SallyV

Writer, editor, proofreader, freelancer.

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

Today is #EarthOvershootDay the day we have used up what the Earth can provide for 2023
It’s only 2nd August and humanity's demand for nature’s resources has already exceeded the Earth's capacity to regenerate for the entire year
#WakeUpWorld
#OnlyOneEarth
@charliemackesy
@ciwf

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

WTF?! The UK is one of the world’s richest countries & we’re really going to tell our kids we can’t “afford” to pay for a liveable planet for them?? And we’re going to betray some of the poorest countries? This Govt’s moral bankruptcy is truly sickening https://t.co/W9meGgIlqB

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Monday 3rd July 2023, was the was the hottest day ever recorded for global average temperature.

And now we learn that the Govt is to drop the UK’s flagship £11.6bn climate & nature funding pledge, betraying populations most vulnerable to global heating.

https://t.co/HPwSzlvr7s

[Climate Defiance @ClimateDefiance]

How can you just sit here and smile? How can you go about your day with your brunches and birthday parties and bridal showers?

Whole countries could disappear. Billions could die from flood and fire and famine.

We have reached the precipice. Don’t you see?

[Michael Flammer #KlimaVor8 @Jumpsteady]

Professor Kevin Anderson is addressing all of us in very clear words:

»We are heading towards 3 to 4°C of warming across this century, an absolute climate catastrophe for all species incl our own. And all we are doing so far is giving rhetoric and optimism and greenwash.«

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[Bumblebee Conservation Trust @BumblebeeTrust]

With increasing concern about the lack of insects, including bumblebees, we take a look at the first few months of 2023 BeeWalk data to see what is happening. Read on and please retweet if you find this interesting.
@BBCSpringwatch #Springwatch
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[Changing Faces @FaceEquality]

Halloween can be difficult for people with visible differences when they see their scars, marks and conditions being used as a shorthand for scary.

This year, we've partnered with @FaceEqualityInt and @LeithAgency to ask people to be mindful with their #Halloween makeup looks.

[Bill Esterson @Bill_Esterson]

First we hear of hedge fund managers cashing in on the made in Downing Street kamikaze budget.
Now we learn of the appointment of a fund manager as a minister.
Not just any fund manager.
He’s a Conservative donor and the co-founder of Jacob Rees-Mogg’s investment company.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Government confirms it is lifting the moratorium on fracking in England, in response to the energy crisis. This is what the then Secretary of State Andrea Leadsom said in 2019 when she imposed the ban.

[Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole]

Come to live in one of the Government’s new Investment Zones - where bats will be killed, toads squashed, newts obliterated, and shit poured into rivers in ever greater quantities!

https://t.co/xG2j3zFap6

[SallyV @EditorSal]

@robjlloyd Jem Flockhart series by É S Thomson, maybe?

[Leo Hickman @LeoHickman]

The Daily Mail has - you've guessed it - given over its lead comment slot today to a writer attacking the "woke" "climate alarmist" Met Office.

I'd never heard of him, though. So I googled him.

He's a "speech writer and consultant" for "companies operating in the energy sector"

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

For every 30,000 tonnes of raw untreated sewage water companies pump into your river they collect £1 million in pay & bonuses.

Renationalise Water Corps.

[Ban Blood Sports @banbloodsports]

46 hares used as live bait for greyhounds at a coursing meet in #Donegal in January 2022. Two hares died from injuries and a third was “found dead” Join us in urging Ministers @DarraghOBrienTD and @noonan_malcolm to refuse a 2022-23 coursing licence https://t.co/Uf2BEDLryE

[Brigit Strawbridge @B_Strawbridge]

Just over 5,500 signatures on @guyshrubsole's petition calling on the UK Govt to protect and restore Britain's lost rainforests... can you help get it to 6,000?

https://t.co/FymqkMriTY

Follow Guy to find out more.

[Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway]

Among the best things we can do for climate, biodiversity and water quality would be the restoration of our native forest.

Large, connected, beautiful woodlands that are never chopped down but allowed to evolve indefinitely.

https://t.co/5thjuQzQa3

[Ruairí McKiernan @ruairimckiernan]

@djahmed_ireland thanks to all who flagged this link, sharing for others who may have missed it, as I did at first. https://t.co/1pLOKCzNr4