The struggle against the climate crisis can feel overwhelming in its vastness and complexity. It’s not just about the burning of fossil fuels. It’s about corporations wanting short term gain and governments that let them prosper. #XRGlobal Newsletter #98 bit.ly/xrnews98 #ExtinctionRebellion #XR

'If you look at a body like Natural England it is staffed by environmental purists who don’t necessarily share the govt's growth agenda' So says new *Environment* Secretary Instead, we could tax the rich and invest in our green economy, creating prosperity and joy www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

🏃 Where can kids play outdoors in the city? 🏙️ 🛝 Space for play is being ‘designed-out’ of urban childhoods ⛹️ 📢 Read our new research paper! bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/space-for-pl... #ChildHealth #PhysicalActivity #OutdoorPlay @ucl.ac.uk @arc-yharc.bsky.social @citiesxhealth.bsky.social

3. Refusing to introduce Proportional Representation. Under our First Past The Post system, a party with a minority of the vote can achieve a huge majority (as Starmer did with 34%). There is no way Farage could become Prime Minister under a PR system. Only under FPTP.

Join us for our next online event on Thursday, where we discuss the problems with over-tourism: www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh... Can we continue to travel without harming communities and the planet? 🗓️ 11th September 📍 Online (Zoom) ⏱️ 7pm

Expanding airports should not be a priority. More people want to see investment in rail. Help us tell the government not to expand airports! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... We have until 24th Sept to reach 10k sigs. Pls sign and share!

Netanyahu and his extremist coalition need the hostages in Gaza in order to occupy it and survive another day in power. We have to end this madness!

We've reached 8,000 on the petition to stop airport expansion – thanks everyone! Just 2,000 signatures remaining (by 24/09) in order for this to be sent government. Please help by signing and sharing. Thank you! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Listen to Mohammed talk about what it means to be silenced and oppressed by your own government while trying to live “normally” amid a genocidal war.

The rise and rise of extreme day tripping sees Tui offering day trips to Lapland. www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-... “Day trips to Lapland feel in especially bad taste as flight emissions will directly contribute to damaging the place you are going to see.”

Our next event is all about tourism. Can we minimise the harm while also seeing the benefits? Tune in next Thursday and find out: 🗓️ 11th September 📍 Online (Zoom) ⏱️ 7pm Register now: www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...

Listen to Sh’s story from Gaza, told through Amal: Children in Gaza, like 17-year-old Sh, have not been able to return to school. This year nearly 660,000 students will once again miss the start of the school year, their classrooms turned into rubble and daily struggles to survive. (1/2)

Who would have guessed? Well, all of us who abandoned the cesspit that is now X. Morality as well as pragmatism. Yet I'm still wondering why the UK government remains there (not the only thing about it that makes me wonder) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Micheal Sfard reaches the parts that many commentators and pundits are unable to. Israelis are part of a Crime Family. It's their job to fight against it from within. The approach of @standing-together.bsky.social vindicated, please support them if you are outside Isreal.

Cheap flights do not democratise travel. They just enable rich people to fly more.

We have to understand structural adjustment, with its forced privatisation and dismantling of public provisioning systems across the South, as mass-scale dispossession and a transfer of wealth from the world’s working classes directly into the hands of international capital.

RIGHT NOW: We’re blocking roads and protesting in another massive day of disruption across Israel! We’re here, Jews and Palestinians, demanding an end to the catastrophe in Gaza. No routine with famine and occupation – and with hostages dying in captivity!

Florida banned The Diary of Anne Frank. Whoever signed off on that should have to eat every page of that book — one by one — and choke on the lesson they’re trying to erase. 📚🔥 #BannedBooks #AnneFrank

Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”

I think about this quote a lot...

The horrors our government is creating in Gaza cannot continue! We refuse this reality of death and destruction — there is another way, one that is in the interest of everyone, Israelis and Palestinians. Stop the bloodshed now!

This is why we need to stand up for our public health system. We need to stop it going down this slippery slope that ends in a health system like the US #nzpol

"I imagined I might regret giving up on my childhood dream. The more I understand the crisis that we are facing, my only regret is not doing it sooner."

