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

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 · 2d

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

open.spotify.com

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 5d

Is your MP attending the definitive briefing on the climate and nature crisis?

Go to our bio, lookup your MP, email if they are not confirmed.

Then please SHARE this post 🔥

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 6d

“An essential guide to a critical issue. Please tune in.”

- @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Listen to the trailer on overshootpod.com

Episode 1 coming soon

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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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XR Salisbury @xrsalisbury.bsky.social · 10d

This should be essential reading….

climatecriminals.uk/amoc/?link_i...

AMOC – Climate Genocide Act Now

climatecriminals.uk

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XR Salisbury @xrsalisbury.bsky.social · 11d

Fantastic photo taken at an Insure Our Survival campaign action last year by young photographer Will. His work has been shortlisted in the British Photography Awards 2025. Vote here to back the image and boost climate campaigning: www.britishphotographyawards.org/2025-shortli...

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XR Islington @islingtonxr.bsky.social · 11d

As well as #genocide Israel is committing #ecocide in #Gaza
After all the destrction and annihilation of life "reconstruction alone would produce #greenhousegases equivalent to the annual emissions of a medium-sized country"

War = ecocide

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#ClimateCrisis

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Christian Climate Action @cclimateaction.bsky.social · 15d

We are hearing rumours that some CCA folks went for an early morning stroll in Liverpool today.

And just look at who are now urging MPs at #LabourPartyConference to #StopRosebank 😁

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Netpol @netpol.org · 15d

VICTORY: citing "lack of evidence", prosecutors have dropped the trial against the Drax 15. They never had a case, but they kept defendants waiting for a year to somehow justify an astonishing £3 million police operation. This is yet another example of the repression of protest rights in Britain

Some of the Drax 15 defendants outside Leed Magistrates Court

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 16d

Sign today‼️(runs out tomorrow)
Stop airport expansion: halt all airport expansion plans - including Gatwick - across the UK
#FlightFree
#Gatwick
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Petition: Stop airport expansion: halt all airport expansion plans across the UK

More than 20 airports across the UK have expansion plans, which will result in a combined increase of 60%+ capacity. More flights means more emissions, at a time when we should be doing everything we ...

petition.parliament.uk

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 16d

➡️ Charlie Kirk
➡️ “Tommy Robinson”
➡️ The PR machine defending the Israeli government
➡️ The war on climate science

What have they got in common?

Their funders - a small clique of American billionaires. 💰

It sounds like a conspiracy theory - but it’s true. 🧵

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XRUK-Actions @xruk-actions.bsky.social · 18d

Those who’ve made trillions from destroying the climate must foot the bill for the damage they’ve caused.
The economy should work for the people who keep the country running, not corporations and billionaires.
#MakeThemPay #SystemChangeNotClimateChange
#ExtinctionRebellion
@makethempay.bsky.social

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XR Islington @islingtonxr.bsky.social · 19d

🚨 TOMORROW SATURDAY 20th SEPTEMBER 🚨

Join the #climate bloc

📍 Portland Place, London
🕛 12pm

SEE YOU THERE!

makethempay.org.uk

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XR Salisbury @xrsalisbury.bsky.social · 19d

Great to be working with FLOW (For Love Of Water) CIC to try to get Designated Bathing Water status for a site in Queen Elizabeth Gardens, Salisbury. We are holding a public consultation on Tuesday 30th September at the Quaker Meeting House. Please come along and find out more.

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supportinglife.bsky.social @supportinglife.bsky.social · 20d

BB energy don't sue South Sudan!

UK-based oil trader is SUING South Sudan for non-payment of debt!

It’s shameful that a country experiencing a humanitarian disaster could be sued by oil traders making millions.

I've written to the CEO to drop the case, will you:

tinyurl.com/yr4aksya

tinyurl.com

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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 23d

Is your community linked to genocide in Gaza?

Check out the Campaign Against the Arms Trade interactive map

caat.org.uk/data/countri...

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 28d

Technology makes us more efficient, so emissions fall right?

WRONG - because of the rebound effect which explains why emissions just keep rising even as tech becomes more efficient. 🧵

A graph of carbon emissions against energy efficiency, demonstrating the rebound effect: "We LED lights will reduce your electricity bills to a quarter of what they were. Now you can afford to light three new billboards!"

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28d

4/ Or...

Oh dear we're going to overshoot, but don't worry we don't need to urgently stop burning fossil fuels we can... use geoengineering to cool the planet.

Scientists: We've taken another look & it's "likely to have serious adverse and unintended consequences"

High-tech plans to save polar ice will fail, new research finds

The plans could also unintentionally harm fragile polar ecosystems.

theconversation.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28d

3/ Another example:

Oh dear we're going to overshoot, but don't worry we don't need to urgently stop burning fossil fuels we can... use CCS to store carbon underground.

Scientists: We've taken another look & the prudent storage capacity is "an order of magnitude less than commonly-cited figures"

Guest post: How the role of carbon storage has been hugely overestimated - Carbon Brief

Removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere is widely expected to play a key role in meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement.

www.carbonbrief.org

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28d

2/ The pattern goes like this:

Oh dear we're going to overshoot, but don't worry we don't need to urgently stop burning fossil fuels we can... restore Natural Carbon Sinks.

Scientists: We've taken another look & "the potential for NCS related to ecosystem restoration is close to zero"

Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration - Nature Geoscience

The maximum carbon sequestration potential from global terrestrial ecosystem restoration efforts until 2100 is 96.9 Gt, which is equivalent to 3.7–12.0% of anthropogenic emissions until then, accordin...

www.nature.com

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XR Islington @islingtonxr.bsky.social · 29d

Tomorrow 10 Sept protest against the visit of genocidal Israeli president Herzog.

5.30pm Chatham House, St James Square, SW1 where he's speaking

7pm Downing St where he visits Starmer

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The BMJ @bmj.com · Sep 8

The BMJ’s former editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was arrested this weekend alongside over a dozen other healthcare workers at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London while holding a sign reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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XR Islington @islingtonxr.bsky.social · Sep 7

Blockade DSEI - the arms fair showcasing the products of the merchants of death fuelling #genocide in #Gaza

Protests start Tues 9th 8am. Meet London City Hall

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · Sep 7

Amnesty UK Chief Executive Sacha Deshmukh sat down with @politicsjoe.bsky.social about Amnesty's decision to issue an Urgent Action against the UK govt for their crackdown on freedom of expression & misuse of terror legislation to criminalise peaceful protest.

Watch: amn.st/63320ADOJO

Free speech, Palestine Action, and Britain as a pariah state | Amnesty interview

Sacha Deshmukh is the Chief Executive of Amnesty UK. He came by the studio to speak to us about Amnesty's decision to issue an Urgent Action against the UK g...

amn.st

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