Andrew Simms

Climate change can seem an overwhelming problem. But we are capable of extraordinary things when we try... A short film with @bbcideas & @tamarackmedia about @RapidTransition #climatechange

FIFA likes to claim that football can change the world. Instead, it looks like all it can do is render a disturbing one with AI. Take action against sportswashing. 👇 cooldownclimate.org/the-fossil-fre…

London is considering charging SUV drivers extra to use the roads. Why? Because the evidence shows that SUVs endanger other road users. 🚴‍♂️🚶 But if SUVs are dangerous enough to charge extra to own… why not stop advertising them in the first place? 🧵 theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

These warnings about food security are happening almost weekly Does anyone think the government is taking a blind bit of notice The UKs 3 worst harvests have been in the last 5 years By 2050, the number of calories per head globally could be halved theguardian.com/global-develop…

@Boborsr Nope. Solar and batteries provide baseload power at the same or greater reliability as nuclear at much lower cost, much faster, and without weapons proliferation risk, meltdown risk, radioactive waste storage for 200,000 years, or costly uranium mining/processing.

Hard to find words, but here is an attempt. It is(*) obvious that European, Israeli and American citizens are not able to control our own brutal monsters, either economic or geopolitical, despite our "democracies" and "rule of law." Their escalating destruction endangers all. 1/

🚨 Football fans are taking on an oil giant. In an open letter spearheaded by Fossil Free Football, a coalition of fans are speaking out against the deal between FIFA and the world's largest fossil fuel company Aramco. 🧵 fossilfreefootball.org/2026/03/02/sup…

£40 billion to refurb the House of Commons? Surely that's a typo. You could build around half a million units of social housing for that 🤔 BBC News - Parliament refurb chair defends potential £40bn costs bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Real UK extremism is the mainstream everyday kind: finance's toxic influence, the government's fawning over an extreme market economics that divides & destroys the climate conditions for life, criminalisation of protest, ignoring genocide & pandering to anti-immigrant prejudice

Hours of analysis of Greens win in Gorton and Denton by-election on @bbcr4today, but no mention of widespread (& fully-justified) terror at global warming, or indeed of any other green issue save privatising the water companies.

So I think it's a huge round of applause for the electoral geniuses that are Morgan McSweeney and Peter Mandelson.

What great news to wake up to, the Greens are significantly more in touch than Labour, and appeal to the best in people, unlike Reform who exploit fear and insecurity... BBC News - bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp8r… Green Party wins by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform - BBC

New nuclear is crazy-and useless $47.2 bil for 3.26 GW Hinkley Point C=$14.5/W vs $1/W for solar and wind And HPC will take 22 years from planning to operation (2008-2030), vs 1-3 for PV/wind Similar statistics for Vogtle Vaporware SMRs are worse theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/f…

If you watch just one more of @mrendell's insightful takes on untold Olympic stories, watch this, requiem for a forest. The mainstream media coverage has been almost entirely devoid of ecological context. This sad, beautiful story corrects that...

Against the backdrop of high-carbon sponsors headlining the Winter Olympics, the Alps are facing heavy industrialisation. 🗻 In his latest Winter Olympics report, @mrendell explores the ramifications behind the development of this iconic landscape.🧵 youtu.be/l_yF9TPXEdk

In other entirely predictable (and predicted) outcomes of an energy option that is wildly over expensive, poor employment value, slow, toxic waste producing and a security risk... 👇🏻

As the Winter Olympics comes to a close, the town of Cortina seems to be enjoying the fanfare of the games. However town councillor Roberta De Zanna tells a very different story🧵 youtu.be/VKshLTGl-Rs

Designated as “an essential construction” by regional governments, the Santagiulia arena has caused upset amongst the community. From Milan, @mrendell reports on the controversies and failed promises surrounding the Olympic Ice Hockey venue. 🧵 youtu.be/YiPQcVeC2PI

Leadership from below, as towns and cities around the world, realising that promoting our own self-destruction is perhaps a bad idea, are moving to follow the logic of tobacco ad bans, and treating fossil fuels and heavily polluting products the same way. bbc.co.uk/future/article…

The legal risks of elite sport hanging out with major polluters grow every day, apart from being the right thing to do, it makes practical sense for sport to drop dirty sponsors...👇

The Winter Olympics has a big precedent to make the world a better place - as the banning of tobacco sponsorship at the 1988 Winter Games showed us. 🚭 So why are the Winter Games still platforming companies melting the snow they depend on? ❄️ 🧵 youtu.be/NBq0Y_5hOvM