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Conductor, cellist, founder of Wild Arts Opera

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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“carbon dioxide emissions from the top 111 fossil fuel companies from the burning of coal, oil and gas between 1991 and 2020 accounted for up to $28 trillion in global economic damages from heat waves alone.”
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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Generations before us fought for walkable streets. They set for us the example we need today. Cleveland 1961: “WALL OF MOTHERS: … Approximately 200 mothers stood along the edge of the road, giving their schoolchildren protection from the traffic.”
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If The Times’ political editor didn’t challenge Kemi Badenoch on her banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social can the newspaper of record just make this simple correction?
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Before we spend vast sums creating oceans, clean air, and thriving ecosystems on other planets millions of kilometers away, perhaps our most important mission should be to preserve them right here at home. There is no Planet B. Let’s take care of Earth first.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just look at the Middle East. Decades of conflict for oil and power have turned paradise into poison: Massive oil spills coating the Persian Gulf Soils contaminated with depleted uranium and explosives Air thick with smoke from burning wells and bombed infrastructure
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve walked the fields at dawn for years. The air used to hum with bees. Now it’s quieter every season. What most people never see is the scale: over 3.7 million tonnes of pesticide active ingredients poured onto the planet every year — more than double what we used in 1990.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That’s the amount of heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. A number so huge it’s almost meaningless…until you realise it’s roughly 40× humanity’s annual energy use. The ocean is buying us time. We’re running out of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Declare Indigenous Lands in the Amazon Free from Extraction! Please Sign and Share… amazonwatch.org/take-action/...
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Declare Indigenous Lands in the Amazon Free from Extraction! | Amazon Watch
Add your voice to this global call in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples from across the Amazon.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sadly there was a climate & nature shaped hole at the heart of Burnham’s speech. Nothing on the benefits of nature restoration & same old words on a “pragmatic” approach to N Sea drilling. There’s nothing pragmatic about pouring fuel on a scorching earth - he should rule out Rosebank & Jackdaw now
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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The big difference is that solar+battery is fit and forget. Once it's installed, whether from China or anywhere else, it's yours and you are independent. No more payments to anyone. With fossil fuels you're an addict, dependent on your dealer who can make you dance to their tune.
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orlandojopling.bsky.social @orlandojopling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oil slicks typically cover an area of ocean 3 times the size of Spain www.euronews.com/2026/09/25/n...
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Mapped: Oil slicks cover an area 3 times the size of Spain every year
More than 90 per cent of the estimated oil pollution in the oceans occurs within national waters – including in protected areas.
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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Plant-rich diets are the food system's electrification. Petrol cars only see 18-25% of their fuel energy get to the wheels; EVs 87-91%. Heat pumps are 2 or 3 times more efficient. Food has its own combustion engine: a chicken turns about 13% of its feed calories into food, worse than a petrol car.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This year has been brutal, and like most people you probably want to do more about climate change. But what, and how? Great news – I’ve written just the book for you! It’s called What One Person Can Do and it’s a clear and simple how-to guide, a roadmap to help you make influential changes...
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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The €1bn spent on fossil fuel sinces April would have put 8kw battery & solar on 100,000 homes buying them energy freedom for 20+ years. The €1bn+ that will be spent over the next few months would bring that to 250,000 homes. What we lack is will and vision
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“It means that the risk of large-scale, persistent and potentially irreversible change is increasing, while our margin for error in tackling these problems is shrinking.” - Boris Sakschewski, lead author of this year's Planetary Health Check. In @theguardian.com. 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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orlandojopling.bsky.social @orlandojopling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🙁 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Jaw-dropping’: Super El Niño bursts through temperature record months ahead of peak
The ‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will heavily impact communities across the world
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Keir Starmer wasted two years trying to make Brexit work. If @andyburnham doesn't ditch Labour's red lines, he'll go the same way as Starmer. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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orlandojopling.bsky.social @orlandojopling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This!!! ⬇️ Particularly relevant to my area of classical music. Thank you @katharinehayhoe.com and @manuelsuter.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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The climate responsibility of cultural influencers - npj Climate Action
In socially influential fields such as elite sport, music, and film, cultural relevance is often invoked as a special moral status that exempts them from genuine emissions reduction. We argue that vis...
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass.  It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots.  This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There’s a family of four on this cargo bike. You don’t need an SUV, let alone a car.
Two adults and two children on a cargo bike
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
FYI, if you are in the UK, oil and gas receive around £3,500,000,000 per year in government support, mainly through specific tax reliefs and allowances. 🤯🤯🤯
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Delighted to see the traction for our letter calling for an International Panel on Inequality, that I signed alongside 1500 experts from across the world, including the wonderful Joe Stiglitz and Winnie Byanyima with whom it’s such a privilege to work. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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Global leaders urged to join initiative to fight extreme inequality
More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 19/09/2026
Invisible, toxic… and everywhere. Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) poison air, water, and soil—harming humans and ecosystems. No border stops these “forever chemicals“. It’s time to #BeatPollution: www.unep.org/interactives/beat-poll…
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"The environmental impacts of data centers are overwhelming. Data centers pollute the air and water, contributing to PFAS contamination and using enormous amounts of fresh water ... U.S. data centers are slated to consume more natural gas than all but the world's top four natural gas users[.]"
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The world needs more than just educated people; it needs people who understand that true progress can never come at the expense of nature. Humanity faces an uncomfortable truth: many of our greatest environmental crises are caused not by a lack of knowledge, but by a lack of environmental wisdom.
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Technology and progress lose their value when they come at the expense of forests, rivers, wildlife, clean air, and future generations.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And then there were none Its gut wrenching to see so many species go extinct and its all down to human activity Slender‑billed curlews are officially extinct They hunted it down and destroyed its habitat on its migratory route until there was not even one left theconversation.com/slender-bill...
