Martin John Callanan
@greyisgood.bsky.social
an artist researching an individual's place within systems
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Deliberately murdering everything & everyone for over 70 years.
‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show
Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Deliberately murdering everything & everyone for over 70 years.
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“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”
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NEW: Here's your weekend read from me. I wrote about the enduring utility of typewriters!
Some people use them for fun but, as I found out, there are a surprising number of businesses around the US where typewriters are still the tool of choice for certain tasks.
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
Some people use them for fun but, as I found out, there are a surprising number of businesses around the US where typewriters are still the tool of choice for certain tasks.
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
'We use them every day': In some parts of the US, the clack of typewriter keys can still be heard
Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
NEW: Here's your weekend read from me. I wrote about the enduring utility of typewriters!
Some people use them for fun but, as I found out, there are a surprising number of businesses around the US where typewriters are still the tool of choice for certain tasks.
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
Some people use them for fun but, as I found out, there are a surprising number of businesses around the US where typewriters are still the tool of choice for certain tasks.
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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I don't often ask people to write to their MPs. But I think they might listen to you on this, as it's so jaw-droppingly awful, and they're almost certainly unaware of it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please also write to the Environment Secretary: steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk Thanks.
Please also write to the Environment Secretary: steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk Thanks.
What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care | George Monbiot
Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at risk, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I don't often ask people to write to their MPs. But I think they might listen to you on this, as it's so jaw-droppingly awful, and they're almost certainly unaware of it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please also write to the Environment Secretary: steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk Thanks.
Please also write to the Environment Secretary: steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk Thanks.
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2 billion people
anyone who tells you "we can just adapt" is a liar and evil
anyone who tells you "we can just adapt" is a liar and evil
Melting glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world, UN warns, as current rate of retreat is “unprecedented”
#climatecrisis
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climatecrisis
Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Glacier meltdown risks food and water supply of 2 billion people, says UN
Unesco report highlights ‘unprecedented’ glacier loss driven by climate crisis, threatening ecosystems, agriculture and water sources
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
2 billion people
anyone who tells you "we can just adapt" is a liar and evil
anyone who tells you "we can just adapt" is a liar and evil
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And here’s a great piece on the dark energy 🧪 work by @hannahdevlin.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
@desisurvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
@desisurvey.bsky.social
Dark energy: mysterious cosmic force appears to be weakening, say scientists
Findings could open up possibility the universe will end in a reverse big bang or ‘big crunch’, say cosmologists
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:29 AM
And here’s a great piece on the dark energy 🧪 work by @hannahdevlin.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
@desisurvey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
@desisurvey.bsky.social
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"More than half the jurors selected to hear the case had ties to the fossil fuel industry & most had negative views of groups that oppose the use of fossil fuels."
The sheer wickedness of Energy Transfer's legal officers will resound through the decades.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The sheer wickedness of Energy Transfer's legal officers will resound through the decades.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury
Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"More than half the jurors selected to hear the case had ties to the fossil fuel industry & most had negative views of groups that oppose the use of fossil fuels."
The sheer wickedness of Energy Transfer's legal officers will resound through the decades.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The sheer wickedness of Energy Transfer's legal officers will resound through the decades.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Important read.
"We have the solutions – but what stops us is the disinformation campaigns and lobby power of the fossil fuel industry."
"We have the solutions – but what stops us is the disinformation campaigns and lobby power of the fossil fuel industry."
![“Global warming continues unabated, exactly as predicted correctly since the 1980s, [and] millions of people are increasingly suffering the consequences,” said Prof Stefan Rahmstorf, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate in Germany. “We can only stop the warming trend by getting out of fossil fuels fast.”
“We have the solutions – but what stops us is the disinformation campaigns and lobby power of the fossil fuel industry,” Rahmstorf added. “Ignoring reality, denying the laws of physics and silencing scientists can only lead to harm, and ordinary people will pay the price for that.”
