Memo to Jacob Rees Mogg:
Switching from fossil fuels to renewables isn't just climate sense, it's economic sense too – saving trillions of pounds as well as tonnes of emissions. Govt needs to make it urgent priority when Parliament returns next week #keepfossilfuelsintheground
"Liz Truss’s £235m cut to Environment Agency ‘doubled sewage discharge’."
And it's looking likely that she also ordered Defra officials to go to Brussels and kill off the Water Framework Directive.
https://t.co/AjD3nAPxhz
BP & Shell didn’t pay any corporation tax on North Sea Oil operations from 2018-2021, despite paying shareholders £44bn.
Instead, the Government gave them back £400m.
We must end these ridiculous tax breaks for oil & gas companies and make them pay their fair share.
Energy bills rocketing to £4,266 in January isn’t inevitable. It’s a choice: Their greed, not your need.
Enough is enough.
Join the campaign to slash bills and bring energy companies into public ownership: https://t.co/Khdu7m0asT
At the same time 45% of all new income in this country goes to the top one percent, 4 out of 5 Americans with diabetes went into debt to pay for their insulin. That is not just outrageous, it's immoral.
2nd Quarter Profits
Exxon: $17.9 billion - highest ever
Chevron: $11.62 billion - highest ever
Shell: $11.5 billion - highest ever
BP: $8.5 billion - highest in 14 years
The UN Secretary General is right: This "grotesque greed" is destroying the planet and punishing the poor.
ICU end of life care is respectful, dignified and absolutely NEVER involves patients suffocating. The care provided to the patient and the family is the absolute opposite of barbaric. The press should be ashamed. My utter respect to the nursing and medical staff involved.
Record numbers of UK households are already in arrears with their energy bills.
And they're set to increase again in October and January.
We need to renationalise our utilities now.
FRANCE IN WORST DROUGHT EVER
Projections, central and southern Europe drought will get worse fast. Get Off Fossil Fuel
Repeated heat waves in Europe have left the land parched. Europe is heating up fast, at 2C already for land.
https://t.co/1qD51gNxX6
#climatechange#drought
So much for carbon capture machines
"One acre of trees annually consumes the amount of c02 equivalent to that produced by driving an average car for 26,000 miles. That same acre of trees also produces enough oxygen for 18 people to breathe for a year." https://t.co/saKJ5TI8mo
EXCLUSIVE: In a leaked video, Rishi Sunak boasted to Conservative Party members that he was prepared to take public money out of “deprived urban areas” to help wealthy towns.
@REWearmouth reports: https://t.co/uZMpjKm6rG
The Spanish government has made short and medium train journeys free in order to help with the cost-of-living emergency.
Let’s fight for our Government to do the same.
Honest tweet now. This account is run by NHS staff. There’s just 3 of us. We have tried our best to get out what is happening on the ground. But we are completely exhausted. If you support what we are doing please will you follow and RT this to your followers? Thank you 🙏
🚨BREAKING: The scientific consensus is in - The UK's heatwave last week would’ve been near IMPOSSIBLE without climate change.
Leading scientists have warned recent heatwave temperatures would be normally expected every 500 - 1,500 years.
Ditch fossil fuels now.
BT made £1,300,000,000 in profit, handed £750,000,000 to shareholders, and paid its CEO £3,500,000.
But then it offers workers a huge real terms pay cut, even as they’re forced to open workplace foodbanks.
That’s why CWU members are on strike today. Solidarity ✊🏽
Oil companies are posting record breaking profits today whilst their customers suffer from a burning planet and eye watering energy bills.
Who else thinks it's time to reign in big oil's greed and save our planet?