Gillian Benjamin

Founder of MakeTomorrow - helping organisations and individuals take bold climate action

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

If you're fortunate enough not to be fighting for your physical or economic life in this broken system, and you're not obsessed with climate breakdown and reshaping your life to do what you can to halt it, then I'm sorry but you have no idea how bad it really is.

[Gillian Benjamin @Gill_Benjamin]

We’ve gathered some great visualisations here:

[MakeTomorrow @MakeTomorrow_]

A five-part thread on animations that turn dry data sets into startling snapshots of our warming world🌍 We hope you enjoy!

1. Climate Spirals by @ed_hawkins. Windows screensaver meets climate meltdown in this clear-cut and unequivocal visual.👉https://t.co/tju7CNCBnM #climate

[Gillian Benjamin @Gill_Benjamin]

We’ve compiled a great listing to deepen your climate understanding over this period:

[MakeTomorrow @MakeTomorrow_]

Grab your headphones and have a listen to these stellar climate-related podcasts 🎧

1. Outrage and Optimism 👉https://t.co/fUhkHK5Qgk
2. Sustainababble 👉https://t.co/Wv1nieJCZB
3. TILclimate 👉https://t.co/X9udoLbhXA

Get our full top ten listing here 👉https://t.co/Z1LSv8aFNz

[COP26 @COP26]

A warm welcome to Mark Carney, the newly appointed Prime Minister's Finance Advisor for #COP26. @10DowningStreet

The @bankofengland Governor will advise the government on mobilising action within the financial sector to tackle #ClimateChange.

https://t.co/vRHtWhzDf8

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

UNEP: 1.5C climate target ‘slipping out of reach’ | @hausfath @robbie_andrew https://t.co/dGUfgnegzf

[Neil Kaye @neilrkaye]

Earth is warming but not the same everywhere. This #dataviz shows the warming since 1960 at different latitudes.
It shows that in 2016 the Arctic was already 3°C warmer than the 1961-1990 average,
The last decade is more than 2°C warmer!
#globalwarming #climatechange

[James Perry @James0Perry]

"Politics bared of spiritual awareness always leads to violence and the abuse of power. Spirituality without political engagement resembles an escape from the world.”
Gundula Schatz

[MakeTomorrow @MakeTomorrow_]

'Businesses just need to see what their #future customer wants – those seven million people who walked out and joined the #globalclimatestrike recently are your consumers, future markets, and future shareholders.' Farhana Yamin, environmental lawyer. https://t.co/3JMA0a4NIM

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Typhoon #Hagibis made a direct hit on Tokyo, together with landslides, floods and an earthquake
-Most powerful storm for 60+ years
-Millions evacuating
-500mm of rain to fall on Tokyo in 24 hours, 700mm fell on Hakone in 48 hours
-Follows Typhoon Faxai which damaged 30,000 homes

[Soggy Boots @FoxiePunkFolk]

See the problem here?
UK earnings & corporation tax paid:

Facebook £1.65bn
Tax: £28m

Amazon: £2.3bn
Tax: £14.7m

Google: £1.4bn
Tax: £66.8m

Apple: 1.2bn
Tax: £3.8m

Netflix: approx £700m
Tax: £51,000 REBATE

The public are being fleeced.
Public services are paying the price.

[Gillian Benjamin @Gill_Benjamin]

The new norm? BBC News - Hundreds of temperature records broken over summer https://t.co/Ks4QOme2tC

[Glen Peters @Peters_Glen]

Since 2000, global
* Population has grown 25%
* GDP per capita has grown 52%
* Energy per unit GDP has improved 20%
* CO₂ per unit energy has remained flat
* CO₂ emissions have grown 50%

For global CO₂ emissions to go down, what has to change?

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

If you asked me: "which industry presents the greatest environmental threat, oil or media?", I would say "the media". Every day it misdirects us. Every day it tells us that issues of mind-numbing irrelevance are more important than the collapse of our life support systems.

[Gillian Benjamin @Gill_Benjamin]

At a time when emissions are supposed to peak and then rapidly decline..

[No Airport Expansion @NoAirportExp]

Airlines’ CO2 emissions grew 4.9% within Europe last year, in contrast to the other EU emissions-trading sectors, which declined 3.9% overall. Carbon pollution from flying in Europe has risen 26.3% in the last 5 years – far above any other transport mode. https://t.co/5MsOCzOH0L

[Glen Peters @Peters_Glen]

Quote of the day: The scale of CO₂ removal is "several times larger than the current oil & gas industry...essentially we need to build an industry that’s 3 to 4 times the size of the current oil & gas industry just to clean up our waste"

https://t.co/LALhxnALW5

[Hubbub @hubbubUK]

#IWD “My twenties were riddled with so much angst about what should I be doing with my life. I would say to my (younger) self just chill out, trust the process. You’re intelligent, you have the skills that you need. Go out there and follow your gut” https://t.co/6QJ7skyGIQ

[Gillian Benjamin @Gill_Benjamin]

@DrKWilkinson Love this! Ppl need to be inspired to use the greatest lever they have - their talent!

[Leo Hickman @LeoHickman]

Quite a frontpage in the Daily Mirror this morning...

#COP24

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

We have ZERO years left to take action. Ten years is (an overly conservative estimate of) when we cross into dangerous territory in the absence of immediate action on climate.

[Tania @TaniaHan]

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them and do nothing”. Following #RebellionDay from NZ and standing in solidarity.