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“We are the first generation to know that we are destroying the world. And we could be the last that can do anything about it.” #IStandWithGreta

[S @SjSjude]

@tophz_ This happened My kid waiting on appendix surgery- the stop-start happened 4 Times. He ended up having roughly an ice lolly a day because there was such poor communication between surgery, the ward & us. My son was in pain and distress. Basic communications rules seem lost in NHS

[DAERA @daera_ni]

🌬️Do you care about climate change & its impact on your future? We're holding two special youth events, part of NI Climate Action Plan consultation
👉First is @DestinedDerry Thu 18 Sep 6-8PM
📧To register email [email protected]
🔗More at: https://t.co/dvuBkvFGPd @nidirect

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

The top stories in Denmark's major newspaper are all about the no-longer-small probability that the AMOC will shut down in the coming decades, making both much of Europe and Southeast Asia largely uninhabitable.

Because Denmark is not insane, as so many Americans seem to be 😭

[David Ullrich @DavidUllrich202]

***WARNING***

IPCC Climate Models are Broken‼️

Dr. James E. Hansen in Conversation with Paul Beckwith

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Factcheck: 18 misleading myths about heat pumps | @janrosenow #CBarchive

Read here: https://t.co/LQPfraxM4R

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

This is the greatest argument I’ve heard for why electric vehicles are better than gasoline-powered cars.

[Ahmed El Mokhallalati @AMokhallalati]

It took the people of the town of Bath in the UK 17 hours just to read the names of the children killed.
How long will it take their mothers & fathers to carry that grief?
A lifetime — if they survive.
This is not just a list of names. It’s a generation stolen.
Stop the genocide

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Our answer to Marco Rubio's sanctions against Francesca Albanese pre-empted the US Secretary of State's ridiculous decision to vilify the UN Rapporteur. Read our letter, co-signed by Thomas Piketty, Nassim Taleb, Michael Hudson, Guy Standing, Jayati Gosh, Giuseppe Mastruzzo, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Robert H. Wade, Christopher Cramer and Nidhi Srinivas https://t.co/pe1JLPSkxu

[Department for Infrastructure @deptinfra]

A full range of @transportgovuk electric vehicle ChargePoint grants are available in NI towards the costs of installing electric vehicle charge points and infrastructure.

Please note the closing date for all grants has been extended to 31 March 2026. Grants are available for those eligible, including renters, flat owners, business staff, fleet car parks, landlords (including car parks), educational institutions and a workplace charging scheme.

Full details at: https://t.co/3PurEWkKOk

There are also a number of electric vehicle grants open until April 2026 for plug-in vans, wheelchair accessible vehicles, taxis and motorcycles. Full details here: https://t.co/tr7AJ1rvoj

[peterdoran @pfdoran]

Please retweet if you agree

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It can make you feel like you’re going mad. How phony and superficial it all is. How we’re a year and a half into history’s first live-streamed genocide and our whole society is acting like everything’s peachy.

We’re murdering kids. We’re starving them. We’re dropping high tech military explosives on them. Blowing their limbs off. Ripping their guts out. Shooting them in the head. This isn’t just being done by “Israel”. It’s being done by the entire western empire which backs these atrocities.

And yet if you turn on a TV you’ll see famous people laughing and joking about nonsense, expressing political opinions of no more depth and significance than whether or not there should have been a female Ghostbusters movie. Go read the news and it’s dominated by empty fluff about celebrities and politicians and the latest brain fart to come out of Donald Trump’s mouth. Go to a party and everyone’s nattering about vapid gibberish, yelling “No politics!” if you try to say anything about the holocaust-shaped elephant in the room.

Newer readers might not know this, but I used to have a lot more fun on my platform. Lots of humor. Psychedelic poetry. Spirituality and philosophy. But ever since the Gaza holocaust began, that kind of writing has often felt like it would be irreverent and frivolous. Almost sacrilegious. I would feel like I’m joining in with the madness of mainstream culture by turning my back on all those emaciated bodies and mutilated children.

So for the last year and a half I’ve mostly just been doing what I feel everyone on earth ought to be doing: pointing to the genocide and saying it needs to stop.

I used to be a lot more poetical and creative in my ways of pointing to the criminality of the empire, because its depravity was often difficult for people to really grasp, so I was always seeking out new ways to help people see its monstrosity with fresh eyes. Now that they’re just butchering children right in front of us, that’s not really what’s called for anymore. What’s called for is to keep drawing everyone’s attention to the terrible thing that’s staring us all right in the face.

This task shouldn’t be falling to university activists and obscure antiwar bloggers. Every news outlet in the world should be making this their entire focus.

If we had a sane and ethical news media, this is what they would be doing. All the leading stories every single day would be about the latest evil thing Israel and its western backers have done in Gaza, clearly stating in every headline our own government’s role in making this possible. Every press conference would be completely dominated with questions asking every western official why we are participating in an active genocide and demanding answers about when it is going to stop.

