Greenpeace activists board a Shell platform headed for the North Sea to expand existing oil and gas on 6th February (AFP via Getty Images) It increasingly feels like the oil industry is operating on a different planet. Profit-wise, things have never been better for the fossil-fuel titans. Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell and TotalEnergiesContinue reading “The oil industry operating on a different planet.”
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A letter from Mikaela Loach
A letter from Mikaela who moved from Columbia to the UK, catching up with old friends and trying to keep up with the ridiculous chaos that is politics in the UK .
Climate Warrior: Dismantling perfectionism and activism
Lizzie Carr 2022, August 03 Firstly, I want to say thank you to everyone who signed up to join the Planet Patrol’s citizen science Water Quality Testing Programme following last month’s newsletter. I’m grateful to have this platform, both as a cathartic outlet for climate anxiety but also to bring attention to the community-led initiativesContinue reading “Climate Warrior: Dismantling perfectionism and activism”
Story of the 5th week of May 2022
Looking at some good and bad news in the 5th week of May 2022
Composted reads for the 4th week of May
Stories for the 4th week of May
Stories to read in the week of 2022 May 05-11
The Independent looking at what went on in the world from 2022 May 05-11 and looking at the Queen’s Speech and Boris Johnson abandoning British families to a life of poverty.
The Independent looking at the week of May 01-07
The Independent looking at Mariupol, British local elections a.o. in the first days of May 2022.
The link between extreme weather and extreme inequality
As the climate crisis escalates it will have an impact on most aspects of our lives wherever we are living, from security to the cost of living, from where and how we live and move around, to our diets and even our jobs.
The Telegraph looking at the first week of March 2022
Could it well be that the West is sleepwalking into an even more devastating conflict with Russia whilst the current scale of the economic suffering facing Russian households harks back to the dark days following the Soviet Union’s fall.
Rising prices in Great Britain and help from the government
The British Government announced Thursday 3 February that the energy regulator’s new price cap – the maximum amount suppliers can charge customers for each unit of energy will add hundreds of pounds onto the annual bill for 22 million homes.
Some View on the World 