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Andy Middleton

@andymiddleton.bsky.social
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Climate, biodiversity and systems connector. Helping progressive leaders to calibrate shared ambition against the scale of challenge coming their way. Live in Wales. Radical collaborator & mischief maker.

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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thanks for the share @redjont.bsky.social - most appreciated
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We are the leaders we've been waiting for.
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
@sioldridge.bsky.social
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
There's a troubling trend of governments keeping national security and intelligence reports related to the climate crisis under wraps, @rsanta.bsky.social reports for @thebulletin.org
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Deny, delay, downplay: How governments hide climate change intelligence
A recent UK national security assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem collapse made headlines, not for its dire warnings, but for its omissions. It's part of a larger trend of governments keeping cli...
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Excellent to see a direct question being asked of the Government. Based on the response, the next Q should why they think that's enough when 75% of businesses across the country have taken no account of climate in their strategic planning.
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Agree. Very much 'we've got this covered - nothing to see here'.
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Nature Can't Hear Us Article on why that matters on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pulse/nature...
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Nature Can't Hear Us
"Fewer than 1% of companies that produce annual public reports mention biodiversity". The recent IPBES report, captured here by edie, documents a shocking lack of understanding on the connection betwe...
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
My newspaper column, just out, on the ongoing suppression of the intelligence services’ security assessment… PLEASE SHARE WIDELY… archive.ph/2026.02.03-0...
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
@derek-walker.bsky.social chatgpt.com/share/6970ca...
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ChatGPT - Cost of Real Living Wage
Shared via ChatGPT
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"In this episode of Weathered Maiya May talks with civilization collapse researcher @lukekemp.bsky.social & strategic climate risk expert @laurielaybourn.bsky.social about why high-end warming scenarios are often dismissed as “doomerism,” even though worst-case planning is standard in most fields"
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This Is How the World Ends According to Science
YouTube video by PBS Terra
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of: - Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute - operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history - Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This thread responds to Prof. Christian Dunn’s Telegraph piece on #climate communication. I argue it misdiagnoses public disengagement, underplays escalating scientific risk, & reproduces a media narrative that has actively shaped, not merely reflected, public resistance to climate action 🧵
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Plastic Unfantastic Pollution from this illegitimate child of the fossil fuel industry looks like it's reducing photosynthesis by 12%. Nothing to see here. Move on. www.theguardian.com/environment/....
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Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation
Researchers say problem could increase number of people at risk of starvation by 400m in next two decades
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus Happy St.Davids day to friends and fellow citizens of this fragile world. David was born on the coast near the tiny jewel of a city that bears his name, his last words were 'do the little things you remember me by. Good advice.
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Climate Outreach @climateoutreach.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
📣 New guide! Climate Outreach, with support from @green-alliance.org.uk conducted interviews with leading experts, from policy to journalism, campaigns to research, to get their insight on the most important comms challenges & opportunities for 2025 and beyond: climateoutreach.org/reports/what... ‎
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What is the climate story in 2025? - Climate Outreach
This short report consolidates our findings from 20 interviews with diverse leading experts from policy to journalism, campaigns to research who shared their thoughts. Thank you to our partners Green ...
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EduSky Team @eduskyteam.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Welcome to #EduSky 🍎 a communuty for educators! Check out the list: tinyurl.com/EduSky Join the list: tinyurl.com/EduSkyForm Pin the feed: tinyurl.com/EduSkyFeed ⬇️
A vibrant graphic with a blue sky and white clouds as the background, featuring the bold text "WELCOME TO #EduSky" in large, white letters with a dark blue outline. Below are bullet points providing steps for participation:

Have a profile picture.
Create a bio that indicates you’re an educator.
Make a post with the #EduSky hashtag.
Join the tinyurl.com/edusky spreadsheet by filling out the linked form.
List randomizes daily!
Comment or Repost an #EduSky member!
