Science, maths, data, ecology, environment, sustainability, natural history, wildlife conservation, animal welfare, gardening. (Maths/Physics by profession)
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Terry Sessford - Tysess.bsky.social retweeted
🚨 ACTIVISTS DISRUPT RACHEL REEVES’ SPEECH AT LABOUR CONFERENCE 🚨
Rachel Reeves pushes growth at all costs 📈—but at what price? Labour is handing billions to Drax 🌳🔥—who just posted record profits 💰—while backing Heathrow expansion ✈️ & cutting winter fuel payments ❄️.
Terry Sessford - Tysess.bsky.social retweeted
Awful news, but not unexpected.
It’s official, 2024 was the worst year for bumblebees since records began🚨
The latest findings from #BeeWalk, our national bumblebee monitoring scheme, have revealed bumblebee numbers declined by almost a quarter (22.5%) across Great Britain💔
Read on: bumblebeeconservation.org/br…
ALT A bumblebee dusted in yellow pollen sitting in a greyed-out flower. Text reads: 2024 was the worst year for bumblebees since records began.
Terry Sessford - Tysess.bsky.social retweeted
Fossil fuel subsidies now more than $A2 trillion just in G7 countries reneweconomy.com.au/fossil-f…
Terry Sessford - Tysess.bsky.social retweeted
Lurking behind the good news story that a humpback whale was rescued after becoming trapped in a rope at an 'organic' salmon farm off the Isle of Skye is the fact that locating cages along migration routes for cetaceans is a death trap. It's time to remove all salmon farms now!
ALT Via https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/whale-trapped-scottish-fish-farm-34587820
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Terry Sessford - Tysess.bsky.social retweeted
"But never mind, let’s melt human life and the natural world down into money."
Pretty much sums up the govt position on the economy and the environment. All Hail the Great God Growth! Whatever the feck it means.
#wato #bbcpm #thirdrunway
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Chancellor @RachelReevesMP, millions of people are worried about #wildlife, even if some developers want to wash their hands of it.
The best way to stop people worrying about chalk streams, dormice, wildflower meadows and, yes, bats isn't to deregulate. It's to #RestoreNatureNow
Terry Sessford - Tysess.bsky.social retweeted
And we wonder why we're one of the most nature depleted countries on the planet. Even before she sweeps any remaining protections aside we've compromised nature to the point of destruction.
#bbcpm #r4today #biodiversity #climatecrisis
"We are reducing the environmental requirements placed on developers when they pay into a nature restoration fund... they can focus on getting things built and stop worrying about the bats and the newts," Chancellor Rachel Reeves says
Follow live bbc.in/3EdL6TE
Terry Sessford - Tysess.bsky.social retweeted
NEW: Labour MP Barry Gardiner tells @politicshome he thinks Chancellor Rachel Reeves is "an environmental illiterate"
Multiple other Labour figures – including London mayor Sadiq Khan – have come out against the govt's plans for a third runway at Heathrow
politicshome.com/news/articl…
Terry Sessford - Tysess.bsky.social retweeted
"Rachel Reeves' commitment to Heathrow expansion relies on flawed economics."
Alex Chapman responds to Rachel Reeves' announcements on airport expansion
ALT Quote from Alex Chapman, senior economist: Rachel Reeves’ commitment to Heathrow expansion relies on flawed economics. By the government’s own metrics, airport expansion won’t deliver serious economic growth. Business air travel peaked two decades ago and a new runway won’t change that. The primary impact will be to encourage UK households to spend their cash overseas, depriving high streets and domestic destinations of spending. More outbound flights will deprive British regions of vital spending and is an ‘anti-levelling up’ move.
Terry Sessford - Tysess.bsky.social retweeted
Bats or great-crested newts? "Neither because I want growth" is simply one of the stupidest, immoral and most dismal political answers ever. I'm #teambat #teamnewt #teamhuman #teamhabitableplanet This story I wrote over the weekend has been cheering me up theguardian.com/world/2025/j…
Terry Sessford - Tysess.bsky.social retweeted
I cannot describe how much I loathe Rachel Reeves who is now removing any need for planning applications to consider what she calls "the bats and the newts"
So - having screwed over all the small businesses and charities you are now killing off our wildlife - you're a disgrace!!
Terry Sessford - Tysess.bsky.social retweeted
Join me and tell Chancellor Rachel Reeves: no more airport expansion while we’re in a climate emergency 🚨🌎
@friends_earth 👇
foe.uk/94pkh
Terry Sessford - Tysess.bsky.social retweeted
Rachel Reeves has confirmed the Government supports Heathrow expansion.
Analysis from @NEF shows airport expansion is unlikely to result in 'economic growth' and it would blow away the UK's climate commitments.
Who exactly does this benefit?
ALT REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. CAN YOU SPOT LABOUR'S CLIMATE BETRAYAL? Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
ALT "100% any aviation expansion must be justified within carbon budgets, and if it can't be justified, it won't go ahead." Ed Miliband. Monday 27th January 2025
Terry Sessford - Tysess.bsky.social retweeted
This is such a huge political, economic & especially environmental mistake that sadly I fear it will inflict an irreparable scale of damage on the government. “Rachel Reeves confirms backing for third runway at Heathrow – UK politics live” theguardian.com/politics/liv…
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Join me and tell Chancellor Rachel Reeves: no more airport expansion while we’re in a climate emergency 🚨🌎
@friends_earth 👇
foe.uk/94pkh
Terry Sessford - Tysess.bsky.social retweeted
“Low fertility is bad” implies that the human population should just keep growing forever. I cannot wrap my mind around how people manage to believe this. It was crowded enough a hundred years ago.
Everything else goes extinct and we keep breeding until we spill into space?
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A lesson from history for @RachelReevesMP and @Keir_Starmer . Beware making unjustified attacks on nature without evidence. Lets have a fit for purpose planning system where regulation is seen as an asset for economic growth not something to short cut
Reflecting on Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer attacks on nature as a brake on growth. Do you remember when Geogre Osboren said the same about EU env directives and launched a review 2011/2012 well... bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-1… Defra found no evidence infact the opposite.
