Rob Hopkins
@robintransition
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Imagination Catalyst & Time Traveller. 'From What Is to What If'. Speaker, Transition. 'Field Recordings from the Future'. He/Him. @robintransition.bsky.social
Totnes, Devon. UK
Joined May 2009
The aim of the National Emergency Briefing is help create a social tipping point towards genuine emergency action on the climate & nature crisis. Please share the nine expert talks with your MP & local councillors - and with friends, family, colleagues. https://t.co/yKLwV4H4cD
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These are the official expert briefings from the National Emergency Briefing. In this series, the nation’s leading scientists and experts present the unfilte...
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The final of our expert briefings is @tessakhan on the energy transition - with some much needed clarity on the benefits of renewables versus the disadvantages of fossil fuels. For the full talk - see link in comments #nationalemergencybriefing #neb2025
#netzero #renewables
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Food expert @profpaulbehrens of @UniofOxford with a vital message for MPs & the public. "If we don't lead this change on the front foot, we'll be forced into it anyway as food shocks intensify." Full talk: https://t.co/yKLwV4HC2b
#NEB2025 #FoodShortages
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How on earth anyone could think this is anything less than a global emergency is beyond me…
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"This is national security issue." Prof Nathalie Seddon of @UniofOxford on why the economy and even food supply is under threat if we don't act to protect nature. Full talk on our YouTube channel. Sign the open letter below, calling for a televised emergency briefing #NEB2025
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Literally NOTHING Donald Trump says is truthful
It's not ignorance. It's not malice. It's not that he's owned by petrostates and pollutors. It's ALL of these things! #ScienceUnderSiege
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"The surge in mental ill health is hugely distressing ... I’ve commissioned a review to find out what’s driving it". https://t.co/NW7pFUJMXA Would someone save @wesstreeting a lot of time and money and get him a copy of 'The Spirit Level' by @ProfRGWilkinson & @ProfKEPickett?
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The surge in mental ill health is hugely distressing. That’s why I’ve commissioned a review to find out what’s driving it, says health secretary Wes Streeting
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🚩😮 Peak F*CK ME Brexit moment When the Telegraph - THE BREXITGRAPH - publishes a full-blown obituary for Brexit, admitting: 📉 GDP down up to 8% 📉 Investment down 18% 📉 Productivity down 4% 📉 Employment down 4% ❌ No trade benefits ❌ No control of immigration ❌ No
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“If we don’t have deep, rapid and fair decarbonisation of modern society, we’ll have a revolutionary style change that will be both chaotic and violent”: science warning to MPs. By @damiengayle and me
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Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster
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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
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We're excited to share our incredible keynote speakers for our Conference 2026! 🙌 The Youth Sport Trust Conference 2026 will explore the exciting potential of a new era for PE, sport and play, one where young people can thrive, with their happiness and health at the heart of
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2.6 °C means crop failure, Amazon collapse, lethal heat, and millions dead. And that is still our trajectory. Emissions are rising, carbon sinks are failing, and COP pledges are a joke. This is criminal negligence on a global scale. https://t.co/iQ1wVuCqGP
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Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
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#COP30 has failed. Over 1,000 scientists now urge all MPs to attend the UK National Emergency Briefing on the #climate & #nature crisis. "Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond." https://t.co/XN9JQPd5bm
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Incredibly powerful time-lapse. How short our lives and ability to perceive change are.
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Farm House and Field, Eric Ravilious, 1941. It depicts Ironbridge Farm, at Shalford in #Essex. The original artwork is in a private collection.
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On Indigenous Australian understandings of time: a bit I love, but which didn’t make it into the final edit of ‘How to Fall in Love with the Future’: @chelseagreen
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My brother is an electrician who works in offshore wind. He sent me this photo of the largest turbine installation vessel in the world. Skilled jobs, good pay, & secure futures. While fossil fuels shed jobs & destroy the planet, renewables are delivering for the working class.
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