Jodie Bettis
@jodiebettis.bsky.social
ESRC Grand Union Scholar @ #OpenUniversity researching UK ecocide law | #RiverMoleRiverWatch volunteer | UKRoN & CLG network member | Born 329.77ppm 🌱
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Jodie Bettis
@jodiebettis.bsky.social
· Nov 16
👋 Hi 🦋 I’m Jodie. I’m doing a #PhD in Geography & Enviro Studies at The #OpenUniversity.
🧑🎓 I research #ecocide law & barriers to protecting ecosystems in post-Brexit environmental law.
👩🔬 I’m also a citizen scientist with #RiverMoleRiverWatch. We do monthly monitoring across the Mole catchment.
🧑🎓 I research #ecocide law & barriers to protecting ecosystems in post-Brexit environmental law.
👩🔬 I’m also a citizen scientist with #RiverMoleRiverWatch. We do monthly monitoring across the Mole catchment.
☠️ ‘Calhoun county’s history reads like a case study in corporate impunity. For decades, the oil and gas industry has promised jobs but delivered health risks, poisoned groundwater and dead fisheries.‘ 🛢️
#ecocidelaw #USA
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#ecocidelaw #USA
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How a Texas shrimper stalled Exxon’s $10bn plastics plant | Shilpi Chhotray
Diane Wilson recognized Exxon’s playbook – and showed how local people can take on even the most entrenched industries
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
☠️ ‘Calhoun county’s history reads like a case study in corporate impunity. For decades, the oil and gas industry has promised jobs but delivered health risks, poisoned groundwater and dead fisheries.‘ 🛢️
#ecocidelaw #USA
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#ecocidelaw #USA
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all #COP30 delegations except Brazil, report says
- One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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IBES is hiring! We seek a Visiting Asst Professor for the 2026-27 & 2027-28 academic years with the possibility of renewal. Scholars with expertise in energy, sustainable design, the built environment, and/or environmental justice are particularly encouraged to apply. apply.interfolio.com/176395
November 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
IBES is hiring! We seek a Visiting Asst Professor for the 2026-27 & 2027-28 academic years with the possibility of renewal. Scholars with expertise in energy, sustainable design, the built environment, and/or environmental justice are particularly encouraged to apply. apply.interfolio.com/176395
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⚠️ A new report by @royalsociety.org reveals chemical mixtures in UK waters harm aquatic ecosystems even when individual pollutants meet regulations.
It highlights the urgent need to implement precautionary regulation for chemical mixtures in aquatic environments 🧪
royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
It highlights the urgent need to implement precautionary regulation for chemical mixtures in aquatic environments 🧪
royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
October 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
⚠️ A new report by @royalsociety.org reveals chemical mixtures in UK waters harm aquatic ecosystems even when individual pollutants meet regulations.
It highlights the urgent need to implement precautionary regulation for chemical mixtures in aquatic environments 🧪
royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
It highlights the urgent need to implement precautionary regulation for chemical mixtures in aquatic environments 🧪
royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
🤔 ‘One day it struck me that the world would be a very different place if environmental crimes were treated in the same way as murders. So, why aren’t they? And should they be?’
#ecocidelaw #greencrime
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
#ecocidelaw #greencrime
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Should we treat environmental crime more like murder?
Serial killers and violent criminals dominate the headlines. What if we covered ecocide and pollution in the same way?
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🤔 ‘One day it struck me that the world would be a very different place if environmental crimes were treated in the same way as murders. So, why aren’t they? And should they be?’
#ecocidelaw #greencrime
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
#ecocidelaw #greencrime
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
🤩 ‘The bill aims to enshrine the idea that there can be no lasting economic progress or social justice without respect for the natural world, and to change the legal status of nature from objects, property and resources to a legal subject with inherent rights.’
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK campaigners launch bill to give nature legal rights
Private member’s bill backed by Chris Packham and Natalie Bennett would impose a duty of care on government and business
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🤩 ‘The bill aims to enshrine the idea that there can be no lasting economic progress or social justice without respect for the natural world, and to change the legal status of nature from objects, property and resources to a legal subject with inherent rights.’
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Three people have been killed in Ecuador amid nationwide protests triggered in part by crackdowns on environmentalists, according to civil society and human rights groups.
The Death Toll Is Rising from Ecuador’s Crackdown on Protesters - Inside Climate News
The unrest has been triggered, in part, by the targeting of environmental leaders whose work protects large swaths of the Amazon rainforest.
insideclimatenews.org
October 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Three people have been killed in Ecuador amid nationwide protests triggered in part by crackdowns on environmentalists, according to civil society and human rights groups.
