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Miranda Lewis

@mirandalewis.bsky.social
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Wanders. Watches. Wonders. Worries. Writes. Tries to tread lightly.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The Hamas attack on October 7 was a horrendous crime against humanity. But the only relationship between it and the even greater crimes against humanity being perpetrated in Gaza today is that it is being used as an excuse for what certain Israeli ministers and generals have long wanted to do.
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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The vital comfort of being outdoors at dawn — when I actually feel I have time to breathe deeply, space to think clearly. Wrapped in the early light is a precious sliver of quiet & calm, untarnished though fragile, filled with intimations of a slower bygone age.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This should be front page news everywhere
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 28/05/2025
Israel are starving babies, bombing hospitals and committing genocide. Netanyahu is wanted for war crimes. Just like Putin. Condemning his and Israel’s abhorrent acts is a first step but tiny - we need to go further - impose sanctions, not on a few people - on the whole country now.…. 1/5
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Miranda Lewis @mirandalewis.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Writers, thank you, for demanding immediate unrestricted food/medicine distribution in Gaza, sanctions should Israel pay no heed, ceasefire that guarantees safety for all, and release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. #GazaGenocide www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid
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UK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 23/05/2025
THE GUARDIAN: Labour's surprising U-turn on swift bricks ignites backlash as endangered birds face housing crisis. Activists and the public rally for wildlife-friendly building amid growing governmental disconnect. - by Patrick Barkham
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Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
WTF? If this Government can’t even agree to this smallest of initiatives, which has no cost to them & absolutely no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesn’t come close …
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Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
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Melissa Fleming @melissafleming.un.org · 21/05/2025
“We need this aid to enter now. It has to go to people who are desperate.” In this video, our colleague Louise Wateridge speaks from a UNRWA warehouse in Amman, Jordan, where supplies have been held up due to the 11-week-long siege.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
One huge problem with the big focus on tree planting is that a forest is not just trees - its a community of interacting plants and animals Most trees depend on animals to disperse their seeds, but seed dispersers are dying out everywhere www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Drivers and impacts of global seed disperser decline - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Many plants rely on animals to disperse their seeds, but some groups of these seed-dispersing animals are facing severe declines. This Review summarizes evidence of seed disperser declines and discuss...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Not really a surprise We are already committed to a 12m+ sea-level rise, sufficient to drown every coastal town and city on the planet The only question is how long will this take www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Sea level rise will cause ‘catastrophic inland migration’, scientists warn
Rising oceans will force millions away from coasts even if global temperature rise remains below 1.5C, analysis finds
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
"British 16-year-olds spend more time in exam halls than almost anyone in the world." At enormous cost, to #MentalHealth and the quality of education: #ExamFactories are no place to grow up observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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Tested to destruction: how an obsession with exams is failing our children | The Observer
How do we reform a system that works for some but writes off so many others? Investing in early childhood would be a good start
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Mike Berners-Lee @mikebernerslee.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Proud to be part of this and in great company including @chrisgpackham.bsky.social, Sir David King, @paulbehrens.bsky.social @sioldridge.bsky.social and many more. We are all in real trouble if we can’t get more truth into our politics and part of that is honouring the best science.
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 02/05/2025
The blockade on Gaza has left two million at risk of starvation, Palestinian representatives said at the opening of a case at the International Court of Justice
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Israel is using aid as a weapon of war in Gaza, UN court told
The blockade on Gaza has left two million at risk of starvation, Palestinian representatives said at the opening of a case at the International Court of Justice
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🚨It's been the UK's hottest May 1 ever recorded, and not a single mention of climate change in this BBC coverage. Also nothing about climate change in the BBC Radio 4 bulletin tonight on the same subject.
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UK weather live: Record broken for warmest start to May, Met Office confirms
Most of England and Wales are sweating it out, but it's expected to get cooler across Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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Roman Krznaric @romankrznaric.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
A message in support of imprisoned climate activists @just-stopoil.bsky.social @extinctionrebellion.uk @robinboardman.com
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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This Tony Blair statement couldn’t have been timed worse. It has distracted attention from the Climate Change Committee’s devastating verdict on this country’s climate-unpreparedness. …It’s yet another example of the net zero question eclipsing adaption!
