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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Vital reading 👇
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Terrific write-up of the book in @desmog.com today! www.desmog.com/2026/09/21/q...
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Q&A: Amy Westervelt on the Corporate Poisoning of the Information Aquifer — and How to Undo the Harm
Amy Westervelt’s new book Brought To You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy is a must-read for anyone tracking the machinery of climate denial and delay. The...
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn - report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms @pik-potsdam.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🌡Lead author of the latest Planetary Health Check, Boris Sakschewski, comments on the findings from the report he has lead over the past year, with input from more than 60 colleagues at PIK and partner institutes. Read the full report here: www.planetaryhealthcheck.org
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 21/09/2026
Today, EU Commission published its sustainability rating scheme for data centres. Remember how the Commission copy-pasted a Microsoft amendment to keep crucial information on data centres energy use+environmental impacts hidden? Well, Big Tech’s ‘confidentiality’ clause remains 😡 - just reworded ⬇️
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Copy, paste, govern | Corporate Europe Observatory
The EU Commission’s policy on data centres keeps information on individual centres' energy and water use under wraps. Research now reveals the Commission copied and pasted an amendment suggested by Mi...
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
3/ In collaboration with @ftm.nl, @tuckerian.bsky.social revealed how much money UK pension funds were pouring into Palantir Is Palantir in your pension? UK institutions have over £5bn invested in US tech corporation www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-u...
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Is Palantir in your pension? UK institutions have over £5bn invested in US tech corporation
Research shows size of investment by UK organisations – including some of Britain’s biggest retirement providers – in Silicon Valley’s most controversial technology company. Carole Cadwalladr and Ian ...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is the biggest lie you’ve been told. You’re told the West is falling apart because of migrants and minorities. But who closed the factories? Crashed the banks? Launched the wars? Here’s what really happened 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hdp...
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The Biggest Lie You've Been Told
YouTube video by Owen Jones
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If enough of us come together, we can kick Palantir out. Add your name to our petition calling on the Government to break the contract: 38d.gs/PalantirBrea...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 17/09/2026
British democracy should never be for sale to the highest bidder. Who is in favour of state funding for political parties? 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️💚 #BCCQT
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On CNN's Amanpour Astra answered the question that’s on lots of people’s minds this week: How should we understand all of the Silicon Valley executives and engineers warning that AI might destroy humanity? Her advice: watch what they do more than what they say. @astra.bsky.social
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 17/09/2026
The emperor has no clothes. The ship has no CO2. Yara says CO₂ shipments will start "soon"... but its #CCS project only "aims" to cover 1/4 of the plant's emissions anyway! As we told Euronews, fossil fuel & fossil-intensive companies like Yara use #CCS as an escape hatch to stay in business 💰
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Is Europe’s largest carbon capture project ‘a pass to keep polluting’?
Carbon capture and storage has been found to be “technically uncertain and very high cost”.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 16/09/2026
🚨 VICTORY! The Big Oil immunity bill has stalled (for now) after the House Judiciary Committee adjourned before bringing the bill for a vote. This fight is far from over, but today is a victory for those who agree that no industry should be above the law.
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s outrageous that we're paying the price for multi-billion-pound tech companies polluting our environment and draining our water. Demand the Government freezes the rollout of all massive data centres until they can prove local nature and communities won't pay the price: 38d.gs/Datacentres_...
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Stop these monster data centres before they wreck our neighbourhoods!
Are you worried about this too?
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 16/09/2026
#SOTEU : while Europe faces social, environmental and geopolitical pressures, it's funny how the solution always happens to be exactly what corporate lobbyists have been asking for, and they already have more access to EU decision-making than anyone. Here's our take on AI, deregulation and climate👇
Quote graphic by Corporate Europe Observatory. A black-and-white photo of Bram Vranken, researcher and campaigner, appears on the right. The quote reads: 'Never before has the call for regulating AI been stronger. But instead of enforcing EU rules to keep unaccountable tech companies in check, the EU is intent on slashing data protection and rules on AI. Ironically, in her State of the Union, von der Leyen claims the importance of guardrails, but ignores the fact that the EU Commission has teamed up with the tech industry to deregulate the digital rule-book.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The CCC @thecccuk.bsky.social offers Heathrow a thumbs up, conditional on the massive deployment of “snake oil” technologies (SAF & GGR). Report by Tyndall researchers, building on UK Govt commitments, science & maths, reaches a very different conclusion. See: climateuncensored.com/heathrow-exp...
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Heathrow Expansion: The Physics Does Not Negotiate - Climate Uncensored
Below is the foreword I wrote for my Tyndall colleagues’ detailed and rigorous report examining whether further expansion of Heathrow can be reconciled with
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Regenerative grazing" is a greenwashing scam, nothing more. Here's why. Please don't be taken in. drawdown.org/insights/eig...