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The Gift of Uncertainty // What are the skills, mindsets and connections we need to help young people to grow so they can build regenerative futures at a time of greater uncertainty than the world has seen for 75 years? Do share your top three here. #EduSky #climate #nature
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Exporting Extinction // Seek to understand the footprints and negative externalities of the products and services that you take for granted. Many of them are likely to have a dark side impact that's not on the label. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Apparently, it's one of the best ways to make risk lower...FFS. The level of risk loading that's happening as a consequence of current decisions is going to blow people's minds when they experience the consequences of what they're saying yes to today.
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Such a great closing gift. From the other side of the Atlantic, I deeply appreciate what you did.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
H5N1 Bird Flu Spreads Rapidly Through California Dairy Herds The USDA has confirmed that five more dairy herds in California are infected, bringing the total number to 732. As of now, 74% of the state's dairy herds have tested positive for the virus.
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Regulation isn't fit for purpose. I spent six years on the board of an environmental regulator. It's clear that even if every business adhered to every pice of legislation, nature and communities would die, just more slowly. We need regs that inescapably drive regeneration, not elimination.
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
My friend/colleague Andrew Boswell is right. Starmer is adopting the very worst HardRight trope: It’s outrageous of Starmer to say that Andrew is doing this for himself! He doesn’t do all this dangerous, exhausting, expensive work for selfish reasons!! He does it for Nature & our children’s future.
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Let's hope CAN can. Today the UK government will hear the second reading of the Climate & Nature Bill. It's landmark proposal places legal responsibility on government to act in line with science, not easy votes. Fingers crossed for nature. & future gen. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
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The Climate and Nature Bill 2024-25
The Climate and Nature Bill 2024-25 will have its second reading on 24 January 2025. This Library briefing provides an overview of the bill and background information.
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Do add @belinaraffy.bsky.social to your Climate Comedy list - epic improv comedy + courses for folk in this space.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/01/2025
You can say, “gravity isn’t real,” but if you step off the cliff, you’re still going down. And if you convince other people it’s not real, you are responsible for what happens if they make decisions based on the information you withheld.
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Topical Word of the Day...
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Going the wrong way fast. Time to turn around.
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
"perhaps spending potentially trillions to get somewhere that looks like Earth’s most boring disused quarry is the value proposition that Americans concerned over inflated food prices have been looking for" Marina Hyde hit nail on head in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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So this is Trump’s ‘golden age’ – chaos, dysfunction and a coalition of creeps | Marina Hyde
Confusing and capricious, he started as he means to go on. To all the leaders pledging to work with him: good luck with that, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Thanks for the re-share. If I remember rightly, participants had 32 hours of training in the system awareness / conditions that might influence their direction and thinking. Those they were trying to influence probably had none. Maybe the design process needs to change...
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
It would be a good start. If you haven't seen it, check out the impact of Wales' urban 20mph limits.
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
PFAS News - Not News // Those with eyes open have known for years that there's an insidious tide of damaging chemicals seeping into the bodies of life on earth. Companies like 3M make them, profit from them, and walk away. Change is coming. Better late than never.
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Environment | The Guardian
Latest Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Easy listen (not) for your next commute - a few angles on AGI etc that have some epic implications www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/132-...
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Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Silicon Dreams and Carbon Nightmares: The Wide Boundary Impacts of AI” | The Great Simplification
Episode 132
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
On CBC last night, I spelt out the moral case to keep on trying, however hard it might be. Defending the living planet is not an option we can abandon. Ultimately, it is all that counts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX2V...
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Author George Monbiot on countering despair amid alarming climate change trends
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.” Business in the age of Trump. Sounds liberating. www.ft.com/content/cf87...
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Is corporate America going Maga?
Donald Trump’s election has accelerated a cultural shift in the nation’s boardrooms
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Faster = better. When it comes to action on climate, and reducing negative impacts, that is.
