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Nigel Pugh
@nspugh.bsky.social
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Environmental / Social Justice Campaigner

Urgent economic systems change is required #WellbeingEconomy

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Nigel Pugh @nspugh.bsky.social · Mar 29
Transforming the nature of economy @green-alliance.org.uk

✅ Replace GDP with inclusive community wellbeing

✅ Enable inclusive meaningful democracy

✅ Deliver a #WellbeingEconomy that accounts for environmental & nature impacts & thinks future generations

green-alliance.org.uk/publication/...
The nature of our economy: implementing the Dasgupta Review » Green Alliance
Green Alliance is an independent think tank and charity focused on ambitious leadership for the environment
green-alliance.org.uk
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BBC news last night, Google CEO in reference to the AI financial bubble, & its planet busting energy use, said - “Energy is essential to economic growth”

The extractive growth of the #SuperRich who are consuming nature, earths resources & our children’s futures at a rate of yachts! 🔥🌎 #photography
“Story of the lost” etched upon a graveyard tombstone.
November 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Social justice is environmental justice. An abundance of #trees & #nature close lengthens the quality of our lives! Why is this a privilege of birth, or postcode?

#TreeEquity is fair, it is inclusive community climate resilience.

www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/protecting-t...

#TREES4ALL #Health #Photo
Alt text Photo of the Social Enterprise - ’Railway Gardens’ - Splott Cardiff. A pool of water on a picnic bench mirrors a blue cloud dappled sky, street art decorated shipping containers, illustrated with blue skies and green infrastructure, and a sole actual tree are all reflected, all mirrored. Landscape image.
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Social justice is environmental justice. An abundance of #trees & #nature close lengthens the quality of our lives! Why is this a privilege of birth, or postcode?

#TreeEquity is fair, it is inclusive community climate resilience.

www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/protecting-t...

#TREES4ALL #Health #Photo
Alt text Photo of the Social Enterprise - ’Railway Gardens’ - Splott Cardiff. A pool of water on a picnic bench mirrors a blue cloud dappled sky, street art decorated shipping containers, illustrated with blue skies and green infrastructure, and a sole actual tree are all reflected, all mirrored. Landscape image.
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Huge.

And I meet more and more over 50s too who will be voting for the Green Party as well!

Join.greenparty.org.uk
greenelects.world Green Elects @greenelects.world · 2d
Under-50s Back Green Party as FIRST Choice in Latest YouGov Poll.
First place is The Greens with twenty-eight percent of the vote, a six-point increase. Second are Labour with twenty-five percent of the vote, a four-point increase. Third are Reform with eighteen percent of the vote, a five-point decrease. Fourth are The Liberal Democrats with fourteen percent of the vote, a seven-point increase. Fifth are The Conservatives on five percent of the vote with a five-point decrease. These figures compare results from November seventeenth to those from November tenth and represent the combined eighteen to twenty-four and twenty-five to fifty age groups.
November 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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BBC news last night, Google CEO in reference to the AI financial bubble, & its planet busting energy use, said - “Energy is essential to economic growth”

The extractive growth of the #SuperRich who are consuming nature, earths resources & our children’s futures at a rate of yachts! 🔥🌎 #photography
“Story of the lost” etched upon a graveyard tombstone.
November 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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emperorjulian.bsky.social
👇
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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nation.cymru
Skipper Harry Wilson scored a hat-trick as rampant Wales secured home semi-final advantage in the World Cup play-offs by crushing North Macedonia 7-1 in Cardiff.
Harry Wilson hat-trick earns World Cup play-off spot for brilliant Wales
Phil Blanche, PA Skipper Harry Wilson scored a hat-trick as rampant Wales secured home semi-final advantage in the World Cup play-offs by crushing North Macedonia 7-1 in Cardiff. Wilson and David Broo...
nation.cymru
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Silent Sundays: Morgans Town, Wales. #AltText

#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
A coated person walks a rough forest track, small, away from the viewer, towards a open valley view. Her frame flanked by felled conifers, and left to remain exposed broadleaves, worn yet still sentinel. Her shadowed booted frame against dusk light, tracks, dirt, gravel, small pools and clear-fell debris all reflects passed rain. Murky golden, dark conifer tones. You can smell the cut, scrub pine.
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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We need targeted Nature based solutions at landscape scale, with landscape scale boots on the ground implementing.

We have to appropriately and naturally intercept Peak Overland Hydrological Flows for food, and community climate adaptation, and resilience. #Wales
llyrgruffydd.bsky.social Llyr Gruffydd @llyrgruffydd.bsky.social · 6d
🗣️"Wales cannot afford to be left behind when it comes to weather forecasting technology.
"Communities are being left increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather."
November 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
nspugh.bsky.social
We need targeted Nature based solutions at landscape scale, with landscape scale boots on the ground implementing.

We have to appropriately and naturally intercept Peak Overland Hydrological Flows for food, and community climate adaptation, and resilience. #Wales
llyrgruffydd.bsky.social Llyr Gruffydd @llyrgruffydd.bsky.social · 6d
🗣️"Wales cannot afford to be left behind when it comes to weather forecasting technology.
"Communities are being left increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather."
November 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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#COP30 "Raquel Wapichana travelled nine hours from Roraima to attend. She carried a sign saying:“Let’s struggle.” She said:“I am here for my people, my land, our rivers and our ancestors. We are constantly threatened by mining, by agribusiness and by land invasions. We must fight for our survival.”"
Thousands hit streets of Belém to call for action during crucial Cop30 summit
Funeral for fossil fuels held as part of ‘Great People’s March’ calling on governments to step up climate efforts
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Silent Sundays: Morgans Town, Wales. #AltText

#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
A coated person walks a rough forest track, small, away from the viewer, towards a open valley view. Her frame flanked by felled conifers, and left to remain exposed broadleaves, worn yet still sentinel. Her shadowed booted frame against dusk light, tracks, dirt, gravel, small pools and clear-fell debris all reflects passed rain. Murky golden, dark conifer tones. You can smell the cut, scrub pine.
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Between the Thorns: A black and white image of a starburst sunrise between two Blackthorn trees - Wye Valley, Mid #Wales

@landscapehead.com

#Landscape #LandscapePhotography
#Photography #BlackandWhite
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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ips-dc.org
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.

And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*

Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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YOUR DAILY REMINDER: it is extreme weather, intensified by fossil fuels, that pose the greatest threat to grid security and causes the most blackouts.

The blatantly false idea that renewables cause blackouts is *itself* likely to cause more blackouts, by encouraging more fossil fuel use
a chart showing blackouts caused by extreme weather
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all #Cop30 delegations except Brazil - Philippines by nearly 50 to 1 & Jamaica by 40 to 1 🤮

“Another Cop, same playbook. This is corporate capture, not climate governance” Center for International Environmental Law
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#ClimateCrisis
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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nspugh.bsky.social
Wrestle the BBC from the pernicious influence of it’s historic right wing, rich bias. Finally make it independent, politically neutral.

You can not let it’s perceived global ‘trust’ be bought out totally by global plutocrats.

@dorianlynskey.bsky.social

www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-da...
The BBC is the biggest prize in the information war – and the right may be about to destroy it
The corporation is always under attack. But this time it has been sabotaged by conservative ideologues deep within its heart. Is it time for the culture secretary to step in? By Dorian Lynskey
www.thenerve.news
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
nspugh.bsky.social
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all #Cop30 delegations except Brazil - Philippines by nearly 50 to 1 & Jamaica by 40 to 1 🤮

“Another Cop, same playbook. This is corporate capture, not climate governance” Center for International Environmental Law
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#ClimateCrisis
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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profbillmcguire.bsky.social
The COP process has been utterly compromised by the fossil fuel lobby for years

The climate COPs have long been unfit for purpose, and - across 3 decades - have not stopped emissions climbing and have done next to nothing to demand fossil fuel use ends

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
nspugh.bsky.social
Wrestle the BBC from the pernicious influence of it’s historic right wing, rich bias. Finally make it independent, politically neutral.

You can not let it’s perceived global ‘trust’ be bought out totally by global plutocrats.

@dorianlynskey.bsky.social

www.thenerve.news/p/bbc-tim-da...
The BBC is the biggest prize in the information war – and the right may be about to destroy it
The corporation is always under attack. But this time it has been sabotaged by conservative ideologues deep within its heart. Is it time for the culture secretary to step in? By Dorian Lynskey
www.thenerve.news
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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'Policies that favour the interests of the working class are routinely dismissed as a fantasy, whereas those that push wealth and power towards the rich come to be seen as a realistic status quo.'
@theguardian.com having a 💡 moment. Zack Polanski has hit a switch.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s rebuttal to the Green party this week sums up the double standard that dogs our politics | Frances Ryan
Why is it that the politics of hope offered up by the left is dismissed as naive, while the policies of the centre and right are portrayed as all that is possible? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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It will take the strategic increase of targeted tree cover, & the stacking of Nature based solutions @zackpolanski.bsky.social that appropriately intercept landscape scale Peak Overland Hydrological Flows, in deluge; plus wellbeing economics.

@wellbeingeconomy.cymru #ClimateCrisis #FoodSovereignty
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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nspugh.bsky.social
Trees work on farms too:

🌳Store & protect carbon
🌳Reduce pollution increase water quality
🌳Reduce flood impacts
🌳Reduce heat & drought impacts
🌳Protect & provide wildlife habitats
🌳Beautifies the countryside
🌳Enables food resilience

#NoFarmersNoFood #Agroforestry @thesoilassociation.bsky.social
Social media post reads from James Melville who leads on #NoFarmersNoFood “A simple and effective way to improve towns and cities: Plant lots of trees. 🌳stores carbon dioxide 🌳reduces city pollution 🌳helps protect from flooding 🌳reduces city temperatures 🌳provides habitats for urban wildlife 🌳beautifies urban surroundings” With an urban tree infographic attached Titled: Why Trees Are Cool from EPS, North Carolina State University. US Forestry Service “If the Labour government wanted to save £30bn, they should scrap their ridiculous carbon capture machine monstrosities and instead, plant more trees. But corporate money funnelling doesn’t grow on trees.” Social media post reads from James Melville who leads on #NoFarmersNoFood Follow up post: “If the Labour government wanted to save £30bn, they should scrap their ridiculous carbon capture machine monstrosities and instead, plant more trees. But corporate money funnelling doesn’t grow on trees.” Follow up post With an urban tree infographic attached Titled: Why Trees Are Cool from EPS, North Carolina State University. US Forestry Service
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Between the Thorns: A black and white image of a starburst sunrise between two Blackthorn trees - Wye Valley, Mid #Wales

@landscapehead.com

#Landscape #LandscapePhotography
#Photography #BlackandWhite
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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nspugh.bsky.social
skip like a stone: Greenwich Prime Meridian

time skipping like a stone,
lost time between impact,
jump to land explode,
circles concentric hit outward,
impacts imprint more memory,
ourselves rippling outward,
forgetting nothing remembering joy, hurt, love the loss.

#photography #poetry #alttext
A landscape view across central London commercial skyline, from Greenwich Prime Meridian at dusk, looking across autumn colours. Young people sit and stand and gaze beyond a physical barrier Northwards along an invisible timeline.
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM