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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 2h

Is your government still supplying arms and logistical & intelligence support to Israel? Do you agree that Israel has committed a genocide in Gaza? Does that make Starmer, Lammy and Cooper in danger of prosecution for crimes against humanity?

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 23h

Want the sustainable energy future that Africa is already moving swiftly towards?

Time to rise up and tell our governments to stop clinging to yesterday's disastrous energy source - and look south, where clean power, tech & hope are already lighting the way.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 23h

Africa's inspiring leapfrog over the fossil fuel nightmare highlights an ugly truth for Europeans and Americans.

The only thing slowing our shift to renewables is the capture of our political 'leaders' by Big Oil, billionaires and their media propagandists.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 23h

More than 20 African countries have dramatically increased imports of solar technology to meet booming demand.

3.7 GW of new solar capacity came online in Africa in 2023 alone.

Africans see that the future is powered by sunlight, wind and water - not planet-wrecking fossil fuels.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 23h

Ethiopia aims for 100% electrification by 2025, with huge solar, hydro & wind expansion.

And the country is building dozens of mini-hybrid grids to connect remote areas. The aim: to ensure no-one is left in the dark.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 23h

Mali’s rural village of Karan used to be dark at night. Today, the WeLight’s solar mini-grid + storage delivers affordable light & energy for all.

Bakeries, shops & school are powered by abundant sunlight not dirty diesel.

It's a grassroots energy revolution being repeated across the continent.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 23h

In Togo, the Blitta Solar Power Station (50 MW, expanding towards 70 MW) is now lighting up hundreds of thousands of homes + small businesses.

Battery storage ensures that power continues to flow even after the sun sets.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 23h

In Senegal, the Diass Solar Power Station (23 MW) now feeds clean electricity into the national grid.

Less polluting, more reliable power. Created by determined government policy & investment in an African country showing Europe and the US what the future of energy looks like.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 23h

Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil producer. But it's built huge solar mini-grids for rural areas.

Why? Fossil fuels are yesterday's problem producing
unreliable electricity from filthy diesel generators.

The country understands solar + batteries + local power = affordable energy justice.

Workers installing solar arrays in Nigeria

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 23h

Africa is skipping the polluting and planet-wrecking fossil fuel era entirely.

Solar grids and clean tech at massive scale mean that once-dark village are glowing with renewable light.

The future isn’t coming from the West — it’s rising in the South.

Smiling children with a mini solar grid in Africa

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Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 2d

Disgusting...
@ofcom.bsky.social has time to harass Irish gay radio station.
But is fine with criminal offshore media billionaires trashing Britain's democracy.🙈😪
#FreeOfcom
#FreeThePress
#BanMediaBillionaires
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Ofcom: LGBT radio head 'baffled' by watchdog's ruling over programming

Broadcasting regulator Ofcom found Juice Radio in breach of some of its "key commitments" of service.

www.bbc.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 3d

Feeling like the discourse around around #climate change is broken?

Tune in to this exciting new #podcast documentary, in which @laurielaybourn.bsky.social sets out a new story to make sense of our current moment.

A narrative that can help us nativigate the storm ahead ⛈️

Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 3d

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

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seachange12.bsky.social @seachange12.bsky.social · 3d

⚠️ To All National Guard and Active Duty Military

You do not have to obey illegal orders.

Call the GI Rights Hotline for support.

Honor your oath.

#Na'tlGuard #ActiveDutyMilitary

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 1-877-447-4487 or go to https://girightshotline.org/

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 3d

May be of interest.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 3d

Experts feared it would take 193 years to reduce London's deadly levels of NO₂ air pollution to legal levels.

This week Mayor Sadiq Khan announced his team had defied the howls of pro-fossil fuel and motoring lobbyists to achieve the life-saving target in just 9 YEARS.

Here's how they did it 🧵

Deadly NO2 air pollution levels in London in 2016 before the introduction of the Ultra Low Emissions Zone

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 3d

UK Labour's ongoing flirtation with oil & gas expansion is laughable in the face of what London did.

If we can slash NO₂ faster than anyone expected, we can do so much more.

Push for clean air, clean transport, clean energy — demand the same courage from all of our leaders.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 3d

London's fight back against the pollution killing our young and old proves political will is the key to life-saving change.

Claims it would take centuries were excuses to do nothing.

Opposition evaporates as the public health dividends of clean air for all and savings for NHS become obvious.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 3d

But their noisy legal and media campaign to keep London's air dirty and dangerous failed.

And between 2016 - 2023 roadside NO₂ in the capital nearly halved.

There were huge drops in the outer boroughs where right wing politicians most ferociously fought the clean air initiatives.

A map showing a huge drop in Nitrogen Dioxide levels in London since the introduction of ULEZ.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 3d

There were shrieks of protest from a toxic brew of billionaire-controlled national press, right wing politicians, and paid lobbyists for the fossil fuel, motoring and road haulage industries.

It was an unfair war on motorists, poorer residents and local businesses, they yelled.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 3d

In 2019, Khan and his team decided enough was enough.

An Ultra Low Emission Zone was launched to ban the most polluting trucks, vans and cars from Central London.

In 2023, they expanded ULEZ across the whole city.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 3d

What is NO₂? A toxic gas from diesel cars, trucks, and old boilers.

It damages lungs, worsens asthma, increases heart disease & even dementia risk.

In London, it causes up to 4,000 premature deaths a year, chiefly amongst children and the elderly.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 3d

Experts feared it would take 193 years to reduce London's deadly levels of NO₂ air pollution to legal levels.

This week Mayor Sadiq Khan announced his team had defied the howls of pro-fossil fuel and motoring lobbyists to achieve the life-saving target in just 9 YEARS.

Here's how they did it 🧵

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 4d

Another world isn't just possible. It's happening 👇

Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 5d

GOOD NEWS: Renewable energy supplied OVER HALF of the EU's electricity for the first time.

Denmark had a whopping 94% of their electricity coming from renewables in Q2.

This is PROOF: renewables are the future!

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 5d

GOOD NEWS: Renewable energy supplied OVER HALF of the EU's electricity for the first time.

Denmark had a whopping 94% of their electricity coming from renewables in Q2.

This is PROOF: renewables are the future!

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 7d

There’s still a lot left that’s worth fighting for.

RIP Jane Goodall.

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 10d

The future doesn’t belong to those who cling to the outdated and planet-wrecking energy sources and systems.

It belongs to those who build new systems.

Uruguay did it — we can too.

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