Ron McKay

Visual Creative / Environmentalist / Educator

[Ron McKay @RonMcKayTweets]

Looking for something to do this Christmas? 🎄❄️🌟🎵
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'tis the season. #Christmas #Advent @EEUChurch #Toronto

[Tim Nash, CFP® @TimNashCFP]

Anger is easy. Hate is easy. Easy to spark, easy to spread.

Love is hard! Love takes patience and consistency. Love is shared slowly, deliberately.

I love my trans friends everyday, but especially today ❤️

#LeaveOurKidsAlone #1MillionMarch4Children #nospaceforhate

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

Today, I urged governments, businesses, youth, activists and members of civil society to think big & be ambitious to get the #GlobalGoals back on track.

This is not the time for incrementalism.

This is the time for transformation.

[Dr Paul Dorfman @dorfman_p]

What to say ?

Facts is, nuclear just too late, too expensive, too risky for #climate or #energy crises.

Renewable evolution here and now - cheaper, faster, efficient.

IPCC say #renewables 10 times better than #nuclear at CO2 mitigation.

Case closed.

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[Ron McKay @RonMcKayTweets]

TAKE ACTION: Join me in telling City Hall to fund transit, housing, & #ClimateActionNow ! @MayorOliviaChow & City Council need to hear from you. Tell them you support bold action to find the funds Toronto needs.
Send a letter with @TOenviro's tool:
https://t.co/mTo1utxANL

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
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[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

If you are on the fence about becoming a climate activist please, please, please come down onto the right side of history. The movement, and the planet, need you so incredibly much. You are more powerful than you can ever know. Every activist started out as someone on that fence.

[Emma Jackson @EmmaJackson57]

Can't stop thinking about Suncor choosing this moment of ALL POSSIBLE TIMES to announce they're going to turn their focus away from long-term energy transition and double down on oil sands production.

Burning the planet under no illusions.

[Glen Peters @Peters_Glen]

According to the #IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report, to limit global warming to '1.5°C with no or limited overshoot', then global CO2 emissions decline:
* 48% in 6 years
* 80% in 14 years
* 99% in 24 years

(thanks @_david_ho_ for reminding me to remind people)

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[David Ho @_david_ho_]

Back in 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise.

His solution: Fewer government subsidies for fossil fuels and use of renewable energy.

[Tzeporah Berman @Tzeporah]

How much of the country has to burn, how many thousands evacuated and choking on smoke before our country takes the climate emergency seriously and stops expanding oil, gas and LNG projects and starts focusing on keeping people safe? #cdnpoli

[Jamie Henn @jamieclimate]

Climate disasters themselves won’t shock people into political action — what’s needed for that is high profile political leadership. Another reason why it’s so important for @POTUS to declare a Climate Emergency.

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

This is a good clip.

1. Selling off the Greenbelt was never about housing. It was about making a few friends of the Premier's $$$ under the guise of housing.

"Do they really think we are that stupid?"

2. The Premier says he takes full responsibility. But, next time. This time his friends get to keep the land in his great Greenbelt give-away.

"Do they really think we are that stupid?"

3. It isn't that they skipped a few steps in a bidding process. They literally gave away land that was not theirs to give away at the request of developers, with no process at all.

"Do they really think we are that stupid?"

[Ron McKay @RonMcKayTweets]

If we want to maintain beautiful things in this world - incl #music - we MUST take #ClimateAction . With the amount of media coverage, #Swifties & @taylorswift13 herself have a voice to create awareness. Use it. If we don’t, #ClimateCollapse will destroy everything we #love .

[Ron McKay @RonMcKayTweets]

@bicanuk @jen_keesmaat There was.

[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

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

July has already seen:

The hottest three-week period ever recorded.

The three hottest days on record.

The highest-ever ocean temperatures for this time of year.

It is still possible to avoid the very worst of climate change, but only with dramatic, immediate #ClimateAction.

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

No matter how much we’ve lost, it will never be too late to fight. We must set aside differences and fight together. Soon, all but the greatest fools among us will realize that nothing was more important. #GlobalBoiling
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[Ron McKay @RonMcKayTweets]

Incredible the attention #BarbieMovie is receiving while we face #ClimateBreakdown. Reminds me of the 1985 Neil Postman book “Amusing Ourselves to Death” & our decades long appetite for distraction - anything but face the economic & sociopolitical impact of #ClimateCatastrophe