@onlyoneearth.bsky.social
Teacher (Geog & Env Sci), climate fearful, covid cautious (♿️ long covid since 2022), vegan, love Pratchett, Tolkien, Marvel, Star Wars, wildlife and nature (he/him)
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🤦Note this report 16 Nov 2022
'COVID-19 and Occupational Impacts'
🤷 #SARSCoV2 Transmission Pathways
💯'Main route is airborne transmission through inhalation of aerosols (v. fine particles suspended in air) which can be transmitted indoors over distances of several metres.'
www.gov.uk/government/p...
'COVID-19 and Occupational Impacts'
🤷 #SARSCoV2 Transmission Pathways
💯'Main route is airborne transmission through inhalation of aerosols (v. fine particles suspended in air) which can be transmitted indoors over distances of several metres.'
www.gov.uk/government/p...
November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🤦Note this report 16 Nov 2022
'COVID-19 and Occupational Impacts'
🤷 #SARSCoV2 Transmission Pathways
💯'Main route is airborne transmission through inhalation of aerosols (v. fine particles suspended in air) which can be transmitted indoors over distances of several metres.'
www.gov.uk/government/p...
'COVID-19 and Occupational Impacts'
🤷 #SARSCoV2 Transmission Pathways
💯'Main route is airborne transmission through inhalation of aerosols (v. fine particles suspended in air) which can be transmitted indoors over distances of several metres.'
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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We are devastated to confirm that bio-bead pollution has reached Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. We're working to assess the damage to the precious saltmarsh habitat and plan the clean-up.
Full statement here: https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/bio-bead-pollution-at-rye-harbour-nature-reserve
Full statement here: https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/bio-bead-pollution-at-rye-harbour-nature-reserve
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
We are devastated to confirm that bio-bead pollution has reached Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. We're working to assess the damage to the precious saltmarsh habitat and plan the clean-up.
Full statement here: https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/bio-bead-pollution-at-rye-harbour-nature-reserve
Full statement here: https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/bio-bead-pollution-at-rye-harbour-nature-reserve
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I've asked the UK government what it plans to do to tackle this
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I've asked the UK government what it plans to do to tackle this
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
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#FactoryFarming - indefensible on land or at sea
#AnimalWelfare #AMR #FoodWaste
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#AnimalWelfare #AMR #FoodWaste
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tesco suspends fish farm after claims lice-infested salmon left in pen
Bakkafrost Scotland says a "very small" number of fish were in a site that had been declared fallow.
www.bbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
#FactoryFarming - indefensible on land or at sea
#AnimalWelfare #AMR #FoodWaste
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#AnimalWelfare #AMR #FoodWaste
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The PCR positivity map is out, and national positivity across England has nudged downwards a little further to 5%. In Scotland it's 4.05%.
Adjusted for non-reporting areas, we make the English average 6.50%.
jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...
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Adjusted for non-reporting areas, we make the English average 6.50%.
jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The PCR positivity map is out, and national positivity across England has nudged downwards a little further to 5%. In Scotland it's 4.05%.
Adjusted for non-reporting areas, we make the English average 6.50%.
jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...
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Adjusted for non-reporting areas, we make the English average 6.50%.
jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...
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Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
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Amendment 40 to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill has been voted down.
Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.
Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.
Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.
Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Amendment 40 to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill has been voted down.
Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.
Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.
Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections.
Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.
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This will kill the heat pump market.
And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment.
And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment.
And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Hundreds of thousands to lose heat pump subsidies in Reeves’s budget plan
Exclusive: chancellor plans to fund energy efficiency levies via warm homes plan as part of drive to lower energy bills
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This will kill the heat pump market.
And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment.
And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And that means cuts in investment in the whole system: tech, skills, supply chain, business investment.
And the subsidy is not a *benefit*, it's designed to equalise the choice between gas and electric.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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'The Royal College of Nursing, @rcn.org.uk, and British Medical Association, @bma.org.uk, have criticised the UK government for failing to recognise #LongCovid and severe COVID-19 complications as occupational diseases for health and social care workers.' 👏💯
www.nursinginpractice.com/clinical/res...
www.nursinginpractice.com/clinical/res...
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
'The Royal College of Nursing, @rcn.org.uk, and British Medical Association, @bma.org.uk, have criticised the UK government for failing to recognise #LongCovid and severe COVID-19 complications as occupational diseases for health and social care workers.' 👏💯
www.nursinginpractice.com/clinical/res...
www.nursinginpractice.com/clinical/res...
