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Humanity is an existential threat to itself. Fossil fuels are ‘gift from god’ powerful.
This. Digital ID.
THIS is the real reason they want everything to go cashless and make every purchase tied to your Digital ID👇🏻
⚠️WARNING⚠️
'Dynamic pricing' on your weekly shop is being installed in UK supermarkets, following a US model.
Customers can buy the same product in the same shop and be charged different prices.
Find out more in my latest Substack, and please subscribe💚
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December 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Updating and organising sane thoughts and actual facts here.
1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12
December 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Last chance to register for our webinar on the Earth Rover Program, starting at 14.00 GMT. Intro by the brilliant Kate Raworth, then explanations of the concept and the science by some of our scientists and technicians. Register to obtain link. Hope to see you there
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, which explores how a new scientific concept, ‘soilsmology’, is shaking up our und...
We are delighted to invite you to the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, ‘Soilsmology: Transforming our Understanding of Soil’, which explores how an eme...
us02web.zoom.us
December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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The Indian state of Rajasthan produces more solar than any other. It has rejected a 3.2 GW coal power plant, because the bids to build it were more expensive than bundling renewables with batteries.

🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
India’s Desert State Reignites Coal-Fired Power Debate
The competitive cost of batteries is making clean energy a viable alternative to coal in parts of the country.
www.bloomberg.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Three weeks til #Spring! So looking forward.
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
#RachelReeves you cannot be serious.
"UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B

OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings"

Hurrah! More pointless wasteful government spaffage. So glad that Labour turned out to be nothing like the Tories.

www.theregister.com/2025/11/28/d...
UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B
: OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings
www.theregister.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
What is wrong with people? Life is a \ready or not/ situation. A miracle. Get the fuck out of the way. The vanity in all this is embarassing.

New puberty blockers trial to begin after UK ban www.bbc.com/news/article...
New puberty blockers clinical trial to begin after UK ban
Those taking part in the study will be children under 16 who are going through puberty.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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It's impossible to be sustainable if you fly and thinking that the aviation companies have any sort of idea how to make planet safer, is like expecting a crocodile to have a conscience.

I look forward to putting these points to the government when we discuss the Aviation Fuel Bill in the Lords.
November 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
As winter flooding looms, it's worth noting that a young street tree in an asphalt surface can prevent 60% of the rain that falls on it from reaching the ground, even when not in leaf.

Increasing the low levels of urban tree cover should be a strategic national priority.
November 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Feud erupts between Trump and ally Marjorie Taylor Greene ahead of Epstein files vote

"I don't worship or serve Donald Trump," she wrote in one post. "I worship God, Jesus is my savior, and I serve my district GA14 and the American people."
November 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Your own mind is going to be everything to you going forward. Mind it as the most precious of your posessions. #AI is possibly humanity's biggest threat.
November 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Ken Clarke, "I'm a great fan of the BBC. It's a great national institution. Probably the best source of news in the world"

"I'm a total opponent of Donald Trump who I think is a danger to the world in many different ways"
November 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Ken Clarke endorses the idea of banning social media for children under 16 as Australia is doing #BBCQT

"I find it incomprehensible that anybody of any age can spend literally hours each day on a phone exchange views and insults with people they don't know"
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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buff.ly/e8P7BEE UK newspapers devoted more than triple the column inches to advertising high-carbon products like cruises, SUVs and flights than they did to covering last year's global climate negotiations , according to a study by the New Weather Institute.
UK Newspapers Publish More Ads for Polluting Products Than Climate Coverage
Space devoted to promoting flights, cruises, SUVs, and the oil industry dwarfed the column inches given to last year's U.N. climate summit, study finds.
www.desmog.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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And yet, somehow all the astounding 'intelligence' of Ai in the world put together is too STUPID to know, that its very own construction is a lethal non-starter, due to its ruinous carbon and water footprint, for the viability of Earth and all the life living on it?
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Billionaires and corporations are causing climate breakdown.

It's time to tax the rich.

www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/su...
You can't solve a crisis with the same thinking that caused it
Billionaires and corporations are driving climate breakdown. It’s time to tax their wealth and build a fairer future.
www.newstatesman.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Sounds like a mission.
Fight fake news and climate deniers, Brazil's Lula tells UN talks
The world must "defeat" climate denialism and fake news, Brazil's President Lula da Silva tells UN climate summit.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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"electrification is also the key to a dramatic improvement in energy efficiency, potentially reducing global final energy demand by 24% over the next 25 years, even as global GDP doubles"

A truly stunning point.

This is why I write about energy efficiency so much!

www.ft.com/content/7258...
Electrification is the key to energy efficiency
Productivity gains could cut final energy demand by nearly a quarter over the next 25 years, even as global GDP doubles
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
#BBC the balance to excessive numbers of Metropolitan Left wing views is not platforming #NigelFarrage until he becomes #PM
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Love Martine. #BBC
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
November 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Iran, facing its worst drought in decades, is planning intermittent cuts to water supplies to try to stave off the evacuation of Tehran.
Iran plans water cuts for Tehran amid worst drought in decades
Iranian officials on Saturday were drawing plans for periodic water supply cuts to Tehran neighbourhoods a day after President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that the Iranian capital might have to be evacua...
www.france24.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A hopeful morning #Mamdani #NYC
November 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM