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This basically sums up our current situation. The “code red” IPCC report came out a week ago. Since then not one politician has been held accountable. Not one politician has been asked how they are going to act in line with this. 1/4
(Graph by @Peters_Glen )
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Our emissions aren’t falling, they are rapidly rising. The climate crisis is still seen as an isolated “topic” and not as a symptom of a much larger sustainability crisis. 2/4
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As long as we continue to ignore the actual content and the root causes of the climate crisis we will not be able to avoid the worst consequences. And by doing so we are giving a death sentence to countless of people, especially in the most affected ares. 3/4
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But remember; as soon as we decide to treat the climate crisis like a crisis - everything can change overnight. We can still make the seemingly impossible possible. #UprootTheSystem 4/4
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"Three-quarters of people in the world’s wealthiest nations believe humanity is pushing the planet towards a dangerous tipping point and support a shift of priorities away from economic profit, according to a global survey."
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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”We kids most often don’t do what you tell us to do. We do as you do. And since you grown-ups don’t give a damn about my future, I won’t either. My name is Greta and I’m in ninth grade. And I am school striking for the climate until election day.” 1/3 twitter.com/GretaThunberg/…
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This is what I wrote exactly 3 years ago - August 20th 2018 - during the first day of the school strike. 3 years later I am still here, but alongside millions from all over the world.
Since the first school strike the world has emitted over 120 billion tonnes of CO2. 2/3
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The changes necessary are still nowhere in sight. This crisis has still never once been treated as a crisis. But people are waking up and demanding climate justice. And we’ll always continue the fight for our future and present. We have no other choice. 3/3
#FridaysForFuture
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School strike week 157.
#ClimateStrike
#fridaysforfuture #Schoolstrike4climate #FaceTheClimateEmergency
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”It finds that virtually every child on the planet is exposed to at least one climate or environmental hazard right now.”
Adriana Calderón, Farzana Faruk Jhumu, Eric Njuguna and me write in NYT as @UNICEF publish their Children’s Climate Risk Index.
nytimes.com/2021/08/19/opi…
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"Det är ganska skamligt med tanke på att hela den andliga delen av kyrkan tagit parti för miljö och klimat. Men den fysiska förvaltningen gör tvärtom. Hur känns det att vara präst och veta att ens kollegor gör tvärtom mot det man predikar?" säger Kirppu.
dn.se/sverige/intern…
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If there's anyone who can help in anyway to evacuate the Fridays For Future activists from Afghanistan - please reach out urgently. twitter.com/fff_europe/sta…
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If there's anyone who can help in anyway to evacuate the Fridays For Future activists from Afghanistan - please reach out urgently.
(The other tweet had a spelling error) twitter.com/FFFMAPA/status…
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”Even if we stop all emissions from non-food sectors (energy and industry) today, food emissions alone would take us well beyond 1.5°C by 2100.”
But sure, let's just leave this to the consumers to take care of by "voting with their wallets"... twitter.com/ProjectDrawdow…
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Banning "fossil advertising" is of course a good start. But if we are to avoid the worst consequences of the climate crisis we cannot just strive to be "fossil free", but free from all greenhouse gas intense practices.
There's no room left for loopholes and non-holistic thinking.
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"Between a third and half of the world’s wild tree species are threatened with extinction, posing a risk of wider ecosystem collapse"
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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"The Biden administration announced plans on Tuesday to open millions of acres for oil and gas exploration." "The sale could ultimately result in production of up to 1.1 billion barrels of crude oil and 4.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas." #MindTheGap reuters.com/business/energ…
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“Air pollution is the greatest external threat to human health on the planet, and that is not widely recognised, or not recognised with the force and vigour that one might expect"
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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The reasons why women have abortions:
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Politicians and political partys are lying us straight in the face. There's no party that is doing nearly enough. They're failing us.
Only voting won't be enough. We need to be active democratic citizens to safeguard basic living conditions. See you in the streets September 24th. twitter.com/Luisamneubauer…
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"The science is unequivocal; a global increase of 1.5C above the pre-industrial average and the continued loss of biodiversity risk catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse."
Over 200 health journals call for urgent climate action.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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The EU discuss its so-called "climate targets" in an event "presented by Shell".
It's hard to picture a better way to summarize our current situation. If nothing else, at least it's refreshingly honest. twitter.com/POLITICOEurope…
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A somewhat sobering reality check when it comes to the technology we seem to trust with our lives. twitter.com/timmcdonnell/s…
Autistic climate justice activist Born at 375 ppm