Almost all of the world's glaciers are in retreat. The stability of the Holocene period is over. 2022 was the 35th year in a row that glaciers tracked by the World Glacier Monitoring Service lost rather than gained ice.
Carbon offset risk. As a result of fires, six forest projects in California’s carbon trading system have released between 5.7mn and 6.8mn tonnes of carbon since 2015, depleting 95% of all carbon credits set aside in reserve by forestry projects in US. https://t.co/89grEaSxE6
Why are we still building thousands of homes with no solar, no heat pumps, basic insulation, no water capture, no grey water recycling? Answer: maximizing profits of developers at expense of our environment & climate.
The Tories are to give DWP staff powers to arrest claimants suspected of benefit fraud. But HMRC staff won't get powers to arrest rich people suspected of tax evasion. Double standards or what?
Here's some of the things the Tories privatised.
Imagine how much better we'd be able to respond to the cost-of-living crisis if they were still in public ownership.
▪️British Gas
▪️British Petroleum
▪️Water
▪️Electricity
▪️British Rail
▪️Royal Mail
▪️British Telecom
Excellent run up to local elections for the Tories as they confirm that all they stand for is corruption, a wrecked economy, failure to ‘level up’, a Brexit so damaging it’s unimplementable, misogyny, a nasty immigration policy, anti-democratic legislation and ruining C4. Lovely.
A big reason why Brexit got through in the end was because people voted to make the grotesque spectacle stop. It didn’t. Toxicity has become embedded. The trick is thinking electing Labour will make it stop. It won’t. There’s only one way to make it meaningful. #GetPRDone