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Robert Butler

@robert__butler

critic / journalist. PhD from @GeographyOU on how to represent the human-energy relations driving climate change oro.open.ac.uk/73497/ @BloomsburyBooks

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This could be significant - once people like Robert feel compelled to speak out at the scale of the injustice they are witnessing, the system starts to look vulnerable.

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By this definition, the Metropolitan Police would welcome the sentencing of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Emmeline Pankhurst… #WholeTruthFive

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Last week’s sentencing of five Just Stop Oil activists can be interpreted as climate denial. Not outright denial of the facts, but a refusal of the implications — Rebekah Diski in London Review of Books lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/july…

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The The Times and The Sunday Times reports more than 1,100 lawyers, academics, artists and celebrities have called for an urgent meeting with the attorney-general to address the “injustice” of the sentences given to five Just Stop Oil activists

The <a href="/thetimes/">The Times and The Sunday Times</a> reports more than 1,100 lawyers, academics, artists and celebrities have called for an urgent meeting with the attorney-general to address the “injustice” of the sentences given to five <a href="/JustStop_Oil/">Just Stop Oil</a> activists
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The charge of a conspiracy to cause public nuisance, which the five Just Stop Oil defendants faced, treats protest movements as a criminal enterprise — Graeme Hayes & Steven Cammiss in The Conversation #WTF theconversation.com/just-stop-oils…

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Climate change impacts and the transition to a low-carbon society are already posing fundamental challenges to key legal doctrines and principles — “Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer”, a new open access book by Julia Dehm Nicole Graham & Zoe Nay latrobe.edu.au/library/open-s…

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“This week has seen one of the greatest injustices in a British court in modern history” Signed this letter to Attorney General, along with 1,100 others defendourjuries.org/wtf/

“This week has seen one of the greatest injustices in a British court in modern history”

Signed this letter to <a href="/attorneygeneral/">Attorney General</a>, along with 1,100 others 
defendourjuries.org/wtf/
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Within a few years, when the climate crisis renders life untenable… Judge Hehir himself will be in the dock — Stewart Lee #JustStopOil

Within a few years, when the climate crisis renders life untenable… Judge Hehir himself will be in the dock — Stewart Lee
#JustStopOil
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“anyone who is attending to the daily litany of new temperature records and extreme weather events can see where we are heading unless we take extreme evasive action” — letter in The Times and The Sunday Times from Jason Scott-Warren #ClimateActionNow

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Theory was the most exhilarating thing to happen to literary studies since the days of F.R. Leavis lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…