Instead we get “Palestinians perish in explosion” passive-language headlines, usually coupled with “…says Hamas-run health ministry” in order to let readers disbelieve the entire story. And that’s on those rare occasions that Israel’s atrocities get reported on at all; normally Gaza is seen as a third or fourth-tier issue of far less importance than some infinitely less egregious grievance in our own country. Palestinian lives are given vastly less weight than western lives, with our own feelings and comforts emphasized far more heavily than the issue of the Palestinian people living or dying.

And it can just make you feel like you’re going crazy. It’s like if we were all going around physically drenched in human blood, with blood flooding our living rooms and severed limbs strewn about our bedrooms and kitchens — but nobody was talking about it. You try to say “What’s up with all this blood and gore?” and they shush you and tell you it’s impolite to talk about politics. A dark red deluge pours out of your minivan door when you open it to pick up your kid from soccer practice, and everyone looks away.

This is happening. We know it’s happening. It’s happening right in front of us and we’re acting like it’s not. It’s so maddening and frustrating, and it can make you feel so powerless.

But we keep pointing at Gaza, because what the hell else are we going to do? The alternative is to join the lunatics acting like it isn’t happening.

At the very least, it’s a way of preserving our sanity. Preserving our humanity. Even if they do succeed in purging Gaza of all Palestinian life, at the very least we will have prevented the bastards from warping and twisting us into psychopathic freaks like them. Even if we can’t stop them from destroying Gaza, we can at least stop them from destroying our hearts.

[Jo Alsop, Warmur @theheatinghub]

Heat pumps are a political football, again :(

@theCCCuk said that 52% of homes need a heat pump by 2040, which is 14 million, not 17 million

Installations won't level out at 50k per year and so take 340 years to replace gas boilers - will there be any gas left?

But uptake has been hampered by heat pump and hydrogen misinformation

https://t.co/HB5EEgSoOs

[S @SjSjude]

@NewtonEmerson @RosieJayO_D But am sure you are aware it is very restricted - both by section 87 of the NI Act and the statement of funding. Devolved … but with their hands tied. Not ‘devolved’ in the way other powers are.

[Everything Electric @Everyth1ngElec]

The UK has the oldest and most energy-inefficient housing stock globally, with nearly 19 million homes rated C or below on the EPC scale, and so it's time to start looking at the options to try and improve insulation in homes.

Coming today on the Everything Electric SHOW ⚡

[Greenpeace Canada @GreenpeaceCA]

Families, wildlife, & entire communities in California are suffering from fires—fuelled by extreme drought & record heat—raging across acres, no end in sight.

Our hearts go out to those experiencing this tragedy.

Protect people, not polluters >> https://t.co/EdwHjkoyM0

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Toby Young is going to be a peer. Hooray. Just as my life was being saved by being put on a ventilator, Lord Toby was explaining that this was 'actively harmful'. (April 2020).

[S @SjSjude]

@AndyBelfast @duncan_morrow Just thinking of the people I work with. Some can’t get public transport but lots could.

[S @SjSjude]

@AndyBelfast @duncan_morrow If we were honest public transport would probably suit most people and allow those that genuinely can’t to use cars.

[S @SjSjude]

@StephenNolan @ShaunaReports @BBCSounds Got the train to work this week cause of the traffic chaos- really great. Didn’t have the hassle of sitting in traffic or finding parking space. Was easy and pleasant. Did same
For my Xmas dinner. Train service is great for those of us with access.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Must watch explanation on clean energy by @g__j on #BBCQT - also watch Tim Stanley squirm repeatedly when Jackson gives answers

Greg Jackson, "We've crossed the rubicon.. Clean energy is now cheaper than fossil fuels"

"Power from wind and solar is cheaper than power from fossil fuels"

"Consumers don't see the benefits because our markets are run in the old traditional way"

"We need market reform so when we build wind farms, people get cheaper energy"

"It doesn't help that we are paying wind farms to turn off when it's windy, instead of giving people cheap power at those times"

"59% of all of the renewable energy has been built in China"

Fiona Bruce, "They're also building huge coal plants"

Greg Jackson, "The majority will never be used, they'll be mothballed"

"Why are they building green energy? It's not because they're nice people. Now they recognise clean energy is cheaper, and energy is the engine of growth for their industry, they're investing in it"

"Six or seven years ago if you went to Chinese cities people wore face mask because of air pollution.. That's gone"

Tim Stanley, "If you have a period where the wind dies and the sun doesn't shine, what happens, you have to rely on back up.. Rely on gas.. Import the power from overseas"

Greg Jackson, "Allow me to help you with this answer.. As somebody who buys more power than anybody in the UK.. I can give you an authoritative answer on what to do"

"An electric car holds enough power in its battery for a typical house in the best part of the week"

"As more and more electric cars hit our roads, we have distributed storage of electricity, days on end, without wind"

"It's not the whole solution but it's a big part of it.. And it helps us reduce our reliance on things like those fossil fuel backups"

"It's always windy somewhere, it's always sunny somewhere.. As we connect our country to others.. When they're windy we get their power, when we're windy we sell ours to them"

"By the way, we are one of the windiest places in the world.. This is a huge export opportunity for the UK"