Bending the curve on ecological overshoot. Global alliance shifting public policy, public narratives and mindsets. @GirlPlanetEarth @GirlPlanetEA @BarnardPhoebe
NEW EPISODE ⚡️ @brhodes on "climate populism": can populist right-wing outrage over climate action be redirected towards exposing the planet-destroying exploits of the oil and gas industry? 🔥🔥🔥
Now that sounds like a plan.
🎧 https://t.co/vRKbz34G6l
Wonderful to see the amazing @AyebareDenise truly going from strength to powerful-integrity strength! Congratulations Denise on a winning manifesto to empower society and youth.
And if you know me, you already know #climatechange is at the heart of my manifesto!
Along with digital inclusion and leadership & governance, I’m ready to tackle the big issues.
What else would you expect from an award-winning speaker and climate activist?
#AyebareForCYC
Big oil is running a massive misinformation campaign to slow the pace of renewables, says the UN.
We need our governments to have the courage to stand up to these bullies and protect what we love.
https://t.co/X4aWjEtvEC
The world doesn't have to be this way. We can change it. And we are changing it. Join us and pursue your own contribution to this massive social change.
Thank you @AntonioGuterres 🧡🌿🦋
My message to young people worldwide:
Do not accept that what we have today is inevitable.
Do not accept that you cannot transform things.
If we want to change the world, we need to unite, mobilize, and fight for a better future for all.
https://t.co/fG3XXxdA99
#OurCommonFuture
Child Marriage statistics are beyond just numbers, they are childhoods,lives, dreams and futures being stolen.
Girls futures matter, and it is our responsibility to support and empower them to realize their fullest potential.
#EndChildMarriage#EmpoweringGirls
@blaise_gitonga@AyebareDenise So important that we learn to manage our lives, immediate surroundings, and the watersheds and landscapes on which we rely with respect, curiosity, humility and reverence. Landslides and disasters like this happen when we learn badly from those for whom profit is a sole motive.
Through our community-led initiatives,girl-led campaigns,adolescent safe spaces,advocating & supporting girls education,working with educators and parents,we are on a mission to #endchildmarriage and build a generation of empowered girls
Visit our website https://t.co/LPhOO2HDGl
CLIMATE CRISIS: Huge, fast-moving wildfires have destroyed up to half of the historic Canadian town of Jasper. Entire streets have been levelled by the blazes in Alberta province, with video showing smouldering rubble where homes once stood.
We need to be asking tough questions, but having gentle conversations. Veganism does get easier for most people as their gut microbiomes flourish and the food starts to taste incredibly delicious.
Our planet. It's full of an almost magical degree of exquisite #coevolution that helps regulate our climate, planet, and all life on Earth. And we need that help right now, as everything is at stake.
An Ecocentric Second Age of Enlightenment
Five Tenets for a Livable Future
The Age of Enlightenment, spanning the late 17th to the early 19th centuries, was a pivotal period in human history characterized by a profound transformation in thought, culture, and society. Intellectuals and philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Voltaire, and John Locke championed reason, individualism, and empirical science, laying the groundwork for modern democratic societies, scientific advancements, and human rights. This era fostered a spirit of inquiry and skepticism, encouraging people to question established norms and authorities, ultimately leading to significant political and social revolutions, including the American and French Revolutions.
However, despite the monumental changes achieved during the first Age of Enlightenment, contemporary society faces unprecedented challenges that the Enlightenment thinkers could scarcely have imagined. The industrial civilization that emerged from Enlightenment principles has led to environmental degradation, social inequalities, and a disconnect from the natural world. These issues compel us to reconsider the Enlightenment's legacy, integrating biocentrism, the rights of nature, bottom-up democratic self-organization, feminism, and a cooperative economy. This new Enlightenment would address the consequences of industrial civilization, offering a pathway towards a truly sustainable and just future for humanity and the planet. 1/2
This is bleak, predictable, inhumane and terrible for the future of Afghanistan - Afghan teenage girls on forced marriage and pregnancy and life without school https://t.co/9r3pYEhDSx
Happy birthday Joan! - a real trailblazer. Out of sadness comes transformative change. Thank you for working to keep young girls out of transactional marriages so they can achieve their dreams, continue their studies.@PopnBalance@Josh_Mirondo@GirlplanetEA@PEA_Initiative
Today is my birthday🎉, I turn 25.
I am grateful, humbled and honoured to be alive today. God has been faithful to me. I thank him for his continuous grace and mercy.
And, I thought of re-introducing myself today because I have made new amazing connections here.
"It’s time to reject pronatalist ideologies that treat women’s wombs as cogs in the growth machine. We need to get off the growth treadmill, get past population denialism, and work for a future that has both fewer human beings and less consumption." https://t.co/jwIwpeymgQ
Bill Rees, co-originator of ecological footprint analysis, unpacks how we came to our perilous state of overshoot, and how we get out of it by Changing the Story of Human Exceptionalism. Check out his brilliant podcast episode https://t.co/EtN2ndcZiC