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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

In his message to the mass climate lobby Keir Starmer forgot transport (the biggest sector for emissions) and how his government has just funded 33 roads, increasing CO2 emissions by millions of tonnes How is that "unwavering commitment to climate action"? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Thousands meet their MPs to show huge demand for climate action

Mass lobby in Westminster kicked off with giant image on white cliffs of Dover stating ‘89% of people want climate action’

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

"Labour committed in its manifesto to increase rail freight to reduce congestion, improve road safety and journey reliability. Yet it now appears to be actively undermining these outcomes and transport decarbonisation." - @ecochris.bsky.social transportactionnetwork.org.uk/labour-splur...

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Labour splurges taxpayers’ cash on poor value road schemes

Transport Action Network is dismayed at today’s announcement by the UK Government to fund a raft of poor value and expensive road schemes. Most of these are legacy schemes from the Conservative govern...

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Chris Todd 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳 @ecochris.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Really important issue that is being ignored as ministers seem once again to be listening to vested interests

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

We won't be legally challenging the Lower Thames 'smart' motorway Crossing planning consent so National Highways will have no one to blame when its costs escalate as they surely will Economics are likely to thwart the construction of this white elephant transportactionnetwork.org.uk/tan-will-not...

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TAN will not legally challenge LTC planning consent

Transport Action Network will not legally challenge Lower Thames Crossing planning consent: Exposure of true costs will thwart new motorway. Transport Action Network (TAN) [1] is announcing today that...

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Policy of new UK govt on decarbonising aviation is... the same as previous govt And that tech can rapidly make aviation climate-friendly through new aircraft & "sustainable aviation fuel" But some enviro groups say it's hogwash, and are making legal challenge www.businessgreen.com/news/4411650...

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Government faces High Court challenge over 'highly dangerous' Jet Zero Strategy

Environmental groups claim government's aviation decarbonisation plan rely too heavily on 'speculative, risky' technologies

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Zero Hour: the campaign for climate and nature @zero-hour.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🌍 Steve Reed wanted the Climate & Nature Bill to proceed. Ed Miliband promised to work on the #CANBill's objectives. Mary Creagh pledged to deliver “binding nature commitments”. 🚨 Labour Ministers are speaking out. ⏳ What’s the delay for new, joined-up, science-led climate and nature legislation?

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🌿 Steve Reed MP on Climate and Nature Bill | Environmental Audit Committee, 24 March 2025

YouTube video by Zero Hour: Climate and Nature Bill

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Young people should protest for the planet more, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has said. Britain is THREE TIMES more likely to arrest climate activists than other countries And if you think that’s bad watch this youtu.be/lhI7cZ0kPiY?...

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🚨A shocking update - New labour Government is pursuing appeal against Liberty High Court win

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

🚨 Press Release! Our response to Dame Kelly’s downfall The stepping down of Dame Bernadette Kelly, the Department for Transport's (DfT) Permanent Secretary, offers the chance for a reset of priorities and a change in approach... transportactionnetwork.org.uk/tan-response...

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TAN response to Dame Kelly’s downfall

TAN response to Dame Kelly’s downfall Responding to the Department for Transport’s Permanent Secretary quitting due to financial mismanagement concerns, Chris Todd, Director of Transport Action Networ...

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Time to put this dinosaur out of its misery and replace it with something better: ⏩ better for the economy ⏩ better for opportunities ⏩ better for people ⏩ better for the NHS ⏩ better for the environment Time for our Essex-Kent Superlinks! transportactionnetwork.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Whichever way you look at it the Lower Thames Crossing just keeps getting more expensive A drain on the UK's finances at a time we can ill-afford wasteful and damaging projects www.ft.com/content/917d...

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Lower Thames Crossing has cost £1.2bn even before construction starts

Outlay on items including consultants, planning and legal fees jumps from £800mn two years ago

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Chris Todd 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳 @ecochris.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Why would we build the #LowerThamesCrossing which will choke the south east with more traffic and will only provide 5 years traffic relief at Dartford? No one is questioning its cost or effectiveness or why a new rail link was never seriously considered @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

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Chris Todd 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳 @ecochris.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Private Eye on the money as usual Anyone championing building high carbon infrastructure to boost growth such as #Heathrow, #Gatwick or the #LowerThamesCrossing should be aware they could be stimulating an economic downturn

Extract from Private Eye showing a 12% fall in GDP for every degree of warming compared to 0.43% potential increase from Heathrow expansion

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Trying to green a hugely damaging road scheme is like putting green lipstick on a pig. Not a pretty sight. transportactionnetwork.org.uk/lower-thames...

