Reposted by Damien GayleJudith Casselberry @jscasselberry.bsky.social · 01/04/2025@taoleighgoffe.bsky.social Dark Laboratory is here! www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...theguardian.comDark Laboratory: groundbreaking book argues climate crisis was sparked by colonisationTao Leigh Goffe argues climate breakdown is the mutant offspring of European scientific racism and colonialism 1177
Reposted by Damien GayleNina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 08/03/2025‘A new phase’: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest - via @damiengayle.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘A new phase’: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protestTougher laws said to be inspiring clandestine attacks on the ‘property and machinery’ of the fossil fuel economy 12514
Reposted by Damien GayleGlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Really useful article. The idea that we should be giving long sentences to climate activists is absurd! We should be encouraging many more people to become activists to pressure the gov into faster and more meaningful action. @damiengayle.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comSixteen jailed UK climate activists to appeal against ‘unduly harsh’ sentencesProtesters will gather outside court of appeal in support of activists, who say judges defied decades of precedent 073
Damien Gayle @damiengayle.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Apparently the main reason that China had a near monopoly on the extraction of rare earth metals for so long is that the process of mining and refining them is so environmentally destructive that no one else wanted to do it 2112
Damien Gayle @damiengayle.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Climate change is a class war www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comWorld’s richest use up their fair share of 2025 carbon budget in 10 daysEmissions caused by wealthiest 1% so far this year would take someone from poorest 50% three years to create 13419
Damien Gayle @damiengayle.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Every passing day just gets more dystopian, doesn’t it? 03510
Reposted by Damien GayleJoan Meiners, PhD @joanmeiners.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Hi. Journalist/ecologist here: We can’t stop wildfires that have been worsened by drying, warming climate change by JUST “cleaning up forests” without also losing the essential ecosystem services like seed dispersal and watershed filtering that allow us to survive on this planet. 2188
Damien Gayle @damiengayle.bsky.social · 08/01/2025More corporate knee bending to Donald Trump as America's six biggest banks abandon the UN's net zero group for the global banking industry ahead of the inauguration in a fortnight www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comSix big US banks quit net zero alliance before Trump inaugurationExodus from net zero target-setting group is bid to head off ‘anti-woke’ attacks from rightwing US politicians, say analysts 1124
Reposted by Damien GayleMolly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 19/12/2024So many things could be said about this graph But perhaps the most important is that if you want people to use buses you have to invest in them The climate crisis demands more money for public transport outside the cities 19278102
Damien Gayle @damiengayle.bsky.social · 16/12/2024"all types of vape contain lithium-ion batteries which are dangerous if crushed or damaged because they can cause fires" www.theguardian.com/society/2024...theguardian.comMore than a million vapes a day in UK thrown away, says researchFrom June 2025 it will be illegal to sell single-use vapes to combat environmental damage 11210
Damien Gayle @damiengayle.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Extreme weather once again strikes where people are least able to hand it. One third of the 320,000 people on Mayotte live in shantytowns www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...theguardian.comMayotte cyclone: health services in ruins as rescuers race to reach survivorsMedical supplies airlifted to French Indian Ocean territory after Cyclone Chido leaves hundreds feared dead 041
Reposted by Damien GayleKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/12/2024Hello everyone, this is all playing out exactly as we warned: nuclear gets used as a rhetorical empty future promise while big tech companies actively and knowingly increase the climate damage they're enabling today www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/m... 21499229
Reposted by Damien GayleWestern Hills Garden @westernhillsgarden.bsky.social · 26/11/2024We only grow a few edibles, like blackberries and Chinese quince and Flying Dragon orange, Citrus trifoliata, (which really isn't edible, though we've tried some things. But we loved this @theguardian.com story from @damiengayle.bsky.social on "the Legumati." www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘It’s like a secret’: why do the leguminati want to change the way we eat?Fans of legumes say a worldwide shift towards eating beans rather than meat would hugely benefit human health and the environment 0133
Reposted by Damien GayleDonnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Beans Can Help Save The World! Useful article by @damiengayle.bsky.social in Guardian re how beans insert nitrogen into soils naturally. Artificial fertiliser NO2 is 300 times more polluting than CO2! #YesWeCan 043
Reposted by Damien GayleDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2024"Private equity firms are using US public sector workers’ retirement savings to fund fossil fuel projects pumping more than a billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere every year, according to an analysis." Latest from @damiengayle.bsky.socialtheguardian.comPrivate equity firms ploughing billions into fossil fuels, analysis revealsUS public sector workers’ retirement savings invested in projects that pump out a billion tonnes of emissions a year 19671
Damien Gayle @damiengayle.bsky.social · 10/09/2024New report exposes Western governments' hypocrisy in their approach to climate protests www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comRich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says studyReport says governments in global north increasingly using draconian measures while criticising similar tactics in global south 092
Damien Gayle @damiengayle.bsky.social · 20/08/2024Israeli tanks, jets and bulldozers bombarding Gaza and razing homes in the occupied West Bank are being fueled by a growing number of countries signed up to the genocide and Geneva conventions ... www.theguardian.com/world/articl...theguardian.comCountries fueling Israel’s Gaza war may be complicit in war crimes, experts warnExclusive: research tracks dozens of oil and fuel shipments that could have aided Israel’s war on Gaza 052