So when Starmer said there's no money for lifting people out of poverty, or ending austerity, what he really meant was that he intends to siphon the money off to pay for war-toys controlled by the US.

You can read more about the guardrails in this thread (and book) - the task then is to find ways to push through them yourself:

'The current conversation[s] around net zero... do not target the underlying political dimensions of environmental decay'

Dr. Peter Sutoris explains the impact of this in this new article undark.org/2024/04/11/opi…, he's pushing through at least one of the guardrails Chris Shaw identifies

Albert Pinto Chris Shaw The problem was always the desire to make dealing with climate change 1) a cost-benefit analysis driven exercise and 2) focusing on policy vs demand side actions. The former always runs into issues of tractability and cost while the latter builds resentment for govt decisions

Yep.

'I've never seen cause for hope...but I've learned to live without it.'

abc.net.au/religion/rober…

There's rarely been a more extraordinary military failure as 'operation prosperity guardian', it's almost unbelievable.

Think about that: an operation announced by Lloyd Austin in December as a broad coalition of the US Navy, the Royal Navy, the Royal Australian Navy, the Royal…

i know i have a strong bias here given i've been in Oil Country for most of the past year but as i get ready to leave truly i do not see anything 'happening' beyond business as usual. there is a lot of back-patting about how much safer, more efficient the industry is now

Before the Light Fades is out soon in paperback.
In it I trace my mother's uncompromising way of life, from her arrest for civil disobedience aged 19. And through to her decision to die peacefully by her own hand at the age of 75. A legacy of courage - and love.

'Few people in government are aware, for example, that the upper limit of sea-level rise against which London could protect itself has been estimated at 5m...

sea-level rise from 2°C global warming is likely to be around 10m'

civilserviceworld.com/in-depth/artic…

Andrew Feinstein, genocide scholar and Jewish former member of the ANC, on western complicity in the Gaza genocide:

'The so-called western world is prepared to sacrifice the entire architecture of international law that has been in place post-World War 2 specifically to prevent…

Unbelievable humans, unbelievable.

I have been looking at the extreme temperatures across continental Europe and wondering how my mental health would cope if such extremes happened here in the UK. It looks like I might be about to find out.

🚨Great new research on European attitudes to flying More in Common

Key findings:
✈️Most would fly MORE if they could
😳Flight shame is a minority view
👎People don't trust airlines on climate
💷Age+income, not climate concern, drive flying behaviour
moreincommon.org.uk/our-work/resea…

🚨 Huge news: The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Switzerland's efforts to meet its emission reduction targets have been woefully inadequate.

The ruling is binding and could influence the law in 46 countries, including the UK.
bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

🚨🇮🇱 ISRAELIS blindfolded this man in the West Bank, forced him to run, then shot him in the back of the head.

How it works. 👇

When we talk about #decolonizing #research #methodologies , we end up asking how does one translate epistemic disobedience into action? At a time when decolonisation is getting appropriated by ethno nationalist rightist politics, how does one respond to such developments?....

Malm at his finest. From fossil capitalism to fossil empire, On Steam power and the pulverization of Gaza
versobooks.com/blogs/news/the…

Chris Shaw Yes. Abstract climate duscourse doesn't work. We need to embed the ecological emergency in day to day politics. It's in line with good social science and sound political strategy.

Here's a thing I increasingly encounter in my work - people are sick and tired of talking about climate change.

Perhaps 20 years of surveys and consultations against a backdrop ofaccelerating climate breakdown has left people disillusioned.