Steve Dawe
LightNews LightNews
stevedawe.bsky.social
Steve Dawe
@stevedawe.bsky.social
730 followers 1.7K following 2.6K posts
Transport, Envt, Climate, life long Green Party and Buddhist. Writer at WEST ENGLAND BYLINES. Retd interdisciplinary social sci lecturer incl teaching Abt Climate/Envt/Devt Studies/Euro Studies. Married, parent, grandparent. Passionate Abt folk music.
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Steve Dawe
j-fodi.bsky.social
Sadly, protected areas are not always protected adequately.

#amazonrainforest #amazonia #amazon 🌍

news.mongabay.com/2025/12/sate...
Satellite data show forest loss persists in Brazilian Amazon’s most deforested reserve
Brazil’s Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area encompasses an area of Amazon Rainforest more than half the size of Belgium. Or at least it used to. The embattled reserve has lost around half ...
news.mongabay.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
friendlyevalley.bsky.social
Before our Friends group took over management of the Lye Valley, the City Council (as landowner) used horses to drag mechanically cut reed offsite. Now, most of the reed is cut by hand, and moved by volunteers! Date of photos uncertain but we think late 1990s early 2000s.
#OxfordshireFens #SSSI
🌍🌰
At the right and in the foreground a black and white horse is harnessed to a low orange trailer. There are three men working round the trailer, one of them wearing an orange helmet. There's a large white bag being pulled into position. The floor is covered with cut reed, and there's a tree in the background. A side view of an all brown horse pulling an orange trailer loaded with large white builders' bags with a man on top of them holding the reins. There is uncut dead reed bottom right and in the background. Another photo of the horse from the first photo pulling a loaded orange trailer up a slight incline. There is uncut dead reed and some trees in the background.
January 6, 2026 at 3:29 PM
stevedawe.bsky.social
Terrific series. That little detail of making clear that humans born in lower gravity locations would struggle to even visit Earth makes a refreshing change from series, like the incarnations of Star Trek, peddling a vision of near identical gravities on inhabited planets.
jacquelyngill.bsky.social Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 20h
I’m rewatching The Expanse. One thing that I really love about this show is that it’s one of the only I’ve seen that envisions a future that depicts climate change impacts. It feels like such a glaring omission when other media just…don’t address it.
January 6, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
yellowdotstudios.bsky.social
In the 5 years after the US invasion of Iraq for oil:
-Oil and US gas prices soared
-Big Oil profits and stock prices soared
-US taxpayers spent $3 trillion for the privilege of getting gouged at the pump

Probably just a coincidence that Trump axed EV tax credits before invading Venezuela for oil!
Crude oil price chart: Following the invasion of Iraq in March, 2003 until the financial crash in 2008, the price of crude oil rose steadily from $31/barrel to an all time high of $140/barrel Average gas price chart: Following the invasion of Iraq in March, 2003 until the financial crash in 2008, the US average gas price rose steadily from $1.64/gallon to a (at the time) record $4.05/gallon ExxonMobil (XOM) Stock price chart: Following the invasion of Iraq in March, 2003 until the financial crash in 2008, XOM stock rose from $34.17 to $94.36 in May 2008. Harvard Kennedy School The True Cost of the Iraq War: $3 Trillion and Beyond 9/5/2010 Abstract "Writing in these pages in early 2008, we put the total cost to the United States of the Iraq war at $3 trillion. This price tag dwarfed previous estimates, including the Bush administration's 2003 projections of a $50 billion to $60 billion war. But today, as the United States ends combat in Iraq, it appears that our $3 trillion estimate (which accounted for both government expenses and the war's broader impact on the U.S. economy) was, if anything, too low."
January 6, 2026 at 7:09 PM
stevedawe.bsky.social
This is going to involve a more deeply integrated EU which the UK should rejoin. The Climate and ecological emergencies offer huge opportunities to create useful, rewarding work in what we might call a Green New Deal in every council area in the UK. We need a blending of sane goals from EU to local.
georgemonbiot.bsky.social George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3h
Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet.
Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.
January 6, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
jswatz.bsky.social
Another blow for truth from @naomioreskes.bsky.social and colleagues. A great story from @hirokotabuchi.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/c...
A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About the Weedkiller Roundup
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
parentsforfuture.de
Thank you, @greenparty.org.uk!

The German Greens (@gruene.de) are also speaking out — for example, @katharinadroege.bsky.social :

“The US intervention against Venezuela violates international law. What is stopping the German Chancellor from saying this clearly?”

#Venezuela #Trump #Imperialism
katharinadroege.bsky.social Katharina Dröge, MdB @katharinadroege.bsky.social · 2d
Der Einsatz der USA gegen Venezuela ist völkerrechtswidrig. Was hindert den Bundeskanzler, dies klar zu benennen?

Dass Merz sich nach langem Zögern letztendlich nur zu wenigen, relativierenden Sätzen durchringen konnte, ist ein großes Problem.

www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...
"Eine fatale Strategie, Herr Merz": Grüne kritisieren Kanzler wegen Venezuela
Dröge wirft Merz Abtauchen beim US-Angriff auf Venezuela vor. Der Kanzler will den Einsatz rechtlich bisher nicht bewerten.
www.t-online.de
January 5, 2026 at 11:42 AM
stevedawe.bsky.social
Labour have shoved their moral compasses inside the upholstery of the cars they use?
greenparty.org.uk The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d
Imperialism (noun): a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonisation, use of military force, or other means.

It's clear what Trump is doing.

