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Al Barnes 🇵🇸
@albarnes.bsky.social
Paramedic 💚 mountaineering instructor.
Tofu eating Ⓥ anti-imperial degrowth wokerati 🏳️‍🌈 Be radicalised by empathy, be kind, vive la résistance ¡No pasarán! 🐸
@greenparty.org.uk
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Palestine Red Crescent
palestinercs.org
UNRWA
unrwa.org
MAP
map.org.uk
MSF
msf.org/palestine
ICJP
www.icjpalestine.com
JVP
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
B'Tselem
btselem.org
Palestine Campaign
palestinecampaign.org
If not now
ifnotnowmovement.org
جمعية الهلال الأحمر الفلسطيني
palestinercs.org
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Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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George Monbiot delivers a perfect analysis of where we're at with capitalism on the new episode of Bold Politics with Zack Polanski.

Premiering on YouTube now: youtu.be/3xx6lNFx8tI
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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As world leaders gather in Brazil for the annual Conference of the Parties #COP30, The BMJ has published our annual climate issue.

This issue focuses on Brazil and the climate emergency, with a focus on the Amazon.

Browse the issue ⬇️
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
@kamranabbasi.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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NEW 🆕 Data-based framework of food system boundaries translates 9 planetary boundaries into the food sector. Study with PIK director Johan Rockström shows: Current food production & consumption already transgress all boundaries. Full news 👉 www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
In harmony with the planet: Framework for nine global food system boundaries
03.11.2025 - Food production and consumption are dominant drivers of planetary boundary transgression, according to a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). A research t...
www.pik-potsdam.de
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Exposure to hormone disrupting chemicals, PFAS, heavy metals + nanoplastics linked to rising testicular + prostate cancer + 52% fall in sperm counts, globally, report finds 👇
🚨A report commissioned by @healthandenv.bsky.social highlights link between harmful #ChemicalPollution and rising #infertility and hormonal #cancer rates amongst European men.

🧪Key chemicals of concern include endocrine disruptors, #PFAS, and heavy metals.

More in our news story👉 buff.ly/iRljN9V
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Deregulation - the dark path to poison in your lungs, excrement in your rivers, carcinogens in your food.

A growing movement in Brussels is spreading the message that asking business to follow rules leads to economic death. They're working hard to destroy EU environmental + chemical protections.
November 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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🚨 JUST PUBLISHED 🚨

⚠️ The 2025 @lancetcountdown.bsky.social report reveals climate change inaction is costing lives and livelihoods, and harming the economy.

❤️‍🩹 Protecting people’s health demands all hands on deck.

Read more: www.lancetcountdown.org/2025-report/ #LancetClimate25
October 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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"As a scientist, I've never had reason to be so concerned as I am today for the future we are facing," states PIK Director Johan Rockström as #COP30 kicks off in Belém, Brazil. The first ever Planetary Science Pavilion, under the mandate from COP30 Brazil, and together with Carlos A. Nobre,... 1/2
Raising the Voice of Science: COP30’s New Planetary Science Pavilion in Belém
YouTube video by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Here's my argument with Sir Bernard Jenkin MP about the report showing how the racist intimidation of Black and Brown NHS workers on home visits has been exacerbated by the far right's wall of flags.
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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The destructive obscenity that is rampant consumer capitalism continues to concentrate the planet's wealth in fewer and fewer hands

But the system responsible for climate breakdown will not survive it

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report
Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM