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Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
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Ireland is so beautiful.
Just imagine how it would be if we actually protected and restored our nature, instead of killing it off everywhere, on land and at sea?
Just imagine how it would be if we actually protected and restored our nature, instead of killing it off everywhere, on land and at sea?
November 30, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Ireland is so beautiful.
Just imagine how it would be if we actually protected and restored our nature, instead of killing it off everywhere, on land and at sea?
Just imagine how it would be if we actually protected and restored our nature, instead of killing it off everywhere, on land and at sea?
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Australia has recognised a fundamental truth: that *everything* depends on healthy wild ecosystems.
Time for the rest of the world to follow suit, and then ACT on it.
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Time for the rest of the world to follow suit, and then ACT on it.
search.app/phsEf
Australia finally acknowledges environment underpins all else. That’s no small thing | Ken Henry
In what are dangerous times for democracies around the world, parliament’s overhaul of nature laws in the EPBC Act shows ambitious reform remains possible
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November 28, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Australia has recognised a fundamental truth: that *everything* depends on healthy wild ecosystems.
Time for the rest of the world to follow suit, and then ACT on it.
search.app/phsEf
Time for the rest of the world to follow suit, and then ACT on it.
search.app/phsEf
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This, in a nutshell, is where we’re at. All the lies, the distraction, NGO-blaming and drive towards even further deregulation is to cover the naked fact that, in Ireland, big polluters pull the strings and our politicians just nod along.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
A ‘national embarrassment’: Ireland in breach of multiple water quality rules, court finds
European Court of Justice ruling raises questions about Government’s system of water charges
www.irishtimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This, in a nutshell, is where we’re at. All the lies, the distraction, NGO-blaming and drive towards even further deregulation is to cover the naked fact that, in Ireland, big polluters pull the strings and our politicians just nod along.
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests.
Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
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Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
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‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war
Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests.
Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
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Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet.
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This is profoundly dismaying to read. (I know Greta personally; she is absolutely trustworthy, and this narrative is confirmed by many many witnesses.)
The way Israel behaves is beyond grotesque. They act as if they think they are a master-race. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
The way Israel behaves is beyond grotesque. They act as if they think they are a master-race. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
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October 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
This is profoundly dismaying to read. (I know Greta personally; she is absolutely trustworthy, and this narrative is confirmed by many many witnesses.)
The way Israel behaves is beyond grotesque. They act as if they think they are a master-race. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
The way Israel behaves is beyond grotesque. They act as if they think they are a master-race. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
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Yet again, the satirical media doing a far better job at conveying the truth than the mainstream press.
October 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Yet again, the satirical media doing a far better job at conveying the truth than the mainstream press.
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ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.
October 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.
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Imagine, a country where former presidents can be prosecuted and held to the same legal standards as citizens.
Sarkozy gets 5 years in prison in Gadhafi case
The former French president was accused of accepting illicit campaign donations from the Libyan dictator.
www.politico.eu
September 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Imagine, a country where former presidents can be prosecuted and held to the same legal standards as citizens.
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Failing to address climate change is very expensive.
Europe’s summer of extreme weather caused €43bn of short-term losses, analysis finds
Greatest damage from heat, drought and flooding done in Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Bulgaria
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Failing to address climate change is very expensive.
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A patch of wild native rainforest in Glenbeg, Beara, looks okay from across the lake. But it's dying because of sheep, with zero ground flora or regenerating trees.
The farmer should be offered double his farm payments to take the sheep out, but chances are he'd actually get nothing.
It's insane.
The farmer should be offered double his farm payments to take the sheep out, but chances are he'd actually get nothing.
It's insane.
September 19, 2025 at 6:37 AM
A patch of wild native rainforest in Glenbeg, Beara, looks okay from across the lake. But it's dying because of sheep, with zero ground flora or regenerating trees.
The farmer should be offered double his farm payments to take the sheep out, but chances are he'd actually get nothing.
It's insane.
The farmer should be offered double his farm payments to take the sheep out, but chances are he'd actually get nothing.
It's insane.
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"It is RTÉ [the Irish national broadcaster]'s position that Ireland will NOT take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if the participation of Israel goes ahead"
Bloody great. Should have happened LONG ago.
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Bloody great. Should have happened LONG ago.
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RTÉ Statement: 2026 Eurovision Song Contest – About RTÉ
RTÉ Statement: 2026 Eurovision Song Contest “At the General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in July, a number of EBU members raised concerns about the participation of Israel in the ...
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September 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"It is RTÉ [the Irish national broadcaster]'s position that Ireland will NOT take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if the participation of Israel goes ahead"
Bloody great. Should have happened LONG ago.
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Bloody great. Should have happened LONG ago.
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Just 1 day left to speak up for nature! Across Europe, our forests are thinning, our rivers are drying, and our wildlife is vanishing. Now the European Commission wants to weaken the laws that protect them. Tell them to keep their #HandsOffNature. Speak up now: environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...
September 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Just 1 day left to speak up for nature! Across Europe, our forests are thinning, our rivers are drying, and our wildlife is vanishing. Now the European Commission wants to weaken the laws that protect them. Tell them to keep their #HandsOffNature. Speak up now: environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...
