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[Steve Perkins @Perky_43]

⚠️ What on earth is wrong with these children? What kind of homes are they being raised in?

🌍 Saffron Walden, Essex

Please speak with your children, and make them aware deliberately harming wildlife is a criminal offence.

A group of children were seen stamping on a litter of baby bunnies, this one was the only survivor.

He weighs 39 grams, and chances are he won’t survive his injuries.

Unfortunately we do not have a description of the children involved, but this isn’t the first incident locally that we are aware of.

Source Wild At Heart Rescue

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Solar panels have a lifespan of around 25 years. The International Renewable Energy Agency estimates that "large amounts of annual waste are anticipated by the early 2030s" and could total 78 million tonnes by the year 2050. Not exactly environmentally sustainable.

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Energy use by AI data centres in the UK could cause emissions of 123m tonnes of carbon dioxide – as much generated by 2.7 million people over 10 years.

So while cow burps are blamed and farmers get punished with a carbon tax on fertiliser, the tech giants are rewarded with AI data centre contracts.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

▪️By 2030, the global data centres powering artificial intelligence (AI) are projected to consume 945 terawatt-hours of electricity.

▪️To produce that scale of electricity, AI data centres will produce a carbon footprint of nearly 400 million tonnes carbon dioxide, requiring the equivalent of 6.7 billion trees grown over a decade to offset.

▪️By 2030, the water footprint of AI data centres will equal the basic annual domestic water needs of all 1.3 billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa.

▪️AI infrastructure is projected to generate up to 2.5 million tonnes of e-waste annually by 2030.

This is a staggering amount of natural resources being plundered and used for AI data centres combined with a huge environmental risk.

It appears that governments are facilitating the greed needs of tech giants before the essential needs of people. So much for ‘environmental sustainability’ and ‘saving the planet’.

[Darren of Plymouth @DarrenPlymouth]

Coldest June day on memory.

Where the hell is that global boiling they keep promising us?

So disappointing.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Water firm labelled 'worst-run company' after outages."

So first it's going to be Thames Water that gets nationalised, then South East Water, who's next?

https://t.co/kjFCW5qVz9

[Lembit Öpik @lembitopik]

Ed Miliband’s obsessed with cutting carbon dioxide by 87%. But CO2 is the gas of life and feeds earth’s plants. It also warms the climate a bit - another plus. Instead of junking CO2 we should junk Ed Miliband

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Climate Predictions have been going on forever and nothing ever came true.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

It’s Kaleb & Taya’s 10 year anniversary today, congratulations to them both! Here’s to many more!🍻❤️

[Simon Fox @SimonFoxWriter]

Since when was it standard practice for UK riot police to beat unarmed passive middle-aged men viciously with the sharp edges of their riot shields, and then repeatedly kick them when they're on the ground? Is this some new crowd-control protocol? Just asking for a friend.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

We need to stop the mandatory introduction of Folic acid into flour, it’s will be harmful to a large proportion of the population. So far no debate in Parliament just an announcement it’s being introduced into all flour in the UK including organic flour.
‘Safe and effective’ again ?

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Major British retailers axe 18,000 jobs as Labour's tax and minimum wage hikes bite https://t.co/3INLeW0tzU

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Supermarkets Shed 18,000 Jobs and Blame Labour Taxes and Wage Hikes https://t.co/BhBw9ZtSHT

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The Great British net zero con-trick of Drax.

The Labour government is trying to force through an extension that would give Drax an estimated £1.8bn in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11bn it has already received.

Drax has burned an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Burning wood creates 18% more CO2 emissions than coal.

And here’s the con trick: Drax is a sneaky way of exporting our CO2 emissions. We pay billions of pounds to cut down ancient forests in the US and Canada, ship the wood across the Atlantic in diesel tankers, then burn it in a Yorkshire-based power station.

And here’s the kicker - the CO2 emissions tally is not counted against the country that burns it, but the country that grows it. So Drax emissions are counted against the countries who grow and export the wood for Drax - like Canada and USA…not UK who burn it. So the UK can reduce CO2 figures by importing the burning wood grown elsewhere.

A gigantic net zero con-trick that is the exact opposite of ‘environmentally friendly’.

[GC14 @GC1407GC]

@LBC @NatashaC NATO, not Britain or anywhere close. That said, you consistently demonstrate a lack of intelligence.

[Raibeart MacunOighre 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 @Benlinebandit]

Labour couldn't save Scotland's only oil refinery at Grangemouth yet Labour are spending £1.3 billion on a theme park in England.

[Howard Cox @HowardCCox]

I’m quoted in the Daily Mail on 20mph limits being extended.

Yes, hitting a pedestrian at 20 mph is far less lethal than at 30 mph, but if the limit doesn't meaningfully lower average speeds, and DfT data shows it mostly doesn't, there is no safety cost-saving dividend. There has been no statistically significant drop in costly collisions or casualties in residential areas, as shown in the government’s own figures. Compliance is patchy, and enforcement is expensive and selective. 20 mph zones are costly, leading to stop-start driving as drivers' eyes are off the road and on the speedometer. Emissions increase when driving in high gear, and that isn't what most "20's Plenty" campaigns deliver. Safety only improves through better road design, enforcement of real offences, and targeting actual risk factors. Lower speed can help, but only when it actually happens. 20 mph limits are simply a dishonest and easy way to grab cash from one of the world’s already highest-taxed drivers.

https://t.co/8G9eVkxEQg

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The idea that in recent days whole towns and villages were blatantly, deliberately cut off from the public water supply because water companies haven't invested in enough equipment to treat and supply water is utter madness.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Water firm faces £44.7m 'enforcement package' for sewage failings."

Yet more BS from Ofwat, these companies have illegally being dumping sewage they should loose their operating licences, directors should be going to jail.

Govt needs, could and should fire the entire board of Ofwat today.

https://t.co/6CGmzWtLzo