The #Musk is heavy here
Scotland, United Kingdom
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Alastair Caird 🏴 retweeted
This NASA visualisation has it all: It shows the CO2 emitted into the earth's atmosphere + clarifies who is responsible for the climate crisis: we, the Global North.
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Alastair Caird 🏴 retweeted
Unless you deepen your understanding of the system and the society to which you have been born, you will forever be no more than a servant to it.
Understand this. You are not loved or protected by this system, which you uphold and have been convinced to protect. 1/
Alastair Caird 🏴 retweeted
🧵Here's a thread about an obscure economic theory from a century and a half ago, which is about to become a MASSIVE deal.
⚡️It helps explains why tackling climate change is going to be v v hard. Some say impossible.
The story begins with this building👇
Alastair Caird 🏴 retweeted
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The UK government has just quietly published estimates showing wind and solar will be several times cheaper than gas, for the foreseeable future
A few senior cabinet members (& a large section of the media) might like to take a look?
THREAD with charts + caveats
Alastair Caird 🏴 retweeted
I repeatedly see some climate activists, lashing out at the public for not doing more to pressurize our crooked politicians into taking much more climate action.
I feel their frustration, but they're mistaken, because they fail to see how the public are being gaslighted.
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Alastair Caird 🏴 retweeted
Funny you say that…. The power source on this one is in the middle so it must be a Cayman not a 911!
Sadly, just more #enshittification, see also @doctorow
Alastair Caird 🏴 retweeted
Here's some brilliant news to brighten your Sunday - in 2023, Britain generated more electricity from renewables than from fossil fuels!
And we're unlikely to see this trend reversed.
Read @DrIAGWilson, Joseph Day and Katarina Pegg in
@ConversationUK @bIGIdeas_UoB
theconversation.com/britain-…
Alastair Caird 🏴 retweeted
Did you know you can set a Samsung phone's charge limit to 85% to extend its battery lifespan (especially if it's routinely left plugged in)? Search for "Protect Battery" on your phone.
Brilliant bit of advice hidden in this video from @JamesCookeVlogs
youtube.com/watch?v=l164TEi5…
67 gCO2e/kWh
Fantastic. More turbines (and solar, and batteries) needed. Vital to keep reducing carbon intensity of the grid.
Alastair Caird 🏴 retweeted
The evidence that the UK Gov is now overtly blocking the action needed to avoid climate catastrophe. What have I missed?
A quick summary 🧵1/
Alastair Caird 🏴 retweeted
This week, I wrote about the Great Enshittening - the digital services we rely on becoming extractive piles of shit. It didn't result from the decaying the morals of tech leaders, but from the collapse of the forces that discipline corporations:
locusmag.com/2023/11/comment…
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ALT A black-and-white photo of a nose-first zeppelin crash. The foreground has a huge Google 'G' logo. In the middle of it stands a choleric boss in a top hat, holding a giant money-bag and shouting over his shoulder at the disaster behind him. A bound and gagged figure has been thrown from the zeppelin and plummets towards the earth, his eyes full of terror.
Alastair Caird 🏴 retweeted
If you want to hear how we solve the #ClimateCrisis, and whether this government is up to the job, then don’t miss this. And what a great pleasure it’s been to work alongside the awesome @maryportas and the brilliant @Kevin_McCloud 🙏🏼🌍
We could stop climate change – and the solutions to it could benefit us all.
Tune in tonight at 9.15pm to watch The Great Climate Fight on Channel 4. #ClimateFight #ChangeClimate
Alastair Caird 🏴 retweeted
In terms of in-car safety systems, why should EU law makers be careful what they wish for? Matt Prior has the answer buff.ly/3sj2h0E
Alastair Caird 🏴 retweeted
EV drivers: If you had to choose just ONE main reason for having switched to EV, what would it be? Pls RT for numbers 🙏
12%Performance
50%Low running costs
29%Save the planet
9%Other (pls comment)
987 votes • Final results Alastair Caird 🏴 retweeted
A brilliant essay by @cketchamwild on the illogical and frankly psychopathic economic reasoning that reduces mass death, planetary tipping points and societal collapse to mere hiccups in economic life. Well worth reading in full. theintercept.com/2023/10/29/…
Alastair Caird 🏴 retweeted
Tories SMASHED in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire by-elections.
(And I feel fine)
I wish I'd written this. #EV, #SOLAR , #heatpumps. They are all realistically possible in #Scotland and elsewhere. 1 done, 2 to go. If you can, you should.
Excellent thread. Trials and tribulations of rail travel, with humour. I used the trains for London fortnightly for 13yrs back in the day. Worst that happened to me was sleeping (I called it the sleeperless) through Euston, then awakening at the Wembley depot. Was late for work.
