Loss and damage is a big conversation at COP27. Rich countries are responsible for 90% of the excess emissions that are causing climate breakdown. Social movements in the global South are rightly demanding compensation for the damage this is causing. https://t.co/QhkvV3WFVi
A 9yo Black child clearly into science identified a problem harming her neighborhood, researched, found a safe solution, and was testing it. Her white neighbor (who knew her!) called police on her saying a “small Black woman wearing a hoodie” was doing things and scaring him.
So far, 27 years of COP meetings have been a complete failure; you can't argue with physics. Anyone saying otherwise has fossil fuels or books to sell. #EmergencyMode
Elon Musk seems very determined to teach people that billionaires aren't any smarter than anyone else, that concentrations of wealth are bad for society and democracy, and that if millions of people band together we can kick billionaires' asses.
Cost for one vial of insulin:
🇦🇺: $6.94
🇬🇧: $7.52
🇫🇷: $9.08
🇩🇪: $11
🇨🇦: $12
🇯🇵: $14.40
🇺🇸: $98.70
No one should be forced to take out their wallets for insulin – a life-saving drug that was invented nearly 100 years ago. It's time to end the greed of the pharmaceutical industry.
THIS is how Jeff Bezos is "worth" $100 billion. Not because of his "intelligence" or "hard work" or "ingenuity" or "dedication".... because of THIS. And that goes for all capitalists. All such "wealth" is generated through the miserable, tired, laboring masses.
Eventually the tactics of the climate movement will need to shift from disruption of everyday normalcy (which has its place) to disruption of capital accumulation, and specifically fossil capital accumulation, in order to more directly target the problem.
I’m really not a “hero.” I’m just a desperate climate scientist and a dedicated father. That’s all. I think at this point it’s common sense to be a climate activist and take risks.
No viable path left to 1.5C.
From today’s White House briefing: “Under President Biden, oil and natural gas production has increased, and we are on track to hit the highest production in our country’s history next year.”
Utterly tragic for the Earth and our future. Words fail.
you suffered for so many years. begged for their behavior to change. put their feelings before your own for so long. it’s about time you have some fun. put you first. live your life. if your choice to live for you makes you lose them forever then it was never meant to be.
to myself and whoever needs to hear this: if you tell a friend a boundary you have and they still cross it…honey they aint a friend of you. you dont deserve to be hurt and ignored like that
I really hate to say it but America has bred a culture of not just capitalism but absolute individualism and selfishness. I find it really hard to have deep connections with white Americans. Comparing to what I see in egypt I see Americans mainly only caring about themselves.