Laratheescapeartist
@lescapeartist.bsky.social
British cartoonist/artist living in Brussels with self diagnosed eco-anxiety. Get in touch if you'd like to work on an environmental cartoon with me!
www.laratheescapeartist.com
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My final Down to Earth newsletter for the Guardian: What I saw reporting on the American lives cut short by killer heat and broken promises www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What I saw reporting on the American lives cut short by killer heat
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December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
My final Down to Earth newsletter for the Guardian: What I saw reporting on the American lives cut short by killer heat and broken promises www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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2025 was heat and drought. 2024 was incessant rain
Three of the five worst British harvests on record have now occurred since 2020
Some farmers are asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Three of the five worst British harvests on record have now occurred since 2020
Some farmers are asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
2025 was heat and drought. 2024 was incessant rain
Three of the five worst British harvests on record have now occurred since 2020
Some farmers are asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Three of the five worst British harvests on record have now occurred since 2020
Some farmers are asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I get so annoyed by this kind of thinking by people who think it's useless to take individual action too - if you are in the top 10%of the richest people in the world YOU ARE THE SYSTEM and you have the resources and your actions matter, and you will actually make your own life better
If Ireland's emissions are "too small to matter" then I might as well evade my taxes and eat doughnuts for lunch.
Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Read my latest column about the laziest excuse in the climate debate:
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
‘Too small to matter’ is the laziest-possible excuse in climate debate
At a time of crisis, co-operation is the only way to resolve the climate collective-action problem
www.irishtimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I get so annoyed by this kind of thinking by people who think it's useless to take individual action too - if you are in the top 10%of the richest people in the world YOU ARE THE SYSTEM and you have the resources and your actions matter, and you will actually make your own life better
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You can sign the @nebriefing.bsky.social letter to the Prime Minister and leaders of UK public service broadcasters here.
The primary goal is to persuade UK national media to treat the climate and nature crisis with the gravity and prominence it deserves.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
The primary goal is to persuade UK national media to treat the climate and nature crisis with the gravity and prominence it deserves.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
National Emergency Briefing
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
www.nebriefing.org
December 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
You can sign the @nebriefing.bsky.social letter to the Prime Minister and leaders of UK public service broadcasters here.
The primary goal is to persuade UK national media to treat the climate and nature crisis with the gravity and prominence it deserves.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
The primary goal is to persuade UK national media to treat the climate and nature crisis with the gravity and prominence it deserves.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
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“The deranged idea—as Amitav Ghosh describes it—that we are safe, that things are under control, that bad things only happen to people who are far away, persists. Anticipating future ruin, we fail to act in the here and now.” -
@katemac.bsky.social & I:
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/global-boiling/
@katemac.bsky.social & I:
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/global-boiling/
Global Boiling | The Polycrisis
Stocks and flows, action and inaction in the planetary impasse
phenomenalworld.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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This is a good article about the relentless onslaught of climate disinformation that distorts US and global politics.
I just wish it acknowledged that disinformation is sticky precisely because it often resonates w the speech of “our side.”
For example…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
I just wish it acknowledged that disinformation is sticky precisely because it often resonates w the speech of “our side.”
For example…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Many Fighting Climate Change Worry They Are Losing the Information War
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This is a good article about the relentless onslaught of climate disinformation that distorts US and global politics.
I just wish it acknowledged that disinformation is sticky precisely because it often resonates w the speech of “our side.”
For example…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
I just wish it acknowledged that disinformation is sticky precisely because it often resonates w the speech of “our side.”
For example…
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
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Great reporting in @grist.org on heat injury amongst migrant workers in the Middle East, who leave their home nations in search of economic opportunity and return with severe kidney injury and other heat-associated impairments.
