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Wen<p>Bonfire of the standards.</p><p>Who needs therm anyway, only the ill, the disabled, consumers, the public, exporters, wombles (have I left anyone out?)</p><p>Labour appear to be acting out their teeny tiny version of a wet Tory dream for those who would exploit and harm.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/23/britain-toxic-chemicals-labour-tory-brexit-regulations" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/jul/23/britain-toxic-chemicals-labour-tory-brexit-regulations</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Standards</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Safety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Safety</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Markets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a></p>
Christopher Miller<p>Vast areas of land are now dominated by one species – purple moor-grass – and good luck with seeing a bird or insect there.</p><p>An issue that I've not been aware of. The way we've used the land has caused tipping points to be exceeded to the detriment of ecosystems.</p><p>An important issue that will need political support to enable a complex solution, but will probably be ignored.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/09/britain-deserts-dead-zones-purple-moor-grass" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/jun/09/britain-deserts-dead-zones-purple-moor-grass</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Newstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NewsTooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewsTooter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecosystems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PurpleMootGradd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PurpleMootGradd</span></a></p>
Juggling With Eggs<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/@steevc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>steevc</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> is a good speaker as well as writer. Always succinct and and makes his points clearly, explaining terminology along the way…doesn’t baffle or assume prior knowledge.</p><p>This is a good recorded event I found of him explaining the premise of the book: </p><p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cnPDnnRvtQg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?v=cnPDnnRv</span><span class="invisible">tQg</span></a></p>
Juggling With Eggs<p>This <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> piece chimes with much of what I posted here last week about <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JSO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JSO</span></a> and the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Sunflowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunflowers</span></a> soup protestors…but I didn’t know about the previous of the judge, Christopher Hehir. Violent rich men or those who that are police officers, who physically and sexually attack their victims get suspended sentences, while those who attempt to draw attention to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateBreakdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateBreakdown</span></a> are thrown in jail. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/01/prison-uk-justice-system-fossil-fuel-industry" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2024/oct/01/prison-uk-justice-system-fossil-fuel-industry</span></a></p>
HelloMstdn<p>A wondrous fish has made a miraculous return to UK seas. Why are ministers so keen to see them killed?<br>George Monbiot</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/27/bluefin-tuna-uk-waters-fishing-industry-government" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2024/sep/27/bluefin-tuna-uk-waters-fishing-industry-government</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fisheries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fisheries</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GeorgeMonbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeMonbiot</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tuna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tuna</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>Recently I wrote about why I kinda like George Monbiot's work when he describes the problem of capitalism and climate crisis, but also think he's fucking delusional if he believes trying to tax rich people is gonna be enough to get us out of the ecological nightmare we're facing down because of rich people and capitalism:</p><p><a href="https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2024/08/03/nina-bytes-no-half-measures/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ninaillingworth.com/2024/08/03</span><span class="invisible">/nina-bytes-no-half-measures/</span></a></p><p>Nina-Bytes: No Half Measures</p><p>"Look, there’s nothing at all wrong with Monbiot’s argument that billionaire oligarchs should bear a greater taxation burden than they do now because it’s going to cost a lot of money for the human species to solve the problems primarily created by the capitalist activities of, you guessed it, billionaire oligarchs. It’s just that when George’s article goes on to explain that those very same oligarchs operate with impunity on a global scale, have enough money to literally buy the governments of our nation states, and clearly have no intention of ceasing to push our species right off the ecological cliff for profit, it becomes incredibly obvious that not only will they never agree to pay such a tax, but even if they did it wouldn’t do enough to address the fatal power imbalances he’s talking about here; facts that Monbiot himself more or less concedes in this very article."</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TaxTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TaxTheRich</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a></p>
JdeB [216.91 ppm]<p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> on <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a></p><p>I won't wait till this evening [🇳🇱 - time] to share this.</p><p>Monbiot is spot on on UKpolitics and on the global politics.</p><p>The center is owned by <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BigMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigMoney</span></a> and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/MainStreamMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MainStreamMedia</span></a>.<br>The same media are in love with popular ultra right. And because of that other developments on the left and green are ignored.<br>But George tells this far better: </p><p>"George Monbiot EXPOSES Keir Starmer's Hollow Victory" [12:21 min]<br>by Double Down News</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3zWYMCwy8I" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=H3zWYMCwy8</span><span class="invisible">I</span></a> </p><p>Quote by DDN:<br>"Jul 8, 2024<br>All is not what it seems...<br>Full 32min Interview: George Monbiot on the UK Elections, Gaza, PR &amp; The Rise of Reform on Patreon-&gt; ► / 107734157 &lt;-</p>
