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‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak

Deliberately murdering everything & everyone for over 70 years.

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

“At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to. That means no more mortgages or new real estate devt, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function and capitalism ceases to be viable.”

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'We use them every day': In some parts of the US, the clack of typewriter keys can still be heard Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US.

NEW: Here's your weekend read from me. I wrote about the enduring utility of typewriters!

Some people use them for fun but, as I found out, there are a surprising number of businesses around the US where typewriters are still the tool of choice for certain tasks.

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What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care | George Monbiot Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at risk, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

I don't often ask people to write to their MPs. But I think they might listen to you on this, as it's so jaw-droppingly awful, and they're almost certainly unaware of it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please also write to the Environment Secretary: steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk Thanks.

2 billion people

anyone who tells you "we can just adapt" is a liar and evil

Dark energy: mysterious cosmic force appears to be weakening, say scientists Findings could open up possibility the universe will end in a reverse big bang or ‘big crunch’, say cosmologists

And here’s a great piece on the dark energy 🧪 work by @hannahdevlin.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
@desisurvey.bsky.social

Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’

"More than half the jurors selected to hear the case had ties to the fossil fuel industry & most had negative views of groups that oppose the use of fossil fuels."

The sheer wickedness of Energy Transfer's legal officers will resound through the decades.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Important read.

"We have the solutions – but what stops us is the disinformation campaigns and lobby power of the fossil fuel industry."

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article) A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Maybe.

yeah and this stuff is in our bodies and brains too

Why didn't I know that this exists?!

This is a cool story about the Swiss furnace working around the clock to resize gold bars in the rush sparked by Trump

- on.ft.com/3FvQYZ2

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

AMAZON RAINFOREST CUT DOWN TO BUILD HIGHWAY FOR COP SUMMIT

You really couldn't make it up

This says everything about this ineffectual travelling circus

If you didn't laugh, you'd cry

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Well done, River Action and Leigh Day!

The landmark judgment should also now mean that proper environmental controls are put in place across the country to oversee the production and handling of manure from animals on farms.

Peak rail fares are unfair and put people off using public transport.

In 2023 the Scottish Greens removed them, only for the SNP to restore them as soon as we were out of the room.

Join me in telling the SNP that it's time to scrap peak rail fares for good. 👇
greens.scot/endpeakfares

The Right Wing and the Roma: EU Presidency a Test for Tolerance in Hungary Hungary will assume the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union in January and the government is pledging to forge a policy for addressing the Roma in all of Europe. But the country has it...

I wrote this on the treatment of the Roma people there: www.spiegel.de/internationa...

The fact that humans can only survive on Earth doesn’t bother Trump – and I know why | George Monbiot He is surrounded by people who have plans and dreams beyond our planet. Vengeful nihilism is a big part of the Maga project, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Could it be that the destruction of the habitable planet is not just an accidental outcome of Trump's policies, but is in fact the policy?
My column this week asks another question that most people, I think, would rather not face.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is a first, AFAIK. Eco-holiday firm @bywaytravel has created a map-based booking page where you can create your own holiday or short break by train to whatever cities on whatever dates. Give it a go! www.byway.travel/map/?utm_sou...

Mystery donor’s £17.5m gift could turn Scottish estate into rewilding showcase Scottish Wildlife Trust plans to create rainforest, restore peatland and end deer stalking on Highland sporting estate

Mystery donor’s £17.5m gift could turn Scottish estate into rewilding showcase

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientists

All of the stuff made by humans by 1950 was a small fraction of the mass of all the living matter on Earth. But today it outweighs all plants, animals and microbes and is set to triple by 2040. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

It is absolutely crazy that we suddenly find ourselves in a world where this is a serious question. And yet here are.

I'm a life long pacifist, and just sent Ukraine money for bombs and guns. We have to do this without USA.

Zelenskyy knows what it is to fight for something bigger than yourself. Trump does not.

A humiliation at the White House and what does it tell us? Trump would make a colony of my country | Andrey Kurkov A cold reality hit us in Washington. Zelenskyy was being forced to buy hope of survival by people who have no care for our freedom, says Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov

Zelenskyy was called to the White House to sign, but not speak.

How Multitasking Drains Your Brain Renowned neurologist Richard Cytowic exposes the dangers of multitasking in the digital age.

Hearing is not listening, looking is not seeing. The constant overstimulation and distractions of today's world are blurring these lines and impacting how we think and learn. 🧠

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-multitas... #Neurology #Neuroscience #Psychology via @mitpress.bsky.social

I’m a Labour MP – but the government’s ‘growth’ mission reeks of panic | Clive Lewis The decision to expand Heathrow is just the latest evidence that my party is chasing policies that serve profit, not people, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

A brave and urgent column by the Labour MP Clive Lewis - @labourlewis.bsky.social - calling on his own party to stop appeasing capital and work on behalf of people and the living world.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...