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Ros Coward

@roscoward.bsky.social

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Author, journalist, Guardian & Observer writer. Greenpeace voting member, on the board of trustees of Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK). Mainly comments on the environment and campaigns to protect and restore nature.

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Ros Coward @roscoward.bsky.social · Feb 3

Panorama tonight -@BBCNews -is about the rush for renewables. Justin Rowlatt challenges the government’s scorn for’NIMBY’protestors. Instead we see the truth-ignored communities, distress at lost landscapes, and better solutions ignored.
@CommunityPlann1 @BBCJustinR #pylons

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Ros Coward @roscoward.bsky.social · Jan 31

George Monbiot is right. When it comes to the environment @Kier_Starmer & @RachelReevesMP - ignorant, sneering, joyless- are worse than the Tories. Utterly depressing. @SteveReedMP @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? | George Monbiot

Our rivers, our wildlife, the air we breathe: the government is sacrificing all to the insatiable god of GDP – and mocking our objections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Ros Coward @roscoward.bsky.social · Dec 11

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Important report from Community Planning Alliance. Shows govt building spree will not solve the real housing crisis & will destroy nature. What’s needed is a greenfield LAST approach

www.communityplanningalliance.org

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Ros Coward @roscoward.bsky.social · Nov 27

Wow! Amazingly beautiful work

Ros Coward @roscoward.bsky.social · Nov 19

It’s depressing to see this Polly Toynbee apology for the Labour government’s housing strategy. What’s needed is more social housing not developer-led, profit -driven destruction of the countryside. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In Kent, Labour has a fight on its hands – and a make-or-break test for its housing revolution | Polly Toynbee

If it wants to build 1.5m homes, the government will sometimes need to be brave enough to reject local feeling – as it has done in Swale, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee