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🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this. Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature handsoffnature.eu?utm=.share.b...

Text of New York's COVID vaccine executive order is out. - It allows physicians and nurses to prescribe vaccines to anyone 3 & over - It expands pharmacists’ authority to administer vaccines to children under 18 - For the first time, pharmacists can prescribe vaccines off-label to anyone 3 & over

alternative title: "we've gotta stop burning $hit" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The largest citizen flotilla in history is sailing to Gaza with food and medicine. Israel has threatened to seize it - but together we can be their shield. Add your name to help watch over the flotilla and demand its safe passage! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-09...

Fun fact: fossil fuels cause Earth's habitat to overheat and shut down whether the fossil fuels come from a democracy or whether they come from a dictatorship We're not going to have many democracies left if we keep choosing to tear the fucking wires out of life support systems archive.ph/nCdn7

A new trade deal with South America called the EU-Mercosur deal would bring more food grown with banned pesticides into Europe, threatening our health and the livelihood of European farmers. Act NOW to protect Europe’s food standards #StopMercosur action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-02...

While you're on holiday, the EU is dismantling environmental protections 🏖️➡️💔 #HandsOffNature You have until 10 September to tell the Commission what you think. Your voice matters: environmentalpillar.ie/hands-off-na...

I've just signed Peacekeepers' the open letter for Irish Neutrality. Can you do the same? action.uplift.ie/campaigns/pe...

Yesterday, I passed this small patch that had somehow escaped the ubiquitous ryegrass and sheep/cattle treatment. It stood out like a flashing neon light, thronged with wildflowers,native trees, flying insects, and birds. Nature's only way of crying out to just be given a chance.

As I recall, three parties agreed an ambitious climate and nature PfG in the last government and all but a few members of Dáil Éireann voted in favour of the EU Nature Restoration Law. Why then would we even want to remove internationally binding climate 'rules'? Poor show Business Post.

John’s been closely following Ireland’s response to the climate emergency for decades, and he has kept ALL the receipts. I got a sneak preview of this book. I thought I couldn’t be shocked anymore, but my jaw is constantly dropping. Out September 4th.

The UK has only one land border, the one with Ireland. Despite this, UK media enjoys being ignorant about Ireland. I haven’t read this as it’s too early in the century to flambé my brain with stupidity. So just from this screen shot - the terrorists were in this case, British! …

The latest episode of Weathered is really important to watch. This episode discusses the alarming rates of ground water being depleted - and is used for a large portion of farming irrigation globally.

Morning in the garden.

🧵 Another beautiful day in Leitrim. This is a marina in the West of Ireland where skies & water bloom with clouds & azure blue. Such colours are a part of my work, suggesting the infinite & the heavens, as you can see in this thread of my one-off ink on archival paper drawings:

Five EU countries have now turned their backs on the global ban on landmines. These deadly weapons mainly kill and injure civilians. We must stop this. Sign the petition to defend the ban before it’s too late. #EndLandmines action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-05...

Southern Europe is sweltering under life-threatening heat that could last through Monday, fueling wildfires that have left at least two people dead. In Spain, soldiers have been deployed to battle the fires and hundreds of people have evacuated. nyti.ms/46STog7

My thoughts on how billionaires like Dermot Desmond and Michael O’Leary hold unbalanced power through unrestricted access to the media despite having no expertise in transport or urban planning. It’s not a coincidence. It’s capitalism at work.

In Ireland as elsewhere, fossil fuel lobby trying every trick in the book to argue for its continued existence, despite all the evidence. HVOs are yet another deceptive sleight of hand, as @hannahdaly.ie explains. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

One thing that will never, ever disappoint is delusional power of economists in imagining that the worst we have to worry about in next 2 decades is a "disappointing" rate of economic growth. Even funnier, this guy used to chair Ireland's national #climate advisory council.

CCAC is supposed to be independent #climate advisory group to gov't in Ireland, yet it endorses BS livestock industry efforts to dodge methane cuts. Fun fact: Expert review advised that Teagasc (dominated by dairy farmers) be removed from CCAC as it's biased. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

After visiting an aid distribution point run by US mercenaries for a propaganda op in southern Gaza, Steve Witkoff went to stuff his hypocrisy into the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. "Thank you for a deeply spiritual day, which I shall always remember. I pray for the hostages!! And an end to the war."

We need to force the Gaza Legal Case to the top of the national conversation. I am backing the Gaza Legal Case. Will you share and spread the word? action.uplift.ie/campaigns/su...

We need to force the Gaza Legal Case to the top of the national conversation. I just shared this video to get everybody talking about the Gaza Legal Case and the Irish government's role in facilitating genocide. Will you do the same? action.uplift.ie/campaigns/ga...

“Scientists don’t have the Hippocratic oath that doctors do, but we should. If you see that harm to the stability of climate and to present and future generations is being caused, then, in my opinion, you have a moral and ethical responsibility as a climate scientist to speak out against that.”

We are receiving desperate messages of starvation from #Gaza, including from our colleagues. Food prices have increased 40 fold. UNRWA has enough food for the entire population for over three months, stockpiled just outside Gaza. Lift the siege and let aid in safely and at scale.

🚨The Green Deal is under attack! Polluters’ lobbyists and right-wing forces want to gut Europe’s most ambitious climate plan. We need a stronger Green Deal—one that protects our planet and promotes a sustainable economy! Sign NOW to defend our future! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-02...

Apparently, according to IFA on Morning Ireland just now, it’s an “Armageddon scenario” for agri sector if its licence to pollute, aka the Nitrates Derogation, is withdrawn. This is despite fact that EVERY other country in EU has scrapped this hugely damaging derogation.

He would be less hot if he took his cap off. But on a serious note, everyone down here (Glengarriff, Kenmare, Beara way) knows that MHR and clan refuse to condemn (i.e. condone) everything from drunk driving to lamping to seal hunting. They have as much respect for the law as the Kinahans.

More heat than light from MHR on Virgin TV last night as junior minister refuses to condemn illegal peat mining operations & tries (unsuccessfully) to misrepresent findings of recent EPA investigation.

Apart from being an enthusiastic lobbyist in undermining state policy on emissions reduction, DAA chief Jacobs also holds shares in assorted airlines. He has to resign, or be fired. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Well who’d have ever possibly predicted the absolutely inevitable consequences of their own actions?

Delighted to announce that my first book, THE LIE OF THE LAND, is due for publication on September 4th next via @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. It's a frank assessment of Ireland and the #Climate emergency, with a roadmap towards a more food and energy-secure future.

1. At the Tipping Points conference in Exeter yesterday, I spoke about the likelihood of food system collapse: a massive existential threat few people's radar. If you want a handle on the issue, here's the submission I made to a parliamentary committee. + 🧵 www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...

It has been a long, slow decline. But this is the moment the BBC died as a public service broadcaster. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

1. One thing you need to realise about the British Establishment is that it uses clowns to express its deepest desires. People like Rod Liddle offer a kind of deniability - "lighten up, he's just having a laugh". But they deliver a closer representation of its truths than any sober editorial.

If we don't contest this full-frontal assault on our freedom, far worse will come. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bear in mind that if you held up a sign saying "I support genocide", you would not be arrested under the Terrorism Act.

To people on this platform saying that those holding "I support Palestine Action" signs deserve to be arrested, because PA has been designated a terrorist group by the government: Remember that lickspittles and system justifiers have enabled every form of oppression, everywhere.

This is definitely not the time to delay or dial back climate policy. The urgency has never been greater. We are approaching dangerous tipping points, almost 200 scientists warn. 🌊 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Kill another green law? The EU wants to continue protecting polluters spreading greenwashing lies. Finally political momentum is on our side to stop this. Sign to demand the anti-greenwashing law. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-07...

🚨 NEW: Dr Michael Kill is often the voice of UK nightlife. He’s a UN rep, a uni dean and has met gov ministers 37 times But the facts — and institutions — are far less convincing New investigation by Democracy for Sale and @jim.londoncentric.media 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-curiou...

When urbanists take pictures of a Paris street (like Rue de Rivoli) showing all the people on bikes taking advantage of protected infrastructure, it’s not just because we “like bikes.” It’s because we’re picturing the gridlock if they were driving cars. And the public cost, pollution, noise…

The Israeli government has shown that it is not prepared to stop until every Palestinian in #Gaza is dead, disabled or displaced. Every day in which it is still armed and supported by Western states, our own included, is a stain on international law.

Europe lost 5 million farms in 15 years. EU subsidies flow to agribusiness while small farmers disappear. I just signed to demand a farming system that works for people + planet. Join me! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-04...