Michał Czepkiewicz

Urban planning, climate change, degrowth. Based in Poland, tweeting in English.

[Michał Czepkiewicz @mczepkiewicz]

Carbon footprint is a useful tool for climate science and policy. Once in a while, an article criticizing it for being "invented by big oil" appears in the media. This time it was Rebecca Solnit's essay in @guardian. It's a wrong take. Here's why 🧵 1/x https://t.co/xguHR8jadI

[Giulio Mattioli @giulio_mattioli]

Brilliant new research by @mczepkiewicz, @FilipSchmidt on whether there is an association between satisfying transport needs and GHG emissions.

Spoiler: there is, but it's weak, it saturates & many people satisfy needs with little GHG in city centers https://t.co/ImIoC53qOi

[Michał Czepkiewicz @mczepkiewicz]

@JanSpiewak @PolaMatysiak @JanSpiewak jak poparcie dla budowy części lotniczej CPK ma się do Twoich postów na temat zmian klimatu? To jest budowanie infrastruktury do dalszego wzrostu emisji. A z lotów długodystansowych skorzystają głównie najbogatsi, z KDP zresztą też

[Міша з вами 💙💛 🇵🇸 @RottenKrieg]

Maxwell Itoya.

Pochodził z Nigerii, posiadał polskie obywatelstwo, miał żonę i trójkę dzieci.

Próbował deeskalować p*licjantów robiących "nalot" rozmową po polsku.

P*licjant Artur Brzeziński postrzelił go w tętnicę udową. Nie poniósł odpowiedzialności.

Chcecie powtórki?

[Michał Czepkiewicz @mczepkiewicz]

@wolnelewo Tak, wojna hybrydowa na granicy polega na sprowokowaniu Polski i Europy do przemocy wobec uchodźców i pokazanie tego na globalnym południu. To długoterminowa gra o poparcie na arenie międzynarodowej.

[Michał Czepkiewicz @mczepkiewicz]

@galopujacymajor @Michal_Bilewicz Dla niego zawsze dobrze gdy jest to w interesie grupy, z którą się utożsamia i która ma większą władzę. Potrafi stanąć po stronie słabszych i prześladowanych tylko jeśli są z jego ulubionej grupy. Innych można prześladować, więzić bez procesu, torturować itd.

[Michał Czepkiewicz @mczepkiewicz]

@KRASP_pl Albo autonomia i wolność wypowiedzi, albo zgoda z polityką państwa

[Michał Czepkiewicz @mczepkiewicz]

University of Warsaw students prepared a petition demanding the termination of cooperation with Israeli academic institutions in a protest against genocide and scholasticide in Palestine. They have collected 1,850 signatures of students, employees and graduates

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech - where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid - as ‘antisemitic’. The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel, but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages - empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world. As my grandmother was born in a concentration camp in Libya and most of my grandfather’s family was murdered by Germans in the holocaust, I find it particularly outraging that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponize this term against me in a way that endangered my family. But above all else, this behavior puts Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s life in danger, who lives under a military occupation surrounded by violent settlements in Masafer Yatta. He is in far greater danger than I am. I’m happy our award winning film, No Other Land, is sparking an important international debate on this issue - and I hope that millions of people watch it when it comes out this year. Sparking a conversation is why we made it. You can have harsh criticism of what me and Basel said on stage without demonizing us. If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the holocaust - I don’t want your guilt.

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

“Sorry”

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

"Every higher education institution in Gaza has been levelled to the ground by the IDF. "--a colleague.

Every single one.

[Birzeit University @BirzeitU]

Birzeit University condemns the brutal assault and bombing of @Al-Israa University campus by the Israeli occupation south of #Gaza city, this occurred after seventy days of the occupation occupying the campus; turning it into their base, and military barracks for their forces

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

The Israeli military just blew up the University of Palestine in Gaza City with 315 mines. All the universities in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. We need a full academic boycott.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Academics need to get serious about the boycott. Check whether your university has a clear policy in line with BDS, and if not mobilize with your colleagues, students and your union to implement one.

[Namibian Presidency @NamPresidency]

Namibia rejects Germany’s Support of the Genocidal Intent of the Racist Israeli State against Innocent Civilians in Gaza

On Namibian soil, #Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century in 1904-1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most inhumane and brutal conditions. The German Government is yet to fully atone for the genocide it committed on Namibian soil. Therefore, in light of Germany’s inability to draw lessons from its horrific history, President @hagegeingob expresses deep concern with the shocking decision communicated by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany yesterday, 12 January 2024, in which it rejected the morally upright indictment brought forward by South Africa before the #InternationalCourtofJustice that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in #Gaza.

Worryingly, ignoring the violent deaths of over 23 000 Palestinians in Gaza and various United Nations reports disturbingly highlighting the internal displacement of 85% of civilians in Gaza amid acute shortages of food and essential services, the German Government has chosen to defend in the International Court of Justice the genocidal and gruesome acts of the Israeli Government against innocent civilians in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Germany cannot morally express commitment to the United Nations Convention against genocide, including atonement for the genocide in Namibia, whilst supporting the equivalent of a holocaust and genocide in Gaza. Various international organizations, such as Human Rights Watch have chillingly concluded that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza.

President Geingob reiterates his call made on 31 December 2023, “No peace-loving human being can ignore the carnage waged against Palestinians in Gaza”. In that vein, President Geingob appeals to the German Government to reconsider its untimely decision to intervene as a third-party in defence and support of the genocidal acts of Israel before the International Court of Justice.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: we don’t reflect enough on how severe the housing crisis is, and how it has completely broken the promise society made to young adults.

The situation is especially severe in the UK, where the last time house prices were this unaffordable was in ... 1876.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

A reminder that Israel is systematically starving a civilian population of more than 2 million people with the full support of Western governments.

[Moe Ali @iTsAnToOnY]

Thread: What is happening in Sudan!

I am writing this for non Arabic speakers, I will explain what has been happening in Sudan during the last 9 months, since 15th of April 2023.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Help Sudan!!

If you see it, its your responsibility to spread it.

[Nathan FOIA Tankus @NathanTankus]

We Jews wonder why the world did nothing as the Nazis put us into concentration camps. Well there were not photos of the true conditions of the concentration camps in 1941, let alone photos every day. Every hour of every day. Livestreams. Yet people talk about college campuses.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨Released Israeli hostages explode at Netanyahu:
"We were terribly afraid that not Hamas but Israel would kill us & then say: Hamas killed you"

"[Hostages] were under constant threat from the IDF shelling"

"[IDF] helicopter shot at us"

Several shouted at Netanyahu "Shame"🧵

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

New report from Oxfam out today. The richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than the poorest two thirds of humanity combined. Climate change is class war. https://t.co/eX3xuTncmN