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Eight reasons regenerative grazing can’t make beef climate-friendly
An influential regenerative grazing movement continues to grow. But here's why the science doesn't back up the purported climate benefits.
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 15/09/2026
🚨 NEW! 🚨 "...a big contributor to the climate crisis writ large, and the greenwashing of ad and PR agencies specifically, is people’s willingness to keep their heads down and proceed with business as usual. " - Jessie Bludorn
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Q&A: This Comedy Series Is Taking Aim at Big Oil’s PR Machine
SLICK is a funny yet cutting satire of how the ad industry contributes to the climate crisis.
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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Great essay. Pick your side -- fighting for life on a habitable planet with a stable climate or aligning with the tech oligarchs who are accelerating an AI apocalypse. @leahstokes.bsky.social
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Pick Your Apocalypse: Climate vs. AI Doom
Some Thoughts On the *Other* Existential Threat
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What is capitalism? It's a much more complicated question than most people imagine. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09...
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Glossary entry: Capitalism
On Saturday, I wrote a piece entitled What is labour was not a cost? It generated a lot of comments, including one noting that I had never written a glossary entry on capitalism, although I had one on...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 15/09/2026
Here's our backgrounder on how “EU Inc.” (also known as the 28th Regime) endangers the ability of member states and trade unions to defend workers’ rights at national level, ensure sufficient taxation of companies, and fight corporate crime #EUInc #deregulation corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...
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EU Inc: A corporate master plan to attack our rights | Corporate Europe Observatory
A primer on the eight things you need to know about “EU Inc.” and the 28th Regime, how it will lead to attacks on workers rights, and help companies evade taxation.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He knew
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ITUC @ituc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Democracy should deliver for working people. ✊ For our rights 🦺 For our safety 💶 For our livelihoods ❤️ For our dignity When we organise together, we win. 📣 This International #DemocracyDay, join the #FightForDemocracy ✊ Join a union
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Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Remind me again why we think very high emissions scenarios can be ruled out?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This week's column is about the Starmer-like self-destruction of the impending decision to approve new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. It might appease certain lobby groups, but it sabotages Burnham's own project and drives voters away. Utter madness. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Is Burnham trying to appease Trump? Or Reform? What other reason is there for these North Sea oil plans? | George Monbiot
Climate catastrophe is on our doorstep – yet Labour’s impending approval of further drilling will bring more pain for negligible gains, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🔴 As I revealed, Christopher Harborne’s crypto investments are being boosted by the White House - which has introduced pro-crypto laws that Farage wants to replicate in the UK
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Tethered: How the White House is Helping Reform’s Finances
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has stood to gain financially from the crypto connections linking it to Donald Trump’s administration, DeSmog can report. Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been ac...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
They are in so deep they don't know what's true. They are begging us to stop them.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In case you’re interested…and if you're in the UK, you should be. Carbon Brief factcheck www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-re...
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Factcheck: Reform UK’s 45 false or misleading claims about climate and energy - Carbon Brief
Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, has emerged as a major force in UK politics in recent years – pushing…
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Tonton OB @able-baker.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“This year what we witnessed was, quite brazenly, the world’s richest men gathering to discuss the real estate possibilities of a mass grave.”
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Worth a read 👇
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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"The Autumn Budget is an opportunity to introduce more effective taxes on the super-rich, because the promise of a better Britain lies in making sure those with extreme wealth pay their fair share." PMUK's @stephenstroud.bsky.social in @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/life-style/i...
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I’m a millionaire – staying in the UK and paying tax is a patriotic act
As another story hits the headlines about the exodus of Britain’s millionaire wealth creators, Stephen Kinsella, OBE, gives a different view about how he, and many like him, think about staying put an...
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CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk · 10/09/2026
What shapes #HMTreasury’s response to climate and nature loss? CUSP director @timjackson.org.uk's recent evidence to the ongoing EAC inquiry challenges the growth, wellbeing and discounting assumptions behind The Green Book. 🔗 cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... — #PostGrowth #WellbeingEconomy #Degrowth
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HM Treasury and the economics of climate and nature | EAC evidence submission by Tim Jackson
The EAC is currently examining HM Treasury’s role in shaping the UK’s response to climate change and nature loss, including how long-term environmental risk ...
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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🎭 Do party members with "dark" traits want "dark" leaders? Paul Webb, @timbale.bsky.social & Stavroula Chrona survey 4,266 UK party members: Reform UK and Conservative members score higher on the "Dark Triad", and those high on these traits prefer leaders who share them. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Description of the article "Personality, populism and party: support for 'dark triad' leaders in the UK" by Paul Webb, Tim Bale and Stavroula Chrona, published online first in West European Politics.
