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The Labour government’s 'jabs for jobs' scheme, forcing unemployed to take the risky weight-loss drug Mounjaro, is a dangerous gamble. With a history of lawsuits and side effects, this partnership with Eli Lilly puts profit over lives. It's a betrayal.
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The mention of the #Genocide in #Palestine was cautiously edited - but this short piece is still a vivid and brutal picture of life during conflicts based on my study of the civil war in #Ambazonia, one of Africa's largest conflicts.
Check it out: https://t.co/DEmfRMNqHr
War-struck communities and businesses can find surprising solutions to persist against some of the harshest atrocities imaginable. By @LucaCaster@MaynoothUni https://t.co/wkDkpqhaNk
"A second period of unthinkable decline"
Isn't it unbelievably dumb that both halves of the neoliberal political class, both Labour and Tory, live in a dream world where the inevitable coming ruptures of climatic breakdown simply do not appear in their "forecasts".
According to numerous papers and reports we are looking at 100s of millions of refugees by the end of this decade and the end of the global trading system (for ever) as the world heads over 2C in the 2030s. Add into the mix the inevitable collapse of the global insurance industry, and the coastal property bubbles, and only super clever people are stupid enough to think that decline is "unthinkable".
The real question is "what comes next?" -fascism or a new democratic revolution.
https://t.co/G7QEJKx3bA
The top 1% are disproportionately devouring all our futures.
And the rest of us have been hoodwinked into idolising & striving to be part of that 1%.
The desire to over-consume fuels our capitalist society. It is the cancer eating away at our futures.
COP has got us nowhere because its AIM is to maintain business as usual while trying to reduce the inevitable devastation.
It’s blindingly obvious that what we need is a process where the AIM is to end fossil fuel. To end animal agriculture. To end capitalist growth. Immediately.
There's no such thing as "stability and growth" - Continued growth means burning more fossil fuels and terraforming more natural habitat....a recipe for anything but "stability".
Ending this #COP27 without an agreement to stop ALL fossil fuels is like walking out of the OR while the patient is still bleeding🚨👩⚕️The last hours must be used to save lives by finally putting an end to our fossil fuel addiction: @fossiltreaty 🌍 @DrTedros@ClimateEnvoy
Meet Revan, 12, the youngest @UNICEF delegate at #COP27.
She lives in Libya. She wants to be an astronaut.
When she learned about water scarcity, she started to changed her world one chat at a time.
Her message to World Leaders:
“#Climate has changed. So can we”
#ClimateChange is about consumption of the very richest 💸 people in our global society.
50% of global emissions are emitted by just 10% of the population.
90% of global emissions by 50% of the population.
#COP27 needs to recognise climate justice & the rich💰must change NOW
Today is #DisabilityPayGap day. It’s the day in 2022 when the average Disabled worker stops getting paid for the rest of the year, compared to the average non-disabled worker.
This means that that Disabled workers will work 54 days without pay this year. 🗓️
227 members of the 290-seat Parliament of Iran have called on the Judiciary to issue death sentences for people arrested during the ongoing anti-government protests.
https://t.co/iFQsRNZDUj