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In resistance against the corporate state, and the extractivist economy that is killing us. We act in love, for people and planet. #ClimateJustice #ClimateActionNow #EndFossilFuels #StopArmingIsrael Join the rebellion at https://joinxr.uk/london

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XR London @xrlondon.bsky.social · Aug 23

Reality of #ClimateCrisis for a grandma in Malawi - Gladys Khumbidzi first moved due to repeated floods. Then the water supply began drying up at her new home so she moved again. Now she is struggling to feed herself & her family as flooding one yr & drought the next means she cant grow enough food

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XR Salisbury @xrsalisbury.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you BBC Wiltshire for supporting our bid for a clean water site in Salisbury! 👏

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Ben Prater - Bathing water bid aims to improve quality of the River Avon - BBC Sounds

Official Bathing Water Status at Queen Elizabeth Gardens in Salisbury asked for by locals

www.bbc.co.uk

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Extinction Rebellion Plymouth @xrplymouth.bsky.social · 1d

When’s the last time you saw a hedgehog? 🦔 Their numbers are falling, so I just signed a petition to make hedgehog highways - tiny gaps in fences to help them - mandatory in ALL new builds. Add your name:

act.38degrees.org.uk/act/hedgehogs

Save Britain’s hedgehogs: make hedgehog highways law!

act.38degrees.org.uk

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 1d

Wessex Water CEO held personally liable 💩

A group of women entered the HQs of Wessex Water, Severn Trent Water, Southern Water & Anglian Water to make citizens arrests.

www.citizensarrestnetwork.org/press/2025/1...

BREAKING: Police called to arrest Water Company CEOs at Headquarters Across England - CAN - Citizen’s Arrest Network

www.citizensarrestnetwork.org

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 1d

They delivered dossiers of evidence accusing CEOs of being personally liable for damaging the public's right to clean water under the Public Nuisance Act.

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Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · 2d

Em and Mark on day 1 walking the length of the River Wharfe.

They walked through flood water and saw red squirrels, dippers, a heron, kestrels.

💙 Water is life.
We need water and it needs us.

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xrsoutheast.bsky.social @xrsoutheast.bsky.social · 2d

#FarnboroughAirportProtest A group of XR Waverley and Borders rebels were at Farnborough Airport on Sunday to protest against proposed expansion of the airport. Find out how to join them www.xrwaverley.org/.../09/29/fo...

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Extinction Rebellion Almere @xralmere.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! Now phase-out fossils asap!

Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 2d

Renewables have overtaken coal in the global electricity mix for the first time, @ember-energy.org has found
www.linkedin.com/pulse/renewa...

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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS 🎉: For the first time in history, renewables have overtaken coal as the world’s biggest source of electricity.

Solar and wind met 100% of new global electricity demand in the first half of 2025 and even helped cut coal and gas use.

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ShellsLies @shellslies.bsky.social · 3d

💯 recommend the heartwarming film #PowerStation, about a London couple who galvanise their neighbours to turn their street into an energy-generating powerhouse by all putting solar panels on their roofs - an inspiring illustration of transformative community led #ClimateAction
#energysky power.film

Power Station

power.film

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Scientist Rebellion Germany @scientistrebger.bsky.social · 3d

This October, two scientist trials will be held in France and Germany.

In April 2022, around thirty scientists and activists took over a gallery at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris to raise awareness, without violence, damage or public disturbance.

In October 2022, ...

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Sustainability Café
What can we learn from non-violent climate action?
Beliefs, values, consequences.
Monday, Oct 6th, 2025 | 7:00pm
Room 3220 | Leopoldstr. 13, München
Scientists from the climate action group
ScientistRebellion (SR) will face trial
on October 7 in Munich.
Join our café night to hear about their experiences in climate activism and to exchange ideas about climate action.
The event is open to everyone interested-especially students and academic staff.

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Scientist Rebellion Germany @scientistrebger.bsky.social · 3d

... several dozen scientists led a series of nonviolent civil disobedience actions in Berlin and Munich to denounce the lack of action to combat climate change. They glued their hands to a luxury car in a BMW showroom and were ushered into the offices of the BlackRock investment fund.