Table 1. Mean scores of Labour, Liberal Democrat, Green, Conservative and Reform UK members on Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy, and on their preference for leaders with those traits. Right-conservative members score higher than left-liberal members on the Dark Triad measures and are clearly keener on leaders with Dark Triad personalities.
Table 2. Regression table of two linear models predicting preference for leaders with Dark Triad traits, by party membership, party vote, demographics, ideology and respondents' own personality. Left-liberal members and voters score lower, and right-conservative members higher, than the Reform voter reference group; respondents' own Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy each predict a stronger preference for such leaders.
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Excited to be part of this conversation on business, regulation, and why voluntary sustainability efforts have (with rare exceptions) failed: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Beyond Corporate Sustainability: Can Corporations Solve Climate Change?
Podcast Episode · Is Business Broken? · September 10 · 26m
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 10/09/2026
As heat waves scorched Europe and North America this summer, nuclear and fossil fuel plants closed down ... but solar and batteries kept the lights on. Read on!
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Powering through the heat | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
Green energy keeps the lights on, heat impacts on children, and how to Play it Cool Europe endured a succession of scorching heat waves this
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So pleased to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social demanding the Government’s suppressed then redacted report on ecosystem collapse be published in full. People can’t prepare for what they don’t know - concealing this report is unforgivable #WildSummit
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Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full
Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 09/09/2026
🔴 Tory Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith’s MAGA Network The former Liz Truss ally has been a regular on the pro-Trump speaking circuit. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social
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Tory Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith’s MAGA Network
The newly appointed Conservative Party shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith has been a regular feature at events linked to Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, DeSmog can report. Griffith has been criticised si...
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Statement from Progressive Judaism leaders - Rabbi Josh Levy and Rabbi Charley Baginsky “Holding an Israeli government accountable for its actions does not cause antisemitism. Antisemites cause antisemitism. progressivejudaism.org.uk/rabbi-charle...
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Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy: No single response can speak for British Jews - The Movement for Progressive Judaism
As we approach the High Holy Days, we enter a season of teshuvah, of looking honestly at ourselves, taking responsibility and asking what must change. Yet there is a temptation, on days like these, to...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW: Cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne - the man who gave Farage £5m - has quietly dropped his defamation suit against @wsj.com over this 2023 article 👇 1/
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think the way to read the UNEP report isn't "we'll miss the 1.5°C target so we need CDR to reach it", but "we'll miss the 1.5°C target, and we need to decarbonize ASAP because wherever we end up is where we will stay for a long time." www.unep.org/resources/li...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...
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Facts on the ground
Two things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries)
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If we want to beat fascism, the answer is easy: scrap neoliberalism www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09...
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If we want to beat fascism, the answer is easy: scrap neoliberalism
The media appears to have woken up to the fact that there is a right-wing, profoundly fascist threat to stability within the UK. Events over the weekend in Dover and Portsmouth have achieved this outcome. A few people in black have been noticed. Rightly, politicians are condemning the actions of those...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Somehow ‘Lord Walney’ on Radio 4 has managed to be more critical of climate protesters this week than the masked street fascists Last few days feel like an exercise in normalisation in plain sight….
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 08/09/2026
🇪🇺💥 Attacks on NGOs in EU are ongoing and unhealthy for democracy! 👉Almost 200 orgs today publish a statement on the blockage of EU funding for health NGOs First responsible for this is Health Commissioner Varhelyi, Viktor Orban's last man standing in Brussels... Read here: tinyurl.com/2w86ntj3
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Civil society stands together for sustainable funding for health civil society - EU4health
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recommon.org @recommon.org · 03/09/2026
❌ Il matrimonio tra Big Oil e Big Tech è ormai stato celebrato all'insegna dello sviluppo dei data center e dei progetti di cattura e stoccaggio della CO2. Le conseguenze di questo legame saranno molto negative per il Pianeta, come rivela @corporateeurope.org. 👇 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/08/d...
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A deadly alliance of Big Tech and Big Oil | Corporate Europe Observatory
Big Tech and Big Oil are teeming up to push new gas-powered data centres, and greenwashing them with promises of carbon capture. But carbon capture is a paper tiger: new fossil gas just means new emis...
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 07/09/2026
We haven’t just changed our weather. We’ve changed the climate in which our weather happens. climatelabbook.substack.com/p/learning-f...
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Learning from the summers of 1976 and 2026
We have changed the climate in which our weather happens
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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Just what we need after a summer of extreme heat, drought, and uncontrollable wildfires 🙂🙂🙂 #datacentres #climatecrisis
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