🚨 ARRESTED FOR HOLDING A BANNER
🚓 This supporter of @XRebellionUK was arrested outside of ExxonMobil's PR company @HK_London for just standing with a banner.
🔥 How far will this government go to protect fossil fuels?
#ClimateChange#A22Network#COP27
This is how BBC opened coverage of World Cup 2022. Stark contrast to Fox Coverage in United States. Please take a minute to watch. This is how this World Cup should be contextualized 🙌
Whenever an agreement is reached at one of these meetings, people celebrate, largely with relief at having got to the end. It's only afterwards that we begin to ask "what exactly has been achieved?" If it's is anything other than decisive action, the answer is not much.
I don't in any way want to diss the great success by poorer nations in achieving a Loss and Damage agreement (though I recognise that rich nations will break their promises to pay). But there was *no progress* on stopping climate breakdown. COP27 is another terrible failure.
I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices.
Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.
🚨 Hunger striking Just Stop Oil supporter remains in hospital wing:
🏥 A Just Stop Oil supporter who went on hunger strike to demand that the Govt end new oil & gas has been unexpectedly moved to the hospital wing as prison staff became increasingly concerned for their health.
Things are only going to get worse, and our government wants to dig up more dirty fossil fuels. They will arrest you for trying to stop them.
Our last chance is #CivilResistance. If you can't take action, please support someone who will: https://t.co/04GwZEHp2y
🚨 BREAKING: A27 IN SUSSEX BLOCKED
🚧 More disruption to come across the country according to the Met / @metpoliceuk / @metoffice
🚓 Chris, 46, who works as a Chief Constable said:
"We can't arrest our way out of this either."
#COP27#ClimateChange
Today, I confronted with UK 🇬🇧 Minister of Energy, Climate and Environment @ZacGoldsmith at #COP27.
I asked him, "When will you release those jailed climate activists your Govt. arrested for protesting to stop new oil & gas license across UK?"
He replied, "No idea" & run away!
Meanwhile it doesn’t take a scientist to know that every summer will be hotter than the last and lots of things will break as a result. Planet-scaled things. The disregard in our society for this fundamental fact is still stunning to me.
Today I was arrested for the second time trying to increase public urgency about Earth breakdown along with about 80 other scientists and many others. I was released and I’m fine, but tired. We worked very hard for weeks.
Do catch this crucial film, The Oil Machine, if you can. What all of us need to know about the dirty politics of North Sea oil, and how to confront them. https://t.co/F2nX6jC4N9
Once again, fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber every national delegation at COP27. Complete failure is of course ensured until they stop letting in the fossil fuel industry. It's a mockery of any real effort to stop Earth breakdown.