Dr Susi Arnott

Biologist, film-maker, Green Party member; science outreach advocating urgent climate action
https://www.susiarnott.co.uk/home/the-climate-emergency/climate-literacy-zine/
London, UK, born here c.312ppm

Website: https://www.susiarnott.co.uk
Microalgae: https://bit.ly/SW2Deptford
Climate handbook: https://www.susiarnott.co.uk/home/the-climate-emergency/climate-literacy-zine/
Profile picure/background: Seated women and a child at climate demonstrationUnderwater: columns of seaweed

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2026-05-16 07:17:26 UTC

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What then must we do?

2026-05-03 08:32:12 UTC

What're the chances? Bypassing legal scrutiny by citing an emergency they've brought about, US warmongers profit from death and destruction #evilempire
https://aje.news/fdn9w3

2026-04-24 06:59:25 UTC

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So humans are progressively shut out of economic as well as semantic loops, the algorithms talk to and copy each other... A weaving machine so perfect it no longer needs thread, nor makes cloth?
#PhilipKDick world

2026-03-30 08:12:32 UTC

Had no idea around 10% of the working population worked in coal... #1926 #GeneralStrike #UKPolitics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b006r9xr

2026-03-17 19:06:33 UTC

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Thanks, will find and read! (Was camerawoman on a film with survivor of Darmstadt firestorm, if that's the sort of Bomber Command action your poor dear dad was referring to...)

2026-02-14 08:06:27 UTC

"Germany, which is one of the biggest exporters of weapons to Israel, after the US, has introduced harsh measures to prevent people from speaking out in solidarity with Palestinians"
Wim Wender prefers not to acknowledge his politics
https://aje.news/wejd1j

2026-02-10 19:17:38 UTC

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Just you wait til you see the sun sink slowly in the West...

2026-02-08 22:24:42 UTC

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I'm assuming a massive and qualitative bootprint via the mirroring and amplifying of individualist tendencies intrinsic to consumer capitalism
#waroncars

2026-02-08 10:52:54 UTC

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Has anyone even tried to crunch any numbers on specific contribution of personal motor cars to climate and nature breakdown ?

2026-02-08 08:59:52 UTC

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Caring is work; hope you have some sort of local community life around you

2026-01-29 08:32:32 UTC

Grim detail of anthropogenic #climatebreakdown:
“We are rapidly approaching multiple Earth system tipping points that could transform our world with devastating consequences for people and nature,” says British global-systems researcher Tim Lenton... hopes currently being expressed of a temperature reset by reducing emissions after overshoot may be fanciful" #journalism #SciComm
The incomparable #FredPearce at
https://e360.yale.edu/features/1.5-degrees-tipping-points

2026-01-20 09:13:43 UTC

Important letter in British Medical Journal #bmj on non-violent civil obedience (in case of emergency, break glass!) #climatebreakdown #HealthforXR
‘If we punish the doctors who shout for help, who is left to resuscitate society?’
https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s25/rr

2026-01-01 18:45:00 UTC

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Brrrr! Fahrenheit or centigrade, and where?

2026-01-01 09:11:04 UTC

"Israel’s decision to revoke the licences of 37 international NGOs, including Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, has come into effect as the Israeli government pushes to demonise organisations that assist Palestinians, among them United Nations agencies, with unproven accusations of links to Hamas"
Meanwhile #Netanyahu parties in Florida
#2026
https://aje.io/n0z5hc

2025-12-26 08:59:44 UTC

"The graduates had studied and sat for examinations while working nonstop inside Gaza’s hospitals during two years of starvation, displacement and genocide. Some were also injured, arrested or had family members killed."
https://aje.io/5gkk3a

2025-12-18 17:20:36 UTC

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#GDP
"Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising... napalm... television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.
Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play... it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile."
(Worth reading the full speech; on poverty, protest and more. 1968)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy%27s_remarks_at_the_University_of_Kansas

2025-12-05 09:41:38 UTC

Its not complicated.
"The fish are a key food for African penguins. Changes in the temperature and salinity off the west coast of Africa have made the fishes’ spawning less successful. Levels of fishing, however, have remained high in the region."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/05/african-penguins-starve-to-death-south-africa-sardine-population-aoe

2025-12-02 12:20:02 UTC

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(but now feeling guilty as he always takes far too much on)

2025-12-02 12:13:51 UTC

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ping @npub1w88…lw2w

2025-11-20 16:15:24 UTC

The UK couldn't survive without #immigrants! Apart from all the other benefits, I had no idea they pay a health surcharge... #NHS
https://youtube.com/shorts/OCdiBio8EdY?si=HCneo1RAD8grb8SL

2025-11-14 09:07:41 UTC

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Especially good column today! Brought to mind terrifying comment this week at #StopRosebank picket outside #DESNZ: staffer seeing it as a pro/con argument, telling me 'government is about balance' #stopfossilfuels #UKPolitics

2025-11-07 18:14:24 UTC

If you're a UK scientist perplexed by the decisions our government is making on our behalf, and want to do more about the polycrisis, join us for a wide-ranging chat about science activism on Monday 10 November at 7pm. Our discussion will include the National Emergency Briefing on 27 November for all MPs and key stakeholders. #climateaction
Scientists from any discipline, at any career stage, are welcome: register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/IJ4sv0tWR8ey8ZxQpzqcWg

2025-10-26 08:29:59 UTC

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plus ridiculous levels of data use (by source, carrier and receiver) simply to communicate using audiovideo rather than text, with rarely any added value (but no, I haven't done the sums) #ResourceManagement

2025-10-21 16:47:50 UTC

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ping @npub1ph8…7ule

2025-10-02 08:06:44 UTC

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'Lucky Jim' just ghastly, but let's not forget David Lodge or Malcolm Bradbury (and The History Man made brilliant telly)

2025-09-30 07:33:53 UTC

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Love this song and interpretation too, but original was about not making it in Hollywood! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Train_to_Georgia
"The song was originally written and performed by Jim Weatherly under the title "Midnight Plane to Houston", which he recorded on Jimmy Bowen's Amos Records. "It was based on a conversation I had with somebody... about taking a midnight plane to Houston"

2025-09-27 13:11:39 UTC

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Recommend https://readeasy.org.uk/ - organised and supportive - currently coaching a mother of 3 primary school kids who wants/needs to be able to navigate their schooling - and "better" her English. Not always easy, but v rewarding over the longer term

2025-09-18 08:26:41 UTC

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Are they buying a 'better' education, or access to the 'right' friends and contacts? Reflecting on the harm Eton graduates have done... and the 'learning' performed by Mr Johnson...

2025-08-23 14:24:33 UTC

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“[o]f all manifestations of the inorganic world [the wave] is most like a living being”.
HT @npub1fdr…lvhs and ping @npub1w88…lw2w

2025-08-19 10:09:39 UTC

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Here we are outside #ITN
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/054/871/788/689/830/original/cd89412f53f8a1ca.jpg

2025-08-19 06:27:14 UTC

Very focused London demo yesterday on the need to address #climatebreakdown in front of UK police HQ, and then news broadcasters #ITN and #BBC #AMOC
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/053/996/271/290/095/original/d77c3d05cc213760.jpg

2025-08-13 06:31:32 UTC

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to paraphrase @npub1fdr…lvhs in his brilliant novel 'Lost Cause'; the mission isn't to avert the future, its too late for that - but to confront the future, and to do what needs to be done: it is going to get worse before it gets better but all the more reason to save what we can, starting NOW

2025-08-13 06:13:41 UTC

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Local farmer Turkan Ozkan, 64, cries next to one of her animals killed during a fire in Guzelyeli, Canakkale, northwest Turkey, Tue, Aug. 12, 2025.
https://
apnews.com/photo-gallery/assoc
iated-press-top-photos-august-12-2025-4dea51755057ab838cab15555aac6775
Via @npub1cpe…aula
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/115/019/968/980/582/021/original/1680ea654f63303e.jpg

2025-08-12 21:13:34 UTC

“Israel is in the process of trying to build up the militias associated with Abu Shabab in hopes that they can expand the concentration camp zones over which those militias can operate/control so that Israel can reduce the burden of occupation while facilitating the ethnic cleansing,” Tariq Kenney Shawa, the US policy fellow at Al-Shabaka, a Palestinian policy network, told Al Jazeera. #AbuShabab
https://aje.io/q5wgr4

