WHAT: Permits are being sought to build 17 new private jet hangars and expanded fuel tanks at Hanscom Airfield, potentially doubling its capacity. WHO: Massport (a state agency), Runway Realty Ventures, North Airfield Ventures. WHEN: Ongoing. The effort to gain necessary approvals continues with strong lobbying to get around environmental law. WHERE: At Hanscom Airfield in Bedford, which borders Concord, Lincoln and Lexington. WHO BENEFITS: A handful of absurdly wealthy private jet owners who prioritize their convenience over public health. WHO IS HARMED: ALL OF US. Per passenger, private jets are the most polluting forms of air travel, spewing tons of CO2 into the atmosphere and accelerating global warming for everyone.

NOT-SO-FUN-FACT: The planned Hanscom expansion would cancel out the emissions saved by 70% of all solar panels in Massachusetts.

21 XR activists who were arrested during a peaceful protest at Hanscom last April are still awaiting trial at Concord District Court.

Just wanted to let you guys know I listen to Earth Riot radio every week and truly appreciate the work y’all do. Heard the good reverend is on a well-deserved break. Enjoy your time off, sir, but hurry back! Surrounded by stupidity here in rural Indiana.

Dear rebels,

I'm part of XR Belgium, with XR Leuven as local group. I recently started an online community on Discord for people who enjoy playing videogames.

We are building a Discord community with XR values. Meaning that it is participatory, decentralised, transparent and inclusive. We use the same Self-Organising System (SOS) model.

The idea is to bring people together in a lighthearted way, by playing video games. This can range from AAA games to simple games like Rummikub. The emphasis is on chill vibes. It will also offer the opportunity to meet people from all over the world, who share the same values as XR.

Feel free to ask for help installing Discord or if you have any questions.

With love & rage,
Elmo

Remember when an oil company paid a PR firm to develop a “carbon footprint” tracker that shifted the onus of responsibility for climate change from corporations to individuals? We’re seeking to rebalance this through a website/ platform that considers the specific GHG legacies of the leaders of said corporations. 

The BA Carbon Tracker will be an online interactive website that spotlights individuals whose decisions are most paramount to climate change mitigation, and highlights what adaptive steps they can take to improve their GHG legacy today. It will be researched and maintained by a community of volunteers through open collaboration.

Grounded in behavioural research, features of the platform include:

• A focus on the top ~2000 influential business decision-makers, including CEOs, CFOs, board members, and institutional investors.
• Customised messages to each featured individual that describes their GHG legacy and presents opportunities for climate mitigation in an emotionally salient manner.
• Featured success stories of leaders, organisations and countries that have successfully championed and implemented GHG reduction strategies.

We’re currently in the early stages of establishing the network and platform and aim to have a proof of concept by March 2025, with opportunities for early joiners to shape the direction together.

To help get the project off the ground, we’re seeking people to:

• “Adopt” and research key individuals
• Interpret and translate emissions data, particularly people with lifecycle experience
• Support website and platform development
• Contribute legal experience and advice
• Support messaging with behavioural science and marketing insights

If you’re interested in being involved, please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFGudHyfz9W6euejImoavSYeeiHytD4a4MmW7oNL7QIY_C2g/viewform?usp=header  and we’ll send through access to the organising platform. 

I'm making a painted coaster for my friend with themes about civil disobedience. I've included the logo for XR, the plowshare movement, ta tillbaka framtiden (a swedish one) and Ende gelände. Any suggestions for a last one for me to include? It could be an environmental group or social justice.

Only 2 eps so far. The first with Hugh Montgomery (one of the hosts) - a million and one facts about what's going on. The second with Prof Paul Ekin and into the economics of it all. Really worth a listen and a share. New eps every Sunday - next week with Paul Newnham of Future Fork. Listen below:

Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2430968/episodes/16277820

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3skErju2HYx3d4OSMf5UxE?si=Hailvga5Q-uVIy-ebE5ztQ

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/real-zero/id1784747012

YouTube (for video too): https://youtu.be/Q9fiUaoh4dg

At the time, few people realized that the shots fired on that New York sidewalk, were really the opening salvo in a revolution that changed the course of human history.

The public reaction to the shooting was overwhelmingly supportive of the shooter and anger at the perceived unfairness of how the wealthy and powerful treated the average person began to boil over. And that anger came equally from both the left and right sides of the political spectrum.

A month later, another shooting, this time in California and once again a CEO of an insurance company.  Two weeks after that, two more shootings, a stabbing and a vehicular hit and run, end the lives of four more corporate leaders, this time a petroleum company executive and three bankers.

And then it spread.  All across America and soon around the world.

People with wealth and power were suddenly aware of their vulnerability.  They began to hunker down, cancelled public appearances and limited their travel. But within 6 months we had the first case of a bodyguard, hired to protect one of the elite, turning on his employer and drowning him in his own swimming pool.

It seemed that being wealthy was no longer something to strive for.

And when the first billionaire decided to give away his wealth and turn his mansions over to an anti-poverty organization another trend was started.

It was less than a year after that, that the first national government, channeling US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, made the highest marginal tax rate 100%.  Others quickly followed.

And then a remarkable thing happened. All around the world people began to lose their infatuation with endlessly increasing wealth as satisfier of human needs and woke up to the fact that there really was such a thing as material sufficiency. And once their basic physical needs were met, the robust satisfiers of their psychological needs were found in relationships and community and creativity and spiritual exploration and nature.

And they all lived happily ever after.

Is the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson the first TAP in a real-world version of Squid Game that we can call Rich Game? Are the real-world, lone-wolf players part of a lineage that includes the would be Donald Trump assassins Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Routh , Tetsuya Yamagami who killed Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and even Gavrilo Princip who murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand thereby igniting the fuse for World War I?

Rather than a game where the poor and disfranchised are pitted against each other by the powerful and rich, are the poor and disfranchised making new rules and a new game of their own?

In a...

- world dominated by capitalism without a conscious,

- world where it’s no longer about profit but all about profiteering,

- world where six people hold more wealth than half the human population,

- world where tobacco companies lied about the connection between smoking and lung cancer,

- world where oil companies lied about the connection between petrochemicals and climate change,

- world where chemical companies lied about the connection between forever molecules and global health,

- world where health care companies profiteer for their shareholders while deploying delay-and-deny tactics against the poor,

- world where games of violence and murder are normalized forms of childhood entertainment,

- world where guns are as ubiquitous as bubble gum,

...is it any wonder the Rich Game exists?

Let the games begin.

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Would it be possible if people could sign/share this petition, this is a petition to the government. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700273

It is to get Landfills closed which produce Hydrogen sulphide and toxins in residential areas.

One Landfill has already been closed by the environment agency this week: Wallays quay.

There is a few more around the country, most noticeably one in Fleetwood and one in Bury.

Here is another petition relating to Landfills on change.org

https://www.change.org/p/close-the-landfill-on-jameson-road-in-fleetwood-operated-by-transwaste?recruiter=43762926&recruited_by_id=8ae67d00-6cd4-0130-915d-38ac6f16d25f&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=petition_dashboard_share_modal&utm_medium=copylink

My intuition is that extinction is due to the failure of a species to overcome environmental change that outpaces their ability to evolve adaptations.

How do humans survive with the pace of societal change vs the pace of evolution? Significant evolutionary adaptations take millions of years, but the entire social structure of human existence is only thousands of years old.