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Extinction Rebellion Oxford @xroxford.org · 22h

Destabilising impact of climate & nature crises on national security is:

“one of the biggest risks facing Britain”

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“food import supply chains are coming under pressure”

“prices of commodities increasing”

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@scientistsforxr.earth

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Tina Leonard 🧡💙 @leonard3tina.bsky.social · 22h

‼️‼️Seminal report ‼️‼️

-on THREATS TO UK SECURITY- ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

-of the COLLAPSE of critically important ECOSYSTEMS -

-being swept under carpet-

-by government-

-embarrassed by its failure-

-to provide any leadership on the issue 😡😡😡😡

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@juststopoil.bsky.social

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Tina Leonard 🧡💙 @leonard3tina.bsky.social · 22h

‼️‼️Seminal report ‼️‼️

-on THREATS TO UK SECURITY- ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

-of the COLLAPSE of critically important ECOSYSTEMS -

-being swept under carpet-

-by government-

-embarrassed by its failure-

-to provide any leadership on the issue 😡😡😡😡

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@juststopoil.bsky.social

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 2d

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan subject of toadying interview on BBC Radio 4 Today despite JPM’s climate wrecking record.

Instead of wedging themselves up Dimon’s fundament, Amol Rajan why not tell the truth?

JPM is the largest fossil fuel funder, $192 billion in last 4 years

#r4today

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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 2d

The campaigners did many interviews this morning but not one with any of the main broadcast organisations.

MPs and Lords will soon be briefed on AMOC collapse and the other threats facing us. Make sure your MP attends. See www.nebriefing.org

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

www.nebriefing.org

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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 2d

How much longer will the BBC, ITV, Sky, C4 and C5 hide AMOC collapse from the British people?

Campaigners were at City Hall today to demand London Assembly members start planning for the UK being plunged into a far colder, drier climate which would decimate agriculture. 🧵

AMOC campaigners with the AMOC bomb outside London's City Hall

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Extinction Rebellion Oxford @xroxford.org · 3d

Help JSO Stonehenge activists with out of court costs chuffed.org/project/1519...

Help JSO Stonehenge activists with out of court costs

Our world urgently needs a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, and there's one under negotiation. This is a proper, bottom-up initiative - 42 Cities and Subnational Governments across 6 Continents ...

chuffed.org

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 9d

“An essential guide to a critical issue. Please tune in.”

- @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Listen to the trailer on overshootpod.com

Episode 1 coming soon

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 7d

“Challenging, provocative, essential…offers a map to chart a course through the storm to a fairer, safer future.”

- @carolinelucas.bsky.social

Listen to the trailer on overshootpod.com

Episode 1 coming soon

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 5d

Overshoot Episode 1: Uncharted Territory

If the world didn’t win, has it lost?

We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next

Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...

PART 1: Uncharted Territory

open.spotify.com

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 4d

Episode 2: Carbon Suckers

Who’s going to clean up the mess?

We hear the story of how all climate plans are dependent on one big idea. But it might not even work, and we didn’t vote for it. And it all started in Swedish paper mills...

Listen to episode 2 now:

open.spotify.com/episode/49H1...

Episode 2: Carbon Suckers

open.spotify.com

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 4d

Where did climate change begin?

We tackle that question in the first of a series of bonus essays

We visit Coalbrookdale, where 300 years ago, something momentous happened

And the unintended consequences of it are coming back to bite us...

Read: strategicclimaterisks.substack.com/p/the-cookin...

The cooking pot that changed the world

A moment to take stock

strategicclimaterisks.substack.com

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 3d

“This powerful series exposes how our economic system is driving the climate crisis, while lifting up the courageous people charting an alternative path.”

- @jasonhickel.bsky.social

Find out more on overshootpod.com

Episodes 1 & 2 available now

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 3d

“An essential listen for anyone who cares about our present and future.”