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
One of my cousins used to grow caulis for a big west Wales producer - hundreds of thousands of them. In a bad harvest, as many as 40% would be ploughed back into the ground. Sometime, perfect vegetables that were too big to fit six to a box would be wasted, after eight doses of fertiliser etc.
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Adapt or Die // Doing less of the wrong thing isn't going to be enough as our safe ground shrinks around us. Useful provocation and call to action from @rupertread.bsky.social to make adaptation part of the conversation in every organisation, every day. www.terrainfirma.co.uk/adapt-or-die...
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Adapt or die: why decarbonisation is no longer enough to save us with Rupert Read - Terra Infirma
This post goes live as wildfires ravage Los Angeles, parts of the UK are clearing up after floods and we’re all still traumatised by the images of the deadly flash floods in Valencia. The trends look ...
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Safety always has, and always will, depends on species' ability respond to pattern change. Homo saps is bottom of the class on that. How well we manage to stick around depends on our ability to change that...
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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Earth has entered ‘a new era’ with its hottest year on record and its first calendar year 1.5C warmer than the pre-industrial period. About 1.3C of the 1.5C is due to climate change, so let's not get *too* hung-up on puzzles like clouds, shipping fuels etc! Story👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Getting warmer together: not good news // theconversation.com/many-species...
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Many species reach their heat limits at similar temperatures, leaving ecosystems at risk of sudden climate-driven collapse – new study
Plants and animals that live in the same community share the same heat tolerance – new study.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It's hard to imagine a more brutal illustration of climate injustice and a failed society than indentured teenage slaves being used to protect the homes of wealthy Americans.
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
"...it is time for #climate activists and thought-leaders to let go of fantasies of achieving decarbonisation, directly. Instead, we need to pivot hard towards climate adaptation." New in the @bylinetimes.bluesky.social 📰 bylinetimes.com/2025/01/08/z...
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2025 Is the Year Extinction Rebellion Demanded We Should Go Zero Carbon but 'Britain Has Woefully Failed'
The Government is 'absolutely not going to save us... 2025 needs to be the year we start to save ourselves'
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
This 👇
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A world without facts... With Zuckerberg and Musk running amok over truth, it feels more important than ever that locally-grounded stories, created and verified by citizens, might be the only way we make sense of this unravelled mess.
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Meta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner
Maria Ressa warns of ‘dangerous times’ for journalism and democracy after move to end factchecking in US
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
How the world is already adapting to climate change - @carbonbrief.org maps and describes the most comprehensive assessment to date of the scientific literature on climate adaptation By @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org and @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social interactive.carbonbrief.org/climate-adap...
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Interactive: How the world is already adapting to climate change
People around the world are already living with the impacts of climate change. Faced with record-breaking heatwaves, storms and floods, many have been forced to adapt to a new reality.
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Wales' Wellbeing of Future Generations Act: 10 years on. Excellent summary here on some of the key learning from the first decade of implementing the Future Gen legislation in Wales. Far more work is needed to help ctties and leaders u'stand the severity of disruption headed their way.
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A decade on, six things the world can learn from Wales’ innovative future generations law
As the world grapples with building a sustainable future, Wales’ pioneering Well-being of Future Generations Act offers lessons for other nations.
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Andy Middleton @andymiddleton.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Pets no longer eat animal products // Imagine the benefit that could make for ecosystems we depend on, and the future generations of all species. How much would your / our thinking needed to shift for it to happen. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @donnachadhmc.bsky.social
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Lab-grown meat is the future for pet food – and that’s a huge opportunity for Britain | Lucy McCormick
While the EU and US hesitate, the UK can become world leader in this burgeoning – and cruelty-free – innovation, says Guardian editorial data analyst Lucy McCormick
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
🚨 When we fight, we win! I've put together a thread giving a quick run down of some of the #climate movement's hard won victories from 2024 to inspire us for the year ahead! 🧵 #ClimateActionNow #EndFossilFuels
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