Looking forward to speaking at today's @UWEJournalism event on the sustainability of #LocalNews - specifically, public interest news (as opposed to commercial/tabloid).

The movement to 'save local news' has gained momentum recently - here's how 🧵👇[1/11] #LocalNews has been shelled out & corporate mergers abound in the internet era. Many have been left with inadequate news, if any

As shown by this @TheBristolCable thread (PS I wrote it) independents sprung up to fill gaps - but are surviving, not thriving

https://twitter.com/TheBristolCable/status/1632719039192498176

I reviewed @ProfBillMcGuire’s new book, which gives us not only an outline of what #London (+ elsewhere) will look like if we don’t act on climate, but specific steps on What To Do Next…

1/5🧵🪡
elizmizon.substack.com/p/review-hotho… The final section is quite awesome. It outlines two scenarios for what London could look, sound and feel like in 2100.

In order to achieve the scenario that isn’t Children of Men in an Oven, McGuire makes clear that while individuals can (and must) make specific changes… 2/5🪡

This is an interesting question. The short answer is yes.

The longer answer is about what doomerism (journalistic or not) is, and isn’t 👇🧵🪡 1/10

https://twitter.com/pete_ar_fryn/status/1554714985040945152

As climate chaos continues (and worsens if we don’t radically cut emissions) articles reporting either what’s happening, or what’s projected to happen/diff potential scenarios, will keep coming. 2/10🪡

What @uksciencechief Sir Patrick Vallance, and other scientists on the call, said in Monday's #ClimateBriefing to MPs: a thread 🧵🪡

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[Video in final tweet, thanks @Angus_Climate @CarolineLucas for making this happen & all MPs who attended - release the list!) 1) "Technology is not a magic solution and it will not solve [climate crisis] on its own. [...] Any technology that you can't see already is not gonna save our bacon, it's absolutely not gonna get us out of this" because of the scale of the problem and solutions needed. [2/17]

Just finished @billmckibben's 1989 @NewYorker essay THE END OF NATURE (took me a few hours, split up over the weekend).

Written the year after I was born, it demonstrates how much of the science of #ClimateEmergency has been known for decades...🪡🧵1/10

newyorker.com/magazine/1989/… Every Bill McKibben text is the Very Best of creative non-fiction, but this piece hits hard more than 3 decades later:

"As long as the desire for endless material advancement drives us, there is no way to set limits.

If our way of life is ending nature..." 2/10

Here is a concrete, little-known example of how @Channel4 provides value to UK citizens **without costing us any money**, and why privatising the broadcaster will 🚨strip this value away🚨

The year was 2010... 🧵🪡 1/15 C4 had won its bid for the rights to broadcast the 2012 Paralympic Games, citing its public service remit to "to champion unheard voices, to innovate and take bold creative risks, to inspire change and to celebrate diversity".
They took this win seriously... /2