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

“Heathrow expansion just keeps on rising like a zombie from the grave. People keep disinterring it. Rachel Reeves is like: ‘I’m fresh out of ideas, so give me a spade and I’m going to dig this up...’ It just smacks of desperation,” said @crisortunity.bsky.social 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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‘Huge’ campaign against Heathrow third runway ready to mobilise

Rachel Reeves’s decision to give Labour’s backing to airport expansion ‘smacks of desperation’, lead campaigner says

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

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NO Nigel Farage - the vaccine rollout was not helped by Brexit

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

It’s me, in the Times "Heathrow expansion just keeps on rising like a zombie from the grave. People keep disinterring it. Rachel Reeves is like: I'm fresh out of ideas, so give me a spade and I'm going to dig this up, see if I can resuscitate this corpse. It just smacks of desperation" 🛫🧟

Middle England and radicals join forces against
Heathrow plans
Adam Vaughan Environment Editor
From protesters grounding planes on runways
"climate camps"
screaming helium balloons at aviation events, opposition to a third runway at Heathrow has rarely been boring.
But it is arguably the unexciting alliance of "Swampies and Middle En-gland", combined with businesses, local authorities and MPs, that explains why campaigning against the airport's expansion has been so successful.
"It was this diverse coalition that was terribly important," said John Stewart, who fought the runway for two decades. Stewart, 75, chaired the biggest and most organised local group Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise (Hacan) - from 2000
Hacan united local residents concerned about noise and homes being bulldozed, and still has thousands of members. They were backed by big, es-tablised environmental groups such as WWF but also by more radical activists such as the group Plane Stupid Leo Murray, who co-founded Plane Stupid, said opposition to a third runway had modelled itself on the anti-roads movement of the 1990s, including protesters against Newbury bypass.
"The recipe for success was this alliance of grassroots and deep greens, Swampy types who are prepared to go and climb trees and chain themselves to things, and Middle Englanders who didn't want road expansion near them," said Murray, who thinks a similar approach would work on Heathrow.
The Blair government backed the third runway in 2003, just as Murray was becoming more concerned about the consequences of climate change. By 2005, Murray said, "It was keeping me up at night. I was freaking out about the end of the world and looking for something to throw my weight behind." That something was opposition to airport expansion.
There followed an intense period of non-violent action, intended to increase the financial and political cost of expanding airport capacity. In 2006, Plane Stupid shut down East Midlands Airport…

Lord Mandelson was "slimed" with green custard by a Plane Stupid activist in 2009, the year after Murray and colleagues had stormed the roof of the Houses of Parliament. "Gordon Brown was very peeved," he said. A week-long climate camp was held near Heathrow in 2007 in Sipson, a village which faced demolition if a third runway went ahead.
Murray thought politicians after David Cameron, who opposed the expansion, alighted on the third runway when they ran out of ideas for growth.
"Heathrow expansion just keeps on rising like a zombie from the grave.
People keep disinterring it. Rachel Reeves is like: T'm fresh out of ideas, so give me a spade and I'm going to dig this up, see if I can resuscitate this corpse. It just smacks of desperation," he said.

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Shaun Spiers @shaunspiers1.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The government's narrative on planning is basically the same as the last government's. That's because it has the same intellectual progenitors, the ultra free market think tanks. I'm afraid it's likely to end in the same failure. My new blog - greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/01/30/w... 1/

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Just want to take a moment to appreciate @london.gov.uk continuing his consistent pattern of being courageously right about things the present Labour Party leadership are egregiously wrong about www.london.gov.uk/mayor-london...

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Mayor of London statement on Heathrow airport expansion

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

On #R4Today the UK Chancellor is making the case that Sustainable Aviation Fuel is a gamechanger for the environmental impacts of aviation at Heathrow and elsewhere It's just not true. There's no basis for this claim www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/three-m...

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Three myths about Heathrow’s third runway and the climate problem - Greenpeace UK

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves is suggesting airport expansion, including a possible third runway at Heathrow, as a way to boost economic growth in the UK. This article is not going to deal with the ec...

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

While we are disappointed to see the Chancellor supporting the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) today, it is far from a done deal. Private finance has not been secured and the planning application is yet to be approved. 🧵

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Flea treatments for cats & dogs mean their hair is full of toxic pesticide fipronil, or imidacloprid, both banned for agriculture The hair is shed into wider environment, used to line birds' nests There were more dead chicks in nests with high pesticide levels www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Pet fur found in songbird nests contains high levels of pesticides, study finds

Exclusive: Chemical in treatment for pet fleas and ticks is found in nests of blue and great tits, killing chicks

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Chris Todd 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳 @ecochris.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Shame presenters on #BBCNEWSCAST tonight have little understanding of what is causing delays to planning decisions

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Focussing on removing planning constraints and reducing opportunities for legal challenge misses the bigger problems causing delays, such as poor developer proposals, or slow decision making, of which the government is as guilty as anyone else it cares to blame. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Starmer vows to curb 'Nimby' legal blocks on infrastructure schemes

No 10 says it is targeting

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Our exciting new report calling for greater connectivity to the South West is out today. It is a viable alternative to building ever bigger roads and could be funded for a fraction of the cost of the scrapped #A303 #Stonehenge scheme It recommends: 🧵 transportactionnetwork.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Chris Todd 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳 @ecochris.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