We cannot let this government continue to lead us toward more death and destruction. We need an urgent ceasefire to end the bloodshed, to end the destruction and annihilation of Gaza, and to finally bring the hostages back.

🚨BREAKING🚨 Yvette Cooper becomes first Minister to publicly acknowledge Israel’s crimes against humanity In this article, Cooper said the proscription did not prevent protests “against the catastrophic humanitarian situation and crimes against humanity in Gaza”. Full: www.ft.com/content/42eb...

"The Israeli government has transformed a just war into a pointless war."Huge crowds gather in Israel calling for hostage deal and end to Gaza war www.bbc.com/news/article...

Europe’s car ownership remains among the world’s highest. Even with EVs rising, traffic, pollution and emissions persist. The region needs fewer cars, not just cleaner ones—through better urban planning and transit. Read the Regional Overviews of the #TransportGSR4 👉 gsr4.slocat.net

There are 85 gas-fired power facilities in development globally to supply data centres & AI The developers may talk green, about small nuclear reactors& renewables, but it's show What's actually getting developed for AI is a huge surge of fossil fuel power stations www.ft.com/content/0f61...

Grateful to Lauren for recognising the value of gender-balanced leadership and the need for strong, dependable leaders. 🌱
🗳 Vote Ellie & Adrian by 30th Aug
 #TogetherWeWin

Flights emit on average seven times more CO2 than high-speed rail by distance travelled, representing a big potential carbon saving. @flightfreeuk.bsky.social www.seat61.com

Corbyn digs in over Rayner's decision to sell 8 allotment sites — warns Labour is turning its back on community green spaces. 🌱 #Corbyn #Rayner #Allotments #Labour #GreenSpaces #VoxPolitical voxpoliticalonline.com?p=99714

Netanyahu’s horrific plan to occupy Gaza, a recipe for more Palestinian deaths, Israeli hostages and bloodshed. It's to keep himself out of jail & satisfy his messianic coalition. Our job, @standing-together.bsky.social, in powerful opposition to our extremist government, is to resist this plan.

Now at the Gaza border: Hundreds of Jews and Palestinians calling to stop the annihilation, let aid in, and end this madness!!!

Who says you can't travel far and cheaply without flying? "Our mission was to travel from Prague train station and arrive home in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, by the end of the day." Spoiler: they made it – all for £168 return, which is not far off a flight!

"Billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime" policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/ca...

"The journey is how we grow, how we learn. In focusing purely on the destination we miss out on a huge chunk of life..."

Skibbereens Caol Stream - right as savaged by OPW, left just above OPW scheme. I’m sure the flood works are functional but my god absolutely no attention to the public realm. Shocking poor by the OPW and planners!!!

No Crap Children's Parties. A grassroots movement. • Resist the gifting status quo at parties. • No, to give plastic-filled party bags. All end up in landfill • Kids don’t notice or care if something’s secondhand • What kids really want is time with their loved ones Positive News bit.ly/4m143tR

Increasing Heathrow airport capacity from 84m to 150m per year is absolute madness. www.bbc.com/news/article... Sign the petition to stop airport expansion: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Victory or co-existance, what are the options, where is the leverage, who is in control? haaretz.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Entire families wiped out in Gaza, hospitals bombed, journalists killed. That’s not defence, that’s an assault on human rights and international law. And has the potential to normalise the same, over and over again, across the globe. youtu.be/_Gizx_282Ic

More than 100 people die of hunger in Gaza, including 80 children, say Palestinian officials news.sky.com/story/more-t...

Another reason not to expand airports: @granthamicl.bsky.social warns that SAF won't be the game-changer the aviation industry wants it to be. "Heathrow at its current capacity uses around half of all the fuel burned at UK airports and generates around half the UK’s aviation emissions."

Every donation made to our fundraiser (up to £250) is matched by the Aviva Community Fund, meaning your donations have twice the impact. Donate today and help us inspire MORE climate action: www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/flight-fre...

Could we see public health practitioners pick this up please: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Americans still don’t fully comprehend how imminent, dangerous, and far-reaching the threat of climate change is — and journalists are partly to blame.

Wild swimmer here. We don’t want sewage dumping in our rivers “halved by 2030”, we want it to be zero, now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...