Jessica Desmond

Believing a better world is possible, and campaigning for it. Now @GreenpeaceNZ. Thoughts mine. Co2 ppm 348.9 at birth. 2021 = 419. 🏳️‍🌈 She/her

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

These are not serious people.

#ClimateChange is an existential crisis, and we have already had decades of delay and denial.

The dairy industry is NZ's biggest climate polluter. We need action now, not more delay.

National and Luxon promise more delay
https://t.co/yCXMf7gLvc

[Marc Daalder 😷 Wear a Mask @marcdaalder]

The year is 2100. The fifth major cyclone of the year is bearing down on the North Island, just weeks after smoke from Australian bushfires turned the sky orange for two days.

The Government has announced agricultural emissions pricing will come into effect in five years.

[Zane Wedding @tweetswillsaveu]

Transforming farming is protecting farmers.

[Jessica Desmond @FromAQuasar]

@BrookingRachel This is a sick joke @BrookingRachel "In 2019/20, for example, observers were placed on 10 percent of surface long-line vessels and witnessed five Antipodean albatross fatalities. The remaining 90 percent reported just 10 captures."

[Jessica Desmond @FromAQuasar]

23% reduction in observer coverage, which only covers 10% of fishing activity.
Still no cameras on boats.
The commercial fishing industry has shown again &again they will not willingly report their killings of seabirds & other marine wildlife
@BrookingRachel what will you do?

[Marc Daalder 😷 Wear a Mask @marcdaalder]

MPI observer coverage of the commercial fishing fleets most likely to catch Antipodean albatross and other protected species is less than half of the usual level this year.
https://t.co/7SWgebCjr2

[Jessica Desmond @FromAQuasar]

@tweetswillsaveu Glad you're ok enough to write this tweet! Stay safe out there, it's for sure scary 🚲

[Dr. Helen Beattie, BVSc. @DrHelenBeattie]

Just listened to Kate Raworth talking to NZ Treasury. Worth a listen.

https://t.co/M8eD7fNfY6

And confronting to see our donut (that’s P in overshoot) and where Aotearoa New Zealand sits within the global context.

And what useful decoupling would look like.

[Russel Norman @RusselNorman]

Crikey, this is like the entire NZ Govt greenwashing strategy facing a PR ban in the UK! Adverts claiming products are carbon neutral by using offsetting face UK ban | Carbon offsetting | The Guardian https://t.co/XDlEedRI7X

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

Eight things the world must do to avoid Climate Collapse
1. Stop methane emissions
4. Change the food system
2. Stop deforestation
3. Restore degraded land
5. Switch to renewable energy
6. Use energy more efficiently
7. Stop burning Fossil Fuels
8. Act Now
https://t.co/xPaFJUB2os

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

This iconic graph tracks how rapidly our planet is warming. Yet every time it's shared on Twitter, someone always asks, "Why does it begin in 1850?"

The answer is simple: it's when we first had enough thermometers to compute a truly representative global temperature average.

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

Coastal communities and hapū don't want it. The public doesn't want it. the fishing industry AND Greenpeace opposes it, industry doesn’t need it and there’s plenty of evidence that it would cause harm to ocean life already in crisis.

#BanSeabedMining! https://t.co/fTmcYG67Bc

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

Ocean groups slam fishing Industry Transformation Plan as ‘status quo plus subsidies’:
https://t.co/atchU1Fcg6

#BanBottomTrawling

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

This is what the climate crisis looks like.

For decades, the oil and agriculture industry has denied, diluted and delayed action while they profited from driving climate change.

Now we all pay the price.

#climatecrisis #auckland #floods

[Jessica Desmond @FromAQuasar]

The "procrastination, half measures, soothing and baffling expedients, delays" are the fault of those with the power to stop the pollution: Fossil fuel companies, their corporate clients & the politicians who have failed to rein them in. https://t.co/BVpbfJm7eF

[Marc Daalder 😷 Wear a Mask @marcdaalder]

Apropos of nothing: "Where on the spectrum from tragedy to farce are we when we see the same images of upturned cars floating in floodwaters, of desperate people awaiting rescue on rooftops, in so many cities all around the world?"
https://t.co/6HpWATSXIt

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

The new climate denial is a strategy of delay, dilute and distract.

Just like the oil and plastic industry, Federated Farmers, Fonterra and Dairy NZ are masters.

Here’s the cheat sheet.

[Jessica Desmond @FromAQuasar]

"That is what systemic change looks like. When the green choice is the default. When it’s not up to each individual person to choose tobe ethical every time they do the weekly shop." @ecomanda on the anxiety of being pregnant in a world polluted by plastic https://t.co/e7f7DC2EYh

[Denis Tegg @denistegg]

Next time you hear the puerile "we are too small" #climatedenial b/s mantra on cutting our emissions - this tour de force from Climate Commissioner Rod Carr is a great rebuttal - https://t.co/xDtQOLnVuH

[Helen Kettles @CaptainKettles]

"Only 2% of New Zealand’s large lakes are in good health, bleak report finds.

The number of cows has nearly doubled in a generation, & the resulting fertiliser & irrigation needs are having a devastating impact."

Can't we get our act together?
https://t.co/mHObUwCrxx