Researcher, writer and campaigner with Right to Roam; social and cultural geography; environmental education; defending the right to wild camp on Dartmoor.
Devon, England
Joined April 2016
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Hi all -- i've made the move over to bluer skies, along with many others. The conversation there is productive, insightful and warm. Come and join!
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1. A few days ago, I wrote a thread about the pros and cons of staying on this platform and asked for your views. They were very helpful. As a result, I’ve decided to stop using X from January 20. Already I’m mostly posting now on BlueSky (@georgemonbiot.bsky.social) instead.🧵
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We're still waiting for a decision from the Supreme Court on the future of wild camping in Dartmoor ⌛
@curiousways explores why, win or lose, we need new access legislation 📜
Read the full blog cnp.org.uk/blog/dartmoor-we-…
ALT Hound Tor protest, image by Emma Stoner
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There are days when #Dartmoor reminds you what it’s good at!
This how you can get turned around up on the hill and how quickly you can get ‘mazed’ or ‘pixie led’.
Oddly enough we didn’t manage to gather the sheep today!!!
ALT Small black sheep in the fog
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Don't miss Stewart's webinar on how we can de-carbonise travel in the workplace next Wednesday 14 November. bit.ly/4fdp2pm
ALT Image of Stewart Barr and details of the webinar
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When water demons rise, you know things are serious.
Jenny Greenteeth, guardian of northern rivers, is going to London
💙💚💦
@MarchforWater #MARCHFORCLEANWATER
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Was great to be interviewed for this @C4Dispatches investigation into the landed wealth of the royal Duchies of Cornwall & Lancaster! On Channel 4 tonight at 8.10pm:
The Royals make millions in profit each year, but this has always been shrouded in secrecy, until now.
A joint @C4Dispatches and @thetimes investigation reveals that the King and Prince William are receiving public money through leasing property to public services like the NHS.
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Wildcamping in @dartmoornpa last night with my kids for #StarryStarryFortnight, it makes you feel free said my 8yro. Imagine the miserable broken soul that would try to deny us and everyone else this experience @Right_2Roam @EveryonesStars
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As context for the debate over Agricultural Property Relief, let's remember that:
- Just 20 Dukes own almost 1 MILLION ACRES of Britain
- Whilst 59% of farms in England are less than 123 acres (50ha) in size
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Revealed: tax loophole exempts 355 landowners from inheritance tax - including huge grouse moor estates & pheasant shoots
I FOI'd HMRC for details & found this tax break is worth *at least* £68m & likely far more
@RachelReevesMP please fix this! 1/
theguardian.com/money/2024/o…
Great article by @findingnature prompting us to embrace the shorter days and retune our perceptions, to notice the beauty in the shift toward darker months.
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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This thread is the reason that posts and conversations about biodiversity and conservation are so important: 13,000 people liked a thread that is celebrating species extinction and environmental destruction. It’s just so disappointing.
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🔥Heather burning at #Sheffield today
❌ Just to increase grouse numbers
❓What about the health of half a million people downwind
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The Victorians screwed us up in lots of ways - from attitudes to sex, to destroying Britain's uplands in the name of driven grouse shooting.
Some dinosaurs can't let them go - but it's time we consigned grouse moors to the dustbin of history.
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1) What a wonderful day of wildlife watching near Plymouth. To learn why the incredible bluefin tuna have migrated to UK seas and also much more, read this thread. It is vital to understand the reason for their recent appearance. See 2
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Great article by Lewis Winks @curiousways in @TGOMagazine 'The Supreme Court case to camp on Dartmoor should concern all outdoors folk – here’s why'... 📸 - Wild Camp at Hayne Down #Dartmoor @EveryonesStars @Right_2Roam
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It's very difficult to look at this stuff, but of course that doesn't change the reality we face.
We must radically, universally, transform the system -- and there are many ways of being part of the shift.
With friends, family, communities, groups. Get out there and do it.
Chances of keeping warming to 1.5°C target are gone.
We’re on track for 3°C by end of century.
Current global commitments would mean 2.8°C
For avoidance of doubt that would result in economic, environmental and societal collapse.
unep.org/resources/emissions…
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Published today!
The Blackbird's Song & Other Wonders of Nature
A year-round guide to connecting with the natural world
newriverbooks.co.uk/blackbir…
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It’s giving rainbows and unicorns, like a middle school binder 🦄🌈
Meet NGC 602, a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, where astronomers using @NASAWebb have found candidates for the first brown dwarfs outside of our galaxy. esawebb.org/news/weic2425/
ALT A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.