Katharine Ainger

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Writer & editor. Interested in the places where creativity, ecology, and radical democracy meet.

[Irene Montero @IreneMontero]

En los momentos difíciles la gente siempre está: la solidaridad vecinal salva vidas. Las instituciones deben estar a la altura de su pueblo. Con más de 200 personas fallecidas, 1900 desaparecidas y miles afectadas urge decretar Estado de Alarma y un potente escudo social

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

We do understand the #globalwarming caused by fossil fuels - for four decades it’s been going as predicted.
But we don’t understand the surprise upward leap that is happening now.
And that worries me.

[Katharine Ainger @katainger]

Spain voting for far right and climate deniers today is a tragedy of historic proportions.... in climate chaos & suffering extreme drought, w water rationing, 80% of crops damaged, floods, hail, & heatwaves... #EleccionesGenerales2023 #CambioClimatico #ClimateEmergency #23J

[Teddy Adorno @Adorno666Adorno]

VOX, fascists tearing down LGBTQ flags at festivals now while disingenuously complaining about cancel culture, threatening Cataluña w extreme violence & negating climate change as crops fail in Spain...'not a single antifascist vote' should stay home.

Durutti voted in 1936.

[angel garcia @angelgarciafoto]

📸Climate-driven heat and drought are disrupting virtually every aspect of daily life in Spain.

Stunning article by @LauraMillanL for @climate. Thanks @JodyMegson turned a huge collection of images into a visual narrative

https://t.co/mcaHmXBdv7

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Heatwaves across the US, Europe and Canada, combined with El Niño weather conditions, saw average global air temperature breach 17°C (62.6°F) on 3 July - the hottest ever recorded. https://t.co/cZZOIcqrWa

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

Can't overstate how anxious meteorologists, oceanographers and #climate scientists are about the rather sudden, acute surge in #ocean temperatures around the world, particularly in the #Arctic and subarctic regions. We're heading into an unprecedented & unpredictable 2023/24.

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

The Northern Atlantic Ocean is heating up so rapidly that it is literally, nearly off the charts. Pay heed. This is well beyond record-breaking.

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

Spain's farms are dying. Their pastures are disappearing. Their livestock is becoming too expensive to even feed. Their ministers resort to calling for the EU crisis mechanism to be triggered. The #Climate crisis is now an EU farming and food supply crisis.

[Eoghan Gilmartin @EoghanGilmartin]

Another massive demonstration in Madrid today in support of the region's public health system and protesting the neoliberal policies of Trumpian regional president Isabel Diaz Ayuso.

[Katharine Ainger @katainger]

Amazing. Ignore measures like paid sick leave and proper ventilation that would greatly reduce an ongoing mass disabling event, gaslight those disabled with #longcovid, then punish them for not being able to work.

[Frances Ryan @DrFrancesRyan]

The Tories are quietly launching a new war on disabled benefit claimants: from plans to increase sanctions to anti-fraud squads.

Latest col. https://t.co/xGF4FP0Iyx

[Katharine Ainger @katainger]

@NaomiAKlein The Madrid regional govt is also trying to destroy public healthcare, impressively over 600,000 people went out on the streets to defend it. Strikes aren't going to be enough.

[David Solnit @dsolnit]

Sick of #Oligarchy-billionaires, corporations and their politicians profiteering and wrecking our communities and planet?
Today we spoke out, painting a guerrilla street mural directly in front of #SanFrancisco #Twitter Hdqtrs.
Video by @allaboutlight #Democracy #FreeSpeech❤️

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

⚠️THERMONUCLEAR BAD—Hospitals completely overwhelmed in China ever since restrictions dropped. Epidemiologist estimate >60% of 🇨🇳 & 10% of Earth’s population likely infected over next 90 days. Deaths likely in the millions—plural. This is just the start—🧵

[Katharine Ainger @katainger]

Best one yet.

[Katharine Ainger @katainger]

@georgecgrafton Hi, Sorry, the message didn't reach me for some reason but have opened my DMs, happy to chat. cheers.

[Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith]

Airport cops chase haplessly after climate activists on bikes as they cycle around the runway of a private jet airport, targeting the staggering carbon emissions of the mega-rich

[Katharine Ainger @katainger]

@RebeccaSolnit @CoastCompanion @XenaLunastitch @brcalvert @adriennemaree @julian_aguon Oh, and JJ & Isa at the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination! @labofii https://t.co/850xE8wwJ7

[Katharine Ainger @katainger]

@Civil_War_Spain Same in Alt Emporda. Think it could also be that the swallows left to travel south on time, but the high temps mean the flies are still here and there's less wondrous bird beings around to snap them up on the wing.