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Nick Polunin @PoluninNick

Marine ecologist and science editor enjoying gardening, choral singing, walking, fishing, tennis, wine, diverse views and trying to be a good dad.

Joined July 2016
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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 ... ?
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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?
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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…

Nature degradation could cause a 12% loss to UK GDP

New research has found that damage to the natural environment is slowing the UK economy, and could lead to an estimated 12% reduction to GDP in the years ahead - larger than the hit to GDP from the...

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Yep, not a typo
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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…

A global pandemic treaty is in sight: don’t scupper it

Nature - Millions of people died of COVID-19 because the fundamental principle of equity between nations was ignored during the outbreak. That must not be allowed to happen again.

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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…

Nature degradation could cause a 12% loss to UK GDP

New research has found that damage to the natural environment is slowing the UK economy, and could lead to an estimated 12% reduction to GDP in the years ahead - larger than the hit to GDP from the...

ox.ac.uk
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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…

Nature degradation could cause a 12% loss to UK GDP

New research has found that damage to the natural environment is slowing the UK economy, and could lead to an estimated 12% reduction to GDP in the years ahead - larger than the hit to GDP from the...

ox.ac.uk
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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

Sign the Petition

Return the Water Industry to Public Ownership

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Nick Polunin retweeted
Environmental Conservation@EnvConsJournal
13 Nov 2022
“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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Nick Polunin retweeted
Environmental Conservation@EnvConsJournal
17 Nov 2022
"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)
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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

Will support for Brexit become extinct? - UK in a changing Europe

Joris Frese, Juho Härkönen and Simon Hix look at whether the change in support for Brexit can be explained through ‘voter replacement’.

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Scrapping farm nature payments may worsen English river pollution up to 20% theguardian.com/environment/…

Scrapping farm nature payments may worsen English river pollution up to 20%

Exclusive: Removing incentives due to replace EU scheme would leave rivers in ‘even more degraded state’

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Covid, Ukraine and froughts solely responsible for inflation? Soneone seems to have omitted the Brexit fiasco bbc.co.uk/news/business-6275…

Cost of living: What do Covid, war and drought have to do with my bills?

How Covid, war, climate change and relations with China are all pushing up prices.

bbc.co.uk
Campaigners call for artificial grass tax - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-6246819…

Campaigners call for artificial grass tax

A new petition to the government is calling for a tax on plastic lawns to 'encourage more sustainable options'.

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Thank you Jorge; your guidance to early careers tresearchers who face so many challenges much apreciated!
Prof. Steve Simpson @profstevesimpson.bsky.social@DrSteveSimpson
7 Jul 2022
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.
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@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

Nazi camp guard, 101, given five years for aiding murder

The oldest Nazi criminal ever to stand trial in Germany, he had always denied being a camp guard.

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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
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