Industries whose unfettered practices cause sacrifice zones would still be making giant profits if they adjusted their processes to be less polluting. That they don't reflects a greater value placed on profit than people's lives.

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Legend tells that a piece of sky falling to earth caught a spark from a star as it passed. From the place in the grass where the sky landed a tiny blue flower grew, the star's spark shining brightly at its centre. The star whispered to it 'forget-me-not' #FolkloreThursday #nature

Secret blueprint for nationalisation of Thames Water out tonight

You guessed it....Taxpayers take on the bulk of their £15.6 billion debt because they paid it all out to shareholders....
The benefits of greed and perverse politics

Exclusive by The Guardian John Collingridge

🚨SUICIDE RATE AMONG MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS 24% HIGHER THAN NATIONAL AVERAGE🚨

Perhaps instead of picking petty fights with us politicians could think about this for a moment?

Relieved NHS Practitioner Health won’t be cut but this goes nowhere near far enough.

We need meaningful change.

We agree with every word of this.

Please RT if you do too.

Our future is vanishing under a flood of apathy

(Dubai)

#ClimateCrisis

People in the media have convinced themselves that all of this is normal and that scientists are hysterical and there’s nothing much to worry about. The media is the problem.
Dubai / Spain / London / NewYork.
Far worse is to come. It’s barely begun.

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I've been up in the Hull area this week, and caught a glimpse of the most northerly chalk stream in the UK. Flowing through a mostly arable landscape, yet gin-clear with beds of stream water-crowfoot. A testament to good land-management. It can be done.

👇🏼Farm is not eligible for government compensation scheme - despite incurring £100,000 losses as a result of the flooding…..

Because, apparently, his local river isn’t a “major river” 🤦‍♀️

Every day you think that #ToryIncompetance can’t get any worse, and then, 💥, it does!

Bonkers Busway Cambs KeepWaterbeachRural🍃💚🍃🌍💚💙NPTFAA When Last Stand on Honey Hill hits the West End, it'll be the talk of the town!
Save Honey Hill 🍃💚🍃 team = AMAZING. 7 deadlines; 8 days of hearings; reading 1000s of documents; 95% then updated, 4/5 times; every single argument and detail countered with reason + truth. Incredible.

Eels: they're not the supermodels of the aquatic world but they are amazing, with a life cycle spanning continents, & they are critically endangered, along with Atlantic salmon whose diet eels form an important part of. ZSL are doing vital work to restore eel numbers.

Friends of the Earth Patrick Greenfield Justin Rowlatt Private Eye Magazine Chris Packham Natalie Bennett Green Party: Cambridge & South Cambs Mike Scialom Cambridge Zero BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Cambridge 105 Radio Friends of the Cam KeepWaterbeachRural🍃💚🍃🌍💚💙NPTFAA Extinction Rebellion Bury St Edmunds 🌍🍃💚🍃 mary beard

I don’t think I’ve ever been so cross / feel so sick / let down…. Being told I’m not eligible for the flood recovery fund! It’s a complete joke and insult. Talk about kick someone when they’re down! Andrew Ward 🇬🇧🚜 National Farmers' Union BBC News (UK) Paul Murphy Victoria Ward Robbie Moore MP

20:48 on Sunday April 7th, over the North Pacific Ocean

Crystal Fis 🍃💚🍃 Richard Murphy KeepWaterbeachRural🍃💚🍃🌍💚💙NPTFAA Residents Against The Florida Farm Developments 💚 St Helens Borough Council Steve Rotheram Freeport’s only benefit the rich, metro mayors and councillors who peddle their non worth. Not policed as such. No one else in society really benefits. But workers do pick up the costs, in supporting low pay; having less tax revenue flow into the economy.

Before they were ordained as weeds somewhere in recent history Dandelions were very much appreciated.

They are a visually stunning 🌼highly nutritious super food that 🐝 & other pollinating insects rely on whilst their deep roots pull up nutrients from deep within the ground

Tell us, what does this make you think of?

#UkFreeportHell #OxfordCambridgeArc ( but don’t worry about not being consulted; Peeps; Chris Grey 🇺🇦 says it’s all benign, and there’s nothing to see here) Your new , shiny Cambridge unelected ( P.E backed?) Consortium will be bound to be transparent and accountable , right?

Susan Chubb#FBPA⚫️#RejoinEU 💙#MIPO🌻🏴‍☠️ 🥀 Proof in the Putting—Not paying for blue tick! Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Financial Times EuropeanPowell dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 SheStandsWithUkraine👊 🌻 😷 #sayNOtoKOCH pamela.sammons A C Grayling #FBPE #Reform #Rejoin #FBPR An unelected consortium runs Camb city centre & river’s green spaces Since Alex Spencer rpt residents informed terms of ref for a new Civic Quarter been agreed. By whom? Residents & traders have separate meetings
Who decides vision & role city centre?
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Carer's allowance of £76.75 a week is means tested.

You know what isn't means tested?

The £110K Sunak has given every wealthy corporation on the High Street this year - Harrods, Star Bucks, McDonalds, Apple.

That's 27.5 years of carer's allowance for each rich business.