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Laratheescapeartist @lescapeartist.bsky.social · 17h

'..the wealthiest 10% of Britons generate more emissions from aviation alone than do the poorest 20% from all their activities combined' #flightfree

Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 1d

I know nobody wants to hear this. But we cant meet climate goals (aka survive the century) without policies to reduce demand for flights

Flight from reality: sustainable aviation, Jet Zero, and the technofix

This paper argues that rising aviation emissions, which are disproportionally driven by the wealthy, pose a serious threat to climate goals. Using the UK’s Jet Zero strategy as a case study, it exp...

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 22h

“Deafening silence” from UN aviation body on its failing net zero scheme is condemned by experts and climate activists

#climatecrisis
aeromorning.com/en/deafening...

“Deafening silence” from UN aviation body - AeroMorning

Climate campaigners have slammed ICAO, the UN body overseeing the aviation industry, for its “deafening silence” on the urgent need

aeromorning.com

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Laratheescapeartist @lescapeartist.bsky.social · 1d

No flying summer holiday laratheescapeartist.com/2025/10/08/n... Trying to work our the carbon footprint of our flight free summer holiday compared to if we'd taken a plane #climatechange #flightfree #holidaycartoon spoiler alert - we emitted less than a fifth and we had a great time!

A cartoon map of our flight free summer holiday from Brussels to England to Jersey to Carantec (in France) and home again

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 2d

a great thread with a mass of resources to help you think through "socio-technical imaginaries" — those contested discursive spaces where powerful interests try to shape how you think about the future

Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2d

Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently?

Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on!

So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵

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Laratheescapeartist @lescapeartist.bsky.social · 3d

March for the Climate Brussels - LOADS of people and such a good energy! #climatechange #brussels

Photo of the march against climate change in Brussels today

Poster by Greenpeace on Rue Belliard 'Time to resist the rich polluters '

People marching along Rue Belliard in Brussels - must have been thousands there

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Laratheescapeartist @lescapeartist.bsky.social · 7d

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c... nothing to see here....

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable

Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

www.cnbc.com

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 11d

This is fantastic by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social Articulates so well our (intentional?) societal regression

The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation

jmarriott.substack.com

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 11d

Just a box containing some numbers that should make every single one of us re-evaluate what we choose to do for the rest of our lives.

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Laratheescapeartist @lescapeartist.bsky.social · 17d

Brussels no car day is the best day even if it was a bit chilly! So much calmer and quieter and so many kids about on their bikes. This should be every Sunday #brussels #carfreeday

Series of images of streets in Brussels with no cars

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18d

perfect timing to have encountered this rebecca solnit quote this morning

For those of us whose lives are already easy, giving up means making those lives even easier, at least in terms of effort. For the directly impacted, giving up means surrendering to devastation. Giving up on their behalf is not solidarity. And I doubt that anyone in desperate straits has ever taken comfort in the idea that somewhere far safer, people are bitter and despondent on their behalf or have decided they are doomed.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 25d

After Paris, the IPCC justified the expansion of the fossil-fuel system by implicitly promising that we could "overshoot” 1.5C yet ultimately meet the target anyway.

What does this mean? Read my deep dive into Andreas Malm & @wimcarton.bsky.social's *Overshoot*

lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

The Point, However, Is to Change It | Los Angeles Review of Books

In advance of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton’s forthcoming book “The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late,” Genevieve Guenther revisits the authors’ 2024 title “Overshoot: How the World Surrend...

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Dr Steve Westlake @steveclimate.bsky.social · Jul 23

ICYMI: "Aviation now contributes a greater share of total UK emissions than the entire electricity supply sector. Continued emissions growth in this sector could put future targets at risk."

...said the Climate Change Committee (CCC) in their 2025 progress report
www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...

Progress in reducing emissions - 2025 report to Parliament - Climate Change Committee

Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 36 (1) of the Climate Change Act 2008. This report was laid…

www.theccc.org.uk

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Laratheescapeartist @lescapeartist.bsky.social · Sep 3

The EU wants to roll back vital environmental protections. Deadline to stop it: 10 September ⏰
Tell them to keep their #HandsOffNature 👉 handsoffnature.eu?utm=.share.b...

Hands Off Nature – Defend Europe’s Forests, Rivers & Wildlife

Stop the dismantling of European environmental protections. Stand up for forests, wildlife, clean air, and safe water - our nature depends on it.

handsoffnature.eu

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Laratheescapeartist @lescapeartist.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's the last day of the summer holidays for my daughter's tomorrow and I'm seriously considering running the 'how much TV would they watch if I never told them to switch it off' experiment. If I don't bring them snacks would that affect the outcome?

