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Paul Mackay retweeted
NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026
📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month
⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices
carbonbrief.org/analysis-rec…
Paul Mackay retweeted
Imagine China occupying California, Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon and then the EU telling America: “Make a deal with the occupier or we won’t support you.”
Absurd, right? No country would accept that.
Yet this is exactly what Ukraine is being told today.
And let’s not forget: Ukraine gave up the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal under U.S. security guarantees. They trusted America.
Now Ukraine being pushed to surrender their land to the same aggressor that invaded them.
This isn’t “peacemaking.” This is betrayal.
Author: David Imedo
Paul Mackay retweeted
If we switched to #renewableenergy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall by 40% because they're just carrying coal & oil & gas!! buff.ly/dpTrSpO
We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate
#ClimateAction #climate #energy #GreenNewDeal
Paul Mackay retweeted
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” grist.org/biking/one-mile-on…
Paul Mackay retweeted
This is the Bank Of Earth.
The real economy of this planet is its forests and oceans. Its currency is water, food, oxygen, sunlight. Its stock market is the ecosystems and climate systems which regulate the allocation and use of these resources, and its stakeholders are its 10 million species”
The Bank of Earth is the only sustainable bank to ever have existed. There are no tellers, no bankers, and no cash machines, because all transactions are free. There are no bank accounts or debt, because no one owns anything. Everything is either shared or loaned, and eventually returned to the bank. No one is poor, yet no one owns “rights” to anything.
Those who withdraw funds at the expense of others are punished by the ecosystem and the physical laws of the universe.
#ecology #economics #philosophy
Paul Mackay retweeted
This is a dramatic change, and not the kind of change that people who voted for Brexit were hoping for.
Paul Mackay retweeted
If the UK leaves the ECHR, then *people in the UK* lose all the protections listed below.
(Nobody else does, because no other country is leaving!)
It would be a massive act of self-harm, and a huge victory for a government bent on repression and fear.
gov.uk/government/collection…
Paul Mackay retweeted
1/ You’ve seen the fires
You seen the floods
You’ve read the news reports
You’re scared
And now you want to do something about it
But what? And how?
A (longish) thread
Paul Mackay retweeted
We've run over 170 events since we opened in November - thanks to all our volunteers & visitors 💚 Now we need to raise some funds to keep going, so today we're launching our first #crowdfunding appeal. Please share, & support if you can 🙏🙏🙏
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/kingston…
Paul Mackay retweeted
PLEASE MAY THIS ONE BE MASSIVE (it is so far)
Tell the Prime Minister to cancel the new climate wrecking coal mine. act.gp/3B6Wqwp
Paul Mackay retweeted
On Monday evening, please join us for a hot drink and a super-useful free session on reducing energy bills while keeping your home #warm this #winter #CostOfLivingCrisis
#ClimateEmergency
kingstonhive.org.uk/event-de…
Paul Mackay retweeted
The biggest crime in the history of humanity has already been committed and so far gone unpunished when you think about it.
#ClimateEmergency
Paul Mackay retweeted
It's indefensible for the BBC to keep inviting Julia Hartley-Brewer onto #bbcqt: she's a climate-denier whose only credential is as a Murdoch mouthpiece & reliable clickbait.
They don’t invite flat-earthers on, so why climate-deniers?
The BBC should do much better.
>RT,to agree!
Paul Mackay retweeted
This is the most chaotic government in living memory, with an 80 seat majority. That tells you all you need to know about the lie that FPTP delivers strong and stable governments.
It’s time to make votes matter.
Paul Mackay retweeted
How powerful would it be if @Keir_Starmer held a press conference with @EdwardJDavey @CarolineLucas and other progressive MPs to demand a #GeneralElection2022 @CompassOffice – at Camberwell, London
Paul Mackay retweeted
How many of you know what Cruella Braverman's Public Order Bill contains?
It's frankly unbelievable: legislation you might expect in Russia, Iran or Egypt. Here's a summary from my column today:
Paul Mackay retweeted
It's long been waiting to happen - I love this visual mashup: Doughnut Economics meets Less is More @jasonhickel thx to @ExtinctionR #sufficiency