Rising heat, failing kidneys: Climate’s hidden toll on migrant workers
Millions of migrants toil in grueling conditions in the Middle East, where brutal heat contributes to an alarming increase in kidney failure.
grist.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Great reporting in @grist.org on heat injury amongst migrant workers in the Middle East, who leave their home nations in search of economic opportunity and return with severe kidney injury and other heat-associated impairments.
dontburnwherewebreathe.com If you can smell wood smoke you are breathing in harmful fine particulate matter (PM2.5 or soot). PM2.5 pollution is linked to respiratory illnesses, heart problems, cancer and Alzheimer's #dontburnwherewebreathe #banwoodburners #airpollution
Don't burn where we breathe
Watermael-Boitsfort has a smoking problem- wood smoke. If you can smell smoke you are breathing in fine particles (PM2.5) that can penetrate deep into your lungs and cause damage to all organs of …
dontburnwherewebreathe.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
dontburnwherewebreathe.com If you can smell wood smoke you are breathing in harmful fine particulate matter (PM2.5 or soot). PM2.5 pollution is linked to respiratory illnesses, heart problems, cancer and Alzheimer's #dontburnwherewebreathe #banwoodburners #airpollution
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“The choice is between deep, rapid fair decarbonisation of modern society, and an organised-ish technical and social revolution;
or ongoing rhetoric and delay as temperatures [rise].
And then we’ll have a revolutionary style change that will be both chaotic and violent.” @kevinclimate.bsky.social
or ongoing rhetoric and delay as temperatures [rise].
And then we’ll have a revolutionary style change that will be both chaotic and violent.” @kevinclimate.bsky.social
Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security
Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security
Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
“The choice is between deep, rapid fair decarbonisation of modern society, and an organised-ish technical and social revolution;
or ongoing rhetoric and delay as temperatures [rise].
And then we’ll have a revolutionary style change that will be both chaotic and violent.” @kevinclimate.bsky.social
or ongoing rhetoric and delay as temperatures [rise].
And then we’ll have a revolutionary style change that will be both chaotic and violent.” @kevinclimate.bsky.social
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NEW | Our latest research exposes just how lightly private jet users are taxed — and how much the UK is losing because of it.
It’s time the biggest polluters paid their share.
It’s time the biggest polluters paid their share.
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
NEW | Our latest research exposes just how lightly private jet users are taxed — and how much the UK is losing because of it.
It’s time the biggest polluters paid their share.
It’s time the biggest polluters paid their share.
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New research shows climate risk is already hitting insurance and home values. And that’s only part of the story. Some serious hazards, like saltwater intrusion, often aren’t covered at all -- and aren’t yet priced into housing markets. Column today: susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/new-data-s...
New data shows insurance costs rising and home values sinking as climate risks grow
Insurance markets are flashing warnings — even as some major climate risks remain unmeasured and unaccounted for
susanpcrawford.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
New research shows climate risk is already hitting insurance and home values. And that’s only part of the story. Some serious hazards, like saltwater intrusion, often aren’t covered at all -- and aren’t yet priced into housing markets. Column today: susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/new-data-s...
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"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
End the tax break that makes flying cheaper than trains | Letters
Letters: Airlines benefit from a tax system that helps them keep fares low, writes Anna Hughes
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
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‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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A cargo ship crossed the Atlantic on sails. Yes, in 2025. Clean travel is possible, we just need to choose it.
Skip the plane next year. Join the #FlightFreeChallenge and go low-carbon with us. #Climate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Skip the plane next year. Join the #FlightFreeChallenge and go low-carbon with us. #Climate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Onboard the world’s largest sailing cargo ship: is this the future of travel and transport?
The Neoliner Origin set off on its inaugural two-week voyage from France to the US with the aim of revolutionising the notoriously dirty shipping industry
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A cargo ship crossed the Atlantic on sails. Yes, in 2025. Clean travel is possible, we just need to choose it.
Skip the plane next year. Join the #FlightFreeChallenge and go low-carbon with us. #Climate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Skip the plane next year. Join the #FlightFreeChallenge and go low-carbon with us. #Climate
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This is a depressing roundup
Does this answer a few of those niggling questions that have been cropping up in your head too …?
@wanderinggaia.bsky.social
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
@wanderinggaia.bsky.social
theconversation.com/how-the-rich...
