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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1h

#Climate breakdown already having a massive impact on crop yields

By 2050, the world is projected to need 50% more food, at a time yields of key crops could be down 30%

More than a halving of calories per head

Just think about that for a moment

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

One year’s worth of bread lost in UK to wrecked harvests since 2020, report finds

Worsening droughts and floods have destroyed wheat for 4bn loaves of bread and forced record levels of imports

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1h

Indeed. But the rich are never happy. They always want more

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2h

We all work within a system predicated on greed, short-term profit, exploitation and environmental destruction, designed to make a tiny minority richer than Croesus

Capitalism is an obscenity that will be terminated by the climate catastrophe it has caused

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2h

This is an appalling indictment of UK society in the early 21st century

A paradise for the rich, but a hell-hole for those at the bottom, who are left to fend for themselves or die

Utterly disgusting

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UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2h

We don't need these dangerous monsters in our towns and cities. Replacing a billion FF cars with a billion BEVs is idiotic, and would have huge ramifications for the environment.

What we do need is affordable, low-carbon, accessible, public transport

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 2h

I know

Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 15h

Probably

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 15h

The cellar has been doing this job for 350 years - used to be a store for cheeses too. We don't bother blanching any fruit or veg before freezing, to be honest, and it's always fine

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 15h

Disgusting plan to cut wages

If you are at DPD and not in a union, join one now

And fight this together

Otherwise they will continue to screw you individually

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

DPD couriers face substantial earnings loss from cut in delivery payments

Company vows to force through pay decrease in new year that will cost thousands of drivers up to £25 a day

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 16h

Individually wrapped in newspaper in a wooden apple store with slatted shelves, in our cool vaulted cellar 😊

Also peeled, sliced, and frozen 👍

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 16h

"Rachel Reeves unblocked a development of 20,000 homes that were being held up by a rare snail, after being approached by a developer with whom she said, 'we have a good relationship'

Not only stupid and ignorant, but crooked with it

Indefensible

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 16h

Today's apple pick up here in the Peak

Lots, lots, more still on the trees

They will keep us in pies and crumbles over the winter 😊

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 19h

Not true. Most people vape for the nicotine hit, whether you do or not. This is simply a fact, and why they are selling so well.

Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 21h

After compromising the climate COPs, the fossil fuel lobby - alongside their plastics and chemicals polluters - have now f*cked over attempts to reduce plastic pollution

Their zeal in ensuring that the environment is devastated knows no bounds

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UN plastics treaty chair to step down with process in turmoil

Exclusive: Luis Vayas Valdivieso says he is quitting for personal and professional reasons after reports of pressure behind the scenes

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 22h

It is not 'un-British' to protest over this Mr Starmer

You, in fact, are the one who is kowtowing to another country

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The ruin of Gaza: how Israel’s two-year assault has devastated the territory

IDF’s bombs and ground offensive have killed tens of thousands of people and reduced entire cities to rubble

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

I think nicotine is the point. No one would vape if there was no nicotine buzz

Vapes were invented to keep the vast amounts of cash rolling in as smoking became less popular

Corporate-led addiction

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to take up 2 parking spaces, obliterate any pedestrian or cyclist that gets in your way, and confirm to everyone who sees you that you are a complete twat...

This is the car for you

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BYD: Chinese EV giant sees UK sales soar by 880%

The Shenzhen-based electric car maker says the UK is now its biggest market outside China.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

I know you try to pretend it isn't happening Mr Starmer

But since this time, Israel has intentionally flattened Gaza and killed 60,000+ mostly innocent women and children

I think genocide is a pretty good excuse for protesting

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Starmer urges UK students not to protest as Israel marks two years since 7 October attack - live updates

The UK PM describes pro-Palestinian rallies, planned to mark the second anniversary of Hamas's attack on Israel, as

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

This is what capitalism does best - screws the poor and vulnerable; screws everyone

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Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Carbon offsets are, and always have been, a complete and utter con, designed to permit business as usual and free-market capitalism in the fast lane

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

This nasty piece of work is a racist arsehole of the first order

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like he should be kept in to do his homework

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

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally

Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

The tobacco industry crooks raking in the cash and popping the champagne corks as they drive a massive new wave of addiction and deliberately target teenagers

One of capitalism's greatest obscenities

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Alarming number of people now vape, says WHO

More than 100 million people, including at least 15 million children, use e-cigarettes, fuelling a new wave of nicotine addiction, say experts.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Is this some sort of sick joke?

How can she keep a straight face?

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A united Labour party is making Britain work better for all. We cannot allow our mission to be disrupted | Bridget Phillipson

I’ve delivered for tens of thousands of schoolchildren, lifting them out of poverty – as deputy leader I can deliver for all, says education secretary Bridget Phillipson

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

As we continue to obliterate the natural world, it is responding by swapping dazzling colours for drab greys and browns

Yet one more grim outcome of humanity's never-ending campaign of destruction

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fade to grey: as forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

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