Dr Davide Faranda, from ClimaMeter, said: “Every fraction of a degree matters. The choices we make today will determine the severity of climate impacts in the years to come.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cruygconkjsehk4w5j7fllun/bafkreid7euwdulolclmbjeawhmax7flx4zuff6f2k765bjtjzyguxrl52i@jpeg)
March 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Important read.
"We have the solutions – but what stops us is the disinformation campaigns and lobby power of the fossil fuel industry."
"We have the solutions – but what stops us is the disinformation campaigns and lobby power of the fossil fuel industry."
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Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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yeah and this stuff is in our bodies and brains too
"It’s almost a death sentence for these chicks"
- in some shearwater chicks, plastic made up 5-10% of their body weight
- chicks exposed to microplastics showed similar patterns of damage to brain as seen in Alzheimer's, & harm to liver, kidney & stomach
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- in some shearwater chicks, plastic made up 5-10% of their body weight
- chicks exposed to microplastics showed similar patterns of damage to brain as seen in Alzheimer's, & harm to liver, kidney & stomach
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study shows
Blood tests on migratory chicks fed plastics by their parents show neurodegeneration, as well as cell rupture and stomach lining decay
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
yeah and this stuff is in our bodies and brains too
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Why didn't I know that this exists?!
Daveed Diggs’ sci-fi rap trio Clipping: ‘We are at war all the time. It’s one of the great tricks of capitalism’
Daveed Diggs’ sci-fi rap trio Clipping: ‘We are at war all the time. It’s one of the great tricks of capitalism’
Diggs’ harrowing music is a world away from his Hollywood films and a Tony-winning run in Hamilton. But his band’s world-building – setting resource wars in imagined cyberpunk clubs – is no less dramatic
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Why didn't I know that this exists?!
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This is a cool story about the Swiss furnace working around the clock to resize gold bars in the rush sparked by Trump
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- on.ft.com/3FvQYZ2
March 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
This is a cool story about the Swiss furnace working around the clock to resize gold bars in the rush sparked by Trump
- on.ft.com/3FvQYZ2
- on.ft.com/3FvQYZ2
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AMAZON RAINFOREST CUT DOWN TO BUILD HIGHWAY FOR COP SUMMIT
You really couldn't make it up
This says everything about this ineffectual travelling circus
If you didn't laugh, you'd cry
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You really couldn't make it up
This says everything about this ineffectual travelling circus
If you didn't laugh, you'd cry
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
AMAZON RAINFOREST CUT DOWN TO BUILD HIGHWAY FOR COP SUMMIT
You really couldn't make it up
This says everything about this ineffectual travelling circus
If you didn't laugh, you'd cry
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
You really couldn't make it up
This says everything about this ineffectual travelling circus
If you didn't laugh, you'd cry
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Well done, River Action and Leigh Day!
The landmark judgment should also now mean that proper environmental controls are put in place across the country to oversee the production and handling of manure from animals on farms.
The landmark judgment should also now mean that proper environmental controls are put in place across the country to oversee the production and handling of manure from animals on farms.
Landmark UK ruling classes chicken shit as actual waste, rather than merely an 'agricultural byproduct', as it was previously.
Hopefully, this will make it harder to get away with killing entire river ecosystems with industrial levels of effluent.
www.agriland.ie/farming-news...
Hopefully, this will make it harder to get away with killing entire river ecosystems with industrial levels of effluent.
www.agriland.ie/farming-news...
Landmark UK ruling classes chicken manure as 'waste'
The UK High Court has overturned the previous classification of chicken manure as an agricultural by-product in a landmark ruling.
www.agriland.ie
March 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Well done, River Action and Leigh Day!
The landmark judgment should also now mean that proper environmental controls are put in place across the country to oversee the production and handling of manure from animals on farms.
The landmark judgment should also now mean that proper environmental controls are put in place across the country to oversee the production and handling of manure from animals on farms.
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Peak rail fares are unfair and put people off using public transport.
In 2023 the Scottish Greens removed them, only for the SNP to restore them as soon as we were out of the room.
Join me in telling the SNP that it's time to scrap peak rail fares for good. 👇
greens.scot/endpeakfares
In 2023 the Scottish Greens removed them, only for the SNP to restore them as soon as we were out of the room.
