BREAKING: scientists and students from @SRNordic@SciRebDenmark and DTU Divest are engaging in civil disobedience to demand @DTUtweet to cut ties from the fossil fuel industry and engage in #FosFreeResearch. (1/3)
4/9 However, if they are not accompanied by the cancellation of the financial debt of the affected countries, there is a considerable risk that these and otherwise available funds will be diverted into debt service.
#CancelTheDebt!
#DebtForClimate#DeudaXClima#DettePourLeClimat
3/9 The demand for reparations for the #LossAndDamage suffered by the countries most affected by the climate crisis are finally at the center of the discussions.
#LossAndDamage mechanisms are essential to tackle the climate crisis!
“There’s already large areas in Miami that flood in the middle of a sunny day in the middle of a drought and people are just putting on their rubber boots and walking through it. There’s fish literally swimming in the road. And you have this denial. Nothing’s happening.”
May, July and October were the hottest May, July and October in Spain's recorded history. The first 2 weeks of June were the hottest first 2 weeks of June ever in Spain. In August Spain recorded its hottest ever August day. Climate change is in the process of destroying Spain
Do radical protests turn the public away from a cause? No, despite what people say on social media.
Do radical protests bring attention to that cause? Absolutely.
Extinction Rebellion Global Support is funding XR groups representing some of the most affected people and places to #tellthetruth about the climate and nature emergency.
#COP27, are you listening?
Denial is going to be a central force shaping societies from here on. The rewards will go to the individuals and societies prepared to look reality square in the face, on climate, but also on broad, mounting existential risks, deal with the pain, then move urgently.
Thinking about the video of the guy watching the tsunami wave sweep over him and how history is littered with examples of people rejecting reality up until the moment of their actual death to avoid the overwhelming psychological trauma that comes with accepting reality.