2025-08-12 06:35:01 UTC

"An invasive species known as the Asian Moon jellyfish, native to the Pacific Northwest, was first sighted in the North Sea in 2020. The species, which prefers still water with high levels of animal plankton, such as that in ports and canals, has caused similar problems before in ports and at nuclear plants in China, Japan, and India." #ecologicalbreakdown
@IPBES
https://aje.io/ymf2i0

2025-08-11 20:32:47 UTC

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"...other collective representational groups from unions to civil society organisations have no similar legal-like mechanism for holding policy makers to account, nor have access to this specific specialised institution..."
Are you seriously implying that sodding mine might go ahead? Please explain clearly, if you think we can take it #FossilCapital

2025-08-10 08:14:45 UTC

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Brings to mind wonderful #GND ideas in #hopepunk #socialsciencefiction from @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Cause_(novel)

2025-08-09 12:42:03 UTC

So many police officers in Parliament Square. Marchers joining them down Whitehall right now
#Palestine #UKLabour
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/114/998/849/580/325/560/original/32cce12c4263eca3.jpg

2025-08-05 06:55:06 UTC

Grim detail if you want it, but also this key point
"...while many children in Gaza now show signs of malnutrition, they’re also at high risk of being killed by Israeli shells and gunfire, which will be recorded as their primary cause of death"
https://aje.io/y93b66

2025-08-04 09:02:30 UTC

Renewables are just meeting some of increased demand, not actually reducing fossil fuel use - careful study here
#stopfossilfuels
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2025/08/01/the-renewable-illusion-why-fossil-fuels-keep-winning/

2025-07-30 07:04:56 UTC

For the record #BalfourDeclaration #1917 #Palestine #journalism
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/114/940/890/667/894/029/original/6695e78ad818007b.jpg

2025-07-29 14:19:17 UTC

Let's #keepithypothetical - if it was allowed to proceed, the #Rosebank oilfield would profit #Equinor at the cost of #UKExchequer
#FossilfreeLondon #stopfossilfuels #climatebreakdown
@npub1rfv…tp8x https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/07/29/rosebank-latest/

2025-07-21 06:42:33 UTC

Wow, singer really using their platform #SupportPalestine
https://news.sky.com/story/scuffle-breaks-out-on-stage-of-royal-opera-house-after-performer-unfurls-palestinian-flag-13399299

2025-07-13 08:12:54 UTC

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Can anyone explain, without using dictionary words, their key points of political difference?

2025-07-03 09:08:34 UTC

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Back to #healthinequalities - this from #JohnMoxham back in 2020
https://www.susiarnott.co.uk/health-inequalities/

2025-07-03 07:57:37 UTC

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Back to root causes; why are so many more people in such worse health? Wondering if consumer capitalism has anything to do with it (processed foods, sedentary lifestyles, assaults from all sides on mental health -including the climate and nature emergencies... )

2025-07-02 06:11:44 UTC

The report stated that its findings illustrate “why Israel’s genocide continues”.
"Because it is lucrative for many," it says. #Palestine
https://aje.io/1hxnz0

2025-06-07 10:20:49 UTC

"Humanitarians had warned that mixing guns and food would put civilians at risk since Israel and the US first mooted plans to concentrate food delivery in hubs guarded by private security contractors and the Israeli military" #Palestine
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/07/story-of-a-mother-shot-dead-searching-for-food-in-gaza?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2025-04-30 21:15:35 UTC

Someone fixed this #DailyTelegraph poster - via #TrudiAlumni #climateaction
@npub1wjs…ggtv
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/114/428/955/336/134/244/original/7dfcb7bfe95fb4bd.jpg

2025-04-23 07:43:20 UTC

As Pope Francis said, this isn't war, its just cruelty #Gaza #genocide
https://aje.io/s474ez

2025-04-19 12:23:50 UTC

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- Useful to remember the word 'shame' can refer to an abstract noun or an active verb

2025-03-20 09:11:51 UTC

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Thanks for this post - the graphic is particularly good. Did you commission it from reDesigns? (Would love to use, but also to respect authorship!)

