50% of the global climate crisis relates to the lifestyles of the most affluent 10% of the global population.
They just can't live like ordinary people; it's an illness.
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Latest report from me below, and here's the Guardian's coverage (thanks to the environment team for covering it).
Current policy won't deliver the emissions reductions from transport needed by 2030 and risks widening inequality. Prioritising fairness is the key to unlocking faster climate action.
UK’s richest set to produce 13 times more transport emissions than poorest by 2035
Thinktank predicts wider inequality gap and calls for revised policies to tackle flying and excess private car use
⏰ The UK’s richest are on track to pollute 22x more from travel than the poorest by 2035.
Current policy risks missing climate targets + worsening inequality. In this report from @sfrost.bsky.social, we set out a fairer, faster pathway.
Fairer is faster: The route to greener and healthier domestic transport | IPPR
Electrifying road transport has put the UK on the path to lower transport emissions for the first time. However, a gap remains between government policy an
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Stand With Ukraine - Boycott Exxon-Mobil Exxon-Mobil executives discussed with russia’s Rosneft about returning to the Sakhalin project. Canada has sanctioned Rosneft for supporting the russian government's illegal war of aggression on Ukraine. #StandWithUkraine
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Breaking: Exxon has held secret talks with Russia’s biggest state energy company about resuming business in the country.
Exclusive | Exxon Held Secret Talks With Rosneft About Going Back to Russia
Resuming business in Russia would mark a dramatic rapprochement after Exxon’s messy breakup with Moscow when Putin attacked Ukraine in 2022
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Yeah, the Swedish side of Finnish public broadcasting is doing good work.
They've also added interview(s) with sea professionals about it being near impossible not to notice dragging an anchor for 3 hours, as Eagle S did …
Eagle S ankare släpade nästan hundra kilometer – sjökapten tveksam till att ingen märkte det
I rättegången mot befälet på fartyget Eagle S står ord mot ord. Sjökaptenen Stig Sundberg är tveksam till att de åtalade inte märkt att ankaret släpade i havsbotten.
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“Someday, I hope, we’re going to have a reckoning over the horrors of this moment, but I don’t think we can do it without a clearer understanding of how this fits into U.S. history. There’s a tendency to say, “This isn’t who we are,” and I get the impulse, but history is never that simple.”
Opinion | Concentration camps are not just part of our past, but our present and future
From David M. Perry: From Minnesota’s Fort Snelling to Japanese internment camps to Florida's Alligator Alcatraz, these camps have become an American tradition.
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@anthonymkreis.bsky.social worth confronting the culture problem - vast numbers of Americans voted for Trump twice.
You can change the driver but there’s a problem under the hood.
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Might be some time for physicians to stage physical die-ins at HHS or dog Kennedy at his public events wherever he appears for being a homicidal nut. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
C.D.C. Director Departs After Just Weeks on the Job
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Citizens are usually so deferential to prosecutors in grand jury proceedings that it's said prosecutors can win an indictment of a ham sandwich. Expect no such deference when it's Jeanine Pirro and Trump doing the prosecuting.
we are going to win
Feds fail to get indictment against DC sandwich thrower fired by DOJ: Report
Sean Charles Dunn was fired from his job at the Department of Justice after the sub-chucking incident, which was caught on video.
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If we put half as much time, money and energy into advanced geothermal as we do into advanced nukes we'd get twice as many projects built
Just the facts mam
