Steve Dawe
@stevedawe.bsky.social
Transport, Envt, Climate, life long Green Party and Buddhist. Writer at WEST ENGLAND BYLINES. Retd interdisciplinary social sci lecturer incl teaching Abt Climate/Envt/Devt Studies/Euro Studies. Married, parent, grandparent. Passionate Abt folk music.
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Profoundly infuriating. Every single barrel of oil pumped moves us deeper into dangerous climate change. The science is absolutely clear about this: the carbon budget to limit to 1.5°C is practically gone. Tipping points loom. We need rapid fossil fuel PHASE OUT.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
More North Sea exploration to be allowed in new Labour plan
The chancellor will unveil the North Sea Strategy in her Budget speech, the BBC understands.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Profoundly infuriating. Every single barrel of oil pumped moves us deeper into dangerous climate change. The science is absolutely clear about this: the carbon budget to limit to 1.5°C is practically gone. Tipping points loom. We need rapid fossil fuel PHASE OUT.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
from Green Party news What would Zack Polanski do?... article looks at wealth taxes, the Nordic model and fiscal rules. Zack told them: “We need to challenge inequality, so that starts with a wealth tax on assets: a 1 per cent tax on £10m or more and a 2 per cent tax on £1bn or more."
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
from Green Party news What would Zack Polanski do?... article looks at wealth taxes, the Nordic model and fiscal rules. Zack told them: “We need to challenge inequality, so that starts with a wealth tax on assets: a 1 per cent tax on £10m or more and a 2 per cent tax on £1bn or more."
Airport expansion is incompatible with a rational Climate policy. And our Govt is doing this: Plans to move M25 for new Heathrow runway slammed by Greens
www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/plan...
www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/plan...
Plans to move M25 for new Heathrow runway slammed by Greens
THE government is “pathetically in the pocket” of Heathrow bosses, the Green Party said today after ministers backed plans from the airport’s owners to move the M25 to make way for a third runway.Tran...
www.morningstaronline.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Airport expansion is incompatible with a rational Climate policy. And our Govt is doing this: Plans to move M25 for new Heathrow runway slammed by Greens
www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/plan...
www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/plan...
At at time when the UK Government is pushing through its anti-environment Planning and Infrastructure Bill, this:
Plastic nurdles found at 84% of UK sites of special scientific interest www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Plastic nurdles found at 84% of UK sites of special scientific interest www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Plastic nurdles found at 84% of UK sites of special scientific interest
Environmental charity Fidra says 168 of 195 SSSIs it surveyed are contaminated with tiny pellets
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
At at time when the UK Government is pushing through its anti-environment Planning and Infrastructure Bill, this:
Plastic nurdles found at 84% of UK sites of special scientific interest www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Plastic nurdles found at 84% of UK sites of special scientific interest www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds
Environmental body says modest investment and changes can help preserve long list of animals, fungi and lichen
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We need Govts to recognize the plausible threat of AMOC collapse this century requires deep and rapid cuts in GHG emissions. This isn't something mitigation or adaptation at present rates globally is going to fend off.
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
We need Govts to recognize the plausible threat of AMOC collapse this century requires deep and rapid cuts in GHG emissions. This isn't something mitigation or adaptation at present rates globally is going to fend off.
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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Dear @elliereeves.bsky.social, my MP, you never replied to the invitation that I (and other constituents) sent you on several occasions and so, once again: I feel you have everything to gain and nothing to lose in attending a briefing with some of the best scientists in the UK, so please do!
🔥 Final ask, on behalf of the National Emergency Briefing 🔥
Email your MP via our website.
Download & share your MPs personal video invite 👇
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We wont be doing this again(!) so make sure your MP is attends.
#neb2025
@nebriefing.bsky.social
Email your MP via our website.
Download & share your MPs personal video invite 👇
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We wont be doing this again(!) so make sure your MP is attends.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Dear @elliereeves.bsky.social, my MP, you never replied to the invitation that I (and other constituents) sent you on several occasions and so, once again: I feel you have everything to gain and nothing to lose in attending a briefing with some of the best scientists in the UK, so please do!
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Next week’s budget must deliver justice for hard-pressed families by fully scrapping the cruel two-child benefit cap and fairly taxing wealth.
With @greenparty.org.uk colleagues I have written to the Chancellor with a very simple message: Cut bills. Tax billionaires.
With @greenparty.org.uk colleagues I have written to the Chancellor with a very simple message: Cut bills. Tax billionaires.
It is a political choice to keep children in poverty whilst billionaire and multimillionaire wealth grows larger.
@greenparty.org.uk has today written to the Chancellor urging her to use the next week's Budget to tax wealth fairly, cut bills and deliver real change.
