Ben Richards

Do: climate change & sustainability. Here for: much the same. Bread and roses, please. Quiff height and beard length may vary. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺

[Janet Johnson @JJohnsonLaw]

For anyone saying Trump didn’t say these things, @nytimes has receipts.

[@[email protected] @mrchrisaddison]

This person thinks he loves opera, but is precisely the kind of smug, self-delighted dimwit doing it the most harm. I went to the Eras tour AND Glyndebourne this year and they were both fucking amazing. It’s not a fucking competition, you tedious snob. Opera and Swift for all!

[bumblebreeze DIVEST @siberianpine]

The Chancellor of the Exchequer:

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

It’s as if none of the work on sustainable economies ever happened. Starmer bangs on about “growth” but growth of what, for whom, at what cost? Not all growth is good & as scientists concluded last week “In a world of finite resources, unlimited growth is a perilous illusion”.

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

🚨BREAKING: The English water system has been SINGLED OUT for criticism by the UN.

A special report criticised the LACK of TRANSPARENCY from water companies to the public - and a LACK OF POLITICAL WILL by those in power who have been 'co-opted or captured' by companies.

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

For most of 2000’s/2010’s I worked with climate scientists/renewable energy experts. They were wildly different crews of humans.

But one thing clear early on — renewable energy experts said Florida would be a solar powerhouse.

Climate scientists said, there won’t be a Florida.

[Dr Steve Westlake @steviedubyu]

Turns out @KevinClimate and other climate scientists have got it the wrong way round.

You see "The urgency of mitigating climate change cannot change financial facts"

King Cnut vibes in @thetimes

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

CCS *may* be needed for a few hard-to-abate industries but *not* to extend life of fossil fuel industries by enabling more gas power stations or “blue” hydrogen. Instead of recklessly locking UK into fossil energy for decades to come, money better spent on efficiency & renewables

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

If your bath is overflowing, you don't start investing in fancy new mops

You turn off the tap

[Matt Zarb-Cousin @mattzarb]

Rolling out of a meat wagon and giving an impromptu interview without speaking a single word out of place. Gotta hand it to this lad 👏🏼

[East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 @ELWaterworks]

A few days left to vote for us in @nlalondon Reimagine London People's Choice! https://t.co/5hyqJD9pUX

It would be so beneficial to the project to win and mean so much to everyone involved over the last 5 years, so please share and ask your friends and family to vote for us!

[Dave Throup @DaveThroup]

Summer 2024 was the coolest in a decade.

40 years ago it would have been anomalously warm for many areas.

Shifting perceptions in a rapidly warming climate.

[Extinction Rebellion Global @ExtinctionR]

The new @Starbucks CEO, Brian Niccol, is going to commute to the office 3 days a week by private jet.

Don't forget to take your reusable cup to the coffee shop!

https://t.co/OpYWC8qQR0

[Sir David King @Sir_David_King]

I'm in agreement with this piece from @whittledaway. The climate crisis is the greatest challenge of any generation, I fully believe this is the framing and thinking required to solve it. The challenge of our lives deserves the requisite response.

https://t.co/tlH57LJNKa

[Ben Richards @benrichards81]

The fact that the free water refill station at #liverpoolstreet has been replaced with a paid one is, frankly, bullshit @networkrail

[❤️ @umairh]

Trump is finisheddddddddd

[Sarah @idlewildgirl]

This post on Reddit, please think of this whenever you question the need for Pride events, representation matters 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Welcome to Manchester ❤️❤️

[Natalie Bennett @natalieben]

My letter today in @FT on #PlasticPollution and #PublicHealth.

These is hazardous material. The world needs a strong UN Plastics Treaty, and an end to single-use in retail.

And the UK is trailing badly on single-use restrictions. Work for @SueHayman1

[Tzeporah Berman @Tzeporah]

No, next question.