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“The Amazon rainforest is emitting a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.”
#FaceTheClimateEmergency #EcologicalBreakdown theguardian.com/environment/20…
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”Approvals for companies to drill for oil and gas on U.S. public lands are on pace this year to reach their highest level since George W. Bush was president.”
We’re not only subsidising the climate and ecological crisis - we’re speeding it up. #MindTheGap
apnews.com/article/joe-bi…
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Right now the EU is in final negotiations around the #EUForestStrategy
Meanwhile Sweden’s forest industry is waging war against independent science. Word is politicians are siding with them.
@YlvaJohansson, surely you will be on the right side of history?
alfredodifilippo.com/2021/07/10/for…
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You can use hashtag #StopFakeRenewables , tag EU officials and sign this petition: you.wemove.eu/campaigns/the-…
Here’s a letter to EU officials from 62 global scientists on the issue: alfredodifilippo.com/2021/07/10/for…
#UniteBehindTheScience #ClimateJustice #UprootTheSystem #FightFor1Point5
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We ask the European Commission @vonderleyen and @TimmermansEU to #StopFakeRenewables and remove forest biomass from the Renewable Energy Directive.
You can plant trees, but you cannot plant forests. Forests are not renewable.
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They are almost always on the frontline of the climate- and ecological crisis, but they are also leading the resistance. We have to listen to the guardians of the land and value their traditional knowledge. The exploitation of nature, land and people needs to stop. 7/7
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The indigenous Sami people have been historically systematically oppressed, and still are so today. Indigenous peoples make up 5% of the world’s population, but take care of 80% of the remaining healthy ecosystems. 6/7
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...(to stay below 1,5°C global heating) it should not be called “climate neutral”.
Amid the climate crisis and more frequent and intense extreme weather events (such as heatwaves, floods and wildfires) - these plantations also exacerbate their effects and devastation. 5/7
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Forests are not renewable, whatever the industries may say. Trees are renewable, not forests. In a short term we only switch from one source of carbon to another when we burn biomass. Since we don’t have the time it takes for the clear cut to compensate for the carbon debt ...4/7
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When humans change the landscape, they also completely alter living conditions for the local wildlife and for the reindeer and people living there. It’s not just forests and carbon sinks that are eliminated, but also the history, future and traditions of the Sami people. 3/7
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Cutting down forests - at a time when we need to maximise every possible carbon sink - isn’t only disastrous for the climate, but also for biodiversity. Not to mention the local indigenous Sami reindeer herders who have lived here and cared for the land for thousands of years.2/7
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School strike week 151. This Friday we are in a tree plantation in Sápmi, Northern Europe. This used to be a forest, but after it was cut down forest companies have planted an invasive tree species that grows faster than the local ones. 1/7
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"The climate crisis will create two classes: those who can flee, and those who cannot."
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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”When your empty words are not enough, when the protests grow too loud — you respond by making the protests illegal.”
#RightToProtest #PoliceCrackdownBill twitter.com/GretaThunberg/…
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June 2021 was the hottest June ever recorded in my hometown Stockholm by a large margin. The second hottest June was in 2020. The third in 2019.
Am I sensing a pattern here? Nah, probably just another coincidence.
newsworthy.se/sv/dashboard/n…
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Meanwhile the people in power call themselves "climate leaders" as they open up new oilfields, pipelines and coal power plants - granting new oil licenses exploring future oil drilling sites.
This is the world they are leaving for us. twitter.com/blkahn/status/…
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Thank you @Schwarzenegger for inviting me! #AWS21
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"Let’s be clear — what you are doing is not about climate action or responding to an emergency. It never was. This is communication tactics disguised as politics."
Yesterday I adressed the #AustrianWorldSummit along with Angela Merkel, António Guterres, Alok Sharma and others.
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School strike week 150. Even though it’s summer holiday we keep on protesting on Fridays.
#schoolstrike4climate
#MindTheGap
#climatestrike
#fridaysforfuture #FaceTheClimateEmergency
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This approach is one of the main reasons why we are still in this mess. The exact same arguments were in my own school books. This is what children are taught today. twitter.com/GeorgeMonbiot/…
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"A record-shattering heat wave in Western Canada and the northwestern United States is believed to have killed hundreds of people in British Columbia."
theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
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"Eventually the public pressure was too much, so you started to act. Not acting as in taking climate action. But acting as in roleplaying. Playing politics, playing with words, playing with our future."
My speech in print from today's #WorldAustrianSummit gretathunberg.medium.com/the-show-is-ov…
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Apparently the link was cut off. I hope it wasn’t something I said... :) twitter.com/GretaThunberg/…
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Today I’m addressing @Schwarzenegger ‘s #AustrianWorldSummit in Vienna along with Angela Merkel, Alok Sharma, António Guterres, Nicola Sturgeon, Jane Goodall, John Kerry and many others. Watch live here: fb.me/e/40Go0Wbdw
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It's a bit like as if they would report on pandemics using only pictures of families in lockdown, happily cuddling up in the sofa watching movies and eating popcorn.
Autistic climate justice activist Born at 375 ppm