Marine ecologist and science editor enjoying gardening, choral singing, walking, fishing, tennis, wine, diverse views and trying to be a good dad.
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
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Interesting, or not, that just when I switch web browser from y'all-know'who, for the first time I'm being kept out of my Dropbox account by a phenomenal series of scarcely legible puzzles which even when I get them right require me to do them again: councidence or ... ?
75 years ago Aldo Leopold wrote in ‘A Sand County Almanac’ “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. … “ Consider ‘our’ land, water, seas, air, nature: we try to be positive but they’re not looking good are they?
In the country with more conservation scientists per head of population, a new analysis suggests that nature degradation could cause a 12% loss to UK GDP, more than the 2008 financial crisis or the Covid-19 plandemic ox.ac.uk/news/2024-04-29-nat…
When you sell the family silver to a bunch of people interested only in the bottom line and mostly living elsewhere, look what you get: an ecological disaster of criminal proportions
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Worrying pressure about the new WHO pandemic treaty from the 'leading' 'scientific' journal Nature, like the fabricated emergency status of Covid-19 and the fear campaign to dose people with things that were not effective and were in fact unsafe nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
GDP growth should not be the aim but its loss through nature degradation? In the UK this degradation could have greater impact than the ‘pandemic’ or the 2008 financial crisis: a 12% loss to UK GDP according to a recent analysis ox.ac.uk/news/2024-04-29-nat…
GDP growth should not be the aim but loss through nature degradation? In the UK this degradation could have greater impact than the ‘pandemic’ or the 2008 financial crisis: a 12% loss to UK GDP according to a recent analysis ox.ac.uk/news/2024-04-29-nat…
Privatising the water industry then allowing it to pollute the UK's waterways on a massive scale is unacceptable; the industry needs to return to public ownership chng.it/kBztfbTp via @UKChange
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“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen ... " Aldo Leopold 1949 in 'A Sand County Almanac'
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"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean ..." Samuel Hall Young quoting John Muir in 'Alaska Days with John Muir' (1915)
Tragic recognition that the British electorate made a mistake in voting for Brexit ukandeu.ac.uk/will-support-f… Just lies and political opportunism by we know who
Scrapping farm nature payments may worsen English river pollution up to 20% theguardian.com/environment/…
Covid, Ukraine and froughts solely responsible for inflation? Soneone seems to have omitted the Brexit fiasco bbc.co.uk/news/business-6275…
Campaigners call for artificial grass tax - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-6246819…
Thank you Jorge; your guidance to early careers tresearchers who face so many challenges much apreciated!
Wonderful wisdom from plenary speaker Prof Jorge Cortés @ICRS_2022. Underpinning his ~400 publications and world leading conservation actions: Be nice to your students - they will become friends and collaborators. Work with people you like - you have to enjoy what you’re doing.
@PoluninNick the man who insisted on the benefit of the illogical departure that was Brexit is now departing UK government leaving the country like a beached whale … what a waster, and what an immature and diminished country we are!
Nazi guard, 101, given five years for aiding murder bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-… via @BBCNews
Growing uncertainty surrounding the governmental assurance that Covid vaccines are safe demands a full and open enquiry: please sign the petition petition.parliament.uk/signa…
The Times reports a new bill in Parliament planned to reduce the separation of powers between the Judiciary and Executie: Sign the Petition! chng.it/kmyJ2KCT via @UKChange