Yet our Labour government refuse to defend international law and condemn the illegal actions of a rogue state.
CALL IT WHAT IT IS. IMPERIALISM Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
January 5, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
ketanjoshi.co
This is a nice @unearthednews.bsky.social piece about how oil and gas extraction in Iraq is shockingly dirty, inefficient, economically absurd ->
Big oil’s dirty secret in Iraq
Gas flaring is remarkably high in Iraq. The impact this has had on ordinary people and the planet has been obscured. Until now.
projects.unearthed.greenpeace.org
January 5, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
greenpeace.eu
The attacks on Venezuela are a flagrant breach of international and US law, and Trump’s own words make it clear that control and exploitation of their massive oil reserves is his current priority

And end to fossil fuels is vital to stop fueling wars, as well as the climate crisis
Greenpeace International calls for protection of Venezuelan people amid oil-driven US intervention - Greenpeace International
Greenpeace International is deeply concerned about the most recent illegal military action by President Donald Trump against Venezuela.
www.greenpeace.org
January 5, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
greenpeaceuk.bsky.social
GOOD NEWS: Renewable energy reached a RECORD HIGH in the UK last year, with wind power alone producing nearly 30% of our electricity.

MORE OF THIS for 2026 please! 🌍
January 5, 2026 at 12:53 PM
stevedawe.bsky.social
We have a Govt which strongly under estimates the Climate and ecological emergencies to which successive UK Govts have contributed. The public get it; Con-Lab-Reform don't.
dpcarrington.bsky.social Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d
‘A silent majority’: Politicians strongly underestimate support for green policies, study reveals

- From solar subsidies to meat taxes, minority rightwing voices appear to drown out the consensus

Research by Lisa-Maria Tanase et al
Story by me
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A silent majority’: MPs underestimate support for green policies, study reveals
Exclusive: From solar subsidies to meat taxes, minority rightwing voices appear to drown out the consensus
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:15 PM
stevedawe.bsky.social
Trump is undermining US responses to both Climate and Ecological emergencies - both appreciably created by humans and not purely 'natural disasters.' SEE: ‘The perfect storm’: Trump has left the US less prepared for natural disasters, experts say www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘The perfect storm’: Trump has left the US less prepared for natural disasters, experts say
Emergency managers say the US president has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
davidho.bsky.social
For no reason whatsoever, I’m reminding you that before the US invaded Iraq in 2003, the Bush administration said that Iraq’s oil revenue would fund everything.

www.meforum.org/middle-east-...
On March 27, 2003, for example, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said that Iraq’s oil revenues could bring between US$50 and $100 billion within two or three years following the country’s liberation. “We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon,” he said.
January 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
motherjones.com
Just a reminder: Venezuela's oil has NEVER belonged to the United States.
Trump's blockade against Venezuela is for "our oil." Experts say it isn't the US's to take.
The president referred to President Nicolás Maduro’s government as a “hostile regime."
www.motherjones.com
January 3, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
70sbachchan.bsky.social
In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
China is building 74% of all current solar and wind projects, report says
Beijing is dominating construction of renewable energy sources, according to Global Energy Monitor
www.ft.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
zacklabe.com
Last month was statistically tied for the 5th lowest #Antarctic sea ice extent on record for the month of December.

This was 1,190,000 km² below the 1981-2010 December average. Data from the @nsidc.bsky.social at nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
January 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
paashamahdavi.com
Venezuela's oil is among the dirtiest oils in the world to produce when it comes to global warming.

But revitalizing the industry will take years (it’s taken Iraq 20+). Even harder with only ‘concepts of a plan’

My thoughts for @juliaradio.bsky.social @npr.org

www.npr.org/2026/01/04/n...
Trump wants U.S. oil companies in Venezuela. Here's what to know
President Trump wants more U.S. oil companies to "go in" to Venezuela. But there are economic, historical, and climate reasons that may not be easy. Here's what you need to know about oil in Venezuela...
www.npr.org
January 4, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Trump has done everything he can to sustain demand for oil in the face of technological change. Now he can claim to be securing the supply ...
January 4, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
sdinpraxis.bsky.social
Ah, trade deals!
January 4, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
planningtransport.co.uk
This is ridiculous. How long do they imagine they can go on not speaking plainly?
saulstaniforth.bsky.social Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d
Darren Jones is asked if the US bombing Venezuela & abducting its leader was lawful

Jones says he won't give a view on the action & he goes on to say its not up to politicians to make judgements on international law. Phillips points out thats exactly what they've done on Ukraine
January 4, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
carbonbrief.org
Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say? | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Roz Pidcock, Tom Pearson @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive

Read here: buff.ly/3VM3OFN
Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say?
Carbon Brief has dug through the literature on polar bears and climate change and spoken to experts from around the world to determine what a changing climate means for polar bears.
buff.ly
January 4, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
akshatrathi.bsky.social
Oil extraction is much more capital intensive than solar farming.
markgongloff.bsky.social Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 2d
The oil never pays for the occupation
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d
Trump on the US running Venezuela: It will not cost us anything because the money coming out of the ground is substantial. We’re going to take back the oil.
January 4, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
drpauldorfman.bsky.social
‘Wind generated more than 85TWh - nearly 30% - of Great Britain's electricity last year,’
renewextraweekly.blogspot.com/2026/01/uk-w...
UK Wind energy success - at look back at the start
‘Wind generated more than 85TWh - nearly 30% - of Great Britain's electricity last year,’ so said the BBC recently . It certainly does seem...
renewextraweekly.blogspot.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Reposted by Steve Dawe
drpauldorfman.bsky.social
What if floods left your home unsellable? That’s the reality facing more and more people in Britain.
#climate
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What if floods left your home unsellable? That’s the reality facing more and more people in Britain | Kirsty Major
Christine wanted to enjoy her retirement, but then the banks of a local brook burst and turned her and her neighbours’ lives upside-down, says Guardian deputy Opinion editor Kirsty Major
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:03 AM