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Almost 180,000 people have already stood up for the rights of nature & our collective right to a healthy environment in Europe.
Can we get to 200,000 by end of today? 🙌
Can we get to 200,000 by end of today? 🙌
Just 1 day left to speak up for nature! Across Europe, our forests are thinning, our rivers are drying, and our wildlife is vanishing. Now the European Commission wants to weaken the laws that protect them. Tell them to keep their #HandsOffNature. Speak up now: environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...
September 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Almost 180,000 people have already stood up for the rights of nature & our collective right to a healthy environment in Europe.
Can we get to 200,000 by end of today? 🙌
Can we get to 200,000 by end of today? 🙌
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Fossil fuel boosters want to keep us from sourcing the cheapest energy on the planet. Renewables are not only cleaner, they cost less! Fossil fuel fealty is insane. #EnergyTransition
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Energy users ‘could save £5bn a year’ if gas plants are removed from market
Former energy tsar suggests the ‘radical step’ as one of the few options the government has for cutting bills
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Fossil fuel boosters want to keep us from sourcing the cheapest energy on the planet. Renewables are not only cleaner, they cost less! Fossil fuel fealty is insane. #EnergyTransition
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Our rivers, the very lifeblood of the land, are being murdered.
Yet this sickening crime is just allowed to get worse and worse.
Yet this sickening crime is just allowed to get worse and worse.
One by one our waterways are being poisoned to death to maintain buoyant farm exports. The Boyne is just the latest to enter its death rattle phase.
www.independent.ie/regionals/lo...
www.independent.ie/regionals/lo...
River Boyne salmon in crisis as Inland Fisheries Ireland warns of critical decline
Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has issued stark warnings about the status of Atlantic salmon in the River Boyne, confirming that stocks have fallen to some of the lowest levels on record, with surviva...
www.independent.ie
August 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Our rivers, the very lifeblood of the land, are being murdered.
Yet this sickening crime is just allowed to get worse and worse.
Yet this sickening crime is just allowed to get worse and worse.
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The Israeli government has adopted the double-strike tactic used by Bashar al-Assad in Syria: target a hospital or heavily populated area, then hit it again when rescue workers, reporters and medics turn up, to kill or maim them too. Hideous war crimes piled one upon another.
August 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Israeli government has adopted the double-strike tactic used by Bashar al-Assad in Syria: target a hospital or heavily populated area, then hit it again when rescue workers, reporters and medics turn up, to kill or maim them too. Hideous war crimes piled one upon another.
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No Israeli ambassador, in fact no Israeli, should be able to show their face anywhere in the world without being told what their country is doing to Palestinians is deeply evil.
Watch this politician tell an Israeli ambassador straight to her lying face what virtually the whole world now feels. At least anyone with a conscience.
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
“How dare you justify a genocide on the Palestinians?”
This is the moment Belgian politician and member of the Flemish Parliament, Jos D'Haese, slammed Israel’s ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, Idit Rosenzweig-Abu, over the war on Gaza.
This is the moment Belgian politician and member of the Flemish Parliament, Jos D'Haese, slammed Israel’s ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, Idit Rosenzweig-Abu, over the war on Gaza.
August 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
No Israeli ambassador, in fact no Israeli, should be able to show their face anywhere in the world without being told what their country is doing to Palestinians is deeply evil.
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Why extremely expensive nuclear power isn’t the solution to our climate problems reason number 723514:
Swarm of jellyfish shuts French nuclear plant reut.rs/3Jc7S0y
Swarm of jellyfish shuts French nuclear plant
Four reactors at France's Gravelines nuclear power plant were shut down late Sunday due to a swarm of jellyfish in the filter drums that pull in cooling water, operator EDF said on Monday.
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August 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Why extremely expensive nuclear power isn’t the solution to our climate problems reason number 723514:
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Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)
August 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)
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The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.
US to rewrite its past national climate reports
US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.
www.france24.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:26 AM
The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.
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Canada on pace for record-shattering wildfire season www.eenews.net/articles/can... #ClimateCrisis #Drought #Heatwave #Wildfire #Saskatchewan #Manitoba #Canada
Canada on pace for record-shattering wildfire season
Blazes have released 180 million metric tons of carbon, breaking records in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and blanketing much of the U.S. in a smoky haze.
www.eenews.net
August 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Canada on pace for record-shattering wildfire season www.eenews.net/articles/can... #ClimateCrisis #Drought #Heatwave #Wildfire #Saskatchewan #Manitoba #Canada
Shame on Microsoft and the Irish government for aiding genocide.
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
One afternoon in late 2021, Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, met with the commander of Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200. On the spy chief’s agenda: moving vast amounts of top secret intelligence material into the US company’s cloud.
Meeting at Microsoft’s headquarters near Seattle, a former chicken farm turned hi-tech campus, the spymaster, Yossi Sariel, won Nadella’s support for a plan that would grant Unit 8200 access to a customised and segregated area within Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Shame on Microsoft and the Irish government for aiding genocide.