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🇬🇧🇺🇸 The UK and US are failing to manage 'flu risks.
🇯🇵 Japan has declared a 'flu epidemic.
People asked to:
😷Mask when appropriate
🧼Wash hands
👨👩👧👧Avoid crowded places
🏫Some schools have even closed temporarily
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🇯🇵 Japan has declared a 'flu epidemic.
People asked to:
😷Mask when appropriate
🧼Wash hands
👨👩👧👧Avoid crowded places
🏫Some schools have even closed temporarily
1/
November 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🇬🇧🇺🇸 The UK and US are failing to manage 'flu risks.
🇯🇵 Japan has declared a 'flu epidemic.
People asked to:
😷Mask when appropriate
🧼Wash hands
👨👩👧👧Avoid crowded places
🏫Some schools have even closed temporarily
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🇯🇵 Japan has declared a 'flu epidemic.
People asked to:
😷Mask when appropriate
🧼Wash hands
👨👩👧👧Avoid crowded places
🏫Some schools have even closed temporarily
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The world's on track for absolute climate catastrophe. I'm horrified by people's inertia, still heating their homes, driving their cars and flying around with fossil fuels as if there were no tomorrow. BLOODY WAKE UP FOLKS! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The world's on track for absolute climate catastrophe. I'm horrified by people's inertia, still heating their homes, driving their cars and flying around with fossil fuels as if there were no tomorrow. BLOODY WAKE UP FOLKS! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Local areas can lead the way on protecting nature, making lives better and securing a safe future for all of us - but they need government to stop starving them of funds.
@carladenyer.bsky.social led the way with her Climate Emergency declaration. Now time for the Government to step up.
@carladenyer.bsky.social led the way with her Climate Emergency declaration. Now time for the Government to step up.
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Local areas can lead the way on protecting nature, making lives better and securing a safe future for all of us - but they need government to stop starving them of funds.
@carladenyer.bsky.social led the way with her Climate Emergency declaration. Now time for the Government to step up.
@carladenyer.bsky.social led the way with her Climate Emergency declaration. Now time for the Government to step up.
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Thanks to our amazing volunteer @helenld.bsky.social for speaking up about just how awful #LongCovid *still* is for so many of us.
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Thanks to our amazing volunteer @helenld.bsky.social for speaking up about just how awful #LongCovid *still* is for so many of us.
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Animals are not here for our use, our appetite, or our convenience. They are fellow travelers in a shared world, capable of joy, fear, connection, and trust. George Bernard Shaw’s simple statement cuts through every excuse we invent to justify harm. Friendship asks for respect, not domination.
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Animals are not here for our use, our appetite, or our convenience. They are fellow travelers in a shared world, capable of joy, fear, connection, and trust. George Bernard Shaw’s simple statement cuts through every excuse we invent to justify harm. Friendship asks for respect, not domination.
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We often hear 'the #pandemic' in the past tense, but #covid infections are causing massive harm to health and economies. Reduce risk through #ventilation, #filtration and wearing an ffp2 or #ffp3 respirator mask. These actions reduce the likelihood of all airborne infections.
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We often hear 'the #pandemic' in the past tense, but #covid infections are causing massive harm to health and economies. Reduce risk through #ventilation, #filtration and wearing an ffp2 or #ffp3 respirator mask. These actions reduce the likelihood of all airborne infections.
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Still struggling to understand why after 5 years and a covid inquiry patients are still dying due to lack of masks in hospitals. Also we need the correct guidance for ffp3 respirators. When will Labour do something? www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/health/...
NHS Midlands issues face mask update as Covid and flu continue to spread in UK
Health professionals are urging Brits to wear face masks if asked when visiting a healthcare institution
www.birminghammail.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Still struggling to understand why after 5 years and a covid inquiry patients are still dying due to lack of masks in hospitals. Also we need the correct guidance for ffp3 respirators. When will Labour do something? www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/health/...
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Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.
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This person was infected with COVID twice and recovered. A 3rd infection brought manageable long COVID symptoms, but they were still able to work. After a 4th infection a few months ago, they haven’t recovered at all — showing how repeated infections can cause severe, lasting damage.
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
This person was infected with COVID twice and recovered. A 3rd infection brought manageable long COVID symptoms, but they were still able to work. After a 4th infection a few months ago, they haven’t recovered at all — showing how repeated infections can cause severe, lasting damage.
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The Government must give us more time in Parliament to progress #EllasLaw and make breathing clean air a human right.