@greenparty.org.uk has today written to the Chancellor urging her to use the next week's Budget to tax wealth fairly, cut bills and deliver real change.
November 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Next week’s budget must deliver justice for hard-pressed families by fully scrapping the cruel two-child benefit cap and fairly taxing wealth.
With @greenparty.org.uk colleagues I have written to the Chancellor with a very simple message: Cut bills. Tax billionaires.
With @greenparty.org.uk colleagues I have written to the Chancellor with a very simple message: Cut bills. Tax billionaires.
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🌱 Another whipped vote from Govt against climate,
clean air and nature. 😱
🚨 Lords must step up and make sure new Mayors have to take action.
💚 Thank you to every MP who backed the campaign!
How did yours vote?
hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025...
clean air and nature. 😱
🚨 Lords must step up and make sure new Mayors have to take action.
💚 Thank you to every MP who backed the campaign!
How did yours vote?
hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025...
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🌱 Another whipped vote from Govt against climate,
clean air and nature. 😱
🚨 Lords must step up and make sure new Mayors have to take action.
💚 Thank you to every MP who backed the campaign!
How did yours vote?
hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025...
clean air and nature. 😱
🚨 Lords must step up and make sure new Mayors have to take action.
💚 Thank you to every MP who backed the campaign!
How did yours vote?
hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025...
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Just pathetically in Heathrow’s pocket, Govt backs the airport’s own climate-wrecking expansion plan, the one that requires moving (!) the M25.
Aviation bosses and frequent flyers causing everyone else’s daily lives tons of miserable disruption. Ridiculous!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Aviation bosses and frequent flyers causing everyone else’s daily lives tons of miserable disruption. Ridiculous!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Heathrow's plan for longer third runway chosen by government
Under the selected plan, the runway would be up to 3.5km long and require a new road tunnel under the airport.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Just pathetically in Heathrow’s pocket, Govt backs the airport’s own climate-wrecking expansion plan, the one that requires moving (!) the M25.
Aviation bosses and frequent flyers causing everyone else’s daily lives tons of miserable disruption. Ridiculous!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Aviation bosses and frequent flyers causing everyone else’s daily lives tons of miserable disruption. Ridiculous!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Imagine a country with fully electric buses, repaired roads and pavements and long-term quality cycling and walking networks. This is how we were denied these desirables:
Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion.
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Rachel Reeves will freeze fuel duty to dodge ‘political suicide’
The chancellor will also highlight a rise in the minimum wage and plans to cut energy bills as she tries to win over voters by focusing on cost of living
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Imagine a country with fully electric buses, repaired roads and pavements and long-term quality cycling and walking networks. This is how we were denied these desirables:
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Putting aside the fact that Farage’s racism has and continues to be well-documented, his claims he may have “misspoken” and that he had never *directly* racially abused anyone nicely summarises the views many white supremacist apologists hold…
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Putting aside the fact that Farage’s racism has and continues to be well-documented, his claims he may have “misspoken” and that he had never *directly* racially abused anyone nicely summarises the views many white supremacist apologists hold…
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Big banks are quietly abandoning their climate commitments.
Green capital - don't bank on it!
Global banking climate group to stop operations after member exodus.
theecologist.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Big banks are quietly abandoning their climate commitments.
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Very good interview and important fact-checking.
November 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Very good interview and important fact-checking.
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How Rachel Reeves could introduce a meat tax in her budget and curb climate emissions and improve public health.
theecologist.org/2025/nov/25/...
theecologist.org/2025/nov/25/...
A meaty budget proposal
How Rachel Reeves could introduce a meat tax in her budget and curb climate emissions and improve public health.
theecologist.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
How Rachel Reeves could introduce a meat tax in her budget and curb climate emissions and improve public health.
theecologist.org/2025/nov/25/...
theecologist.org/2025/nov/25/...
With pensions in the UK amongst the lowest in Europe, this is precisely what should never be done until pensioners are getting well above the Continental average for years to compensate for decades of UK Govt failure.
The UK must remove the pension triple lock on.ft.com/49AbdBV | opinion
The UK must remove the pension triple lock
With each economic shock, it ratchets up the value of state retirement payments relative to average earnings
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
With pensions in the UK amongst the lowest in Europe, this is precisely what should never be done until pensioners are getting well above the Continental average for years to compensate for decades of UK Govt failure.
But it is also the nature of the economics. Delays and changes maximise use if public funds. E. g. The UK doesn't have road and rail infrastructure costing 8 times the equivalent on the continent by accident.
Blaming #nuclear regulators for vast cost over-runs and huge delays has always been a fall-back position for the nuclear industry. This is not the fault of safety and planning regulation, rather it’s the nature of the technology.
