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Tomorrow we strike again in 62 countries all over the world! Online or in small numbers in the streets where the situation allows and in line with local corona restrictions.
Find your local strike or register your own at fridaysforfuture.org
#NoMoreEmptyPromises
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Sweden and Finland team up with the governments of Poland and Hungary to defend burning biomass for energy in the EU.
Can’t say that I’m surprised…
regeringen.se/493f96/content…
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Det här sammanfattar svenskt skogsbruk.
dn.se/sverige/landsb…
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Definite cause of serious annoyance.
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The recent developments in several countries with drawbacks on democracy are extremely worrying.
The rights to peaceful protest and assembly are non negotiable fundamental human rights. twitter.com/Greenpeace_PL/…
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This is very important to keep in mind when we talk about temperature anomalies. We need to see the holistic picture, the context and know what baseline we are using. As we shift baseline (like now to 1991-2020) we should also use older ones as reference. twitter.com/extremetemps/s…
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"Earth is exactly at the crossover point; in the year 2020 (± 6), the anthropogenic mass, which has recently doubled roughly every 20 years, will surpass all global living biomass."
Human made mass now outweighs all living biomass.
anthropomass.org
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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"We feel very motivated by the activism. It gives us a meaning in life - and a meaning in life makes you happy."
Interview with @marclamonthill on Al Jazeera UpFront.
#FridaysForFuture #FaceTheClimateEmergency
youtube.com/watch?v=LPE3Vy…
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The quote below has been changed to:
"Thanks to human disturbance, the Amazon rainforest appears now to be releasing more climate-warming gases than it stores."
And although this is a major study it doesn't - as always - necessarily make it 100% true. twitter.com/GretaThunberg/…
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"Out of the $14.6 trillion in spending announced by the 50 largest economies in 2020, only 2.5% has been for green activities."
UNEP and Oxford University are tracking the economic Global Recovery and it doesn't look too "green" - whatever "green" means...
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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“The Amazon rainforest is no longer storing carbon for our planet, a new study finds. Rather, it's contributing to warming.”
#FaceTheClimateEmergency nationalgeographic.com/environment/ar…
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”Harvesting and burning forest biomass moves carbon out of forests and into the atmosphere right at the time when it is most important to reduce emissions.”
59 scientists from 17 countries write ”the EU needs to grow forests – not burn them for energy”.
forestdefenders.eu/wp-content/upl…
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School strike week 134.
#climatestrikeonline
#fridaysforfuture #schoolstrike4climate #FaceTheClimateEmergency
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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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HSBC is planning to continue financing coal for another 2 decades(!).
And this is somehow seen as "good news"???
This really shows how completely out of touch with reality we are and how urgently the narrative needs to change.
#FaceTheClimateEmergency
theguardian.com/business/2021/…
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"We can only afford to burn one twelfth of the fossil fuels we have already found. And this does not account for any greenhouse gas emissions from the ongoing melting of permafrost," writes professor Roland Geyer
#FaceTheClimateEmergency theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Despite being so cold, February 2021 was still 0.06°C above the 1991-2020 global average and 0.26°C above the 1981-2010 global average. twitter.com/CopernicusECMW…
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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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"Skogsnäringen satsar stora pengar på att förmedla att ökat skogsbruk är klimatsmart. Sammanlagt över 150 miljoner kronor under de senaste fyra åren"
Så här sprids myten om "det hållbara skogsbruket" - Sveriges motsvarighet till oljeindustrin. twitter.com/dagensnyheter/…
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”If Joe Biden called you and said he could wave a presidential magic wand, what you tell him to do?”
- Nothing. Because that would be undemocratic and democracy is the most precious thing we have.
My interview with @mehdirhasan @MehdiHasanShow on @MSNBC
#FaceTheClimateEmergency
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There can be no social or climate justice without gender equality. On #InternationalWomensDay we highlight that women still aren't treated as equal to men.
The fight hasn't yet been won. So save your celebrations and congrats and support women on frontlines of society worldwide.
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Tonight at 8pm ET I'll be on the @MehdiHasanShow on @MSNBC . See you there! twitter.com/mehdirhasan/st…
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@edgarrmcgregor Well done and congratulations!!
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“China’s economic recovery from the pandemic so far has been anything but green”
Its new 5 year plan could allow for emissions to keep growing through 2025.
This is unfortunately no surprise. No-one is stepping up, and China is of course no exception.
vox.com/22313871/china…
Autistic climate justice activist Born at 375 ppm