should see those responsible jailed and the key thrown away Instead, those trying to warn us about the #climate cataclysm that is almost upon us are the ones locked up No-one can justify this monstrous idiocy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Light pollution is throwing nature off balance on a wider scale: bats alter their flight patterns, dung beetles struggle to navigate, crickets chirp less and plants are affected as their natural growth cycles shift.” #protectNature #RestoreNature www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Recommended read: A @theguardian.com interactive mapped the record heat experienced by two-thirds of the Earth’s surface in 2024.