Andrew Simms
@AndrewSimms_uk
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Coordinator https://t.co/tbnJN1Lj0S; https://t.co/SWptvNNiFG Co-director https://t.co/aNRZexdQxo Co-author Green New Deal. Books: new economics & climate M @[email protected]
Joined October 2010
Climate change can seem an overwhelming problem. But we are capable of extraordinary things when we try... A short film with @bbcideas & @tamarackmedia about @RapidTransition #climatechange
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Cherishing this rare moment of parliamentary sense... BBC News - Airport expansion put climate goals at risk, MPs say - BBC News https://t.co/JEU7uH3Tb5
bbc.co.uk
A committee of MPs says the government has not demonstrated if economic benefits from airport expansion outweigh climate impacts.
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Is AI going to worsen patterns of pollution and inequality? Find out what the tech bros & big polluters are planning and what can be done. This Weds, 15th Oct at 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET. I'll be chairing some great speakers👇 @ResponsibleSci
https://t.co/5mt5MaSVlq
tickettailor.com
Polluter and cyber elites: A lethal alignment? – Zoom, Wed 15 Oct 2025 - The 'cyber elite' - tech corporate leaders, such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos - are embracing many policies from the far right...
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Odisha’s “zero casualty” model shows how community-centered disaster resilience can transform outcomes. As climate change is intensifying storms, the Odisha experience is more than a local success, it offers a global lesson https://t.co/Vhss6bYqjk
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Polluter and 'cyber' elites - is AI just going to worsen patterns of pollution and inequality? Find out what the tech bros & big polluters are planning, next Weds 15th Oct at 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET. Its free with great speakers. 👇👇👇 @ResponsibleSci
tickettailor.com
Polluter and cyber elites: A lethal alignment? – Zoom, Wed 15 Oct 2025 - The 'cyber elite' - tech corporate leaders, such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos - are embracing many policies from the far right...
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"Abducted", surely, if this happened in international waters, not "detained", which suggests the exercise of legitimate authority... BBC News - Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla and detains activists including Greta Thunberg https://t.co/xLe22lL12r
bbc.com
South Africa and Turkey have criticised the incident in international waters. Israel says those on board are safe.
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I think 'Storm Gatwick' has a better ring to it, in honour of the absurd & self-harming decision to expand the climate polluting airport... BBC News - UK weather: Storm Amy named by Met Office as warnings issued for rain, wind - BBC Weather https://t.co/caXdEuy8V4
bbc.co.uk
Amber warnings have been issued for Storm Amy, the first named storm of the season. What will the impacts be when it hits at the end of the week?
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🚨Polluter and Cyber Elites - A lethal Alignment? This year's conference explores where the interests of the far right tech bros and major polluters coincide - and what we can do to challenge them! Join us on Wednesday 15th October, 16:00 - 18:00 BST https://t.co/UWfyYQIpJx
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Based on his foreword to 'The Starmer Symptom' superb piece by @labourlewis perfectly written to add some optimism of the will and shift balance from ever-increasing weight of pessimism of intellect so many of us having to carry. https://t.co/0Mz87yusSK
@dannydorling @philBC
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Athletes exposed to life-threatening weather extremes call for an end to sports sponsorship by climate polluters...
🚨BIG news. 🚨 Climbing pioneers, rising talents and major orgs have signed an open letter urging climbing federations and other pro climbers to take a stand against polluting sponsorship. 🧵 Full story: https://t.co/515qSo0nbP
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How and why did the car industry push people to buy larger, more dangerous and polluting cars, just as the world needed the opposite? Today with some fabulous colleagues we're going to be talking about how to reverse car-spreading (or 'autobesity') https://t.co/FtlzQ9jXXx
suv-alliance.org.uk
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The amazing @RebeccaSolnit shared her reflections with us on the last day of the @fossiltreaty virtual summit suggesting that 'the fossil fuel treaty is making the future liveable for human and more than humans alike'. We very much hope so @SussexGlobal @sus_pol @AndrewSimms_uk
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Peter Scandalson, who memorably was 'intensely relaxed about people being rich'... BBC News - https://t.co/0g7rc19ElT Peter Mandelson sacked as US ambassador by Keir Starmer over emails to Jeffrey Epstein - BBC News
bbc.co.uk
The Foreign Office says he was fired "in light of additional information", a day after the prime minister backed him in the Commons.
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Fascinating piece from @AndrewSimms_uk for @ResponsibleSci on the origins of the connection between disarmament treaties & growing calls for a @fossiltreaty treaty
sgr.org.uk
With oil majors abandoning climate targets and politicians friendly to their interests capturing power, Andrew Simms looks at how SGR’s campaigning history inadvertently sparked an idea, developed...
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We asked the UK advertising watchdog, the ASA, to investigate its own ads for being misleading. Then, to use the universal language of clickbait, this happened (they said, in effect, their own rules don't apply to them) @badvertising11 @adfreecities
https://t.co/dtzL9DqjYY
theecologist.org
Advertising regulator in Britain asked to investigate its own adverts...
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📢 Badvertising has asked the UK advertising regulator, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to investigate its own ads for allegedly breaching rules around misleading advertising, which it is charged with enforcing: https://t.co/dBlT4jDxwj
theguardian.com
Complaint lodged asks ASA to investigate claims made in promotion launched in conjunction with household brands
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‘Ad regulator asked to investigate its own ads’ To combat climate misinformation we need a regulator as strong as the ASA claims to be in its own ads, but they're badly misleading so we’ve asked them to investigate themselves @badvertising11 @adfreecities
theguardian.com
Complaint lodged asks ASA to investigate claims made in promotion launched in conjunction with household brands
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Editing The Starmer Symptom I was very fortunate to persuade @AndrewSimms_uk to contribute. He details lethal consequences of insufficiently radical action by Labour to reverse climate change. The extract in @The_Ecologist gives flavour of Andrew's case https://t.co/D887piKS12
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'Where there is no vision, the people perish,' and I don't just mean the current Labour government's career prospects. Here's an article based on my chapter, From climate emergency to national renewal, in new book, The Starmer Symptom, just published 👇🏼 https://t.co/Pm2r9hQqkh
theecologist.org
Sir Keir Starmer has presided over a government that so far has failed to address the climate emergency and social inequality. This is the last chance for course correction.
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🚨 Out today: "The Starmer Symptom" In a book documenting the precarious rise of Kier Starmer's Labour party, Badvertising's Andrew Simms outlines an alternative to the dead end of growth politics. Here's an overview of the chapter. 🧵 📖: https://t.co/35iHZCsdvn
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Bizarrely poor timing & deaf to the world of @BBCRadio4 to promote an appeal for the Holocaust Memorial Trust that works on genocide education, and warns of not learning the lessons of the past, without even a passing mention to the genocide in Gaza happening now, in real time...
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