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Dorset
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
So many especially over the last months and years are now saying what has to be said. Our economic system is killing the planet, multiple species and humanity. Unless we find an alternative and quick humanity will cease to exist sooner rather than later. So, will the UK's national treasure,...
George Monbiot
Could it be true? That this government will bring all sales of petrol and diesel cars to an end by 2030? That it will cancel all rail franchises and replace them with a system that might actually work? Could the UK, for the first time since the internal combustion engine was invented, really...
Local Green Party politicians say that the upcoming secret ballot on 1st October for a new leader of Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council is a source of immense concern for the future of the conurbation. Green Councillors Simon Bull and Chris Rigby, as well as Alasdair Keddie, former Parliamentary and BCP Council...
Central bank under fire from MPs on its Covid bailout scheme’s failure to protect jobs and the environment London, 24 September 2020 - The Bank of England may attach climate conditions to asset purchases, a senior Bank of England official told MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee this morning, after coming...
Commenting on the one year anniversary of Labour's socialist Green New Deal motion passing at Party Conference 2019, Labour for a Green New Deal spokeswoman Lauren Townsend said: "A year ago today, Labour members and trade unions came together to back a groundbreaking Green New Deal, to tackle the climate...
Work to repair and stabilise the cliffs at Canford Cliffs following a cliff slip in 2017, is due to commence on Monday 21 September.The work, which is expected to last up to nine months, will address the landslip below Cliff Drive. In 2017 a section of cliff eroded and slid...
Drivers entering Bournemouth today were greeted with a new welcome sign as activists draped banners over the existing “Welcome to Bournemouth” and “Safe Journey” messages. The message for inbound traffic read “Welcome to Extinction” while the outbound message read “No Safe Journey to Climate Chaos” . The action was part...
George Monbiot
Across the UK, our rivers are being turned into filthy, dead gutters, at astonishing, heartbreaking speed. You can judge the state of a nation by the state of its rivers. Pollution is the physical expression of corruption. So what should we conclude about a country whose rivers are systematically exploited,...
This talk by Dorset Extinction Rebellion explores the scientific facts that illustrate the very real risks we are already facing, due to human-made climate and ecological crises, and what we need to do to prevent the worst effects. The video reveals to me that climate change is best understood via...
Lighting and Thunder explanation
A brief but very informative explanation as to how and why lightning and thunder occur.