Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Let's hope so. I agree with everything you say. Yes, warnings warnings from history etc but also perfectly ok (and I think helpful) to admit how unpleasant (and disorientating) it is, to actually see and read it 'in our time'. 010
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026It's a disaster. It's an absolutely appalling human disaster. What on earth will it take to change our sick, unwell, sociopathic, misanthropic media culture? It is very hard not to despair at this news. A good man. Hunted. Debased. And now lost to us. This is no democracy. 000
Reposted by Edward RobinsonLand and Climate Review @landclimate.bsky.social · 17/03/2026What is "climateflation" and how bad could it get for our weekly food shop? @ejcrobinson sat down with one of the UK's most prominent climate, biodiversity and soils scientists, Pete Smith, to understand his new research programme, with the UK MACC Hub and @aberdeenuni.landclimate.orgWhat is climate-flation? - Land and Climate ReviewEdward Robinson sits down with Pete Smith, a global expert on climate change, biodiversity and food systems, to understand what's happening to our fragile grocery supplies chains. 021
Reposted by Edward RobinsonJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Worrying slowdown in corporate clean power procurement, which would have been a lot worse were it not for Silicon Valley's clean power buying spree. www.businessgreen.com/news/4525853...businessgreen.comMeta, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft accounted for half of corporate PPA deals in 2025BNEF reveals corporates delivered second highest level of annual clean power purchase agreement activity in 2025 041
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026This is a vivid memory of a time when I was first getting interested in politics and was so surprised by how many people supported the Iraq war. I remember this speech of Charles Kennedy's and the anti war march. It was galvanising. I was 18. 020
Reposted by Edward RobinsonLand and Climate Review @landclimate.bsky.social · 12/12/2025“There is history in the collective memory - introduced 200 years ago - which is blurred & unreflective.” @bertiehb.bsky speaks with Annette Kehnel, author of “The Green Ages,” who argues that modern sustainability ideas are Victorian – & that the future is medieval. www.landclimate.org/... 096
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 10/12/2025It was a treat to be at the House of Lords, with my colleague Mair, to support @greenjennyjones.bsky.social, as she takes down the environmental disaster that is Drax! Sounded to me like there was a lot of support among our noble friends on all sides. Watch here: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/... 031
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 18/11/2025The evidence that we have already set off tipping points in Earth's frozen regions is gathering pace. Even 1.5 degrees is (therefore) likely to be too high. Concerned polar scientists want COP30 to take notice. We carry an article from them here. 👇 031
Reposted by Edward RobinsonDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025We begin another months-in-the-making three-parter with the story of Labour. In part one (up to 1939): why it was a fractious coalition from day one, how it overtook the Liberals to become a party of government, and why Ramsay MacDonald went from hero to treacherous villain. Contains foreshadowing 310522
Reposted by Edward RobinsonUN Environment Programme @unep.org · 29/10/2025UNEP’s new #AdaptationGap Report warns that developing countries will need at least US$310 billion per year by 2035 to protect lives, livelihoods, and economies. Yet, current financing lags far behind. Discover how to close this gap: www.unep.org/news-and-sto... 01210
Reposted by Edward RobinsonDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 29/10/2025“Climate impacts are accelerating. Yet adaptation finance is not keeping pace, leaving the world’s most vulnerable exposed to rising seas, deadly storms, searing heat,” says UN SG António Guterres. “Adaptation is not a cost – it is a lifeline" @unep.org #climatecrisis www.unep.org/resources/ad...unep.orgAdaptation Gap Report 2025Amid rising global temperatures and intensifying climate impacts, UNEP’s 2025 Adaptation Gap Report: Running on Empty finds that a yawning gap in adaptation finance for developing countries is putting... 01910
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Very much looking forward to this! Feels like a perfect time to reassess high-rise living in Britain. 010
Reposted by Edward RobinsonLand and Climate Review @landclimate.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Exclusive: our investigation into the link between occupational asthma and biomass power has been published today by @theguardian.com We reveal that 10 lawsuits have been filed against Drax by workers following specialist diagnoses. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comDrax faces lawsuits over claims workers developed asthma from wood dustCurrent and former employees say they were not adequately protected despite knowledge of health risks 156