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
But it is also the nature of the economics. Delays and changes maximise use if public funds. E. g. The UK doesn't have road and rail infrastructure costing 8 times the equivalent on the continent by accident.
Save Our Cherwell: Do sign, share and donate to help tackle the waste mountain near this river in Oxfordshire: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-our-c...
Save Our Cherwell
Save Our Cherwell is a coalition united to protect the River Cherwell from the growing threat of the illegal waste mountain.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Save Our Cherwell: Do sign, share and donate to help tackle the waste mountain near this river in Oxfordshire: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-our-c...
Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests
Blazes that smoulder in the permafrost, only to reignite, are extending fire season though winter, leaving vegetation struggling to recover
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Zombie fires: how Arctic wildfires that come back to life are ravaging forests www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Almost 3,000 homes have been built in areas at risk of flooding against the official advice of regulators...
despite objections from the Environment Agency that they are being built in
areas of high flood risk, iNews 23rd Nov 2025
inews.co.uk/news/thousan...
Summary Nuclear Free LAs list
despite objections from the Environment Agency that they are being built in
areas of high flood risk, iNews 23rd Nov 2025
inews.co.uk/news/thousan...
Summary Nuclear Free LAs list
The 3,000 homes at risk of flooding in England as councils ignore advice
Councils are approving homes in towns that have experienced severe flooding against the official advice of experts
inews.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Almost 3,000 homes have been built in areas at risk of flooding against the official advice of regulators...
despite objections from the Environment Agency that they are being built in
areas of high flood risk, iNews 23rd Nov 2025
inews.co.uk/news/thousan...
Summary Nuclear Free LAs list
despite objections from the Environment Agency that they are being built in
areas of high flood risk, iNews 23rd Nov 2025
inews.co.uk/news/thousan...
Summary Nuclear Free LAs list
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The great thing about this debate is that Zack comes armed with facts and figures whilst the Labour MP and the Tory only have the "it won't work" argument, whilst continuing to support a system that hasn't worked for over 40 years.
Labour are dead
#VoteGreen 💚💚
Labour are dead
#VoteGreen 💚💚
Debate today with a Labour MP on the economy.
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Also with a former advisor to George Osborne.
Very striking how much Labour & the Tories agree on our economic system.
Time for change. Let's make hope normal again. Enjoy! 🙌🏼👇🏼
youtu.be/1onr7pAEFRE?...
Is Labour being outflanked by Polanski and Farage? Reeves budget debate
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
The great thing about this debate is that Zack comes armed with facts and figures whilst the Labour MP and the Tory only have the "it won't work" argument, whilst continuing to support a system that hasn't worked for over 40 years.
Labour are dead
#VoteGreen 💚💚
Labour are dead
#VoteGreen 💚💚
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🔴Drowning in Denial: One in Five Homes in Reform UK Heartlands Could Be Under Water Within 25 Years
As Nigel Farage’s party scraps climate schemes around the country, new data shows flood risk surging across the ten councils it leads, reports @nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/20/d...
As Nigel Farage’s party scraps climate schemes around the country, new data shows flood risk surging across the ten councils it leads, reports @nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/20/d...
Drowning in Denial: One in Five Homes in Reform UK Heartlands Could Be Under Water Within 25 Years
As Nigel Farage's party scraps climate schemes around the country, new data shows flood risk surging across the ten councils it leads
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🔴Drowning in Denial: One in Five Homes in Reform UK Heartlands Could Be Under Water Within 25 Years
As Nigel Farage’s party scraps climate schemes around the country, new data shows flood risk surging across the ten councils it leads, reports @nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/20/d...
As Nigel Farage’s party scraps climate schemes around the country, new data shows flood risk surging across the ten councils it leads, reports @nafeez.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/20/d...
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🚨BREAKING:
The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors.
Email your MP now to oppose this plan:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors.
Email your MP now to oppose this plan:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
Just days to STOP new NHS private finance debts - take action now
Your MP can help STOP plans for new private finance debts in our NHS in the Autumn Budget
weownit.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🚨BREAKING:
The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors.
Email your MP now to oppose this plan:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors.
Email your MP now to oppose this plan:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
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Experts in international security predicted that climate change would produce extreme nationalist governments using force against vast migrations of climate refugees.
This is the "Armed Lifeboat Scenario", individual richer countries being the armed lifeboats.
We are already drifting into this.
This is the "Armed Lifeboat Scenario", individual richer countries being the armed lifeboats.
We are already drifting into this.
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Experts in international security predicted that climate change would produce extreme nationalist governments using force against vast migrations of climate refugees.
This is the "Armed Lifeboat Scenario", individual richer countries being the armed lifeboats.
We are already drifting into this.
This is the "Armed Lifeboat Scenario", individual richer countries being the armed lifeboats.
We are already drifting into this.