BREAKING: @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social activists scale Foreign Office with the message 'Lammy don't dally'.
Ocean protection needs some political attention or the UK risks losing its place as a world leader.
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Watch now! Our film of last week's action outside Shell's HQ:
We're at Breaking Point:
youtu.be/BoaYq0950uI
The world is at breaking point.
Governments must stop new fossil fuel projects & make Shell pay up for the damage they’ve caused. Polluters must be held accountable.
📷🎥 See the full protest: media.greenpeace.org/Detail/27MZI...
#MakePollutersPay #ClimateJustice #ActNow
Just back from Shell’s HQ. We’ve hit breaking point.
We turned their London office into an exhibition of climate devastation—displaying flooded cases of typhoon-wrecked belongings from Filipino communities. Then, we smashed them. 🧵👇
Whilst Rachel Reeves spends Davos throwing Net Zero under the bus, we've been confiscating private jets.
We’ve lost a Greenpeace legend today. Pete Wilkinson, founder of Greenpeace UK in the 1970s, was still campaigning right up to the end.
His passion and directness, always speaking truth to power, never wavered. Rest in peace, Pete.
Fascinating the number of arguments being used the UK in its submission regarding the EU challenge to reopen sandeel fishing in UK waters that could be applied against the UK's own approach to allowing industrial fishing to continue inside its MPAs: pcacases.com/web/sendAtta...
Some words from one of the activists whose charges were dropped after our protest at Unilever HQ:
How a Police Crackdown on Climate Protests Made Me Join the Frontline for the First Time – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/01/17/c...
Great to see our Shell campaign work featuring heavily in this piece on why climate activism is turning to humour. Delivering a tiny violin to their CEO was a highlight of last year.
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Beautiful story from Greenpeace Arctic sailing expedition in 2024: "All sailors should be concerned about deep-sea mining. We are all dependent on a healthy ocean and shouldn’t allow a few companies to imperil it in the name of profit" #StopDeepSeaMining
www.yachtingmonthly.com/cruising-lif...
Yesterday we were at Defra handing in our petition with over 1.6million signatures on it calling for a total ban on bee-killing pesticides.
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A bolt of good news in an otherwise bleak landscape for protest rights - the charges against dozens of @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social activists after our protest outside Unilever HQ have been dropped!
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Plenty more on the list that I'd recommend depending on your taste, but these were the ten that I suspect I'll remember more than the others.
Finally, it might be because I visited the US this year but I completely fell in love with Ragtime by E L Doctorow whose every page brings to life the early 20th century in the US. Had never heard of him before, but very grateful to the friend who knows my taste well enough to gift it to me.
Whilst across the Atlantic Joshua Green takes a cold hard look at how some Democrat politicians have sought to extend the Overton window on the Left, with varying degrees of success. I didn't agree with all the analysis, but it's great research with lots to learn.
In politics, there were a couple that really stood out:
Citizen Clem by John Bew tells the story of how an extraordinary appreciation of the importance of political pluralism on the Left allowed Atlee to navigate the many conflicts on his own side whilst building the welfare state.
Two books that were far more unsettling also make the favourite list, both sparsely written character studies.
The Door by Magda Szabó and Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal.
Couldn't put either down as the faintly threatening worlds they created drew me in to explore the shadows.
Another book managing to walk the line between despair and humour was Emily Buchanan's 'Send Flowers' which I was lucky enough to get to read in advance and can be pre-ordered here: www.waterstones.com/book/send-fl...
Radical, hopeful stories are exactly what the world needs right now.
Next, two books I loved for their storytelling. Totally different stories, in totally different contexts, with barely anything to link them except that in describing the depths of what humans are capable of both managed to make me laugh, a lot.
James by Percival Everett and The Bell by Iris Murdoch
"Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter"
I'd been meaning to read Chinua Achebe's essays for years and they didn't disappoint: radical, persuasive and beautifully written. Depressing that so few of the problems described have gone away.
For totally different reasons, the other book that I've referred back to loads (not just because of the recipes in it) is Brandy Sour by Constantia Soteriou.
Weird, enthralling exploration of war in Cyprus told through lens of the different drinks each of its characters choose in the Palace Hotel.
The book I've definitely thought about the most in the months since reading was King by Jonathan Eig. Fascinating biography of MLK with tonnes of social movement strategy in there, including lessons on how he navigated tensions between insider and outsider.
Images of 36 books, arranged in chronological order of reading: In Ascension - Martin McInnes Eastbound - Maylis de Kerangal Breathe - Sadiq Khan Home and exile - Chinua Achebe Jacob’s Room - Virginia Woolf The Rebels - Joshua Green Birnham Wood - Eleanor Catton Change - Edouard Louis Martin Luther King: A Biography - Jonathan Eig Mayflies - Andrew O’Hagan On being unreasonable - Kirsty Sedgemon Study for obedience - Sarah Bernstein Leviathan Wakes - James A. Corey The New Life - Tom Crewe Citizen Clem, John Bew All the Sinners Bleed, S. A. Crosby Rifqa - Mohammed el Kurd The Sleepwatcher - Rowan Hisayo Buchanan LaRose - Louise Ehrdich The beautiful screaming of pigs- Damon galgut Afterlives, abdulrazak gurnah Evenings and weekends, Oisin McKenna The door, Magda Szabor Brandy Sour, Constantia Soteriou Lean On Pete, Willy Vlautin Pond - Claire-Louise Bennett Abolish the Family - Sophie Lewis Manchurian candidate - Richard condon Ice Candyman, Bapsi Sidhwa Ragtime - E L Doctorow Living things - Munir Hachemi James - Percival Everett Send flowers, Emily Buchanan Caliban's War - James Corey The Bell, Iris Murdoch
Slightly belated, but that time of year to look back at 2024's reading (in chronological left to right). Always interested in reflections if you've read any of them, or recommendations for new books if you have them! 📖🤓
Top ten from the list in thread below (hard choices had to be made) 🔽
+++NEW ANALYSIS+++
UK electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, with emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade
Highlights:
🏭end of coal power after 142yrs
🔥fossil fuels at record-low 29% share
🌄renewables at record-high 45%
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Still looking back and processing what happened in 2024?
Our @unearthednews.bsky.social team put together a list of their favourite environmental journalism of the year:
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/12/26/b...
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For more details about the action and the case see here:
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We need your help! Our activists are still prohibited from leaving S Korea. They're under investigation for a peaceful action boarding a tanker loading toxic plastic chemicals.
Help us request processes are expedited so #INC5Warriors can rejoin their loved ones.
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Bravo Jack, @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social Legal Counsel!
Named @thetimes.com lawyer of the week for his amazing work in our case against Shell.
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'Incoming' by Eliot Weinberger in this week's @londonreview.bsky.social
Time to get to grips with Trump's new cabinet... doesn't make for east reading
Across the ecosystem of organisations working in this space, we should be collaborating on strategies where each of us plays to our strength by taking on different elements - rather than assuming we all have to take on every component.
