@daveg@MazzucatoM Why do we need AI to tell us to stop pumping CO2 into the atmosphere? The only thing better modelling will do is more accurately tell us where the end-stops to our activities are. The action we need to take is the same. Why use our carbon budget on AI to tell us to stop polluting
Labour rightly & noisily are waving a big stick at the water industry over sewage pouring into our rivers & on to our beaches
But they ignore the key point: privatisation has failed. Water is an essential resource & should be in public hands as it is everywhere else in Europe
It is criterial to understand that everybody wants to draw a line under the problem and say “good enough” there.
Oligarchy defeated? Ok.
Universal healthcare? Ok.
For me that line is “people have more or less the same long life regardless of age or job title”.
Kerala model!
Today, the UK government announced that the military budget will grow to £50 billion, at a time when every other department is under huge financial pressure.
I asked the Defence Secretary what he is doing to bring about a more peaceful world.
Ascribing agency to technologies is a tactic of powerholders to misdirect attention away from their own role as protagonists and away from the interests being served.
🔴 NEW - The Conservatives received £3.5 million in “dirty donations” from polluters, fossil fuel interests and climate deniers in 2022
📝 New for @DeSmog
https://t.co/d928pMQwdJ
Following the overwhelming success of the nine euro ticket experiment last summer, Germany will introduce a permanent €49 pass this spring.
The monthly subscription will allow unlimited travel on buses, trams, subways, and local trains across every region in the entire country.
🚨 BREAKING: A27 IN SUSSEX BLOCKED
🚧 More disruption to come across the country according to the Met / @metpoliceuk / @metoffice
🚓 Chris, 46, who works as a Chief Constable said:
"We can't arrest our way out of this either."
#COP27#ClimateChange
I've called on @RishiSunak to urgently correct the record after he "inadvertently misled" the House during #PMQs by saying he'd only heard of allegations against Gavin Williamson yesterday. A former Tory Chair states he informed the PM well in advance about bullying allegations.
LBC journalist Charlotte Lynch was arrested whilst reporting on a Just Stop Oil protest, and spent five hours in a prison cell.
This is British press freedom in 2022.
Yesterday, myself, a documentary filmmaker and @tomsdinner, a press photographer, got arrested by @HertsPolice whilst filming the @JustStopOil protest from a public footbridge over the #M25.
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"How far do the British people have to be made poor before we start standing up for ourselves?"
@JustStop_Oil supporters spray paint over Bentley, Ferrari and Bugatti luxury car dealerships in London.
"Inequality is one of the leading causes of the climate crisis." #JustStopOil
@JustStop_Oil supporter, Peter, retired bouncer and Grandad from South London sprays paint on 55 Tufton Street, the office for various controversial neoliberal think tanks including the climate denialist Global Warming Policy Foundation, rebranded as @NetZeroWatch. #JustStopOil