So, I find myself 30ft in the air up a tree in Wellingborough- surrounded by police, security & tree surgeons- trying to prevent an illegal tree felling. How did I end up here? Here’s an outrageous story of nature destruction & collusion between authorities & private developer 🧵
BREAKING: @XRebellionUK co-founder Roger Hallam acquitted with 4 others today at Wood Green Crown Court, re Conspiracy to Commit Property Damage charge. This follows yesterday's 'not guilty' verdicts for @BespokePanic climate activists. Just 2 more cases to be decided.
@Bryayou@fossilfreeLDN@bp_plc Unfortuantely it is very difficult to seperate harm from our daily lives. I imagine some of the clothes you are wearing might have been made by forced labour. Do you have a solution to people beijg forced into labour against their will?
@boubonpecanbar@fossilfreeLDN@bp_plc Long term trends in the earth's climate are not the same as the weather. In many places weather already is more unpredictable and extreme due to the heating of the planet
@DSR110011@fossilfreeLDN@bp_plc Electric vehicles are not going to solve the problem. It will take multiple approches across the whole of human activity, transport being one, to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. It shows a lack of imagination to reduce the issue/solution down to personal vehicles alone
@Pdzielinski@JohnDee63816512@MatthewWielicki@fossilfreeLDN@bp_plc Peer-reviewed scientific papers on events like the melting of the artic or the permafrost. Also the 6th IPCC report. You could start by searching climate tipping points. There's a detailed wikipedia article on it. Get back to me if you'd like links to specific articles
@realkarenjean@fossilfreeLDN@bp_plc Unfortuantely it is very difficult to seperate harm from our daily lives. I imagine some of the clothes you are wearing might have been made by forced labour. Does that mean you shouldn't try and do something about people being forced into labour against their will? No.
@Douglas06818705@fossilfreeLDN@bp_plc Food and water shortage, extreme weather and mass migration, and the violence that entails, is already happening and it is widely accepted to be getting more frequent due to the warming of the planet. It is also a fact that burning fossil fuels warms the planet
@JohnDee63816512@MatthewWielicki@fossilfreeLDN@bp_plc I don't think you understand fully. When they refer to a 2 degree rise they mean average global temperature will rise 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels. When that happens it will set off chains of event that cause even higer rises which no humans are likely to survive
Those who celebrate the Suffragettes while condemning climate activists are hypocrites, said the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst at a march supporting the #Barclays7 https://t.co/866Bh3xdA2
Here's a quick roundup of highlights from research we published in 2022, on capitalism, imperialism, degrowth and decolonization. It's all open-access, and free PDFs are available via the link at the end of the thread. 🧵