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"Despite climate emergency, the United States, Canada, and Norway 'pumping more oil than ever'". These are "three countries who like to see themselves as climate leaders".
As always - the gap between their words and actions never fails to deliver...
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We can now announce that the next global climate strike will be on March 25th!
Join us and strike for climate reparations and justice, demand that the people in power prioritise #PeopleNotProfit !
Find out more at fridaysforfuture.org/March25
@Fridays4future #FridaysForFuture
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Shell's facility that captures CO2 actually emits more than it is capturing. It has the same yearly carbon footprint as 1,2 million gas-powered cars.
This is exactly what happens when people in power care more about their reputation and imagery than to actually reduce emissions. twitter.com/Global_Witness…
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”As the planet warms, the Arctic treeline is accelerating towards the pole, turning the white landscape to green. The trees used to creep forward a few centimetres every year; now they are leaping north at a rate of 40 to 50 metres a year.”
theguardian.com/news/2022/jan/…
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"More than 450 scientists on Wednesday called on the executives of major advertising and public relations firms to drop their fossil fuel clients and stop what the scientists said was their spread of disinformation around climate change."
reuters.com/business/cop/s…
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”China’s coal production reached record levels last year as the state encouraged miners to ramp up their fossil fuel output to safeguard the country’s energy supplies through the winter gas crisis.”
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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“It was this settler colonial worldview – of just accumulate, accumulate, accumulate, consume, consume, consume – that has got us where we are now.”
@GhoshAmitav on colonialism and the planetary emergency.
theguardian.com/books/2022/jan…
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"Care International report highlights ‘deep injustice’ neglected by world’s media, as extreme weather along with Covid wipes out decades of progress"
theguardian.com/global-develop…
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“There is no way to separate the fight for Indigenous rights from the fight for environmental rights, because we see ourselves as being the land itself. We are part of the earth and everything that affects the earth directly affects us.” - @GuajajaraSonia
vogue.com/article/sonia-…
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“We aren’t just reducing the carbon intensity of the economy, we are increasing it. We are doing exactly the opposite of what we need to be doing.”
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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2021 was the fifth hottest year on record, and the last seven years have been the 7 warmest years recorded.
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“(UK) Ministers say they want to “safeguard the future” of the oil and gas industry, which welcomed the move as potentially being a boon to “investor confidence” in fossil fuels, which scientists say should be phased out.”
You could not make this up…
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”Brussels Airlines makes 3,000 unnecessary flights to maintain airport slots”
The EU surely is in a climate emergency mode…
thebulletin.be/brussels-airli…
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School strike week 176. The climate crisis doesn’t go on holiday, so neither will we. #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #UprootTheSystem
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"The death toll from floods hammering northeast Brazil rose to 20 on Monday, as the governor of Bahia state declared it the worst disaster in the state's history and rescuers braced for more rain in the coming days." #SOSBahia
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"We don’t prioritize the climate today. Our goal isn't to lower emissions. Our goal is to find solutions that allow us to continue life today. Of course you can ask “Can’t we have both?” But the uncomfortable truth is that we've left it too late for that."
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”We live in a world dominated by greed. We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.”
Article by the brilliant Desmond Tutu, from 2014. Rest in Peace. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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School strike week 175. Happy holidays from us on Mynttorget in Stockholm! #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #UprootTheSystem
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We're now 2 yrs into the decisive decade. Emissions should be in an unprecedented fall, instead we're seeing the 2nd biggest rise ever recorded. We're wasting invaluable time pretending we can solve this crisis without treating it like a crisis. World leaders are still in denial.
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"The death toll from the strongest typhoon to batter the Philippines this year has climbed to 375, with more than 50 others still missing"
abcnews.go.com/amp/Internatio…
Please donate to help, information is here: twitter.com/YACAPhilippine…
#OdettePH #ReliefPH #Rai
#ClimateJusticeNow
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“Our livelihoods depend on a planet that is not on fire. We are an Arctic people and our culture is written in snow. But climate change means the snow will get less and less.”
theguardian.com/society/2021/d…
Autistic climate justice activist Born at 375 ppm