One way of finding the money to compensate the WASPI campaigners would be to scrap the £10bn Lower Thames Crossing which is going to make things worse for many people In any case it is a colossal waste of money #waspiwomen www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Chris Mason: Starmer stung by Waspi women but it's least of his worries

Women affected by state pension changes believed Labour was on their side, feeding cynicism about politics.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 04/12/2024

"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on) youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as

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Yes, it's a genocide

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

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Campaign for National Parks @campaign4parks.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

📢 Last chance to apply! We're looking for two passionate and committed Trustees to join our board. Would you like to make a difference for the #NationalParks of England and Wales? Apply today www.cnp.org.uk/about/jobs/

We're hiring two trustees to join our board

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Brighton Active Travel 🚶‍♀️🧑‍🦽🚲 @batbrighton.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Tomorrow, Friday, is the deadline for your comments to support this plan for a safer road junction.

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Chris Todd 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳 @ecochris.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The arrogance of @teamlabouruk.bsky.social will be their downfall but worse it threatens our very democracy

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

We are looking forward to Louise Haigh publishing her vision for an Integrated National Transport Strategy (INTS) today. After a positive start in her new role, there are great hopes for this. It marks a significant move towards something long overdue in England.

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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Black Friday purchases will increase emissions from road freight by over 90% across the week 😱. @impurbanhealth.bsky.social is calling on the Government to reform the freight delivery sector 👍. #AirPollution #Freight airqualitynews.com/cars-freight...

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Black Friday highlights need for reform of freight delivery sector

Ahead of this year’s consumer frenzy that is Black Friday, Impact for Urban Health have called for reform in the freight delivery sector to reduce its effect on air quality in the UK. The phenomena of...

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We are going to court NEXT WEEK! To challenge the national roads policy that the Tories approved hours before Parliament shut down. Labour has decided to back the policy, so we need your help. We've raised over £27,000 but we still need another £8,000. www.crowdjustice.com/case/avoid-t...

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Avoid the road to climate breakdown!

We support local communities seeking better and more sustainable travel solutions. We also help people campaign against active travel and public transport cuts and oppose damaging road schemes

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Remember that footage of gamekeepers killing a Hen Harrier on a grouse moor? Seen pictures of moors being set alight in recent weeks? It’s time to ban driven grouse shooting. Please sign @wildjustice.bsky.social’s petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting

Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...

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Chris Todd 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳 @ecochris.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Punctual and reliable services reduce costs in addition to other benefits

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Chris Todd 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳 @ecochris.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Evenings are becoming quite toxic in #Brighton with the colder weather as people burn wood rather than use cheaper, cleaner, healthier central heating #AirPollution

Graph showing PM2.5 levels over past 24hrs in Hollingdean Terrace in #Brighton - shows sharp rise this evening up to 20 micro grammes per cubic metre. Recommended level is 5

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

In other news millions of people in the UK are living in poverty, destitution & using food banks

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Chris Todd 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳 @ecochris.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Sad to hear about John Prescott He promised two new national parks in the New Forest & South Downs (which @teamlabouruk.bsky.social delivered) He also led on integrating transport & planning but sadly was unable to deliver lasting change RIP John www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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John Prescott, British former deputy prime minister, dies aged 86

Former trade union activist who had Alzheimer's died peacefully at care home, says family

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

1. The difference so far (and for god's sake let's keep it that way) between X and Bluesky is not between right and left but between abuse and respect. A good society is built on mutual respect. But what does this mean? A short thread.🧵

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Transport for New Homes @transportfornewhomes.org.uk · 21/11/2024

The closing date to apply for our Non-Executive Director position is Monday. Thinking of applying? The time is now. www.transportfornewhomes.org.uk/non-executiv...

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Non-Executive Director (Volunteer) - Transport for New Homes

We are looking for one or more non-executive directors.

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Meanwhile

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Chris Todd 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳 @ecochris.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Watching BBC's Britain's nuclear bomb scandal Shocking impact on Aboriginal people and British servicemen who were used as guinea pigs Lasting impact on future generations ignored by authorities Why will the British government not apologise for this tragedy?

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Transport Action Network @transportaction.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Local roads are not being properly maintained. The Department for Transport should not be wasting £millions on vanity projects like the Norwich Western Link and Shrewsbury North West Relief Road. The basics (potholes, flooding, etc) need to be prioritised! committees.parliament.uk/event/22357/...

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21 November 2024 - Local roads in England - Oral evidence - Committees - UK Parliament

09:30 - The Grimond Room, Portcullis House

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Chris Todd 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳 @ecochris.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

At New Statesman Politics Live #NSLive today and managed to ask Louise Haigh about the much needed (and overdue) reform of National Highways

Louise Haigh addressing the conference before lunch

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Rob Bryher @robbryher.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Bristol City Council is not (yet) on Bluesky. Please retweet this if you think that all local councils should open Bluesky accounts and use them for communicating with the public. This will help me to make the case locally for them to get on it!

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Chris Todd 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳 @ecochris.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Brilliant way to bring this home to people how crazy it is to burn wood Even more so that's it's given subsidies and considered 'green'

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