2025-03-19 17:36:06 UTC

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I appreciate access to otherwise hard-to-find work. A recent fr'instance: King Vidor's movie 'The Big Parade'

2025-03-19 16:00:46 UTC

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Worth supporting - so many reasons

2025-01-14 11:43:07 UTC

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Thanks, this sounds great and I'm prepared to be excited - but first click on link took me to a 'Welcome to Chrome' page. Is there a Google-free way to proceed?

2024-12-09 09:34:32 UTC

Geopolitics of the #Arctic continue in the teeth of #ClimateBreakdown - what future world exists in projections made by #FossilCapital?
https://aje.io/l3kd5z

2024-11-24 13:30:06 UTC

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Maybe his next (third) 'Ladybird book on Climate Change' will include the #carbonfootprint #ClimateKingMyArse
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/444070/a-ladybird-book-climate-change-by-shuckburgh-hrh-the-prince-charles-prince-of-wales-tony-juniper-emily/9780241545669

2024-11-22 09:27:34 UTC

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Brilliant museum good at describing the history, pros and cons of cable vs wireless. Security, speed, bandwidth...
https://pkporthcurno.com/

2024-11-22 08:29:37 UTC

Corruption case against #Adani beginning to hit where it hurts - future earnings #FossilCapital #Kenya
https://aje.io/n0nynu

2024-11-22 08:25:39 UTC

"...at least 6.6 million people worldwide were displaced by weather-related disasters by the end of 2023." Some, repeatedly. No chance of #ClimateJustice as #COP29 closes without any commitment to #Stoptheharm
https://aje.io/me87cv

2024-11-16 09:04:32 UTC

Not just fuelling genocide - #FossilCapital seeks profit: "...BP has also been granted gas exploration licenses in occupied Palestinian waters... Chevron operates and partially owns the two largest Israeli-claimed fossil gas fields, Tamar and Leviathan, making it the main international actor extracting fossil gas claimed by Israel in the Mediterranean"
March today, wherever you are: https://climatejustice.uk/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fossil-fuels-gaza-genocide

2024-11-08 07:53:41 UTC

Insider turns her complicity to good use, describing staggering extent of disinformation machinery #FossilCapital #journalism
https://www.desmog.com/2024/11/07/qa-how-a-former-exxonmobil-employee-confronted-the-climate-disinformation-machine/

2024-10-24 17:02:37 UTC

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https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1156071

2024-10-24 16:41:23 UTC

Meanwhile, look over there! #ClimateBreakdown #MediaTellTheTruth How is this only ever just a story in the running order? #journalism
https://news.sky.com/story/chance-of-limiting-global-warming-to-15c-is-virtually-zero-on-current-trends-un-warns-13240328

2024-10-11 21:32:48 UTC

“It is clear that climate change is the biggest threat to UK food security. And these impacts are only going to get worse until we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.” #ClimateBreakdown
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/10/harvest-in-england-the-second-worst-on-record-because-of-wet-weather?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2024-10-01 07:06:08 UTC

Puzzled by article allowing readers to see coal as the only fossil fuel - and ignoring massive emissions from #Drax power station that switched to burning trees instead #mediamustdobetter #ClimateLiteracy https://news.sky.com/story/swift-coal-transition-from-country-that-started-industrial-revolution-will-be-watched-closely-13225563

2024-09-29 13:07:06 UTC

Fortnightly out of date #extremeweather #ClimateBreakdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZyG-4STXaM

2024-08-22 15:46:55 UTC

"...Nottingham has alumni, Dr Said Al-Zebda and Ikraam Ghanem, who were murdered along with their children Sumayyah, Intisar and Izzeddin, and who should be honoured by the university. However, their partner companies have developed and funded weapons and parts that caused their deaths. Therefore, the camp was integral in showing the university that we don’t want to be part of an institution that is complicit in the illegal occupation and murder of innocent people."
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/22/palestine-campus-protests-rhetoric-and-reality/

2024-08-13 11:09:11 UTC

"In 1970, Muskie warned his fellow senators that if air pollution went unchecked, it would “threaten irreversible atmospheric and climatic changes.” "
#NaomiOreskes on the need to read minutes of the last meeting...
https://grist.org/science/lost-history-climate-1960s-clean-air-act-supreme-court/