How can we build back better after the Covid lockdowns in a way that can head off the far greater threat of climate chaos? What can individual students and citizens do in Dorset to help slow the accelerating climate emergency?
These are the themes of an event at Bournemouth University...
This is a ‘Funeral for the Fish’ - A mourning for our dying seas and oceans. A combination of overfishing, plastic pollution and bio-diversity loss due to climate change are threatening our seas. The marine environment is struggling to sustain viable populations of all fish, stocks are depleted and...
“We are calling the 9th October Day of Action for four reasons:
1) Over 100,000 families are living in Temporary Accommodation while over half a million homes have no permanent resident.
2) The wrong kind of housing is being built across the country - they are unaffordable to anyone on an...
Dr. Andrew Stevenson, surgeon - qualified 21 years. “The burning of fossil fuels used to be for the advancement of human society. It is now the mechanism of its destruction. If we don’t leave oil in the ground. Our children and those forever more will have no future. Stop...
Any hopes that pandemic lockdowns dented the build up of greenhouse gases have been dashed as a new report confirmed that global levels reached their highest on record in 2020.
The coronavirus outbreak grounded flights and cleared streets around the world last year, with emissions from burning fossil fuels dropping...
Having written posts on this blog for several years now, I have become ever more sensitive to how we, as news consumers, are subject to ideology – the invisible, shifting sands of our belief system.
Those beliefs are not inbuilt, of course. How could they be? We are not born...
July 2021 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, according to data released by the US .
The US National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) said the combined land and ocean-surface temperature around the world was 1.67 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average of 15.8 C.This temperature breaks...
Pedestrians along Weymouth Esplanade were today met with the sight of a huge blue van with “What’s Next?” written on the side along with boards asking “Are you waiting for something to change?” and “We’ve got a plan… got 5 min to talk?”.
On Monday and Tuesday this week Weymouth...
Heatwaves, flooding and droughts will be more frequent and more intense as the world is set to hit the 1.5C global warming limit in the next 20 years, a landmark United Nations review has predicted.
The milestone scientific assessment says the rate of warming in the last 2,000 years has...
Sadly we have had more than 40 years of neo liberal economics made worse by using debt instead of gold by having a fiat - printing money system. The economists in the US including Janet Yelland all go along with this fraud, also Mark Carney. It has become an...