Join me in telling the SNP that it's time to scrap peak rail fares for good. 👇
greens.scot/endpeakfares
March 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Peak rail fares are unfair and put people off using public transport.
In 2023 the Scottish Greens removed them, only for the SNP to restore them as soon as we were out of the room.
Join me in telling the SNP that it's time to scrap peak rail fares for good. 👇
greens.scot/endpeakfares
In 2023 the Scottish Greens removed them, only for the SNP to restore them as soon as we were out of the room.
Join me in telling the SNP that it's time to scrap peak rail fares for good. 👇
greens.scot/endpeakfares
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I wrote this on the treatment of the Roma people there: www.spiegel.de/internationa...
The Right Wing and the Roma: EU Presidency a Test for Tolerance in Hungary
Hungary will assume the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union in January and the government is pledging to forge a policy for addressing the Roma in all of Europe. But the country has it...
www.spiegel.de
March 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I wrote this on the treatment of the Roma people there: www.spiegel.de/internationa...
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Could it be that the destruction of the habitable planet is not just an accidental outcome of Trump's policies, but is in fact the policy?
My column this week asks another question that most people, I think, would rather not face.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column this week asks another question that most people, I think, would rather not face.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why | George Monbiot
He is surrounded by people who have plans and dreams beyond our planet. Vengeful nihilism is a big part of the Maga project, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Could it be that the destruction of the habitable planet is not just an accidental outcome of Trump's policies, but is in fact the policy?
My column this week asks another question that most people, I think, would rather not face.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column this week asks another question that most people, I think, would rather not face.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This is a first, AFAIK. Eco-holiday firm @bywaytravel has created a map-based booking page where you can create your own holiday or short break by train to whatever cities on whatever dates. Give it a go! www.byway.travel/map/?utm_sou...
March 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
This is a first, AFAIK. Eco-holiday firm @bywaytravel has created a map-based booking page where you can create your own holiday or short break by train to whatever cities on whatever dates. Give it a go! www.byway.travel/map/?utm_sou...
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Mystery donor’s £17.5m gift could turn Scottish estate into rewilding showcase
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Mystery donor’s £17.5m gift could turn Scottish estate into rewilding showcase
Scottish Wildlife Trust plans to create rainforest, restore peatland and end deer stalking on Highland sporting estate
www.theguardian.com
March 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Mystery donor’s £17.5m gift could turn Scottish estate into rewilding showcase
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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All of the stuff made by humans by 1950 was a small fraction of the mass of all the living matter on Earth. But today it outweighs all plants, animals and microbes and is set to triple by 2040. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones
Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientists
www.theguardian.com
March 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
All of the stuff made by humans by 1950 was a small fraction of the mass of all the living matter on Earth. But today it outweighs all plants, animals and microbes and is set to triple by 2040. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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It is absolutely crazy that we suddenly find ourselves in a world where this is a serious question. And yet here are.
March 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
It is absolutely crazy that we suddenly find ourselves in a world where this is a serious question. And yet here are.
I'm a life long pacifist, and just sent Ukraine money for bombs and guns. We have to do this without USA.
The best way to show our support right now to Ukraine and President Zelensky following that disgusting display of bullshit male posturing in the White House earlier is to donate directly to Ukraine.
I just donated here: u24.gov.ua
I just donated here: u24.gov.ua
UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine
UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...
u24.gov.ua
March 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I'm a life long pacifist, and just sent Ukraine money for bombs and guns. We have to do this without USA.
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Zelenskyy knows what it is to fight for something bigger than yourself. Trump does not.
March 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Zelenskyy knows what it is to fight for something bigger than yourself. Trump does not.
Zelenskyy was called to the White House to sign, but not speak.
A humiliation at the White House and what does it tell us? Trump would make a colony of my country | Andrey Kurkov
A cold reality hit us in Washington. Zelenskyy was being forced to buy hope of survival by people who have no care for our freedom, says Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov
www.theguardian.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Zelenskyy was called to the White House to sign, but not speak.