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Freaking out - & speaking out - on #Climate. Campaigning journalist John Gibbons [email protected] Blog: thinkorswim.ie thinkorswim.bsky.social

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Gave my 2 cents on latest Copernicus European weather report to ⁦Newstalk Breakfast⁩ earlier today. In short, global #climate system is accelerating towards a precipice & we need to hit the brakes on emissions asap. newstalk.com/podcasts/highl…

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Baffling to see how a proposed greenway in Carlingford, which brings huge benefits, has stoked such vehement local opposition. My contribution to this report on ⁦Claire Byrne Live⁩ yesterday begins at 8’00” below. rte.ie/radio/podcasts…

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Seriously, what do you think are the long term prospects for a species that routinely engages in such pointless atavistic savagery against the living world – and one another? (Faroe Islands, yesterday)

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Satirical magazines doing a far better job of conveying absolute horror of the ongoing genocide in #Gaza than heavily sanitised "both sides" approach of most media outlets.

Satirical magazines doing a far better job of conveying absolute horror of the ongoing genocide in #Gaza than heavily sanitised "both sides" approach of most media outlets.
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“Farming is the canary in #climate coalmine. It’s farming climate is coming for first”. Great thread by Keith Brennan on how farm orgs lobby for more & more of the same, even as the very foundations of our once-stable weather systems crumble.

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This week’s The Last Word on Environment with Matt Cooper coming up shortly. We’re discussing threat to wildlife posed by robot lawnmowers, plus Drax #greenwashing & bat 🦇 fungus deaths.

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“Scientifically, this is not a #ClimateCrisis. We are now facing something deeper. Mass extinction –really putting humanity’s future at risk. This is a planetary crisis” - Johan Rockström

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Gaza is “the biggest scandal in history”, an appalling crime against a civilian population, says former French PM Dominique de Villepin, “yet there’s a silence, the media don’t even mention it any more”

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Pod of this week’s ⁦The Last Word⁩ on Environment with ⁦Matt Cooper⁩ below. We discussed hazard robot mowers pose to wildlife, especially hedgehogs 🦔, plus spike in pesticide usage after outbreak of deadly bat 🦇 fungus led to more infant mortality. todayfm.com/podcasts/the-l…

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Might re-watch this old classic on RTÉ TV later this evening. To give it a more contemporary feel, just substitute “Krakow Ghetto” for “Gaza” and “Jews” for “Palestinians” and maybe then we’ll be able to begin to empathise with today’s Holocaust victims.

Might re-watch this old classic on RTÉ TV later this evening. To give it a more contemporary feel, just substitute “Krakow Ghetto” for “Gaza” and “Jews” for “Palestinians” and maybe then we’ll be able to begin to empathise with today’s Holocaust victims.
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Smart, sharp and on-point from writer Sally Rooney. Our current growth-obsessed economic pathway is the road to #climate chaos and ecological ruin. This isn’t a controversial or edgy take, it’s what the science has been screaming at us for literally decades.

Smart, sharp and on-point from writer Sally Rooney. Our current growth-obsessed economic pathway is the road to #climate chaos and ecological ruin. 

This isn’t a controversial or edgy take, it’s what the science has been screaming at us for literally decades.
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Terrifying news. Ireland btw is a MASSIVE per capita contributor to methane emissions. Ah well, a few people here are make money off it, so guess that’s alright then? scitechdaily.com/methane-levels…

Terrifying news. Ireland btw is a MASSIVE per capita contributor to methane emissions. 

Ah well, a few people here are make money off it, so guess that’s alright then?

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Czechia, yesterday. As we continue to heat the atmosphere with GHGs & pump up hydrological cycle, weather disasters get ever more frequent & severe until our capacity to recover & rebuild is eventually overwhelmed. That’s how civilisations end.

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More special pleading for a small cohort of intensive farmers to continue down an unsustainable high-pollution path that mainly benefits PLCs, under cover of protecting “family farms”, as explained by Sadhbh O' Neill - 🍉End genocide now in a 🧵

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Think about it for a moment: people desperately trying to prevent scenarios like this are criminalised and jailed for up to 5 years for *peaceful* protests against #climate breakdown. In truth, they are heroes and we owe them everything.

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Coming up on #TonightVMTV with Ciara Doherty and our panel from 10PM: 🚨 Support for Fianna Fáil among farmers hits historic low 🚨 One-on-one with Social Democrats Leader, Holly Cairns 🚨 Thousands injured after pagers explode across Lebanon Virgin Media News Virgin Media Television

Coming up on #TonightVMTV with <a href="/ciarathedoc/">Ciara Doherty</a> and our panel from 10PM:

🚨 Support for Fianna Fáil among farmers hits historic low

🚨 One-on-one with Social Democrats Leader, Holly Cairns

🚨 Thousands injured after pagers explode across Lebanon

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Contributed my 2 cents to a discussion earlier on ⁦TonightVMTV⁩ around nitrates, water pollution & Ireland’s derogation (audio not included here as Skype line was pretty patchy).

Contributed my 2 cents to a discussion earlier on ⁦<a href="/TonightVMTV/">TonightVMTV</a>⁩ around nitrates, water pollution &amp; Ireland’s derogation (audio not included here as Skype line was pretty patchy).