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robertbarker328.bsky.social @robertbarker328.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Weekend @financialtimes.com front page 'chickpeas and lentils on the menu as dry summers change pulse of farming' #resilience #foodsecurity
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robertbarker328.bsky.social @robertbarker328.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Looking forward to @financialtimes.com inviting @guyshrubsole.bsky.social or @georgemonbiot.bsky.social to write a complimentary piece on a how to build a resilient land use strategy in the face of climate heating.
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robertbarker328.bsky.social @robertbarker328.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The agricultural nutrient debt: are we being good ancestors? www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-ph...
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The Agricultural Nutrient Debt: are we being good ancestors?
The essential reason is because British land cannot naturally support the volume of grains, pulses, vegetables, meat and dairy normalised in our daily diets. Without chemical nitrogen and mined phosph...
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robertbarker328.bsky.social @robertbarker328.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Great conversation with @aaronjbastani.bsky.social and @kevinclimate.bsky.social on @novaramedia.com, just let down by Novara's headline presenting Prof Anderson as a renegade. His analysis is spot on and must occupy the centre ground. Deeply uncomfortable, yet correct. youtu.be/mBFos_T7cT0?...
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Ex-Oil Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: We Face COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson
YouTube video by Novara Media
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.
Column by Allister Heath

Britain can’t stop climate change. Scrap net zero and embrace Mediterranean life

We’ve lost the war against global warming so let’s learn to handle hotter weather
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
'Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds' 🤯 🐔 A trend that's fuelling ecological destruction from the Amazon (rainforests cut down to grow soy feed for chickens) to the River Wye (full of chicken shit): www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Average person eats six times more chicken than in 1961, UN report finds
UN report says global meat supply has risen fourfold in last 60 years and is expected to keep rising
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Brilliantly insightful talk by @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social speaking at @gsiexeter.bsky.social on the systemic risks facing our food system. Unfortunately the sound quality is quite poor, but I found that I could follow along ok with the captions turned on.
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Professor Paul Behrens - 'Fragility by Design: Rethinking Resilience for a Turbulent Century’
YouTube video by University of Exeter
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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Another scorching day. The Climate Change Committee's ratings on how ready the UK is for climate change. 🟥 Red: Insufficient 🟧 Orange: Limited 🟨 Yellow: Partial 🟩 Green: Good Delivery: 0 good. Policies/plans: just 3. We're sleepwalking into this... but hard to sleep in the heat. 🧵 1/2
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/05/2026
River Wye formally recognised as living ecosystem with intrinsic rights
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River Wye formally recognised as living ecosystem with intrinsic rights
Charter to be adopted along river’s entire catchment from Cambrian mountains to Chepstow and Bristol Channel The entire catchment of the River Wye has been formally recognised as a living ecosystem with intrinsic rights in a charter, a UK first that campaigners hope will help save the highly polluted river. The charter was celebrated at a community event at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival on Sunday. It includes the right to flow, to biodiversity, to be free from pollution, to be supported by a healthy catchment, to regenerate, and the right to be represented, described as a “significant step” towards protecting and restoring one of the UK’s most beloved rivers. Continue reading...
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
David Attenborough takes on PHEASANTS! “Native to Asia, but now released into our countryside on an industrial scale, over 30 million every year… eating vast numbers of insects, reptiles and amphibians every day.” Time for the Government to regulate this out-of-control industry #SecretGarden
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Great news. Dartmoor is an ecological disaster zone masquerading as a National Park, as its ecosystems have been grazed out by sheep. Now this must change.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one. #NoBrainer www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...
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​​​​Cost of Net Zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock​ – CCC  - Climate Change Committee
The independent, statutory body tested its cost and energy security conclusions against different scenarios. It found that the total additional cost of a single fossil fuel price spike of 2022 magnitu...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot
It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
THIRTY YEARS since this process started, the COP still can’t agree about whether to phase out fossil fuels… Almost all of them are men, which is not unconnected I suspect
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robertbarker328.bsky.social @robertbarker328.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
With friends like these... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for taking bribes for pro-Russia speeches
Police say Nathan Gill received at least £40,000 while he was an MEP from Oleg Voloshyn, an alleged Russian asset
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robertbarker328.bsky.social @robertbarker328.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I began to see, while the pen might be mightier than the sword, the wallet is mightier than the pen. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot
Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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robertbarker328.bsky.social @robertbarker328.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
@iamhurst.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 👋👋👋👋
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The EU is a colossus. So why is it cowering before Trump like a mouse? | Alexander Hurst
With its woeful trade deal, Europe prostrated itself before the president. We need a leader who will tell him where to shove it, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
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robertbarker328.bsky.social @robertbarker328.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A new era” of ecological collapse, where rapid extinctions occur in regions that have little direct contact with people t.co/TnxXPpszzt
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe
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Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
WE WON! The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature. But we're just getting started. It was never just about Dartmoor. We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.
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robertbarker328.bsky.social @robertbarker328.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
26 tonnes of CO2, probably the only long term legacy of this momentary flex #royalfamily
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robertbarker328.bsky.social @robertbarker328.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
@kevinclimate.bsky.social , David King of @climatecrisisag.bsky.social says that the UK has reduced emissions by 54% since 1990 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - is this right? i am sure you have described our (overall?) reductions as negligible?
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I worked with Tony Blair when he put climate at the heart of UK policy. He must not now undermine that | David King
I support the Climate Paradox report from the Tony Blair Institute, but his foreword risks compromising what must be achieved, says David King, who was chief scientific adviser to the UK government un...
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Despite being advised by the Climate Change Committee to reduce the production & consumption of meat/dairy, the UK government has funded, every year, campaigns to *increase* their consumption: shorturl.at/mWMkq So here's a petition to ask for the promotion of plant-based foods: shorturl.at/HS5Ig
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WHY ARE WE STILL BEING TOLD TO EAT MORE MEAT?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/04/2025
The level of dark lobbying and PR campaigns the meat industry is engaging in right now is completely bonkers www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Please @bbcradio4.bsky.social don’t parrot Tory rhetoric about their plan to set the country on “a new path” to tackle #climate change. That’s not what they’re doing. Badenoch is trashing the science & setting the country on a course to be poorer and more prone to climate disaster
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Like clockwork , as soon as you criticise the fossil fuel companies and executives – out come the lobbyists and shady thinktanks based at and near the infamous SW1 55 Tufton Street .
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
85,000 signatures for our ban driven grouse shooting petition – thank you 🙏 Only 15K more to go to trigger a Parliamentary debate. Please keep signing and sharing govpetition.uk/p/700036 ✍️
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Exciting news! Project Drawdown receives funding to launch a new global food and climate solutions campaign! drawdown.org/news/project...
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Project Drawdown receives US$300,000 grant from the Seeding the Future Foundation for a global food and climate solutions campaign
Our mission is to help the world reach “Drawdown" as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.
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