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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 17h

🏔 Forests in Canada store nearly 20,000 megatonnes of carbon. But species loss, fires, and logging threaten to flip them from carbon sinks to sources. Imagine the fuse burning.

Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 21h

🌡 German cities broke records for their warmest September night. Heat creeps even into the dark. Where will we find rest when the night itself burns?

Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 1d

🐟 North Sea cod face “grave danger of collapse.” Centuries of abundance gone in decades. We are living through the death of oceans.

Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 1d

💧 Lake Gatún, the Panama Canal’s heart, is projected to “decline substantially.” Less water means collapsing trade. Climate chaos will choke the arteries of globalisation.

Netanyahu: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 1d

Corruption trials, luxury living, far-right allies, and genocide in Gaza. Netanyahu isn’t protecting Israel—he’s protecting himself.
📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Bw...

John Oliver discusses Benjamin Netanyahu’s grip on power in Israel, why he’s allied with some of the most extreme voices in his country today, and finally, a summary of one iconic meltdown we think…

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 1d

Ostatnie Pokolenie has occupied the Polish Parliament since Sept 26 🇵🇱✊

Their Last Generation bill to fund rail over roads just entered public consultation — a real win for people & planet.

The oil lobby won’t give up easily, and neither will they.

Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 2d

There are 383kg of rubble for every metre of Gaza 🏚️

Dozens killed this week alone. Millions have marched — and nothing changes.

It’s time for sustained, mass nonviolent rebellion: occupy workplaces, disrupt the machine, stop the flow of blood and money.

Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 2d

War grinds on in Ukraine.

Airstrikes, fires, new conscriptions, and collapsing defences mark a war with no end.

A Russian drone strike on a farm created a fire that killed 13,000+ pigs.

Every bomb burns the future we all share.

Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 3d

🏚 In Belém, Brazil, landlords are evicting tenants to make way for COP30 tourists. Climate summits built on human sacrifice—irony burns hotter than the planet.

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 3d

🏙 80% of the US northeast is in drought. Yes—New York City too. Imagine wildfires in Manhattan.

Collapse isn’t distant. It’s on our doorstep.

Extinction Rebellion founder to tackle street homelessness and drug addiction in Brixton

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 3d

Always worth remembering that the actions of the Suffragettes were often not 'peaceful': sustained campaigns of arson, vandalism & in some instances assault. If anyone tried that today they would likely end up in prison for a very long time. @rogerhallam.com got 5 years for attending a Zoom call.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 4d

On reports the Home Secretary plans to grant police more powers to prevent ‘repeated protests’, Greenpeace UK:

“Protest works because it is repetitive. If police had told the Suffragettes or civil rights activists ‘you’ve made your point,’ they would never have won the victories we all enjoy today"

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 4d

After a year in prison, my friend Roger Hallam is back — already doorknocking and organising assemblies in Brixton to tackle homelessness and rebuild community.

Revolution isn’t just protest.
It’s rebuilding society from below. 🌱

New community organising group Assemble held a meeting on Thursday evening at the Edmundsbury Community Hall to hear local views on the problems of street homelessness, drug addiction and mental il…

www.brixtonbuzz.com

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 4d

The west has given this rogue state the freedom to do anything it wants - from genocide to extra-judicial killings, to piracy on the high seas

Its monstrous leaders, and all those resposible for their appalling crimes, must be made to pay

www.thecanary.co/global/world...

BREAKING: Israeli authorities have beaten Greta Thunberg, made her kiss Zionist flag

Released flotilla activist says Israeli authorities "dragged little Greta Thunberg by her hair... beat her" and "made her suffer"

www.thecanary.co

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 4d

Israel is piling crime on top of crime on top of crime.

No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences.

Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’

Exclusive: Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian. According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 4d

🌵 Türkiye’s rainfall has dropped 27% in 30 years. In the southeast, 60%. Crops wither, people flee. Drought is no longer a warning—it’s here.

Donate to Save Larch’s home from HS2, organized by Merlin Matthews

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Grey Area @greyarea22.bsky.social · 5d

Support this man. He’s a total hero ❤️💥✊

Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 5d

My friend Dr. Larch Maxey has spent 40 years on the frontlines — from tree sits to 27 days in a tunnel under Euston. Now HS2 wants to take his only home. We’ve 3 weeks to raise £25k. Please donate & share:

Hi, Dr. Larch Maxey has dedicated 40 years to sustainability and climate solutions. In 2020… Merlin Matthews needs your support for Save Larch’s home from HS2

www.gofundme.com

Donate to Save Larch’s home from HS2, organized by Merlin Matthews

Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 5d

My friend Dr. Larch Maxey has spent 40 years on the frontlines — from tree sits to 27 days in a tunnel under Euston. Now HS2 wants to take his only home. We’ve 3 weeks to raise £25k. Please donate & share:

Hi, Dr. Larch Maxey has dedicated 40 years to sustainability and climate solutions. In 2020… Merlin Matthews needs your support for Save Larch’s home from HS2

www.gofundme.com

Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 5d

🧬 Scientists warn bird flu could mutate in cow udders into a new pandemic strain. Millions of chickens & turkeys already culled. Systemic exploitation always breeds new disasters.

Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 6d

📉 29% of Americans with student loans haven’t made a payment in 90+ days. Food banks in the UK at breaking point. Debt, hunger, despair—yet markets climb. This is late-stage collapse.

Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 6d

Let the internet Gods decide your worth! Congrats 🥂

Some of UK’s biggest banks ‘investing ever larger sums into fossil fuels’

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 6d

Top 65 banks, including UK banks, committed $869bn (£648bn) in financing fossil fuels in 2024.

$7,900,000,000,000
over 9 years, driving climate chaos, deadly health impacts, crop failures, migration.

Banks profit from destruction and no govt stops them.

Which’s analysis follows research finding that the world’s biggest banks significantly increased their fossil fuel finance in 2024.

www.independent.co.uk

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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 6d

🗑 Humans waste 132kg of food each per year—while billions starve. Not because we lack food, but because our system profits from waste & hunger. Collapse is baked into our systems.

Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 7d

Trump told military commanders today that the ‘Department of War will stop wars.’

Orwell couldn’t have written it better. War is Peace. Ignorance is Strength. Madness is Power.