Melanie Fortescue

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[Melanie Fortescue @MFortescue332]

Folks, I’ve got two tickets to @nomadicrevery’s Howl at Eventim Apollo in London tomorrow. Very sad that I’m going to miss it but would like to offer up so they don’t go to waste! Message me if you are on look out for tickets…🎟️🎟️

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Not one mention of the catastrophic flooding in Libya at PMQs.

Where is the concern for the victims of fires in Europe or the droughts across Africa?

Where is the outrage at fossil fuel giants destroying our planet?

Where is the hope for future generations?

Wake up!

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

🚨BREAKING: The world's 20 richest countries gave a record £1.1 TRILLION of public money to the fossil fuel industry last year.

They're using OUR money to destroy the planet.

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

We wonder how this happened..?

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

HOW ON EARTH COULD THIS BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN?!

#StopRosebank #NoNewOil #GlobalBoiling #Greenpeace

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Though it keeps failing, it would be wrong to say that Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) doesn’t work. It works precisely as intended, even if it never materialises: it is a highly successful method of buying more time for the fossil fuel industry.
https://t.co/w7XOliQMC2

[Greenpeace UK @GreenpeaceUK]

🚨BREAKING: An IT firm founded by Rishi Sunak's father-in-law was awarded a BILLION dollar contract with oil giant BP - just 2 months before the PM re-announced his support for hundreds of new oil and gas licences.

Convenient timing.

[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

[Melanie Fortescue @MFortescue332]

@RishiSunak For everything Boris Johnson did that was blatantly self-serving, this is so so much worse. You have no shame.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Outright liars.
"We have been clear on many occasions that we will not allow environmental standards to decrease when we leave the EU. What’s more, leaving gives us a unique opportunity to enhance our standards even further."
UK government, 14 August 2019

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

They are not anti-car schemes. They are pro-human health schemes.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Tories are the political wing of oil firms…

They work for who funds them

That’s why they granted these new oil licenses

That’s why they offer loopholes for them to pay little or no tax

That’s why your energy bills are the highest they’ve ever been.

https://t.co/PW5MO4rOnj

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Carbon capture and storage has been promised for 20 years. It has never materialised and never will. Its sole purpose is to create the impression that oil and gas drilling is compatible with a habitable planet. Any politician promoting it is working for the fossil fuel industry.

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

The progress China has made in renewable energy just THIS YEAR makes the entire rest of the world look like it's standing still.

I wrote in December that to call China the "world leader in renewable energy" was a colossal understatement.

That’s even more true today.

Thread 🧵

[Erin Remblance @remblance_erin]

I don’t know what’s going on at the @FT, but I like it! 👏👏👏

https://t.co/SO9RO21UeC

[Madonna Kalousian 🦉🍉🥄🪁 @MKalousian]

Nobody intervened to help a boat at sea level. After hours of surveillance before it sank, somebody decided to let 750 people drown.

[Daniel Kebede @DanielKebedeNEU]

How wages have faired.

MPs: Pay ⬆️ 22% in real terms since 2010

Bankers: Bonuses ⬆️ 101% in cash terms since 2008

CEOs: Pay ⬆️ 23% in 2022 alone

Teachers: Pay 🔻 24% since 2010

Nurses: Pay 🔻 20% since 2010

Whose wages are causing the inflation?

[Melanie Fortescue @MFortescue332]

@HarleyShah Thanks for sharing. V helpful to see some of the difficulties that are overlooked/misunderstood.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

The Titanic sub billionaire rescue mission is entering final hours of hope to find survivors.

Meanwhile in Italy & Greece, search & rescue to save people at sea is criminalised.
Pia Klemp is among those facing jail for rescuing migrants #r4today #FreePia https://t.co/RD730mB8g4

[Leo Hickman @LeoHickman]

*Mind-blowing* new NASA video showing CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels...

...as if they were visible to the human eye

h/t @ClimateOfGavin