A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George Monbiot Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"It’s the billions v the billionaires, and the stakes could not possibly be higher."

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Good. Relatedly - I really find it difficult that my kids have so much online homework. It's all gamified multiple-choice-against-the-clock (dopamine highs!), even for English lit, with little space for deeper thought or creativity. I am all for learning coding, digital skills, but this isn't that.

In other Ed Miliband news… the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (heat pump subsidy) is going up from £7,500 to £9,000 for homes in rural areas that rely on oil or LPG.

Given the spike in heating oil prices, and how good an option heat pumps are in rural areas, this is a good idea

HM Treasury and the economics of climate and nature - Committees - UK Parliament The Environmental Audit Committee is examining the role of HM Treasury in shaping the UK’s response to climate change, nature loss and wider environmental sustainability. The Government’s economi...

How do the UK's fiscal rules affect its approach to climate and nature? Vital call for evidence from the environmental audit ctte - open til 21 May committees.parliament.uk/work/9753/hm...

Yes is winning on 58%

Mail is running a poll on whether the UK should rejoin the EU.

Takes seconds to vote and it's going hilariously well...

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Excellent - will catch up with this!

We really need policy efforts to make sure low income households and vulnerable customers get the benefit of this, not left out because of prepayment etc

I have finally made a website for my policy and research consulting work 💫

We need radical, sustainable policy change in this country and beyond.

I work with amazing teams that aim to tackle the intersecting climate, nature and social crises. Please get in touch!

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World-first study exposes the breadth of bottom trawling's catch - Oceanographic Study reveals that bottom trawling catches more than 3,000 fish species, including critically endangered sharks, rays and seahorses.

Big and important study on the devastating impact of bottom trawling.

This abhorrent practice should be banned everywhere.

The fishing industry is out of control

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Consumers urged to ‘completely avoid’ UK-caught cod as population plunges Marine Conservation Society warns that fish numbers have reached dangerous point of decline

UK-caught cod joins mackerel, as overfishing means loss of traditional British fish

Decades of this - each generation of politicians allows quota higher than ecosystems can take

It's not supporting fishing communities by doing so, in the end it's failing them

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Weird that having a set of negotiations in which there are no proper diplomats leads to a situation in which no one has a clue what's actually been agreed.

Threatening the destruction of "a whole civilization" is just explicitly a threat of genocide. Even if it is just a bargaining tactic, even if it is just bluster, it is a threat of genocide. Everyone who has furthered, and continues to further, the aims of this regime is morally culpable.

"What are other countries supposed to do?"

I don't know, man. Maybe stop letting the U.S. use your military bases to launch strikes on Iran to start? Expel some diplomats? Cut off trade with us? Idk.

i feel like a lot of people are dissociating and not reacting to the threat of nuclear war with an appropriate level of alarm?

An Easter message from the president which should really force the VP and the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.

There is only one Earth. Protect it at all costs.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

‘A national scandal’: trawlers scour seabeds of supposedly protected UK waters ‘Precious ocean life is being pushed to the brink’ say campaigners, arguing that overfished marine areas are ‘protected only on paper’

Regardless of the issue, it's always the same story: commercial interests allowed to ride roughshod over everything and everyone else. Faced with the urgent need for action, successive governments twiddle their thumbs.
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Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

These sociopaths underestimate how important it is for humans to have meaningful interaction with other humans.

Ministers delay new rules for low-carbon housing in England Homes built from March 2028 will produce 75% less greenhouse gas emissions than those built according to existing 2013 standards

Welcome that, finally, a new UK homes standard requires solar power & heat pumps. But

- year's delay to 2028 means a further 150,000 homes will need retrofitting, at homeowners expense
- allowing wood burning stoves will mean air pollution costing many lives

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A woman in a red National Trust fleece stands in a wooded valley looking up at the light that illuminates the lush green surroundings. Overlaid text reads, Nature = Future

The message is simple: our future depends on nature.

Join the Nature = Future campaign today: buff.ly/7ipENOm

Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.

UK to cut climate aid to developing countries by 14% to £2bn a year in ‘refocus’ Move will put national security and lives overseas at risk, critics say, as overall UK aid budget is slashed to 0.3% of gross national income

Appalling and just unbelievably short-sighted. Our security here in the UK relies on action around the world to tackle the climate crisis.

Yet another example of the deep damage done by short-termist budget setting.

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We need to be honest about Iran – and how our rampant greed for oil is causing mayhem | George Monbiot Oil has empowered capitalism, and some of the world’s most exploitative regimes. Move away from it and we can solve some of the key issues we face, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Fossil fuels push the world towards autocracy. Were we less dependent on them, there might have been no President Trump, no President Putin, no ayatollahs, no Netanyahu, no perpetual Middle East wars. Democracy depends on unhooking ourselves.
This week's column.
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Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets

VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England.

I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/

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Congratulations, a vital step forward!

Appreciated this call for more focus on community and connectedness

as the antidote to highly individualised, high consumption lifestyles that are driving climate change

Fixed that headline for you:

"Nature faces intense pressure from industrialised agriculture, which takes up 70% of England"

(Built-up areas = 8.8% of England, solar = far less than 1%)

Time to create more space for nature:

www.farminguk.com/news/england...

A company being awarded UK Government contracts👇🏻