Do: climate change & sustainability. Here for: much the same. Bread and roses, please. Quiff height and beard length may vary. He/him. 🏳️🌈🇪🇺
Hackney, London
Joined January 2009
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Ben Richards retweeted
This person thinks he loves opera, but is precisely the kind of smug, self-delighted dimwit doing it the most harm. I went to the Eras tour AND Glyndebourne this year and they were both fucking amazing. It’s not a fucking competition, you tedious snob. Opera and Swift for all!
Ben Richards retweeted
It’s as if none of the work on sustainable economies ever happened. Starmer bangs on about “growth” but growth of what, for whom, at what cost? Not all growth is good & as scientists concluded last week “In a world of finite resources, unlimited growth is a perilous illusion”.
Ben Richards retweeted
🚨BREAKING: The English water system has been SINGLED OUT for criticism by the UN.
A special report criticised the LACK of TRANSPARENCY from water companies to the public - and a LACK OF POLITICAL WILL by those in power who have been 'co-opted or captured' by companies.
Ben Richards retweeted
For most of 2000’s/2010’s I worked with climate scientists/renewable energy experts. They were wildly different crews of humans.
But one thing clear early on — renewable energy experts said Florida would be a solar powerhouse.
Climate scientists said, there won’t be a Florida.
Ben Richards retweeted
Turns out @KevinClimate and other climate scientists have got it the wrong way round.
You see "The urgency of mitigating climate change cannot change financial facts"
King Cnut vibes in @thetimes
Ben Richards retweeted
CCS *may* be needed for a few hard-to-abate industries but *not* to extend life of fossil fuel industries by enabling more gas power stations or “blue” hydrogen. Instead of recklessly locking UK into fossil energy for decades to come, money better spent on efficiency & renewables
Ben Richards retweeted
If your bath is overflowing, you don't start investing in fancy new mops
You turn off the tap
Ben Richards retweeted
Rolling out of a meat wagon and giving an impromptu interview without speaking a single word out of place. Gotta hand it to this lad 👏🏼
Ben Richards retweeted
A few days left to vote for us in @nlalondon Reimagine London People's Choice! elwp.info/vote
It would be so beneficial to the project to win and mean so much to everyone involved over the last 5 years, so please share and ask your friends and family to vote for us!
ALT Image of a proposed park design for East London Waterworks Park. The image shows a before-and-after comparison. The "before" image depicts an industrial area with buildings and machinery. The "after" image illustrates a transformed park with green spaces, natural swimming ponds, walking paths, a community hub, and various recreational areas. People are depicted enjoying the park in the "after" image. The image also includes a call to vote for the park design in the Reimagine London vote at elwp.info/vote
Ben Richards retweeted
Summer 2024 was the coolest in a decade.
40 years ago it would have been anomalously warm for many areas.
Shifting perceptions in a rapidly warming climate.
Ben Richards retweeted
The new @Starbucks CEO, Brian Niccol, is going to commute to the office 3 days a week by private jet.
Don't forget to take your reusable cup to the coffee shop!
edition.cnn.com/2024/08/23/b…
Ben Richards retweeted
I'm in agreement with this piece from @whittledaway. The climate crisis is the greatest challenge of any generation, I fully believe this is the framing and thinking required to solve it. The challenge of our lives deserves the requisite response.
irishtimes.com/environment/2…
The fact that the free water refill station at #liverpoolstreet has been replaced with a paid one is, frankly, bullshit @networkrail
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Ben Richards retweeted
My letter today in @FT on #PlasticPollution and #PublicHealth.
These is hazardous material. The world needs a strong UN Plastics Treaty, and an end to single-use in retail.
And the UK is trailing badly on single-use restrictions. Work for @SueHayman1
