WenA pertinent comment in these days of rising energy costs. And the costs of mitigation is just going to rise the longer we delay.
A good article by Monbiot.
So we have Mahmoud (and treat of the motley crew), Farage and the Tabloids on one side….
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/05/shabana-mahmood-immigrants-britain-history
“Of course, it shouldn’t have been left to advertisers. Then and now, it’s the government that needs to confront the lies in the media. Instead, it endorses them and grovels to the oligarchs.”
Fat chance
#Monbiot #Labour #Mahmoud #Farage #Prejudice #Racism #UKPol #HurrahTheBlackShirts
Don’t panic the Horses
The UK government didn’t want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I’m not surprised.
It might make you ask them hard questions about their support and subsidy for fossil fuel companies and chemical manufacturers.
One might almost think they expect to be dead before the rest of us seek to blame them.
#environment #climateChange ##maladminisration #UkPol #Monbiot
Aethel@sebastian @ksiazki dobra, poczulem inspiracje i 14 wjechala. George #monbiot / Peter Hutchinson - The Invisible Doctrine :) dzieki :) teraz musze pogapic sie w sciane i przemielic to wnglowie
Im reading the #invisibledoctrine by #monbiot and i got to the bit where social mammals,when given the choice between physical pain and social isolation, choose the former and it broke me emotionally, how we keep letting this be done to ourselves #capitalism #neoliberalism #exploitation #LonelinessEpidemic
Christopher MillerHow small do you have to be in the trouser department to need to subject an animal to prolonged torture to 'prove' your masculinity?
Bluefin tuna are miraculously returning to UK shores – only to be tormented for ‘sport’:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/28/bluefin-tuna-fishing-contest-environment
#News #Newstodon #NewsTooter #Monbiot #GeorgeMonbiot #Tuna #BluefinTuna #BluefinTunaUK #AnimalRights #UK
bsmall2> You could call these jokes, if you think killing people is funny. Or you could call them thought experiments. Liddle suggested as much in his column: “I am merely hypothesising, in a slightly wistful kinda way.” This “humour” permits obscene ideas to seep into the range of the possible.
> Academic researchers see the use of jokes to break taboos and reduce the thresholds of hate speech as a form of “strategic mainstreaming”. Far-right influencers.. desensitise...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/right-progressive-societies-joke-glastonbury-starve-benefit-rod-liddle-lewis-schaffer
TronsawyerHow does the #right tear down #ProgressiveSocieties? It starts with a #joke
George #Monbiot
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Vast areas of land are now dominated by one species – purple moor-grass – and good luck with seeing a bird or insect there.
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.
An important issue that will need political support to enable a complex solution, but will probably be ignored.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/09/britain-deserts-dead-zones-purple-moor-grass
#News #Newstodon #NewsTooter #Conservation #Ecosystems #Environment #Monbiot #PurpleMootGradd
There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading
Vast areas of land are now dominated by one species – purple moor-grass – and good luck with seeing a bird or insect there. How do we revive these habitats, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot