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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Says it all. @jvp.bsky.social
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 18/09/2026
Former French PM and presidential candidate Gabriel Attal is outlining a stark choice facing the individual nation-states of Europe. They can either be voting members of a United States of Europe. Or they can be non-voting vassals of the United States of America.
euractiv.com
Time to build United States of Europe, says France's Attal | Euractiv
Attal says Ursula von der Leyen’s EU is moving too slowly and failing to deliver
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/09/2026
This is a thing everywhere in the world: on-site diesel generation is advertised as "backup" generation, but data centre operators plan to use it way, way more than that. Firmus in Australia now fighting against rules to limit pollution from their fossil-fuelled project
abc.net.au
Data centre company lodges appeal against 'unreasonable' restricted generator use
An energy-hungry data centre that received recent council approval to have diesel generators as backup power is now appealing against the "unreasonable" conditions on how they can be used.
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Sustainable Farming @sustainablefarming.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Vegetable harvests are collapsing. Not slightly. Not just by double digits. In many locations by more than half. Broccoli harvests across Europe have collapsed very fast.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
5 lies oil companies want you to believe in 2026 🧵 1. It's your fault 2. Gas is "clean" 3. Renewables are too expensive 4. Africa needs fossil fuels to develop 5. It's too late to act All false.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Rosie O’Donnell: “Donny Boy": "Oh Donny Boy, it's Rosie, Rosie calling From Hollywood, the Jimmy Kimmel Show Drop that Big Mac that we all know you're holding Because, my dear, I worry for you so Poor Donny Boy, your polls, your polls are falling Your reflecting pool is green as Mountain Dew
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 22/08/2026
If only we had leaders with this kind of nerve in Europe. Instead, we get continual surrender to Trump. Even though Europe is much more capable of defending itself from the US than Canada , which is much much more exposed. The difference is courage. Something Europe needs to find.
bbc.com
Canada says it will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
A new 50% levy on $20bn of Canadian imports comes into force after a last-minute breakdown in trade talks.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Coillte call the felling of semi-mature oaks in Tipperary “biodiversity-focused forest management works”. People might be aghast at this, but it totally fits with how Coillte operates. Greenwash is the norm. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
irishtimes.com
Coillte ordered to stop felling at forest over fears for oak trees
Department of Agriculture issues order to cease work to allow investigation of felling licence
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I simply do not understand the mentality of people who prefer oil and gas and "drill baby drill" to the cost of the Earth and our pockets... to those of us who want clean, cheap, renewable energy. How brainwashed by big oil and its (often) paid advocates do you have to be? How gullible.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Did you know the Amazon is where 18% of the world’s freshwater begins, rivers flow, and clouds are born? It’s the heartbeat of our planet’s water cycle! 🌍💦 But this balance is breaking—chainsaws, fires, and pollution threaten it all. If we lose the Amazon, we lose the foundation of nature worldwide.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
What brazen liars. By restoring water-retaining natural ecosystems, rewilding REDUCES wildfires.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our pursuit of development has blinded us: We drill deeper, build higher, consume faster — but we never ask: can the Earth carry this? A fragile planet cannot sustain arrogant habits.
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Aberdeen City Arts Board @adeencityartsboard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
COBRA: We'll need to nationalise the water, build reservoirs, curb big oil, end private jet use and stop landowners drying peat out and- Burnham: Shit?! Is that the time, I need to be on GB news to do a racist. Stick some shit out about teenagers and BBQs instead! #LabourStillDead
end climate change or world war 3 button descion
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Under current accounting, an oil spill is "good" for GDP because it creates jobs for the cleanup crew. Deforestation is "good" because it generates immediate timber revenue. Even war cleanup counts as profit.
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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We're being told our planet is on fire. People are dying in the tens of thousands. But yet, the media show us pictures of harmless fun. This visual disconnect is numbing the public to the urgency we face.
irishtimes.com
World’s seas hit hottest temperature on record for July, say scientists
Western Europe has experienced its hottest June-July period on record, data shows
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
> What GDP completely ignores: > ❌ Loss of biodiversity > ❌ Clean air and water > ❌ Long-term human well-being > ❌ Climate stability
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Climate change. Biodiversity collapse. Pollution. These are not separate problems — they are one interconnected crisis.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 10/08/2026
In my book TheOwnedContinent.eu, I explain why Europeans accepted a Bretton Woods system that advantaged America in exchange for stability. But now that stability is over, and the US is using the dollar's dominance as a political tool. My take:
davekeating.substack.com
Unprecedented euro sell-off signals new front in US threats to EU
The White House blindsided the European Central Bank by dumping billions of euros in order to protect US treasuries, then lashed out at the ECB for confirming this had happened.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We don't have a badger problem. We have a dairy cow problem. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08...
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
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Julie Taylor @snarkymimi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Everywhere I look today I keep seeing: 1) deadly wildfires ripping through our communities 2) people desperately trying to get by as energy costs soar 3) record oil & gas profits When will we see that these three things are connected? www.wsj.com/business/ene...
wsj.com
Big Oil Is Reaping Rewards From the Chaos in Energy Markets
ExxonMobil’s earnings doubled and Chevron posted its highest quarterly earnings on record as energy prices soared during the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The IFA must surely know there is no future in this policy which has already resulted in so much damage www.farmersjournal.ie/sheep/news/r...