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Scientist Rebellion Germany @scientistrebger.bsky.social · 3d

As the repression for speaking the truth continues, so do our actions.

The trials will be held in Paris (Oct 10th) and Munich (Oct 7th). If you can, go to any of the support actions. If you want to support financially, donate to Scientists On Trial fund: scientistrebellion.org/scientists-o...

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Scientists on Trial — Scientist Rebellion

scientistrebellion.org

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Scientists for XR @scientistsforxr.earth · 3d

Silencing scientists who sound the alarm won’t stop glaciers from melting, droughts from deepening, or crops from failing. That’s not controversial: it’s physics.

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Change the Chamber @changethechamber.bsky.social · 6d

Despite efforts to silence #climate science, scientists are tirelessly rebuilding and sharing the truth online. It’s a reminder that facts about our planet’s future can’t be erased.

Despite the Trump Administration’s Best Efforts to Suppress It, Climate Science Is Alive and Well Online - Inside Climate News

Hundreds of scientists worldwide are collaborating to combat misinformation by making accurate climate information widely available to the public.

insideclimatenews.org

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Campaign against Climate Change @campaigncc.bsky.social · 6d

Kemi Badenoch getting rightly slammed from all sides for her pledge to repeal the Climate Change Act, Theresa May calling it 'catastrophic' and the head of the CBI saying it would be a backward step that would damage the economy.

Senior Tories dismayed at Badenoch’s ‘catastrophic’ vow to repeal Climate Change Act

Theresa May, Alok Sharma, business and church leaders say plan would harm UK and not even Margaret Thatcher would have countenanced it

www.theguardian.com

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Extinction Rebellion Deutschland @extinctionrebelsde.bsky.social · 7d

🌍🔥 When fascists lie, truth dies – and we must act.

Donald Trump stood before the UN – in front of the entire world – and rambled about the climate crisis as if it didn’t exist. A speech of pure denial, at a time when the planet is burning, seas are rising, and people are losing their homes.

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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING 🚨: Kemi Badenoch says she’ll repeal the UK’s Climate Change Act if the Tories win.

That means scrapping carbon targets, shutting down the climate watchdog, and locking Britain into fossil fuels right as the world heats up and bills soar.

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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 7d

This isn’t leadership. It’s reckless. Scrapping the Climate Change Act won’t cut bills. It won’t grow the economy. It will only make the crisis worse and lock us into a dead-end future.

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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 7d

Source: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

www.theguardian.com

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Zero Hour for the Climate & Nature Bill @zero-hour.bsky.social · 8d

📢 @metecoban92.bsky.social—Deputy Mayor of London: “The climate and nature crisis disproportionately affects those who have done least to cause the crisis in the first place. This is a massive issue of social justice, racial justice and economic justice.”

🐝 #CANBill #LPC25 #Lab25

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Zero Hour for the Climate & Nature Bill @zero-hour.bsky.social · 8d

📢 Helena Horton—Environment reporter, @theguardian.com: “Labour really needs to seize the moment and actually find their voice again, and have a positive message for the environment, and climate, and not one that’s putting their voters off.”

🐝 #CANBill #LPC25 #Lab25

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Extinction Rebellion Gambia @xrgambia.bsky.social · 8d

This morning, Extinction Rebellion Cape Town Red Rebel Brigade protested outside the African Energy Week conference taking place in Cape Town to highlight the
complicity of the fossil fuel industry in the climate crisis.

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xrsoutheast.bsky.social @xrsoutheast.bsky.social · 10d

On Friday Dirty Scrubbers South Coast 🤟🏾disrupted 5 Dirty Banks in Eastbourne. This video shows them cleaning up at Santander.

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

Uruguay proves renewable energy isn’t a dream — it’s a choice.

And it’s entirely doable — if politicians have the guts.

A humble professor called Ramón Méndez Galain showed the so-called leaders of Europe and the US how it can be done. 🧵

Ramón Méndez Galain, the humble professor who turned little Uruguay into a renewable energy giant

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

While UK Labour today flirts with expanding North Sea oil & gas, Uruguay shows that with political will, you can ditch fossil fuels fast.

Ramón Méndez Galain turned a whole country’s energy supply nearly 100% renewable

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