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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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School strike week 192. This is not a “happy earth day”. It never has been. #EarthDay has turned into an opportunity for people in power to post their “love” for the planet, while at the same time destroying it at maximum speed. #PeopleNotProfit #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike
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“I think naivety and childishness are sometimes a good thing.” The great thing about youth, she says, is you’re not blinded by realpolitik and the assumption of compromise. “I do think older people make things more complicated than they actually are.”
theguardian.com/environment/ng…
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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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Important reminder:
When we criticize media's lack of reporting on the climate- and ecological emergency, we are not criticizing journalists. We are criticizing editorial decisions.
As we've pointed out: there is no future for democracy without a strong, independent free press.
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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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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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"Scientists have found evidence that frozen methane deposits in the Arctic Ocean – known as the “sleeping giants of the carbon cycle” – have started to be released over a large area of the continental slope off the East Siberian coast."
theguardian.com/science/2020/o…
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LIVE from #OnePlanetSummit in Paris:
Bla bla nature
Bla bla important
Bla bla ambitious
Bla bla green investments
Bla bla great opportunity
Bla bla green growth
Bla bla net zero
Bla bla step up our game
Bla bla hope
Bla bla bla...*
*locking in decades of further destruction twitter.com/oneplanetsummi…
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Devastating to follow the developments in Jerusalem and Gaza... #SaveSheikhJarrah twitter.com/NaomiAKlein/st…
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"We’re on the brink of catastrophe, warns Tory climate chief" as he "backs UK’s plan for new oil and gas fields"
#MindTheGap between words and action.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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Exxon Mobil made a $56 billion net profit for 2022, setting a company record and a historic high for the western oil industry.
While people were struggling to pay energy bills, fossil fuel companies who also destabilize the planet made record profits.
reuters.com/business/energ…
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Without any binding commitments to rapidly and immediately reduce greenhouse gases, the world stands no chance to deliver on the 1,5°C limit, and by doing so minimising risks of uprooting the life supporting systems we all depend on and endangering countless human lives.
#COP27
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The heavily subsidised energy plant Drax is the biggest single source of CO2 in the UK and third biggest in Europe.
But the emissions are not included in the UK emissions.
This loophole is unfortunately what many international climate targets rely on. 1/3 news.sky.com/story/climate-…
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Joyeux noël! Fröhliche Weihnachten! Feliz navidad! Happy holidays! God jul! ! عيد ميلاد سعيد! חג מולד שמח Hyvää joulua! क्रिसमस की बधाई! Buon Natale! メリークリスマス! 圣诞节快乐! Kirîstmas piroz be! 메리 크리스마스! Feliz Natal! Wesołych Świąt! С Рождеством! Krismasi Njema!
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So it’s official. Unless the EU tear up their new #Fitfor55 package, the world will not stand a chance of staying below 1,5°C of global heating. That’s not an opinion, once you include the full picture it’s a scientific fact.
#MindTheGap between words and action.
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We should abandon the illusion that politicians will come to the rescue of planet Earth, especially those who delight in calling themselves climate leaders. Time and again they have betrayed the faith that has been placed in them.
I write in @NewStatesman
newstatesman.com/environment/20…
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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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Today as always, it’s important to watch out for those who only listen to the uncomfortable truth when it fits in their agenda. To tackle this crisis, cherry picking some aspects, taking things out of context and ignoring the rest will lead us nowhere. It only fuels culture wars.
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What a surprise... As it is now the people in power can get away with almost anything. All they have to do is to say some nice words and say they will "form alliances and work together to combat climate change". #COP26 twitter.com/RobbBla/status…
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In 2010 our leaders signed "ambitious goals to protect wildlife and ecosystems”. By 2021 they'd failed on every single one. Each day they choose not to act. Instead they sign more “ambitious" non-binding future goals while passing policy locking in destructive business as usual. twitter.com/GretaThunberg/…
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"Bolsonaro has approved a 24% cut to the environment budget for 2021 from the previous year’s level, just one day after vowing to increase spending to fight deforestation."
Oops... it's almost as if our "climate leaders" aren't taking this seriously.
theguardian.com/world/2021/apr…
Autistic climate justice activist Born at 375 ppm