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Slender-billed curlews are officially extinct – here’s why the loss of these migratory birds really matters
Why the loss of this species shines light on the global extinction crisis.
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A pro-Palestine protester is arrested for holding a poster reading “I oppose genocide I support Palestine Action” Over 3,500 arrests have been made since Palestine Action was labeled a “terrorist organization” by the UK.
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
At a time of ecological crisis,extreme weather events+a rapidly heating climate,Robert Macfarlane’s BBC Reith Lectures will examine what is in his view one of the most consequential stories humans tell themselves: that our species stands above+apart from the rest of nature. Only BBC does this. 1/
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Robert Macfarlane to challenge humanity’s ‘superiority complex’ in the 2026 BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures
The acclaimed writer will argue for the urgent need to re-imagine humanity’s relationship with the living world, in order to shape a more hopeful future on Earth
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Ilikecaketoo (UK) @ilikecaketoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A lot of news coverage on AI doom based off one tweet on a shitposting platform by a prodigal techbro. Do I fear superintelligence wiping us out? No, I fear incompetence and probably climate disaster, both of which could be somewhat mitigated by making tech companies more responsible & accountable.
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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orlandojopling.bsky.social @orlandojopling.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Wonderful article.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 30/08/2026
Dolly was so full of empathy, and he has none.
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Dolly Parton Knew What People Need
How the queen of country music gave unconditional cash to wildfire survivors — and proved basic income works
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
UK energy bills are the highest in the World and will get even higher. They are nearly 60% profit. France has Nationalised their Energy grid and their bills are 40% lower, and they still make a profit, and the people who sell them Uranium and Natural gas still make a profit too.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/08/2026
“Scientists and civil society have been warning about the very fact that these kind of events might happen in the Himalayas. ...This is the result of the delayed global action to deal with climate change.”
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Glacier Collapse: 2K Dead or Missing in Nepal-Tibet Flood Is “Glaring Example of Climate Injustice”
We get a report from Nepal, where at least 547 people are confirmed to have died and over 1,500 are still missing after a glacial collapse on Wednesday sent a wall of ice, mud and rock into a Himalaya...
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The human brain, with 86 billion neurons and a million billion connections between them, runs on 20 watts, less than a lightbulb. Think we may be going down the wrong road believing data centres, needing megawatts or gigawatts of power, with all the environmental & climate costs, are the way to go.
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orlandojopling.bsky.social @orlandojopling.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Aaahhhhh beautiful ! www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future
The long read: Our buildings are monuments to extraction and extreme emissions. But what if we turned from destructive concrete to timber?
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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Heatwaves show UK must do more to promote cycling and walking, campaigners say
Civil society groups argue climate crisis means transport sector needs to urgently reduce its carbon emissions
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
In the Green Party any member can propose a policy - it's part of our constitution & the rest of the membership decide to debate it or not. When the media present that as the Green Party "proposing" a policy they're misleading you - worth asking why the billionaire press constantly attack us.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Elon Musk is planning to spend up to $200 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.024% of his total net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.
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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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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here’s a graphic projecting massive and devastating #climate driven drying out of soils right across Europe by mid-century… …oh wait, sorry, that’s an ACTUAL reading from August 10th last. My mistake.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
"Low-emission zones," where car traffic is restricted, save lives -- especially the lives of children. The empirical evidence is unambiguous. But every attempt to create a new one is met by hysterical opposition filled with lies, because our societies are collectively poisoned by car-brain.
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London’s low emission zone is working – so why are cities around the world so cautious about clean air?
Similar initiatives have been launched from Barcelona to Bogotá, but they have misinformation, political pressure and vested interests stacked against them
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Giulio Betti @giuliofirenze.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Nuova ondata di calore. A partire dal 24-25 agosto il caldo tornerà ad intensificarsi sull’Italia meridionale, sui Balcani, sulla Grecia e sulla Turchia occidentale. Italia. Sulla nostra penisola maggiormente colpite Sardegna, Sicilia, Calabria, Campania meridionale, Basilicata e Puglia…1/8
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 19/08/2026
“We want you to tax us. We can afford it,” the campaign’s press release reads. “We’re not talking about higher taxes on those who get up and go to work for their income every day, but on the very richest whose income is derived from the wealth they hold.” #TaxTheSuperRich fortune.com/2026/07/24/1...
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120 millionaires have signed a letter begging the British government to tax them more: 'We can afford it' | Fortune
Millionaires including Brian Echo, Gary Lineker, and Simon Pegg have signed a letter to U.K.’s prime minister asking for higher taxes to tackle inequality.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The hellbound horror of GCSEs iandunt.substack.com/p/the-hellbo...
Once GCSEs started, that all ended. Education stopped being about learning and started being about passing exams. In fact, it barely counted as education at all. It degenerated into little more than a memory exercise. Can you take information from Source A - your revision notes - retain it, and then input it into Source B - the exam paper. This system produced very reliable exam results, which were used to promote the school to the next set of parents, but it did not produce, did not even aim to produce, people with a love of knowledge or a natural curiosity about the world. It was actually completely indifferent to curiosity. Speaking about it in that context would be like trying to insert Smarties into a slot machine.

At the point of GCSEs, we really do lose that greater educational virtue. We gain things - the work ethic, the need to perform - but we lose things too. And that loss, the complete absence of any genuine intellectual endeavor, is why GCSEs are often such a harrowing period.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Solar panel prices have fallen 90% since 2010, making solar the cheapest form of energy on Earth. oilprice.com/Alternative-...
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How Solar Panel Prices Fell 90 Percent In 15 Years | OilPrice.com
Solar power outpaced every other energy source in 2025, driven by falling costs, early policy bets and a global push for energy security.
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