Nick Brooks
@npjbrooks.bsky.social
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Adaptation professional. Aspiring swordsman. Supporter of Sahrawi self-determination. Norfolk boy. Director of Garama 3C Ltd.
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At this point, taxing billionaires out of existence seems like a benefit for them. These man-children need rules and regulations and a bedtime.
I think we missed each other. I was at the party last night but couldn’t justify paying a conference fee to take 3 days off work when I’ve just come back from 6 weeks holiday!
Mildly related is impressive.
Indeed, catastrophic climate change, including a decent chance of shutting of the Atlantic circulation and plunging the UK & northern Europe into a mini ice age as the rest of the world eats the resulting excess heat, is the explicit policy choice of the right, and they want us to vote for it.
The high emissions trajectory is what Reform and the Tories now want to set us on. It would literally destroy British society within a century. This should really be better known. Or even mentioned in our media.
I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
Our next Norwich (UK) (Climate) Emergency Drinks gathering will take place tomorrow (Thu 12 June) from 7:30pm. If you fancy mixing with people working on, active about, or just interested in climate & related issues, send me a message and I'll give you the details.
I've written a short piece on LinkedIn about the UK's recent endorsement of #Morocco's autonomy plan for occupied #WesternSahara, and why this is a major foreign policy error. It links to the much longer article on my blog. www.linkedin.com/pulse/uks-la...
The UK's latest foreign policy error
On 1st June, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) released a UK-Morocco Joint Communiqué realting to an ongoing strategic dialogue between the two countries. The Communiqué included...
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A bit of both, I’d say.
The 1 June UK-Morocco #JointCommuniqué announced by #DavidLammy & the #FCDO states that #Morocco’s 'autonomy plan' is “the most credible, viable and pragmatic basis for a lasting resolution of the dispute” in Western Sahara. It isn't. Here's why. nickbrooks.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/l...
"Libertad" spelt out in petroglyphs near Tifariti, in the Liberated Territories of Western Sahara.
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The 1990s adoption of neoliberalism by the centre left really ought to be seen for what it is: the successful capture of liberal politics by what is straightforwardly a eugenicist, far-right ideology. It's just that almost no one did the reading.
One thing I’ve been anecdotally seeing amongst a lot of left-of-centre parties internationally is the lack of a genuine alternate economic vision at all, and chasing the same neoliberal agendas of the right-of-centre parties, shifting continuously rightward.

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Labour commits to same debt & surplus targets as National
Greens eye $88b of wealth distribution
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Trump has now sold out the Ukrainians, the Palestinians, and the Sahrawis, in each case giving the occupier exactly what they want with no push-back. Not exactly hard-nosed negotiation from an expert deal maker. Rather spineless capitulation by a weak mind too easily impressed by aggression.
The Day After Tomorrow is better each time I watch it. Sure, the science is beyond dodgy, but its treatment of the political economy of climate inaction, differentiated vulnerability, fragility, embedded adaptive capacity, and complex impacts, is exemplary.
Do any of my #climate / #adaptation contacts have expertise in communications from parties to the UNFCCC on other parties' NDCs? DM me if so. Thanks.
Saw a sobering presentation about demining in Western Sahara, followed by another on Moroccan drone attacks on civilian targets, by the Sahrawi Mine Action Cooperation Office this morning. These are the types of drones being used by Morocco in incursions in the Sahrawi controlled areas.
Of course, the Sahrawis would rather choose through the UN mandated referendum on self-determination, denied them by Morocco's occupation, but whatever. The complete opposite would be an independent state.
Oh, this is just like old times on twitter. How are things on the farm?
Hey. Welcome to Bluesky. Glad you found me - I've missed my Moroccan trolls! Non-self governing territory in which decolonisation process is yet to be completed as recognised by UN, etc, etc.
Folks, if you're planning a holiday in Morocco, please consider that you'll be supporting a military occupation & the attempted erasure of the Sahrawi people's culture, identity, and presence in their homeland. Sent from a refugee camp housing Sahrawis displaced by Morocco's aggression.
If getting rid of people was the way to solve climate change, the first to go wouldn't be the poor - it would be the better off high emitters, including many of the proponents of the 'overpopulation' narrative, and, indeed, you and me.