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🚨 Despite Thames Water’s recent upgrade at Merstham STW, our latest tests show contaminants >2× the legal limit and Bad water quality status in Redhill Brook. Wastewater treatment is still failing to deliver improvements needed to protect the River Mole www.rivermoleriverwatch.org.uk/post/redhill...
Redhill Brook: Where Groundwater Meets Wastewater — and Promised Thames Water Upgrades Fail to Deliver a Cleaner River
A catchment-scale investigation revealing how treated wastewater still drives pollution in the Mole’s largest tributary — despite Thames Water’s 2025 upgrade at Merstham sewage works.Our September 202...
www.rivermoleriverwatch.org.uk
October 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🚨 Despite Thames Water’s recent upgrade at Merstham STW, our latest tests show contaminants >2× the legal limit and Bad water quality status in Redhill Brook. Wastewater treatment is still failing to deliver improvements needed to protect the River Mole www.rivermoleriverwatch.org.uk/post/redhill...
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💧 Our #rivers are polluted, overheated, & stripped of their natural features
We’re calling on the government to make #SpaceForWater and support a network of nature-rich river corridors across England
✍️ Sign the petition to help restore our rivers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
We’re calling on the government to make #SpaceForWater and support a network of nature-rich river corridors across England
✍️ Sign the petition to help restore our rivers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
September 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
💧 Our #rivers are polluted, overheated, & stripped of their natural features
We’re calling on the government to make #SpaceForWater and support a network of nature-rich river corridors across England
✍️ Sign the petition to help restore our rivers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
We’re calling on the government to make #SpaceForWater and support a network of nature-rich river corridors across England
✍️ Sign the petition to help restore our rivers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
😔 ‘Since Brexit, the EU has brought forward 28 new, revised or upgraded pieces of environmental legislation that the UK has not adopted, and the UK has actively chosen to regress legislation on protected habitats, pesticides and fisheries.’
#environmentallaw
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#environmentallaw
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK falling behind EU on environmental rules amid post-Brexit rollback
Exclusive: Labour ministers choosing to weaken green protections inherited from the bloc, analysis reveals
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
😔 ‘Since Brexit, the EU has brought forward 28 new, revised or upgraded pieces of environmental legislation that the UK has not adopted, and the UK has actively chosen to regress legislation on protected habitats, pesticides and fisheries.’
#environmentallaw
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#environmentallaw
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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If you live in #StAlbans #Amersham #Uxbridge or other parts of #Herts #Bucks & #London you may think the impact of #HeathrowExpansion is remote. But building a runway over 5 rivers will harm the connection for fish & otters between the #Thames & #Chilterns
www.colnevalleypark.org.uk/catastrophic...
www.colnevalleypark.org.uk/catastrophic...
Catastrophic impact of a THIRD runway at Heathrow - Colne Valley Regional Park
A THIRD runway at Heathrow will have a catastrophic impact on the Colne Valley Regional Park. It will devastate local communities and sever ecological connectivity between the Thames and the Chilterns...
www.colnevalleypark.org.uk
August 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
If you live in #StAlbans #Amersham #Uxbridge or other parts of #Herts #Bucks & #London you may think the impact of #HeathrowExpansion is remote. But building a runway over 5 rivers will harm the connection for fish & otters between the #Thames & #Chilterns
www.colnevalleypark.org.uk/catastrophic...
www.colnevalleypark.org.uk/catastrophic...
😮 ‘A burst in August 2019 released “significant amounts of water” which flooded a nuclear weapons processing area, became contaminated with low levels of radioactive tritium and drained into Loch Long.’
Is there long-term, widespread, irreversible damage to the Loch ecosystem?
#ecocide #Scotland
Is there long-term, widespread, irreversible damage to the Loch ecosystem?
#ecocide #Scotland
🔴 NEW: Loch Long on the Clyde has been contaminated by radioactive waste from the UK’s nuclear bomb store where old water pipes have repeatedly burst and caused floods, files released after a six-year secrecy battle reveal.
Our investigation: theferret.scot/radio...
Our investigation: theferret.scot/radio...
August 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I just listened to this podcast on Hell with author Timothy Morton. What a rollercoaster 🎢 🤯💚🌎😈🪽🪲📖🤓
newbooksnetwork.com/hell
newbooksnetwork.com/hell
Timothy Morton, "Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology" (Columbia UP, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I just listened to this podcast on Hell with author Timothy Morton. What a rollercoaster 🎢 🤯💚🌎😈🪽🪲📖🤓
newbooksnetwork.com/hell
newbooksnetwork.com/hell
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“A crime against the common good.”
