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Tom Spencer
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Writing about the Climate Emergency & Greenwashing.

Amateur Photographer.
All views are my own. He/Him
#ClimateEmergency #Climate #Greenwashing #SpeirGorm
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Budget 2026 leaves us more exposed to the ravages of climate change than ever

Spending almost four times more on subsidising fossil fuels than we do on climate change mitigation shows the utter contempt this government has for the environment
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#SpeirGorm #Budget25 #Climate
Photograph of many people silohuetted against the setting sun, which has made the sky a burnt red
October 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Value of UK arms imported by Israel ‘reached record high in June’
www.channel4.com/news/factche...
#FreePalestine #Genocide #Palestine
Graph showing that the UK shipped a record amount of arms to Israel in June 2025, at the height of the genocide in Palestine committed by Israel
September 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Exciting to be at the IMMA Earth Rising Festival 2025

The Climate Alarm Clock team is here and will be doing a live podcast recording on the Reception Stage at 2:30 today

Come join us
#ClimateEmergency #Dublin #Ireland #SpeirGorm #Climate @climatealarmclock.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social
Photograph of Professor John Barry wearing a Palestine Action t-shirt while being interviewed by the Climate Alarm Clock Podcast team at the Irish Museum of Modern Art as part of the Earth Rising Festival. They are inside a large building with tall glass windows
September 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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When Just Stop Oil carefully used monuments and art to raise awareness of inaction on the Climate Emergency, Starmer & co called them "pathetic" and "vandals" and encouraged prison sentences

Now they've done all they can to quickly destroy a work of art
#ClimateEmergency #Genocide ##ClimateCrisis
Screenshot of a newspaper article. The headline reads: "Just Stop Oil condemned by Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer after Stonehenge protest" Screenshot of a tweet by Keir Starmer dated 19th June 2024. It says: "The damage some to Stonehenge is outrageous. Just Stop Oil are pathetic. Those responsible must face the full force of the law" A photo of a Banksy graffiti on the Royal Courts in London showing a judge in robes and a wig beating a protestor, whose blood is splattered on their own placard The Banksy graffiti which has been removed from the wall leaving only a shadow
September 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Acropolis of Athens, some years ago
#Photography #Monochrome #BlackandWhite #BnW #Architecture #Greece #Athens
A black and white photograph of a large greek temple illuminated by the sun, framed by ancient brick walls in the shade
July 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Eleven minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
July 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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It's taken 25 days, but we're halfway to the @unrwa.org charity fundraiser distance target

That's more than 100km walked (hobbled/limped), which was orginally going to be my overall target, because I wasn't sure if I could do that far while re-learning to walk
www.gofundme.com/f/200km-walk...
#Gaza
July 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Thanks to some incredibly generous donours, we're up to €250 raised for @unrwa.org

If you're concerned about the ongoing genocide in Palestine, please consider donating:
www.gofundme.com/f/200km-walk...
#Palestine #Gaza
July 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Which do you prefer, the original or the black and white version?
July 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Irish winter sunset, 2022

#Photography #Monochrome #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #BlackandWhite #BnW #Ireland #Travel #Photo #SpeirGorm #Sunset
July 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Granada catherdral, 2019
#Photography #Monochrome #BlackandWhite #BnW #Travel
July 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Alhambra, Spain, 2018
#Photography #LandscapePhotography #Monochrome #BnW #BlackandWhite
Photograph of Alhambra, a large fortified castle in Spain atop a cliff surrounded by trees
July 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Summer is delicate, it doesn't last long
#Photography #Monochrome #BlackandWhite #BnW
Black and white photograph of a daisy amongst tall grasses
July 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Reflections on the west coast of Ireland

#Photography #Sunset #Monochrome #BlackandWhite #BnW #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #SpeirGorm
A black and white photograph of a wide sandy beach at low tide. The sand is wet and is reflecting a moody, cloudy sky overhead at sunset.
July 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Inis Tuaisceart, known as the Sleeping Giant or The Dead Man

Taken in 2019
#Photography #BlackandWhite #BnW #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Monochrome #SpeirGorm
Photograph of Inis Tuaisceart, known as the Sleeping Giant or The Dead Man, becuase the island has the appearance of a person lying on their back in the sea
July 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Sadly not, just the bay around Tralee, but here's a shot of Inis Tuaisceart from a good few years back. I need to go back down
Photograph of Inis Tuaisceart, known as the Sleeping Giant or The Dead Man, becuase the island has the appearance of a person lying on their back in the sea
July 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Hottest day of the year and this evening the neighbour pulls up with a tractor trailer full of freshly cut turf

So many Irish people still living like its the 1800s, ignoring the reality of the Climate Emergency
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #SpeirGorm
A historic photograph of two people sat in front of a large mount of turf cut for burning in their fireplaces. This practice continues despite turf bogs being a vital carbon sink and important ecological area
July 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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An Irish summer in Kerry
#Photography #BnW #Monochrome #BlackandWhite #Ireland #SpeirGorm #LandscapePhotography
July 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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An Irish summer
#Photography #Monochrome #BnW #BlackandWhite #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #SpeirGorm
A shoreline in Ireland with fields leading down to craggy beaches. On the horizon is a large storm cell dumping a vast amount of water. A threatening shower of rain condensed in one spot
July 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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A combination of vested interests promoting misinformation/disinformation, and poor education around the Climate Emergency has left many not knowing what tipping points and runaway climate breakdown are... or how close to it we are

If the permafrost goes, we're utterly fucked
June 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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200km walk for UNRWA

Please consider donating to my charity walk for UNRWA. I know 200km doesn't sound like a lot, but I'm re-learning to walk after a ruptured achilles and an operation

I want to use my rehab to help those suffering in Gaza

Donate here:
www.gofundme.com/f/200km-walk...
The logo for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). It is a bright blue with a map of the world seen from the North Pole and surrounded by laurel weaths. Below it says "unrwa" which is repeated in arabic
June 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Zero media coverage of Show Your Stripes Day in the Irish press yesterday

Constant silence from the Irish media when it comes to the Climate Emergency, but tonnes of platforming misinformation & greenwashing
#ShowYourStripes #ClimateEmergency #Greenwashing
June 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Not sure about anyone else but I find days like Show Your Stripes Day incredibly hard

They should be a day for unity, but instead they reinforce the delay, denial and silence about the issue

Maybe it's just my climate anxiety talking...
#ShowYourStripes #ClimateEmergency
A drawing of the Titanic ship approaching an iceberg while already sinking. It is floating on a sea made of climate stripes, which show the increase in average temperature over time, from cool on the left (the past), to intensely red on the right (the present). There are three speech bubbles emanating from the ship. The first says "Are your ankles getting damp?" The second says: "Nothings wrong. This is an unsinkable ship". While the third says "There's no such thing as an 'Iceberg Emergency'. It is intended to show the pain of climate denial and delay
June 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Staple foods and luxury goods like coffee and chocolate are under threat from the Climate Emergency, but it isn't being talked about nearly enough

This BBC article waits until the 10th paragraph to talk about the impact of climate change and doesn't even name it

The Climate Crisis is a Food Crisis
June 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis
May 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM