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We are in a climate- and ecological emergency. What should we do?
I know!
Let’s ban plant-based-dairy-from-displaying-allergen-info,-being-sold-in-cartons,-using-images-of-their-own-products-and-explaining-the-climate-impact-of-food. That’ll fix it. twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/…
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"Japan says it will release more than one million tonnes of contaminated water from the ruined Fukushima nuclear power station back into the sea"
aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/13…
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"All of my belongings are destroyed. There is no shelter for us, so we have been sleeping on the roadside."
"More than 600 people lost their lives and another 1.5 million people were forced to flee their homes."
bbc.com/news/world-afr…
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January 2021 was the 6th warmest January ever recorded, tied with 2018 - despite “relatively cool La Niña conditions”, according to @CopernicusECMWF climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-te…
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On Friday October 1st, I will join the climate strike in Milan with local and international activists. We will demand real climate action based on climate justice, which is the only way to stop the climate crisis. #anotherworldisnecessary #UprootTheSystem #FridaysForFuture
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Thank you @Schwarzenegger for inviting me! #AWS21
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"Science tells us every day with more precision that urgent action is needed - and I am not dramatizing, this is what science says - if we are to keep the hope of avoiding radical and catastrophic climate change. And for this we must act now. This is a scientific fact." @Pontifex twitter.com/TEDCountdown/s…
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“The probability of one of the next five years surpassing the limit is now 50%/.../ As recently as 2015, there was zero chance of this happening in the following five years. But this surged to 20% in 2020 and 40% in 2021.”
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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”The same human activities that drive climate change and biodiversity loss also drive pandemic risk through their impacts on our environment.”
- @IPBES
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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"This report is another thundering wake-up call. How many do we need?”
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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If future generations ask me how it was possible that we sacrificed future and present living conditions for humanity and life on earth as we know it, I will show them this article.
It really sums it up. Completely in the wrong way, but still.
#MindTheGap
forbes.com/sites/douggoll…
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Thousands of people marching for the climate in Denmark today.
#FaceTheClimateEmergency #MindTheGap twitter.com/greenpeacedk/s…
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"The climate crisis is pushing the planet’s tropical regions towards the limits of human livability, with rising heat and humidity threatening to plunge much of the world’s population into potentially lethal conditions."
theguardian.com/science/2021/m…
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And as if 2°C rather than 1.5°C was acceptable...
If you needed more proof that our so called "climate targets" are insufficient.
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Spotted on Times Square in NYC today! 👀
@MercyForAnimals #ForNature
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This is outrageous. We need to speak up about this, this cannot go unnoticed. We demand justice for Joanna Stutchbury. #DefendTheDefenders twitter.com/Fridays4future…
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”Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon surged to record levels for the month of April, nearly doubling the area of forest removed in that month last year — the previous April record”
reuters.com/world/americas…
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"In July, wildfires emitted nearly 1.3 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide, a record that was topped by August’s 1.4 gigatons. Between the two months, forest fires emitted an amount of carbon dioxide greater than all of India’s carbon emissions in a year."
gizmodo.com/summer-wildfir…
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"Climate coverage as a whole still made up only 0.4% of overall coverage on corporate broadcast morning, nightly and Sunday morning news shows in 2020."
In case you're still wondering why there's no real change in sight...
#FaceTheClimateEmergency mediamatters.org/broadcast-netw…
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"Parts of eastern Antarctica have seen temperatures hover 70 degrees (40 Celsius) above normal for three days and counting"
washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/0…
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”Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”
Well, I don’t know about you but I don’t consider ”climate targets” putting us on track for 2,4°C and current policies indicating we’re headed for 2,9°C (excluding most tipping points, feedback-loops etc) to be ”good”.
#MindTheGap
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Thank you for all the incredible response last week! Tonight 9pm BST the second episode of “A Year To Change The World” will air on @BBCOne and is available on @BBCiPlayer twitter.com/bbcstudios/sta…
Autistic climate justice activist Born at 375 ppm