Environmental social scientist | Climate-terrified | Recovering academic | Formerly & honorarily @CAST_Centre @TyndallCentre @cardiffuni
Bristol, England
Joined November 2015
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Facing the climate and nature emergency can mean sadness, loss and a disturbing sense of unreality.
Something I wrote a while back with my children in mind for @letterstoearth_ read here by Benedict Cumberbatch @letterslive
NB other emotions - defiance, hope - are also available.
'I want to tell you that I am sorry, and that I tried'
To mark #EarthDay today, we've got something special for you. Here's Benedict Cumberbatch reading a powerful letter of apology from a father to his children: youtube.com/watch?v=yJvczRkQ…
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FREE IBRAHIM! Today, Ibrahim and three other activists were unjustly arrested while peacefully marching to Parliament to demand an end to fossil fuel subsidies. We call for their immediate release. #FreeIbrahim #ClimateJustice
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A whole new type of democracy is thriving in one of the toughest places in the world - despite a media blackout.
Women lead. Taxes have been abolished and private property redefined. Prison is being phased out.
Everyone gets a say.
But now it's hanging by a thread. 🧵
ALT four members of the YPJ all-female militia smile at each other in Rojava, Syria
Scientists On Survival: 25 personal stories of climate action (including one by me)
25% off this weekend!
"Beware - this is a dangerous book... Passionate, inspiring and essential." - Caroline Lucas
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Scientists On Survival: 25 stories of climate action
25% off this weekend!
"[P]eople who both know exactly what they're talking about and are able to eloquently express the sadness, fury and fear that comes with the climate emergency" - Zadie Smith
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Either the current govt are deeply cynical and misinformed on Heathrow and new oil fields, or it's a cunning plan to make everyone climate-concerned vote Green next election. Wouldn't you say @Ed_Miliband ?
So sad that idiots who talk shit get such a platform because of their $$$ and because other commentators fall over themselves to amplify them. On most subjects there are - shock horror - real experts and thoughtful people who actually deserve attention.
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🚨BREAKING
LEADING DOCTORS & SCIENTISTS HOLD A HISTORICAL SIT-IN AT FIVE FOSSIL FUEL ENABLING ‘MAGIC CIRCLE’ LAW FIRMS IN THE CITY OF LONDON
Here's a thread about what's happening and why🧵
Going to try using the other place increasingly from now on. stucap.bsky.social is where I'll be.
Laters Elno, here's hoping you have a profitable apocalypse and finally find what it was you were looking for xxx
Congratulations to (S)hell for their win in court this week against the need to cut company emissions. Just the latest in a long and proud history of making the world a better place!
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How do none of the takes about the election mention what it means for the habitability of our planet? How?
The wonderful comedian Janey Godley died last week. In 2016 she welcomed Trump to Scotland in a way many of us can relate to to this day.
There's no take on this, no spin, that changes the fact it is fucking terrible for climate, nature and so much else. We get to feel like shit and react accordingly. Then at some point we drag our weary bones back up from the ground and do whatever is left that we can do.
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Things have just got a lot more difficult . Here’s what I think . I had no control over what just happened . None . But I do have control over how I will react to it . And I am not going to give up on the beautiful and the good , the grip on my dreams just got tighter .
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There is no easy way to talk about this. This week the UN announced we are on track to reach up to 3.1° Celsius of warming. We are slated to blow past the goals of the Paris Accords. Here's what this means. (1/9) 🧵
This really puts the climate crisis and collapse of Earth's life support systems into perspective. We're even talking *queues* now people ☠️☠️☠️
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Someone messaged me with this and said it was OK to tweet. It’s similar to a friend who works v high up in a major tech company who says officially the company takes net zero very seriously but privately the bosses literally laugh at the idea they will cut emissions.
The only thing that has any chance of saving us right now, IMHO, are protests that force the media to tell the full truth with the aim of galvanising the public into demanding this is treated as the #1 priority. We need high profile people to speak out. IMHO there should be a focus on calling the Media out.
You simply can't expand airports and be serious about climate action. It's like saying you're serious about tackling drug abuse while building new cocaine distribution hubs. Saying the word 'growth' a lot doesn't change that one bit.
Bad news for the environment: David Cameron tells @r4Today that when you decide you want economic growth, everything else has to be bent to that objective. The #stansted expansion -awful for climate - looks proof that @Kier_Starmer is already following his path.