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Landowners release 50million pheasants a year into the British countryside - and a new study shows how this is boosting the number of ticks carrying Lyme disease www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
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We’re Releasing Millions Of Birds. The Ticks Are Thriving
Each year, millions of pheasants are released into woods and fields in the U.K. for recreational shooting. As a result the bacteria that cause Lyme disease are increasing.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
They've mistaken Earth Day for April Fool's Day.
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On Earth Day, We Finally Have a President Who Follows Science
Under President Donald J. Trump, America is back — leveraging environmental policies rooted in reality to promote economic growth while maintaining the
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 21/04/2025
“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years. Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility. Those who will have to suffer the consequences will not forget this failure of conscience and responsibility.” — Pope Francis
Pope Francis receiving a warming stripes stole. Photo: Vatican Media
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis moved last summer to make Vatican City the first nation to run entirely on solar energy. In his writing, he made it clear that the climate crisis was about power in all forms--and about human dignity. The world feels much poorer today billmckibben.substack.com/p/pope-franc...
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
From 2015: Pope Francis's climate change encyclical tells rich nations: pay your debt to the poor - Pontiff’s 180-page intervention in climate change debate casts blame for ‘ecological crisis’ on the indifference of the powerful #climatecrisis #popefrancis 1/2
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Miranda Lewis @mirandalewis.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Is it too much to ask that heads of state and politicians sending tributes read Pope Francis’s ‘Laudato Deum’: www.vatican.va/content/fran...
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"Laudate Deum": Apostolic Exhortation to all people of good will on the climate crisis (4 October 2023) | Francis
Laudate Deum: Apostolic Exhortation to all people of good will on the climate crisis, 4 October 2023
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis leaves behind a legacy of compassion, courage, and a continuing call to protect our common home and all who share it with us. In his 2023 exhortation, Laudato Deum, he spoke out strongly against those who reject what science tells us about climate and deny their own responsibility. 🧵
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Live updates: Pope Francis dies at 88
Pope Francis, Latin America’s first pontiff who ministered to poor people with a message of mercy, has died. Francis stressed humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset with scandal and indiffer...
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
The total investment needed for net zero before it starts paying back in savings is £319 billion—according to the Gov’s expert advisers. That’s £5.62 a week per UK person. What a bargain for energy independence, clean air, warm homes, huge numbers of new jobs… oh, and a liveable future..! 🧵👇
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Living with a (now) healthy rainforest ecosystem, and knowing its biological diversity and abundance, it's impossible not to be deeply impacted by the contrast in any Irish upland. These places were mostly similarly covered in forest, and only taxpayer subsidised sheep prevent its natural return.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Britain, a trading nation, now has a vital choice to make about its priority trading partners: - the EU, where agreements are made, kept, reciprocal, based on international norms, & enforced by a court - the USA, where agreements are made, broken, changed & broken again at a whim, with no recourse
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Miranda Lewis @mirandalewis.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Fatima Hassouna, a 25-year-old photojournalist documenting and distributing food in Gaza 'despite the bombs, mourning and hunger' has been killed, along with ten members of her family. Please don't look away. Call this what it is: genocide. Demand its end. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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‘If I die, I want a loud death’: Gaza photojournalist killed by Israeli airstrike
Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family
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Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Gosh, USA, what have you done to yourselves? UK, never vote Reform, who support this regime. @UKLabour, we don’t want a trade deal with them, trade deal with the EU please.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Great response here to the government's Land Use Framework consultation by Rewilding Britain. Consultation closes on April 25th. Please make your views known. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity.
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Our beautiful birds of prey are routinely and illegally slaughtered on driven grouse moors . If you are as sick of this criminal persecution as me then please sign this ⁦‪@wildjustice.bsky.social petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Please RT
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AgrimonySpikes @agrimonyspikes.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Terrific post on insects that use hedge garlic. Transplanted some last year but not seeing them in the sward yet. Hopefully soon!
