Action on Climate in Teignbridge

ACT works to support district, town and parish councils and residents with #Climate and #Ecological Emergencies.

[Kevin Anderson @KevinClimate]

On @BBCr4today speaking on climate change @JohnKerry claims “the US is living up to its word”. This is not true. The US signed the Paris Agreement; to make its fair contribution to hold to “well below 2°C” & “pursue .. 1.5°C”.
@bbcnickrobinson should have picked him up on this!

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Next time the Government tries to tell you that drilling for more oil & gas in the North Sea will lower your bills and give the UK energy security, read this👇
https://t.co/vbEjmTktDN

[Josh Gabbatiss @Josh_Gabbatiss]

Deeply depressed at the thought of every centrist dad in the country confidently telling their mates down the pub that 2C of warming isn't a big deal, because they heard Bill Gates tell Alastair Campbell as much on The Rest is Politics.

[Martin Tye @martinrev21]

Sometime a picture really is worth 1,000 words.
I've got nothing to add here...

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“The mayor of Paris, @Anne_Hidalgo, has now proposed tripling parking rates for SUVs in central Paris to €18 an hour, and €12/hour for the rest of the city. The measure…would affect roughly 10% of the cars in the city.”

Cybertruck isn’t allowed at all.
https://t.co/jaMy9NoCsj

[Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative @fossiltreaty]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS FROM #COP28! 🚨

#Colombia just became the tenth country to join the call for a #FossilFuelTreaty! 🇨🇴

"I have no doubt which position to take: between fossil capital and life, we choose the side of life." 🔥 - @petrogustavo

https://t.co/FHvP8tecYA🧵

[Andrew Ahern @AndrewsonEarth]

The Limits to Growth: Ecosocialism or Barbarism by @agarzon remains a favorite essay of mine.

It's an essential read, touching on the relationship between production & consumption, degrowth & efficiency, & a clarion call for ecosocialism — or barbarism. https://t.co/kgukUHUKLI

[Mark Stephens @MarksLarks]

Im getting an irony overload.
You?

[Kevin Anderson @KevinClimate]

@BusinessGreen This demonstrates the Orwellian world we’re moving towards when via serious journalism we normalise a narrative that more oil &gas will help the world move towards less oil & gas. For a detailed phase out schedule for fossil fuels aligned with 1.5-2°C see: https://t.co/qaxOCyS2vj

[Nate Hagens @NJHagens]

Today, I’m joined by Jon Erickson, Josh Farley, Steve Keen & Kate Raworth - leading educators in heterodox economics -  to discuss what conventional economics gets wrong & how its education could improve @jon_d_erickson @profstevekeen @KateRaworth

https://t.co/QNQFW51SaN

[Paul Scholes @misterp55]

Dear @JonnyDymond & #bbcwato next time you interview a minister, especially Shapps, on energy security and new oil & gas, please make sure you’re properly prepared

[Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall @HughFW]

I completely agree with @DaleVince and @ChrisGPackham👇🏼Sunak has doubled down on fossil fuels to make his mates in the industry richer while the rest of us go to hell. No doubt he hopes they’ll pay to rebuild his party when we vote them out next year. Let's never have them back!

[Kevin Anderson @KevinClimate]

Déjà vu!

1) PM promises £millions for a small CCS scheme (ie. green fudge & sop to the oil &gas sector)
2) @BBCr4today & @BBCJustinR fall for the glint of yet more future shiny kit
3) the climate keeps warming!

Open the bonnet & CCS is far from green.
https://t.co/8h8xAA8ySG

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Blocking the roads like this is completely unacceptable. They should lock up the people who did this and throw away the key.
#JustStopOil

[Action on Climate in Teignbridge @ACTeignbridge]

What is ACT's Economy group for? - we want to make people aware that the actions they take to mitigate the climate & nature crisis will challenge the 20th century economic thinking that still dominates politics and media - see how: https://t.co/PcTzPdKGTh

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Wistman’s Wood is one of the most famous woodlands in Britain, among our few remnants of upland temperate rainforest. So it’s a shock to see how tiny it is. Yes, this is it. Thread/

[Rupert Read 🌍 🔥 @GreenRupertRead]

The crucial line in this letter is when Caroline says she hasn’t been able, in Parliament, to “..focus as much as I would like on the existential challenges that drive me - the Nature and Climate emergencies. And as these threats to our precious planet become ever more urgent, I now want to concentrate more fully on these accelerating crises”. This is an indictment of our politics - and presages a new and if it’s possible even more vital role for Caroline,in the desperate and exciting years we are coming into…

[Action on Climate in Teignbridge @ACTeignbridge]

@GreenRupertRead Caroline will be interviewed on Radio 4 Today around 8:30 where it will unavoidable for the BBC to put this message out at last.

[Gary Lineker @GaryLineker]

Excellent decision.

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

I don’t know what is scarier, the fact that atmospheric CO2 just hit the highest level in human history, or that it has gone close to completely unnoticed…