Of course, the European Research Group’s ‘Star Chamber’ 😬🤦🏻♂️🤣😱 said it was a good deal so all their years of not doing any European research of any kind really paid off there. #BrexitShambles#idiocracy#ToryBrexitDisaster
Southern Water’s handy map of everywhere they have pumped raw sewage into the sea in the last 24 hours because during heavy rain they’d rather be fined for that than invest in actual solutions. It’s the whole southeastern coastline, basically. We’re surrounded by shit.
I’ve worked in sustainability for 23 years, talking to large companies & campaigners daily.
No one serious has questioned the scale of the problem for years on end now, but I’m still not convinced the absolute, critical urgency of it has landed. Even with some of the NGOs. 1/
We need to treat the #IPCCReport science as an explosive device that needs immediate disabling, instead of viewing it as a guide map from which we can deviate or against which we can adjust our speed. We simply can’t. #ClimateCrisis#extinction#nature#wildlife#ClimateEmergency
Of course too many companies still put short term profit ahead of long term losses, which are inevitable if they don’t change, but someone else’s problem. But also too many turf wars between NGOs, which plays right into the wrong hands. We have to get better at this, immediately.
Unfortunately, positioning the UK's leadership role on the global climate stage by suggesting British people rinse plates before putting them in the dishwasher and freeze bread is what I've come to expect from this waffly, trivialising, badly run government. Puerile, silly PR 1/
It also reminds me that one of the cancers in this country is the belief we're the centre of the world. If people had worked, studied & generally experienced more international culture, they'd know how, especially post #Brexit, absolutely marginal and irrelevant we've become 2/
Does the US look to the UK in the way it used to? No, it looks to Europe. South America to China. Australia to Asia. The EU, to everywhere but Britain. Our silly painted planes & trade yachts make us look even smaller than we already are. But freeze your bread, it'll last longer.