Scotland’s #Ecocide Bill aims to protect people, wildlife, and ecosystems from severe harm. Dive into the details and implications in this must read post by @jodiebettis.bsky.social: buff.ly/Lyyxf9A
Scotland’s #Ecocide Bill aims to protect people, wildlife, and ecosystems from severe harm. Dive into the details and implications in this must read post by @jodiebettis.bsky.social: buff.ly/Lyyxf9A
June 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
“A crime against the common good.”
Scotland’s #Ecocide Bill aims to protect people, wildlife, and ecosystems from severe harm. Dive into the details and implications in this must read post by @jodiebettis.bsky.social: buff.ly/Lyyxf9A
Scotland’s #Ecocide Bill aims to protect people, wildlife, and ecosystems from severe harm. Dive into the details and implications in this must read post by @jodiebettis.bsky.social: buff.ly/Lyyxf9A
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Scotland could soon make history as the first UK nation to criminalise #ecocide aka severe, reckless harm to nature.
In our latest blog, @jodiebettis.bsky.social a Grand Union Scholar at the #OpenUniversity discusses how this bold legal move could set a global precedent:
In our latest blog, @jodiebettis.bsky.social a Grand Union Scholar at the #OpenUniversity discusses how this bold legal move could set a global precedent:
Will Scotland become the first UK nation to criminalise ecocide?
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June 30, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Scotland could soon make history as the first UK nation to criminalise #ecocide aka severe, reckless harm to nature.
In our latest blog, @jodiebettis.bsky.social a Grand Union Scholar at the #OpenUniversity discusses how this bold legal move could set a global precedent:
In our latest blog, @jodiebettis.bsky.social a Grand Union Scholar at the #OpenUniversity discusses how this bold legal move could set a global precedent:
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With strong public support and international backing, Scotland’s proposed ecocide law could hold polluters criminally accountable.
Find out what’s at stake and what happens next in our latest blog by @jodiebettis.bsky.social: buff.ly/Lyyxf9A
Find out what’s at stake and what happens next in our latest blog by @jodiebettis.bsky.social: buff.ly/Lyyxf9A
June 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
With strong public support and international backing, Scotland’s proposed ecocide law could hold polluters criminally accountable.
Find out what’s at stake and what happens next in our latest blog by @jodiebettis.bsky.social: buff.ly/Lyyxf9A
Find out what’s at stake and what happens next in our latest blog by @jodiebettis.bsky.social: buff.ly/Lyyxf9A
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Are you eligible?
We have a range of scholarships that sit at the heart of the OU’s mission; to make higher education accessible to all, championing equity and inclusion: www.open.ac.uk/courses/fees...
We have a range of scholarships that sit at the heart of the OU’s mission; to make higher education accessible to all, championing equity and inclusion: www.open.ac.uk/courses/fees...
April 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Are you eligible?
We have a range of scholarships that sit at the heart of the OU’s mission; to make higher education accessible to all, championing equity and inclusion: www.open.ac.uk/courses/fees...
We have a range of scholarships that sit at the heart of the OU’s mission; to make higher education accessible to all, championing equity and inclusion: www.open.ac.uk/courses/fees...
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Want to work with @greenparty.org.uk team in #HouseofLords, in a role split with party office? This social media/digital content role could be for you!
Please share with anyone likely to get interested!
greenparty.org.uk/get-involved...
Please share with anyone likely to get interested!
greenparty.org.uk/get-involved...
Social Media and Digital Content Officer - Green Party
The social media and digital content officer is a new position with the Green Party, designed to help take our social media content to the next level. This is a unique role as it spans the national te...
greenparty.org.uk
June 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Want to work with @greenparty.org.uk team in #HouseofLords, in a role split with party office? This social media/digital content role could be for you!
Please share with anyone likely to get interested!
greenparty.org.uk/get-involved...
Please share with anyone likely to get interested!
greenparty.org.uk/get-involved...
😡 Criminal.
‘The demands…would render the Environment Agency (EA) largely powerless to take enforcement action against Britain’s biggest water company for some of the most serious criminal breaches of its licences and permits.’
#environmentalcrime
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘The demands…would render the Environment Agency (EA) largely powerless to take enforcement action against Britain’s biggest water company for some of the most serious criminal breaches of its licences and permits.’
#environmentalcrime
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Bidders demand Thames Water granted immunity over environmental crimes
Exclusive: ‘Ransom note’ requests would leave Environment Agency unable to prosecute company or management
www.theguardian.com
June 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
😡 Criminal.
‘The demands…would render the Environment Agency (EA) largely powerless to take enforcement action against Britain’s biggest water company for some of the most serious criminal breaches of its licences and permits.’