jd 🔆<p>“If Trump is installed in the White House again, the US government, always a questionable friend, is likely to become a clear threat to our peace, security and wellbeing. It will rip up what remains of global security and detente, environmental and human rights agreements, and international law. The age of multilateralism, flawed as it always was, would be over, and something much worse will take its place.”<br> -George Monbiot<br><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monbiot</span></a><br><a href="https://www.monbiot.com/2024/07/11/independence-from-america/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">monbiot.com/2024/07/11/indepen</span><span class="invisible">dence-from-america/</span></a></p>
Jo Rhodes<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>urlyman</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GeofCox</span></a></span> I love what Rachel is doing with <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/PlanetCritical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetCritical</span></a>.. I also have some real concerns about <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> - loved some bits of <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Regenesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Regenesis</span></a> but found his ideas on <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/LabGrownFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LabGrownFood</span></a> and that <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/pesticides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pesticides</span></a> would still be needed all quite incongruous .. on one hand he revels in the biodiversity in the soil on his orchard then a few chapters later talks about how pesticides and fertilisers will still be needed which would destroy that life in soil.</p>
Ivan<p>This is my first Mastodon post. I want to raise awareness of the dangers of climate change. And, short-term, in the run up to the UK election, I want to promote The Climate Party, the only UK political party 100% focused on climate/biodiversity issues. Any tips how best to do this, let me know...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatecrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climateemergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climateemergency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monbiot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/energytransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energytransition</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/renewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>renewables</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a></p>
HelloMstdn<p>Call me all the names you want – I won’t stop telling the truth about livestock farming</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/14/livestock-farming-soy-soyboy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2023/dec/14/livestock-farming-soy-soyboy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GeorgeMonbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeMonbiot</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IndustrialFarmng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndustrialFarmng</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Livestock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Livestock</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Meat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meat</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> mateCrisis <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecosystems</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CleanWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CleanWater</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecosystem</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GlobalHeating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalHeating</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GreenhouseGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenhouseGas</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GreenhouseGasses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenhouseGasses</span></a></p>
Bob Payne<p>Here’s a question Cop28 won’t address: why are billionaires blocking action to save the planet? <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/29/cop28-billionaires-blocking-action-save-planet-protest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2023/nov/29/cop28-billionaires-blocking-action-save-planet-protest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/COP28" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COP28</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a></p>
Pauline von Hellermann<p>The whole <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> piece ⬆️ is a mustread </p><p>“These are the state-of-emergency laws you would expect in the aftermath of a coup. But there is no public order emergency, just an emergency of another kind, that the protesters targeted by this legislation are trying to stop: the collapse of Earth systems. We are being compelled by law to accept the destruction of the living world.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ProtestBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestBill</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/PublicOrderAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicOrderAct</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ClimateDiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDiary</span></a></p>
Pauline von Hellermann<p>The coronation arrests are just the start. Police can do what they want to us now | George Monbiot | The Guardian</p><p>“The more unequal a society becomes, the more oppressive its laws must be.”</p><p>Great opening line here from <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Monbiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monbiot</span></a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/12/coronation-protest-arrests-police" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2023/may/12/coronation-protest-arrests-police</span></a></p>
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