- Clare Farell, Co-founder of Extinction Rebellion

Find out more on overshootpod.com

Episode 1 available now

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Netpol @netpol.org · 18d

VICTORY: citing "lack of evidence", prosecutors have dropped the trial against the Drax 15. They never had a case, but they kept defendants waiting for a year to somehow justify an astonishing £3 million police operation. This is yet another example of the repression of protest rights in Britain

Some of the Drax 15 defendants outside Leed Magistrates Court

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 24d

The summer is over - and for about 16,600 people across 854 European cities that doesn't mean autumn comes, but death. People who would still be alive if it wasn't for our burning of fossil fuels. - New study with @lshtm.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

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Tina Leonard 🧡💙 @leonard3tina.bsky.social · 24d

💀Heat deaths 💀
4,597🥵Italy
2,841 🥵 Spain
1,477 🥵 Germany
1,444 🥵 France
1,147 🥵 UK
1,064 🥵 Romania
808 🥵 Greece
552 🥵 Bulgaria
268 🥵 Croatia

85% of excess deaths: people aged 65 & over 😢😡

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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 24d

The summer is over - and for about 16,600 people across 854 European cities that doesn't mean autumn comes, but death. People who would still be alive if it wasn't for our burning of fossil fuels. - New study with @lshtm.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 24d

21st century Britain
where it's illegal to project an image on a wall
but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Sep 8

Jeremy Corbyn called the 890 people arrested at a demonstration in support of Palestine Action in London’s Parliament Square on Saturday people of “principle” and “courage.”

www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/pale...

Corbyn calls 890 arrested at Palestine Action rally ‘people of principle and courage’

Jeremy Corbyn called the 890 people arrested at a demonstration in support of Palestine Action in London’s Parliament Square on Saturday people of “principle” and “courage.” An estimated 1,500 people ...

www.independent.co.uk

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Sep 8

“Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza, UK government concludes.”

Well they would say that, wouldn’t they?

They’re lying. Get them to The Hague. Send the Arms bosses with them.

Lift The Ban. End the Genocide.

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Sign up: wedonotcomply.org

Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza, government concludes

A letter from David Lammy, sent when he was foreign secretary, says the war does not meet the criteria, though he calls Israeli bombing ‘utterly appalling’

www.thetimes.com

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Sep 9

They hid Banksy’s mural, reportedly pursuing the artist for criminal damage, and the public are taking it upon themselves to uncover the truth.

The UK judiciary has been corrupted by corporate interests who will go to great lengths to silence opposition.

wedonotcomply.org

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Insure Our Survival @insureoursurvival.bsky.social · Aug 27

This is about survival.

Our future depends on dismantling the violent and exploitative systems wrecking our planet.

Insures sell us protection while secretly financing harm.

Insure Our Survival are targeting AXA and AIG two insurers responsible, 8th-22nd September.
💗We will take back the power.

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 27d

Feeling overwhelmed by the endless waves of bad news?

That’s not an accident, it’s a tactic!
Authoritarians flood us with chaos to wear us down. They want us to stop paying attention.

But we can fight back.

💥 Resistance isn’t always loud.
🌿 Softness isn’t surrender, it’s strategy.

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TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · Jul 28

🥦 Is eating more plants in the future actually a choice? 🥦

@paulbehrens.bsky.social breaks down how the plant-based future will arrive in this #FoodTakes video with @rebelwrit.bsky.social

Watch the full video here: buff.ly/SJ1L1EY

@oxfutureoffood.bsky.social @oxmartinschool.bsky.social

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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 29d

We are at a crucial moment. This could be a tipping point for decision makers across society in understanding both the scale of what we’re facing in the climate and nature crises, and critically, the pathways available to address them.

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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 29d

Speaking alongside Lt General Richard Nugee CB CVO CBE, Hugh Montgomery OBE, Rachael Garrett, Hayley Fowler, Tim Lenton, Angela Francis, Kevin Anderson - we'll be briefing decision makers on where the UK stands and what comes next.

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