The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change's recent report also details the health benefits of a clean energy system, which include: 🏃 Physical activity 🧘 Better mental health 🦠 Less disease risk 🍶 Food and water security 🏥 Fewer hospital admissions

The @UKGov must regain its position as a credible leader in climate action by delivering accelerated phase out fossil fuels at home while stepping up to international commitments. 7/8

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Here, temporal and geographical borders are unknown. We are all invited in: foreigners and locals, those with glasses or contact lenses or sleep dust in their eyes, men with their hair in a bun, and women in ties. This is what a utopia looks like. richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2024/09/04/lib…

ULEZ seems to have health benefits beyond reducing air pollution in that it leads to more children walking and cycling to school. UK Health Alliance on Climate Change bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

"Beware gentle knight. There is no greater monster than reason. That of course is the Spanish idea. You see. The idea of Quixote. But even Cervantes could not envision such a country as Mexico." richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2021/12/28/mex…

Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson acairnofpoems.com/2024/09/05/uly…

Strongly recommend this book. Got a good preview. It is being released soon. Eye opening and also sets the stage for things to come this century as India recovers its vaulted place after eight centuries of torpor. theguardian.com/world/article/…

A thought experiment: what should be our priorities when we finally “declare war” on climate change and the destruction of nature. bmj.com/content/bmj/38…

August was also the 13th month in a 14-month period where the global average temperature exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Will we like frogs just boil to death, or can we act? UK Health Alliance on Climate Change bbc.co.uk/weather/articl…

We ordered beers, tequila cocktails served in a large bowls, and guacamole “with all the trimmings." I saw the extensive decorations, lanterns, pinatas, ribbons, and lights. The effect was harmonious. I thought of the Renoir painting of crowds in Paris. richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2021/12/30/mar…

Coming as we find that the summer in the Northern hemisphere was the hottest ever and that 13 of the last 14 months have seen been 1.5C above preindustrial levels. Can we stop cooking ourselves?

The US has more guns (400 million) than people (333 million). In 2024 there have been 23 school shootings killing 49 people. Shooting has overtaken car crashes as the main cause of child death.

Tequila, the home of the sacred drink and Mariachi, is the heart of Mexico, Perla, our daughter-in-law, assures us. She is rightly proud of Mexico, its beauty, culture, food, drink, and music. richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2022/01/07/vis…

The Saudi gazelle, the Japanese sea lion, the Caribbean monk seal, the Christmas Island pipstrelle, the Bramble Cay melomys, the vaquita porpoise, richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2022/01/22/rec…

May the Angel of Compassion open your eyes To the unseen suffering around you. acairnofpoems.com/2024/09/08/a-b…

On Saturday 7 September, International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies and Clean Air, about 20 of us gathered in Mountsfield Park, a park that Ella loved and where she played, to Ride for Ella. Her mother saw us off and greeted us back. Ride for their Lives richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2024/09/08/rid…

1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything. 2. Do not think it worthwhile to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light....and eight others richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2022/02/19/ber…

We are with you. UK Health Alliance on Climate Change

“We maun gar wheat-flour serve us for a blink it’s no that ill food, though far frae being sae hearty or kindly to a Scotchman’s stamach as the curney aitmeal is; the Englishers live amaist upon’t; but, to be sure, the pock-puddings ken nae better.” richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2024/09/09/the…