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October 13, 1988 - ITV - “The Environment and Pollution” - All Our Yesterdays

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 30m

October 13, 1988 – ITV – “The Environment and Pollution”

We've known - at a popular/mainstream media level - of serious trouble ahead for almost 40 decades.

Failure of governments/states, corporate sector and civil society/social movements.

"oops".

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Thirty seven years ago, on this day, October 13th, 1988, October 13 1988 ITV programme “The Environment and Pollution” Lord Caithness says “we have got a world leading programme for finding alternativ...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1h

Grabs popcorn. 🍿🍿

I wonder if Ed Miliband is going to have to have a hissy fit to even get it released on the Friday before Christmas at 6pm with no press release...

James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 2d

The UK’s national security is under severe threat from the climate & nature crises - a report by the UK’s intelligence chiefs is due to warn

But the report has been delayed

“concerns have been expressed to the Guardian that it may have been blocked by number 10”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 6h

The 1979 publication "The Little Green Book" is super-interesting and - if you let it be - depressing af.

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Review: “The Little Green Book” by Vole #13Books

I am not buying or borrowing any more books until I read and review the 13 that I bought (for a grand total of £17.50) in London on Friday 10th October 2025. You can see the list and the rationale…

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 8h

Bill morris

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 9h

Ah, bless ol’ Pete Kropotkin

The Real AI Risk is ‘Meh’ Technology That Takes Jobs and Annoys Us All

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 9h

Plus ca change

Richard cross man wittering about democracy

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10h

IMHO, LLMs will be an economic negative for years.

They'll do a worse job than humans,

but will still replace humans because they're cheaper for employers,

but really they're costlier, it's just that lots of costs get externalized to society by our horrible energy/tax policies.

Lose-lose-lose.

While AI doomsday scenarios dwell on the risks posed by superintelligent robot overlords, one Nobel-Prize winning economist fears a more mundane possibility.

www.bloomberg.com

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 9h

1979, the year I applauded Margaret Thatcher’s election.

Tbf, I was eight and hadn’t even known there was an election happening.

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 9h

Snorts

The capacity for progressive action on the part of any local authority is in inverse ratio to the need for it

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 9h

Guess!!

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 9h

Well, this is interesting

Text abt co2 build up from the little green book

70 years ago today, a General Electric scientist warned about carbon dioxide build-up - All Our Yesterdays

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 11h

This may be of interest

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Seventy years ago today, on Thursday September 22nd 1955, a scientist employed by General Electric stood in front of an audience of engineers and told them that the build up of carbon dioxide in the a...

October 12, 2011 - Carbon Pricing legislation passed - All Our Yesterdays

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 23h

October 12, 2011 – Carbon Pricing legislation passed in Australia

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Fourteen years ago, on this day, October 12th, 2011, “Carbon pricing (fixed for the first three years, then floating as part of an ETS) therefore passed the lower House of Representatives on 12 Octobe...

October 12, 2008 - the GetUp Climate Torch Relay… - All Our Yesterdays

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 23h

October 12, 2008 – the GetUp Climate Torch Relay ends…

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Seventeen years ago, on this day, October 12th, 2008, “The GetUp Climate Torch Relay reached its finale yesterday with a great event on the lawns in front of Parliament House. While Messrs Rudd and Tu...

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 12h

re am not ALP (or greens)

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 12h

What difference would that have made, in parliament. Abbott had the numbers, didn’t he? (In the lower house)

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 13h

What could shorten have done though? Labor had lost heavily in 2013…

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 14h

Shorten’s role?

October 12, 2011 - Carbon Pricing legislation passed - All Our Yesterdays

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 23h

October 12, 2011 – Carbon Pricing legislation passed in Australia

allouryesterdays.info/2025/10/11/o...

Fourteen years ago, on this day, October 12th, 2011, “Carbon pricing (fixed for the first three years, then floating as part of an ETS) therefore passed the lower House of Representatives on 12 Octobe...

October 12, 2008 - the GetUp Climate Torch Relay… - All Our Yesterdays

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 23h

October 12, 2008 – the GetUp Climate Torch Relay ends…

allouryesterdays.info/2025/10/11/o...

Seventeen years ago, on this day, October 12th, 2008, “The GetUp Climate Torch Relay reached its finale yesterday with a great event on the lawns in front of Parliament House. While Messrs Rudd and Tu...

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

Bit later - 1958

@richarddenniss.bsky.social

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

Any takers on the year?

Economic Considerations Related to
Important Weather Changes Incidental to Modern Industrial and Military Activities
This section would be concerned principally with the economic effects of atmospheric contaminants of planetary range, insofar as known or reasonably conjectured. The objective would be one of tracing the possible economic effects of climatic changes which might be brought about through increased carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere, through weather changes consequent from the circulation of radioactive particles sent aloft by the explosion of fission or fusion weapons,
or other important atmospheric changes which were incidental to activities other than planned weather modification. The hypothetical effects of new degree-day patterns, changed storm inci- dence, and disturbance of normal rainfall pattern would be explored for- (1) Economic loss through physical damage- agriculture, transportation, manufacturing industry, and recreational activities.
(2) Hypothetically increased costs of operation-agriculture, transportation, manufacturing industry

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 1d

On this day 25 years ago - October 11, 2000 – Aussies want to mark their own climate homework.

Nothing changes.

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October 11, 2000 - Aussies want to mark their own homework - All Our Yesterdays

Twenty five years ago, on this day, October 11th, 2000, “At a UN climate change conference in France in September, the Australian delegates argued that countries should monitor their own progress on g...