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Proud of our team at @landclimate.bsky.social for bringing these cases to light. These people have been failed and deserve better. I hope they get justice asap! 032
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 19/10/2025How bitterly disappointing for you Mark. We need much more co-operation with and from the Greens if we are to hold off Reform in Suffolk. Congrats on what sounds like a strong campaign! 110
Reposted by Edward RobinsonProfessor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 02/10/2025A lovely story about Dr Jane Goodall's career & legacy, from Rachel Fieldhouse & Mohana Basu, in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41.... Includes some comments from me about how researchers _can also_ be advocates and science communicators, and still be taken seriously (I hope)! Vale, Jane.nature.comJane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed scienceThe primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist. 17722
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025"To appreciate the Paris agreement’s effectiveness, consider that renewables comprised 92.5% of all new installed electricity capacity in 2024." The optimistic voice of Jennifer Morgan here, via @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/7NKPPvcprosyn.orgClean Energy Is Inevitable Despite TrumpJennifer Morgan touts the progress made in the Paris climate agreement's first decade, but also highlights unfinished work. 010
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Priyanka Kumar's new book "The Light Between Apple Trees" explains how Americans became hooked on a cartoon version of the apple and how this endangers them. You can read an edited extract on @landclimate.bsky.social. It's out now from @islandpress.bsky.social www.landclimate.org/seeds-of-ind...landclimate.orgSeeds of industrialisation: how the soul of the apple got lost - Land and Climate ReviewAn overreliance on pesticides and a disconnect from the land has dampened the mythology of America’s most iconic fruit, says Priyanka Kumar. 031
Reposted by Edward RobinsonDebbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Nonfiction science new releases for September, 2025! Which of these books are you adding to your TBR? I am adding GHOSTED, BLUEPRINTS, and DANGEROUS MIRACLE to my TBR. #nonfiction #booksky #science 🧪 #sciencebooks #womeninscience #nonfictionscience ⚛️🎢🌱🦜📚 65919
Reposted by Edward RobinsonProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 27/09/2025"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat" Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comMeat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis findsSentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions 15317163
Reposted by Edward RobinsonEllie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 21/09/2025This article is more optimistic than the headline suggests. I think it is actually about the West's decision to hand the future economy to China and the East. The speed of the energy transition in China is good for the world and, geopolitically, bad for the West as it inexplicably relegates itself 2193
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 21/09/2025It's way too late and much too little, of course, but I wonder if it's the first sign of Labour creaking into gear to respond to your victory. If so, that is a pretty big immediate impact. 030
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 09/09/2025As far as I can tell, @zackpolanski.bsky.social is one of the bravest people in the country at the moment. The more Labour and the Tory press attack him, the more the vast majority of decent Britain will tune in to his positive message. Fear may be contagious but so is courage! 0103
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Really looking forward to this! Well done @jsmillinstitute.bsky.social for bringing back the Liberal summer schools and keeping them open to people of all political colours. There's a lot to discuss! 000
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Ah, the good old not winning any elections trick eh! 010
Reposted by Edward RobinsonUN Environment Programme @unep.org · 24/07/202524 July is #EarthOvershootDay. That means humanity has used up Earth’s yearly natural resources budget in just 7 months. In 2024, the date was 1 August. The date keeps creeping earlier—but the trend can be reversed: www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/up... 39472
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 21/07/2025I would also highly recommend this superb review of Steyerl's ideas about image-making by @nguyenterry.bsky.social in @artreview.bsky.social. artreview.com/hito-steyerl...artreview.comHito Steyerl’s ‘Medium Hot’: The Age of SlopSteyerl challenges us to recognise the vast scale of AI’s ubiquity and also to realise its ‘artificial stupidity’ 021
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 21/07/2025This is from a new collection of Hito Steyerl's essays, from @versobooks.bsky.social which (among many other things) considers the political economy of AI and its links to climate change and fossil fuels: www.landclimate.org/crypto-and-a...landclimate.orgCrypto and AI exploit conflict zones and fossil fuels - with destructive consequences - Land and Climate ReviewCryptocurrencies and AI rely on political stability, refugee camp workers and electricity blackouts, says Hito Steyerl, in an excerpt from her new book. 100
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 21/07/2025"Interviews with Kurdish microworkers in northern Iraq revealed that many of them still lived in refugee camps, ten years after being displaced by different stages of the Syrian war. Their work consisted in tagging images, mainly for self-driving car systems." 100
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Useful, thoughtful, I shall read again. Echos of Gilbert Ryle. 120
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 21/07/2025If you're worried about the #climate and #nature emergencies and looking for the perfect (UK-focused) climate adaptation and resilience newsletter, check out this one, which I'm helping to edit. It's free on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/adaptati...open.substack.comClimate Adaptation UK: Summer 2025Welcome to the May/June/July edition of our Climate Adaptation newsletter. Hope you have your cup of (iced) tea ready, because it’s a monster. Edited by Mirte Boot. 030
Reposted by Edward RobinsonLand and Climate Review @landclimate.bsky.social · 18/07/2025This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, @alimacewen.bsky.social interviewed @simonclimate.bsky.social from @tyndallcentre.bsky.social about the International Maritime Organisation's new penalties for shipping emissions. Click below to listen: www.landclimate.org/... 011
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Oh this is just unspeakably ridiculous. Starmer was even part of a coup against a Labour leader in 2016 and didn't lose the whip at the time (as he shouldn't have). These are decent and popular Labour MPs. Is this possibly the most paranoid whips office of recent times? 010
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 15/07/2025The problem with all these spreadsheet snapshots of fiscal sustainability is that, while they are correct within their method, they take no account of real features of the economy. How is rent seeking affecting incomes and also gov spending? Inflation's impact on past debt? The ownership of gilts? 020
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Great to see this report out. Looking forward to getting stuck in and very sorry to be missing today's event. 040
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Just seen this important film. Credit to @ejfoundation.org for making it and for continuing to campaign and educate in the area of unsustainable fishing. Well worth a watch! 020
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025How did we lose the farmers? @felixschulz.bsky.social has some answers on our latest podcast 👇👇 012
Reposted by Edward RobinsonCovering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 07/06/2025Join CCNow and @soljourno.bsky.social on Tuesday, June 10, for a webinar that will help you cover climate movements thoughtfully and fairly. You’ll get to learn from journalists who have decades of experience covering climate change and movements to address it. https://buff.ly/JJDgkwI 152
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 28/05/2025I have to say (remembering the fate of medium etc) that I have long worried about this. Oh for some sort of community-owned social media platform! The eternal problem with media ownership! 020
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Haha. Well. Maybe that's it! Not sure Mr Gladstone would approve of Farage on his turf! 000
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Ah yes. I remember. They wouldn't host that sort of thing would they? Madness if so. 100
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 27/05/2025@seththevoz.bsky.social that's not the National Liberal Club I see hosting Farage's vainglorious press conference today is it? 😱🤯 100
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Yes. I can't believe it has taken so long. Morally appalling and, I'm sure of it, deeply damaging to Britain's standing in the world. Much like with Iraq &c. 010
Reposted by Edward RobinsonAndrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert in @haaretzcom.bsky.social “What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians … It's the result of government policy – knowingly, evilly, maliciously ... Yes, Israel is committing war crimes.” 54320
Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 23/05/2025In the year that BYD sales overtook Teslas in Europe, this podcast from @landclimate.bsky.social and @bertiehb.bsky.social delves into the role that activists played in shifting China from pollution-riddled to an emerging Green powerhouse: www.landclimate.org/how-did-chin...landclimate.orgHow did China become a green powerhouse? - Land and Climate ReviewBertie speaks with Ma Tianjie, author of "In Search of Green China," discussing China’s environmental transformation and how protestors have influenced policymaking. 033
