Alastair McIntosh
@alastairmci
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Human ecologist & Quaker, I share on justice, environment, nonviolence & spirituality. Books include Soil and Soul, Poacher's Pilgrimage & Riders on the Storm.
Scotland - Hebrides & Govan
Joined July 2015
My best-known book is Soil and Soul (2001) on land, community & activism. Poacher’s Pilgrimage (2016) is perhaps my most beautiful book, a spiritual ecology of the imagination. And Riders on the Storm (2020) is on the science & symptoms of a human crisis, seeking what gives life.
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I sent this to a friend, a prominent British university professor whose many years’ work in Gaza and wider Palestine has been destroyed, and colleagues murdered by the unholy forces that have possessed the State of Israel (helped by UK arms). She said: “That means it’s too late.”.
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RT @GerryHassan: The authoritarian over-reach of police & the UK Govt misusing the Terrorism Act. The placard in Edinburgh of the protester….
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These are the UN’s SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) that Trump’s USA has denounced. Happily, in Scotland from where his mother emigrated, the SDGs are part of the @scotgov National Performance Framework.
U.S withdraws form UNESCO again. Spokesperson denounced UNESCO’s commitment to the UN’s SDGs, which include calls to reduce poverty, increase gender equity and fight climate change as evidence of “a globalist, ideological agenda”. @UofGlasgow.
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When greenwashing leaves a stain - with Oxygen Conservation: . “We were met by a bunch of young, clean-cut city types, who seemed excited to be suddenly responsible for such a ‘wild’ and ‘remote’ place. They didn’t seem to know much about Scotland…”
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RT @CHumanEcology: In memoriam: Ulrich Loening 1931-2025. With great sadness, and yet a sense of rich fulfilment, The Centre for Human Ecol….
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I always suspected that the real driver of the corporate buy-up of Scotland to “offset” carbon was land speculation: see p.15 But give the eco veneers, I had not suspected the possibility that the carbon might be a foil perhaps to get land for wind farms.
When Oxygen Conservation bought Glen Lednock with a massive loan from Triodos bank they failed to explain they would need to build a wimdfarm to pay it back. Felicity Martin explains why the proposed planning application is so wrong
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RT @MarkSeddon1962: This law is going to become unenforceable and then @YvetteCooperMP will have to resign.
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Took grandson Jasper aged 6 out fishing today, first such voyage without his parents. Caught a lythe and a mackerel, off the Isle of Pabbay, Isle of Lewis. Tiring work!
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BBC: “No arrests were made in relation to the march in Edinburgh.”. Well done @PoliceScotland. No arrests, and NO to UK laws to silence Scottish freedom of speech against what would appear to constitute genocide in international law.
bbc.com
Protesters marched along the Royal Mile and waved banners and flags despite the conditions on Saturday.
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As an actively retired British army general (2-star), Charlie Herbert’s principled stand against what appears to pass the tests for “genocide” in international law is especially significant.
Why march tomorrow in London? . There are lots of reasons. For me, it’s to protest the UK governments complicity in a murderous campaign lacking distinction, proportionality and morality. 👇 And because I refuse to be silenced. 12pm, Embankment Tube Station, London.
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RT @Nick_Kempe: When are the Scottish Government & our National Parks going to look at what land speculators - aka investors - are actually….
parkswatchscotland.co.uk
In December abrdn told the Scotsman that they had made mistakes with their carbon offsetting tree planting scheme at Far Ralia, the land they had bought for £6.5m in 2021 and are now trying to sell....
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Well gents?. “Where are the men to deal with their transgressive bro? These women know they will be ineffective at best, next to be falsely accused & persecuted at worst, and no other woman has the power to protect her while all the men are whistling like there’s nothing to see!”.
Which brings me to the second observation: all the people named so far that had to deal with an angry and vindictive male crossdresser are also female. Where are the men to deal with their transgressive bro? Some GC campaigners love to dump on women, claiming it is mostly women.
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2/2 PDF of my paper on atomic theology & opposition to nuclear war, a concern that J. Robert Oppenheimer went on to share, and as I later learned in communication with him, one that his grandson staunchly champions too. The Oppenheimer film is magnificent.
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1/2 The grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer reflects on the Bomb: “On the anniversary of the Trinity test it [the use of the Hindu scriptures] was something more complex: an acknowledgment that humanity had crossed a threshold. A moment too immense to be captured by science alone.”.
We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the prince that he should do his duty. And to impress him, he takes on his.
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RT @alastairmci: @DougGay And I see there have been multiple student graduation protests - - following a UN report….
thenational.scot
EDINBURGH University has responded after students led a walk out of their own graduation ceremonies in protest at the institution’s links to…
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And here is a reminder from the capital city of Scotland that a society cannot just watch on as (what may in law constitute) genocide unfolds, and expect everything to carry on as normal.
‼️BREAKING: EDINBURGH SPS STUDENTS WALK OUT EN MASS AT MORNING GRADUATION🇵🇸🎓
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Insights into the present state of pilgrim paths from Ancient Wisdom.
@scarycath It used to be only the council that could repair roads. You had to pay them to do it. Thatcher decided that was a block to cable TV and so on. Now any cowboy can dig up a brand new road and patch it up with any old shite.
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Quaker Palestine Solidarity Scotland is holding a Meeting for Worship for Peace in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, noon, Saturday 19 July. Quaker worship is mostly in silence, maybe with some "ministry", holding all of life "in the light". All welcome
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Heriot-Watt Uni: “Our safeguarding team routinely checks physical notice boards on campus. This is part of their regular responsibilities to ensure that all displayed materials align with our university’s values.” But no prob for corporations making parts for Israeli warplanes💀.
NEW: A Scottish university agreed to requests to monitor its students on behalf of an arms company, a freedom of information request has revealed
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RT @eolanryng: 🧵1/.In Ireland, we used to see the land as a body. A living, breathing form. Every hill, every curve, every place—part of us….
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