Air conditioning may offer relief, but it is not ecological wisdom. A serious climate response would mean shaded cities, trees, ventilation, better housing and less wasteful energy use — not endless machines cooling private spaces while the planet burns.
mind you we were already at risk of a global increase of 2°C pre pandemic, pre isr*el’s most recent slew of bombings, and pre ai. we have accelerated in the most extreme possible way and genuinely need to take drastic action and no one is treating this with the severity it needs
@adow8211@Heccles94 farage speaks for idiots and racists, who thankfully are only a *very* vocal minority in the UK, despite what everyone they like listening to, tells them.
Bristol is one of the most progressive cities in the country and wouldn't vote reform in.
The Trump administration is sending ships to rip 900 ocean sensors out of the Atlantic and Pacific — and Congress already told them twice they couldn't do it.**
They're doing it anyway.
I can’t believe how any person older than 20 can’t feel climate change through their own experience… Like, summers used to be less unbearably hot, and there was much more snow in the winter where I live when I was a child.
@tesla_jokes @DigitalDrift05@BladeoftheS I see you're dealing with a balmy 27 degrees, whilst those in London will be facing 34-35.
27 degrees is great, 34 without respite is not.
@tesla_jokes @BladeoftheS It's been hot 2 days so far/in a row, with another hotter 2 forecast for the next 2 days and it's not even summer yet...
What point do you think you have?
@chuck41299@Bloke_Baz Most people who don't do shift work could probably do their job in 25 hours.
Everyone paid hourly should be paid more for what they do, meaning they can afford to spend less than 40 hours of their week at work.
🚨🇬🇧 They’re not documenting London’s “decline.” They’re manufacturing it.
New GLA research found that:
🔺“London in decline” narratives have surged by 150–200% in just two years.
🔺Migration-related content is up 350%.
And this isn’t happening organically. The push is being driven by coordinated networks:
🔺UK far-right ‘patriot’ accounts
🔺Russian and Chinese state-aligned bot operations
🔺MAGA-adjacent outrage merchants like Tommy Robinson and Adam Brooks
One Vietnamese network reportedly used AI-generated imagery and fake local news branding to build an audience of more than a million followers.
Meanwhile, London’s homicide rate is at its lowest level on record.
So no, this is not fearless truth-telling or “citizen journalism.”
It’s narrative engineering, disinformation dressed up as reporting.
[SOURCE: GLA/BBC, April 2026]
They keep saying migrants are the reason you cannot get a home.
Sit with the numbers for a second.
There are 242,000 people in England facing the worst forms of homelessness. Around 32,000 asylum seekers are in hotels. That is the figure they want you to picture. That is the image they repeat.
Now look at what they leave out.
There are 998,000 empty homes in England. Over 265,000 have been sitting empty long term. Entire streets. Entire blocks. Locked up while people are told there is no space.
Then there is land. Not green fields. Not the last bits of nature left around towns. Brownfield land. Former industrial sites. Places already built on and abandoned. Reports show almost 1.5 million homes could be built there.
So the truth is uncomfortable for them.
This is not a shortage created by migrants. It is a system that leaves homes empty while people sleep in temporary accommodation. It is a choice to ignore brownfield land while threatening green space. It is a failure of policy not an invasion of people.
The numbers do not support the story they are selling.
Every person in temporary housing and every asylum seeker in a hotel could be housed without touching a single piece of greenbelt. The capacity already exists. The land already exists. The homes already exist.
Blaming migrants is easier. It is louder. It gets headlines.
Fixing the system would require actually doing the work.