William Linegar

@AberdeenGreens 2024 Mearns council by-election + W. Ab’shire & Kincardine GE candidate | eco-socialist anti-capitalist | @Aberdeenuni zoology student | he/him

[William Linegar @VinegarWithAnL]

I can be found on the other service with the same name, I’ve started the process of moving over

[William Linegar @VinegarWithAnL]

@fubarnews1 I just passed this, it’s the A92, not the A90

[Transport Scotland @transcotland]

Survey open until 28 February ➡️ https://t.co/s8tsb6mnA1

[Transport Scotland @transcotland]

Later this year, we’re introducing a 12-month pilot to extend free rail travel on @ScotRail services, to companions of blind and partially sighted passengers.

Before the scheme starts, we want to hear your views.

Survey open until 28 February ➡️ https://t.co/s8tsb6mVpz

[Campaign for North East Rail @CNERail]

Trains in Aberdeen are packed this weekend as the annual SPECTRA festival of light returns for 2025! Unfortunately for over 50,000 people north of the city, their closest station is further away than anywhere else in the UK. Its time to extend the East Coast Line. @FionaHyslop

[Scottish Greens @scottishgreens]

Government can no longer ignore the science. The cost of inaction is incalculable.

The recent Los Angeles fires alone could cost up to $275 billion, and as extreme weather events become increasingly common and more severe, the price tag will continue to spiral.

[Scottish Greens @scottishgreens]

This is ethnic cleansing.

All governments must call it out for what it is and stand unequivocally against it.

This shows why we can never cosy-up to or support Donald Trump. He's shown total contempt for human rights and is now promoting crimes against humanity.

[Sight Scotland @SightScotland]

After 2 years of campaigning and thanks to our dedicated activists, the pilot project to extend free companion rail travel across @ScotRail services for National Entitlement Eye +1 cardholders is nearly here!

Ahead of the pilot, take part in the survey to share your views ⬇️

[Scottish Greens @scottishgreens]

LGBT+ rights were won over decades through activism, struggle and solidarity.

But now more than ever we see powerful forces working to divide us and roll them back, while others stand aside.

Human rights are non-negotiable. They must be at the heart of Scotland's future.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[Scottish Greens @scottishgreens]

5 years ago today the UK left the EU, despite 62% of voters in Scotland backing remain.

An independent Scotland could rejoin the EU, regain our individual rights as European citizens, and have our own seat at the table to work with our friends across the continent. 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Transport Scotland @transcotland]

We’re introducing a 12-month pilot scheme to extend free rail travel on @ScotRail services to companions of blind and partially sighted passengers.

Before the pilot is introduced later this year, we want to hear your views.

Have your say before 28 Feb ➡️ https://t.co/s8tsb6mnA1

[William Linegar @VinegarWithAnL]

I can be found on the other service with the same name, I’ve started the process of moving over

[Scottish Greens @scottishgreens]

Campaigners have won a crucial ruling, overturning the UK Government's support for Rosebank oil field.

It would cause emissions equal to the 28 lowest income countries combined!

Renewable energy is the safest, cheapest and greenest available. It's where our future must lie.

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

BREAKING:

ROSEBANK OIL FIELD DECLARED UNLAWFUL! 🥀🥀🥀

Huge victory for climate justice + people power! ✊✊✊

[Scottish Greens @scottishgreens]

When they needed your vote Labour liked to tout their climate credentials.

Now that they're in power they back major climate-wrecking projects.

Transport is the UK's largest source of emissions. We need investment in rail and bus services, not another 240,000 flights.

[Scottish Greens @scottishgreens]

🌀Workers shouldn't have to risk their lives to keep their jobs.

🌍Extreme weather like Storm Éowyn will only become more frequent as the climate crisis worsens.

🟢Greens are demanding new protections for workers so they don't have to travel during red weather warnings.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

There is a strange idea in some environmentalist circles that human population is the main cause of ecological breakdown, and that humans have an *intrinsically* negative impact on ecosystems. Both claims are incorrect.

First, human ecological impact is entirely a function of the system of production and provisioning. It depends on what is being produced, under what conditions, and how the yields of production are distributed.

For instance, an economy that uses mostly public transit, renewable energy, multi-unit housing and plant-based protein can meet human needs with a fraction of the impact of an economy that produces a lot of SUVs, fossil fuels, mansions and industrial beef, and which allocates a bunch of totally unnecessary production to service the fantasies of overconsuming elites.

Remember, we know it is possible to provide decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people with 30% of current global energy and material use, by ensuring efficient technologies and focusing production on socially necessary goods and services.

That much is fairly straightforward. But one might say that, even so, every person will always have some negative impact. This too is incorrect. Again, it depends entirely on the production system, and specifically, what people are mobilized to do.

Under capitalism, labour is mobilized overwhelmingly to produce things that are profitable to capital. But labour could just as easily be mobilized instead for regeneration. Using straightforward public finance mechanisms, we can fund massive programmes to reforest barren lands, regenerate degraded ecosystems, restore biodiversity, advance agroecological methods, etc.

Under these conditions, it is possible for societies to not only have minimal negative impact on ecology, but to have a net-positive impact, actively improving ecological indicators.

People buy into the myth of the intrinsic destructiveness of humans because we have come to take capitalism for granted. But it is 100% possible to organize production and labour differently.

Under capitalism, we are compelled to produce whatever is most profitable to capital, even if it is destructive to humans and nature. Under conditions of economic democracy, we can produce what we know is necessary for well-being and ecology.

[Scottish Greens @scottishgreens]

Labour must start taking the climate crisis seriously.

[Scottish Greens @scottishgreens]

Nobody is above the law - not even the US President.

A convicted felon has just taken office, and the court found that he used assets in Scotland for criminal activity.

Greens are demanding an investigation into illegal activity here in Scotland.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

WHO DESTROYED THEIR HOMES??

[Lorna Slater @lornaslater]

Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to our climate and to human rights around the world.

There are millions across the US who will be concerned about what Donald Trump will do to their rights. Those are the people we should stand with today.
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