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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 38m

48% of Ireland's waterbodies are so polluted, contaminated with chemicals, choked with algae, deprived of oxygen, lacking in species variety or physically altered and damaged that they fail to meet minimally acceptable standards.

And it's getting worse.
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Half of Ireland’s rivers, lakes and estuaries in unhealthy state as standards slide again

Agriculture, sewage, chemicals and physical damage all threatening nature’s waterways

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1h

Important thread that *every* Irish environmentalist should read before voting in the presidential election.

In short: Humphreys was just as disastrous for the environment as she was on social policy.

Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 11h

Let's explore the Green credentials of Heather Humphreys - The woman former GP member Brian Leddin thinks should be president.
She advocated for an increased burn period during her time as Minister for Heritage, as well as prolonging the period during which hedgerows could be cut. #Spéirgorm 1/n

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 4h

Orla nails it 🎯

Exactly why the Green Party was happy to prop up Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil in the last government, and to hell with the notion of allying environmental and social justice, is becoming ever more clear.

Orla @somebogwitch.bsky.social · 4h

"But Heather Humphreys was the minister who saw the heritage Bill ammendments that increased scrub burning and hedge destruction how could Brian Leddin side with that over left wing economics...?"

Because plenty of green TDs never cared about the environment either

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11h

In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

www.monbiot.com

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 8h

It is simple first order racism.

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 13h

Not homes.
Not streets.
ENTIRE TOWNS!

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Anna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · 14h

Well said @irishrainforest.bsky.social - Leddin must not have paid attention to recent speeches from the Taoiseach and government (in)action.

Meanwhile, the EPA tells us today that water quality in our rivers and lakes has deteriorated again.

#Aras25 #SpeirGorm

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 14h

Ex-Green TD Brian Leddin is leaving the Greens over the party's support for "far left" Connolly, and voting for Fine Gael's Humphreys as president.

He believes climate and ecological breakdown are not left-right issues.

He's very wrong: *capitalism* is their core driver.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 16h

Brian Leddin: Why I resigned from the Green Party over its decision to back Catherine Connolly

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quitedo @q1t3d0.bsky.social · 14h

Climate change is entirely a political issue. It's not that the right are all deniers, it's just that the folk on the right who believe in climate change temper any actions with the means to make a profit.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 14h

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Ian Parsons @ianparsons.bsky.social · 14h

Succession. Bramble islands form, slowly linking up, providing the conditions for trees to escape the confines of the hedges. Nascent woodland not grown in peat & wrapped in a tree guard. Several chapters in the book talk about this process. @irishrainforest.bsky.social @rewildscotland.bsky.social

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Karl Stanley @karlstanley.bsky.social · 14h

The protection of the environment for the benefit of all is a left-right issue. Here’s why:

Who benefits from environmental destruction? The rich. Who pays for it? Everyone else. Who pays the most? The poorest people in society. It doesn’t get more starkly left-right than that.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 14h

Ex-Green TD Brian Leddin is leaving the Greens over the party's support for "far left" Connolly, and voting for Fine Gael's Humphreys as president.

He believes climate and ecological breakdown are not left-right issues.

He's very wrong: *capitalism* is their core driver.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 16h

Brian Leddin: Why I resigned from the Green Party over its decision to back Catherine Connolly

Party’s decision to support Connolly’s presidential campaign only deepened my concerns about its current direction

www.irishtimes.com

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15h

The one I'm using is Vansky (I think). It seems pretty good, despite only costing about €12 online.

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 16h

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 13d

A Spanish scorpion on UV and white light

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 17h

More after dark magic in the rainforest with a UV torch.

Some species of fungi are bioflorescent in ultraviolet light, making them glow against the blackness of night.

A walk through the woods becomes a truly enchanting experience.

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Arseny Khakhalin @khakhalin.bsky.social · 1d

omg I though it's an exaggeration, but no, not at all! Hymenochaete corrugata, a fungus that evolved a strategy of "first glue it in place, then eat out the insides" in order to consume twigs in the air, avoiding competition with fungi on the ground!! 🤯

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d

A stick, hanging in mid-air?
What's going on?

Hazel glue fungus!

Keeping a dead twig attached to a living stem allows the glue fungus to break it down without competition from the many other fungi that work at ground level. Nature is *so* amazing!

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 2d

Its not monsters from outer space
Its humans scraping the bottom floor and sucking up every life form that exists, leaving nothing
Fish often in vain flee for their lives

Also releases 370 million metric tons of planet-warming c02 every year, roughly same as running 100 coal power plants

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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 2d

Well past St. Michaelmas Day along the #DykeApproach path today and yet ..

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Is Zack Polanski the Left's answer to Nigel Farage?

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d

It glues two already touching twigs together.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d

A stick, hanging in mid-air?
What's going on?

Hazel glue fungus!

Keeping a dead twig attached to a living stem allows the glue fungus to break it down without competition from the many other fungi that work at ground level. Nature is *so* amazing!

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2d

Given a choice between
1. Honouring commitments on fighting one of (if not THE) greatest ever threats to humanity - climate breakdown
2. Cute hoor politics

Fianna Fáil opt for ... Cute hoor politics.

Leopards, spots, and all that.

Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 4d

The full quote as reported:

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change,” he said.
“This might be controversial, because I believe in addressing climate change....

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 4d

“I don’t think we can mitigate for climate change.”

- Mícheál Martin, Taoiseach.

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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 2d

Connolly literally has repeatedly openly condemned Russia, including on radio today. Like, what exactly do you want from her? I have criticisms of Connolly (eg on Syria) but the Russia stuff is, with respect, complete horseshit

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 5d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Ireland's Native Woodland Trust @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social · 2d

This is what we're up against. People still removing woodlands when we've already lost so much

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Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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