Lorenzo Trojan

Lorenzo Trojan

@ltrojan.bsky.social

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist... Interests: #environment, #climate, #biodiversity, #ecosocialism, #economy, equality in my spare time I develop software at @wildersensing.com

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And while we in the west keep squabbling about green technology and bombing half of the world... China is quietly turning the desert into a lush forest... Great Green Wall if China

Agreed And yet... This is a donor-funded institute making the donor-shaped case. Practical agreements, economic boost, youth mobility as an EU "request." Europe is much more than a trade deal, it was never meant to be a better economic arrangement: its bedrock is liberty, equality, brotherhood.

Should the U.K. rejoin the EU and reverse Brexit? Get voting! www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

John Sainsbury: £10.8m Frank Hester: £10.7m David Sainsbury: £2.5m ... Richard Is right If you give yourself rules that allow or even encourage private interests to cheat the basic principles of democracy... Then you can't complain if your adversaries are better at cheating than you...

Happy Truss day to Andy!

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Every new prime minister gets to celebrate their 50th day in office by restoring Liz Truss's rightful title of 'UK's shortest serving prime minister'. Congrats, Andy Burnham.

Laura Kuenssberg posturing is absolutely disgusting Privatisation reduced government costs? What about the numerous subsidies and bailous? What about the hundreds of billion dividends? What about the appalling state of disrepair? British privatisation what the single biggest scam in history

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social

Reynolds is asked if the Tory privatisations of the 1980s were a bad thing. You'd think for a govt that says 40 years of Thatcherism have driven all the problems we see today, he'd answer with a resounding YES! But he doesn't And he doesn't mention public ownership once.

The Colorado drying up Blue Mesa: weeks from minimum power pool. Flaming Gorge: lowest in five years. Powell: ~28 ft above losing hydropower, falling 4 ft/month. Glen Canyon had never never gone offline. On current numbers it does in February 2027, leaving millions in the dark

Yesterday, global sea surface temperature broke the record for the second time this year, reaching 21.24°C. But other than the occasional spike, sea surface temperature is tracking the last El Niño year with almost mirror precision... Well, except it's ~0.1°C higher.

Mayors overruling councils isn't devolution, it's clearing the last obstacle to building at market rate. And more market-rate supply won't touch affordability. What it will touch is the balance sheet of firms like Hallam Land Management... 🤷

If only that was what the said journalists did... It was never about attacking freedom of speech, it was about how that freedom of speech was abused to construct a hate filled distorted narrative of ideological identity politics

Whatever Arday did or didn't do, a man is dead. And in the same day someone commemorates him with a lengthy account of why everyone should examine their conscience. Everyone. Including the deceased. Except, of course, themselves...

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2026: another year of weather records More than 50% of the EU + UK were under dought this July This isn't just about uncomfortable weather, air conditioning or yellowing grass. Extreme heat and lack of rain will have enormous implications on food supply, habitability, and life in general

2026: another year of weather records More than 50% of the EU + UK were under dought this July This isn't just about uncomfortable weather, air conditioning or yellowing grass. Extreme heat and lack of rain will have enormous implications on food supply, habitability, and life in general

While 3 in 4 choose to let a blatant liar deceive them... For the sake of their self delusions, petti racism, and stupid identity politics (Odds aren't looking great for our moribund country)

If there's one thing you can bet your life savings on is this... Oil company profits Even in the face of wars, pandemic or climate collapse...

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social

A fifth heatwave. People at risk across the country. But the new Government is silent. Time to tax fossil fuel companies to fund firefighting helicopters. And to race to lower carbon energy and permanently cheaper bills.

I guess Senator Collins doesn't realise the attorney general works for the United States, the American people, not for the president... Providing legal advice is the job of a personal lawyer, but then again, that's what Blanche already is...

I guess it makes sense One may hold either an inward or an altruistic outlook on life, and this is reflected in both political inclinations as well as global inspirational ambitions

YouGov@yougov.co.uk

Eliminating cancer vs ending world hunger, by 2024 vote Green: 47% eliminate cancer / 46% end world hunger Lib Dem: 52% / 37% Labour: 55% / 35% Conservative: 75% / 16% Reform: 81% / 12% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

"Gianni Infantino has apologised for "errors" he made in controversial plans to sell off stakes in competitions to private investors, but will remain Fifa president after receiving the backing of senior executives" Well, I doubt those senior executives thought they were errors, did they?

Banning donations doesn't remove the demand for influence, it may exacerbate the problem: it simply removes the legal channel The best route isn't top-down restrictions but the rules of the game: ensuring transparency, media independence, and that citizens are informed on who they're voting for

Dale Vince@dalevince.com

There’s one simple way to end all this - ban political donations. All of them. For the price of a packet of crisps a year - each. We can end the endless scandals of donations.

No no no, this whole thing's got far too silly. A man who spent fifty years playing the pompous Colonel has become one — and now he's saying 'I trust this man more than any of the other leaders.' Stop the sketch

While hundreds of thousands are evacuated across Europe, wildfires tear through Canada's forests, and desertification creeps across the breadbasket regions... The global ocean surface just registered 21.16°C, within 0.01°C of the all-time record set in April 2024... And we're not even in August 😱

What happens when a country is wholesale, indiscriminately financialised? When financial corporations hold the levers to deadlock the country's entire economy? This is your answer: democratic power, entirely hollowed out But who knows? Perhaps the king of the north can rescue his broken land?

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social

Holding Govts to Ransom JP Morgan boss warns of ‘consequences’ if Burnham taxes banks. Warns of capital flight, lower investment. Can't recall bankers objecting to bailouts, quantitative easing, subsidies. They want obedient govts. Who governs? People v Corporations.