#environmentalcrime
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘The demands…would render the Environment Agency (EA) largely powerless to take enforcement action against Britain’s biggest water company for some of the most serious criminal breaches of its licences and permits.’
#environmentalcrime
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Rebuilding Nature launched today and aims to create a UK Strategic Nature Network by 2030. The group includes National Highways, Network Rail and more.
Its key focus is re-connecting fragmented landscapes to allow the free movement of plants & wildlife and provide resilience against climate change.
Its key focus is re-connecting fragmented landscapes to allow the free movement of plants & wildlife and provide resilience against climate change.
Strategic Nature Network
Rebuilding Nature has the vision to create a Strategic Nature Network by restoring dynamic ecosystems that protect society, delivering 30|30|30
rebuildingnature.com
June 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Rebuilding Nature launched today and aims to create a UK Strategic Nature Network by 2030. The group includes National Highways, Network Rail and more.
Its key focus is re-connecting fragmented landscapes to allow the free movement of plants & wildlife and provide resilience against climate change.
Its key focus is re-connecting fragmented landscapes to allow the free movement of plants & wildlife and provide resilience against climate change.
💦 ’The entire water sector in England is now controlled by companies with over 1,135 criminal convictions… In 2024, companies dumped raw sewage into rivers, seas and lakes for 3.62 million hours.’ 😮
#water #sewagescandal #environmentalcrime
leftfootforward.org/2025/06/nati...
#water #sewagescandal #environmentalcrime
leftfootforward.org/2025/06/nati...
Nationalisation is the only way to fix the crisis in the water industry
Despite the damning evidence the government is clinging on to private ownership of water, which has fleeced customers for 36 years.
leftfootforward.org
June 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
💦 ’The entire water sector in England is now controlled by companies with over 1,135 criminal convictions… In 2024, companies dumped raw sewage into rivers, seas and lakes for 3.62 million hours.’ 😮
#water #sewagescandal #environmentalcrime
leftfootforward.org/2025/06/nati...
#water #sewagescandal #environmentalcrime
leftfootforward.org/2025/06/nati...
💷 ‘…the SFI has supported +37,000 farms to deliver healthier soils, cleaner water and more habitat for wildlife. [H]edgerows are being actively maintained, providing essential habitats for wildlife, improving carbon storage, and strengthening water management.’ 💥
www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-...
www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-...
NFU seeks clarity from Defra over reports of budget cuts
The NFU has warned that any cuts to the budget for ELMs will mean the government is effectively giving up on its own environmental targets, following media reports of what may be announced as part of ...
www.nfuonline.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
💷 ‘…the SFI has supported +37,000 farms to deliver healthier soils, cleaner water and more habitat for wildlife. [H]edgerows are being actively maintained, providing essential habitats for wildlife, improving carbon storage, and strengthening water management.’ 💥
www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-...
www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-...
✍️ Doctors’ Association UK has written an open letter to the Government calling for a ban on bottom trawling in marine protected areas to safeguard environmental and human health. 🌊
#ecocideintheUK #marine #nature #environment #health
dauk.org/bottom-trawl...
#ecocideintheUK #marine #nature #environment #health
dauk.org/bottom-trawl...
Ban bottom trawling to protect health and the environment | DAUK
DAUK is calling for a ban on bottom trawling in marine protected areas to safeguard environmental and human health
dauk.org
June 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
✍️ Doctors’ Association UK has written an open letter to the Government calling for a ban on bottom trawling in marine protected areas to safeguard environmental and human health. 🌊
#ecocideintheUK #marine #nature #environment #health
dauk.org/bottom-trawl...
#ecocideintheUK #marine #nature #environment #health
dauk.org/bottom-trawl...
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Studied at the #OpenUniversity? Work(ed) with/for them? Interested in their ethos and what they do? You can follow them here:
@openuniversity.bsky.social
@openuniversity.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Studied at the #OpenUniversity? Work(ed) with/for them? Interested in their ethos and what they do? You can follow them here:
@openuniversity.bsky.social
@openuniversity.bsky.social
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This is big - Scotland could make Ecocide a crime. It won’t be alone if it does - there’s a global push to make this happen. And why not, we have crimes against humanity - why not crimes against nature and the environment. Laws are how we stop bad stuff happening.
buff.ly/Cl3o2lp.
buff.ly/Cl3o2lp.
May 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This is big - Scotland could make Ecocide a crime. It won’t be alone if it does - there’s a global push to make this happen. And why not, we have crimes against humanity - why not crimes against nature and the environment. Laws are how we stop bad stuff happening.
buff.ly/Cl3o2lp.
buff.ly/Cl3o2lp.