How the rich world is fortifying itself against climate migration
Climate change is already linked to mass deportation – and the worst is still to come.
theconversation.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This is a depressing roundup
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A reminder that crypto mining continues to be one of the world's most severe wastes of energy and one of the most shockingly pointless causes of environmental harm
Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A reminder that crypto mining continues to be one of the world's most severe wastes of energy and one of the most shockingly pointless causes of environmental harm
Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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As @glenpeters.bsky.social says, we're way off target for any 1.5°C scenario.
To see how far off, each of the red/green bars represents the decrease in CO₂ emissions during COVID. Even if we achieved that from now until the end of 2030, we would still miss our 1.5°C target by a significant margin.
To see how far off, each of the red/green bars represents the decrease in CO₂ emissions during COVID. Even if we achieved that from now until the end of 2030, we would still miss our 1.5°C target by a significant margin.
November 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
As @glenpeters.bsky.social says, we're way off target for any 1.5°C scenario.
To see how far off, each of the red/green bars represents the decrease in CO₂ emissions during COVID. Even if we achieved that from now until the end of 2030, we would still miss our 1.5°C target by a significant margin.
To see how far off, each of the red/green bars represents the decrease in CO₂ emissions during COVID. Even if we achieved that from now until the end of 2030, we would still miss our 1.5°C target by a significant margin.
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Killer @texasobserver.org reporting on the hot mess of crypto in Texas.
Crypto's Cryptic Texas Takeover
State regulators don't want you to know about the 60-plus Bitcoin mines guzzling public water and electricity—even though consumers are already paying the price.
www.texasobserver.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Killer @texasobserver.org reporting on the hot mess of crypto in Texas.
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Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%.
policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...
policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...
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ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of the energy in their fuel. Electric vehicles are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain: EVs need not convert one form of energy to another resulting in much higher efficiency.
November 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of the energy in their fuel. Electric vehicles are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain: EVs need not convert one form of energy to another resulting in much higher efficiency.
@mumsforlungs.bsky.social I really appreciate all the work that you do. I live in Brussels and am trying to connect with air pollution campaigners here. I came up with the slogan 'Don't burn where we breathe' - if it all helps please feel free to use it! laratheescapeartist.com/2025/10/24/d...
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
@mumsforlungs.bsky.social I really appreciate all the work that you do. I live in Brussels and am trying to connect with air pollution campaigners here. I came up with the slogan 'Don't burn where we breathe' - if it all helps please feel free to use it! laratheescapeartist.com/2025/10/24/d...
I updated this post and drawing about the dangers of woodfire burners (and they are truly terrible) so the slogan is 'Don't burn where we breathe' instead of 'Don't burn where you breathe'. #airpollution #dontburnwherewebreathe laratheescapeartist.com/2025/10/24/d...
Don’t burn where we breathe
I’ve been dreading spending another winter in our new house. Not because it’s not warm inside – the house was completed in 2024 and is very well insulated with an air source heat …
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November 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I updated this post and drawing about the dangers of woodfire burners (and they are truly terrible) so the slogan is 'Don't burn where we breathe' instead of 'Don't burn where you breathe'. #airpollution #dontburnwherewebreathe laratheescapeartist.com/2025/10/24/d...
😬😬😬carbon offsetting is a joke that is going to backfire on all of us
The EU's environment ministers have agreed a proposed climate target for 2040 that is much lower than what even the EU's own science advisers called for
Half-assing climate action will lead to more deaths, more lost homes, more lost harvests – and the EU will struggle play leader at #COP30
#EU2040
Half-assing climate action will lead to more deaths, more lost homes, more lost harvests – and the EU will struggle play leader at #COP30
#EU2040
Environment ministers botch EU climate targets - Greenpeace European Unit
Brussels – After a night of haggling, the EU’s national environment ministers have proposed a climate target for 2040 that falls significantly short of even the minimum that the EU’s…
www.greenpeace.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
😬😬😬carbon offsetting is a joke that is going to backfire on all of us