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Extinction Rebellion South East UK - #RebelForLife

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

C L I M A T E C H A N G E

A major wildfire in the Cairngorms National Park has forced Police Scotland to declare a major incident in the Highlands of Scotland.

Nethy Bridge village has been fully evacuated, with access roads closed and exclusion zones in place. Popular tourist areas, including Loch Morlich, Glenmore, Abernethy Forest and Cairngorm Mountain, have also been shut due to the extreme fire risk.

Heavy smoke has drifted up to 60 miles away, prompting air quality warnings for parts of Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City. Authorities are reminding the public that all fires and barbecues are currently banned across the national park.

[XR South East UK @XrSouthEastUK]

Eat pasta today ✊🏽

[Red Hot World @RedHotWorld]

Italian fascists spent 20 years demonising pasta as unmanly & un-Roman.🤡

So the Cervi family celebrated Mussolini's fall in 1943 by serving macaroni to their entire town.

Six of the Cervi sons would be executed by firing squad months later.

Eat pasta on 25 July. Remember why.

[Extinction Rebellion Global @ExtinctionR]

A nature based flood response has had only positive feedback on London. 1/2
https://t.co/ESzmxKbGh4

[XR South East UK @XrSouthEastUK]

It’s been a long time! #XRSouthEastUK has been here for 6 years. In that time, lots has happened, & the impacts from the climate & nature emergency are affecting us more than ever.
We are still here.
#RebelForLife
#ExtinctionRebellion
#MyXAnniversary

https://t.co/fybnnAnoCB

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

"Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM"

The why isn't Andy Burnham being honest about the climate and ecological emergency, and the serious challenges it poses to the UK?

"as he prepares to introduce measures to ease the cost of living and allow more North Sea fossil fuel drilling."
https://t.co/Td2oIte64l
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[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

After all this report is by the UK Intelligence Services and is on the UK Govt website.

"Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity. The world is already experiencing impacts including crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks."

Look at the dates given, this is not some far off future threat.

"The resilience of human systems to ecosystem degradation is moderately uncertain and the wider geopolitical context out to 2030 and 2050 is highly uncertain."
https://t.co/prhQ3yw7dr
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[Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @XRWimborne]

Families should be paddling in the sea not fleeing sewage pollution 💩Wessex Water is a national disgrace

https://t.co/H9TXiysvev

[Climate Reality @ClimateReality]

They took down the website.
Scientists built a new one.
Former NOAA employees launched https://t.co/sL7OP9zg0s to make sure reliable climate science stays accessible to the people who need it most.
Now that's climate resilience. 👏
https://t.co/NhjES9G37x

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

“The Arctic is currently warming at four times the rate experienced by the rest of the planet. But the Antarctic has started to catch up, so that it is already warming twice as quickly as the planet overall.” https://t.co/gTDinE6ClH

No time to waste. #ActOnClimate

#climate

[XRUK_Actions @XRUK_Actions]

Extinction Rebellion activists disrupted the UK's largest climate science conference, the Exeter Climate Forum held at #ExeterUniversity after it was revealed they'd accepted sponsorship from #Howden an insurance company profiting from #ClimateChaos
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[Global Justice Now @GlobalJusticeUK]

Heatwaves across the UK are intensifying thanks to climate breakdown.

But gov has nothing in place to prepare. Workers shouldn’t bear the cost. We demand:

📢 A national max working temperature

📢 A heatwave furlough scheme

📢 A climate action plan

https://t.co/htWdpW7qhL

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

Most people aren’t talking or thinking about this.

But before you know it, this will be all anyone is talking or thinking about.

[Extinction Rebellion Bristol @XRBristol]

🚨Let’s get the People’s Emergency Briefing on Newsnight.
The BBC Newsnight programme have been putting up a Whatsapp contact number asking viewers to write in with suggestions for programme content. Apparently they read all messages.
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[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

The government is LYING about public ownership of water.

Today we joined Feargal Sharkey, Baroness Jenny Jones and the Dirty Business campaigners Ash and Peter to hand in a letter asking Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds to come clean.

Take action now: https://t.co/vEyjXbnrCn

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

A building in Dorking, Surrey, has been demolished, and with it, what may have been the largest known Swift colony in the area.

Please sign the petition. Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner must hold the police to account for failing to protect Swifts - https://t.co/p8rUfrSOLx

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Welcome to sewage-on-sea: Britain's most fashionable tourist hotspot Whitstable is being despoiled by floods of effluent pouring into the ocean, just as the taps in homes and businesses run dry."

People in Whitstable and Kent really do get it from both ends, your sewage is dumped on to local beaches and your tap water gets cut off simply because the water company can't keep your supply running. Bloody hell.

Brilliant state of the nation piece by David Jones, @DailyMail

https://t.co/0sHmAWYWMv

[Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @XRWimborne]

Silent vigil, clear message.

Canford incinerator will belch CO2 and pollutants 24/7 for 40 years on Canford Heath near homes, workplaces and schools.

The future is reducing, reusing, repairing, recycling.

Outside the Planning Appeal today.

#StopCanfordIncinerator

[Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @XRWimborne]

Dorset says NO to Canford incinerator❌

1st day of MVV’s appeal.

We stood outside with drums, voices and determination whilst a multinational company tries to overturn a democratic decision and push a polluting incinerator onto our communities.

#StopCanfordIncinerator

[XR South East UK @XrSouthEastUK]

MP Andrew George supported the petition to bring back the
#GhostWoods, the ancient woodlands smothered beneath timber plantations which has gained 146K signatures so far.
4/4

[XR South East UK @XrSouthEastUK]

WATCH 👀
The #Wildcard campaign led the largest ever gathering of people dressed as SLUGS as they slid into Parliament Square in #London.
Bring back our ancient woodlands!
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[XR South East UK @XrSouthEastUK]

#XRSouthEastUK joined the parade and the ground breaking slug disco!
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