Maggie 🌻 Merchant 🦋 PhD 🥥💙

Cancer, climate, clean tech and 💙Kamala!
Year of birth: 320 ppm

[Maggie 🌻 Merchant 🦋 PhD 🥥💙 @maggiemerch]

@CoralCityCamera Such a cool video!

[Maggie 🌻 Merchant 🦋 PhD 🥥💙 @maggiemerch]

@bouldercolorado That pink flower is a non-native, invasive pest.

So not a great choice.

[Maggie 🌻 Merchant 🦋 PhD 🥥💙 @maggiemerch]

@OurOcean Great work in banning the release of balloons in order to keep plastics out of our wild ecosystems.

[Maggie 🌻 Merchant 🦋 PhD 🥥💙 @maggiemerch]

@Defenders Excellent news!

So good to see a beautiful and fragile ecosystem being protected.

[Maggie 🌻 Merchant 🦋 PhD 🥥💙 @maggiemerch]

@ChrisMurphyCT Scary stuff coming from President-elect Musk!

[Blue Planet Society @Seasaver]

Paul Watson is free!
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Denmark 🇩🇰 has finally refused to extradite Paul Watson to Japan.🇯🇵

The only question that remains is why did it take nearly 150 days❓

https://t.co/ai9yyY3dMH

[Maggie 🌻 Merchant 🦋 PhD 🥥💙 @maggiemerch]

The only safe bike lane is a protected bike lane.

[Denver Bicycle Lobby @DenBicycleLobby]

What makes you feel safer on neighborhood bikeways?

[Wet Tribe @WetTribe]

Research finds whales and dolphins are filled with microplastics. Tissue samples collected revealed #microplastics migrate throughout their bodies. #Plastic is lipophilic, which means it loves lipids: fats, oils, and hormones in #blubber. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean #WhaleWednesday

[Maggie 🌻 Merchant 🦋 PhD 🥥💙 @maggiemerch]

Bravo @MartinSheen

[Captain Paul Watson Foundation 🐋🏴‍☠️ @CaptPaulWatson]

🐋💙 Thank you so much to renowned actor @MartinSheen for this touching message to #FreePaulWatson!

"Just imagine the healing effect on our ailing planet if every nation could produce at least one environmentalist with the courage and commitment of a Paul Watson, now imagine our planet without the only one." - Martin Sheen

How You Can Help #FREEPAULWATSON. Every action counts.

Post on Social Media : Amplify our call for justice using your own platforms, include #FreePaulWatson @captainpaulwatson @mette @peterhummelgaard

[Environmental Justice Foundation @ejfoundation]

In the Southwest Indian Ocean, we have uncovered illegal fishing and human rights violations on China’s distant-water fleet.

Crew members on board the fleet face physical abuse, abusive working and living conditions, and excessive overtime:

[Maggie 🌻 Merchant 🦋 PhD 🥥💙 @maggiemerch]

Barbaric

[Sea Shepherd US @SeaShepherdSSCS]

Sea Shepherd’s Valentina Crast Speaks Out Against Whale Hunts https://t.co/VYgCBKAIFb

[Maggie 🌻 Merchant 🦋 PhD 🥥💙 @maggiemerch]

Horrible policy

[The Narwhal @thenarwhalca]

SCOOP: Albertans were surprised to learn cougars can now be hunted in some provincial parks — using hounds. But the government faced a hurdle: off-leash dogs are not allowed in parks.

So it quietly amended provincial park regulations to make an exception.
https://t.co/Hq39plzFwk

[Ed King @edking_I]

'The inescapable conclusion of the past 35 years is that it is foolish to treat the US as a reliable partner in global climate policy'

@adam_tooze lays it out...

https://t.co/KBe8cR476Z

[Maggie 🌻 Merchant 🦋 PhD 🥥💙 @maggiemerch]

Kash Patel has a list of people whom he will harrass through threats and frivolous lawsuits

...people he calls Government Gangsters

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Was hard for me to find the list of people Kash Patel included in his book “Government Gangsters” as Deep State officials who need to be targeted so here it is in one place.

[Greenpeace International @Greenpeace]

🚨 HUGE WIN - Norway agreed to stop deep sea mining in the Arctic

This is a win for global mobilization and a huge step forward to protect the Arctic

This fragile ecosystem is safe from deep sea mining at least until the end of 2025 - and we won’t stop there

#StopDeepSeaMining

[Maggie 🌻 Merchant 🦋 PhD 🥥💙 @maggiemerch]

Performative hand-wringing from @govofco

Let's see if @jaredpolis makes similar criticisms when scofflaw Trump obliterates precedent

[Jared Polis @jaredpolis]

While as a father I certainly understand President @JoeBiden’s natural desire to help his son by pardoning him, I am disappointed that he put his family ahead of the country. This is a bad precedent that could be abused by later Presidents and will sadly tarnish his reputation. When you become President, your role is Pater familias of the nation. Hunter brought the legal trouble he faced on himself, and one can sympathize with his struggles while also acknowledging that no one is above the law, not a President and not a President’s son.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

This pony working up the courage to jump this tiny step is everything.

[Maggie 🌻 Merchant 🦋 PhD 🥥💙 @maggiemerch]

It's a great time to try out vegan recipes!

[Lauren Windsor @lawindsor]

The solution is always more deregulation!

[Maggie 🌻 Merchant 🦋 PhD 🥥💙 @maggiemerch]

Climate change is out of control.

A fossil fuel treaty is desperately needed.

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

As the COP29 climate meeting is reaching its end, it should not come as a surprise that yet another COP is failing. The current draft is a complete disaster. But even if our expectations are close to non-existent, we must never ever find ourselves reacting to these continuous betrayals with anything but rage.

The people in power are yet again about to agree to a death sentence to the countless people whose lives have been or will be ruined by the climate crisis. The current text is full of false solutions and empty promises. The money from the Global North countries needed to pay back their climate debt is still nowhere to be seen. The host country - Azerbaijan - is a repressive and authoritarian petro-state that has committed ethnic cleansing and genocidal acts towards Armenians. Civil society present at COP29 are being silenced, yet continue fighting and pushing negotiators towards the bare minimum.

All this while oppression, inequalities, wars and genocides all over the world continue to intensify. Those in power are worsening the destabilisation and destruction of our life supporting ecosystems. We are on track to experience the hottest year ever recorded, with the global greenhouse gases reaching an all time high just last year.

It is clear that our current systems are not working in our favour. The COP processes aren’t just failing us, they are part of a larger system built on injustice and designed to sacrifice current and future generations for the opportunity of a few to keep making unimaginable profits and continue to exploit planet and people.

With every negotiation, with every speech made by a world leader and with every agreement they sign, it becomes clear that it is up to us as a global collective to take the action we so desperately need and show where the leadership truly lies. They are not going to do it for us, as this COP29 yet again proves.
#COP29 #PayUp #ClimateJusticeNow