Costa Rica, once home to rampant logging, has now almost doubled the size of its rainforest. They turned it all around within a generation. It can be done. Protect people and the planet. #ActOnClimate #biodiversity #deforestation #rewilding #solutions

Why is every journalist and politician asking Zack Polanski to stand down? He's tripled the party's membership and he's just got the Green's second highest performance in a by-election, taking ten times more votes than the party did under Caroline Lucas, so why are they pretending things are getting worse for the Greens? Do you really think they're concerned for the welfare of the party? Or do you think they're more concerned that the Greens are finally influencing the country's political direction? Answer honestly. Prior to Polanski, the government only felt pressure from the right and that kept the conversation exactly where media moguls and billionaires wanted it to be. Suddenly, Polanski shifted the conversation in the other direction, and instead of talking about how bad Muslims and immigrants are all the time, and how we couldn't afford to do anything other than slash welfare, we were talking about the cost of living, issues that affect real people, and our government's complicity in genocide. Keir Starmer is a war criminal who had no answers to the problems people were facing. He offered only managed decline and contempt for workers. The moment we started having conversations that exposed that, his government collapsed. If it wasn't for Polanski, we'd still be stuck with a prime minister who completely ignores the needs of ordinary people. We now have a prime minister in Andy Burnham who at least pretends to listen and who will make some concessions. This is only happening because of Polanski's leadership. If the Labour government returns to letting us down like it did under Starmer, the Greens are there to fill that void. Labour knows they can no longer afford to ignore our concerns. The Greens are ensuring the people who aren't supposed to have representation under neoliberalism are heard. The last thing the establishment wants is for those voices to grow louder and turn into real power. They see Zack Polanski as a threat to the status quo in a way they don't with any other political leader. All of the politicians who've spent years letting us down are joining ranks with the media who've poisoned our political discourse to bring down one man. That should tell you everything you need to know about who is on your side.

In the 1990s, Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard made a groundbreaking discovery that challenged everything we thought we knew about how forests work. While studying managed forests in British Columbia, she noticed something puzzling: when birch trees were removed to promote the growth of valuable Douglas firs, the firs did not flourish as expected, they actually struggled and grew more slowly. Determined to understand why, Simard traced the movement of nutrients using radioactive carbon isotopes. What she found was astonishing. Trees were actively sharing resources through vast underground fungal networks known as mycorrhizae. These delicate, thread-like fungi connect the roots of different trees across the forest floor, forming a complex web that allows the exchange of carbon, water, nutrients, and even chemical signals, sometimes between entirely different species. She discovered that older, larger trees often serve as central "hubs" or "mother trees," supporting younger saplings by redistributing vital resources and helping the entire ecosystem remain resilient. When these key trees are removed, the underground network weakens, and the health of the remaining forest declines. Simard’s research overturned the traditional Darwinian view of forests as battlegrounds of ruthless competition. Instead, she revealed a far more sophisticated reality: forests operate as highly cooperative systems where trees communicate, support one another, and even warn neighboring trees about threats like drought, disease, or insect attacks. What appears to the human eye as a silent, still forest is, in truth, a vibrant, interconnected living network, built not on isolation and rivalry, but on deep connection and mutual aid.

Digitisation is regressing society and called it progress. You used to walk into a bank and talk to a human who knew what a cheque was. Now you need three apps, a password you can’t remember, a text code that arrives after you’ve already locked yourself out, verification by winning an online grid game to spot blurred traffic lights or motorbikes and a chatbot that says “I understand your frustration” while understanding nothing specific about your enquiry. What we actually got is a world where you need an app, wifi signal, two passwords, a QR code that expired 47 seconds ago, and a phone with 2% battery to buy a sandwich. We used to lose our keys. Now we lose access to our own phones because the app decided our face looks “suspicious” at 6:14am with a hangover. You used to get lost and ask a stranger. Now you stare at a blue dot on a GPS map until the signal dies and discover you have no idea which way is north. Customer service used to exist. Now it is a FAQ written by someone who has never used the product, followed by “would you like to take a short survey?” after they have already failed to help you. We replaced paper maps with phones that need signal, paper tickets with apps that crash at the barrier, paper books with subscriptions that vanish when the company “updates its terms,” and monstrosity AI data centres built on beautiful countryside while guzzling up energy and water to construct AI memes while we get a hosepipe bans when it’s sunny for a few days every summer. We ended up living in a society that cannot function if the Wi-Fi is down, friends that often socialise more through WhatsApp groups than meeting in a pub and the elderly who need their children to log into the NHS so they can see a doctor. Digitalisation didn’t make life smarter. It made life brittle, time consuming and dependent on a rectangle that spies on you while charging you £12.99 a month. Digital has automated the human out of the human experience and called it user experience efficiency. Bring back the queue. At least the queue had people in it. Banks close branches. GPs move bookings onto apps. Parking, tickets, menus, council tax, pensions, TV channels - all requiring verification via another QR code. We digitised the world and somehow made everyday life feel like trying to assemble IKEA furniture while the instructions keep auto-updating and the allen key requires two-factor authentication. Congratulations. We are now less free, more tracked, constantly interrupted, and still late because the parking app crashed. But at least we successfully found the three burred traffic lights on a “verify you are a human and not a robot” to access our own electricity bill…

Scotland just delivered one of the most powerful clean-energy statements in modern history. On multiple occasions, the country’s wind turbines generated around 200% of national electricity demand, producing far more power than Scotland itself needed. It can be done!!! No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #renewables

This lunacy is end-stage capitalism, politicians bending to the whims of socially-inept billionaire psychopaths despite the writing all over the fucking wall. I’m convinced the vast majority of people would be more than happy to put AI back in a box & never open the thing again.

No wonder Labour wants more drilling in the North Sea.

Once again BBC News prepares to broadcast a Reform UK press conference They don't do that for the LibDems or the Greens And you have to wonder why our national broadcaster is doing so

Reminder: scientists say next year is going to be significantly hotter than this year. The media still refuse to treat the climate crisis like the global emergency scientists say it is. The media are the problem.

Mick Lynch wants a progressive wealth tax, which is a Green Party Policy, with the richest paying the same as everyone else on PAYE, 47%. That would bring in hundred of billions, it is time for the richest to pay what everyone else has been paying their whole lives. the richest to pay what everyone else has been paying their whole lives.

Holy Moses. 🚨Bordeaux considering ‘total evacuation if needed’. What the hell will it take for politicians and Media to act like the climate crisis is the unprecedented global emergency it is??? news.sky.com/story/europe-wi…

Climate change is coming for us all, this week it reached the heart of Scotland's capital. A wildfire broke out in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, as strong winds and tinder-dry vegetation helped the flames spread. This is not the Amazon. This is not Australia. This is Scotland. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate 📹 Richard Goldie #climate #energy

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