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Astonishing attack on civil society and environmental justice by a government lacking either vision or basic competence. www.thejournal.ie/jack-chamber...
thejournal.ie
Chambers claims climate law has been 'weaponised' by NGOs to halt infrastructure projects
Friends of the Earth have said disapplying climate laws sets ‘an alarming precedent’.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The world is on fire, yet still most of our political leaders doggedly defend business as usual, so emissions continue to rise, and nature to collapse. How can they keep up the pretence that driving us and nature off a cliff is 'acting responsibly'? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
theguardian.com
Europe wildfires: Officials warn that wildfires could still be burning in November – as it happened
Firefighters in France and Spain face another day battling wildfires, as another heatwave set to hit this week
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Yesterday afternoon 14:09 in Lacanau Océan in France. A pale red sun through the smoke tinged everything in Mars style orange. Welcome in the climate emergency! Despite all denial of the fossil fuel lobby, it’s scientific fact: CO2 emissions heat up Earth & make fires worse. 🔥🔥🔥
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
In case anyone was in any doubt: agri-industry lobbyists (including the IFA) are working hard to accelerate biodiversity collapse & #climate breakdown in pursuit of short term profits. It’s what they do. And Irish politicians know-tow to them at every turn. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
theguardian.com
Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Walking in our farm's rainforest with the melting heat of these days, I am filled with such inexpressible anger at what is being done to our once stable climate. The richest 1% are actively, knowingly, and uncaringly sabotaging the future for all of us, and for the rest of the planet's life.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 14/07/2026
We know that out of control data centre development has led to 23% of electricity being consumed by data centres. A recent report found that data centres consume 80% of electricity in Dublin, yet Uisce Éireann can’t or won’t tell us the effect of data centres on water consumption.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Infinite growth on a finite planet is a physical impossibility.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 30/06/2026
“They’ve silenced her. “This is an attempt to punish someone who spoke the truth.” The "bizarre" moment @maitlis.bsky.social is forced to ask Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams to leave the studio.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Livestock emits over 65% of EU's agricultural GHG emissions & grazing + feed production take up >½ of its ag land. Nitrogen from livestock & fertiliser causes water pollution & eutrophication, with ag responsible in 2023 for ~94% of the EU's ammonia emissions, a major source of PM2.5 air pollution.
eea.europa.eu
Diversifying Europe's protein supply could cut emissions and reliance on imported feed
Broadening the range of proteins that Europe produces and consumes could strengthen food security, improve resilience, enhance competitiveness and reduce environmental pressures, according to a new Eu...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Now you can watch the video of my interview last week with the brilliant and remarkable Jeremy Lent, one of the greatest thinkers of our age. In his new book Ecocivilization, he charts a way forward for us. Hope and inspiration. www.youtube.com/live/4-r-tUh...
youtube.com
Yes, there is an alternative I RSA REPLAY
YouTube video by The RSA
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.dotdisplay()TAURUSForUkraine🇺🇦 @ddotdisplay.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I’m really glad President Zelenskyy is saying this out loud. More people need to realize this.
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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#ExtinctionIsFinalClimateDeniers
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?
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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
English commentators need to stop analysing Northern Ireland through an English lens! When you see anti-immigrant riots in Belfast, Ballymena or Larne and immediately reach for "Britain's far-right problem", you're missing half the story. This isn't just racism. It's loyalist terrorism. 1/
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Good news from England where authorities have finally seen sense and ended the pointless culling of badgers. In Ireland on it goes, killing thousands of badgers and costing taxpayers a ball breaking €157 million thus year alone. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Badger cull ends in England as licence will not be renewed, Defra says
Defra confirms permission to use an active culling licence will not be given, ending the practice.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Destroying our national credibility at EU level, while helping to destroy the #climate system, that’s quite the double whammy from Ireland ahead of taking over the EU Presidency in July. www.euractiv.com/news/ireland...
euractiv.com
Ireland under fire for downplaying climate impact of cattle | Euractiv
The republic is home to 5 million people and 7 million methane-making cows
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 19/05/2026
Overproduction of meat and dairy creates unmanageable amounts of manure, ruining streams and rivers The biggest lake in Ireland is so heavily polluted that it poses serious dangers to people's health and local wildlife It's time to stop farming more animals than the land and waterways can support
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‘Drinking from a fetid pond’: superbug-creating genes found in UK’s largest lake
Exclusive: Lough Neagh, which supplies drinking water for 40% of NI, contains genes resistant to last-resort antibiotics
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/05/2026
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.
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EPP Group in the European Parliament @eppgroup.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Happy Europe Day 🇪🇺 ❤️ The freedom to speak, to move, to dream, to build a life on your own terms. The EU is worth every star. Cherish it. Protect it. Every single day.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Iran is at it again. This time they added the Tesla logo. 😂
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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Did you know An Taisce produced 'Compost for Nature' a great downloadable guide? By replacing commercial 'peatmoss/compost' in gardens with home-composted living soil, you help conserve vital peatlands, but if buying, please remember to opt for peat-free products instead www.antaisce.org/compost
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"A billionaire death cult has its fingers around humanity’s throat. It both causes and downplays our existential crisis. [...] It’s the billions [you and me] v the billionaires, and the stakes could not possibly be higher." Maybe *the* most important article you'll ever read.
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