StephenHickman
@HickmanSt
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Management Educator Curriculum Design Imagineerer and HE Collaborator Novice Sea Kayaker Falmouth
Falmouth, Cornwall UK
Joined May 2012
What the world needs now is #courage #leadership and for everyone to #StandTogether #COP26 #ClimateAction
Thank you @Levisonwood for joining us to encourage our world leaders to take bold #climate action at #COP26.
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Thames Water is running out of money again and is now asking to borrow another £823 million. And still government won't act. PS And guess who's gonna pay for all of that, yep the customers.
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"Thames Water sewage spills set for record high." Hard to believe isn't it, even after all of the outrage, all of the publicity, all of the anger Thames Water is well on course to dump more sewage this year than at any point in the last 10 years. Time for govt to act, time to
thisismoney.co.uk
Thames Water is on course to dump more raw sewage into its polluted rivers than at any time this decade, according to the stricken supplier's own data.
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“The Arctic is currently warming at four times the rate experienced by the rest of the planet. But the Antarctic has started to catch up, so that it is already warming twice as quickly as the planet overall.” https://t.co/gTDinE6ClH No time to waste. #ActOnClimate
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The petition is almost at 300,000 do your thing internet.
Return the Water Industry to Public Ownership - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/TVgxOBpUI7 via @UKChange
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We’re sick of it. 🤮🤬 We’re sick of the lies. Sick of the greed. Sick of a system that’s rigged against us. Sick of rising bills, sick of sewage spills, and sick of empty promises. ❌ Our privatised water system has failed. ❌ Private companies cannot and will not
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If we reach 1.5°C, this is what is going to happen: ‼️Every fraction of a degree matters—beyond 1.5°C, the risks and damages from extreme weather, sea-level rise, and biodiversity loss increase dramatically. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables
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🚨 BRITISH STUDENT ARRESTED FOR CRITICISING ISRAEL British law student Paddy Friend, 25, faces up to 14 YEARS in prison for simply organizing a protest. His “crime”? Suggesting on Zoom that participants hold placards supporting Palestine Action. https://t.co/1gZazdh8AT
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Goosebumps! People often ask, is Shakespeare still relevant? Here is a great example, from the Steven Colbert Show, in which Sir Ian McKellen delivers an extraordinary speech. Shakespeare’s words are timeless, urgent and important. #Shakespeare #ianmckellen #stevencolbert
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“Some are saying we’ll have a 10% GDP loss at between 3C and 4C degrees....but the physical climate scientists are saying the economy and society will cease to function as we know" Damn right we are saying this We are in deep, deep, sh*t https://t.co/UHWtcd6VjZ
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States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
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You'll want to be sitting down for this bit. Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200
Yorkshire Water and Northumbrian Water have nearly 200 criminal convictions between them. On 6 August 2024, Ofwat fined them £47m and £17m for sewage dumping. Fines not paid, will not be paid. Firms claim to have invested. No penalty for abusing laws https://t.co/WfLikuuprR
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Bruce Springsteen on Trump: “I couldn't care less what he thinks about me. He's the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he'd be consigned to the trash heap of history." RETWEET if you stand with @Springsteen!
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Nigel Farage has kindly asked we stop sharing this video of him talking about why we should privatise the NHS 💙 You know what to do!
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The ocean floor is slowly turning into a landfill For decades, most concern about ocean pollution has focused on floating plastic and waste washing up on beaches. However, scientists now warn that the largest buildup of debris is happening out of sight, deep beneath the ocean’s
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Over 1,000 lives lost in devastating floods and landslides in Sumatra, Indonesia — and experts say illegal mining & logging made it FAR worse by stripping away the forests that once protected communities. Homes buried in mud, villages wiped out, massive logs turning into deadly
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Oh look, it rained. Areas of the country where water companies are currently dumped sh*t into rivers and on to beaches. Brown, currently dumping sewage. Red, has been dumping sewage within the last 24 hours.
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UN environment report 'hijacked' by US and others over fossil fuels, top scientist says
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The US and other governments derailed an agreement on a global environment study, its co-chair says.
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Well would you believe it. "Santa protest swim called off after sewage overflow." So you want to hold a sewage dumping protest in the sea at Gyllyngvase Beach in Cornwall but then have to call it off because of? Yep, sewage being dumped into the sea. Take a bow @SouthWestWater
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A campaign group cancels a Santa swim in Falmouth after South West Water discharges storm overflow.
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“Our kids will fix this!” Fuck off. Our kids will be living in a derailed society where fixing anything will be next to impossible. They will curse us for squandering THIS final, fleeting moment.
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Netflix quietly filmed a final interview with Dr. Jane Goodall, to be released only after her death. In it, she jokes about blasting Trump and Elon Musk into space… then leaves the world with two words: “Don’t lose hope.” A legendary sign-off.
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“We’re gong to see a rise of 2C or so by the middle of this century.” @KevinClimate According to the UKs Institute & Faculty of Actuaries 2C or more by 2050 means… Over 2 BILLION deaths! WE. ARE. IN. SO. MUCH. TROUBLE. https://t.co/3Exm7cLr6W
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