Laratheescapeartist @lescapeartist.bsky.social · Aug 24

I felt like this living in Woluwe St Pierre (one of the richest communes in Brussels) and being part of protest groups and legal action against airplane noise and getting absolutely nowhere. And reading this it's also so infuriating that people happily buy wood-fire burners to poison their own air

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 24

After the wildfires in Los Angeles County earlier this year, Calabasas residents thought it would be easy to keep hazardous waste from being trucked to their local landfill. They were wrong. “If they can do it to this community, that means they could do it to anybody,” one resident said.

Calabasas Residents Learn Grim Lesson Amid Toxic Landfill Controversy

Calabasas residents thought it would be easy to keep wildfire ash from being trucked to their local landfill. They were wrong.

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · Aug 23

“We have already entered the beginning of the age of non-tourism”

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Do heatwaves, wildfires and travel costs signal the end of the holiday abroad?

Leading researcher forecasts ‘beginning of the age of non-tourism’ despite industry returning to pre-pandemic highs

www.theguardian.com

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Alice Larkin @aliceclimate.bsky.social · Aug 22

I’ve been reflecting on my own input into the climate debate over the past 2 decades - a @tyndallcentre.bsky.social report coming soon 👀 - & reading this reinforces my own sense of sadness that messages about equity, sufficiency&need for demand-side transformation are still failing to cut through.

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · Aug 22

New piece on Carbon Colonialism, net-zero nonsense, and how the UK Government's climate advisors (and many experts) shy away from speaking truth to power. We need a fundamental reboot of climate policy; - physics doesn't care about political sensibilities. theconversation.com/the-uks-year...

The UK’s year of climate U-turns exposes a deeper failure

Breaking free of the dangerous pretence that current efforts suffice demands a fundamental rethink of the UK’s climate policy consensus.

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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · Aug 21

Across 142 routes in Europe, trains are on average twice as expensive as flights

On some routes, they are 26 times the price

Low-cost airlines profit from unfair tax exemptions, but trains are burdened with VAT, energy taxes and high track fees

Governments and the EU must stop rewarding polluters

Low-cost flights up to 26 times cheaper than trains - Greenpeace European Unit

Brussels, 21 August 2025 – A new Europe-wide Greenpeace study shows that climate-damaging flying is still cheaper than taking the train on a majority of  cross-border routes – even though…

www.greenpeace.org

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Aug 20

I often find myself saying "what a time to be alive" but friends, today, defector.com/it-took-many...

It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector

It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of compa...

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Eliza Barclay @elizabarclay.bsky.social · Aug 20

The great @jeffgoodell.bsky.social "The cooled are people like me, who work mostly indoors, bathed in the soothing breeze of manufactured air...The cooked are people like Matthew Sanchez, the pit manager at Terry Black’s BBQ in Austin." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

Opinion | The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked

www.nytimes.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Aug 20

Installing heat pumps in factories could save $1.5 trillion—and 77,000 lives [via @grist.org + @climatedesk.org]

Installing heat pumps in factories could save $1.5 trillion—and 77,000 lives

"The big surprise, in many ways, is how big the health benefits truly are.”

www.motherjones.com

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Stay Grounded @staygroundednet.bsky.social · Aug 20

Night flights = climate damage + sleepless nights

It’s time for airports to implement curfews.

160+ groups call for the International Day for the Ban of Night Flights at Airports on 13 Sept.

👉 Sign declaration & take action: stay-grounded.org/ban-night-fl...

#BanNightFlights#RedLinesForAirports

A yellow sharepic with an image of a plane over the top with a red line through it. Black text above says: 13th September, International day to ban night flights at airports.

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · Aug 16

Comedian Jerry Wayne Longmire discussing a Texas electricity bill as if he were in a Faulkner novel.

TXU is the Texas utility company and HEB is a Texas grocery store chain.

Funniest thing I have heard in a while.

www.youtube.com/shorts/EeZjq...

Electric bill in the south #comedy #faulkner #airconditioning #electricbill #heat

YouTube video by Jerry Wayne Live

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Stephen Leahy @stephenleahy.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Abrahm @abrahm.bsky.social · Jul 28

The craziest discovery about our global water crisis -- besides the fact that the continents are drying -- is that groundwater pumping is now driving sea level rise. @hrishikeshac.bsky.social @jayfamiglietti.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/wate...

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

www.propublica.org

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