A Quiet Resistance
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46 years, one child, and an awakening: we can't keep doing the same shit and expect to survive. So our little family's doing things differently instead. A quiet resistance.
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Small nuclear reactors. A fiction. A fantasy born of lobbying, fossil fuel intoxication, and a slavish addiction to ideas of growth.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Small nuclear reactors. A fiction. A fantasy born of lobbying, fossil fuel intoxication, and a slavish addiction to ideas of growth.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I am sick of these clinical graphical illustrations of nuclear facilities. They just don't bear any resemblance to the reality.
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I am sick of these clinical graphical illustrations of nuclear facilities. They just don't bear any resemblance to the reality.
Intriguing summary text here: should read 'Dozens storm venue at climate conference that has hosted at least 1700 lobbyists from climate destroying industries' and then the whole thing would make so much more sense.
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Intriguing summary text here: should read 'Dozens storm venue at climate conference that has hosted at least 1700 lobbyists from climate destroying industries' and then the whole thing would make so much more sense.
JFC Guardian, just fuck off. Nimbyism so easily condemned without considering the fact of the damage the sheer scale of development will cause to the environment.
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
JFC Guardian, just fuck off. Nimbyism so easily condemned without considering the fact of the damage the sheer scale of development will cause to the environment.
In awe of the perfection of scattered colours, sizes and shapes. Perfect randomisation.
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
In awe of the perfection of scattered colours, sizes and shapes. Perfect randomisation.
What good are houses if there is no air to breathe? If we can't go outside in the summer? If our flood plain cheap lego homes are washed away in the winter?
Make it make sense
Make it make sense
October 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
What good are houses if there is no air to breathe? If we can't go outside in the summer? If our flood plain cheap lego homes are washed away in the winter?
Make it make sense
Make it make sense
Why is it so hard for people in power in the UK to acknowledge that there must also be a future.
That when it is screwed up and gone, they will still be alive. Still there to watch their young relatives having to navigate a new hell
That when it is screwed up and gone, they will still be alive. Still there to watch their young relatives having to navigate a new hell
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Why is it so hard for people in power in the UK to acknowledge that there must also be a future.
That when it is screwed up and gone, they will still be alive. Still there to watch their young relatives having to navigate a new hell
That when it is screwed up and gone, they will still be alive. Still there to watch their young relatives having to navigate a new hell
Does she think that the smaller the animal, the less significant it is to humanity? Has she heard of bees? Locusts?
Why shouldn't 5mm snails be protected? They exist too.
Her contempt for environmental considerations is disheartening. Anyone or anything that stands in her way is stamped on.
Why shouldn't 5mm snails be protected? They exist too.
Her contempt for environmental considerations is disheartening. Anyone or anything that stands in her way is stamped on.
October 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Does she think that the smaller the animal, the less significant it is to humanity? Has she heard of bees? Locusts?
Why shouldn't 5mm snails be protected? They exist too.
Her contempt for environmental considerations is disheartening. Anyone or anything that stands in her way is stamped on.
Why shouldn't 5mm snails be protected? They exist too.
Her contempt for environmental considerations is disheartening. Anyone or anything that stands in her way is stamped on.
What world does Rachel Reeves think we'll be living in soon? What's her vision for the future?
Is it little box houses for every family, with tarmacked roads and paths and the odd inconvenient but *rolls eyes* necessary tree, thanks to all those environmental goodies?
Is it little box houses for every family, with tarmacked roads and paths and the odd inconvenient but *rolls eyes* necessary tree, thanks to all those environmental goodies?
October 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
What world does Rachel Reeves think we'll be living in soon? What's her vision for the future?
Is it little box houses for every family, with tarmacked roads and paths and the odd inconvenient but *rolls eyes* necessary tree, thanks to all those environmental goodies?
Is it little box houses for every family, with tarmacked roads and paths and the odd inconvenient but *rolls eyes* necessary tree, thanks to all those environmental goodies?
What he doesn't say (probably because it's not really his remit), is that the only answer to the misplaced 'pragmatism' is degrowth. The change in paradigm is almost too large for politicians to accept. Or at least for us to expect from them.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
What he doesn't say (probably because it's not really his remit), is that the only answer to the misplaced 'pragmatism' is degrowth. The change in paradigm is almost too large for politicians to accept. Or at least for us to expect from them.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Skin in the game. A negative feedback loop.
September 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Skin in the game. A negative feedback loop.
Even getting it to court, with world class environment lawyers, Leigh Day, means it will get some attention. Attention Sellafield and the EA do not want.
Please, donate what you can, and share if you are able. We're so grateful for all the help so far. 🙏
Please, donate what you can, and share if you are able. We're so grateful for all the help so far. 🙏
September 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Even getting it to court, with world class environment lawyers, Leigh Day, means it will get some attention. Attention Sellafield and the EA do not want.
Please, donate what you can, and share if you are able. We're so grateful for all the help so far. 🙏
Please, donate what you can, and share if you are able. We're so grateful for all the help so far. 🙏
Those people have no skin in the game. They do not care about nature, about otters and eels, or the precious Natterjack toads that will further be imperilled by the water abstraction.
September 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Those people have no skin in the game. They do not care about nature, about otters and eels, or the precious Natterjack toads that will further be imperilled by the water abstraction.
The Environment Agency has agreed that Sellafield can start to abstract and dump 40,000 tonnes of radioactive water into the mouth of the Calder.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The Environment Agency has agreed that Sellafield can start to abstract and dump 40,000 tonnes of radioactive water into the mouth of the Calder.
Otters in our rivers, the Calder and the Ehen, rely on tasty eels for their dinner. Without eels, we'll lose our otter population. But the mouths of both those rivers are directly at Sellafield.
September 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Otters in our rivers, the Calder and the Ehen, rely on tasty eels for their dinner. Without eels, we'll lose our otter population. But the mouths of both those rivers are directly at Sellafield.
There are so many hidden aspects of nature that we just have no idea about.
So, moving closer to home, we need your help to improve a potentially unredeemable situation.
So, moving closer to home, we need your help to improve a potentially unredeemable situation.
September 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
There are so many hidden aspects of nature that we just have no idea about.
So, moving closer to home, we need your help to improve a potentially unredeemable situation.
So, moving closer to home, we need your help to improve a potentially unredeemable situation.
We still need the little creatures that feed the predators, because we still need the predators.
Remember the wolf experiment in Yellowstone? Their existence there basically improved the waterways, through a series of knock-on effects.
Remember the wolf experiment in Yellowstone? Their existence there basically improved the waterways, through a series of knock-on effects.
September 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
We still need the little creatures that feed the predators, because we still need the predators.
Remember the wolf experiment in Yellowstone? Their existence there basically improved the waterways, through a series of knock-on effects.
Remember the wolf experiment in Yellowstone? Their existence there basically improved the waterways, through a series of knock-on effects.
We still need the living creatures that populate what's left of our wild world. We still need birds. They disperse seeds and eat vast numbers of insects, some of whom are capable of overwhelming our crops.
September 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We still need the living creatures that populate what's left of our wild world. We still need birds. They disperse seeds and eat vast numbers of insects, some of whom are capable of overwhelming our crops.
We still need clean water. We still need natural humus on the ground. Our soils are depleted, and the nitrogen isn't the only thing it needs. We still need trees, natural carbon sinks to soak up all our crap.
September 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We still need clean water. We still need natural humus on the ground. Our soils are depleted, and the nitrogen isn't the only thing it needs. We still need trees, natural carbon sinks to soak up all our crap.
But there's more. Humans think they have technologied themselves out of needing nature at all. Our food comes from massive farms that use nitrogen-rich fertiliser, created with fossil fuels. The machinery, all fossil fuelled.
September 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
But there's more. Humans think they have technologied themselves out of needing nature at all. Our food comes from massive farms that use nitrogen-rich fertiliser, created with fossil fuels. The machinery, all fossil fuelled.
But nature is still interconnected. That didn't stop, just because a nasty little man said it was okay to destroy all that is good.
Nature may not be a living entity, but the real science doesn't lie. If habitats are deleted or depleted, so are the species that rely on them.
Nature may not be a living entity, but the real science doesn't lie. If habitats are deleted or depleted, so are the species that rely on them.
September 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
But nature is still interconnected. That didn't stop, just because a nasty little man said it was okay to destroy all that is good.
Nature may not be a living entity, but the real science doesn't lie. If habitats are deleted or depleted, so are the species that rely on them.
Nature may not be a living entity, but the real science doesn't lie. If habitats are deleted or depleted, so are the species that rely on them.
Now, in the name of money and profit, ancient forests are burned and destroyed. Land and its living soil is upturned, dug out and concreted over. And water is polluted beyond recognition.
September 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Now, in the name of money and profit, ancient forests are burned and destroyed. Land and its living soil is upturned, dug out and concreted over. And water is polluted beyond recognition.
Descartes' unscientific understanding of the separation between animals and humans was hugely convenient to men with money and power. This dualism meant they could do anything they wanted to anything that wasn't human, without fear of some kind of retribution.
September 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Descartes' unscientific understanding of the separation between animals and humans was hugely convenient to men with money and power. This dualism meant they could do anything they wanted to anything that wasn't human, without fear of some kind of retribution.
Enter Descartes. A despicable human who decided that animals were separate from humans. That they didn't feel pain. When they screamed or flinched during his despicable experiments, he dismissed the reaction as 'reflexes'.
Very scientific 🙄
Very scientific 🙄
September 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Enter Descartes. A despicable human who decided that animals were separate from humans. That they didn't feel pain. When they screamed or flinched during his despicable experiments, he dismissed the reaction as 'reflexes'.
Very scientific 🙄
Very scientific 🙄
Cumbrian otters need our help! Here's why:
Nature's interconnectedness used to be thoroughly understood by humans. They understood that different animals and plants relied on each other, and that if one disappeared, others would too.
Nature's interconnectedness used to be thoroughly understood by humans. They understood that different animals and plants relied on each other, and that if one disappeared, others would too.
September 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Cumbrian otters need our help! Here's why:
Nature's interconnectedness used to be thoroughly understood by humans. They understood that different animals and plants relied on each other, and that if one disappeared, others would too.
Nature's interconnectedness used to be thoroughly understood by humans. They understood that different animals and plants relied on each other, and that if one disappeared, others would too.