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 09/04/2025
Netanyahu loves Trump's plan to force 2 million people from Gaza & turn it into a billionaires’ Riviera. He calls it "voluntary migration.” It's not voluntary if you bomb & starve those who stay. It’s ethnic cleansing. It's a war crime. No more military aid to Netanyahu.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Lost in the trade war tumult: Gaza is a 'killing field', says UN chief, as agencies urge world to act on Israel's blockade
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Gaza is a 'killing field', says UN chief, as agencies urge world to act on Israel's blockade
Israel has blocked all supplies from entering for five weeks - the longest period since the war began.
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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Fantastic news - please help - very quick An Ace Labour MP (Barry Gardiner) has tabled something called an Early Day Motion which is a bit like an MP petition to gain cross-party support. Please email your MP simply asking them to sign it edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...
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Securing habitat for endangered swifts and other cavity nesting birds - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
This House notes with concern the dramatic decline in the breeding population of swifts whose numbers have dropped by 60% since 1995; recognises that the loss of natural nesting habitat for swifts and...
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
250 of the highest risk road runoff outfalls in England are within 500 metres of a Site of Specific Scientific Interest including protected rivers-with mercury, arsenic & other chemical horrors belting into waterways, according to data obtained by @endsreport.com www.endsreport.com/article/1911...
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 04/04/2025
The UK and Ireland nearly cloud free on April 2nd. Amazing colours over land and sea. Thanks to Sentinel satellites.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
No - not California or Australia - this is the southern UK last night A reminder that no-one and nowhere is now immune from the ravages of #climate breakdown www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Fire crews battle blazes across UK amid ‘very high to extreme’ risk for weekend
People urged not to light fires as crews attend outbreaks in Stirling and Dunbartonshire and on Dorset heathland
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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🧵 1/2 High-Risk Sunbathing. This Dunnock, sat on it's song post spent a good 5 mins in an extreme wing stretch position, whilst soaking-up the the sun's rays. A high-speed fly past by both the m & f Sparrowhawk is a regular occurrence at this location. The benefits of sunning in birds must be high!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It's not disruption that's being prosecuted in this country. It's dissent. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today | George Monbiot
It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissent, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
#Climate chaos is #9 amongst what worries the world. Before it are #inflation, crime, poverty, #unemployment, political corruption, #health, taxes and #immigration. What we forget is that a healthy #environment makes all these other issues better. www.ipsos.com/sites/defaul...
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Tina Leonard 🧡💙 @leonard3tina.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
🕯️*Quaker Meeting for Worship*🕯️ In support of all who speak up for truth & integrity in the face of increasing state oppression. *Outside New Scotland Yard* Thurs 3 April 12-1pm Join us in returning police violence & aggression with love & peace. Meet at Chindit Memorial, Embankment Gardens
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
3. Some of those who blithely recite the "end of capitalism" claim use it as an excuse for inaction. There’s nothing we can do, so let’s just imagine the end of the world. Political failure is, at heart, both a failure of courage and a failure of imagination.
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Ian Parsons @ianparsons.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
My guest blog on @markavery.bsky.social 's website asks What is the environmental & carbon cost of large scale tree planting schemes? A question of importance @iancarter67.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @chrissperring.bsky.social @donnarainey4.bsky.social markavery.info/2025/03/31/g...
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Guest blog – The Cost of Planting by Ian Parsons – Mark Avery
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I took this photo less than 10 years after the deer fence behind was erected. Before it went up, the land behind was just grass, exactly like the foreground where he sheep are. *Nothing* was planted here. "It's not rocket science" is an understatement. 🌍
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Jamie Rohu @jamierohu.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
If there’s one thing that induces ‘eco-anxiety’ in me, it’s the cutting back of hedges during the spring-time 🤨 This is my favourite time of year, but it also causes me significant stress when I see flagrant disregard for the Wildlife Act and Birds Directive play out in front of my own two eyes 😳
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
They're hanging up the hi-vis , but they've achieved their mission: no new oil and gas licenses is UK Govt policy . So , top work Just Stop Oil– some may disagree with the method but they can't fault your motive . The fight for a liveable planet continues .
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