Today I joined cross-party MPs, the brilliant
@ellarobertafdn.bsky.social, and clean air activists all calling for stronger action on deadly air pollution.
Today I joined cross-party MPs, the brilliant
@ellarobertafdn.bsky.social, and clean air activists all calling for stronger action on deadly air pollution.
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Government must give us more time in Parliament to progress #EllasLaw and make breathing clean air a human right.
Today I joined cross-party MPs, the brilliant
@ellarobertafdn.bsky.social, and clean air activists all calling for stronger action on deadly air pollution.
Today I joined cross-party MPs, the brilliant
@ellarobertafdn.bsky.social, and clean air activists all calling for stronger action on deadly air pollution.
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Cleaner air. Healthier classrooms.
Stories like this show what your support makes possible.
🎶 Join us for Winter Reflections on Sat 29 Nov, 19:00 – a concert supporting clean indoor air.
🎟️ go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/GnmdoFh
#MusicThatCleansTheAir #CleanAir
Stories like this show what your support makes possible.
🎶 Join us for Winter Reflections on Sat 29 Nov, 19:00 – a concert supporting clean indoor air.
🎟️ go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/GnmdoFh
#MusicThatCleansTheAir #CleanAir
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Cleaner air. Healthier classrooms.
Stories like this show what your support makes possible.
🎶 Join us for Winter Reflections on Sat 29 Nov, 19:00 – a concert supporting clean indoor air.
🎟️ go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/GnmdoFh
#MusicThatCleansTheAir #CleanAir
Stories like this show what your support makes possible.
🎶 Join us for Winter Reflections on Sat 29 Nov, 19:00 – a concert supporting clean indoor air.
🎟️ go.corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk/GnmdoFh
#MusicThatCleansTheAir #CleanAir
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France: "Wearing a mask is once again mandatory in Paris hospitals"
"Faced with a rapid rise in respiratory infections, several hospitals in the Île-de-France region have decided to reinstate mandatory mask-wearing for healthcare workers, visitors, and patients over the age of 6."
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"Faced with a rapid rise in respiratory infections, several hospitals in the Île-de-France region have decided to reinstate mandatory mask-wearing for healthcare workers, visitors, and patients over the age of 6."
archive.li/ZeKtJ
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
France: "Wearing a mask is once again mandatory in Paris hospitals"
"Faced with a rapid rise in respiratory infections, several hospitals in the Île-de-France region have decided to reinstate mandatory mask-wearing for healthcare workers, visitors, and patients over the age of 6."
archive.li/ZeKtJ
"Faced with a rapid rise in respiratory infections, several hospitals in the Île-de-France region have decided to reinstate mandatory mask-wearing for healthcare workers, visitors, and patients over the age of 6."
archive.li/ZeKtJ
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Latest ONS data show 124 deaths in England involving COVID-19 in w/ending 31 Oct 2025.
Averaging 142 deaths each week in past 4 weeks.
Significant increase compared with Aug when weekly deaths averaged 52 each week.
The virus is still here.
Need to protect the vulnerable, and improve vaccine access.
Averaging 142 deaths each week in past 4 weeks.
Significant increase compared with Aug when weekly deaths averaged 52 each week.
The virus is still here.
Need to protect the vulnerable, and improve vaccine access.
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Latest ONS data show 124 deaths in England involving COVID-19 in w/ending 31 Oct 2025.
Averaging 142 deaths each week in past 4 weeks.
Significant increase compared with Aug when weekly deaths averaged 52 each week.
The virus is still here.
Need to protect the vulnerable, and improve vaccine access.
Averaging 142 deaths each week in past 4 weeks.
Significant increase compared with Aug when weekly deaths averaged 52 each week.
The virus is still here.
Need to protect the vulnerable, and improve vaccine access.
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A good example of someone using "economically inactive" to mean "available for work but choosing not to" and forgetting it covers students, early retirees, carers, severely disabled people, parents with very young children etc...
What on earth is this nonsense from a Blue Labour MP?
What, you want a policy targeting zero illness, no full time caring responsibilities, no skills mismatches or career breaks and you think we should heavily crack down on migration until we get there?
Just not serious policy/politics.
What, you want a policy targeting zero illness, no full time caring responsibilities, no skills mismatches or career breaks and you think we should heavily crack down on migration until we get there?
Just not serious policy/politics.
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A good example of someone using "economically inactive" to mean "available for work but choosing not to" and forgetting it covers students, early retirees, carers, severely disabled people, parents with very young children etc...