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Damien Gayle

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Guardian environment correspondent

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Judith Casselberry @jscasselberry.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
@taoleighgoffe.bsky.social Dark Laboratory is here! www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...
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Dark Laboratory: groundbreaking book argues climate crisis was sparked by colonisation
Tao Leigh Goffe argues climate breakdown is the mutant offspring of European scientific racism and colonialism
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Nina 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/...
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‘A new phase’: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest
Tougher laws said to be inspiring clandestine attacks on the ‘property and machinery’ of the fossil fuel economy
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GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Really 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/...
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Sixteen jailed UK climate activists to appeal against ‘unduly harsh’ sentences
Protesters will gather outside court of appeal in support of activists, who say judges defied decades of precedent
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Damien Gayle @damiengayle.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Apparently 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
A picture of a strip mine that may or may not be in China
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Damien Gayle @damiengayle.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Climate change is a class war www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World’s richest use up their fair share of 2025 carbon budget in 10 days
Emissions caused by wealthiest 1% so far this year would take someone from poorest 50% three years to create
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Damien Gayle @damiengayle.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Every passing day just gets more dystopian, doesn’t it?
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Joan Meiners, PhD @joanmeiners.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Hi. 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.
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Damien Gayle @damiengayle.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
More 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...
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Six big US banks quit net zero alliance before Trump inauguration
Exodus from net zero target-setting group is bid to head off ‘anti-woke’ attacks from rightwing US politicians, say analysts
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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
So 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
Graph showing changes in bus usage since deregulation

Thx to Hetan Shah
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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...
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More than a million vapes a day in UK thrown away, says research
From June 2025 it will be illegal to sell single-use vapes to combat environmental damage
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Damien Gayle @damiengayle.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Extreme 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...
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Mayotte cyclone: health services in ruins as rescuers race to reach survivors
Medical supplies airlifted to French Indian Ocean territory after Cyclone Chido leaves hundreds feared dead
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/12/2024
Hello 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...
Day after nuclear power vow, Meta announces largest-ever datacenter powered by fossil fuels
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Louisiana facility's three natural gas turbine plants to churn out 2,262 MW
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Richland Parish, an idyllic rural area in northeast Louisiana, USA, is set to host a gigantic new Meta datacenter.

But instead of being powered by one of the on-site nuclear power plants Zuckercorp has previously advocated for, the facility is opting to drive its AI computing workload by burning more fossil fuels. 

The 4 million square foot, $10 billion facility, hailed by Louisiana governor Jeff Landry as "a game changer," is one of the largest private capital investments in the history of the bayou state and will be Meta's largest-ever datacenter, the Facebook parent said.

As the governor's announcement noted, construction on the facility will "continue through 2030" despite groundbreaking planned for this month - in other words, right in line with Meta's plans to ramp up nuclear power for its next generation of AI datacenters as shared in a request for proposals (RFP) yesterday.

Meta has decided to jump the atomic gun with this project by partnering with Entergy instead. The power generation company plans to construct three combined-cycle combustion turbine (CCCT) plants with a total energy generation capacity of 2,262 megawatts. 

CCCT plants burn natural gas, but are configured (and marketed) as less pollutive than traditional natural gas power plants. Along with burning natural gas to spin a gas turbine, combined cycle plants use waste heat to spin a secondary steam turbine, thus creating more watts for their carbon buck. They're still burning natural gas to do so, of course, thus releasing more of the greenhouse gases - an issue Meta has pledged to address (with the purchase of offsets, naturally) by the end of the decade.
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Western Hills Garden @westernhillsgarden.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We 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/...
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‘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
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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Beans 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
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David 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.social
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Private equity firms ploughing billions into fossil fuels, analysis reveals
US public sector workers’ retirement savings invested in projects that pump out a billion tonnes of emissions a year
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Damien Gayle @damiengayle.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
New report exposes Western governments' hypocrisy in their approach to climate protests www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rich countries silencing climate protest while preaching about rights elsewhere, says study
Report says governments in global north increasingly using draconian measures while criticising similar tactics in global south
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Damien Gayle @damiengayle.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Israeli 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...
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Countries fueling Israel’s Gaza war may be complicit in war crimes, experts warn
Exclusive: research tracks dozens of oil and fuel shipments that could have aided Israel’s war on Gaza
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Damien Gayle @damiengayle.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Hello world
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