Icarus Complex Magazine

An in-depth look at the issues surrounding climate change.

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“If whales were allowed to return to their pre-whaling numbers—capturing 1.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually—it would be worth about $13 per person a year to subsidize these whales’ carbon dioxide sequestration efforts.”

@nickwitts7 writes:

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It's been 78 days since Iran's #wildlifeactivists were sentenced to six - ten years in prison for espionage. Around the globe, #environmentalists are fighting the fight of our lives and are being subjected to tightened restrictions. Some even pay with their lives.

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@XRebellionUK "Think of it like heart disease. You can take medication to mitigate some of the symptoms, but it's still going to kill you if you don't cut back on the McDonald's. Carbon capture is medication, but system change is the cure." (3/3)

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Rebecca Wicker, a member of @XRebellionUK and PhD candidate in environmental biotechnology, says on the recent #COP26 announcement:

"Carbon capture is not enough. Reforestation and urban greening are incredibly important, make no mistake ... " (1/3)

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@XRebellionUK " ... and while abiotic methods of carbon capture are not yet emissions-negative, they are worth developing further. But all of these methods combined cannot even come close to balancing our current emissions scenario." (2/3)

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Very interesting to see the reaction around the announcement of #COP26! Here's hoping that the #ClimateEmergency will be met with #ClimateAction soon!

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#COP26 - the 26th Conference of the Parties - is a UN summit and will be held in Glasgow in November 🌍

Around 200 world leaders will seek to agree a new, long term deal on rising temperatures

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Now that @British_Airways have begun to offset #carbonemissions for all of its flights within the UK, will more airlines join in on the fight against #climatechange ?

@wizzair / @Ryanair / @easyJet / @KLM / @jet2tweets

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UK households throw a total of 6.6 million tonnes of food waste away a year. Despite this, not all @cityoflondon boroughs have borough-wide food or garden waste collection schemes available free of charge.

#foodwaste #gardenwaste #recycling #London

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@GeorgeMonbiot @farhanaclimate @AdairTurnerUK @TonyJuniper @intelligence2

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“Fascinating and absolutely necessary debate tonight TO STOP CLIMATE COLLAPSE, WE MUST END CAPITALISM. Many in the audience agreed with @GeorgeMonbiot and @Farhanaclimate who spoke in favour of this motion (1/3)

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@GeorgeMonbiot @farhanaclimate @AdairTurnerUK @TonyJuniper It does seem that what enables the worst sides of capitalism is a dysfunctional political system where public service is the lesser concern.
@intelligence2 (3/3)

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Luxembourg has recently made all public transport across the country free. This includes buses, trains and metro. Should other countries be doing more to mitigate their #pollution and #carbon emissions?

@Xavier_Bettel / @DjunaBernard
/ @carbon_180 / @TfL

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Good to see that supermarkets are beginning to take #ClimateChange more seriously. Here's hoping that more work will be put into fighting the #ClimateEmergency in the next twenty years, sooner rather than later!

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Today, Sainsbury's has announced its commitment to become a Net Zero business by 2040, with an investment of £1 billion over the next twenty years. Find out more here: https://t.co/vvZKcpUJX5

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@realDonaldTrump @GretaThunberg @sunrisemvmt @350 @generation_now_

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At the start of the annual #Davos2020 meeting, @realDonaldTrump took to the stage and compared climate scientists and activists to prophets of doom.

Here is a comic by artist Naim Moore on the absurdity of that statement.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency

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