Morgana Thomas

Social worker on Darug and Gundangurra country. Thinking about de-colonisation, de-growth and universal land rights.

[Morgana Thomas @thomas_morgana]

"This obsession with economic growth is destroying our planet. We must rethink private ownership of land – that’s where it all went wrong." https://t.co/oUUL8FR6fE via @ConversationEDU

[Morgana Thomas @thomas_morgana]

@survivortragic I'm losing my mind wondering why none of them saw this? Even Kirby didn't see it as an option, otherwise she would have tried to keep Kellie on side...

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

The call is coming from inside the house!

@benmsanderson, an IPCC author, argues that the IPCC should reduce its own emissions, including not requiring in-person meetings for AR7, especially as these meetings create barriers to equitable participation.

https://t.co/VNfDvyBuXv

[Morgana Thomas @thomas_morgana]

@99blackbaloons What would it take for us to get off this treadmill? Surely the answer lies somewhere in liberating land from the market. Why are we paying so much to landlords and banks?

[Time to wake up . @Luckilyalive66]

@99blackbaloons

[Stay Grounded - @staygroundednet on Bluesky 🦋 @StayGroundedNet]

At least 102 climate activists are still being detained over 20 hours‼️after a peaceful protest against Europe's largest private jet fair #EBACE2023.
We demand the immediate release of the 100 detained activists.
#BanPrivateJets
https://t.co/X2Xm1voedQ

[IndigenousX @IndigenousX]

The racism that Stan Grant has had to endure is unacceptable, but it is also entirely unexceptional. You simply cannot exist in Australia as an Indigenous person without encountering it. @LukeLPearson shares his thoughts over on IX. https://t.co/NcFoAWve5L

[QandA @QandA]

“I am down but I will get back up. And you can come at me again and I will meet you with the love of my people.” Stan Grant delivers a powerful message on Q+A before taking a break from the media. #StanGrant #QandA #WeStandWithStan

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

"If we are to move beyond growth, we have to face what lies beneath our growth: white supremacy and colonialism. There can be no degrowth without decolonization." @AnunaDe echoing @Prof_FSultana at #BeyondGrowth2023 final plenary.
Change requires courage.

[Barbara Magalhães Teixeira @_bamt]

✊🏽 Finally, we cannot talk about degrowth without talking about the need to decolonize the current power and economic structures, as well as to democratize institutions of decision-making. There is no degrowth without decolonization, there is no just transition without the people

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

idk who needs to hear this, but every single instance of consumption is a relationship, usually destructive, with our environment, the living world, our planet.
Once you see this, you can't unsee it. Consuming (much) less is giving space & life back to the world.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

"Green capitalism" means turning the global South into a giant sacrifice zone so rich folks in the US and Europe can drive electric SUVs.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

Get a ‘good’ job. Fuck the planet.
Buy your own car. Fuck the planet.
Jet off on holiday. Fuck the planet.
Then buy loads of stuff. Fuck the planet some more.

Everything we strive for in this fossil fueled system fucks the planet.

If we want to survive, WE have to change.

[Morgana Thomas @thomas_morgana]

@rodneyp @martinrev21 Agreed... something like "true growth" but that sounds like a cult

[Morgana Thomas @thomas_morgana]

@TheEssentialEc1 @martinrev21 I like Regrowth... it's positive and sums up what degrowth actually offers us

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

So here's the thing NYT, there is NO "sustainable tourism" that involves flying on planes, and increasingly as the planet continues to overheat there will be NO "coping" with heat waves. Please tell the truth. The sooner we end the fossil fuel industry, the more we save

[Anna Kernahan @AnnaKernahan]

strike week 154. It's been 3.5 yrs from I started striking.
- got 7000 people on the streets in 1 day
- climate emergency declared
- 1 in 24 ppl died from illegal levels of air pollution every yr in Belfast
- parts of NI now uninhabitable due to flooding
https://t.co/TxaWLNHxwu

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

Some Global North academics accusing us of being "divisive" simply for pointing out systematic exclusions of decolonial Indigenous and Black thought & praxis in the Global South.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

Maybe we’ll adapt in time to to stave off collapse. Maybe we won’t. Either way, by 2050, most of the stuff we ‘value’ now - personal cars, fast fashion, foreign holidays, celebrity culture & countless other consumerist indulgences - will seem sickeningly irrelevant.

[Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu @SholaMos1]

Reverse racism does NOT exist. Every time a White person calls a Black person a racist they're projecting a false equivalence of oppression/inequality/injustice that does NOT exist. A LIE

Black people are NOT systemically racist to White people

Sit your arse down & get EDUCATED