“An end to weapons production is directly tied to the project of degrowth, whose basic principle is to sustain life through a reconfiguration of the social relations of production rather than to destroy life for the sake of profit & growth.” Science for the People magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/online/a-mirro…

Billy Kelleher MEP✅
Deirdre Clune ✅
Maria Walsh MEP ✅
Seán Kelly MEP ✅
Frances Fitzgerald MEP ✅
Colm Markey MEP ✅
Chris MacManus MEP ✅
All voted for fast tracking of deregulation of some CAP environmental conditions of €387 billion EU Common Agriculture Policy budget. 2/2

Irish MEPs voting record this wk in European Parliament on whether to fast track deregulation of some CAP enviro conditions :
✖️= voted against, ✅voted for
Barry Andrews MEP✖️
Grace O'Sullivan MEP✖️
Mick Wallace ✖️
Clare Daly ✖️
Luke 'Ming' Flanagan abstain
Ciarán Cuffe didnt vote
1/2

It's SO weird.

Why do posts showing a *pet-like* human relationship with wildlife get by far the most hits?

What will it take for people to understand that what nature *really* needs from us is that we stop killing it off in a thousand ways?

“The Irish Times view on the European Court of Human Rights decision on climate change: key messages for Ireland:

It is therefore expected that it will bring about a new wave of climate cases in domestic courts in Europe.” 🤞🏻

irishtimes.com/opinion/editor…

BREAKING—This morning TIME confirmed that Google lied to its own workers, consumers & the press for years, and is in fact providing direct cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense and Israeli Occupation Forces time.com/6966102/google…

We understand that the Strategic Agenda that is to be discussed and developed next Wednesday and Thursday by Heads of State is woefully weak and blind to the triple planetary crises. There is still time for this to be fixed - recommendations here: socialeurope.eu/eu-leaders-may…

We’re simply not taking this seriously.

Farmers warn ‘crisis is building’ as record rainfall drastically reduces theguardian.com/environment/20…

[Incredibly, this is not a joke...]

DLR Cycling Tonight!

Exciting times red asphalt going in on Deansgrange Rd.

If you're interested in hearing about Ireland's Climate Change Assessment and Climate Change in the Irish Mind, have a listen to this SEAI podcast where I was invited on to discuss both, recently published by EPA.

Want to travel to Ireland from the UK without worsening the Climate Crisis?

Stena Line has an amazing £10 flash sale for foot passengers looking at sail & rail

Book before 19th April and sail anywhere up to 18th December for just £10
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Glad to see this story getting more coverage. 'Community resistance' to wind & solar is the result of a coordinated, well-funded propaganda campaign. Wild to me how often this is ignored. kalw.org/show/your-call…

Citations were always gameable and imperfect.

Apparently, they may soon be so easily gamed as to be useless.

What should be done? Proposals?

fiverr.com/brain_terry4/i…

👇 new article, 'Money as Medicine' by Eric Reinhart in the NEJM — the world's most influential medical journal — is about Universal Basic Income as essential health policy. 80-90% of health outcomes depend on economic determinants. UBI is preventive.

nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

We've seen so many of these media pieces on data centres over the past few years. They tell the same story:

'There are lots of data centres in Ireland & they use lots of electricity, but we need data centres so we need to find a way to make them more sustainable.' 1/3

I genuinely don't know where to start with that first comment 🤷‍♀️

The people who need to be schooled LEAST on how to bring down road deaths are the children most likely to be killed.

Victim blaming on an astonishing level and clearly shows that RSA Ireland just doesn't get it.