In fairness, it's a lot more complicated than rocket science (which is fairly straightforward).

George Monbiot on our fragile food system – podcast The Guardian columnist speaks about why we need to tackle global food insecurity

Our discussion about the possibility of global food system collapse, and what needs to happen to avert it.
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Daily Mail headline says "Drill, Ed, Drill"

Translation: Net Zero threatens the value of our proprietor's investments. The world must cook for the sake of his portfolio.

Listen to the ick.

UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units

Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yes, good point. These IEA stooges have only one consistency: permanent obeisance to capital.

SEPA is seriously underfunded, just like the EA, and to suggest otherwise is simply denial.

Now please read the article.

The crime gangs cashing in by burying illegal waste Organised criminals are illegally burying thousands of tonnes of waste across Scotland, a BBC investigation finds.

I'm getting pushback from people here saying that illegal waste dumping (and the failure to stop it) is just an English problem. Sorry, but much as you might wish to believe it, it's not true. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scot...

Please read the article

No, it really isn't. This issue was explored at length in the Lords report.

Now please read it again.

OK, if that's what you want to believe. But the 8,000-13,000 figure is for the UK as a whole, and there is loads of illegal dumping in Scotland. Google it.

Huge piles of waste illegally dumped in Kilmarnock and Lugar The illegal deposits, which both took place in late December, appeared to have been made by white lorries passing through the region.

Huge problem in Scotland too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sell a liability?

No, all four nations suffer it.

Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime | George Monbiot Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Another triumph for deregulation! By saving a few million in monitoring and enforcement, our governments have landed us with a vast illegal waste dumping problem, new organised crime networks and a clean-up bill that could run to tens of billions.
My column.
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‘A national scandal’: trawlers scour seabeds of supposedly protected UK waters ‘Precious ocean life is being pushed to the brink’ say campaigners, arguing that overfished marine areas are ‘protected only on paper’

Regardless of the issue, it's always the same story: commercial interests allowed to ride roughshod over everything and everyone else. Faced with the urgent need for action, successive governments twiddle their thumbs.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump is threatening further and greater war crimes in Iran: "completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants... and possibly all desalinization plants!".
This directly contravenes the laws of war.
One day he and his enablers must face justice.
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Given how often and how carefully this question has been answered, this looks like sealioning.

From inception, in line with the British establishment at the time, it was sympathetic to fascism. Its liberalism is a myth.

Custodians of the Countryside. After being given a lifetime ban on keeping animals, Skipton farmer Hayden Fortune turned his farm into a massive illegal waste site. Hayden had earlier blamed "a spree of rural crime" for threatening electricity inspectors.

The crime spree was true - it was his own.

I don't believe they were ever liberal organisations.

Please read my 75pp submission on the #AtlasNetwork's 40 yr old global disinformation campaign against climate policy here:
www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...

Full report of the Australian Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change & Energy:
parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/dow...

Ever wonder why most of the media provide wall-to-wall coverage of everything the far right does or says, while ignoring far bigger rallies and events and far more interesting discussions elsewhere on the political spectrum?
There's no mystery. It's because they want the far right to triumph.

It cannot be long before Trump’s retinue of sycophants, enablers and justifiers, in government and in the media, start telling us, "I never liked the guy", "I tried to restrain him" and "I was only obeying orders."
So be sure to keep the receipts.

Nigel Farage’s farming adviser calls for wheat prices to double Exclusive: critics warn Reform UK use of trade policy would increase food costs amid cost-of-living crisis

Yet another position that's almost identical to the policy promoted by English fascists in the 1930s. There seems to be a kind of ideological homing instinct at work. Before long, the entire package will be back in place.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Four things we know.
1. Trump cannot stand to lose face.
2. The Iran debacle is the biggest humiliation of his presidencies.
3. He is entirely lacking in moral restraint.
4. Nuclear weapons offer a swift apparent "resolution" to the crisis he has created.

It is not a happy chain of thought.

Hundreds of North Sea licences granted by Conservatives have ‘so far produced only 36 days worth of gas’ Exclusive: Findings cast doubt on claims new drilling would help cut bills and boost energy security, researchers say

Who needs physical reality anyway?
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