Annie Licata

writer. ✨🌸💙🎵 nonprofit director @ Mandlovu - Social & Enviro. Entrepreneurs. Prev: @hipgnosisSG/@blackbirdprod/@RollingStone/@NewhouseSU

[Annie Licata @annie_licata]

@atsignemdash Deena Metzger

[Annie Licata @annie_licata]

When Taylor Swift uses a private jet, y'all are furious. But when Heidi Klum uses plastics and other harmful chemicals to make an elaborate worm costume, we love it. This is the painful gap we're refusing to acknowledge, over and over again. How is that costume not in excess?

[Annie Licata @annie_licata]

How do we end up with any wise Elders, who would be valued by the young instead of shuffled off to old age homes? Our dangerous modern culture has eliminated the necessary practice of learning life from those who lived it.

[The Hill @thehill]

President Biden: “Almost half of all seniors in the United States lived in poverty before Social Security. […] Even those who spent a lifetime working. […] Think about what that does to your sense of security.”

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

Bolsonaro is out! Fantastic news for the planet.

[Matt Largey (real) @mattlargey]

Don't put it off — the application for student loan forgiveness is remarkably simple.

https://t.co/r3fIPds7ri

This is basically it:

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@alyssaharad

[Annie Licata @annie_licata]

What folks are saying here is a very real example of how our destructive Western Minds are always present, including enviro rhetoric-and how @Mary has clearly dedicated her life to meaningful work, & yet we bring bellicosity and intellectual one-upping to her doorstep. Shame.

[Annie Licata @annie_licata]

Seeing a lot of climate activists sharing pics like this and blaming fossil fuel companies. It's a convenient way to relinquish Our own responsibility. No one is exempt. This is on OUR hands, not solely fossil fuel corps. When will We remedy our behavior on behalf of the Earth?

[Sean Breslin @Sean_Breslin]

More apocalyptic scenes emerging from southwestern Florida, courtesy of the @AP:

[Annie Licata @annie_licata]

@SharonSalzberg The Earth is Alive, and She is dying by our hand. We must change our behavior, practice relentless self-scrutiny, and fix this mess we've created for the sake of all beings.

[Annie Licata @annie_licata]

Indigenous wisdom says We must hold, love, and respect our Elders. This is lost in our dominant, modern culture. Any way We can care for Elders is a radical stand against modernity. Good on @ericajberry !!! 😍😍😍

[Erica Berry @ericajberry]

Last night I told my elderly neighbor, who has lived here for 40yrs, that I was having a yard hang and he should call if music was too loud. He waved me off; it suddenly occurred to me I should invite him. By 8pm he was eating an ice cream bar chatting w/ my friends by fire pit.

[Samantha Ruddy @samlymatters]

Need a tweet to go viral so I can promote my show at @UnionHallNY with @karencheee on October 9th at 5:30pm. Ok here goes nothing:

Dating somebody who says hello to you in public and doesn’t back into your car every morning >>>

[Annie Licata @annie_licata]

Shout out @aawcc_bcc

[Morgan Talty @Morgan_J_Talty]

Reading at my alma mater today—no not the prestigious Dartmouth or Stonecoast MFA, but rather Eastern Maine Community College. The only school to accept me and where I grew so much as a learner. Shout out to all the community colleges transforming lives.

[Annie Licata @annie_licata]

Me to my dad this morning: Top of the morning!(in British accent)
Dad: "Hello! Why are you British?"
Me: The ghost of the queen is near!
Dad: Did she die?

[Annie Licata @annie_licata]

We think our kids deserve more than we had. In truth, our kids need to have significantly less than we've ever had if we're going to save our planet and all of the beings on it.

[Annie Licata @annie_licata]

When I lived in Brooklyn, there was a Weeping Willow outside my bedroom window. One day, it was cut down. My room was never the same. I moved out of NYC. This is what the next 20 years is going to feel like. We will lose the Natural Beauty that we adore, over and over again

[Annie Licata @annie_licata]

Who is explaining to the Birds and the Squirrels and the Bobcats that this is our fault—our species—and that we are not doing anything to change our behavior. “Get over it”????

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Taking into account the intensity, duration, and extent of the ongoing heatwave, as well as the exceptionally warm overnight lows and the added humidity (especially in SoCal), we are looking at one of the worst heatwaves in modern history for California.

[Annie Licata @annie_licata]

me in California during the drought/worst time of the fire season and everyone back east is switching from iced to hot 😑

[Annie Licata @annie_licata]

I'll never forget when I first read over 10 years ago that the people most affected by climate change will be the people who contribute to it the least. It's all coming true.

[Q @Qban_Linx]

Pakistan is responsible for less than 1% of global carbon emissions, and is currently the country most drastically affected by the catastrophe we are already living through

[Annie Licata @annie_licata]

All too common in the music industry, and no one will care, and he will continue to make music and nothing will change.

[Annie Licata @annie_licata]

Twitter is weird because it’s a vacuum that no one cares about but all the PHDs and journos think their false profundity will somehow fly into the minds of everyone in real life lol like y’all really trying hard out here 😂